MDG Vocab

Today we handed in the MDG work from Friday and Monday and I collected the compare/contrast essay. We worked on the vocab on page 76 and then talked about connotation and denotation and did the exercise at the bottom of page 76 to end the period.

Friday and Monday

I will be absent Friday and Monday, but this is the plan.

Friday 

• The class will read “The Most Dangerous Game," stopping to do the margin questions A, B, D, G, H, K, and L as they come to them.
• The class will stop on page 69, line 516 and start the following homework: Based on the foreshadowing in the exposition and rising action of this story, predict how the conflict(s) will be resolved. Write at least one good paragraph explaining your answer.

Monday

• The class will finish the story. 
• HW: #s 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 (10 for extra credit) at the end of the story.

Thursday

Today, after getting new seats, we reviewed internal and external conflict and added the vocabulary on page 53 to the "Selection Vocabulary" section of the binder.

Writing Time

We began the period by handing in warm-ups. We then spent the rest of the period on the Compare and Contrast essay, writing the introduction and starting the body paragraphs.

Essays are due on 10/2.

Compare and Contrast Essay Prep

We began the day with a warm-up designed to help with the introduction to the compare and contrast essay, reviewed the prompt and expectations, and spent the final part of the period planning the essay which we will begin writing in class tomorrow.

Vocab. and Time Travel

We began the day by reviewing our vocabulary in the warm-up and then read the essay "The Physics of Time Travel" (p. 51 in the online text). After reading aloud, students analyzed the essay, following the prompts below.

Theme

Today we reviewed the concept of theme and added #8 from page 48 to last night's HW, which we then discussed and handed in.