Monday, September 17, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 10
1.      Collect homework:
a.       Most Dangerous Game REVIEW (from Friday)

2.      Clear desk for TEST on Most Dangerous Game

3.      When you finish your test, in your notebooks, complete the following:

a.       Imagine that The Most Dangerous Game was a fable for cyborgs. Name 5 lessons (or truths) that cyborgs are to learn from it.

1. Examples - don’t reuse these J

                                                              i.      If you keep your nerve, you can succeed

                                                            ii.      Dogs are not man’s best friend.

b.      Imagine that the only things the cyborg understands about how real human beings are to behave is from what he learns from “The Most Dangerous Game”

                                                  i.      Write down 5 POSITIVE THINGS that he would learn about the behavior of humans if we inputted the story “The Most Dangerous Game” into his memory.

4.      Pick up this week’s vocabulary words and look them over until everyone is finished with their tests.

5.      Show grades and review vocabulary test from Friday

6.      Sentence “chunking” – meaningless vs. meaningful

a.       Unscrambling sentences 

ENGLISH homework:

Study for vocabulary test on Friday (the test will have a word bank and 20 fill-in-the-blank sentences – you provide the correct vocabulary word for each sentence)