1. Before your warm-up, finish yesterday’s poster:  For “Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio,” analyzes four of the different aspects of poetry that we have studied so far:  Choose 4 of the following: speaker, tone, mood, theme, diction, irony, symbolism, metaphor.  First, divide your poster paper into four areas.  Then, write a sentence explaining each of the four aspects that you chose.  Next, provide a quote that reveals each of the four aspects.  Finally, draw a picture that represents each of the four aspects of the poem.

2.  Pass up poetry packet!  Bring To Kill a Mockingbird every day to assure that you don’t lose participation points!  I’ll start taking points off Monday…  Any late work from January will not be accepted after Monday!

3. STANDARDS Literary Response and Analysis 3.9 Explain how voice, persona, and the choice of a narrator affect characterization and the tone, plot, and credibility of a text.

4. Cool-down: When living as a member of a society, we are usually required to follow the “status quo” or the established norms (“normal“ behavior, thinking, ideas) for what society sees as right. However, sometimes we may disagree with the status quo... Is it our duty as members of a society to make our ideas fit into the status quo, OR do we have a responsibility to our own selves to follow what our own conscience tells us is right (even if that means being labeled as an outcast)? Explain in at least two sentences.

5. WHY THE WEIRD WARM-UP? In To Kill a Mockingbird, we will read about a character– Atticus Finch– who disagrees with following the “status quo”, but instead wishes to follow his own ideas of what is “right”.  What other characters have we read about that are like Atticus Finch?  This story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Based on what you’ve heard in history classes and what you’ve read in Black Boy, what can you say about the 1930’s in southern U.S.?

6. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  Let’s start to reading To Kill a Mockingbird.