Week 11 English 10

Week 11 English 10  Revised

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Printout syllabus before class Monday for 100 pts ☐ Points given 7:30-7:45 or at Lunch only! ☐ LACER Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER logs to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Hold on to your Political Cartoons. We will return to this ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ☐ Media Literacy Handouts due! Rev Unit 1-3 Vocabulary Exam  Take at home Honor Code ☐  Assignment: In your teams, answer the following questions. 1 paper per team. 1. Who is speaking in the poem? Is the speaker the poet or a character created by the poet? 2. Does the poem examine some common life experience or problem? Does it suggest solutions or answers? 3. What is the poet’s attitude toward the subject? The audience ? 4. What techniques from the “author’s toolkit” does Langston Hughes use to control language to create certain effects? 5. How does the poet’s choice of words, his diction,  influence the poem’s meaning? Give examples. 6. What figurative language, such as metaphors and similes does the poet employ to make imaginative comparisons? 7. What sound devices, such as rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, alliteration, consonance, does the poet use?  Give definition of term and example.	Vocabulary Review Unit 4-6 Vocabulary for Comprehension  and Grammar in Context ☐ Dialectical Journals on Things Fall Apart will be collected on Wednesday for Ch. 20-25 due next Monday Things Fall Apart ☐
Tuesday	Assignment : Analyze Learned Hand “Spirit of Liberty” First Paragraph 1. Hand uses his opening sentence to emphasize the importance of the event.  How does his word choice in the first sentence reflect this? 2. Hand creates a growing sense of the importance of the occasion by asserting that those gathered have a common “purpose,” then a shared “conviction,” and finally a joint “devotion.”  What do these words mean, and how does the progression of them emphasize the gravity of the event? 3. How does Hand create a sense of camaraderie and shared experience in the second sentence? 4.  What qualities make the “picked group” so special in Hand’s eyes? 5. What qualities does Hand imply the “picked group” possesses when he says they “had the courage to break from the past”? 6. Put Hand’s fourth and final sentence into your own words.	Vocabulary Review Unit 4-6 Two-Word Completions and Choosing the Right Meaning ☐
Wednesday	Media Literacy Field Trip Rules and Reminders Assignment : Analyze Learned Hand “Spirit of Liberty” First Paragraph, Second Section 1. What is Hand’s initial answer to the question he posed at the end of section one (what motivated immigrants to come to America)? –What is Hand’s initial answer to the question he posed at the end of section one (what motivated immigrants to come to America)? 2. Hand’s initial answer is “liberty” . 3. What are the 3 sub-categories? 4. Hand says that immigrants “sought liberty” in coming to this country.  How do the kinds of freedoms he mentions compare to another contemporary’s conception of freedom—Norman Rockwell’s pictorial representation of FDR’s “Four Freedoms”?  See website box.com for images.	Vocabulary Review Unit 1-3 Antonyms and Word Families ☐ Things Fall Apart Read Chapters 14-19 ☐
Thursday	Media Literacy Field Trip Timed Essay question TBA for those not going on field trip. P1,P6 Dialectical Journaling and Sustained Silent reading Things Fall Apart Ch 20-25	Vocabulary Review Unit 4-6  Word Associations and Building with Classical Roots  ☐
Friday	Media Literacy Field Trip Timed Essay question TBA for those not going on field trip. P1,P6  Dialectical Journaling and Sustained Silent reading Things Fall Apart Ch 20-25 P1,P6  Dialectical Journaling  and Sustained Silent Reading   20-25 ☐	Vocabulary review Unit 4-6 Study for Exam Monday Use Quizlet.com ☐ Dialectical Journals Ch. 20-25  Due Monday