ENGLISH 11A THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK Please sit in same seat from yesterday. Please also set out your name card.

Agenda O Textbook Introduction – O Reading Strategies and Practice O Policy review O Grammar Packs – some assembly required O Review Parts of Speech O Pledge of Allegiance O Journals O Learning Targets: O I will use a reading strategy to improve my ability to understand and retain information. O I will know where important elements are in my textbook.

Textbook Overview O What? O Where? O How? O Work through the Textbook overview.

English 11A: Thursday, Sept. 5 O Agenda O Openings O Inferences O Reading Strategy O Grammar Introduction and Overview O Openings (Class starters) – put into Journal – O May be a journal – please number and put date at top. O May be a grammar item – to copy down and correct. O May be a discussion point

Opening O Compose a sentence about one of your classes. The sentence must be at least 10 words long.

Opening Continued O Compose a sentence about one of your classes. The sentence must be at least 10 words long. O For this sentence, underline and label any phrase you recognize and label its type. O Prepositional (starts with a preposition) O Infinitive (start with “to” plus a verb – to sing) O Gerund (ing form of a verb used as a noun) O Participial (ing or past participial form of a verb used as an adjective) O Appositive (used to rename or describe a noun) O For examples, look at pages 4-6. O Learning Target: To review phrase types and to determine which come most naturally in your writing.

INFERENCES O YESwhat is basis? O Red Wings O Music O To read O Teacher?? O Organized - O Works Hard O Stuffed animals O Motivated O Teaches upper classmen O CMU/WMU O Motherly O Prepared O NO - what is basis? O Cooking O Divorced O New glasses O Smelly markers O Gorilla O Fans

Class Policies and Norms O Review the page of policies on the table O What does each mean for this class? O What questions do you have? O Norms – expectations O What should be expected of each person in the room during class? O What should be expected of the teacher during class?

Reading O Reading Strategies: O Chart – what are the implications? O Why do some people “dislike” or “struggle with” reading? O What do people who say they are good readers do? O Practice Strategy O Learning Target – I will use a specific reading strategy to improve my ability to read efficiently and retain what I have read.

Friday, Sept. 6 O Opening: Journal 1 – Please take out your journal or a piece of paper and do the journal below. O Put Journal 1 and today’s date. Then answer the following. Your answer should be at least half a page or longer. O Define Human Tragedy. Give 3 specific examples and explain why each is a human tragedy.

Strategy – Close Reading O Divide article in thirds O For each section O Read through it O Underline 3-4 words/phrases/sentences that seem important to you. O Circle any word/phrase you do not understand. O At end of each section O look at what you underlined and on right side – write a 1 sentence summary of that section. O On left side – make a comment about the material, connect it to your own experience, or ask a question about what was said. O Discuss

Agenda O Debrief Reading Article O Applications O Grammar Pages 4-5 O Notes – from Text O Intro to Tragic Hero O Overview of Oedipus

Homework O Complete pages 4-5 as directed. O Read p For each section, “Sophocles,” “Oedipus Rex,” “The Greek Theater,” “The Story of Oedipus,” and “The Structure and Themes of the Play” label it and take notes. Be sure to have at least 2 ideas from each section. At the end of your notes, write down 3 questions (Total) – either that you have or that could be asked about the whole part you have read.