Identify and analyze point of view

• Analyze character traits and motivation

• Identify different types of characters

• Understand the methods writers use to develop characters

• Analyze and compare characterization in a variety of texts

• Make inferences and draw conclusions

• Make generalizations

• Monitor strategies while reading

• Recognize main ideas and supporting details

• Interpret graphic aids

• Write a compare-and-contrast essay; cite evidence

• Use supporting and descriptive details; use precise adjectives

• Vary sentence beginnings by using phrases and clauses

• Use knowledge of word origins to help unlock meaning

• Determine correct usage and meaning of multiple-meaning

words and specialized vocabulary

• character motives • first-person point of view

• character traits • third-person point of view

(omniscient or limited) • static • dynamic •

Flat • round • character development

Condiments

Degenerate

Benign

Crass

Steel

Rabid

Prospects

Incessantly

Vexation

Pauper

Adulation

Disconsolate

Aghast

Gamut

Privation

Askew

Cascade

Clarity

Homely

Illiteracy

Infuse

leer

Sacrilegious

Taut

Frenetically

Protégé

Reverie

Exhortation

Serene

Retrieve

Quick Write

Finish Grammar!!

Do "Before Reading" activity in journal

"Pancakes" p. 192, (n class reading)

-Small groups will do in-depth analysis

**HW: respond to question #7 p. 203 in complete paragraphs -10 pts.; Due Tuesday.

Finish "Pancakes" discussion

Do pre-reading activity p. 206, write and discuss

Review author information about Maupassant and background info about "The Necklace"

Review "character motivation"

**HW: Read "The Necklace" p. 207 and "Spending Spree" p. 221 Do question #7 p. 218 – 10 pts.

Discuss "The Necklace"

Mini lesson on varying sentence structures (grammar notes)

Begin drafting "prompt B" p. 220; Informal Write #2

** HW: complete rough draft min. 5 paragraphs -10 pts.

Mini lesson: using evidence to support assertions in writing

Practice with varying sentence structure

Revising in class, conferencing

**Polished draft due Friday – 25 points

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Quick write activity p. 236

Discuss lit analysis concepts p. 237

Mini lesson: Using precise adjectives and adjective clauses

Read "I Know Why…" p. 235, finish for hw

**HW: Do question #6, complete paragraph – 10 pts.

Discuss "I Know Why…"

Do "Quick write" activity p. 250

Read "Blind to Failure" p. 252 & "A Different Level of Competition" p. 265

Mini lesson: how to identify the main idea and how to write summary

Write summary in class of "A Different Level…" 15 points

**HW: Read the excerpt from Rosa Parks p. 275 and the poem "Rosa"

Discuss selections

Mini lesson: compare & contrast writing

Do pre-writing activity to choose a topic

**HW: bring a typed or neatly written paper proposal. Explain what you will be comparing and contrasting and what you expect the focus of the essay to be.

Focus on prepositional phrases: 68A – in class

Lesson on pre-writing techniques for c/c writing: Y Chart

Complete a "Y Chart" for essay

Lesson on c/c thesis writing

Begin drafting

Return & discuss problems with summaries

Drafting c/c essay

***Complete rough draft due Monday – 10 pts.

-mini lesson: how to peer edit, practice with model papers

-work in peer edit groups

Independent reading