Romano’s Recipe for Reading and Writing

Welcome back!  I hope everyone had a restful and happy break.  To get back into the swing of things, today’s class focused on characterization.  Our warm up consisted of a retelling of the story Cinderella.  Students were asked to identify adjectives and verbs used to describe the antagonists ( the stepmother and stepsisters).  We then discussed how the author uses direct and indirect characterization to describe characters. 

Upon completing this, we started reading “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes.  Although we only read a brief excerpt, students were able to apply what  was learned about direct and indirect characterization to Charlie Gordon, the story’s protagonist. 

Students wrote a Dear Abby letter from Charlie’s point of view as an exit ticket.  Grades can be found on Pinnacle. 

For the remainder of the year I have changed the categories that I will be using in Pinnacle.  I believe this will help with students’ and parents’ confusion regarding the weighting of grades.  From this point forward, grades will fall into the following four categories:

Tests/Projects – 40%

Classwork – 25%

Quizzes – 25%

Homework – 10%

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this. 

Homework

 Using a character from any book you have read and enjoyed, complete the character wheel for Friday’s class. 

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