10 th Grade Week 4 Agenda & Obj. 9/23-9/27

10th Grade Week 4 Agenda & Obj. 9/23-9/27 Monday: 10.7.3.3 Write Tuesday-Thursday: Vocab & Inference & Author’s purpose • 10. Vocab standard • 10.5.1.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences… • 10.5.2.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text… • 10.5.10.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction…self-select texts for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks. Friday: Vocab & Imagery • 10.

Daily Writing: Argument 09/23/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • Should you have to take tests in school? Why or why not? Give at least 3 arguments. • Should cell phones be allowed in school? Why or why not? Give at least 3 arguments.Planner: Due Wednesday: • Email me AS AN ATTACHMENT the final draft of your narrative essay. Kathleen@stepacademymn.com Due Thursday: • Turn in your rubric, marked up 2nd draft and editor’s checklist on Thursday.

Monday: OMM • Any late work to hand in? Friendship ads? Study guide questions? Have the ad done by tomorrow & the reading and study guide questions done by Wednesday or you will receive zeros. • Vocab quiz based on context clues. • Dega & Fatah – reading quiz pg. 88-89 • Writing assignment #2. • Journal title: Prewriting #2 • Journal title: Drafting #2 • Due at the end of the period! Hand in your journals and your worksheet before you leave! If you forget, it’s late.

Daily Writing: Memories 09/24/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail (OR just talk about your most vivid memory): • “I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.” ~Dawn French • “Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.” ~Thomas Fuller • Planner: Due Wednesday: • Email me AS AN ATTACHMENT the final draft of your narrative essay. Kathleen@stepacademymn.com Due Thursday: • Turn in your rubric, marked up 2nd draft and editor’s checklist on Thursday.

Tuesday: Absent? • You are responsible for getting the materials from the appropriate folder (labeled by day) for the day you were absent, and for checking my website* for what you missed and when things are due. • You have one extra day to turn in your homework. • Write the date you were absent clearly in the right corner. • If your homework is not clearly marked or you hand it in later than a day after the due date, it will be marked late. *Don’t have internet at home? Go to the public library, or ask someone during lunch to bring you to the computer lab. NO EXCUSES. • You are responsible for handing in the homework due the day you were gone as soon as you get back. • Write the date you were absent clearly in the right corner. • If your homework is not clearly marked or you hand it in later than the day you come back, it will be marked late.

Tuesday: BE RESPONSIBLE Any late work to hand in? Friendship ads (if not, zero)? Study guide questions? Reading and study guide questions done by TOMORROW or you will receive a zero. Hand in your journals!

Tuesday: Vocab • Go over vocab quiz. • You’ll have a chance to increase your score by memorizing Chapter 1 & 2 vocab by Friday. • Our vocab quizzes will get more and more difficult throughout the year. • Notebook title: Chapter 2 Vocab • Write the words and definitions of the updated vocab words in your notebook. • Under the words, write a sentence using each word and underline the word. • Pick at least two words from chapter 1 & 2 vocab and draw an illustration (picture) to help remind you of those words. • Continue on with idioms…

What’s an idiom? • An idiom is an accepted phrase having a meaning other than the literal. "Skating on thin ice" and "a blind alley" are two common examples. Idioms are a fun, playful part of language.

A few familiar idioms • I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. • Blood is thicker than water. • Don't put all of your eggs in one basket • Read between the lines

Chapter One Idioms Out of Context Find these idioms in context in chapter one. Write the page number down and the sentence that it’s in (and sentences around it if it helps). Finally, write what you think the idiom means. • Example: Blow their stake... • Context: Pg. 13: “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world… They come to a ranch an’ work up a state and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re poundin’ their tail on some other ranch.” • Meaning: Lose and/or spend all their money • blowin' in our jack • bustin' a gut • in hot water • jungle-up • live off the fatta the lan',

Idioms of Chapter OneIn Context • "...beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near the water (p. 2).” • " 'That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin' a gut (p. 8).' ” • " 'You keep me in hot water all the time (p. 11).' "

Idioms of Chapter OneContinued • " '...they go inta town and blow their stake...(p. 13).' " • " 'We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack...(p. 14).'" • " 'An' live off the fatta the lan','Lennie shouted (p. 14)."

