Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Week 22, Day 3
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. 

1. Open up textbook to page 570
2. Read from "Life on the Mississippi: The Boys' Ambition" by Mark Twain
3. Read from "How to Tell a Story: An Essay by Mark Twain"
4. Vocab. and Literary Terms due by Friday
1. 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)
1. Lit. Terms
1. Humor
2. Rhetorical Techniques
3. Incongruity
4. Overstatement
2. Vocabulary
1. Transient
2. Prodigious
3. Eminence
4. Garrulous
5. Conjectured
6. Monotonous
7. Interminable