Students responded to Journal #4 "Free Write Friday" and a few students shared their Journal's. We had a class discussion on Denotation/Connotation. In groups we read Alice Walker's Poems "Women" and "Poem at Thirty-Nine" and the students created denotation/connotation charts.
HW: "My Piece of the Quilt" is due Wednesday 9/4. Each student will be creating an 8 1/2 x 11 "quilt square" detailing their heritage and culture. They will be required to meet the criteria of the rubic which was distributed and present their piece beginging 9/11.
