Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Day 36 (12.9.10) B Day

Objective:
Students will be able to:
practice writing a new style of sentence; read and explicate literary works;
practice with previously taught class material.

Class Activities
  • On Blackboard: Daily Homework Log
  • Warm-Up: Independent Reading Packets 6-7
  • Finish Independent reading packet for "Perseus"
  • Video: "Clash of the Titans"
    • Comparative Analysis/Media Unit
Homework:
  1. DUE on Today (12.9.10) B Day: Independent reading packets parts 6-7.
  2. DUE on Monday (12.13.10) B Day: Sentence Model 6 Notes (Posted on Blackboard)
  3. DUE on Monday (12.13.10) B Day: Independent Reading Packet on Library Novel (Parts 8-10.)
Work Collected in Class:
    • Perseus  Reading Packet: All Remaining Parts
    • Independent Reading Packets: Parts 6-7


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.