NOTE for 4th period: Due to the assembly on Friday, 4th period will participate in the Gallery Walk and Grapes of Wrath Intro before discussing the Chapter One questions.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Collect homework. Definition of rhetoric, Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle. Review of the simile, metaphor, personification (figurative language). Dialects in The Grapes of Wrath activity. Note that there will be Grapes of Wrath reading questions on the Friday quiz as well as vocabulary, grammar, and summer reading questions.
Due:
- Signature page of syllabus
- Signed Turnitin.com permission form
- Get supplies for class (notebook with tabs per syllabus)
- Read Chapter One of The Grapes of Wrath and answer the Chapter One questions on the handout.
Homework: Read Grapes of Wrath Chapter 5. While you're reading, find and write down at least 2 examples of effective/original figurative language that you're ready to share next class. (Similes, metaphors, personification.) Also, find one more example of figurative language outside of the book (that you overhear or create).
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz. Finish dialect activity. Discuss Chapter 5 in class and evaluate Steinbeck's purpose and effectiveness. Introduce the Setting the Stage project. Read Chapter 2 out loud in class and act it out.
Due: Read Grapes of Wrath Chapter 5. While you're reading, find and write down at least 2 examples of effective/original figurative language that you're ready to share next class. (Similes, metaphors, personification.) Also, find one more example of figurative language outside of the book (that you overhear or create).
Homework:
Choose an option and begin the Setting the Stage project - due next Monday, September 19.
5th only: Please finish Chapter 2 and read Chapter 7. Are there businesses and industries that still work this way?
4th and 6th only: Please read Chapter 2 and get an introduction to Tom Joad.
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