Tuesday

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• UTRGV Scholarship Info.
• PDF of flier
• UTRGV scholarship website

• Poem Of the Week: Teaching Sonnets
• Work in pairs today to TEACH the sonnet you have selected to your partner. This is not a copying assignment- you are not to just copy over what your partner has for their analysis. Teaching means you help your partner discover important elements of the poem for themselves through discussion, questions, and dialogue. Make sure you help each other annotate by:
• Clarifying the meaning of unfamiliar words, ideas, and allusions
• Noting the way the structure of the poem helps us understand its meaning
• Identifying and theorize about the use of various figurative language devices.
• Thinking about and noting possible topics and poetic ideas
• Turn in all four of your papers (yours and your partner's) stapled together. THEY SHOULD NOT BE IDENTICAL because the notes that you made will be different in some ways than the way your partner experienced the poem.

• Short Fiction Study: 
• "We Show What We Have Learned" by Clare Beams
• You should have already posted your interpretive question on Google Classroom and responded to three of your classmates' questions. 
• Read through all of the questions and responses in the Classroom before you complete today's written response. We will discuss these on Thursday.
• Complete Written Response #9

• "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros- Do as much of this as you have time for in class, finish for homework.
• You can watch Sandra Cisneros read the story for you here.
• Analyze the story for the following:
• Plot: Mark where the sections of plot shift (Freytag)
• Character development: Analyze and annotate ideas about how the author uses literary techniques to characterize Rachel.

• College Admissions Essays: 
• Final drafts will need to be completed no later than Fri. 11/9/18.
• Remember that you need to conference one-on-one with me at some point in your college essay process. Please see me to sign up for a conference if you have not already had one. I have already entered grades for those who have completed their conference. You can have more than one conference if you like.