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. 

PSAT MOCK TEST/TUTORIAL

Free Mock PSAT on Saturday, September 24 at Bellaire: 
Bellaire is offering a free mock PSAT to any interested 9th – 11th grade students. Students need to go to the following website to register by Wednesday, September 21; each student must have a specific ID number to take the test.

http://www.testmasters.com/bellaire.html

The real PSAT is on Wednesday October 12, this is a great opportunity to experience the testing environment. For more information check the daily bulletin or see Ms. Quaite in room 372.


PSAT / SAT Tutoring: 
MATH (beginning the week of August 29th)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8th Period - Mr. Mazumder's room # 153
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8th Period - Ms. Park's room # 252

VERBAL AND WRITING (beginning the week of September 6th)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8th Period - Mr. Wolf's room # E 343

The PSAT will be given on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.