"Shooting an Elephant" seminar

HW: Bring descriptive paragraph to class tomorrow.

Writing Day!

Imitation Sentences: Write an imitation sentence with your partner

Suspense Writing Activity: Complete the prewriting for your suspenseful scene.

HW: Finish prewriting questions.

I returned graded work today, including your non-fiction test and your 5 Minute Narratives.

5 Minutes Narrative Revision: This optional assignment is to revise your paper to improve your grade. Please see me to get the handout if you were absent.

Then we worked on your suspense stories.

HW: Finish suspenseful scene! Due Monday!

Finish discussing "Shooting an Elephant," and work through thesis statements and prompts.

HW: Revise your intro and thesis, and develop your outline thoroughly for Monday.

Vocab Unit #4 - words due Tuesday!
affinity
bilious
cognate
corollary
cul-de-sac
derring-do
divination
elixir
folderol
gamut
hoi polloi
ineffable
lucubration
mnemonic
obloquy
parameter
pundit
risible
symptomatic
volte-face

MC Practice - Graded - see Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.
Narrative Essay Assignment

HW: Vocab words due TUESDAY.

DGP [can you come over and watch the movie casablanca after school]

Vocab Words:
1. precluded
2. retribution
3. accosted
4. explicit
5. recoil
6. termination
7. niche
8. obstinate
9. gesticulation
10. absconded

For each word, please identify a. the part of speech, b. the definition c. write an original sentence. QUIZ is on THURSDAY. Words due TOMORROW.

Start reading "The Cask of Amontillado." Get reading guide from Mrs. Rumfelt if you were absent.

HW: Vocab words for tomorrow.

Turn in "Shooting an Elephant" work. Analyze narrative piece and discuss author's purpose. See Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.

HW: Read the excerpt from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (p.44) and complete a one page reader's journal in which you analyze the following:
1. selection of detail
2. author's purpose
3. narrative devices
4. audience

Go over vocabulary words. Quiz on Thursday!

Finish reading "The Cask of Amontillado."

HW: Finish reading log. (Due TOMORROW for 7th, THURSDAY for 3rd).

Counselor Visit: Discuss courses, credits, and graduation requirements.

HW: Study for vocab quiz! 3rd period: reading log for Cask due tomorrow.

Discuss Olaudah Equiano.

American Lit Timeline

HW: Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" for Monday. Complete reader's journal assignment.

Discuss mood and setting with film trailer analysis.

If you were absent, complete the following:

Watch the three trailers linked here and then complete the handout that follows:

Alice in Wonderland

The Road

Where the Wild Things Are

Download analysis handout

If you can't get the links to work, come see Mrs. Rumfelt before school.

Today is a teacher workday. Enjoy your long weekend!

Turn in "Sinners" reader's journal.

PSAT Practice

HW: Rough draft due tomorrow for peer editing.

DGP - new sentence: [the spanish club traveled to madrid spain over the summer]

Discuss mood examples in "Cask of Amontillado" and turn in film/mood analysis.

Listening and Writing Activity - see Mrs. Rumfelt to make up.

Notes on Setting and Mood - See Mrs. Rumfelt to make up.

Peer edit rough drafts.

Final drafts due MONDAY, OCTOBER 19.

Handouts from today:
Essay Rubric

Peer Editing Sheet

Please download these handouts if you were absent from class today.

DGP

Discuss PSAT (on Wednesday)

Finish notes on setting and mood.

Start "The Sniper" and complete assignments. Due on THURSDAY. Download here if you were absent.

"The Sniper"

Reading Guide Questions and Assignment

Discuss "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

HW: Narrative essay due Monday; Unit One reader's Journals due Monday
Read Ch. 13 in Bedford and persuasive appeals packet and take notes.

DGP

Discuss "The Sniper"

Point of View notes

Writing Activity - re-write one scene from another point of view. See Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.

DGP - Diagramming

Quick Write: Why are dream important? When do you daydream?

Read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and complete reading log.
Download Walter Mitty reading log

Notebook Check

HW: Finish reading log

Hand back Fault Lines timed writing

Discuss persuasive elements

HW: Narrative Essay and Portfolio due Monday, "Singer Solution to World Poverty" for Tuesday.

Handouts:
Unit One Reader's Journal List

The Singer Solution to World Poverty

Singer Assignment:
1. Read and annotate the essay.
2. Write a 2 page reader's journal in which you discuss persuasive appeals (logical, ethical, emotional) and structure of his argument.

