May
12
ELA 10: May 12 Top Unexplained discussed / “The Witch of Coos”…
- Students were given back the organizer they were to fill in as they watched the video about the Top Ten Unexplained Phenomenas in the world. In today’s discussion, I reviewed them with the students and we compiled information to fill in their charts more. It was important that they distinguish between reasons for believing in the phenomena and reasons against it.
- We began reading, again, the poem called “The Witch of Coos”. We read through it twice and looked for specific clues to give us background and evidence of what we thought the plot was about. Will did a great job of picking out that the mother and her husband once killed a man (a man the mother was having an affair with) and they both dug a grave in the basement and burried him in it. The mother seems to be the only one to see or hear the bones crawling up the cellar steps and is now the only one left alive (since the husband died) who hears them scratching still on the wall from the attic now. It is quite an odd but quite descriptive poem. We finished our discussion and did the questions together.
- Someone else has written a summary / analysis of the poem in their own blog. Some parts are a bit mature for our discussions, but you’ll understand more of the poem if you take a peak. See what you think.
- Tomorrow, several students will be missing because of track. We will move forward with our analysis of several poems but these are tasks missing students will be able to catch up with quickly.