Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Tuesday, September 27

HONORS AMERICAN LIT

Homework check; gave feedback on Columbus paragraphs.
Warm up: choice of reading or vocabulary study.  Quiz Friday!

Read, marked with 3--4 Post-it Notes, and discussed possible inferences about how de Vaca perceived the Indians he met, from "La Relacion" (73--76).
Began reading the excerpt from The Travels of Marco Polo (77) marking with Post-it Notes 1--2 passages allowing inferences about how Marco Polo perceived the natives of the countries he visited.

HOMEWORK: Finish reading and marking the excerpt from The Travels of Marco Polo. Due tomorrow! We will be using these notes, and those on the Log of Christopher Columbus, to begin writing a compare and contrast essay in class.


DUE DATES

FRIDAY, September 30: First Encounters vocabulary quiz.

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