Day 21

Objective:  The students will discuss the first chapters of MC and start a character page and a timeline.

Tomorrow we will retake the "Chapter 1 "Pretest" so that you can get a better grade. 

Turn in Media Permission Slip for Ms. Rush. 

1.  WP Number 9

2.  MC Quiz Chps. 1-3 

3.  Character Page and Timeline start.

4.  Discuss Study Guide Questions

5.  Read Chapter 4 and complete the study guide. 

 

WP Activity:  Chapter 1 Test

     The chapter tests that students’ take in this class are wrote by the district and they don’t always reflect the “Good Writing Rules” that Mr. Warren teaches.  For example the district seems to think that a good way to start a paper is with a “hook”.  Mr. Warren thinks the best way to start an essay in with an Inverted Triangle Intro.

Day 20

Objective:  The students will know important info that will help them read their novel.

Student Teacher Media Release Form:  This is an assignment:  50 points. Bring it back by Friday. 

1.  Go over vocabulary definitions.

2.  Monte Cristo Intro Notes:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LAGBfuICNY2lgBjGswHsVp7UONKSbrKtUlb23OpmL9w/edit?usp=sharing

3.  Elba Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gG_mSduwW0&t=19s

4.  Monte CRisto 1-10 Study Guide:  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3L_VvieQoSoaHhRTjcxMjI0UjA/edit?resourcekey=0-rFpshMYn51zHaRHVlXQioA

5.  Read Chapters 1-3.  Quiz tomorrow.

 

Day 18

Objective:  The students will review denotation and connotation, then know important vocabulary for our novel.

We begin Monte Cristo on Monday.  You all need to have the book with you everyday from here on.

1.  Turn in final rewrites.  No more after today.

2.  WP Number 8

3.  Monte Cristo 1-10 Vocab.  Due Monday.   

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-CWvlWmoGYn2YlwliN7qwrtDK7PLhP0/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pKbNjTFN4cB35LhNNwdjruSxiOHpdUKgIEcXW_-z790/edit?usp=sharing

Vocab Words:

1. Purser
2. Vexation (or vex)
3. Denunciation’
4. Lithe
5. Insolent
6. Usurper
7. Betrothal (betrothed)
8. Obsequious
9. Martyr
10. Livid

Day 18

Objective:  The students will write an intro paragraph using the inverted triangle format.

1.  WP Number 7

2.  Write an Inverted Triangle Format Intro

3.  Turn in Long Way Home (Questions, Story, Writing)

4.  Hand back all graded work from folders.

5.  Tomorrow is the last day for rewrites of essay, so if you need to work on it, do it now.

 

WP Activity

“Long Way Home”

 

     Like Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” Charles Waugh writes of what he thinks the future will be like in his story titled Long Way Home.  The story has a father thinking, about the day that his son left his home.  Jack the son went to become a space explorer.  Most fathers would be happy about this profession for there son, but this decision means that he will never see his son again.

1.                             2.          3.           4.          5.     

“The Pedestrian” versus “Long Way Home” Essay

Writing Situation:  Many authors of science fiction present ideas of what they think the future will be like in their literature.  Some of them present a society where its citizens have no control of their everyday lives, while others present a society where the citizens have free will and choice.

Writing Directions:  Using “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury and “Long Way Home” by Charles Waugh, explain both authors’ idea of what they feel the future may hold for society.  Then, tell which story presents the most likely to happen scenario based upon the world today.