1. Agendas & Journals
1st Quarter: Week 7

2. English 10 – 10/5 (M) Agenda (1) Journal (2) AP questions (3) Article
What are we doing?
Applied Practice questions
Finish article from Friday Growing up brainstorm
Essential Question part B
Why are we doing it?
To organize ideas into a brainstorm
To analyze Hosseini’s message and purpose
How do you know you got it?
Your AP questions and explainations
What’s coming up?
Vocabulary stories due tomorrow
Agenda
(1) Journal
(2) AP questions
(3) Article
(4) Brainstorm

3. 6.1: DICTION
“A redhead woman was there with Trout. Kate could see her rummaging through the cabin, dumping drawers and knocking things from the shelves of cabinets.” –Louis Sachar, Holes
“A redhead woman was there with Trout. Kate could see her rummage through the cabin, dump drawers and knock things from the shelves of cabinets.” –Louis Sachar, Holes

4. 6.1: DICTION
“A redhead woman was there with Trout. Kate could see her rummaging through the cabin, dumping drawers and knocking things from the shelves of cabinets.” –Louis Sachar, Holes
(1) What picture do you get in your mind when you read the second sentence?
(2) How would the meaning of the sentence change if it were: “Kate could see her searching through the cabin, emptying drawers and taking things off of the shelves of the cabinets.”
(3) Look at the syntax of the sentence. How do the blue words enhance meaning?

5. 3.) The description of Baba’s mansion reveals most about the character of:
A.) The narrator
B.) Baba
C.) Hassan
D.) Ali
4.) The tone of the exclamation, “An entire chapter dedicated to Hassan’s people!” is best described as:
A.) Relieved
B.) Surprised
C.) Angry
D.) Disgusted

6. English 10 – 10/6 (T) Agenda (1) Journal (2) Turn in vocab
What are we doing?
Turning in stories
Vocab 6
Growing up brainstorm
Suffering pain index
Afghan harem article
Why are we doing it?
To tie in an informational text to our EQ
To determine what it means to grow up
How do you know you got it?
You can relate the article to our EQ
What’s coming up?
Read TKR 21 for tomorrow..
Agenda
(1) Journal
(2) Turn in vocab
(3) Vocab #6
(4) Brainstorm
(5) Journal pain index
(6) Article

7. 6.2: Personficiation READ: WRITE:
The camp faced a wide cove of white sand and palm trees. The bay was so perfectly blue, it looked like it had been retouched for a tourist brochure. Across the bay stood protective mountains, shoulder to shoulder, across the Concepción peninsula. -Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
WRITE:
1.) Write down the examples of personification in the passage. What are the literal and figurative meanings of them?
2.) How would the meaning change if the third sentence were: “There were mountains across the Concepción peninsula” ?

8. English 10 – 10/7 (W) Agenda What are we doing?
Finishing the pain index
Afghan Harem article
Kite Runner Quiz
Why are we doing it?
To explore our EQ through informational texts
How do you know you got it?
You can articulate what role suffering has in growing up
What’s coming up?
Meet in 325 tomorrow.
Read TKR 22-23
Agenda
(1) Journal
(2) Quiz & Discussion
(3) Pain index
(4) Read article

9. 6.4: vocabulary
Write the vocabulary word (and its part of speech) that fits in the blank. There may be more than one correct answer.
When the path ended, we were unsure about how to _______.
During the potato famine, many people ______ from Ireland to settle in countries with more food.
We wondered how the forest fire would ______ the animals’ habitat.
After ______ to France, the refugee began working on his French skills.
After arriving late, we missed the opening act that ______ the main concert.

