Week #7 October 8-12, 2012
Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Purpose and Rhetoric, Literary Nonfiction and Purpose, Rhetoric in Expository Essays
Writing: Literary Analysis Essay, Expository and Persuasive Essays
Vocabulary: SAt/OMM Week 1 - arrogant, banal, bombastic, brevity, solitaire, nuisance, rheumatism, subdued, reverently, solemnly
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes with SS words - due: Oct. 9
- PSAT practice section 5 - due: Oct. Oct. 10
Monday
- Take vocabulary and figurative language quiz.
- Continue and finish outline for literary analysis essay.
Tuesday-Thursday
- Read John Steinbeck's biography and about "The Great Depression and The Migrant Experience" and answer questions.
- Read "The Flood" by John Steinbeck and answer questions.
- Read chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men.
- Go over expository essay rubric.
Friday
Week #6 October 1-5, 2012
Literature: Short Stories
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: SS/Pedetrian words - commiserate, disengage, indomitable, rudimentary, savoring, unavailing, voluble, wizened, revue, halt, ebb, murmur, antiseptic, regressive, tendencies
Homework:
- - SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" additional words - due: Oct. 2
- - Annotated "The Pedestrian" - due: Oct. 1
Monday
- Today, you will take a quiz on the additional words from ASOT. Timed for 15 minutes.
- After the quiz, you will be given the additional minutes for the PSAT practice test.
- And then, we will analyze tone and mood in "The Pedestrian." You will provide context clues to the tone and mood.
Tuesday
- Review the outline for an essay.
- Go over a sample literary analysis essay on foreshadowing in ASOT.
- Write an outline of a literary analysis on characterization.
- Students who finish early and have conferred with me will work on a sentence combining or rearranging assignment or an imagery analysis assignment on "The Pedestrian".
Wednesday
- Write the introduction of the literary analysis essay.
- Students who finish early and have conferred with me will work on a sentence combining or rearranging assignment or an imagery analysis assignment on "The Pedestrian".
Thursday - Friday
- Write the body paragraphs.
- Write the conclusion.
Week # 5 September 24-28, 2012
Literature: " A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury,
Writing: Literary analysis
Vocabulary: "A Sound of Thunder" additional words: aurora, revoke, primeval, taint, teeming, remit, graft, chaos, comparable, cavernous, pelvic, gauze, sterilize, disproportion
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" words - due: Sept. 25
- SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" additional words - due: Oct. 2
Monday
- Take the You Don't Know Me test.
- Continue reading and annotating "A Sound of Thunder.
Tuesday - Wednesday
- View Ray Bradbury video and answer viewing guide.
- Read and annotate "The Pedestrian" and analyze passages for tone and mood.
- Discuss short stories.
Thursday - Friday
- Writing Workshop.
- Write an outline for a literary analysis essay.
Week # 4 September 18-21, 2012
Literature: Science Fiction, short story, poetry
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: annihilate, correlate, expendable, infinitesimally, malfunctioning, paradox, resilient, stagnating, subliminal, undulate
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "There Will Come Soft Rains" - due: Wednesday, Sept. 19
- SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" - due: Tuesday, Sept. Sept. 25
Monday - Holiday
Tuesday
- Review TWCSR vocabulary puzzle before taking the vocabulary quiz.
- Continue analysis of narrative devices in TWCSR (short story).
- Receive vocabulary handout for "A Sound of Thunder".
Wednesday
- Discuss narrative devices in TWCSR (short story).
- Read and annotate TWCSR (poem) by Sara Teasdale. Identify and analyze poetic devices.
Thursday
- Read " A sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.
- Analyze science fiction elements in the story.
- View the Ray Bradbury video and answer a viewing guide.
Friday
- Continue viewing the Ray Bradbury video and answer a viewing guide.
- Work on a crossword puzzle.
- Review how to outline an essay.
Week #3 September 10-14, 2012
Literature: Short story - "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction/ "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale, poetry
Writing: Literary Analysis Essay
Vocabulary:
- manipulate, oblivious, paranoia, silhouette, sublime, tremulous, shriveled, acrawl, radioactive, titanic, inconvenience, miniature, burrow, incinerator, yelping
- SCIENCE FICTION TERMS: science, technology, extrapolation
- SCIENCE FICTION ELEMENTS: characters (protagonist/antagonist), future time and alternate location setting, conflict, evidence of advanced technology, strange powers, resolution
HOMEWORK:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due: Tuesday, September 11
Monday
- Review vocabulary and practice using them.
- Take a vocabulary quiz.
Tuesday
- Finish HB literary analysis: plot and conflict.
- Discuss science fiction elements.
Wednesday
- View a film about Ray Bradbury and take notes.
- Read and annotate " There Will Come Soft Rains".
Thursday
- Continue to read and annotate "There Will Come Soft Rains" - the short story and the poem.
- Go over parts of an essay and essay rubric.
Friday
- Write an outline for a literary analysis essay.
Week #2 September 4-7, 2012
Literature: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
Writing: style, tone, and voice
Vocabulary: calibrated, consternation, cower, hindrance, indomitable, luminous, neutralize, omen, symmetry, synchronize, unavailing, vague, vigilance, voluble, wince
Homework:
- Materials for this class: three composition notebook, folder or binder - due: September 4
- SAT vocabulary notebook notes - due: September 4 and 5
Activities
Monday - LABOR DAY holiday
Tuesday
- Students will take the Beginning of Year (BOY) assessment.
- Students will finish the letter with specific style, tone and voice.
Wednesday
- Students will take the You Don't Know Me vocabulary quiz.
- Students will finish the letter with specific style, tone and voice.
Thursday
- Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Complete letter written in a specifuc style, tone, and voice.
Friday
- Discuss "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Monday.
Week#1 August 27-31, 2012
Literature: Summer reading - You Don't Know Me by David Klass
Writing: Sentences
Vocabulary: levitating, salient, ponderous, tundra, prowess, crescendo, portal, incremental, girth, mayhem, edification, emetic, heinous,eviscerated, nostalgia
Homework:
- Bring all materials required in the syllabus by August 31 or September 4.
- Bring back the white paper part of the syllabus by August 28.
- Bring a small photo of you, glue stick and colored pens or markers by August 29.
- Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, September 4.
Activities
Monday - Wednesday
- Receive syllabus and welcome letter.
- Write a personal bio-poem and a literary bio-poem and share with the class. You may use a word, or words from the vocabulary list. Create a poster of the bio-poem.
Thursday
- Go over the summer novel.
- Discuss irony, point of view, and tone. Read and analyze a quote/passage from the novel. Analyze the irony, point of view and tone in the quote/passage.
- Work on a writing assignment.
Friday
- Listen to a reading of a short, short, short fairy tale story to review the elements of fiction. Be ready with your pen and notebook.
- Identify the setting, character traits, point of view, and theme; and write answers in an Elements of Fiction Chart.
