Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Week 18, 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. 

1. Bell Work: Turn in your textbook to page 280.
2. Begin reading, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
3. On your own, read "The Raven"
4. As you listen, work on "The Fall of the House of Usher" Reading Guide
1. Due Friday at the beginning of class.
5. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven"--put these on your Literary Terms and Vocabulary Google Doc 
1. Literary Terms (p. 291) 
1. Gothic literature 
2. Single-effect 
2. Vocabulary (p. 291) 
1. Importunate 
2. Munificent 
3. Equivocal 
4. Specious 
5. Anomalous 
6. Sentience 
6. Study Week 18 SAT words on your own using Quizlet.