Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs

11 March 2013Miss Rice

Warm-Up

• Summarize what happened in Brighton Beach Memoirs when you read on Friday.

• *Have your lit. terms out to be checked

Agenda

• Suffixes• Vocab. Unit 4• Descriptive writing• BBM reading• Journal #1

ENG. 10 Objectives 3/11

• To use suffixes to understand word meanings.

• To make personal connections to new vocabulary words.

• To write descriptively about an object of personal significance.

• To analyze drama for plot, historical context, and humor.

Suffixes

•What is a suffix?• able/ible: able to be done• al/ial: having characteristics of• ed: past-tense verbs

Vocab. Unit 4

• Homework• Due Thursday, 3/14

• Write a one paragraph creative story using at least 5 vocabulary words correctly. The paragraph should relate to either the Great Depression, losing a loved one, or family.

Haggard

Idolize

Indignant

Ingratitude

Pamper

Vulnerable

Epiphany

Diversion

Contend

Predicament

Descriptive Writing Piece

• Due Friday, 3/15• 300 wordsNora: “When I was six or seven he always brought me

home a little surprise. Like a Hershey or a top. He’d tell me to go get it in his coat pocket. So I’d run to the closet and put my hand in and it felt as big as a tent. I wanted to crawl in there and go to sleep. And there were all these terrific things in there, like Juicy Fruit gum or Spearmint Life Savers and bits of cellophane and crumbled pieces of tobacco and movie stubs and nickels and pennies and rubber bands and paper clips and his gray suede gloves that he wore in the wintertime” (20-21).

What’s Important to You?

• Must be an object…• My rocks• My grandfather’s hat

Bring yours in on Wednesday or bring in a picture (or e-mail us a picture of it)

Be school appropriate!

BBM

• What happened on Friday?• Catch me up

Let’s read!

Reading Comp. Questions

• What has happened so far?

Journals

• You will be keeping a journal while reading• Entry #1 is for HW to be checked on Wed.• Describe your most “interesting” relative.

What makes him/her unique? Are these qualities something you admire or dislike or both? Do you enjoy spending time with this relative? Why or why not?

Homework

• For Wednesday

Journal #1

Bring in your object

• For Thursday

Vocab. paragraph