October 9-13

It's PSAT week for juniors; be sure to note the change in schedule for Wednesday morning.  Here's what we'll be doing in English class: 

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up.  (Hearing test for Monday A Day.)  Talk about Santa Ana Winds and the annotating suggestions from the weekend reading.  Pass back Carter Rhetorical Analysis, and walk through the steps to answer a rhetorical analysis essay prompt about it.  Pass back Kaepernick assignment.  Definitions: paradox, metaphor, simile.  Figurative language group challenge.  

Due: at the end of the period, please leave journals in the bin for grading.  Unless noted, each entry should be a full page except for the first week of school.  For absences, please just mark the date, and put the word "absent" next to it.

Please read pages 4- 10 in the Close Reading packet, including Joan Didion's Santa Ana Winds.  Please annotate it yourself in your current annotation style in the Close Reading packet on page 6.  Then, read the information about annotating on pages 7-10.

How can you sharpen your reading and annotating skills?  Be ready to discuss. 

Homework for Thursday/Friday: Read Death of the Moth from the Close Reading Packet and annotate it. Though this is a short passage, it's challenging.  What conclusions about life does Woolf's speaker come to in this piece?  Can you identify any rhetorical devices that help her make a statement about the nature of human life?


WEDNESDAY: (PSAT Schedule - no Late Start today, classes are 50 minutes long.) Journal warm-up. Vocab Story Rounds.


Due: n/a

Homework: (for Friday, same as Monday's homework): Read Death of the Moth from the Close Reading Packet and annotate it. Though this is a short passage, it's challenging.  What conclusions about life does Woolf's speaker come to in this piece?  Can you identify any rhetorical devices that help her make a statement about the nature of human life?


THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Quiz covering vocab, grammar, figurative language.  Class discussion about Death of the Moth.  Notes: definition of satire and how to write about it. Read Groucho Marx's letter,  other written and video samples of satire.

Due:  Read Death of the Moth from the Close Reading Packet and annotate it. Though this is a short passage, it's challenging.  What conclusions about life does Woolf's speaker come to in this piece?  Can you identify any rhetorical devices that help her make a statement about the nature of human life?

Homework:

1. Read and annotate 2 rhetorical analysis prompts.

2. Decide which one you'll want to work with and write into a full essay.