A Real 9

For our last foray into 9 grading, we read the rangefinders for the free response prompt and found out how important the setting and its historical, cultural, and social meanings are to an upper-level response (and don't forget to name-drop those lit elements).

With such impressive examples, that means only one thing on the horizon: writing your own free response prompt! Yes!

Here are the rules & regulations:

• Write an essay responding to the exact same prompt from the rangefinders. (That prompt is gold and can fit just about any text.)
• This shall be handwritten and considered a take-home "sort of timed" prompt.
• Do not have the book/play/text with you as you write (you can't cite anyway). You are welcome to review your text prior to writing, though.
• While you don't have to exactly time this essay, go for one hour or less in the writing process.
• Bring in essay for Tuesday's class for our peer evaluation -- with the new 1-6 system.

Meanwhile, second hour copied down vocab unit 3 to begin on Monday, and second hour started vocab experts for vocab unit 3.

And since we were talking about the environment, climate change, the lack of bird population, here are links to an NBC News story on how scientists in Iceland are attempting to circumvent carbon from complete contamination of the atmosphere Iceland Scientists and the concern of the Nightingale population moving towards endangerment, which would devastate my Keatsy The Nightingale. 

Speaking of my beloved Keatsy, yesterday was the 200th anniversary of his "Ode to Autumn," which Cora and I celebrated by reading outside. The majority of his works were composed and he met Fanny in 1819, so this 200 anniversary year is quite a magical one.