Post date: Sep 7, 2010 12:13:52 AM
Honors Sophomore English, Leamon, Fall Semester 2010
Quote of the week: “. . . [I]n shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker.” (Chapter 49)
Sept. 7, Tuesday (already!)
Greetings, all! Names? GE Matching game
Some nuts and bolts for the class
Post those close reads. . . . admire for a bit/share your best work
--Plot/theme/conflict discussion: moving from the “HOW” to the “SO WHAT?”
h/w: style sheet: example from Achebe to sharpen your sense of style and its effects.
Vocab: denotation, connotation, word choice, tone, style, rhetoric
Sept. 8, Wed.
Name review
More/different nuts and bolts review?
Take down your close read and see what you’d add to it now. May work on at home (don’t get crazy; we’re not aiming for perfection), due in class on Friday
ALSO: look at your close reads (or other chosen passages) and see how they fit into the big concepts/ideas/themes Dickens is trying to make us think about
h/w: revise close reads as desired; choose a big idea Dickens is trying to get us to think about and find at least five passages (and not more than seven) that develop that idea.
Sept. 9, Thursday: Mr. Arnold takes it away (pending his okay). . .BUT signed letter sheets due by today.
Sept. 10, Friday (YAY!! We made it!) Coffee cake, anyone?
On-demand Prompt #1--I hope, posted as per Mr. Arnold’s magic
hand in final version of close reads
h/w: for each of the passages you dug up for Wed. homework, write a few sentences explaining how the passage develops the big idea.
Sept. 13, Monday: Well, hello!
Let’s talk VOCAB and GRAMMAR
Let’s look at your passage work and discuss themes and ideas (and hand them in)
Revisit close reads as necessary
Share writing from Friday in class and comment on your partner’s work.
h/w: read review article as assigned.