AGENDA 9/13

Introduce next five vocabulary words
Close analysis exercise #1: Personification in pages 80-81 of Beah's A Long Way Gone

HW: Summer Free Choice Book Letter due Friday, 9/17
Study for syllabus quiz on Wednesday, 9/15
The Grapes of Wrath reading quiz scheduled for Thursday, 9/16

AGENDA 9/10

Continue to review syllabus, class policies and syllabus study sheet
Introduce vocabulary words for A Long Way Gone: please complete the vocabulary sheet or make 3x5 index cards to study vocabulary. We will continue going through words on Monday.
Explain Summer Free Choice Book Assignment and share Mrs. Pust's sample letter. Due Friday 9/17 at the beginning of class, and must be typed!

HW: Work on summer free choice book letter. Bring A Long Way Gone to class on Monday and be prepared to discuss personification in pages 78-84.

AGENDA 9/9

NO SCHOOL!

AGENDA 9/8

Reading Quiz over A Long Way Gone
Introduce Syllabus Study Questions - Quiz over Syllabus and Classroom Rules/Procedures next Wednesday worth 15 points. 10 questions will be drawn from the 20 on the study sheet; the other 5 points will come from turning in your completed final page of the syllabus. This should be the easiest 15 points you'll ever earn!

HW: Review pgs. 78-84 of A Long Way Gone, looking for instances of personification. When you find them, make note of them for Friday's discussion.

NOTE: Personification is when an author gives human attributes or qualities to non-human things, such as inanimate objects. For example, if an author writes "the sky wept," that would be an example of personification.

AGENDA 9/7

WELCOME BACK!
Index Card Directions (Do Now Activity)
First Day Letter to Parents/Guardians
First Day PowerPoint and Feedback
Four Truths (and a Lie) Activity

HW: Review A Long Way Gone for reading quiz tomorrow. Share First Day Letter and optional Homework Assignment for Parents with your parents/guardians.

ATPH ASSIGNMENTS

List of discussion assignment days/passages and reading schedule for All the Pretty Horses. Seminars begin Tuesday!

Project Description for All the Pretty Horses: Discussion Preparation and Rhetorical Analysis
Sample rhetorical analysis writeup and "lake" passage
Sample discussion preparation writeup


Link to find out more about UCLA Summer College Essay Workshop

AGENDA 4/13

Grammar Practice: Idioms #1
Close reading of The Great Gatsby, Ch 1

HW: Timed essay Friday - rhetorical analysis. Rhetorical terms entry #11 due Monday 4/19 - select any passage from Ch 1 or 2 of The Great Gatsby. Finish reading chapter 2, and if you like, start reading ahead...