1. Today we were supposed to go hard-core through some poetry to find the speaker, the tone, the author’s purpose, and other aspects. Specifically we were going to focus on pointing  out the figurative language. Unfortunately, it was driver training day so there were only five students. Instead of covering content the others would have difficulty catching up on, they watched the video about the Top Ten Unexplained Phenomenon that they were going to watch as a class next week.
2. While they watched it, they had to create a list in their binders with point form proof of the phenomena and proof against it. We’ll discuss it next week with the rest of the class, later in the week. We’ll have to get on the poetry at the beginning of next week, with a figurative language exam on Tuesday. There’ll be a unit exam, as well, at the end of the week to test your skills developed so far in answering questions about the elements of literature for poetry and short stories.

One of the top ten phenomenas was crop circles. Strangely enough, the image on the google website earlier this week was a play on the Google title, created with crop circles. As students learned from the video, the grain molecules are structurally changed. Explain that, will ya?