Week 2-We're going strong!

Last week we took a grammar pretest to see where everyone was in relation to the grammar we are required to cover. Grammar study will begin next week. We wrote an essay about preconceived notions about English class our first day. Then we began non-fiction reading. So far we have read "Flood" by Annie Dillard, an excerpt from Rare Air by Michael Jordan, a two page commentary by "Sports Illustrated" columnist Frank Deford on the NBA, the Maya Angelou essay "Style" and looked at some photographs and short essays from the book Mothers and Daughters. Our first vocabulary unit was taken from words we encountered in our readings. Our first vocab quiz will be this Friday, Sept. 3. We will finish the excerpt from Lost Moon about the Apollo 13 mission on Friday as well. Our first literature test will be next week.