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=**Week One: Wed. Feb.2 - Fri. Feb. 4 **=

Wednesday: First day of classes. Today we filled out Student Information sheets, reviewed the Course Outline, Plagiarism Policy and general guidelines of success in the course. Students were given the novel novel The Catcher in the Rye and the instructions for the Silent Reading Novel Class Book Club.

Thursday: Silent reading. Collection of sheets: Student Information sheet; signed course outline; Plagiarism policy; collecting $2.00 Language Arts fee. Handed out Humanities policy. Review of Literacy Portfolio evidence sheets. We discussed our semester theme of identity (thinking about who we are, how we became who we are, what has influenced our identity and who will we become in the global world.) We did a few activities together to begin thinking about identity. We wrote Autobiographical poems. We will use the poems tomorrow to introduce ourselves. Friday: Started the class with a shared reading of "It's A Book." Moved on to SSR. Class members shared their Autobiographical poems aloud. Today's focus was a writing activity based on "My Adidas" by Run DMC. We first brainstormed things in our possession that could tell our life story. Our goal is to use personification to tell our own story. We listened to the song (lyrics were also given out). media type="youtube" key="dA8DsUN6g_k" height="390" width="480" A graphic organizer took us through the steps of looking at their song and beginning to design our own poem. Outcome being assessed: writing 8.1. Focus: idea development. You need the whole graphic organizer complete for next Thursday, February 10th so we can write together.