Friday, December 5, 2014

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 6

1.      If you didn’t turn it in yesterday, I will collect:

·         ½ page commercial

·         6 plot points about an existing movie (or story)

2.      Take fill-in-the-blank vocabulary test

3.      List all the rules you can think of that explain when we capitalize words in English.

·         Ex.

                                                  i.      at the beginning of a new sentence

                                                ii.       

4.      Add any missing notes on Capitalization to your whiteboards as I show you notes…

 

5.      120 second PREVIEW of “The Most Dangerous Game” – formed first impressions of short story

6.      Discussed the difference between a guess and an inference

7.      As you listen to the story…pgs. 19 – 23 (stop after 1^st paragraph - top left column)

·         Write 3 predictions/inferences from the story using the following format: “Because the story says…I predict…” (TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW)

ENGLISH homework: HOURS 1 & 3 ONLY:

none

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 6

· Collect: Hero’s Journey stories

· FINISH FOR HOMEWORK (the drawing assignment). The GOAL is for them to make a rough drawing with enough detail that someone could look at their drawing and match it to its definition.

a. Using the character list on pages 1032 and 1033, imagine creating a MATCHING test that has 2 columns. The first column lists all the information on pages 1032 and 1033 BUT WITHOUT THE NAMES….in the right-hand column are a series of your drawings that represent each of the descriptions from the first column.

· REVIEW pgs. 1025 – 1036 in Literature book.

· Then read the first few pages of The Odyssey (pages 1037-1042)

a. (This is Homer beginning with a prayer for help.)

b. Calypso

· The first book of The Odyssey is titled, “Tell the Story.” (This is Homer beginning with a prayer for help.)

a. As a class, we discussed how to create 3 questions about this single story.

ENGLISH homework: HOURS 4 & 5 ONLY:

None.