Literature: Poetry - Four of the Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music y Aaron Copland
Film: Finishing the Third Stage of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: Sentence and sentence style
Vocabulary: #s 925-944 strategy, akin, appreciable, articulate, broach, browse, clamorous, compact, confident, confidential, deduce, deportment, ethereal, evince, infirmity, initiate, instrumental, lithe, meteoric, negligible
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes format notebook - due every Thursday
- Monday and Tuesday - In your SAT notebook, write a specific sentence using eah word. For vocab #s 925-934, write a compound-complex sentence for each word with either an introductory phrase or clause.
- For vocab #s 935-939, write a sentence for each word with an appositive phrase.
- For vocab #s 940-944, write a sentence for each word with an absolute phrase.
- Individual reading project - due March 28, 2011 (Make sure you have the project handout.)
- Study guide for Stage 3 of Great Epectations - due Friday, March 11
Activities
Monday and Tuesday
1. Finish viewing the film and hopefully, take the test for it. Note the characters and characterization, mood, setting, and the progressing plot. Do not forget that Dickens' diction is very important in understanding the plot and ending of the novel.
2. Receive handouts for Emily Dickinson and Aaron Copland biographies. Read and annotate at home. Prepare for an activity on Thursday.
Wednesday
1. Go over the glossary of terms list and review poetry terminologies. Add to the list scansion, enjambment, meter, iamb, blank verse, feminine and masculine ending, Alexandria, etc.
2. Go over different writing styles: magic three, expanded moment, specific details, etc. and look at examples for each one.
3. Review DIDLS.
4. WITS in 5th period.
Thursday
1. Work on a crossword puzzle.
2. Work on a biography activity and discuss details.
Friday
1. Receive the four poems from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.
2. Highlight unfamiliar words and make a list.
3. Read and annotate for the following:
- What is the poem about?
- form - stanzas, lines, meter
- Figurative language - simile, metaphor, personification, symbol, allusion
- Sound Devices - alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance
- stanza by stanza - meaning
