Week 20, Day 5
Objective: Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Bell Work: Free Write! (70 words for Regular English, 80 words for Honors English AND 2 words from the current week)
- Grade Week 20 DRE
- Watch "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" video
- You may also work on finishing your Vocab. and Lit. Terms for "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" if you have not already finished it.
- Free Read
- Free Rice
- Reminders/Announcements
- Be good for the sub.
- Study for your SAT Quiz on Monday!
- Bring money for Pennies for Patients/Owen!!!!!!!!
Week 20, Day 4
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
- Work on Vocab. and Lit. Terms
- Reminders:
- Tomorrow you will watch the video of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
- Tweet me if you have any questions.
- Be good for the subs!
Week 20, Day 3
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Grade "The Fall of the House of Usher" Reading/Study Guide
- Ambrose Bierce author information (p. 479)
- "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce Vocab. and Literary Terms (p.478)
- Lit. Terms
- Point of View
- Omniscient Point of View
- Limited Third-Person Point of View
- Plot
- Stream of Consciousness
- Vocabulary
- Etiquette
- Deference
- Dictum
- Summarily
- Apprised
- Ineffable
- Reminders:
- I won't be here tomorrow or Friday. Tomorrow you will read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" as a class. Friday you will watch the video of it.
- Tweet me if you have any questions.
- Be good for the subs!
Week 20, Day 2
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Read and discuss from Walden and from Civil Disobedience"
Week 20, Day 1
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Week 19 SAT Quiz
- Week 20 DRE
- Grade "The Fall of the House of Usher" Reading Guide
- Henry David Thoreau (p. 374-377)
- Read and take notes on your Author Information Document
- from Walden and from Civil Disobeience"--put these on your Literary Terms and Vocabulary Google Doc
- Literary Terms (p. 376)
- Author's Purpose
- Style
- Diction
- Tone
- Metaphor
- Analogy
- Vocabulary (p. 376)
- Dilapidated
- Sublime
- Superfluous
- Magnanimity
- Expedient
- Alacrity
Week 19, Day 5
Objective: Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Bell Work: Free Write! (70 words for Regular English, 80 words for Honors English AND 2 words from the current week)
- Grade Week 19 DRE
- Work with a partner and finish "The Fall of the House of Usher" Reading Guide (due Monday)
- You may also work on finishing your Vocab. and Lit. Terms for "The Fall of the House of Usher" if you have not already finished it.
- Free Read
- Free Rice
- Reminders/Announcements
- Be good for the sub.
- Study for your SAT Quiz on Monday!
- Sign-up to help work the Middle School Dance and the Debate Tournament for the Junior Class!
- Bring money for Pennies for Patients/Owen!!!!!!!!
Week 19, Day 4
Objective: Determine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words derived from Latin roots and affixes; 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.
- Bell Work: Turn in your textbook to page 280.
- Finish reading "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Work on "The Fall of the House of Usher" Reading Guide
- Due Monday
- Work on Vocabulary and Literary Terms for "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Due Monday...If you're done, you can show me today.
- Reminders/Announcements
- I won't be here tomorrow. Be good for the sub.
- Grading Week 19 DRE tomorrow.
- Study for your SAT Quiz on Monday!
- Sign-up to help work the Middle School Dance and the Debate Tournament for the Junior Class!
- Bring money for Pennies for Patients/Owen!!!!!!!!
Week 19, Day 3
Objective: Determine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words derived from Latin roots and affixes; 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.
- Bell Work: Turn in your textbook to page 280.
- SAT Words for Week 19
- Begin reading "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- As you listen, work on "The Fall of the House of Usher" Reading Guide
- Due Monday
Week 19, Day 2
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Week 18 SAT Quiz
- Week 19 DRE
- Edgar Allan Poe Author Information (p. 288-290)
- Read and take notes on your Author Information Document
- "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven"--put these on your Literary Terms and Vocabulary Google Doc
- Literary Terms (p. 291)
- Gothic literature
- Single-effect
- Vocabulary (p. 291)
- Importunate
- Munificent
- Equivocal
- Specious
- Anomalous
- Sentience
Week 18, Day 5
Objective: digital integrity and web literacy!
- Bell Work: Free Write! (70 words for Regular English, 80 words for Honors English AND 2 words from the current week)
- Grade Week 18 DRE
- Look at the following list of websites, determine which ones, if any are real websites with TRUE information. Websites to Validate. Make a copy of the document and explain the PROOF you have that the website is or is not valid. We will go over this on Tuesday.
- Free Read or
- Free Rice
- Study for your Week 18 SAT Quiz on Tuesday
- Make sure you've created your Grammarly account. Go to http://www.grammarly.com/edu/students/
- Create Account
- Type your first and last name
- Godley Email Address
- Confirm your Godley Email Address
- Preferred password
- Access Code: 2tyVKRytbDHvj6dU
- Your controversial issue form was due yesterday at 4:00pm. Any entered after this will have 20 points deducted. Any forms entered after Friday will be a zero.
