SPEAK and the Short Week

Having had a 4-Day weekend, students were bright-eyed and bushy tailed as they returned to classes today.

First, we began class in the 

• Notes Composition Notebook:
• Capitalization Notes #1
• Purple EoL book, pg. 292
• Take notes 10a-e
• Complete Ex. 2 on pg. 293

Classes then took a moment to pivot hard into some Membean details, prompted by Zorria's question in 2nd period:

Membean Deets:

Payment Window: 8/31-9/18

That's Next Friday, y'all.

Membean Cost: $10.00

Payment Options:

Yes, you can bring me $10 cash, or check made out to MLK Magnet

or...

You can pay right here! Online! Through MLK!

Don't worry about how it has Mrs. Syes' name on it. My students should use this same link.

Then, we pivoted back to our

• Classwork Composition Notebooks
• "Listen" Poem
• Poem included and explained in the 10th Anniversary printing of the novel (paperback).
• The "You:" referenced in the poem refers to the readers of the Speak. Every line, except for the first and last stanzas, was pulled from a note, letter, or message sent by a reader to Laurie Halse Anderson. The "Me:", consequently, represents Anderson herself, hearing from (Listening) her reading audience's painful, personal revelations.

HW:

• Speak books come to class tomorrow, to begin reading and annotating.
• Membean Quiz #1 in class
• Will be available online for 24 hours, and accessible by internet to those students who miss class tomorrow.