Monday, September 30, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 20

 

1.      Collect homework: Interloper’s 1-5 and 9 themes

 

2.      Pickup new vocabulary sheet

 

5.      Discuss feuds and fights – including Huck Finn’s thoughts – and how feuds resemble rivalries – write definitions in our notes

 

6.      REVIEW short story: “The Interlopers” (pgs. 232-243)

 

7.      ANNOUNCEMENT: Test tomorrow on “The Interlopers” pgs. 232 – 243

 

9.      Identified 3 kinds of irony with comics and scenarios

 

10.  Next sentence type introduced – “5-things sentence”…(choose five items from the room then write them into a sentence by forming a relationship or connection between the items…) Then add a verb or a modal auxiliary (would, should, could, must, may, might, shall, can, will).

o   Make a single sentence out of what you have. (You will, of course, have to add words.)

o   Add chunking slashes

§  Share examples

o   Discussed our ability to do this.

 

11.  Using your notes, write down a sentence using the “Updike” pattern from the other day (remember the Ted Williams homerun in the 8^th inning video?)

 

12.  Study for test on “The Interlopers” pgs. 232 – 243 on Tuesday

a.       BEST WAY TO STUDY: Create a practice test

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for test on “The Interlopers” pgs. 232 – 243 on Tuesday

 

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test