DGP

Nonfiction notes, continued: Editorials

Read Facebook editorial and complete questions.

Style Analysis Practice: Ellen Goodman's "The Company Man"

HW: Read Arthur Miller's essay, Tragedy and the Common Man. Write a two page reader's journal in response.

DGP

Work in computer lab - final draft of memoir due tomorrow!

HW: Finish memoir.

Death of a Salesman discussion

Discuss Arthur Miller essay

HW: Presentations tomorrow!

DGP

Discuss loaded language and look at examples
Editorial from New York Times

HW: Basketball articles - see Mrs. Rumfelt to get the articles if you were absent.

The World is Flat presentations

HW: Bring Death of a Salesman to class tomorrow.

Finish presentations.

Prep for Monday seminar on Death of a Salesman. Complete seminar prep for homework.

Download seminar prep here.

DGP - Diagramming

Notes on news articles and the 5W's.

Read two articles about conditions in low wage workplace and answer questions.

Download article assignment. Get articles from Mrs. Rumfelt if you were absent.

Happy Labor Day!

DGP - Monday and Tuesday

Vocab Unit #1: For each word, complete the following:
1. Write the definition.
2. Part of speech
3. Use the word in an original sentence.

DUE THURSDAY

admonish
breach
brigand
circumspect
commandeer
cumbersome
deadlock
debris
diffuse
dilemma

Notes on Types of Writing and Persuasive Appeals

HW: Vocab words due Thursday!

DOS Seminar - Please see Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.

HW: Bring DOS and your red literature book to class tomorrow. Vocab Unit #2 due tomorrow! Words are listed below:

aegis
apprise
bibulous
claque
deracinate
eleemosynary
indigenous
lachrymose
lexicon
melee
microcosm
minuscule
obfuscate
paternalism
polarize
purview
sanguine
solecism
vassal
versimilitude

Discuss Vocab Unit 2 - Quiz on Friday!

American Dream freewrite - discuss the idea of the American Dream and connect to the beginning of American literature.

HW: Read Bradford and Smith excerpts. Write a 1-2 pages reader's journal in which you analyze the differences in tone, diction, and purpose. You may also examine different strategies that each author uses.

DGP

3rd period: Read "On Summer" and answer questions 1-7 at the end of the essay.
Complete persuasive appeals chart for arguments.

7th period: Discuss persuasive appeals and look at examples. Write your own persuasive appeals.

HW: Vocabulary words due tomorrow!

DGP

Go over vocabulary words for quiz.

Discuss CLAIM-DATA-WARRANT.

HW: DGP and Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow!

Discuss Bradford and Smith.

Native American Literature - characteristics

HW: Read Earth on the Turtle's Back and When the Grizzlies Walked Upright - in your literature book. Take notes on characteristics of Native American literature.

Vocabulary Quiz #1 and DGP Quiz - See Mrs. Rumfelt to make these up if you were absent on Friday.

Continue discussing CDW writing and persuasive writing.

HW: Brainstorm ideas for your articles.

Vocab Quiz #2

Discuss Native American myths

Start working in groups on original creation myths

HW: Red Jacket speech for Tuesday

DGP

Media Center - work on news articles and editorials. Look for information for your news article.

Download assignment here.

HW: Work on articles!

Group Work: Original Creation Myth

HW: Red Jacket speech tomorrow and present myths.

DGP

Nonfiction Review Sheet -due Friday for extra credit on your test.Download review sheet here.

Work on editorials and news articles. Bring to class tomorrow to work in the computer lab.

HW: Review for test and work on articles.

Creation Myth Presentations

Discuss Red Jacket speech.

HW: Read Narration and Description chapters in Bedford Reader. Take notes.

Today we discussed your chapters in the Bedford Reader and completed a writing activity for subjective and objective language.

HW: Read "Once More to the Lake" and complete the questions.

Online copy of White's Essay

Questions for reader's journal assignment

Computer Lab - finish researching news articles or work on editorial.

HW: Work on articles and study for Friday's test.

DGP

Work in computer lab on news articles and editorials.

HW: Study for non-fiction test tomorrow.

MC Practice #2 in groups

Discuss "The Chase"

HW:
Unit 3 Vocab Words:
(Wed: part of speech, definition, original sentence; Mon: quiz)
ancillary
bowdlerize
condescend
cozen
enclave
forte
gratis
icon
interstice
macrocosm
mountebank
paean
persiflage
plethora
pragmatic
quizzical
rapacity
schism
therapeutic
virtuoso

Grammar - Run-ons

Vocab Unit 2 - words due on Wednesday; quiz on Friday!

Turn in non-fiction articles.

Handout: terms sheet for short story unit.

Notes on plot. Please get from Mrs. Rumfelt or another student

HW: Vocab words due Wednesday.

We finished discussing "The Chase" and went over your vocabulary words.

HW: Read David Sedaris's "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and complete reader's journal assignment.

Vocab Unit #2 - Go over vocab words

Read "The Interlopers" and complete plot diagram

HW: Finish plot diagram

QW: Write about a time you had a conflict with another person.

Finish discussing "The Interlopers"

Notes on conflict; analyze conflict in "The Interlopers"

Handout: Conflict in "The Interlopers"

HW: Finish conflict handout; study for vocab quiz!

Go over summer reading essays and discuss qualities of a good essay: specific thesis statements and data to support claims

Discuss "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and write a thesis statement responding to the following prompt: Write an essay in which you explain how Sedaris uses rhetorical devices to achieve a comic effect.

HW: Finish thesis statement.

Vocab Quiz #2 - Please see Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.

Read "The Most Dangerous Game" in your literature book and complete the reading guide questions. Please get them from Mrs. Rumfelt if you were absent or download them here.

HW: Finish the story and the reading guide questions.

Today we talked about the GHSWT (next Wednesday, 9/30).

HW: Choose one of the GHSWT prompts and complete an essay over the weekend.

Quickwrite: Recall the last time you watched a movie or read a story and felt anxious or scared. What did the writer or director do to create suspense?

Quiz: "The Most Dangerous Game"

Discuss plot and suspense. Turn in reading guide questions.

HW: 3rd period: Plot diagram for the story

Today we did imitation writing. If you were absent, the assignment is below.

Imitation Writing: Description

Read and annotate the following sentences.

As you annotate, consider what you notice about the sentences:
diction
punctuation
syntax
figurative language
selection of detail
anything else you see

"I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire. I can still see his tiny low-set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought."
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

"Above all- we were wet. Out in the Atlantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and settle forever in Limerick. The rain dampened the city from the Feast of the Circumcision to New Year's Eve. It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks. It turned noses into fountains, lungs into bacterial sponges. It provoked cures galore; to ease the catarrh you boiled onions in milk blackened with pepper; for the congested passages you made a paste of boiled flour and nettles, wrapped it in a rag, and slapped it, sizzling, on the chest."
Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

Your Turn:
1. Model a description of someone you will not forget after Hosseini's description of Hassan, specifically in use of figurative language and imagery, as well as the phrasing after the colon. (with your group)

2. Model a description of a memorable place you have been after McCourt's description of the rain and its effect on the city. Notice especially the repetition and use of figurative language and imagery. (on your own)

Group Plot Diagrams for "The Most Dangerous Game"

Read "Shooting an Elephant" and complete seminar prep. Seminar will be on Thursday.

HW: Prepare for seminar on essay!

Watch "The Most Dangerous Game" film and complete film viewing guide.