Week 4, January 26-30
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M:
- Warm-Up
- Grammar Notes: Absolutes (Brushstroke #2) and Practice
- 4th period: Revise Expository Essay #5 based on my feedback (more time will be given to you tomorrow, but you are welcome to work on it at home). Due tomorrow at the beginning of class if you choose to take it for HW.
- 1st period: Finish TP-CASTT Notes for "Much Madness is Divinest Sense."
- HW: 1st period ONLY: Finish Expository Essay #5, 1st Draft . It is due tomorrow for a grade. Unfortunately, we do not have time to revise in class this week, so if you wish to do a second draft, I encourage you to do so; however, you will have to do it for homework or during tutoring.
T:
- Warm-Up
- Read "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
- Discuss Tone Handouts (Make sure to get a copy from me, plus a few small notes that we added to the bottom of the back page)
- In groups, answer two out of the three short answer questions in this PowerPoint (make sure to do the first one; the other one is your choice.)
W:
- Warm-Up
- Finish, discuss, and turn in yesterday's short answers; take notes over classmates' responses to practice listening skills (Please borrow notes from a classmate for this if you were absent)
- Hooks Notes handout and discussion
- 1st period: Take essays home and revise. 2nd draft due tomorrow for a higher grade.
TH:
- Warm-Up
- Essay Introductions Practice: Given the hypothetical essay topic, "Explain what success means to you" or "Explain the qualities needed for success," come up with a hook for EACH of the nine hook types discussed in yesterday's Hook Notes (see Wednesday). Then, take TWO of your hooks and develop them into two separate introduction paragraphs (follow the four steps on the Hooks Notes handout, making sure your hook is appropriate for your thesis.) Post your best paragraph on the whiteboard. Your two body paragraphs will be your participation grade for the day. :)
- Quiz tomorrow over Brushstrokes #1-2
F:
- No Warm-Up
- Grammar Quiz: Brushstrokes #1-2 (Participles, Participial Phrases, and Absolute Phrases)
- TP-CASTT, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" (Make sure to get a copy of the poem from me)
- Short Answer (Due at the end of class for a grade): Do you think the speaker is satisfied with his choice? (Though this question is not directly asking about tone, you should analyze tone (diction, imagery/figurative language, setting, etc.) for this question and many other types of short answer questions.