Literature: Short story - "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, wrapping up of Hunger Games lessons including the reading of an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel.
Writing: Narrative Essay, narrative devices
Vocabulary: dank, palpable, opaque, lacerate, palatial, bizarre, amenity, affable, cosmopolitan, condone, droll, scruple, bland, grotesque, opiate, sallow, solicitous, venerable, deplorable, zealous, tangible, repast, quarry, disarming, cultivate
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on tone words - due: Tuesday, Sept. 18
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" words - due: Monday, Sept. 24
- Crossword puzzle for tone words - due: Tuesday, Sept. 18
- Annotation assignment on the excerpt from Night. At home, read the excerpts and highlight important details and identify some techniques used by the author. You may use SIFT. - due: Wednesday, Sept. 19
Monday - Holiday
Tuesday - Friday
- I will give the Hunger Games test on Tuesday. Be prepared.
- We will review the tone words using the crossword puzzle I gave you last Friday, Sept. 14, and then, you will take a vocabulary test.
- This week, you will be provided a handout on annotation and use your annotation assignment you were given last week to review information in the handout. Add annotations in your assignment if you see anything you missed according to the annotation handout.
- We will read our first short story this week: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell.
- Finally, I am hoping we can continue with the narrative outlining assignment we started a week ago.
Note: If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask them here using the comment section below.
