10th Grade Week 4 Agenda & Obj. 9/23-9/27Monday: 10.7.3.3 Write Tuesday-Thursday: Vocab & Inference & Author’s purpose• 10. Vocab standard• 10.5.1.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support

analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences…• 10.5.2.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its

development over the course of the text…• 10.5.10.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary

nonfiction…self-select texts for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks.

Friday: Vocab & Imagery• 10.

Daily Writing: Argument 09/23/13

Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:

•Should you have to take tests in school? Why or why not? Give at least 3 arguments.•Should cell phones be allowed in school? Why or why not? Give at least 3 arguments.

Planner:Due Wednesday:• Email me AS AN ATTACHMENT the final draft of your

narrative essay. Kathleen@stepacademymn.comDue Thursday:• Turn in your rubric, marked up 2nd draft and editor’s

checklist on Thursday.

Monday: OMM1. Any late work to hand in? Friendship ads? Study

guide questions? Have the ad done by tomorrow & the reading and study guide questions done by Wednesday or you will receive zeros.

2. Vocab quiz based on context clues.• Dega & Fatah – reading quiz pg. 88-89

3. Writing assignment #2. 1. Journal title: Prewriting #22. Journal title: Drafting #23. Due at the end of the period! Hand in your

journals and your worksheet before you leave! If you forget, it’s late.

Daily Writing: Memories 09/24/13Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail (OR just talk about your most vivid memory):

• “I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.” ~Dawn French

• “Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.” ~Thomas Fuller

•Planner:Due Wednesday:• Email me AS AN ATTACHMENT the final draft of your narrative

essay. Kathleen@stepacademymn.comDue Thursday:• Turn in your rubric, marked up 2nd draft and editor’s checklist

on Thursday.

Tuesday: Absent?• You are responsible for getting the materials from the

appropriate folder (labeled by day) for the day you were absent, and for checking my website* for what you missed and when things are due.• You have one extra day to turn in your homework.• Write the date you were absent clearly in the right corner.• If your homework is not clearly marked or you hand it in later than a

day after the due date, it will be marked late. *Don’t have internet at home? Go to the public library, or ask someone during lunch to bring you to the computer lab. NO EXCUSES.

• You are responsible for handing in the homework due the day you were gone as soon as you get back. • Write the date you were absent clearly in the right corner.• If your homework is not clearly marked or you hand it in later than the

day you come back, it will be marked late.

Tuesday: BE RESPONSIBLEAny late work to hand in? Friendship ads (if not, zero)? Study guide questions? Reading and study guide questions done by TOMORROW or you will receive a zero.

Hand in your journals!

Tuesday: Vocab1. Go over vocab quiz.• You’ll have a chance to increase your score by memorizing

Chapter 1 & 2 vocab by Friday.• Our vocab quizzes will get more and more difficult throughout

the year.• Notebook title: Chapter 2 Vocab• Write the words and definitions of the updated vocab

words in your notebook.• Under the words, write a sentence using each word and

underline the word.2. Pick at least two words from chapter 1 & 2 vocab

and draw an illustration (picture) to help remind you of those words.

3. Continue on with idioms…

What’s an idiom?

•An idiom is an accepted phrase having a meaning other than the literal. "Skating on thin ice" and "a blind alley" are two common examples. Idioms are a fun, playful part of language.

A few familiar idioms

• I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.•Blood is thicker than water.•Don't put all of your eggs in one

basket•Read between the lines

Chapter One Idioms Out of Context

Find these idioms in context in chapter one. Write the page number down and the sentence that it’s in (and sentences around it if it helps). Finally, write what you think the idiom means.• Example: Blow their stake...• Context: Pg. 13: “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the

loneliest guys in the world… They come to a ranch an’ work up a state and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re poundin’ their tail on some other ranch.”

• Meaning: Lose and/or spend all their money• blowin' in our jack• bustin' a gut• in hot water• jungle-up• live off the fatta the lan',

Idioms of Chapter OneIn Context• "...beaten hard by tramps who come wearily

down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near the water (p. 2).”

