3/23/17 Jake vreeland

Today, March 23rd,2017 we entered the class as normal by grabbing our laptops and getting our notes ready.  Mr. Rivers usually starts the class by getting us to shut up then asking our groups a question from the day before.  I was absent the day before so I just observed what my group said and got the work my class did yesterday.  That work was also involved in this class today.  It was a sonnet written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, he read it when he won a Tony award this past June.  A sonnet is a fourteen line poem with a with rhyming themes, which we learned in class today.   The class analyzed the poem yesterday and found literary devices in it.  Today we started going over a subject called SOAPST.  Which stands for Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone.  We took down a few short bull it points for each word.  We did not get to finish and we won't be able to tomorrow because sadly Mr.Rivers will not be in school.  Instead we will practice with what we have learned so far and be prepared for him next time we are all together.  Also with the SOAPST as a class we found a few examples for each part of SOAPST we were taught.  Since there is parc testing next week we will most likely not get to finish this for a little time.  But still have to stay focus and used what we have learned so far throughout the year for the up coming testing. Here is a picture of Lin-Manuel Miranda.