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Class: 10.19.2009 October 19, 2009
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Hello,
First we corrected last week’s vocabulary quiz and then went on to
Today’s warm-up:
Zoo Stories
Share the answer to the following question orally with you group:
What kind of animal do you feel like today? Why?
Answer in your journal:
- What animals were in your group today?
- What were the similarities/ differences between the animals?
- How well did you group member participate?
- How did this activity help you get to know each other?
- What was difficult about this activity?
- What animal did someone else think of that you also liked?
There were lots of animals: koalas, tigers, lions, gazelles, owls, fish, and on and on. Very creative.
Then I checked your 3 outside reading chioces while you worked in the blue packet on Diction (p. 12) and Detail (p.25) worksheets.
The period was slightly shortened for the emergency drill today, so that was it.
Study your vocabulary! This Friday is a review test on all of our words from the beginning (Latin prefixes) until this last week!
Class: 10.16.2009 October 16, 2009
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Today’s Warm-up:
Alphabetical Adjectives
Create a list from A to Z of adjectives that describe qualities you would like to see in a friend or an acquantaince. You may use a dictionary for X
Your list might begin:
- agreeable
- bright
- courteous
After the warm-up we moved to the vocabulary quiz 4 (viv & tort), which I hoped everyone scored well on!
then it was off to a preview of the concept of Diction, or word chioce. You all already know about how to choose your words carefully, but now we’re analyzing how an author might use his or her words to produce different effects. On the board were a series of word-pairs:
- captain tyrant
- intelligent smart
- recreation play
- art craft
- gang club
After we discussed the concepts of denotation and connotation in groups and then with the class as a whole, we worked on the very first page of your blue packet of sample worksheets. this one dealt with Diction, of course.
Finally, we moved on to the third part of “The Bike” and read how Gary got his leg run over with a tricycle and then when riding home he fell got his pant leg caught in the crank because a dog barked at him. He was forced to hobble home with a bike wrapped around his leg. As you know, his mom was pretty angry when she saw him and walked outside with the belt. He probably got it real bad.
Have a great weekend.
Class: 10.15.2009 October 15, 2009
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Today’s Warm-up:
Music
Music is important part of our lives. It communictes in ways that words or pictures cannot, and therefore is an important experience to think about and describe. Answer the following in a single paragraph:
- What kind of music is your favorite? Who are your favorite artists?
- How does it sound? What maks it so interesting or likable for you? (is it the lyrics, the attitude, the isntruments, or something else?)
- How wouldyou describe the feelings that it creates for you, in you?
- How do you share the music you love? Does it help friendships? Does it make it hard to relate to other people?
- And lastly, why do you think music is such an important part of our lives? Why are people so passionate about it?
Then I handed out the outside the non-fiction reading list that focuses on Teen-Culture. I asked that by Monday you have 3 titles chosen that you can research online to see which ONE you are going to read over the remainder of the semester.
Finally we turned to a review of “Civil Peace” where we applied our literary terms to the story.
Don’t forget to turn in your vocabulary sentences and
Study for the vocabulary test tomorrow!
Class: 10.14.2009 October 14, 2009
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Today’s Warm-up:
Mark Twain — Training
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
–Mark Twain
What education and professional training are you going to get in life to make yourself the very best “cauliflower” you can? If you don’t know about your future, what training has helped you already in your life?
Then we played a couple word games to get your minds working, making them sharp like a razor, to deal with our complicated idea coming up next.
How is Chinua Achebe’s “Civil Peace” more about the Nigerian social situation than about the character Jonathan Iwegbu? How does the author make Jonathan a symbol for normal average people that we can relate to? (hint: look at the way Jonathan works and speaks compared to the theives.)
In one paragraph of 5-10 sentences, answer the question. Support your position with quotes from the story that you or your group members wrote down (you can share ideas!). Your quotes will work like examples that “prove” your position.
If you didn’t finish the paragraph in class, then it is homework. Your only other homework is to study your vocabulary words and, if you have low scores, do the vocab sentences for VIV & TORT.
