WARMUP:
Find your prefix handout – we’ll fill it in after attendance.
Reviewed this week’s new affixes (part 2 in original packet) for Friday’s test – also filled in the entire document with definitions
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Announced test - Study for Plural and Possessive test on Monday, January 16
Grab a script from the center table and we will finish our group reading performance of “Lov’d Alone – The Tragic Story of Edgar Allan Poe” by Catherine Gourley
Reviewed Edgar Allan Poe’s life from our reading of “Lov’d Alone – The Tragic Story of Edgar Allan Poe” by Catherine Gourley
· Discuss how like all of us, Poe had unfortunate things happen in his life…abuse, poverty, death of loved ones, loss. And like all of us, he got to choose how he was going to deal with these things. Do we ever consider someone’s past before passing judgment on them? Or do we have a gut reaction to them or their actions that forever locks them into a category?
ENGLISH homework:
Affix/vocabulary test on Friday, October 7 - Study the 5 entries in Latin/Greek vocabulary packet. Know the prefixes’ definitions and an example of how each is used to form a new word.
Study for Plural and Possessive test on Monday, January 16
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PLAYWRITING – Day 21
Having read “The Sure Thing” and discussed the subtext of lines, we will perform content-less scenes again today using subtext as our driving force.
Subtext: what we imagine characters are thinking while they say something else.
TO BE COLLECTED: Write out the SUBTEXT for each line of your content-less scene before you perform it.
PLAYWRITING homework:
None.
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