Today in Class: August 17, 2015
A1
- DGP 4: Pronouns
- PC Students: Your summer reading assignment is due today. If you don't have it today, the last day I'll accept it is Friday, but I will take points off (...because I already gave you two extra weeks...)
- Organize notebooks: touching base with common Table of Contents
- Unit 1 Essential Question video and discussion: Does all communication serve a positive purpose?
- Elements of Poetry: read as class, discussion
- Poetry Terms Foldable
- free verse, rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole
- Homework: Finish Poetry Terms Foldable
A2
- DGP 5: Adjectives
- 15 minutes for each group to perform one group member's Origin Myths Adaptation
- Mrs. Cobb checked Origin Myth Written Adaptation for a grade
- Origin Myth Adaptation performances
- Coordinating conjunctions video and discussion
- On notebook p. 26: textbook p. 31 "Conventions and Style" practice #1-10
- SSR
- Homework:
- 1) Complete The Crucible Anticipation Guide (attach to notebook p. 27);
- 2. On notebook p. 28: The Crucible Vocabulary: look up and write down definitions for the following: dramatic exposition, predilection, ingratiating, dissembling, calumny, inculcation, propitiation, evade
A3
- DGP 4: Pronouns
- PC Students: Your summer reading assignment is due today. If you don't have it today, the last day I'll accept it is Friday, but I will take points off (...because I already gave you two extra weeks...)
- Poetry Collection 1: Read and discuss as class
- Grammar tutorial video and discussion, Commas and Dashes
- "Conventions" p. 376 (ntbk p. 20)
- Homework: Write your own lyric poem in response to any of the poems in Poetry Collection 1.
