October 9 - 13

It's PSAT week for juniors; be sure to note the change in schedule for Wednesday morning.  Here's what we'll be doing in English class: 

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up.  (Hearing test for Monday A Day only.)  Talk about Santa Ana Winds and the annotating suggestions from the weekend reading.  Pass back Carter Rhetorical Analysis, and walk through the steps to answer a rhetorical analysis essay prompt about it.  Pass back Kaepernick assignment.  Definition: paradox, oxymoron. Independent reading discussion groups.  

Due:  Please read pages 4- 10 in the Close Reading packet, including Joan Didion's Santa Ana Winds.  Please annotate it yourself in your current annotation style in the Close Reading packet on page 6.  Then, read the information about annotating on pages 7-10.

How can you sharpen your reading and annotating skills?  Be ready to discuss.

Please read another 20 pages of your Independent Reading book and be ready to meet in person with others reading the same category.

Homework for Thursday/Friday:

1. Read Death of the Moth from the Close Reading Packet and annotate it. Though this is a short passage, it's challenging.  What conclusions about life does Woolf's speaker come to in this piece?  Can you identify any rhetorical devices that help her make a statement about the nature of human life?

2. Please read 10 more pages of your Independent Reading book. 

WEDNESDAY: (PSAT Schedule - no Late Start today, classes are 50 minutes long.) Journal warm-up. Vocab Story Rounds.

Due: n/a

Homework: (for Friday, same as Monday's homework):

1. Read Death of the Moth from the Close Reading Packet and annotate it. Though this is a short passage, it's challenging.  What conclusions about life does Woolf's speaker come to in this piece?  Can you identify any rhetorical devices that help her make a statement about the nature of human life?

2. Please read 10 pages in your Independent Reading book. 

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Quiz covering vocab, tone.  Class discussion about Death of the Moth.  Notes: definition of satire and how to write about it. Read Groucho Marx's letter,  other written and video samples of satire.

Due:

1. Read Death of the Moth from the Close Reading Packet and annotate it. Though this is a short passage, it's challenging.  What conclusions about life does Woolf's speaker come to in this piece?  Can you identify any rhetorical devices that help her make a statement about the nature of human life?

2. Please read 10 pages of your Independent Reading book. 

Homework:

1. Read and annotate 3 rhetorical analysis prompts.  Think about which one you would like to use to write into a full, take-home essay.

2. Please read 10 pages of your independent reading book.