Great day today in English 11 everyone. We started off by listening to "Drop Me Off in Harlem" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for our jazz journal. One of the main elements that we focused on in the song was tone. I like the fact that we were able to discover that the song had mixed tones based on the target of the tone. Remember that we'll be listening to a lot of different types of music in this unit to explore the culture of the Harlem Renaissance.
From there, we did some station rotations and looked art and poetry. We annotated for surface meaning and then deeper meaning in order to discover topic and theme. We're going to usually get back to topic and theme in the works that we study, so continuing to repeat this skill is important. You all did great work collaborating and critically thinking to discover the messages that these authors were sending and the problems that they were responding to.
At the end of class, we did a review on writing, and then we took time to work as we needed. I like that people were focused on finishing projects or studying vocabulary. You will have a vocabulary test next week on List Two words, so it is a good idea to study and review. Use the resources linked in our folder for today's class. If you need help with your project (or anything else) come to Lion Time on Friday. My goal is to have everything graded and back to you next week so that you can focus on raising your scores at the end of the quarter.
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