1. 1.Without talking, please get out your English binder. 2. Put your backpacks in the back of the room. 3. Sharpen your pencil if you need to. If you need a pencil, you may borrow one from my desk. 4. Write down the following vocabulary word. Vocabulary for 9/8/15 1.nuisance: an annoyance 2.Condone: to pardon or overlook

2. Lesson 7: SWBAT use the reading strategy read-aloud (as a class). SWBAT summarize a text through written expression.

3. The Importance of Being Earnest Page 1: Lady Bracknell says that Gwendolen cannot marry Jack because Jack has no idea who his parents were. He was found by a man in a cloakroom. Miss Prism is Cecily’s tutor. Jack is in charge of taking care of Cecily. Both Cecily and Miss Prism believe that Jack as a brother named Ernest.

4. The Importance of Being Earnest Page 2: Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism take a walk. Algernon shows up and says to Cecily that he is Jack’s brother Ernest. Cecily and Ernest flirts.

5. The Importance of Being Earnest Page 3: Jack comes back, and he tells Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism that his brother Ernest has passed away. Cecily emerges from the house and says that Uncle Jack’s brother Ernest has appeared.

6. The Importance of Being Earnest Page 4: Cecily tells Jack to forgive Ernest. She tells Jack that Ernest has been telling her about Bunbury. Page 5: Cecily gets Jack and Algernon (Ernest) to shake hands.

7. The Importance of Being Earnest Page 6-7: Read aloud. Annotate when you are finished. Jack = annoyed; irritated Algernon: light-hearted; goofy

8. The Importance of Being Earnest Page 6-7: Jack tells Algernon to leave. Algernon says he will leave if Jack changes his clothes. These pages are poking fun at the vanity of Victorian society.

9. The Importance of Being Earnest Pages 7-9 Summarize what you have just read on your worksheet. Write in complete sentences. Capitalize the beginning of sentences and punctuate the end. Proofread your work. Check every sentence to make sure it is not a run-on or fragment. Make sure it is correctly punctuated.

10. Announcements Lesson Check on Friday: It is over all the vocabulary, grammar videos 1 and 2 (this will help you prepare for the test), and summarizing a text. Study vocabulary, grammar videos, lessons 7 and 8.