AGENDA 10/9

Grammar Warm-up: Misplaced Modifiers
Finish Hurricane Katrina photo analysis

HW: Study for vocabulary quiz tomorrow

REMINDER: Tomorrow's vocabulary quiz will also include a visual analysis component. You'll be presented with a photograph and will need to write a "Conclusion" paragraph in addition to the vocabulary portion. The vocabulary will cover both the new words from The Grapes of Wrath and a few of the previous words from Fast Food Nation.

AGENDA 10/8

Share Dorothea Lange photos and discuss using OPTIC

Introduce Hurricane Katrina photo essay; comment and respond to photographs in groups:
1) What details (Parts) do you notice?
2) What argument or social commentary does the photographer make through this image?
3) What is the tone or mood of the image?
4) What is emphasized? What does this focal point suggest?

HW: Continue drafting intercalary chapter essays: Rough drafts due THURSDAY
Study for vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, which will also have a visual analysis component

AGENDA 10/5

Grammar Quiz: Problems with Verbs
- Grade pre-test


Homework:
Finish independent reading book by next Friday (or sooner if possible)
Draft 2nd body paragraph for intercalary essay: due Monday

AGENDA 10/4

Vocabulary Warm-up: Grapes of Wrath
Additional texts for seminar: editorial cartoon, "This Land is Your Land," and "The New Colossus"
Issues discussion period 2
Issues discussion period 3

HW: Study for tomorrow's grammar quiz: Verbs
Continue drafting intercalary chapter essay

REMINDER: Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to bring $5.25 if you want to order a copy of Billy Budd.

AGENDA 10/3

Seminar: The Grapes of Wrath as a work of literature
Notes from Period 2's discussion
Notes from Period 3's discussion

HW: Study for grammar quiz Friday: Review Problems with Verbs handout received in class. Consider downloading previous grammar warm-ups: practice circling the errors and label the type of error--subject-verb agreement, tense, or parallelism.

Bring body paragraph of intercalary chapter essay tomorrow (or email to request extension and come by after school for help).

Review "The World House" and bring both the McGraw-Hill Reader and The Grapes of Wrath as well as your index card for tomorrow's discussion on Issues.

AGENDA 10/2

Grammar Warm-up: Verbs, verbs, verbs...last time.
Grammar Review handout: Problems with Verbs
Quiz on Grammar Friday!

Read and annotate "The World House" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on page 338 of the McGraw-Hill Reader

HW: Prepare for tomorrow's Grapes of Wrath literary seminar. Bring index card. Body paragraph for intercalary chapter essay due Thursday.

AGENDA 10/1

Vocabulary Warm-up: Grapes of Wrath
Check thesis statements; meet with other person who has same intercalary chapter and discuss thesis statements, devices, etc.
Test thesis statements: Do you have all three dimensions?
1) What rhetorical techniques does the author use here?
2) Why does this chapter matter (look back at the purposes of intercalary chapters on the assignment sheet)?
3) How do these rhetorical techniques help convey the meaning of the chapter?

OPTIC analysis and group discussion: "Migrant Mother" and additional Dorothea Lange photos--"Jobless," "Lean-to," "Men in Fields," "I Am an American," "Migrant Children"

HW: On index card provided in class, generate six questions for discussion: 3 Literary questions and 3 Issues questions (Literary questions include questions about characters, symbolism, theme, foreshadowing, etc. and Issues questions connect the ideas in the book to our society today or to our personal lives). Finish OPTIC sheet if necessary.

REMINDERS: Bring McGraw-Hill Readers tomorrow!