Friday, January 7, 2011 Good morning, English 11! 1. Business Items Please clear your desk except for a pencil, your journal, your allusion notes, and your notebook.

2. Food for Thought (Journal) Date your entry Friday, January 7, Copy the word, quotation, and prompt, then respond to the prompt. Word: arbiter (n.) a person with the power to decide a dispute; a judge Quote: “Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.” --Albert Einstein Prompt: Describe a time you let someone else tell you what you should do or think. What was the outcome? What would you do in the future?

3. Three Truths and a Lie Let’s do a few of these!

4. Antigone Allusions Handout Finish sharing and remainder of definitions. We can fill in the context later.

5. MN Academic Standards Language Benchmarks Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11 – 12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. A. Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. B. Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different meaning or parts of speech. C. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g. dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both in print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, its etymology, or its standard usage. D. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).

6. Antigone made a difficult decision to break the law even though it meant she would be punished. What would you stand up for? Copy these (on the back side of vocabulary words) and rank which is most to least important to you (1 = most important). Loyalty or obligation to family Obedience to civil law Observance of religious law Protection of personal dignity (saving face) Freedom Protection of community or nation

7. MN Academic Standards Reading Benchmarks College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading “To become college and career ready, students must grapple with works of exceptional craft and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Such works offer profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students’ own thinking and writing. Through wide and deep reading of literature and literary nonfiction of steadily increasing sophistication, students gain a reservoir of literary and cultural knowledge, references, and images; the ability to evaluate intricate arguments; and the capacity to surmount challenges posed by complex texts.”

8. MN Academic Standards Reading Benchmarks By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature and other texts including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. b. Read widely to understand perspectives and pluralistic viewpoints.