Class Minutes, Thurs. Feb. 11th

1. Poetry device quizzes were handed back, but instead of a mark, you were told how many wrong you got, but not which ones. So, students had time to make corrections (without notes) and re submit their tests for an improved mark. This is an example of formative assessement- using assessemnt to further learning.
2. We read and explicated Ondaatje's poem, "The Time Around Scars," and wrote a practice thesis statement.
3. We read and explicated two poems on memory: a. "Remember", by Christina Rossetti, and "Mnemonic," by Li Young Lee. Then we wrote compare and contrast thesis statements, which were collected.
4. When we return from break we will be writing a compare and contrast multi paragraph on two new poems.