Week 4, September 15-19
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M:
- Review last week's grammar quiz (retake it this week only; only for those who failed; the retake is a harder quiz.)
- Grammar Notes: Comma Rule #1
- Practice and review p. 8 and p. 165 in WriteSource
- Review yesterday's practice
- Practice correcting comma splices and run-ons, p. 166. Submit for a higher grade on yesterday's practice.
- "The Necklace" Pre-Reading Journal (Store under "Reading" tab)
- Begin reading "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
- Grammar Warm-Up
- Finish reading "The Necklace" as a class
- Characterization poem
- Short answer responses (ABC Format, 10 lines each; Example/model to be found here):
Would the character Mathilde be described as sympathetic?
What is the story's message about ambition?
Edit for comma splices and run-ons.
- Introduce TP-CASTT Note taking for poetry (Notes)
- Notebook check reminder: Monday
- Sample Guided TP-CASTT (These notes go in your notebook) for the poem "Dreams Deferred" by Langston Hughes
- Oral TP-CASTT for the poem "Dreams"; discuss as a class
- If short answers from yesterday were not finished or turned in, students need to stay and complete during tutoring.
F:
- Grammar Quiz #4
- Read "The Gift of the Magi"
- Create plot diagram for the story with the five points of plot, pictures, and theme statement