Week at a Glance: Dec 14-18

I'll be leaving this last "Week at a Glance" up for the holidays so you can check it before you come back and refresh your memory as to where we left off in December.

English 11

• Monday: 1.1 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 5 in Readers' Theatre. LIT and RHETORICAL DEVICES COMPREHENSION CHECKPOINT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Know all your terms! (All the ones on the poster in our classroom.)
• Tuesday - Friday: We'll be watching a Macbeth film in class and comparing it to the script.
• FRIDAY: Screenwriters must hand in the script today.
• NOTE
• http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/ has a modern English and a Shakesprean English text. Check it out!
• The words you need to know for our checkpoints are as follows: Ethos, Logos, Pathos, anaphora, allusion, simile, metaphor, imagery, rhetorical question, active voice, alliteration, antithesis, contrast, diction, historical reference, paradox, parallelism, repetition, resolution, tone, voice, pathetic fallacy, character foil, aside, soliloquy, dramatic irony
• ****First week back in January: in-class essay. You can use you quotation chart, but not the text. So please be sure you've filled it out compeltely.****

English 8

• Tuesday: Here is the assignment that we started in class on Friday and that is due today
• Choose a paragraph from Chapter One in which Ponyboy introduces a member of his gang to the reader. Then, introduce someone you know using the same sentence structure that Ponyboy uses in the paragraph.
  
  
  
  
  Here is an example that I started to write about my husband, Al. I use the sentence structure from the paragraph about Dallas Winston on page 10.
  

  If I had to pick the real rock in my life, it would be Alexander Moore – my husband. I always look forward to getting home after work, for then I can sit down to enjoy the dinners he always prepares. He has a love for cooking, with fresh ingredients and his best pots and sometimes adventurous recipes. His hair is blond, almost touches his ears..,
  

  
  
• Thursday: Today you will finish the draft of your person introduction.
  
• ****end of the first week in January:
  The Outsiders comprehension test on Chapters 1-8.****

 English 11 Pre-AP

• Monday: Posters are due.
• Wednesday: OPEN HOUSE TODAY! And revised Integrated Papers are due - attach it to your rough copy.
• ****Special Guest Lecturer will be here on January 7th to give a seminar on Lyrical Poetry.****

Writing 12

• MONDAY/WEDNESDAY online classes: Today you should prepare your gifts of writing. Give someone a gift of your writing (like the one I made for Al and which I showed you in class or something you think of all on your own) and give it to someone over the holidays. Bring a copy of it or a photo of it to class on January 5th.