Monday 8/17/15
Vocabulary chapter 2- homework due Tuesday- Quiz 8/21/15 Poetic devices and Literary terms handout given Students used SoapStone to analyze the song Demons by Imagine Dragons and draw comparisons to Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Finally, we reviewed Puritan beliefs via a Kahoot. Tuesday: 8/18/15 Students received the new Mentor sentence for this week and next and the notes that will assist them in analyzing the weekly sentence. These notes should be kept in their binder behind the "Focus" Tab. Today we are looking at Puritan Plain style writing and reading the poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet. Students will also write a poem in Puritan Plain style. Finally we will watch "In Search of History-The Salem Witch Trials" in preparation for starting "The Crucible." Wednesday: 8/19/15 Students worked with groups to research information about McCarthyism and it's connection to The Crucible. Students were given a study guide for the test Friday over Puritanism and Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God. We also did a simulation of the Salem Witch trials and learned how and why the accused responded the way they did and how the hysteria could have spread so quickly. Friday: 8/22/15 Students took vocab quiz 2 and a test over Puritanism.
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