Week # 6 September 26-30, 2011

Literature: Joan Aiken's "Searching for Summer" and Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian"
Writing and Grammar: Parts of a sentence and punctuation
Vocabulary: commiserate, disengage, indomitable, rudimentary, savoring, unavailing, voluble, wizened, revue, halt, ebb, murmur, antiseptic, regressive, tendencies

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes on "There Will Come Soft Rains" words - Due: Monday, 9/26

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 on "There Will Come Soft Rains" words.
2. Read Joan Aiken's "Searching for Summer."

Tuesday
1. Continue reading SS.
2. Annotate for plot elements, figurative language, and details.
3. Take a reading check.

Wednesday
1. Read Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian." Annotate for setting, plot, characters, theme, sensory details, simile, and repetition.
2. Work on guide questions.
3. View Ray Bradbury film.


Thursday
Holiday


Friday
Continue viewing and answer viewing guide. 

Week # 5 September 19-23, 2011

Literature: Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Writing: Process paper - ASOT Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: manipulate, oblivious, paranoia, silhouette, sublime, tremulous, shriveled, acrawl, radioactive, titanic, inconvenience, miniature, burrows, incinerator, yelping
Academic words: consequent, crucial, initial, shift, survive

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: every week (any day, so prepare)

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 - ASOT additional words
2. Literary analysis - introduction

Tuesday
1. Discuss how technology might have taken over life? If it does, what will happen? What are some limitations of technology?
2. Read "There Will Come Soft Rains" and answer a study guide.
3. Analyze a literary element: chronology and personification.

Wednesday
1. Reading check.
2. Vocabulary practice.
3. Write body paragraphs for the literary analysis.

Thursday
1. Learn academic words and use at least one academic word from the list to write a paragraph describing the initial crisis and consequent problems when technology fails and causes widespread trouble.

Friday
1. View Ray Bradbury video.
2. Answer video guide.

Friday
1. Write the conclusion for the literary analysis.
2. Write the final draft after peer review.

Week #4 September 12-16, 2011

Literature: Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: aurora, revoke, primeval, taint, teeming, remit, graft, chaos, comparable, cavernous, pelvic, gauze, Butterfly Effect, sterilize, disproportion

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due: Monday, Sept. 12
- Literary Analysis Essay - due: TBA
- Direct and Indirect Characterization  - due: TBA

Activities:
Monday
1. Take Quiz #4 - "A Sound of Thunder" vocabulary quiz and "Harrison Bergeron" literary quiz.
2. Discuss "A Sound of Thunder" study questions.

Tuesday
1. Take "A Sound of Thunder" reading check.
2. Go over the reading check.
3. Work on direct and indirect analysis of characters in ASOT.

Wednesday
1. Warm- up: ASOT figurative language. Use Literary Glossary of Terms.
2. Discuss activity.
3. Write introduction for literary analysis essay. Peer review.

Thursday
1. Edit and proofread intro.
2. Write second and third body paragraphs.
3. Peer review.

Friday
1. Edit and proofread body and add a third.
2. Write the conclusion and edit and proofread rough draft.
3. Take home draft and write or type final draft. Follow a format.

Week #3 September 6-9, 2011

Literature: Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron" and Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: annihilate, correlate, expendable, infinitesimally, malfunctioning, paradox, resilient, stagnating, subliminal, and undulate 


Homework: 
- SAT vocab notes


Activities
Monday
Labor Day


Tuesday
1. Review Harrison Bergeron and vocabulary before taking the quiz.
2. Take Quiz #2. Discuss.
3. Work on a character study lesson and learn how to use quotes to describe characters.


Wednesday
1. Study an author. View a video on Ray Bradbury.
2. Discuss video.


Thursday
1. Read "Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder.
2. Discuss the story.


Friday
1. Analyze literary technique: foreshadowing in "A Sound of Thunder."
2. Begin writing.

Week #2 August 29-September 2, 2011

Literature: Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
Writing: Using Precise Adjectives
Vocabulary: calibrated, consternation, cower, hindrance, luminous, symmetry, synchronizing, vague, vigilance, wince, indomitable, omen, unavailing, voluble, withered


Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due: August 29, Monday
- Bio-poem - due: August 30, Tuesday
- Sentence homework - due: Sept. 1, Thursday


Activities
Monday
1. Take the novel and vocabulary test: David Klass' You Don't Know Me.
2. Review elements of fiction and plot from last week's "Red" sponge activity.
3. Receive new vocabulary handout.
4. Receive science fiction elements handout. 


Tuesday
1. Warm-up on vocabulary and collect finished bio-poems.
2. Respond to an anticipation prompt and write a 1/2 page response.
3. Begin reading Connell's "Harrison Bergeron" and use  the provided guide questions to further understanding of the story.


Wednesday
1. Warm-up on vocabulary.
2. Continue redaing the short story and annotate.

Thursday
1. Continue reading the short story and annotate.
2. Work on short story questions.

Friday
1. Continue work on the short story questions.
2. Discuss questions.

Week #1 August 22-26, 2011

Literature: Short Stories- science fiction
Writing: Character bio-poem
Vocabulary: Levitating (4), salient (16), ponderous (20), tundra (20), prowess (20), crescendo (21), portal (27), incremental (41), girth (46), mayhem (48), edification (48), emetic (51), heinous (55), eveiscerated (55), nostalgia (56)

Homework:
- Summer Reading - Prepare for a test on Aug. 29
- Composition notebook check: Aug. 25

Activities
Monday
1. First Day Procedures
2. Survey and writing.

Tuesday
1. Complete survey and writing.
2. Distribute vocabulary handout and SAT format.
3. Review parts of speech as a component of vocabulary notes.

Wednesday
1. Discuss 5 words from the list.
2. Write two bio-poems.
3. Create a poster of the bio-poems.

Thursday
1. Work on a crossword puzzle.
2. Discuss puzzle.
3. Continue writing bio-poems.

Friday
1. Work ona  sponge activity.
2. Discuss elements of fiction.

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