Week 18, Day 4
Objective: digital integrity and web literacy!
- Bell Work: complete these sentences
- My biggest fear is...
- My biggest dream is...
- You do NOT have to have a minimum number of words and you do NOT have to have SAT words.
- Web Literacy Quiz
- Make a copy and take this quiz.
- I will show you answers in just a few minutes.
- Go to http://www.grammarly.com/edu/students/
- Create Account
- Type your first and last name
- Godley Email Address
- Confirm your Godley Email Address
- Preferred password
- Access Code: 2tyVKRytbDHvj6dU
- Might want to take another look at the resources you pulled for your controversial issue. Form is due by Thursday at 4:00pm.
Week 18, Day 3
Objective: digital integrity and web literacy!
- Web Literacy
- $400-$1,000 pen/pencil
- Wolfram Alpha
- Google
- Site Command
- Ear Mouse
- Wikipedia?!?!
- Go to http://www.grammarly.com/edu/students/
- Create Account
- Type your first and last name
- Godley Email Address
- Confirm your Godley Email Address
- Preferred password
- Access Code: 2tyVKRytbDHvj6dU
- Might want to take another look at the resources you pulled for your controversial issue. Form is due by Thursday at 4:00pm.
Week 18, Day 2
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Bell Work: Free Write!!!!
- It is a NEW six weeks, this means you need to write 70 words for the entry.
- You must use two of the current's week SAT words.
- Don't forget to underline every tenth word and box in your SAT word.
- Please do this on a separate sheet of paper and then we will put them in your spiral when you get them back.
- Work on your Persuasive Assignment from yesterday: Persuasive Reading
- Pick a controversial issue
- Find a recent article (in the last month) that supports one side of the controversial issue and another article that supports the opposite side of the issue.
- The articles you find should be persuasive in nature. This means that they should try to convince you to feel one way or the other. If it is persuasive it will not convince you to see BOTH sides of the issue in the same article.
- Fill out this form to turn in your two articles: Persuasive Articles Form
Week 18, Day 1
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Week 17 SAT Quiz
- Grade Week 18 DRE
- Bell Work: Free Write!!!!
- It is a NEW six weeks, this means you need to write 70 words for the entry.
- You must use two of the current's week SAT words.
- Don't forget to underline every tenth word and box in your SAT word.
- Please do this on a separate sheet of paper and then we will put them in your spiral when you get them back.
- Turn in your "The Devil and Tom Walker" One Pager Quiz
- Persuasive Reading
- Pick a controversial issue
- Find a recent article (in the last month) that supports one side of the controversial issue and another article that supports the opposite side of the issue.
- The articles you find should be persuasive in nature. This means that they should try to convince you to feel one way or the other. If it is persuasive it will not convince you to see BOTH sides of the issue in the same article.
- Fill out this form to turn in your two articles: Persuasive Articles Form
Week 17, Day 5
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Grade Week 17 DRE
- Bell Work: Free Write!!!!
- It is a NEW six weeks, this means you need to write 70 words for the entry.
- You must use two of the current's week SAT words.
- Don't forget to underline every tenth word and box in your SAT word.
- Please do this on a separate sheet of paper and then we will put them in your spiral when you get them back.
- Finish "The Devil and Tom Walker" One-Pager Quiz
- Use a separate sheet of copy paper.
- You MUST use color in your drawing.
- Due at the end of class today
- Free Rice or Free Read!
Week 17, Day 4
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Bell Work: If your life was made into a TV sitcom, what would the name of it be? Describe the setting, plot, characters, etc. of your TV show. Be specific. What actors would play the main characters and why? Etc.
- It is a NEW six weeks, this means you need to write 70 words for the entry.
- You must use two of the current's week SAT words.
- Don't forget to underline every tenth word and box in your SAT word.
- Please do this on a separate sheet of paper and then we will put them in your spiral when you get them back.
- "The Devil and Tom Walker" One-Pager Quiz
- Use a separate sheet of copy paper.
- You MUST use color in your drawing.
Week 17, Day 3
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.
- Bell Work: Many writers write under a pen name, or a name other than their real name. Samuel Clemens wrote under the name Mark Twain. Washington Irving wrote under the name Jonathan Oldstyle. Write reasons why you might use a pen name rather than your own pen name. Invent a pen name for yourself.
- It is a NEW six weeks, this means you need to write 70 words for the entry.
- You must use two of the current's week SAT words.
- Don't forget to underline every tenth word and box in your SAT word.
- Please do this on a separate sheet of paper and then we will put them in your spiral when you get them back.
- Using popcorn method (as a class) read "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving on page 228.
- Work on "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving--Vocabulary and Literary Terms from yesterday.
- You will have a quiz over this story tomorrow.
- 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!
Week 17, Day 2
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
