Monday, January 12, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 21

1.      Look over PREFIX pink sheet…then…

2.      Take PREFIX test #2

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

4.      Discuss…

a.       feuds vs. fights, battles and war, and rivalries in sports

b.      Setting to create mood?

c.        POV – 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd (omniscient, limited omniscient, objective)

d.      Conflict – people vs. ___________

e.       Irony – situational, dramatic, verbal

5.      Irony videos x 3 from Ted-ED (2014) !!

6.      Finish Thursday’s reading of “Lov’d Alone…” and writing at least 20 notes about it.

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:

·         Study for tomorrow’s test on “The Interlopers” pgs. 232 – 243

·         Study for “Lesson Three” 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)

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 21

·         Take notes on Romeo and Juliet Prologue…

· Why so strangely Yoda speaks?

·         Watched short videos on Shakespeare:

Using your textbook, complete the following:

1. Find Act 3, Scene 3, line 165…
1. Copy down that line and its page number.
2. How many lines total are there in Act 1 scene 3?
3. Write down an example of unusual word order from page 812.
4. Using page 805, name which family each of the following characters belong:  Tybalt, Romeo, Friar Lawrence, Lady Montague, Nurse
5. Write up a line of iambic pentameter that describes a happy moment in your life.
1. Mark the 5 iambs… u  /

·         A contemporary sonnet…read “Sonnet” by Billy Collins

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:

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