10.24 - Theme and Character Development

In the first part of class today, we wrapped our discussion of theme and character development in Animal Farm. We completed the outline on Napolean and the theme of selfishness wrecking things for good people. Our work is included below. On the back of their sheet, everyone wrote outlined what they would write for the conclusion to this paper. We reviewed that a conclusion should achieve the following points:

Conclusion -
Reviews/restates the thesis.
Explains how the main points of the essay relate to the thesis.

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We then had round three of "Celebrity Say What!?" which featured Justin Bieber. Bieber's tweets and our formalized translations of them are included below.

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Formalized Version:

I am beyond excited for my new album, "All That Matters" to be available on iTunes tonight at midnight. There are only nine hours to go! Are you ready?!

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Formalized Version:

I am not feeling well today. I am very congested.

At the end of class, I handed out roots and prefixes sheets for set four roots/prefixes.

Set 4 Roots/Prefixes - List

Set 4 Roots/Prefixes - Practice

Homework:

Complete the Set 4 Roots/Prefixes - List for tomorrow.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

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