Chapter One IdiomsOut of Context • blow their stake: Lose and/or spend all their money • blowin' in our jack: losing, spending, or gambling away all our money • bustin' a gut: Your gut is your stomach area. To bust a gut is to engage in very hard physical labor -- so hard that you ache all over -- even in your gut. • in hot water: to be in hot water is to be in trouble. • jungle-up: During the Great Depression, many wanderers (hoboes and tramps) would settle for the night in groups. These areas would be known as hobo jungles. To jungle-up is to camp out for the evening in the company of other like companions of the road. • live off the fatta the lan': Live off the fat of the land. The fat of the land is an expression that refers to having the best of everything. In the case of Lennie and George and their dream for a place of their own, it also means that they believe they will be able to survive and prosper by simply relying on what they can grow and raise -- that the land is so "fat" they will need nothing else to be happy.

Daily Writing: Sports 09/25/14 Choose a picture, and start a story: Due TODAY: • Email me AS AN ATTACHMENT the final draft of your narrative essay. Kathleen@stepacademymn.com • Quiz Friday on vocab 1 & 2 and chapter 1. Due Monday: • Read & finish study guide questions Chpt. 2

Wednesday: Novel study • Any late study guide HW? Idiom worksheets? • Review chapter 1 idiom worksheet. • Students take turns leading discussion on chapter 1 study guide questions. • Student leader for 1-4 • Student leader for 5-8 • Preview study guide questions due Monday. • Read and answer chapter 2 study guide questions. If everyone gets their study guide questions done on Monday, we’ll watch part of the movie.

Daily Writing: Humans 09/26/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • “Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.” ~Dixie Lee Ray • “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead Planner: • Quiz tomorrow on vocab 1 &2 and MC chapter 1. All words in notebook with sentences and pictures. • Due Monday: Read & finish study guide questions Chpt. 2

Thursday: Novel Study • Who turned in their essay? Turn in your rubric, marked up 2nd draft and editor’s checklist. • Vocab charades/pictionary • Review chapter 1 & 2 vocab • For all words, draw an illustration or write about how you would act it out (should have a couple already done). • Due tomorrow what you don’t get done in class!!

Daily Writing: Twain 09/27/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” ~Mark Twain • “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” ~Mark Twain Planner Due Monday: • Read & finish study guide questions Chpt. 2

Friday: Quiz & reading • Any more essays? I need the paperwork! • Let me see your vocab work. • No talking during the quiz, please! Raise your hand when you’re done and Silently read and work on study guide questions due Monday! • If you don’t have your novel, you’re not prepared for class! • If everyone gets their chapter 2 study guide questions done by Monday, we’ll watch a little bit of the movie. • Move on… Take notes on Imagery. • Notebook title: Imagery

To use imagery is to create a mental picture in language • Imagine>>Imagery>>Images. • The writer imagines something. The writer uses imagery to describe what he/she has imagined. The reader translates the imagery into images—that is the imagery that forces the reader to imagine what the writer saw, heard, felt, smelled or tasted.

Imagery is language that appeals to the senses 5 Senses = 5 Types of Imagery • Visual imagery—appeals to sight • Aural (or auditory) imagery—appeals to hearing • Tactile imagery—appeals to touch • Olfactory imagery—appeals to smell • Gustatory imagery—appeals to taste

Language must be vivid Sometimes people mistakenly say that any words referencing something that can be seen or heard constitute imagery. Instead we are talking about vivid language. On the next two slides I will quote examples of imagery and paraphrase the idea without using imagery in red font so you can see the difference.

Visual • Visual Imagery: Color, size, brightness, shape, position, motion • “shoots dangled and drooped. . . Hung down long yellow evil necks” • The bulbs were sprouting and their shoots hung down from the boxes where they were stored. • “As he paces in cramped circles over and over,/ the movement of his powerful, soft strides/ is like a ritual dance” • The panther paced in his cage • “the white eyes writhing in his face” • His eyes rolled back so you could not see the pupils and irises.

Aural • “In a wailful choir the small gnats mourn” • “Hedge crickets sing” • “Gathering swallows twitter in the skies” • Gnats, crickets and swallows all make noises at dusk • “Deaf even to the hoots of gas shells dropping softly behind” • They couldn’t even hear the sound of the gas shells

Images do not have to be literal • “And the hapless Soldier’s sigh/Runs in blood down Palace walls” • Literally=the government is indifferent to the pain and death faced by the soldier • “And here we are as on a darkling plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/ Where ignorant armies clash by night” • This is a simile comparing life to a struggle on a dark battlefield where the soldiers don’t know who or what they are fighting

Friday: OMM Imagery Work • Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men contains lots of different imagery! • Journal title: Imagery in Chpt 1 OMM • Find and rewrite at least 2 uses of imagery in Chapter 1. • Then, for one of the sections you found, draw a sketch of what you picture (imagine) in your mind because of his writing.

10 th Grade Week 4 Agenda & Obj. 9/23-9/27