Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes figurative language including: simile, metaphor, idiom, analogy, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, imagery, and symbolism (11.1.2.K4a-i), compares/contrasts textual aspects: character traits (11.1.4.K7a), compare/contrasts textual aspects: character motives (11.1.4.K7h), compares/contrasts textual aspects: author's purpose (11.1.4.K7i), 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), and analyzes contextual aspects of setting and their influence on characters and events in the story including the contexts of history, society, and culture (11.2.1.K2a-c).
During this short week, we'll reflect on where we are at this point and continue our readings for Huck Finn. In chapters 17 and 18, the focus of Tuesday's assignment, Huck will find himself in the middle of two feuding families. Once again he'll have an adventure Tom Sawyer would have envied; however, once again Huck will see things he will wish he'd never seen.
- Mon: Pass back papers and progress reports. Preview the rest of the semester. For Tuesday - read Chapters 17 and 18 in Huck Finn.
- Tues: Huck Finn - quiz over Ch 17 - 18; complete 17 - 18 study guide by the end of the hour. For Tuesday, 11/30 - read Ch 19 - 23, pgs 117 - 156.
- Wed: No school - Thanksgiving Break
- Thurs: Happy Thanksgiving!
- Fri: No school - Thanksgiving Break
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