• Analyze stages of plot and plot development

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Identify and analyze conflict and its complications

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Analyze narrative techniques, including foreshadowing,

irony, and suspense

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Use reading strategies, including predicting and visualizing

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Recognize sequence and cause-and-effect relationships

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Make inferences and draw conclusions

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Synthesize information from multiple texts

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Write a personal narrative

• Use realistic dialogue, descriptive details, and realistic characters to achieve a purpose

• Use precise verbs and modifiers; prepositional phrases

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Identify the aesthetic qualities of film and evaluate

the techniques used to create them

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Use word roots to help unlock meaning

• Use synonyms and antonyms to understand meanings of words

Pre-test_____________________________

Reflection:____________________________

• Note taking using Cornell Notes

• complications • plot

• conflict • suspense

• foreshadowing • synthesis

• irony • allusion

Annihilate

correlate

expendable

infinitesimally

malfunctioning

paradox

resilient

stagnating

subliminal

undulate

disclaimer

inhospitable

insubordinate

misnomer

noncommittal

plagiarized

agile

assertion

chronicle

coveted

falter

instigate

prudence

ransack

ravage

vestibule

cadence

inaudibly

increment

inept

inexplicably

optimal

trepidation

unequivocal

Latin root mal; pre-fix in

Greek root chron

Word family aud

Overview of Course

Distribution of syllabus

Quick Write

Distribution of Unit One Guide

Quick Write

Focus on the text

Summer reading test. You must bring your summer reading book to class in order to document and support what you say.

Assign independent reading (1 book every 3 weeks; minimum 150 pages; TKAM counts as the first book)

1^st period: Library orientation

PowerPoint. on Cornell Notes

PowerPoint. on the "Big Questions"

p. 22 Quick Write

Grammar diagnostic test and book assignment

Vocab introduction

Quick write

Focus on plot stages, conflict, and flashback

Practice lit analysis "Checkouts" pp. 28; finish for homework. Answer the close reading questions, 1-10.

Preview: "Sound of Thunder." Assign by groups:

1. Cretaceous period
2. Interdependence of organisms
3. Domino or "butterfly" effect in various contexts
4. Time travel in literature and movies

Do "quick write" p. 32

Discuss close read questions pp. 28-31

Focus on foreshadowing

Begin reading "Sound of Thunder" p. 34/ preview vocabulary. (not in online book)

Finish reading for hw. Do questions #7 and 8 page 48. Responses must be in complete paragraphs. 10 points

All quick writes due

Discussion of "A Sound of Thunder"

MLA packet and worksheet

Read "The Physics of Time Travel" p. 51

Do PROMPT B p. 50. Rough draft due Wednesday; essay graded on use of 5 paragraph essay format and use of support from the text.

Grammar Review

Vocabulary focus for "TMDG"

When to use a five paragraph essay

What is a thesis?

Do: "Big Question Activity" p. 52 about survival

Focus on conflict, rising action, foreshadowing

Begin reading "The Most Dangerous Game" in class.

Distribute TKAM: Due September 14

"Most Dangerous Game" due

Discussion

Discuss generation gap question, p. 78

Focus on "character" and "inference:

Read "Daughter of Invention" p. 80; finish for homework (not in online book)

Focus: "irony" and "omniscient POV"

Read "The Gift of the Magi" p. 96

Do questions #5 and 7 in paragraph length responses 10 points (due Friday)

* remember that #5 must ultimately be a paragraph

Or

Do questions 8 and 11 from "Daughter of Invention" p. 91.

Each answer to each question should be a full paragraph.

Quick writes due

Responses to "G of M" or "D of I" due

Quiz over "Sound of Thunder" and "Most Dangerous Game"

Grammar exercises: Due at end of period, but can be turned in on Monday

Grammar: Do all the "A" exercises on the following pages in Grammar for Writing:

8, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 25, 28, 29.

Return essays. Discuss problems or strategies for improvement. You may revise if you received a grade of B or below.

Quick write – "Self-analysis of your paper"

Finish grammar

Quick write: "present" activity for the question "What Makes A Winner?" p. 120

Preview vocabulary and read excerpt from "Seabiscuit"

What constitutes a writer’s style?

Analysis of Hillenbrand’s style

Discuss the use of literary techniques in nonfiction writing (suspense)

Focus: synthesis

Read the nonfiction pieces about Seabiscuit pp. 133-136; Write a 250-300 word essay comparing and contrasting Hillenbrand’s account with the account in the radio transcript.-25 points

Do Media Study (the basics) p. 106-109

Finish "media study"

Read the excerpt from "On Writing" p. 165

Begin "Writing Workshop" p. 168; analyze the student model

Do writing prompt #1 page 168; prewriting activity p. 171

Do drafting worksheet (unit guide p. 248) for hw. Completion 10 pts.

Selection and vocabulary quiz

Using precise, active verbs

Drafting essays – rough draft due Tuesday

Use "revising and editing" guide p. 173 to "peer edit" drafts

Focus on "punctuating dialogue"

Do practice for unit test pp. 176-181; go over answers and self-grade

Computer lab finishing drafts

Reading Day: TKAM