September 12-16

Monday, September 12

Goal: Develop and utilize vocabulary in context

Tasks:

• Share weekend highlights
• Finish reading Malcolm X's "Learning to Read" and 3 column notes
• Determine class vocabulary words (HW: define words)

4th period:

Digressing, Glutted, Bestial, Occidental, Machinations, Chancellories, Faustian

5th period:

Occidental, Digressing, Machinations, Flogged, Emulate, Atrocities, Feigned

6th period:

Bestial, Exploitation, Atrocities, Machinations, Narcotize, Emulate, Feigned

Tuesday, September 13

Goal: Develop and utilize vocabulary in context

Tasks:

• Vocabulary Log established (running list of vocabulary, to be tested)
• Use each word in a context revealing sentence
• Create "examples/non-examples"
• Illustrate each word

Wednesday, September 14

FAIR DAY!

Thursday, September 15

Goal: establish writing communities for effective peer feedback; use graphic organizer to organize thoughts

Tasks:

• Assign Literary History paper
• Begin brainstorming reading strategies
• Graphic organizer--begin in class, finish as homework

Friday, September 16

Goal: establish writing communities for effective peer feedback; use graphic organizer to organize thoughts

Tasks:

• Graphic organizer due; establish writing communities
• Begin drafting literary history paper
• RD due Monday (typed, double spaced, TNR size 12)