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Warm Up: Write down the entire sentence and all of the answer choices. Select the best answer and write a sentence that explains your thinking.
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Warm Up: Write down the entire sentence and all of the answer choices. Select the best answer and write a sentence that explains your thinking. Her vague sense of _________ grew into anxiety and then alarm when she discovered that her initial doubts about the success of the undertaking well founded. Foreboding Remorse Anticipation Intrigue Complacency Learning Target: I can define literary analysis and review key literary terms. September 3, 2013
Agenda • Warm Up • Complete RWN Organization • Create a Literary Analysis definition • Discuss the Literary Analysis essay, thesis statement, and tool box • Organize an essay
Warm Up: Write the entire statement, the answer choices, and a statement that explains your thinking. Hoping to _____ the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be _______ to both labor and management. • enforce. . . useful • end . . .divisive • overcome . . . unattractive • extend . . .satisfactory • resolve . . . acceptable September 4, 2013 Learning Target: I can understand the elements of a literary analysis thesis statement. Homework: Read pages 433-442 in the Grammar Coach textbook. Notes are due on Thursday. PSAT S-V Agreement exercises due on Friday.
Agenda • Warm Up • Subject-Verb Agreement homework • Review terms • Read “O Captain, My Captain”/TWIST • Examine thesis statement – note cards • Discuss
Warm Up: Write the entire statement, the answer choices, and a statement that explains your thinking. • Before Karen Chin’s research, scientists assumed that the value of evidence preserved in the fossils called coprolites was too _____ to warrant the effort of ______. • unpredictable . . . transformation • superlative . . . examination • conventional . . . eradication • relevant . . . synthesis • dubious . . analysis September 5, 2013 Learning Target: I can create a Literary Analysis thesis statement with my group.
Silent Write Around • You will be assigned to a group with whom you will travel around the room to each station. • There are five stations. • Each poster has a poem or excerpt in the middle. • You will read the poem silently and comment on the tone, imagery, theme, or give an opinion of the piece. • Each time your group rotates, you will read the piece, read the comments, and respond to either or both.
Agenda • Warm Up • SSR • Response journal • S-V Agreement Quiz • Poetry Write Around • Class approval
Response Journal • Underneath today’s warm up, write the Title of your book, underline it, and respond to the following prompt. • Who is the main character in your book? Describe him or her. Would this be a person you would spend time with on a daily basis? Why or why not?
Warm Up: Write the entire statement, the answer choices, and a statement that explains your thinking. • Greta praised the novel for its _____, claiming it depicted reality so vividly that it seemed more like fact than fiction. • Transcendence • Romanticism • Impenetrability • Loquacity • verisimilitude September 6, 2013 Learning Target: I can create an outline for a literary analysis essay. Homework:
Agenda • Warm Up • Groups create outline • Share out