Eng.+10+Oct.+2014


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[|Vocabulary]

[|Pearson Realize]

Read: "The Leap" by Louise Erdich p. 9-14

Text Analysis: Examine Craft and Structure

Ernest Hemingway once described courage as "grace under pressure." Do you agree or disagree with his definition based on an analysis of the narrator's mother? || 30

NWEA Testing || Oct. 1

Grammar: [|Independent and dependent clauses]

Read "The Monkey's Paw" p.24-34

Language Study: Analogies || 2

NWEA Testing || 3

Vocabulary Quiz

Text Analysis: Plot structure

Writing: Narrative ||
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[|Vocabulary]

Finish reading "The Monkey's Paw" Summary: p. 24-29 “The Monkey’s Paw” W.W. Jacobs

As the story begins, Mr. and Mrs. White are at home with their son. Father and son are playing chess and the father seems to be expecting a visitor. That visitor, a sergeant major arrives. The visitor tells of his adventures in India. The most important story relates to a monkey’s paw, which is supposed the owner three wishes. He wishes for 200 £. || 7

NWEA Testing || 8

Grammar: Subjects, predicates, objects

p. 36 of Pearson text Practice A

Review plot structure

Write narrative: p.37 of Pearson text || 9

Meet with writing group and use P-Q-S to revise || 10

Vocabulary Quiz

Finish narrative ||
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[|Vocabulary]

Review rules for punctuating dialogue.

Meet with writing group and use P-Q-S to revise narrative

Discuss citation rules || 14

Finish vocabulary.

Conflict: Identify three different conflicts that arise for the Whites after they encounter the paw. As each is resolved, are the Whites in better or worse condition than before? Would a wish to eliminate all conflict have improved their lives? Cite details from the story to explain your answers.

Grammar: punctuating dialogue || 15

Read Anton Chekhov's "A Problem"

Discuss p. 75--theme of unit Can progress be made without conflict? || 16

Grammar: Verb tense p. 76 of Pearson text

Read Saki's "The Open Window" || 17

Vocabulary Quiz

Groups review pieces read and compare/contrast how the authors handle the concepts of truth, deception, conflict, etc. ||
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[|Literary devices]

Finish compare/contrast together || 21

Begin [|web quest]finding information on John Steinbeck and // Of Mice and Men. // || 22

Continue Web quest || 23

Work on web quest

Discuss idioms and other lit. terms || 24

Literary Devices Quiz

Work on web quest ||
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Present information from web quest.

[|Audience notes] || 28

Begin novel and novel packet

Read Ch.1 || 29

[|Ch. 1 Questions and Writing]

Ch. 2 || 30

Ch. 3 || 31

Quiz

Complete character analysis and chapter reflections ||