Friday, January 16, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 26

·         Take vocabulary test (lesson 3)

·         After turning in your test, complete the following:

o   Write down:

§  5 characteristics/things that you like in other people and

§  5 that you dislike in other people

·         Rank your 5 dislikes in other people in order from 1 – 5.

o   #1 worst, 2^nd worst, 3^rd worst…

§  Then 5 that you dislike in yourself

·         READ “The Tell-Tale Heart”

o   AS YOU READ “The Tell-Tale Heart”list 2 examples of each of the 3 kinds of irony (6 total):

§  Situational, dramatic, verbal

o   Find the complete text of the story online: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/telltale.html

·         Watched a “The Tell-Tale Heart” animation

o   http://nicertube.com/7mtctrj8

·         REMINDER: OPEN NOTES test on the life of Poe (next Tuesday)

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:

·         Write your #1 dislike of others on a little piece of paper and keep it in your pocket until Monday.

o   Keep track of how many times you encounter it between now and then.

·         OPEN-NOTES test on Edgar Allan Poe’s life – date of test = next TUESDAY.

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 25

o   HANDWRITE in the last few answers to our webquest

o    BEFORE you turn in your Webquest, read over your answers and then on the back side of the Webquest, answer the following:

1.        Using your answers as your proof, what educated guesses (or inferences) can you make about the Elizabethans? (list at least 3)

2.        List what the Webquest doesn’t say. In other words, what has been left out? (list at least 3)

3.        Find a trouble spot (an area you do not understand). Generate questions around it. (list as many as you can)

4.        Complete the following: This Webquest reminds me of ________________because _________________________________.

5.        Create a t-chart. On the left side, write down one thing you learned from this activity. On the right side, write a reflection on why learning that piece of information might be of value to you in your life  (respond in a full paragraph)

 After completing the 5 questions, turn WEBQUEST in FOR CREDIT

NEXT, TAKE NOTES:

·         Take notes on the 6 kinds of feet (PITADS)...including iambs.

o    You can just write the name of the foot and the beat it makes.

§  Ex. iamb – ta-TUM

 

Trochee, Iamb, Anapest, Dactyl, or Spondee? (that is the question)…

DIRECTIONS: Decide which PITADS each of the following group of words represents. 

1.        today, except

2.        dreadful, helpless, running, asking

3.        Drop dead! Bite this!

4.        To the lake, understand

5.        withering, heavily, talk to me

• Open books to Act 1, Scene 1, Line 157…read to the END of Act 1, Scene 3 (pg. 825)

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:

Study for next week’s test on the “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout – be able to identify both the definitions and examples of each term

Bring your Literature book (the purple one) every day.