Monday, October 14, 2013

Week 8, Day 1
No School!  Enjoy your day off!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Week 7, Day 5
Objective: SWBAT write in a voice and style appropriate to audience and purpose, use technology for aspects of writing, vocabulary development, establish and adjust purpose for reading such as to find out, to understand, to interpret, to enjoy, and to solve problems, read silently with comprehension, read to be entertained, to appreciate a writer's craft, to be informed, to take action, and to discover models to use in his/her own writing

1. Grade Week 7 DRE
2. Novel Project
1. Due Tuesday, October 29, 2013
3. If you haven't already (or you changed your mind), fill out this form about the novel you are reading in class.  
4. Free Read for the rest of class.  NO TALKING!!!!!!
5. Remember...SAT Quiz on Tuesday!!!!

Please note: Fridays are not a time to work on things for another class.  You need to be productive for English class.  Please stay on task.  This is NOT a free day.  This a chance for you to read.  

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Week 7, Day 4
Objective: literary analysis, defining drama terms, cultural and historical impacts on literature, grade-level vocabulary

1. Vocabulary Bingo
2. Author Information: Arthur Miller
3. Work on Literary Terms for Drama (from yesterday)
1. Due Friday at 4:00pm.
4. Reminders:
1. Week 7 DRE Due Tomorrow!!!!

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Week 7, Day 3
Objective: literary analysis, defining drama terms, cultural and historical impacts on literature, grade-level vocabulary

1. Bell Work: Open up your textbook to page 1116-1117 and open up your Vocabulary/Literary Terms Document
2. Discuss Drama
3. With your group, read pages 1116-1117.
4. Put the following terms on your "Literary Terms" tab of your document. (Define them.  Yes, you will need examples too!)--Due Friday at 4:00pm.
1. Drama
2. Play
3. Plot
4. Acts
5. Scenes
6. Characters
7. Actors
8. Dialogue
9. Stage Directions
10. Comedy
11. Tragedy
12. Tragic Hero
13. Tragic Flaw
14. History Plays
15. Melodrama
16. Tragicomedy
17. Modern Realistic Drama
18. Political Drama
19. Dramatic Conventions
20. Suspension of Disbelief
21. Soliloquy
22. Aside
23. Passage of Time
5. Author Information: Arthur Miller

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Week 7, Day 2
Objective: grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding; revising and editing; evaluate how different literary elements (e.g., figurative language, point of view) shape the author's portrayal of the plot and setting in works of fiction; addresses the writing skills for an analytical essay, including references to and commentary on quotations from the text; analyzes the aesthetic effects of an author's use of stylistic devices.  

1. Go over Week 7 SAT Words together, as a class.  
2. Short Answer Questions with a partner for "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
1. Make a copy of this document
2. Due today at 4:00pm.  
3. You may work with a partner.
4. One person from each group needs to fill out this form.  

Monday, October 7, 2013

Week 7, Day 1
Objective: grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding; revising and editing; evaluate how different literary elements (e.g., figurative language, point of view) shape the author's portrayal of the plot and setting in works of fiction; addresses the writing skills for an analytical essay, including references to and commentary on quotations from the text; analyzes the aesthetic effects of an author's use of stylistic devices.  

1. Bell Work: study for your SAT Quiz #6
2. SAT Quiz #6
3. Work on Week 7 DRE
4. Short Answer Questions with a partner for "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
1. Make a copy of this document
2. Due tomorrow
3. You may work with a partner

Friday, October 4, 2013

Week 6, Day 5
Objective: SWBAT write in a voice and style appropriate to audience and purpose, use technology for aspects of writing, vocabulary development, establish and adjust purpose for reading such as to find out, to understand, to interpret, to enjoy, and to solve problems, read silently with comprehension, read to be entertained, to appreciate a writer's craft, to be informed, to take action, and to discover models to use in his/her own writing

1. Grade Week 6 DRE
2. Bell Work: Free Write...Write about anything that you want to write about.  (At least 50 words, underlining every 10th word, and include at least 2 of the current week's SAT words.)
3. Open your Vocab./Lit. Terms so I can grade it.  
4. Fill out this form about the novel you are reading in class.  
5. Free Read for the rest of class.  NO TALKING!!!!!!
6. Remember...SAT Quiz on Monday!!!!

Please note: Fridays are not a time to work on things for another class.  You need to be productive for English class.  Please stay on task.  This is NOT a free day.  This a chance for you to do what you enjoy the most with regards to this class: reading, writing, or vocabulary development.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Week 6, Day 4
Objective: Analyzing poetry

1. Bell Work: With the title, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," what do you think the poem will be about?  Use what information you know about the Puritans and what they wrote about, what the social expectations of women were in that time period, etc.
2. TP-CASTT
3. Read and discuss "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
4. REMINDERS:
1. Vocab./Lit. Terms for "To My Dear and Loving Husband" due tomorrow
2. Week 6 DRE due tomorrow
3. SAT Week 6 INFO--
1. Quizlet
2. Study Stack
3. Study your SAT Words for Week 5 SAT Quiz on Monday, October 7, 2013!!!!

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Week 6, Day 3
Objective: PSAT Prep

1. Mrs. V will be here to do the scantron for the PSAT.
2. Make sure your Vocab./Lit. Term Document is in your "Avalos English 3" Shared Folder.  It is due today at 4:00pm.  
3. Quizlet
4. Study Stack
5. Study your SAT Words for Week 5 SAT Quiz on Monday, October 7, 2013!!!!

Tuesday, October 1,2013

Week 6, Day 2
Objective: analyze cultural and historical impacts on literature; grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding; revising and editing; evaluate how different literary elements (e.g., figurative language, point of view) shape the author's portrayal of the plot and setting in works of fiction; addresses the writing skills for an analytical essay, including references to and commentary on quotations from the text; analyzes the aesthetic effects of an author's use of stylistic devices.  

1. Bell Work: Imagine you live in Colonial America.  Write a description of the place you live and the work you do to support your family.  
2. Week 6 SAT Words
3. Vocabulary for Stories (p. 74)--(due Friday)
1. Quench
2. Recompense
3. Manifold
4. Persevere
4. Literary Analysis Terms (p. 74)--(due Friday)
1. Puritan Plain Style
2. Syntax
3. Inversion
5. Author Information: Anne Bradstreet (p. 75)
1. Open Author Information Document
2. Make a copy of it.
3. Make sure you put it in the "Avalos English" shared folder
4. Fill it out as we read about the author.  
6. Remember that your literary terms from the PowerPoint presentation are due tomorrow...WITH EXAMPLES!