9/13 English 2 Agenda

TURN IN YOUR SUMMARIES

  • Stapled
  • Rough draft on the bottom, final on the top

Sneeze: Write about your best friend as if your friend was a stranger. (five sentences)

 

Read Antigone through Scene 4.

Ask yourself:

Am I filling out the character chart?

Am I reading for meaning?

Is my timeline COMPLETE?

Summary work time for Summary of Scene 2 and Scene 3

Homework: finish Summary 2 and Summary 3 as a FINAL DRAFT.  There will be no rough draft for these summaries.  Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

9/13 English 1 Agenda

Sneeze:

In a Venn diagram, compare General Zaroff and Rainsford.  What qualities, experiences, hobbies, etc do they share, and what are their differences?

While reading search for Irony.  When done, find three examples of irony, for each type of irony, in “The Most Dangerous Game.”  Continue working on this tomorrow.

9/12 English 2

Sneeze: Why is it important to be genuine? (one paragraph requirement)

Peer editing expectations, as discussed in class.  I will not post this as it should have been utilized in class.

Peer editing of your two summaries:

-write advice
-write compliments
-write the editor’s name at the bottom of the paper being edited

Your final Prologue and Scene 1 summaries are due tomorrow, at the beginning of class, with the rough draft attached to it.

Read “Antigone” in class.

Homework: Polish summaries for turn in

9/12 English 1 & English 9RCP

No sneeze today, but you ABSOLUTELY need to have your journals out to take Cornell notes in!

What did you just ask me to do Ms. Navarro? What are Cornell notes and how do I use them?

Use your new found Cornell skills to take notes on the following:

  • Situational Irony Video: This YouTube video provides examples of situational irony and explains why coincidence is not irony.
  • Verbal Irony Video: This YouTube video provides examples of verbal irony and discusses the differences among verbal irony, sarcasm, and compliments.
  • Dramatic Irony Video: This YouTube video provides examples of dramatic irony and discusses dramatic irony as a storytelling device.

Complete Irony worksheet for credit, due at the end of class.  If you missed class, see me for the worksheet.

 

9/11, 9/12, 9/13 Drama

9/11

Complete PowerPoint and prepare for presentations that will begin tomorrow.  Email them to me by 11:59 tonight, at the absolute latest.  Any work submitted later will be marked “late” and given half credit.

9/12

First half of presentations.

9/13

Second half of presentations.

You may retake your stage quiz on this day (Wednesday) at lunch, for partial credit.

English 9RCP

9/11 Sneeze:

Write five sentences about where you think the short story The Most Dangerous Game is going, or your predictions.  What do you think will happen next?

Character chart for Rainsford, General Zaroff, and Ivan continued in groups and then as a class.

Read story together, as a class.

9/11 English 2

One section (period two) of English 2 had the tenth grade assembly.

The other section (period three) practiced public speaking without placeholders by using a game, and then wrote a sneeze about something unusual that has happened to them.

9/8 English 9RCP

Sneeze:

When you first meet Rainsford in The Most Dangerous Game, what is your impression of him.  (What do you think of him).  You may use your books to look back at the text.

Check journal entries for 5 points credit

Character chart of Rainsford, General Zarof, and Ivan – what do we know about them?

read together in class

9/8 English 1 Agenda

9/8

Sneeze:

When you first meet Rainsford in The Most Dangerous Game, what is your impression of him.  (What do you think of him).  You may use your books to look back at the text.

Character Chart in groups, then as a class

Read “The Most Dangerous Game” in small groups