Week at a glance Jan 24 - 28, 2011

Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes the use of figurative language (11.1.K3), uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions (11.1.4.K5), compares/contrasts themes in texts (11.1.4.K7b), compares/contrasts author's use of literary devices (11.1.4.K7k), uses paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize underlying meaning of the text (11.1.4.K9e), analyzes and evaluates how an author's style work together to achieve purpose: irony, symbolism, tone, mood, imagery, allusion (11.1.4.K11c, d, e, f, h, and j), and analyzes contextual aspects of setting: historical, social, cultural (11.2.1.K2).

Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):

1. cad/cide - to fall - accident, coincidence, deciduous
   
2. geno - creation - genesis, genetics, genocide
   
3. meta/muta - change - mutate, metamorphosis, metabolism
   
4. somn - sleep - insomnia, somnolent, somniloquacious
   
5. vor - eat - voracious, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore

This week is a transition week. We finally begin our 2nd semester root words, we wrap up our unit over American poetry, and we preview our next major unit: the Career Project. We'll start the week with a look at modernism and surrealism in American poetry. We'll analyze how writers like Pound, Williams, and Eliot used free verse to show us their ideas. On Wednesday, we'll begin the American Poem assignment, in which students will compose their own free verse American Poem. We'll wrap up the week with a root words quiz, an opportunity to share students' American Poems, and a preview of the Career Project.

• Mon: New root words - quiz on Friday. American Poetry - Modernism and Surrealism. Read and discuss Pound and Williams; begin discussing Eliot.
  
• Tues: American Poetry - finish Eliot discussion. Begin Modernism and Surrealism assignment.
  
• Wed: American Poetry - Modernism and Surrealism assignment due by the end of the hour. American Poem assigned, due Friday.
  
• Thurs: American Poem - workday in class.
  
• Fri: Root words quiz. American Poem final draft due by the end of the hour. Preview Career Project assignment.