Lots of different things to get done today:
1. 15 minute to read your second Life Studies book--due December 10, 2012.
OBJECTIVE: Relate the person in our second life studies book to ourselves and to the person in our first life studies book. What can we learn from these people?
2. Write a character sketch over the person your book features.
OBJECTIVE: Practice the skills of direct and indirect characterization, as we talked about with The Crucible.
3. Begin Vocabulary Unit #10
OBJECTIVE: To learn four new Greek/Latin roots, as follows:
CRIMIN: decriminalize, incriminate, recrimination
CULP: culpable, culprit, mea culpa
ONUS/ONER: onerous, onus, exonerate
PROB/PROV: approbation, reprobate, reprove
CCSS: L.11-12.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases using a range of strategies.
4. Begin The Crucible Act I Character Sketch
OBJECTIVE: Accurately portray our characters from The Crucible through quotes, descriptions and symbols.
CCSS: RL.11-12.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including where the text leaves matters uncertain. RL.11-12.3: Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g. how the characters are introduced and developed).
1. 15 minute to read your second Life Studies book--due December 10, 2012.
OBJECTIVE: Relate the person in our second life studies book to ourselves and to the person in our first life studies book. What can we learn from these people?
2. Write a character sketch over the person your book features.
OBJECTIVE: Practice the skills of direct and indirect characterization, as we talked about with The Crucible.
3. Begin Vocabulary Unit #10
OBJECTIVE: To learn four new Greek/Latin roots, as follows:
CRIMIN: decriminalize, incriminate, recrimination
CULP: culpable, culprit, mea culpa
ONUS/ONER: onerous, onus, exonerate
PROB/PROV: approbation, reprobate, reprove
CCSS: L.11-12.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases using a range of strategies.
4. Begin The Crucible Act I Character Sketch
OBJECTIVE: Accurately portray our characters from The Crucible through quotes, descriptions and symbols.
CCSS: RL.11-12.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including where the text leaves matters uncertain. RL.11-12.3: Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g. how the characters are introduced and developed).
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