Literature: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel
Writing: Literary Writing, style, tone, and voice
Vocabulary: TONE WORDS: apprehensive, awe, bitter, clinical, compassionate, condescending, contentious, derisive, detached, elated, facetious, flippant, haughty, indignant, insolent, irreverent, jovial, mournful, nostalgic, obsequious, pessimistic, petty, pretentious, ridiculing, sarcastic, shocked, somber, taunting, urgent, wrathful (NOTE: Choose 25 words to study and use.)
HOMEWORK:
- SAT Vocabulary notes #2 - due: Monday, September 10
- Allusion project - due: Thursday, September 13
- Leave a comment below. - due until Friday,
September 14
- Prepare for the HUNGER GAMES test -TUESDAY, September 18.
Monday
- Take a vocabulary quiz on the first two lists.
- Continue the SIFT lesson.
- Continue the SIFT lesson and have each group present to class.
- Read an article about 9-11 and work on an activity.
Wednesday
- Read an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel. Analyze style, tone, and theme.
- Work on a compare and contrast activity.
Thursday and Friday
- Review elements of a narrative.
- Complete narrative outline.
- Write a narrative essay.
