Weeks 1 and 2

Mon 8/25: Intro to class and to one another.

Tues 8/26:

Read "How to Mark a Book" and how to annotate

then

write the following:

• Pick a passage from West With the Night that moved you and/or that you found important in some way.

• Re-type the passage, giving the page number/s.

• Write one double-spaced paragraph (5-7 sentences long, 12 pt. Times New Roman) explaining why it moved you.

• Please write this on your laptop to bring to class on Tuesday.

Weds 8/27: Writing assignment:

“Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind but nonetheless familiar in the heart” (3)

• Choose the name of a place that opens a corridor in your mind.

• Write one double-spaced paragraph (5-7 sentences long, 12 pt. Times New Roman) about that place

  • Model the sentence structure of the passage on page 8 that begins “Africa is mystic . . .”

    • "NAME OF PLACE is _______; it is _____; it is a ____________; it is a _____________, a _________, a __________. It is what you ______, and it ____________. It is the __________ or the ___________. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just ‘______.’ It is all these things but one thing—it is never ______.

    • Your paragraph should continue on after this introduction for 2-4 more sentences.

  • Please write this on your laptop to bring to class on Wednesday.

Thurs 8/28: Read "Two Kinds" in blue short story reader.

• Pick out 3 passages or paragraphs you find particularly interesting from the story.

• Be ready to explain in class why you find each passage or paragraph interesting.

  • It could be an interesting idea that the passage suggests or a question it raises.

  • Perhaps something the passage reveals about the narrator.

  • Just be able to articulate your reasons for choosing each of your 3 passages.

Friday 8/29--Vocabulary quiz on Chapt. 1 of Vocabulary Energizers.

• Also, read about nouns on pp. 8-12 of How Grammar Works and do the exercises on pp. 9 & 12.

  • Click here: How Grammar Works: Nouns

• Read about pronouns in the pink Grammar Workbook, pp. 5-6.

• In class we’ll work on pp. 4, 7, & 8 of the Workbook. Bring pink workbook with you to class.

Monday 9/1: No school!

Tuesday 9/2: Read and take notes on "Raymond's Run" in blue short story reader.

**Look through the notes you took this summer but don’t worry about getting the assignment “right.”