ECAP today! Don’t forget-Annotated Bibliography Set #1 (2 articles) due Friday 11:59 pm Stack your journals on the front table, please  WERE YOU ABSENT LAST THUR/FRI AND DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DID? SEE ME. Monday 8/28

Tuesday 8/29 Vocab Letter E Efficacy-noun- power to produce effects or intended results; effectiveness Example: The medicine had the efficacy to reduce the horrendous swelling the minion was feeling. ABSENT YESTERDAY? WE DID ECAP. Tuesday 8/29

In a well-developed paragraph, utilize vivid and connotative words to describe an AP student who forgot their homework. Circle three vivid words and use 1 example of parallel structure. Wednesday 8/30

“How well I recollect the kind of day it was “How well I recollect the kind of day it was! I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar frost, ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon their fingers, and tap their feet upon the floor” (Charles Dickens) Hoar frost-white ice crystals; rimy-covered with frost; wreathing-twisting like a wreath 1. Chart the words that help you know the room is cold vs dark 2. What is a sputtering candle? How does it help you understand the feeling of the whole room? Thur/Fri 8/31-9/1

Objective: Analyze the metaphor Plato uses to convey his idea; defend your response with evidence. Read & highlight key ideas Be able to answer: what is the metaphor & parts of the metaphor Plato uses? What is his main argument? Allegory of the Cave

“People who live in Tornado Alley know when tornadoes are likely to form. The first sign is thunderclouds building in the distance. These can be spotted by their anvil tops. From a distance, the clouds bulge out on top. This shows that the updrafts in the cloud are very strong, so the storm may be a powerful supercell.” (Storm Warning: Tornadoes). 1. This is informational text which utilizes precise terms. Sketch a picture of clouds with anvil tops. 2. Why is anvil more effective than flat top? 3. What stronger, more precise adjective can you change out “very strong” for? Tuesday 9/5

Utilizing vivid diction, and TWO vocabulary words, describe your ride to school (remember, if you are bored, we are bored, unless that’s the tone you really are trying to convey, in which case, your word choice should definitely SHOW that) Wednesday 9/6

Choose two contrasting ideas (cold, hot; dark, light; justice, injustice; etc). Write 2-3 sentences with vivid words that contrast the two ideas in a setting. (see exercise from last block day). Highlight in TWO colors-the words that contrast Thurs/Fri 9/7-8