WARMUP: VOCAB

1. What hand does and AMBIDEXTROUS person sign their name with?
2. Describe a time when you showed FORTITUDE?
3. What’s one thing you use that is PLIABLE?
4.  Would you describe your bedroom/personal space as UNKEMPT?  Why or why not?

MORE POETRY TERMS: Literary Devices  (Today we went through the section section:”Figurative Language”.

TODAY’S LESSON: 9/11

• Learning targets: 
  • to remember the lives lost on this day 18 years ago.
  • to study effective writing by reading excerpts fromthe NY TIMES Portraits: 9/11
  • to think about what makes a life well-lived.

PORTRAITS:  9/11

ASSIGNMENT:  By Monday, write your own obituary.  (Don’t think of this as a morbid exercise–imagine your best life and what people would say about you.  This is a story about LIFE, not death.  Here’s a sample I wrote:  obituary_ce-example

Value: 25 points.  Bonus points for incorporating current vocabulary words.