Monday
Group 1: Handwriting Analysis Assignment (See bottom of page.)
Group 2: Membean, Grammar, Read Theory
Group 3: Green Book, The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, page 624 (See bottom of page.)
Read Theory
Complete 5 passages.
Daily Grammar Practice
This week's grammar sentence: everyone should listen to the news
Monday – Write out the sentence and identify parts of speech including noun, pronoun (type and case), verb (type and tense), adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction (type), gerund, participle, infinitive and article.
Read 30 minutes each day.
15 minutes of Membean due each day! (75)
· 3-5 days
· 10-15 minutes per day
· 75 minutes per week
Tuesday
Group 1: Green Book, The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, page 624 (See bottom of page.)
Group 2: Handwriting Analysis Assignment (See bottom of page.)
Group 3: Membean, Grammar, Read Theory
Daily Grammar Practice
This week's grammar sentence: everyone should listen to the news
Tuesday – Write out the sentence and identify sentence parts including complete subject, simple subject, complete predicate, verb (transitive or intransitive), direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive or appositive phrase, prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb), gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, participial phrase, object of preposition, object of infinitive and object of gerund.
Read 30 minutes each day.
15 minutes of Membean due each day! (75)
· 3-5 days
· 10-15 minutes per day
· 75 minutes per week
Wednesday
Group 1: Membean, Grammar, Read Theory
Group 2: Green Book, The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, page 624 (See bottom of page.)
Group 3: Handwriting Analysis Assignment (See bottom of page.)
Daily Grammar Practice
This week's grammar sentence: everyone should listen to the news
Wednesday – Write out the sentence and identify clauses (independent, adverb dependent, adjective dependent, noun dependent), sentence type (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex) and sentence purpose (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory).
Book Buddies - Get your assigned novel and read with your partner the last 10-15 minutes of class.
Read 30 minutes each day.
15 minutes of Membean due each day! (75)
· 3-5 days
· 10-15 minutes per day
· 75 minutes per week
Thursday
Groups Come Together – The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, page 624
Daily Grammar Practice
This week's grammar sentence: everyone should listen to the news
Thursday – Write out the sentence and add capitalization and punctuation including end punctuation, commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underlining and quotation marks.
Book Buddies - Get your assigned novel and read with your partner the last 10-15 minutes of class.
Read 30 minutes each day.
15 minutes of Membean due each day! (75)
· 3-5 days
· 10-15 minutes per day
· 75 minutes per week
Friday
Library
Groups Come Together – The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, page 624 – extending Handwriting Analysis
Daily Grammar Practice
This week's grammar sentence: everyone should listen to the news
Friday – Diagram the sentence.
Book Buddies - Get your assigned novel and read with your partner the last 10-15 minutes of class.
Read 30 minutes each day.
15 minutes of Membean due each day! (75)
· 3-5 days
· 10-15 minutes per day
· 75 minutes per week
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, page 624
BEFORE READING –
Diffuse the text.
Complete
Connect to Your Life (624)
Focus Your Reading (624)
Literary Analysis (624)
Active Reading Visualizing (624)
AFTER READING-
Complete
· Connect to Literature (631)
· Think Critically (631)
· Literary Analysis (631)
Handwriting Analysis Activity
Handwriting Analysis - Please keep your work in a google doc labeled handwriting, and I will email you later this week for a reply and paste.
http://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Handwriting-(Graphology)
http://www.handwritinginsights.com/terms.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/handwriting-analysis.htm
http://www.businessballs.com/graphologyhandwritinganalysis.htm
http://www.handwritinginsights.com/
http://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/handwriting-analysis
Define the following terms and explain how each is used to analyze handwriting:
Angle
Upper zone
Lower zone
Middle zone
Slant
Size
Style
Pressure
Create an analysis chart or table with personality traits and corresponding handwriting characteristics. Tables can be created in a spreadsheet and printed or hand written.
Activity 1
On unlined paper write the following:
Your name
Eggs
Milk
Frosted Flakes
Tuna
Diet Pepsi
Cat Litter
Lemons
Now make notes ON the writing sample about the characteristics of the writing based on what you have learned above. Explain what each mark means. Be sure to include notes about each of the zones, slant, and style. If you have time, find a partner that has completed this activity and analyze one another’s sample.
EXTRA EXTRA ENRICHMENT TIME
Create a handwriting sample for the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart. It should be his confession, and should mimic lettering characteristics you believe would illustrate his personality.