Week #2 August 29-September 2, 2011

Literature: Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" and O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi"
Writing: Sentences with words in context and a grammatical components
Vocabulary: TN#s 56-73 - dowry, poise, gnaw, disconsolate, vex, anguish, distracted, adulation, aghast, gamut, compromise, exorbitant, prospect, pauper, askew
                   GM - agile, assertion, chronicle, coveted, falter, instigate, prudence, ransack, ravage, vestibule


Homework:
- SAT Vocabulary notes - due: Aug. 29, Monday
- BLOG comments - due: Augu. 29, Monday
- Personal Coat of Armor (shield) - due: Aug. 30, Tuesday
- Sentence writing warm-up/homework - due: Sept. 1, Thursday
- Summer Reading - due:Sept. 2, Friday
- Summer Reading Assignment - ALTERNATIVE DUE DATE for those who were given an extension: Sept. 9
- CASPAR chart - due: TBA
- 2nd Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 16 (Handout tp be distributed next week.)
 
NOTE: Please make sure you have your Literature textbook ready this week. There will be a textbook check on Tuesday.
 
Activities:
Monday
1. Go over the crossword puzzle review.
2. Take Quiz #1 - Personal Characteristics Vocabulary and Parts of Speech. Discuss.
3. Collect SAT notes.
4. Distribute vocabulary packet and glossary of terms. 
5. Go over 5 words. Use in class warm-up activity.


Tuesday
1. Warm-up: next 5 words. Collect personal coat of armor from students.
2. Go over Elements of Fiction and Plot.
3. Listen to "Characters, Setting, Plot" rap song to reinforce review of elements of plot and fiction. Use the lick below.
http://www.educationalrap.com/song/characters-setting-plot.html
4. Read "The Necklace" and use the elements chart to identify and analyze each part of the story.
5. Students receive sentence homework.


Wednesday
1. Warm-up: next 5 words. Review parts of speech: conjunction, preposition, and interjection.
2. Read "The Gift of the Magi". Discuss ALLUSION. 
3. Create a CASPAR chart to identify parts of the story after reading.
4. Distribute 2nd summer reading assignment.


Thursday
1. Warm-up: 5 words.
2. Reading check for TN and GM. 
2. Discuss sentence homework.
2. Distribute Components of an Essay Handout. Discuss.


Friday
1. Review Components of an Essay.
2. Writing: Write about the quote below. What does it mean to you? Include a short anecdote how this quote may have applied, or will apply to you. Keep in mind while including an anecdote that it should have the short story elements. Also include an example from the stories we read this week. Keep quotations from the short stories enclosed in quotation marks. You may start taking notes at home, but when you get to class, you start afresh with your outline of ideas on one sheet of paper and your essay on a clean sheet of paper.  Use proper grammar and mechanics and include at least 5 of the vocabulary words and underline each one of them. 

“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desires change.”– Marcel Proust

Reminder: Review for the Quiz on Monday. Use the crossword puzzle to review.