Objective: The students will continue working on Chapter 11 Workplace Documents. They will also think about what they will write about for their "Technical Instructions" writing.

1. Get out sonnet and highlight the personification, the assonance and the alliteration. Label all parts. On the assonance and alliteration, actually say what sound is repeated.

2. CAT6

3. Consumer Docs Page Day 2: Pages 913-920.

4. Tomorrow we will write a technical document. You will write instructions for an electronic device that you use. It will explain how to use something to someone who has never used it before.

Objective: The students will prepare for the CST tests by looking at some informational and workplace documents.

Get Book and folder

1. CAT6
2. Read 908-911.
3. Do the reading Check 1-4 and Test Practice 1-6.

We very seldom have quiet days; today I am asking you to be quiet and let everyone read the material and complete the work. Yeah, it's b****g, but we have to do it.

Typed Sonnet tomorrow.

Objective: The students will review their JC Tests for errors and complete writing their sonnet.

1. Get folder and books. I need to see some of your folders/assignments to verify grades.
2. Go over your test and the answers. Many (and I mean many) of you left answers blank. Don't fill them in now. I have a picture on computer of all tests. Look to see if you can argue your answer. (Someone in period 1 is going to be off two points in your favor).
3. Complete sonnet assignment. Due typed tomorrow.

Objective: Students will read a Shakespearean Sonnet and then write one of their own.

1. Get folders and books
2. Get book report and report out ready to go.
3. Use book and handout to work on sonnet
4. If time, I will scan the JC tests and you can look them over....

Objective: The students will complete all parts of the Roman Newspaper.

ASB Election Information (Period 0, I need to see the score you got on yesterday's assignment that I handed back)

1. Work on paper
2. Don't forget the test tomorrow.

And, be good for sub tomorrow! Book Report is due on Monday.

Objective: The students will create a Roman Newspaper based on events of the play.

1. Work on Newspaper 200 point project
2. Turn in Act V Review Handout
3. Turn in Whole Play Review Handout

Wednesday: JC Project
Thursday: JC Project
Friday: JC Test (300 points)

Book Report is now due on Monday the 28th. Extended three days, so don't try to turn it in late.

Objective: The students will review create a Roman Newspaper based on events of the play.

1. Discuss Newspaper 200 point project
2. Complete Act V Review Handout
3. Complete Whole Play Review Handout

Tuesday: JC Project
Wednesday: JC Project
Thursday: JC Project
Friday: JC Test (300 points)

Book Report is now due on Monday the 28th. Extended three days, so don't try to turn it in late.

Objective: The students will review Act V and the entire play.

1. Act V Review Handout
2. Whole Play Review Handout

Tuesday: JC Project
Wednesday: JC Project
Thursday: JC Project
Friday: JC Test (300 points)

Book Report is now due on Monday the 28th. Extended three days, so don't try to turn it in late.

Here is the format: Blackboard is basically useless!!!!

Rodney Warren

Mr. Warren

World Lit. Period 1

19 October 2009

Independent Reading Literary Analysis

The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1952. The novel was published by Simon and Schuster of New York and is read by high school students from all over the world. It is considered a classic of American Literature and is an easy book to read. It can actually be called a novella because it only has 127 pages.

The novel’s literary elements are simple and easy to identify, which is typical of most of Hemingway’s literary works. The main characters in the story are the old man, named Santiago, who lives and breathes fishing and his young friend, Manolin, who takes care of the man. The conflict of the story is external because it is Man (the old man) against nature. The entire plot revolves around the old man struggling to catch a fish and bring it into land without losing it or his life. The setting of the story is a small fishing village outside of Havana, Cuba and the author tells the story using limited third person point of view. Readers know only the thoughts of the old man.

The plot of the story is very easy to follow and trace. In the exposition the reader learns that Santiago has not caught a fish for eighty-four days. He is optimistic and proud in spite of his bad luck. The boy is his only true friend in the village. The other fisherman often joke about the man’s luck and try to avoid him. Some of the events that could be considered rising action is when the man goes alone on his eighty-fifth day and he hooks a large Marlin. He struggles for three days with the fish only to lose most of it to attacking sharks in the story’s climax. In the resolution of the story the reader follows Santiago back to the village, exhausted and alone, but victorious in his battle. He is in fact alive.

