1. Pick up your Interactive Readers and turn to where we left off! Let’s read over our next set of comma rules, then complete the warm-up. Note: People will be coming in throughout the period; try not to get distracted. Focus on what we’re doing.

2. Directions: Write down sentences exactly as they are. Then, place commas where they belong: 1) After the opening week of the play which began on December 30 1998 we traveled to Boston Massachusetts to see it. 2) Slow and lumbering the car an old Lincoln seemed ready for the junkyard. 3) “Smith Joe” shouted the drill sergeant, “step forward.” 4) We traveled to Portland Oregon to see our specialist Melvin Steward M.D. 5) In the beginning we couldn’t understand why we were having the meeting on Friday June 12 one week before graduation.

3.  Homework:  Finish reading and completing the task margins in the Interactive Reader  Make sure page 24 and 25 are completed.  FINISH first column of the “Flood Story Chart.”

4. STANDARDS Reading 3.7a: Contrast the major literary forms, techniques, and characteristics…

5.  Question: What’s an archetype?  What’s an archetype that will be coming up in the story that we will be reading today?

6.  Let’s finish reading the selection from The Epic of Gilgamesh in the textbook.  As we do, have out your compare/contrast chart that you were given yesterday (extras can be found on the round table in the front of the room, in the pile in the upper, left hand corner of the table).

7.  Go to your last year’s English teacher’s classroom to pick up your portfolio. The portfolios will be in the classroom you were in last year, even if the teacher changed.  If you can’t remember where to go, see the paper posted on the door for where to go before leaving.  Get only the manila folder and all work; leave the hanging green folder.  Bring your portfolio back here, put it in the file folder that says “Period 1” (in any green folder), then file it alphabetically by your last name.

8.  Homework: Fill out the first column of the Flood chart.