2/26/10
In class:
TCAP review
Homework:
1. Project due Tuesday, March 2nd
2/25/10
In class:
TCAP review
Homework:
1. pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
inadvertently (ch. 25, pg. 332)
revelation(ch. 25, pg. 333)
feral(ch. 26, pg. 348)
arbitrary(ch. 26, pg. 355)
insidious(ch. 27, pg. 365)
rapport(ch. 27, pg. 367)
segue(ch. 27, pg. 368)
palpable(ch. 27, pg. 373)
2. Project due Tuesday, March 2nd
2/23/10
In class:
TCAP review
Homework:
1. Finish The Hunger Games
2. pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
inadvertently (ch. 25, pg. 332)
revelation(ch. 25, pg. 333)
feral(ch. 26, pg. 348)
arbitrary(ch. 26, pg. 355)
insidious(ch. 27, pg. 365)
rapport(ch. 27, pg. 367)
segue(ch. 27, pg. 368)
palpable(ch. 27, pg. 373)
3. Project due Tuesday, March 2nd
2/19/10
In class:
TCAP review
Read ch. 20 of The Hunger Games out loud
Homework:
1. Read ch. 21-24 of The Hunger Games
2. pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
incoherence(276) forte(ch. 21), exorbitant(ch. 22), unhinged(324), dissonant(ch.329)
3. Project due March 2nd (must be turned in before we leave on the field trip!!)
2/18/10
In class:
DGP
TCAP Review
Quiz over The Hunger Games
Homework:
1. Read ch. 19 of The Hunger Games
2. pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
scrupulous (249) and levity (253)
2/12/10
In class:
Work on participles and gerunds
Quiz over The Hunger Games
Homework:
1. Finish participle & gerund worksheet
2. Read ch. 15-18 of The Hunger Games
3. pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
Surreal(ch.15), dexterity(218), subsequent(225), despondency(238)
2/11/10
In class:
Work on gerunds
Vocab test
Homework:
1. Finish gerund worksheet
2. Read ch. 14 of The Hunger Games
3. pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following: reprieve
2/4/10
In class:
Foreign word/phrase: E pluribus unum
Idiom: don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Work on participles
Read ch. 12 out loud
Homework:
1. Finish ch. 12 and read ch. 13 of The Hunger Games
2. Vocabulary test Tues. 2/9/10
3. Finish participle worksheet
4. Look up foreign phrase and idiom
1/28/10
In class:
Foreign word/phrase: faux pas
Idiom: backseat driver
Practice essay for the TCAP writing assessment
Read ch. 11 out loud
Homework:
1. Finish ch. 11 of The Hunger Games
pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
salvation(149) and brutish
1/26/10
In class:
DGP
Foreign word/phrase: faux pas
Idiom: back seat driver
Go over vocabulary words
Quiz over The Hunger Games
Begin reading ch. 9 of The Hunger Games
Homework:
1. Finish reading ch. 9 and read ch. 10 of The Hunger Games
2. pg. #, book sentence, def, & your own sentence for the following: banal(115), elusive(ch. 9), & ruminate(142)
1/21/10
In class:
DGP
Score sample essay for 5 paragraph essay writing
Begin reading ch. 7 of The Hunger Games
Homework:
1. Finish reading ch. 7 and read ch. 8 of The Hunger Games
2. pg. #, book sentence, def, & your own sentence for the following: emaciated(86), arduous(ch.8), & leniency(ch.8)
1/19/10
In class:
DGP
Foreign word/phrase: du jour
Idiom: devil’s advocate
Continue poetry (life metaphors and finding examples of figurative language)
Work on poetry assignment
Begin reading ch. 6 of The Hunger Games
Homework:
For the poem “Lure” do the following:
1. Label the rhyme scheme
2. Find one example of an internal rhyme, assonance, and simile
3. Write your own free verse life metaphor (examples found on the same handout as the poem “Lure”)
4. Translate "du jour" and "devil’s advocate"
5. Finish reading ch. 6
6. pg. number, book sentence, def, and your own sentence for the following: barbarism(74) & adversaries(79)
vocabulary due next Tues, 1/26
1/15/10
In class:
Foreign word/phrase: bon voyage
Idiom: make no bones about it
Notes over sound device (alliteration, assonance, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, slant rhyme, repetition)
Label rhyme scheme of poem
Homework:
1. Read ch. 4 & 5 of The Hunger Games
pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
oblivion(54) – ch. 4, sustenance(65) – ch. 5
2. Finish rhyme scheme of poem we started in class
1/14/10
In class:
DGP
Foreign word/phrase: bon appetit
Idiom: never bite the hand that feeds you
Notes over figurative language (metaphor, personification, hyperbole, pun, onomatopoeia)
Begin ch. 3 of The Hunger Games
Homework:
1. Finish ch. 3 of The Hunger Games
pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
insurmountable(36), bludgeon(39), anticlimactic(39)
1/12/10
In class:
DGP
Foreign word/phrase: bon jour
Idiom: piece of cake
Notes over figurative language (simile, idiom)
Read ch. 1 of The Hunger Games
Homework:
1. Translate the foreign word/phrase and give the language
2. Explain the idiom of the day
3. Fill out DGP sentence for Wed. and Thurs. (do any of your friends like to play chess)
4. Finish ch. 1 and read ch. 2 of The Hunger Games
pg. number, book sentence, definition, and your own sentence for the following:
verve (pg. 8), preposterous (pg. 9), terse (pg. 17), condone (ch. 2), tenuous (ch. 2)