Friday, April 8

We'll finish our unit on non-fiction today by looking at autobiographies.

First, though, students needed to get the benchmark diagnostic exam out of the way. The benchmark exam is a useful way for me to measure student progress throughout the semester. Hopefully, I will see that students are making steady progress towards our EOCT goals. We took the benchmark at the beginning of class.

After that, students read the autobiographical essay "A Whole Nation and a People", about a Greek man who learns to appreciate his culture. It's on page 273. Students answered the "Reading Check" and "Study and Discussion" questions at the end.

Then students wrote their own autobiographies for me. I'd like one page minimum.

If you were absent today, make up the work with "A Whole Nation and a People." Do the questions. Write the autobiography. You can't really make up the diagnostic test, you know.