Tuesday / Wednesday 18/19 October

In class students wrote about a time that they left someone or someplace, or about a time that someone left them.

Students were told that next week they will begin working on telling one of their own stories using the graphic story telling format.

We reviewed how narration is done in a square box in a graphic panel.

Then we discussed the political spectrum in relationship to Uncle Anoosh and Margi's father's argument on page 62.

  Finally there was SSR time.

Thursday / Monday 13 / 16 October

In class students turned in their essay's from last class. We reviewed the role of topic sentences as not only the main idea of body paragraphs, but as providing support for the thesis.

Students wrote quiz questions for the chapter "The Hero" and we answered and discussed these questions, as well as analyzing the quality of the questions.

Finally we read a article on the history of the SAVAK. Students can get this article from Mr. Zartler. We analyzed the article for evidence of U.S. involvement with the SAVAK; for themes of revenge; finally we tried to answer the question, "Was the SAVAK successful?"

WE added the word "mediocre" to the vocabulary list.

Students were assigned to read Persepolis through page 71 for next week.

Tuesday / Wednesday 11/12 October

In class students turned in SSR sheets and got new ones which will be due on October 31st.

We worked as a class on analyzing the following panels from Persepolis.

We read and discussed the end of "The Party" as an example of the importance of 'forgiveness' as a theme.

Students were assigned the following short essay as homework: