H10 A - Week 3
December 16 - 20
Monday, December 16
- Vocab quiz!
- Frankenstein list!
- (if a crisis occurs, there is a make-up assignment to bring you to 80%)
- Thursday test on the book!
- Dog cloning radio story
- CRISPR baby article
- outline - but paying attention to attribution
- What is the purpose of each paragraph?
- Work with other people!
- Share paragraphs, then share what you've got
Tuesday, December 17
- vocab warm-up:
- Frankenstein List 2
- 1. hapless, adj. - (particularly of a person) unfortunate, and deserving pity
- 2. unhallowed - 1. adj. - Not formally consecrated; 1.1. adj. - unholy; wicked
- 3. salubrious, adj. - Health-giving; healthy
- 4. writhe - v. - to move in a twisting or contorted motion; v. - to respond with great emotional or physical discomfort
- Discuss Frankenstein
- How's Victor doing?
- Let's be literary Romantics!
- Step One:
- write two sentences about how you feel about something difficult:
- finals? essay writing?
- Step Two:
- describe the same challenging experience as a writer of the Romantic period would describe it.
- write two sentences about how you feel about something difficult:
- Step One:
- Thursday test on the book!
- Tonight is the last Frank reading!
- And: Come up with three good questions about the book for discussion tomorrow
Wednesday, December 18
- vocab warm-up:
- 5. complacency, n. - a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements
- 6. augment, v. - to make (something) greater by adding to it; to increase
- 7. scourge - 1. n. - a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering; 2. v. - to cause great trouble or suffering (also n., - a whip)
- 8. opaque - 1. adj. - not able to be seen through; not transparent; 1.1. adj. - (especially of language) hard or impossible to understand
- tomorrow test on the book!
- Discussion chart
- What are three good discussion questions about this book?
- Higher level questions
- not answers you can look up!
- Why? What if? How? Is there a connection?
- How does it apply to us now?
- Higher level questions
- What are three good discussion questions about this book?
- discuss the book!
- sit wherever you like
- Questions on the board
- in case you run out
Thursday, December 19
- vocab warm-up:
- 9. foliage, n. - the aggregate of leaves of one or more plants
- 10. assuage - 1. v. - to make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense; 1.1. v. - to satisfy (an appetite or desire)t
- 11. despondency, n. - low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection
- 12. arbiter - 1. n. - a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter; 1.1. n. - a person whose views or actions have influence in a particular sphere
- Let's take a test on the book!
- What a good idea!
- Closed book
- Closed note
- Closed neighbor
- Open brain!
- Social Justice Leadership class survey
- Let Your Voice Be Heard!
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Friday, December 20
- vocab warm-up:
- 13. precipitate - v. - to cause (an event or situation, typically one that is undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely; v. - to cause to move suddenly and with force; . v. - to send someone or something suddenly into a particular state or condition
- 14. recommence, v. - to begin or cause to begin again
- 15. eradicate, v. - to destroy completely; to put an end to
- 16. dilatory - 1. adj. - slow to act; 2. adj. - intended to cause delay
- Have you returned Frankenstein?
- CRISPR outline -
- What kind of support is provided?
- do you think it's valid?
- Is it no support at all?
- What kind of support is provided?
- poetry puzzle
- "A Play on Words" by Eugene Field
- And if you liked it, go find:
- Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
