Theme and Point of View

Week #8 October 15-19, 2012

Literature: Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" 
Writing: Sentence writing
Vocabulary: 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 vocab notes on Odyssey words #1 - due: Oct. 15
• Sentence Homework #4 - due: Oct. 17

Monday

• Go over "How Evil Came Into the World."
• Take vocabulary quiz (Odyssey #1) and mythology, creation, and Pandora's box.

Tuesday

• View a prezi on "Ozymandias."
• Read and annotate "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelly.
• Analyze and discuss tone, irony, and theme in the poem.

Wednesday

• Take the PSAT.
• Go over sentence homework.
• Analyze an discuss tone, irony, and theme in the poem.

Thursday - Friday

• Work on the Ozymandias activities and discuss them. 

Greek and Roman Mythology, What is a myth?

Week #7 October 8-12, 2012

Literature: Greek Mythology

Writing: Expository essay

Vocabulary: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 with "I Don'T See George," and "Why Write" vocabulary - due: Oct. 8
• PSAT Section 5 - due: Oct. 9

Monday

• Reading test: "Cask of Amontillado" and vocabulary.

Tuesday - Thursday

• Go over the reading test SAR objectives and rubric.
• Read an article on mythology.
• Answer short answer questions.

Friday

• Writing Workshop.

"I Don't See George Anymore" by Phillip Oakes, "Why Write" by Paul Auster, and "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway, "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

Week #6 October 1-5, 2012

Literature: Short Narratives, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (tone and mood)
Vocabulary: shenanigan, vulnerable, persist, trappings, inventory, buoyant, earnest, smolder, sensible, unconscious, tinge, grimace, stampede, headlong, adolescent, underscore, trek, stun, legitimate, materialize, detested, allotments, sympathized, blithe, tawny

Homework:

• - SAT vocabulary notes on "TMDG" additional and "Cask..." combined with a total of 25 words only. Choose twenty words you like the most and use those words in your vocab study notes. - due: Oct. 1
• - Annotated "Cask of Amontillado" - due: Oct. 1 (Original due date was last Friday, Sept. 28)
• - Sentence writing homework #2 - due: Oct. 2
• - Narrative Essay - due: Oct. 3 
• - Prepare for a long vocabulary test on the "The Most Dangerous Game" (TMDG) additional on Monday, Oct. 1
• - Prepare for a reading test on Wednesday, Oct. 3, with words from "The Cask of Amontillado".

Monday

• Today,we are going to take the vocabulary test on the additional words from "The Most Dangerous Game". The test will be timed, so prepare by studying the words from TMDG.
• We will spend ten minutes of discussion of "Cask..."

Tuesday

• Write sentences for a warm-up exercise.
• Read "I Don't See George Anymore" and annotate for diction, imagery, details, figurative language, and syntax (focus on prepositional phrases).
• Discuss the story.

Wednesday

• Take a timed reading test.
• Read and annotate "Why Write" during the last fifteen minutes of class. Highlight specific diction, imagery, details, figurative language, and syntax (focus on prepositional phrases) again. 

Thursday

• Read "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway. Annotate for tone, diction, mood, theme, imagery, and character.
• Discuss story and compare to the other stories. 

Friday

• Work on a timed writing prompt.

NOTE: This week is the last week of the 1st cycle. Please take care of your grades. Everything depends on how you deal with your grade situation. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19670686

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Literary analysis in TMDG, narrative writing

Week # 5 September 24-28, 2012

Literature: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
Writing: Literary writing
Vocabulary: "The Most Dangerous Game" additional words: mirage, braggart, pungent, precarious, placid, mystify, anguish, vigor, leer, discern, disarming, ardent, debacle, surmount, grisly, naive, elude, stealthy, futile, pungent, uncanny, precarious, tangible, placid, frantic

"Cask of Amontillado" words: aperture, circumscribe, connoisseur, crypt, distill gesticulate, ignoramus, implore, impunity, insufferable, motley, perceive, recess, redress, repose, termination, vault, vintage, virtuouso

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" words - due: Sept.24
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" additional words - due: Oct.1                                                                                           
- SAT vocab notes on "The Cask of Amontillado" words - due: Oct. 8
- Sentence Homework #1 - due: Sept. 25
- Figurative and Plot Devices assignment - due: Sept. 26

Monday

• Take vocabulary Quiz #3 - "The Most Dangerous Game" words.
• Continue reading "The Most Dangerous Game" and annotate for understanding of literary techniques.

Tuesday

• Warm-up: sentence unscrambling with prepositional phrase. 
• Understand and analyze figurative language and plot devices in "The Most Dangerous Game."
• Prepare to read "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Review tone and mood in literature.

Wednesday

• Continue to read "The Cask of Amontillado" and analyze tone and mood in the story.
• Annotate the rest of the story for conflict, setting, irony, mood, narrator's purpose, foreshadowing, sound imagery, climax, and resolution.

Thursday - Friday

• Writing workshop.
• Complete narrative outline and write first draft.
• Conference with peers before writing second draft.

Hunger Games test, Excerpt from Night, "The Most Dangerous Game", Richard Connell

Week #4 September 18-21, 2012

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. 

SIFT, Allusion, Excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel, 9-11

Week #3 September 10-14, 2012

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.

Tuesday

• 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.