1. Announcements If you did not take the test on Friday, you must take it today after school or tomorrow after school. After that, your opportunity to take the test will be gone. Please make sure you hold yourself accountable. Engrade – Many of you still have not logged in. Soon, I will be requiring you to turn in a great deal of your homework via Engrade. Please log in immediately. Office Hours – Monday – Thursday from 4-5 PM and/or by appointment. All hard copies of work that you might miss will now be in the ABSENT BINDER located at the front of the class. Please take out your literary essays on the poem of your choosing. 1103, I am missing way too many “Double Entry Journals” and SOAPSTones for “Robert Acuna Talks About Migrant Workers”.

2. Why Does Mr. Hew Ask for the EXACT DEFINITION? End-Stopped: The end of a poem with a punctuation mark. Figurative Language: exergaration. Alliteration: The repetition of vowels sounds usually at the end of a sentence. Connotation: deeper meaning. Syntax: arguement of words

3. Bloom’s Taxonomy

4. Literary Essays Please email me a copy of your literary essay via Engrade. This will keep all of your work in one safe place and it will ensure that all of you are using Engrade from now on.

5. 11 th Grade American Literature AIM: How do we revise our notion of the American Dream through a comparison of two texts? (October 24, 2011)

6. Let’s Read An Excerpt We are going to read an excerpt from Barack Obama’s keynote address during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Obama is promoting the candidacy of John Kerry, but the main character of his speech is America. How is America characterized in Obama’s speech? How has America provided Barack Obama access to the American Dream? What aspects of the American Dream does Obama celebrate?

7. Homework 1) Email Mr. Hew your literary essay via Engrade. 2) Study your literary devices. 3) Read over William Zinsser’s essay “The Right to Fail” and complete the SOAPSTone graphic organizer.