10. English 10 – 10/8 (R) What are we doing?
Computer Lab to work on OGR #2
Why are we doing it?
To research rites of passage
How do you know you got it?
You can explain the definition and steps of a rite of passage.
What’s coming up?
Finish The Kite Runner by Monday

11. English 10 – 10/9 (F) Agenda (1) Journal (2) Turn in warm-ups
What are we doing?
Turning in warm-ups
Finish Afghan harem article
Women in Afghanistan packet
Why are we doing it?
To learn about the role of women in Afghanistan
How do you know you got it?
You make inferences about women’s roles in Afghanistan based on The Kite Runner.
What’s coming up?
Finish The Kite Runner by Monday
Vocab story due Tuesday.
Agenda
(1) Journal
(2) Turn in warm-ups
(3) Finish article
(4) Women in Afghanistan packet

12. 6.4: derivation Write the new word and its new part of speech.
Shawna _____ presented her side of the argument. (effect)
______ an air of sophistication, Jamie strutted across the ballroom floor. (affect)
The ______ needed to obtain the proper paperwork before leaving the country (emigrate)
Many countries have limits on ____ (immigrate)

13. Homework: Where I’m from
Revise ONE stanza of your “Where I’m From” poem.
Focus the imagery around ONE of the five senses.
Make sure the stanza has at least FIVE lines.
Submit it to turnitin.com by MONDAY at midnight.
Then, next week, log on to turnitin.com, read someone else’s stanza (automatically assigned), and answer the three questions in complete sentences. Due by FRIDAY at midnight. .

14. Agendas & Journals
1st Quarter: Week 7

15. English 12H – 10/5 (M) What are we doing? Why are we doing it?
Style File #3
Vocab #4
Q1 Essay information
Why are we doing it?
To prepare for the Q1 essay
To create engaging opening lines in our writing
How do you know you got it?
Understanding of vocabulary
Your engaging opening lines
What’s coming up?
1984 annotation check Friday
Start reading Pygmalion act IV
OGR #2 on turnitin.com by 8 a.m. Wednesday

16. 6.1 Syntax
HIGGINS: Yes: that’s what drives me mad: the silly people don’t know their own silly business. –Shaw, Pygmalion
What is the purpose of the two colons in the sentence?
What function does the yes at the beginning of the sentence serve?

17. English 12H – 10/6 (T) What are we doing? Why are we doing it?
“How I’ll Become an American”
Writing exercise: “How I’ll Become…”
Why are we doing it?
To analyze satire
To analyze Vamos’ style and create your own piece of satire
How do you know you got it?
You create a piece of working satire, utilizing Vamos’ style
What’s coming up?
1984 annotations
Start reading Pygmalion act IV
Vocabulary quiz Friday

18. 6.2 Diction
READ:
“A rowan like a lipsticked girl.” -Seamus Heaney, “Song”
(A rowan is a small tree with white flower clusters and orange berries.)
WRITE:
Other than color, what comes to mind when you think of lipsticked girl ?
How would it change the line if it were changed to “A girl with lipstick on?”
Why does Heaney make this comparison?

19. English 12H – 10/7 (W) What are we doing? Why are we doing it?
“How I’ll Become…”
Why are we doing it?
To utilize satirical techniques in the creation of satire.
How do you know you got it?
Discussion satirical response
What’s coming up?
Style File & annotations Friday
Pygmalion Act IV by FRIDAY
Vocabulary quiz Friday

20. 3.4 Grammar Which of the following use of hyphenation is correct?
1a. Eye-Shadow
1b. Eye-opener
2a. Scary-big dog
2b. Scary-looking dog
3a. Twenty-one
3b. One-hundred
4a. Self-less
4b. Self-respect

21. English 12H – 10/8 (R) What are we doing? Why are we doing it?
Inference advertisements
Sedaris’ satirical article
Why are we doing it?
To analyze and understand satire
To identify the use and effect of propaganda techniques
To identify visual rhetoric and its effect
How do you know you got it?
Discussion after and during reading
Discussion of advertisements
What’s coming up?
Vocabulary quiz Friday
Style File #3 Friday
1984 Annotations Friday

22. English 12H – 10/9 (F) What are we doing? Why are we doing it?
Vocabulary quiz
Pygmalion applied practice Act III
Conferencing regarding intro paragraph
Why are we doing it?
To analyze Shaw’s style for purpose and effect
To assess understanding of our literary devices
How do you know you got it?
You wrote an engaging opening to your quarter 1 essay
Your score on the quiz
What’s coming up?
Keep reading 1984, Socratic Seminar questions
Make your outside reading choices