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: Open up your "Author Information" document and open your textbook to page 566.
- As a class, read "Author In Depth: Mark Twain" and take notes in your author information document.
- As a class, read from "Life on the Mississippi: The Boys' Ambition" by Mark Twain (p. 570-574)
- As a class, read from "How to Tell a Story: An Essay by Mark Twain" (p. 575)
- 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
- Reminders:
- I won't be here the rest of the week...be GOOD for the subs (Mrs. Anglin and Mr. Galvan.)
- Your book project is due next Tuesday, February 17, 2015
- Week 22 DRE will be due next Tuesday, as well. If you don't get it back today, you will get it back tomorrow. I am grading them.
- No school this Friday and next Monday.
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