Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman

Week #26 March 4-8, 2013

Literature: Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman
Writing: Revising and Editing, WITS
Vocabulary: AF#s 209-218 - cynical, comrade, prosperity, maltreat, parasitical, seclude, lamentation, rebellion, stupefy, practiced; M #s 11-25 - Czechoslovakia, pogrom, synagogue, anti-Semitism, hemorrhaging, glaucoma, cataract, herring, nuremberg, Pashastruma, Wehrmacht, systematically, bar mitzvah, aryan, hasty; Academic Words #5 - analogy, figurative language, omniscient narrator, personification, plot, setting, conflict, climax, denouement, voice; ROOTS - -ast(er), -audi-, -auto-, -bene-, -bio-, -chrono-,-dict-, -duc-/-duce-/-duct-, -gen-, -geo-

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes and sentences for AF#s 199-208 with adjective clause - due: Tuesday, March 5
• SAT vocab notes and sentences for AF#s 209-218 with adjective clause - due: Tuesday, March 19
• MAUS SAR's - due: Thursday, March 7

Monday - Friday

WARM-UP exercise everyday: SAT question of the day.

• On Monday, we have shortened periods.  Because of the limited time in class, we will continue reading Animal Farm and discuss a short answer question for Maus. 
• On Tuesday, we will have a WITS writing.
• On Wednesday, we will continue to read Animal Farm and discuss study questions and answers.
• On Thursday, we will work on language and diction in Maus and discuss SAR questions and answers. 
• On Friday, we will look at sample expositions and work practice building scenes in a narrative essay.