GT Frankenstein Drills Quarter

Drill 1  Homework: Apostrophe Practice (page 212)  Objective: The students will be able to reflect on his or her growth as a strategic writer through portfolio activities.  Drill: Based on your performance in English during the first quarter, select a specific goal for second quarter and two actions to achieve this goal.  Example Goal:I will complete all homework on time.  Example Action: I will use my planner to record homework and check it off when it is done.  I will file all work in my binder or homework folder so I have it in class when I need it.

Drill 2  Homework: Presentations due 11/13  Objective: The students will be able to link appropriate experiences and prior knowledge about the topic, author, or type of material.  Drill: Answer the following question, give examples to support your answer.  Just because medicine or science can do something, should it?

Drill 3  Homework: Presentations due 11/13  Objective:The students will be able to link appropriate experiences and prior knowledge about the topic, author, or type of material.  Drill: Answer in complete sentences. Give examples to support your answer.  Is it ever right to risk the well being of an individual in order to benefit the larger society?

Drill 4  Homework: Read the letters  Objective: The students will be able to make connections between ideas in the text relevant prior knowledge.  Drill: Quotations page 208

Drill 5  Homework: Chapters 1-5 due Friday 11/20  Objective: The students will be able to analyze point of view and its effect on meaning.  Drill: Why does Robert Walton befriend Victor Frankenstein?  Take out your questions from the letters.

Drill 6  Homework: continue reading chapters 1- 5  Objective: The students will be able to analyze point of view and its effect on meaning.  Drill: How does the change in point of view from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein change the mood of the story. How does Mary Shelley show this change?

Drill 7  Homework: Chapters 1-5 and questions  Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of voice.  Drill: Select the correct verb and write the correct sentence. 1.Nobody on our street (throws/throw) a better fastball. 2.Many of his pitches (blazes/blaze) past the batter. 3.Some of Mr. Green’s tomatoes (is/are) prize winners.

Drill 7 Answers 1.Nobody on our street throws a better fastball. 2.Many of his pitches blaze past the batter. 3.Some of Mr. Green’s tomatoes are prize winners.

Drill 8  Homework: Read Chapters 6-9 due 11/30  Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of point of view through the trial activity.  Drill: Drill: Select the correct verb in each sentence. Write the correct sentence. 1.The students and teacher (is/are) studying verb agreement. 2.Everyone (wants/want) to see the movie New Moon. 3.The test covering several chapters (is/are) on Friday.

Drill 8 answers 1.The students and teacher are studying verb agreement. 2.Everyone wants to see the movie New Moon. 3.The test covering several chapters is on Friday.

Drill 9  Homework: Chapters and questions due 12/4.  Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz G 12/2 H 12/3  Objective: The student will be able to evaluate the effects of fictional elements on the reader’s interpretation of a story. The student will justify the presence of a universal theme based on an analysis of the literature.  Drill: What is your reaction to Victor Frankenstein’s desertion of the Creature? What does the creator owe the creation?

Drill 10  Homework: Chapters and questions due 12/4.  Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz G 12/2 H 12/3  Objective: Same as Drill 9  Drill: What might have prevented the Creature from being evil? What theme does this suggest.

Drill 11  Homework: Chapters and questions due 12/4  Objective: Same as Drill 9 and 10  Drill: Take out review sheet and notes. Study for quiz.

Drill 12  Homework: Read Chapters and answer questions. Due 12/10  Objective: Same as Drill 9, 10, 11  Drill: Select one of the themes discussed this week and explain how the term universal truth can be applied to the theme.

Drill 13  Homework: Chapters due 12/10  Objective : The student will be able to evaluate the effects of fictional elements on the reader’s interpretation of a story. The student will justify the presence of a universal theme based on an analysis of the literature.  Drill:Images of light and dark are present throughout the story. Pick one major event in the story and discuss the light/dark imagery and what it means.  (Example: The creature came to life at night-why?)

Drill 14  Homework: Chapters due 12/10.  Objective: Same as drill 14  Drill: Explain this metaphor.  “Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict” (Shelley 173).

Drill 15  Homework: Chapters due 12/14 and 12/15.  Objective: Same as drill 13  Drill: Explain how the alliteration used here emphasizes the mood of the passage and Victor’s state of mind.  “I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation--deep, dark, deathlike, solitude” (Shelley 85).

All Classes  There will be a notebook quiz next week.  You are responsible for all objectives and drills even if you are not in class.  Past drills can be found on line and in the class notebook.

Drill 16  Homework: Trial final paper due 12/23  Objective:The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.  Drill: Take out your notes and review for the trial.

Drill 17  Homework: Trial final paper due 12/23  Objective:The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.  Drill: Take out your notes and review for the trial.

Drill 18  Homework: Trial final paper due 12/23  Objective:The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.  Drill: Take out your notes and review for the trial.

Drill 19  Homework: All late/missing work due by 1/8. Trial papers due the day after the trial concludes.  Objective:The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.  Drill: Quickly, get into costume and help set up the room.

Drill 20  Homework: All late/missing work due by 1/8. Period G pgs 136, 137  Objective:The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.  Drill: Period H: Quickly, get into costume and help set up the room.  Period G : What is your reaction to the trial result? Explain your answer.

Drill 21  Homework: Period G Prometheus draft 1/8. Period H pages 136, 137  Objective: Students will control language by learning the conventions of standard English.  Drill: See next slide

Drill 21  Answer (explain) the following questions about the trial on a paper to turn in. 1.What did you like best about the trial? 2.What one thing would you change? 3.Who did the best job of taking on the assigned role? 4.How do you think you did interpreting your role and using the text to support your work in the trial? 5.Period H only: What is your reaction to the trial result? Explain

Drill 22  Homework: Prometheus Draft due Period G 1/12. Period H 1/13  Objective:The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.  Drill on next slide

Drill 22  What can you infer that the word ‘minimalism’ means?  What is the irony of this cartoon?