AGENDA 3/4

TIMED ESSAY: ARGUMENT

HW: Study for ultra-monster-super vocabulary quiz over all 45 Gatsby words--quiz Monday!
Vocab List #1
Vocab List #2
Write two body paragraphs for your Gatsby rhetorical analysis essay - due Monday.
Pust's sample Gatsby paper on passage from Ch 1
Handout to help you write your body paragraphs this weekend
Word search and vocabulary review for Monday's quiz
Words for the word search:

acute
amorphous
astute
colloquial
conscientious
didactic
euphemism
flippant
fractious
genial
incredulous
inexplicable
languidly
nonchalant
perfunctory
supercilious
unaffected
vicariously

AGENDA 3/3

Continue to work on "Mistakes" prompt - share paragraphs and tips for tomorrow's timed essay
Discuss format of body paragraphs for rhetorical analysis essay on The Great Gatsby
Pust's sample paper on The Great Gatsby, passage from chapter 1

HW: Prepare for tomorrow's timed essay and study for Monday's super-monster-ultra vocabulary quiz
Word Search to review words from Part I
Crossword to review words from Part II

AGENDA 3/2

Introduce "Mistakes" prompt
Handout to accompany and scaffold "Mistakes" prompt
Chart out Thomas's Claims, and reasons why you might Defend or Challenge

HW: Write two body paragraphs to support the thesis you created for the "Mistakes" prompt and bring them to class tomorrow.

AGENDA 3/1

Field trip to see Redwood Curtain at the Broad Stage

AGENDA 2/28

Discussion over Redwood Curtain in preparation for tomorrow's field trip

AGENDA 2/24

Grammar - Pronoun Shift #2
Create thesis statements for annotated passages and turn them in
FIELD TRIP: Tuesday, 3/1: Get parent permission/health information signed and get field trip excuse slips signed by periods 2, 3, 4, and 5 teachers!!! Recruit parent chaperones!

Begin reading Redwood Curtain. Finish reading over weekend--graded discussion on Monday! Be thinking about connections between this play and The Things They Carried, or current events. How does this contemporary American play compare with other plays you've read--what qualities seem to be uniquely American? Uniquely modern? What seem to be the themes or larger understandings? What techniques does the dramatist use to convey the play's themes?

HW: Read Redwood Curtain and be prepared to discuss on Monday! Get your field trip slips signed and bring them in on Monday. Here is the link to pages 46-47 of the play, which are missing from the original pdf. Sorry about that!

AGENDA 2/23

Tacit Codes prompt - handout to scaffold creative works example, with sample paragraphs


HW: Write your own creative works (film, literature, TV, etc.) paragraph for the tacit codes prompt