Week # 5 September 19-23, 2011

Literature: Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"
Writing: Process paper/prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: imprudent, debacle, elude, stamina, imperative, uncanny, sensuous, mystified, staccato, floundered, mirage, gargoyle, precision, debacle, surmounted, barbarous, invariably, braggart, ennui, spurred, pungent, precariously, placid, shinned, expanse

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Weekly
- Process paper (Marcel Proust quote essay) - Due part by part: TBA
- Sentence homework #2 - A persona essay on 911 - Due: Thursday, Sept. 22 (adjusted due date)

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 - TMDG vocabulary.
2. Break-out session for presentation. Any one of the following presentations is acceptable:
                      - narrative poem to be recited (typed for submission)
                      - skit to be presented (typed for submission
                      - song to be sung (typed for submission
     Plot elements should be continuous all throughout the presentation.  - CANCELLED!!!
3. Introduction one-on-one conference.

Tuesday and Wednesday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases
2. Reading and annotation of TMDG

Thursday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases
2. Reading and annotation of TMDG

Friday
1. Body paragraph writing.
2. Literary analysis of TMDG.