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Week of Dec. 15-19:

Monday -Act 1. Please read ahead so that you can be more fluent in class.

Tuesday -Short story quiz. Romeo and Juliet continued.

Wednesady - Essay organization and new outline/topic to be assigned

Thursday -Act 2 ?

Week of Dec. 8 -12

Moday Dec. 8

Essay Writing

Tuesday Dec. 9

Quiz: "The Patient"

Romeo and Juliet

Essay writing

Act I Sc.1 - 3

Wednesday Dec. 10- 12 Act I Sc 4 -5

Essay writing

Week of Dec. 1-5:

Monday Dec.1

Revise and rewrite your news report: "Just One of Those Days"

Check very step of a hard news article:

• headline
• lead paragraph (with most of the W's and H)
• at least two quotations related closely to the news
• written from a third and objective point of view
• at least five paragraphs
• organize in column

Essay organization:

Outlining pp178-179 Exercise 1

Summarizing p179 Exercise 2

Tuesday Dec 2 Review organization

Concluding paragraphs pp153-156

Check Thesis Statements pp171-172

Poem, "The Execution

Wed. Dec. 4

Developing Reasons pp173

Choose one of the three topics to develop an outline for an essay

Short Story Quiz:

T he Moose and the Sparrow Tuesday Nov. 25 Lamb to the Slaughter Wednesday Nov. 26

Chapter 9 Essay Organization

Review the organization by filling the blanks here:

Introductory paragraph: a)_________________ b) _______________ c)_______________________

Body paragraphs: a)_________________ b) _______________ c) ______________________

Concluding paragraph: a) ________________ b) ________________ c) ______________________

HW:

1. Monday Nov. 24 pp 160-162 Practice 5 Outlining an essay

2. Tuesday Nov. 25 pp. 163-164 Practice 6 and 7 Grouping ideas logically and Outlining Body paragraphs

3. Wednesday Nov. 26 pp. 167 Practice 8 Summarizing any essay in this chapter. Rmember to use the thesis as the T.S. for your summary paragraph and write only one or two sentences for each body paragraph. Need a C.S. at the end.

Chapter 10 Opinion Essays

Here is the brain twister for the week (Nov. 24)

Essay Organization Wednesday Nov. 19

Answer questions on p.150 on the Model Essay.

Practice 2 p.152 Complete the Topic sentences for each thesis statement.

Short Story/Plays/Poetry: In Your Own Voice 2

2. Lamb to the Slaugter (pp.88- )

a. Vocabulary work: learn 10 new words with defitinions/synonyms, and write a sentence for each showing its meaning.

b. Identify three or more examples of Irony and explain its ironic effects.

c. News report: From the viewpoint of a newspaper reporter, write a news article reporting the murder case of Patrick Maloney. Imagine an interview with Mrs. Maloney, what she will or will not tell a reporter. Use only those details she will tell. Assigned Monday Nov. 17

1. The Moose and the Sparrow (pp.227- )

Ten new words from the story:

• a) synonym/defintion
• b) write a sentence that relates to the story using the word
• These words are important for your quiz, so learn them in the same way as above: grub, coroner, greenhorn, pick on, good-natured, Moose's hide, diagonally,

Plot graph: The trigger occurs when Cecil is transfered to Moose Maddon's camp.

• What are the next five or six incidents that happen leading to the climax? (in sequential order)
• What is the falling action? or is there one?
• What is the resolution
• When you figure out all these points, place each point at the appropriate stage on the plot graph.

2. The Patient

3. Just One of Those Days

4. Lamb to the Slaughter

5. Execution

• Write one paragraph using the process organization: How to make my favorite dish

Read Ch 6 Process Paragraphs

Write a "How to ..." paragraph as assigned in class Thurs.Oct 30.

Pp101 Write two complex sentences for each of the 14 subordinators, following the comma rule.

e.g. Because she was tired, Anna left the party early.

Anna left the party early because she was tired.

Pp102 Practice 3, B.

In your notebook, copy and indentify independent clauses and dependent clauses.

• Complete the chart of comparing the two educational systems
• Write the first draft using the information for the four paragraphs.

Are we right brain or left brain dominant? Play this for fun:

Practise your sentences by doing the exersices on Sentence Fragments

Personal novel #2: Continue to read as much as you can so that your second book talk can be better prepared.

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