Ninth graders focused on STAAR today. You all completed an "SSS" exercise and began to review the DLA. You the following homework assignments this week. Due Wednesday: write an expository essay about what characteristics one needs to achieve one's goal. Due Friday: write an expository essay abut one piece of technology and how that piece affects society.
Seniors turned in their vocabulary stories today. They also listened to Lupita N'yongo's speech on beauty and wrote in response to the speech. We also read Macbeth and write a summary of what you read. Finally, you wrote a piece synthesizing the TED talk "The Danger of a Single Story" with a page from Half of a Yellow Sun. Read and annotate through page 147 for Friday.
I will post the vocabulary list later today.
The link to the TED talk is below: http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
The link to Lupita's short speech is below:
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