Black Day

HONORS ENGLISH

1. Beowulf: see orange day's plan from yesterday....we took notes on elements of an epic hero, and the paper was assigned....this paper is due on Monday. There was no reading assignment...just do the paper (pay attention to the FCAs...)

PUBLIC SPEAKING

1. Daily "The best Christmas present you could get me would be....."
2. Poetry memorization: Listen to/analyze "Tonight I can write the saddest lines," and "Innisfree"....discuss how they should be recited....discuss nuances of poem...hand out poetry recitation rubric (the one "Poetry Out Loud" National Endowment for the Arts uses)...you will be graded according to this poem....For Monday, be sure to have a poem picked out that you will recite in class on the following Wednesday. There is no "time limit," but the poem must be AT LEAST three stanzas long.