Objective: Honors students will begin Count of Monte Cristo. Regular students will begin the next essay.
1. Honors: Count of Monte Cristo Checkout.
2. Discuss Venn Diagram
3. Monte Cristo Intro PP
4. Monte Cristo Chapter 1 reading. I will read it with you.
5. Monte Cristo Chapters 1-3
Objective: The students will review connotation and finish analyzing Long Way Home.
1. Code of Conduct Presentation and Handbooks
2. WP #7 Connotation Review
3. Long Way Home Handout
4. Honors: Tomorrow we start Monte Cristo.
WP:
CAT6 Activity
Denotation and Connotation Review
Write all of the following groups of words putting them in order from positive to negative.
1. old people’s home, retirement home, nursing home
2. cheap, inexpensive, shoddy
3. wicked, naughty, mischievous
4. sick, under the weather, ill
5. misdemeanor, crime, misdeed
6. bite, nibble, gnaw
7. loathing, hatred, dislike
8. stupid, unintelligent, slow
9. humble, poor, broke
10. profession, occupation, job
Objective: The students will read the next fiction story for our next essay.
1. WP #6
Turn in Pedestrian Story, Close Reading and Romantic Writing
2. Venn Diagram for The Pedestrian
3. Close Read Long Way Home
Have a great weekend! Go to the game and have fun!!
Objective: The students will complete a little bit of creative writing to complete The Pedestrian work.
1. WP Number 4
2. Discuss the tone of The Pedestrian and look at the first paragraph.
3. Complete Question Number 6 on The Pedestrian assignment. The entire paragraph!!! Make it romantic!
Objective: The students will complete a brief analysis of "The Pedestrian."
1. WP Number 4
2. The Pedestrian handout: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HGeSO1OEtmJzTmm8cKMT-NvO1yTK8HEEDO0jjv_JrE4/edit?usp=sharing
WP Activity: “The Pedestrian” Activity
Ray Bradbury suggests in his story The Pedestrian that television can be used to control society. Many people feel that the stories theme is not applicable to society today. People are used to many different forms of entertainment and technology. Today we have computers cell phones and video games that distract us more then television, so you can’t be distracted by very easily.
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Objective: The students will read and discuss their first fiction piece.
1. Pass in your printed essay for grading.
2. WP Number 3
3. Plot Notes: Put these in your note section.
4. Close Read "The Pedestrian" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mSbUkfbA-ebACMZYfaR-Azn0ZS58ITGi/view?usp=sharing
WP Activity
“The Pedestrian”
Ray Bradbury wrote this cautionary tail that shows a society in which people are isolated in there homes instead of being outside. The story’s setting is an urban city in the year 2053. The people are so isolated that a loan pedestrian is seen as a threat to social order. The main character Leonard Mead is stopped and questioned by the police for simply walking down the street.
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