Thursday, November 18, 2010

Day 32 (11.19.10) A Day

Objective:
Students will be able to:
identify and explain figurative language;
read and explicate literary works;
practice with pronouns.

Class Activities
  • On Paper: Warm Up with Sentence Models
  • On Blackboard: Daily Homework Log
  • On Blackboard: Daily Drill
  • Independent reading
  • Pronoun packets
  • Read: Perseus (finish accompanying independent reading packets)
  • Video: Greek Tragedy and Greek Gods
Homework:

N/A

Work Collected in Class:
    • Dialy Drill 4
    • Independent reading packet: Parts 3-7
    • Perseus  Reading Packet: Parts 8-16


TEKS: 2 (C) relate the characters, setting, and theme of a literary work to the historical, social, and economic ideas of its time; 5 (A) analyze how complex plot structures (e.g. subplots) and devices (e.g. foreshadowing, flashbacks, suspense) function and advance the action in a work of fiction; 17(A) use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: iii. reciprocal pronouns; 17(C)use a variety of correctly structured sentences; 20(A) use conventions of capitalization; 20(B) use correct punctuation marks.