1. ENGLISH I January 6, 2015

2. Week 18 Grammar pattern: ◦ Use commas to separate appositives. An appositive is a noun or pronoun that is placed next to another noun to rename it. Examples: A lawyer, Mr. Phelps, took my case. Mrs. Jones, my teacher, assigns too much homework.

3. Ecstatically Definition and Part of Speech of Word: Adv- feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. Your own sentence using the word: Definition of Root: Sta, Stat, Sist: to stand, or make stand Other words with root:

4. Sentence Correction The day before Winter break my girlfriend and I saw Stephen King the famous author walking down the street and she ecstatically called his name.

5. Sentence Correction The day before Winter break, my girlfriend and I saw Stephen King, the famous author, walking down the street, and she ecstatically called his name.

6. Updates ◦ Use your calendar to write down important dates! ◦ 1 st -5 th : Summaries due on Turnitin.com. Due date is Wednesday but I will not count it late until Friday ◦ 1 st -5 th : Remember to be working on your Unit 3 Multi-Genre projects which are due January 20 ◦ ALL CLASSES: Any make-up work is due to me January 16. This is a Friday, no exceptions. Grammar Worksheets and other sheets can be found on my website ◦ Turn in bathroom passes that are unused to get extra credit. 10 points per pass for classwork, quiz, or hw.

7. Homework ◦ 1 st -5 th : Read Chapter 23 and summarize. Use your TKAM packet pg. 3!!! ◦ 6 th : Read Chapter 11 and summarize. Use your TKAM packet pg. 3!!!

8. 1 st -5 th : Agenda ◦ Warm Up with new format introduction ◦ Go over grammar pattern and vocab word and complete the Tuesday portion of the grammar worksheet ◦ Go over homework and updates ◦ Go over Unit 3 Project in more detail with examples ◦ Begin discussing theme vs. main idea with notes and practice with Aesop’s fables on notes sheet ◦ TKAM Theme Exercise: In groups, students will be assigned a theme and need to find six instances of the theme in the book. Students will then create posters in their group. Homebound students need only to find six instances of one theme. This will carry on into Tuesday. Directions on notes sheet

13. TKAM Themes (Homebound Students choose one!) 1.A person’s race has implications in their life. 2.Courage and bravery can come in many forms. 3.You can never understand a person until you walk a mile in their shoes. 4.Prejudice and bigotry exists in most people and can have real consequences.

14. 6 th :Agenda ◦ Warm Up with new format introduction ◦ Go over grammar pattern and vocab word and complete the Tuesday portion of the grammar worksheet ◦ Go over homework and updates ◦ Review literary devices learned using poems from before break to activate prior knowledge ◦ Complete literary devices scavenger hunt together as a class with some independent work time

15. Guess the literary device…. “I rode with Robert E. Lee, For three years…” ◦ Pick One ◦ Idiom ◦ Irony ◦ Allusion

16. Guess the literary device…. “I've seen my buddy lying, Where he fell, I've watched him dying ◦ Pick One ◦ Idiom ◦ Imagery ◦ Personification

17. Guess the literary device…. “ When all those foreign folks who've waited-- Italians, Chinese, Danes--are liberated Will I still be ill-fated Because I'm black?” ◦ Pick One ◦ Irony ◦ Onomatopoeia ◦ Personification

18. Guess the literary device…. “ARGHHHHHH …..fosake this unfair country” ◦ Pick One ◦ Irony ◦ Onomatopoeia ◦ Personification

19. Guess the literary device…. “I told myself this is the end of my trouble, but I didn’t believe myself. ◦ Pick One ◦ Foreshado wing ◦ Irony ◦ Imagery

20. Guess the literary device…. “Or will you stand up like a man.” ◦ Pick One ◦ Hyperbole ◦ Idiom ◦ Imagery

21. Guess the literary device…. ”Forget knocking it out of the park, Frank can knock a baseball off the continent.” ◦ Pick One ◦ Hyperbole ◦ Irony ◦ Onomatopoeia

22. Now we will conduct a scavenger hunt…..

23. ENGLISH I January 7, 2014

24. Contact Definition and Part of Speech of Word: N-interaction, communication, physically touching Your own sentence using the word: Definition of Root: Tac-: to touch Other words with root:

25. Sentence Correction The breathless sweaty private shouted, “Sir Lieutenant Johnson we’ve made contact with the aliens!”

26. 1 st -5 th : Agenda ◦ Warm Up, go over sentence and new vocabulary word ◦ Complete Tuesday portion of grammar worksheet and review ◦ 20 minutes to continue finding instances of theme ◦ Have students post their instances around the room ◦ Have students complete a gallery walk by picking their three favorite instances of theme and recording them

27. 6 th : Agenda ◦ Warm Up, go over sentence and new vocabulary word ◦ Complete Tuesday portion of grammar worksheet and review ◦ Continue working on scavenger hunt worksheet as a class

28. Homework ◦ 1 st -5 th : Read Chapter 24 and summarize ◦ 6 th : Read Chapter 11 and summarize

29. ENGLISH I January 8, 2014

30. abstain Definition and Part of Speech of Word: (V)-To hold oneself back; voluntarily do without; refrain (from); Your own sentence using the word: Definition of Root: Ten, Tent, Tain: to hold Other words with root:

31. Sentence Correction Loretta the young athletic girl loved to run jump and play and she never abstained from swimming.

32. 1 st -5 th : Agenda ◦ Warm up and vocab review ◦ Complete and go over Thursday portion of Grammar Sheet ◦ SWRP ◦ As practice for their project, students will work in groups to create an edition of the Maycomb Tribune and practice converting genres. ◦ Have students analyze a newspaper with a newspaper analysis worksheet and newspaper ◦ After they analyze a newspaper, they can begin their Maycomb Tribune Mini-Project with sheet attached

33. 6 th : Agenda ◦ Warm up and vocab review ◦ Complete and go over Thursday portion of Grammar Sheet ◦ Post pictures on board to activate students’ knowledge of what is happening in the novel so far ◦ Read Ch. 12 as a class and complete question sheet attached

34. Homework ◦ 1 st -5 th : Read Chapter 25 and summarize ◦ 6 th : Read Chapter 13 and summarize

37. Tom Robinson

38. Mrs. Dubose

39. Calpurnia

40. ENGLISH I January 9, 2014

41. Warm Up Quiz 18 1.Write a sentence that uses the stem, “tac”. THEN, define the word using the root definition. 2.Which vocabulary word means to hold oneself back? Abstain or Ecstatic? 3.What does the root, Sta, Stat, Sist, mean? 4.Re-write the sentence below and add an APPOSITIVE to a noun. Remember to use the correct punctuation! (Counts double points) Mr. Roberts was an effective teacher in his school.

42. 1 st -5 th : Agenda ◦ Complete Friday portion of warm up ◦ Warm Up Quiz ◦ Begin to plan, write, and create group article for the Maycomb Tribune.

43. 6 th: Agenda ◦ Complete Friday portion of warm up ◦ Complete Chapter 13 Pre-Questions ◦ Read and complete discussions for Chapter 14

44. Homework ◦ 1 st -5 th : Read Chapter 26 and summarize and have completed rough draft of article ◦ 6 th : Read Chs. 15 and 16 and summarize