Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Welcome back! I am in Austin at the UIL State Congress Contest. I will be back on Thursday. I've missed you all dearly! Happy New Year!!!!!! I hope you're looking forward to an AWESOME 2014!!!!!!!!!
- Bell Work: fill out this form "Highlights of 2013 and Looking Forward to 2014"
- Week 17 SAT words are on the wall.
- Please study and LEARN these ten words this week. I promise it will make the weekly task of studying for the SAT quizzes much less daunting! (Come on, would I lie to you about this?!?!)
- Week 17 DRE (due Friday)
- Read about Washington Irving on page 227.
- Add notes to your "Author Information" document that we began earlier this year.
- If for some reason you cannot find it, here is the link to the original document: Author Information
- "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving--Vocabulary and Literary Terms
- Added to your Vocabulary and Literary Terms Document
- If we have a new student, please share your document with him/her.
- Literary Terms, p. 226
- Character Development
- Direct Characterization
- Indirect Characterization
- Vocabulary, p. 226
- Prevalent
- Discord
- Treacherous
- Extort
- Ostentation
- Parsimony
- I know this may seem like a lot, but it isn't. My hope is to breeze through this story this week and then continue on with Non-Fiction (Expository, Procedural, and Persuasive) text. That means you are NOT off the hook for reading a non-fiction book. If you didn't finish yours over the break, you better get busy!!!!!!
- If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at cavalos@godleyisd.net or tweet me @AvalosEnglish.
- Be good for the sub and I can't wait to see you all on Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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