Like every book, this novella has a character that makes a critical decision which affects the entire plot. The critical decision is made by Santiago when he hooked the Marlin. He had been hoping and praying for this moment for over eighty days. It is what he is born to do, but he has the opportunity to cut the fish loose any time he chooses. For three days he had to fight age, cold weather, dangerous sea creatures and fatigue, but he never gave up. For if he were to give up, it would be like giving up on life, because fishing is all he has left.

It is easy to see why this book is taught in most schools throughout the country. Although the story seems very simple, it is full of rich symbolism. It is because of the symbolism that most readers really enjoyed the book. Read at a literal level, it seems boring, but if a teacher points out the deeper meanings the books comes alive. It is also easy to visualize the small village that Santiago lives in as well as the ocean he travels because of Hemingway’s use of local color and imagery.

Book Report Format

Follow these instructions exactly when typing your report. Remember, you have to report for each book that you read. Also important is the fact than you CAN NOT do a report on a book that you have NOT finished. Please do not try to turn in a report for a book that you have not finished. I will check active reading and ask oral questions of all students to determine if students have completed reading.

1) Type paper double spaced

2) Include proper Heading

3) Title paper as given in sample.

4) Report must be written in essay form

Essay will include…

I: Important Information Paragraph (10 pts.)

a) title

b) author

c) publisher

d) copyright date

e) type of book (fiction, non-fiction, romance, ect…)

f) number of pages

II. Literary Elements

a) setting

b) conflict

c) characters

d) point of view

III. Parts of the Plot

a) exposition

b) rising action

c) climax

d) resolution

IV. Critical decision and how it influenced the plot

V. Personal Recommendation and specifics

Editing is worth 10 points. I will deduct 5 points for using 1^st person and one point for each error up to 10 points.

Objective: Finish this thing!

1. CAT6 (Period 4 you have to do two)
2. Notes
3. Read the play. The last day for Extra Credit on Julius Caesar is today)

Homework: Book Report

Objective: The students will work on a identifying poetic devices in Shakespeare's play.

Everyone get your book and folder.

1. CAT6
2. Handout.

Do all the examples. They are worth points.
Identify: Tell what each is and underline the parts.
On the back: This is the hard part. Find 3 examples of EACH.

Homework: Book Report

Objective: The students will try to get through Act V: 1-2 by themselves.

Get books and folders.

1. Put Act IV Review and Story Board in two neat stacks on desk. Put Extra Credit Dress Up sheet in its own stack too.

2. CAT6
3. Notes
4. Read Act V 1-2
5. Fill in the notes.

Book Report!!!!!!

Objective: Students will complete review and see Act III (the turning point) of the play on video.

1. Video
2. Complete Act IV Review and Story Board (due first thing tomorrow)

Homework: Book report in 10 days

Objective: The students will review Act IV and create a Story Board for Act III and IV.

1. Get two handouts.
2. Use notes, books or brains to complete both.

Tomorrow is The Ides of March. Up to 200 points of EC for dressing as a Julius Caesar character.

Toga/Tunic
Sandals
Bracelets
Coronet/Crown
Jewelry
Belt

NO American clothes showing.

Objective: Finish Act IV

1. Notes
2. Read

Homework: Ides of March dress up
Outside Book March 25

Objective: The students will read Act IV: 1-2.

1. CAT6
2. Notes
3. Read IV: 1-2
4. Video Act II-III

Homework: Ides of March on Tuesday.
Outside Book on the 25th.

Objective: The students will finish reading Act III, complete a review of the act, and they will also learn how they can get 200 points of Extra Credit...

1. CAT6
2. Notes
3. Read
4. Review pages (the review and the MC test sheet)
5. Discuss Extra Credit. I will put this up on Blackboard today (if I remember how)

Note: Tomorrow and Wednesday: High School Exit Exam: Do not come here. Report to your testing classroom. The list is in the back of the room. NO class work at all in ANY class. That includes period 0 and 5. Bring your outside book! You will have TONS of extra time!

Objective: The students will read Act III:2

1. Get folders and books
2. Correct vocab
3. Notes
4. Read

Homework: Outside book due March 25

Objective: The students will read Act I:1

1. CAT6
2. Notes
3. Read
4. Translation

Homework: Read

Objective: Thy students will knowest how Shakespeare wrote his plays differently than most plays are written today.

Get books and folders.

1. CAT6
2. Go over vocab denotations.
3. Act III:1 Notes
4. Read Act III:1
5. Complete Vocabulary

Objective: Students will complete next year's registration. And vocab for Act III.

1. Turn in three assignments: Act II Review, Act II Translation, and Act I-II Story Board.

2. Vocab sheets.