Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension. Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion.
- Bell Work: Fill out this form to turn in your My Ethics, My Codes of Life Essay
- EVERYONE must fill out this form. Even if you don't have your essay done. There is a spot for you to provide me with an excuse (that I probably won't accept...just saying.)
- Open up textbook to page 470
- Read from "Life on the Mississippi: The Boys' Ambition" by Mark Twain
- Read from "How to Tell a Story: An Essay by Mark Twain"
- Work on Vocab. and Literary Terms from "Life on the Mississippi" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain Vocab. and Literary Terms (p.569)
- Lit. Terms
- Humor
- Rhetorical Techniques
- Incongruity
- Overstatement
- Vocabulary
- Transient
- Prodigious
- Eminence
- Garrulous
- Conjectured
- Monotonous
- Interminable
- I'm sorry I'm out today. Reese is sick and I am not willing to risk getting on the roads with her.
- Reminders:
- Wednesday at NOON is the deadline for "Pennies for Patients/Owen" because I won't be here on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, and Friday.
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