Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes figurative language including: idiom, imagery, and symbolism (11.1.2.K4), determines word meanings through knowledge of word structure: Greek and Latin roots and prefixes and suffixes (11.1.3.k3), uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions (11.1.4.K5), compares/contrasts textual aspects: character traits, themes, character motives, and author's purpose (11.1.4.K7), analyzes and evaluates how the author's style (word choice and sentence structure) and use of literary devices work together to achieve his/her purpose by using tone, mood, and imagery (11.1.4.K11d, e, and h).
End of the 1st quarter on Thursday - Any student having a question about his/her grade should stop by and see me before or after school. Let's get things taken care of before anything becomes official.
Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):- derm - skin - dermatologist, epidermis, taxidermy
- micro - small - microscope, microcosm, microbiology
- ocu - eye - binoculars, inoculate, ocular
- sci - knowledge - science, conscious, omniscient
- therm - heat - thermometer, thermostat, endothermic
- vis, vid - to see - video, visual, revise, review
This week is a week of reviewing, testing, and previewing. We'll review expository and poetic text structures Monday and Tuesday. We're doing all of this review in preparation for our district-wide testing day on Wednesday. Students will either report for the PSAT (if they signed up for it) or the KS Reading Assessment. Students will receive their room assignments on Tuesday during Advisory. On Thursday, we'll discuss the end of the 1st quarter and preview our next major essay unit: the Problem/Solution Research Essay. We'll wrap up the week with a much-deserved three-day weekend.
- Mon: New root words. Debrief from last week. Expository review: "Did Chess Make Him Go Crazy?" Read, discuss, and complete in-class assignment.
- Tues: Poetry review - read and discuss Poe's "The Raven." Complete in-class assignment by the end of the hour.
- Wed: District testing day - report to assigned room and take either the PSAT or the KSRA
- Thurs: Root Words quiz. Preview the Problem/Solution Research Essay
- Fri: No school - end of the 1st Quarter
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