Vocab Unit - due Wednesday (part of speech, definition, original sentence)
imminent
vortex
iridescent
infallible
precarious
billow
careen
sullen
doggedness
vermilion

Discuss "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and work on CDW paragraphs
HW: Revise CDW paragraph

Discuss Singer Solution to World Poverty.

HW: Read background information to the Revolution in your literature book (A Nation is Born). Take notes.

Quick Write: Write about a time that you had a conflict with a family member. Why are family conflicts so difficult to solve?

Work on CDW paragraphs in groups.

HW: Vocab words due tomorrow.

Vocab Unit - go over words

"The Scarlet Ibis"

Reading log for "The Scarlet Ibis"

HW: Finish the story and complete Character section and Questions on reading log. Save literary elements for tomorrow in class!

Quiz on Part 2 Unit Intro

Go over course terms

Patrick Henry: Speech in the VA Convention

Analysis Questions for Patrick Henry

HW: Complete analysis of your assigned section. Please do the following:
1. Answer questions
2. Identify other rhetorical devices and major persuasive appeals
3. Write a short analysis of your paragraph.

Group presentations of Patrick Henry's Speech in the Virginia Convention.

HW: Read "The Crisis" (in your literature book or get a copy from Mrs. Rumfelt) and complete reader's journal.
Download reader's journal assignment

Quickwrite for "The Scarlet Ibis":

Discuss the end of the story. Do you blame the narrator for what happened to his brother?

Work in groups to analyze literary elements in the story.

HW: Vocab quiz tomorrow!

Discuss The Crisis.

HW: Read The Declaration of Independence and complete analysis for Monday.

Declaration Analysis

Declaraation of Independence

Vocab Quiz #4

Present literary elements from "The Scarlet Ibis" and finish discussing the story.

HW: Begin studying for your test - on WEDNESDAY.

Vocab Unit #5 - due Wednesday

aficionado
browbeat
commensurate
diaphanous
emolument
foray
genre
homily
immure
insouciant
matrix
obsequies
panache
persona
philippic
prurient
sacrosanct
systemic
tendentious
vicissitude

Declaration of Independence discussion and written paragraph analysis
HW: Vocab words due Wednesday

DGP: [carla looked at herself in the mirror and recited the poem fire and ice]

"The Necklace" and discuss irony

HW: Test on Wednesday! We will review terms in class tomorrow.

DGP

Discuss "The Necklace" and irony

Test Review -Download study guide here

HW: Finish test review and study for test!

Finish presentations on Declaration of Independence.

Hand out Birmingham Jail assignment.
Download assignment here.

Background, excerpted from this article by Lucinda Gunnin:

[...] It seems that we [often] hear excerpts of King's famous "I have a dream" speech. The speech is one of the most recognized in the history of the 20th century and yet in many ways the message sent by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in that speech pales by comparison to his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".

The letter, written almost exactly a year before his assassination, is the basis and justification for all forms of nonviolent protest that have happened since.

Dr. King was arrested in Birmingham after taking part in a peaceful march to draw attention to the way that African-Americans were being treated there, their lack of voter rights, and the extreme injustice they faced in Alabama in 1963.

Addressed to his fellow clergy members in the south, the letter was written four months before Dr. King gave his "I have a dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. While the speech articulates better than almost anything else, the vision for peace and equality in the United States, Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is the blueprint to getting there.

Dr. King wrote an open letter to the coalition of Christian ministers in the American South. Dr. King found himself the subject of extreme criticism from his fellow clergymen for his protest, specifically the illegality of the protest. In his essay, Dr. King attempts to appeal to the ethical, emotional and logical sides of countrymen to show them that the laws that he was breaking were unfair and unjust in and of themselves.

HW: Vocab words due tomorrow; start reading Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Share Declarations of Independence.

I handed out your independent novel assignment. Book list will be posted tomorrow.

HW: Work on Birmingham Jail. Bring essay and assignment to class tomorrow.

DGP

Pre-writing Activity for Fahrenheit 451.

Vocab Quiz #5 - See Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.

Work Day to prepare for Birmingham Jail Seminar.

HW: Seminar starts on Monday, and look at book list for potential novel choices.

Novel List

Parent Permission Slip

DGP - Diagramming

Start Fahrenheit 451:

Notes on Bradbury and novel

Study Guide for Part One

HW: Read up to page 10 and answer questions 1-7 in Study Guide. Vocab words due on Wednesday.