Monday, September 22, 2014

Monday, September 22^nd:

1^st Period:

Read the NPR story about Dang Thuy Tram, Viet Cong Doctor

Read “Stockings” (page 117)

Went over the vocabulary from “Stockings”(page 117)

1.     Eccentricities

2.     Ironic

3.     Ambush

4.     Talisman

Discussed how Henry Dobbins was like America: naïve, sentimental, not understanding of irony, plodding, fat roll around belly.

Worked on the character chart for Henry Dobbins.

2^nd  Period:

Went over the essay format, including the concluding paragraph.

Ray knocked over his huge cup of coffee so I spent a good portion of the time supervising clean up.

Allowed class to work on essay.

4^th Period:

New class.

Took roll

Passed out and went over the class syllabus

Went outside to do “Zip, Zap, Zum”

“1,2,3,4,5”

Had Tessa, Stephanie and Keyla here to do.

Introduced them.

Life savers.

5^th Period:

Read, improvise and act out the final two scenes:

Act 4, Scene 5

Act 5, Scene 3

6^th Period:

Warm-ups

Music

Break into groups, improv scenes