Week #9 October 17-21, 2011

Literature: Reading - Homer's The Odyssey
               Discussion - "What is a myth?"
                                 "How Evil Came into the World"
                                 "Creation"
Writing: phrases/sentence structure
Vocabulary: #121- 145 divers, breach, tactic, convey, adversary, fury, avowal, disdain, glade, stealth, snare, vile, fodder, foreboding, kinsmen,succumb, dote, entice, flawless, chide, treachery, exquisite, consent, cleft, regale


Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Monday
- Finished assignments ("What is a myth?," "How Evil Came into the World," "Creation") - Due for grading on Monday and Tuesday
- TSI study guide and annotated passage - Due Wednesday


Activities
Monday
1. Quiz # 8 on vocabulary #s 96-120 and "What is a myth?."
2. Go over the sentence writing classwork.


Tuesday
1. Go over myth homework and reading classwork. 
2. Receive Odyssey handout for annotation. 

Wednesday
1. Go over a reading classwork.
2. Read about Homer's world, and take notes using Cornel notes format. Refer to the format on the board.

Thursday- Friday
1. Take note of the characteristics of an epic.
2. View a powerpoint presentation, and discuss epic characteristics.

Week #8 October 10-14, 2011

Literature:  James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis"
                Homer's The Odyssey
                "What is a myth?"
                "How Evil Came into the World"
                "Creation"
Grammar and Writing: phrases, short answer paragraphs
Vocabulary: #s96-120 contend, harried, valor, guile, muster, indifferent, prodigious, solitude, victuals, vessel, stoke, rogue, ravage, entreat, avenge, whim, appall, ponderous, dispatch, brace, ponder, hew, venture, cordial, bellow

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: Every MONDAY
- CASPAR chart - Due: TBA (I know this assignment has appeared on the blog so many different times, but soon you will get to submit it. Let us finish one last short story and annotate it to the MAX. What you will learn in annotating "The Scarlet Ibis" are skills you will get to use in The Odyssey and other literature in the future. 8=) Be patient with good, old Mrs. T.)
- "What is a myth?" - Due: Friday, Oct. 15

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #8 - "The Scarlet Ibis" vocabulary.
2. Complete reading and annotating of "The Scarlet Ibis."

Tuesday
1. Review/practice for PSAT.
2. Continue reading and annotating "Ibis."
3. Receive "What is a myth?" homework. - Sorry, Mrs. T. forgot. I will give you the assignment tomorrow. Please remind me.

Wednesday
PSAT testing
1. Continue reading and annotating "Ibis." (diction, imagery, figurative language, tone)
2. Continue discussion.

Thursday
1. Continue reading annotating "Ibis." (flashback, diction, author's purpose, symbolism).

Friday
1. Submit the "myth" homework.
2. Read "How Evil Came Into the World" and "Creation" and annotate.
3. Write sentences.

The BIRD - Scarlet Ibis

http://youtu.be/20v3WHklMjE

View the video by clicking on the link. Get to know the ibis. 

Week# 7 October 3-7, 2011

Literature: James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis"
Writing/Grammar: phrases
Literary strategy: imagery/sensory details
Vocabulary: #s 73-95 prim, spruce, billow, gleam, careen, bedeck, sullen, loll, imminent, infallible, dogged,  exotic, armada, vermilion, heresy, clove, invalid, iridescent, reiterate, snipe, bar, glid, moon, nudge, rustle


Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: every week on Monday
- Marcel Proust quote based personal narrative - Due: Wednesday, Oct. 5
- CASPAR - DUE: Friday, Oct. 7


NOTES:
* If you did not submit the 9/11 essay, please submit it now because it will be a part of the 2nd cycle grading.
* If you want to STILL take advantage of the TPP extra credit, bring $10 on Monday, Oct. 3, and buy a subscription from a TPP representative. Monday is the last time for this extra credit opportunity.


Activities
Monday
1. VOCABULARY and LITERARY test: covers the vocab words for "Cask..." and the story "Cask..." Please study.


Tuesday
1. Continue the test on "Cask..." and vocabulary story. 
2. Review imagery/sensory details


Wednesday
1. Work on a diagnostic activity on phrases.

2. Look at examples of responses and have groups edit, proofread, and rewrite. 

Thursday
1. Read a background on "Scarlet Ibis," and read the story.
2. Analyze the literature using CASPAR.


Friday
1. Work on annotating a passage in "Scarlet Ibis."
2. Review for Monday's test.

Week # 6 September 26-30, 2011

Literature: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
Grammar/Writing: Process paper/adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: #s 32-55

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes with "The Most Dangerous Game" (TMDG) additional words - Due: Monday, 9/26
  Note: 1st and 3rd periods except 7th period - Please include the crossword puzzle. 7th period, unfortunately did not receive the puzzle on Friday, so the students in that class will receive it at the beginning of the period on Monday.
- Sentence Writing #3 - Due: Friday, 9/30
- Figurative Language and Plot Devices - Due: Tuesday, 9/27

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 on additional TMDG words.
Discuss if time allows.

Tuesday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases, or reading check on TMDG. (We'll see which one we'll have.)
2. Go over the figurative language and plot devices activity from last week.
2. Review MOOD, and read and annotate Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado."

Wednesday
1. Take a reading check on TCOA.
2. Write the two-three body and one conclusion paragraphs for the quote-based essay.

Thursday
HOLIDAY - Be sure to write your sentence homework.

Friday
Read "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Annotate for SIFT.

Homework:
CASPAR chart on any short story read in class. Due: Oct. 8, Friday.

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.

Process Writing Assignment: Marcel Proust's quote

  Process Writing: Write about the quote below. What does it mean to you? Include a short anecdote how this quote may have applied, or will apply to you. Keep in mind while including an anecdote that it should have the short story elements. Also include an example from the stories we read this week. Keep quotations from the short stories enclosed in quotation marks. You may start taking notes at home, but when you get to class, you start afresh with your outline of ideas on one sheet of paper and your essay on a clean sheet of paper.  Use proper grammar and mechanics and include at least 5 of the vocabulary words and underline each one of them. 

“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desires change.”– Marcel Proust

DUE: TBA


Note: By now, you should have already submitted your introduction to me, or have received it back from me for a rewrite.