• " 'That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin' a gut (p. 8).' ”

• " 'You keep me in hot water all the time (p. 11).' "

Idioms of Chapter OneContinued• " '...they go inta town and blow their stake...(p.

13).' "

• " 'We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack...(p. 14).'"

• " 'An' live off the fatta the lan','Lennie shouted (p. 14)."

Chapter One IdiomsOut of Context• blow their stake: Lose and/or spend all their money• blowin' in our jack: losing, spending, or gambling away all our money• bustin' a gut: Your gut is your stomach area. To bust a gut is to engage in

very hard physical labor -- so hard that you ache all over -- even in your gut.• in hot water: to be in hot water is to be in trouble.• jungle-up: During the Great Depression, many wanderers (hoboes and

tramps) would settle for the night in groups. These areas would be known as hobo jungles. To jungle-up is to camp out for the evening in the company of other like companions of the road.

• live off the fatta the lan': Live off the fat of the land. The fat of the land is an expression that refers to having the best of everything. In the case of Lennie and George and their dream for a place of their own, it also means that they believe they will be able to survive and prosper by simply relying on what they can grow and raise -- that the land is so "fat" they will need nothing else to be happy.

Daily Writing: Sports 09/25/14

Choose a picture, and start a story:

Due TODAY:• Email me AS AN ATTACHMENT the final

draft of your narrative essay. Kathleen@stepacademymn.com

• Quiz Friday on vocab 1 & 2 and chapter 1.Due Monday:• Read & finish study guide questions Chpt. 2

Wednesday: Novel study1. Any late study guide HW? Idiom worksheets?2. Review chapter 1 idiom worksheet.3. Students take turns leading discussion on

chapter 1 study guide questions.• Student leader for 1-4• Student leader for 5-8

4. Preview study guide questions due Monday.5. Read and answer chapter 2 study guide

questions. If everyone gets their study guide questions done on Monday, we’ll watch part of the movie.

Daily Writing: Humans 09/26/13Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:

•“Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.” ~Dixie Lee Ray

•“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead

Planner:• Quiz tomorrow on vocab 1 &2 and MC chapter 1.

All words in notebook with sentences and pictures.• Due Monday: Read & finish study guide questions

Chpt. 2

Thursday: Novel Study1. Who turned in their essay? Turn in your

rubric, marked up 2nd draft and editor’s checklist.

2. Vocab charades/pictionary• Review chapter 1 & 2 vocab• For all words, draw an illustration or

write about how you would act it out (should have a couple already done).

• Due tomorrow what you don’t get done in class!!

Daily Writing: Twain 09/27/13Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:

•“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” ~Mark Twain

•“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” ~Mark TwainPlannerDue Monday:• Read & finish study guide questions Chpt.

2

Friday: Quiz & reading1. Any more essays? I need the paperwork!2. Let me see your vocab work.3. No talking during the quiz, please! Raise your hand

when you’re done and Silently read and work on study guide questions due Monday! • If you don’t have your novel, you’re not prepared

for class!• If everyone gets their chapter 2 study guide

questions done by Monday, we’ll watch a little bit of the movie.

2. Move on… Take notes on Imagery.• Notebook title: Imagery

To use imagery is to create a mental picture in language• Imagine>>Imagery>>Images.• The writer imagines something. The

writer uses imagery to describe what he/she has imagined. The reader translates the imagery into images—that is the imagery that forces the reader to imagine what the writer saw, heard, felt, smelled or tasted.

Imagery is language that appeals to the senses 5 Senses = 5 Types of Imagery•Visual imagery—appeals to sight•Aural (or auditory) imagery—appeals

to hearing• Tactile imagery—appeals to touch•Olfactory imagery—appeals to smell•Gustatory imagery—appeals to taste

Language must be vivid

Sometimes people mistakenly say that any words referencing something that can be seen or heard constitute imagery. Instead we are talking about vivid language. On the next two slides I will quote examples of imagery and paraphrase the idea without using imagery in red font so you can see the difference.

Visual• Visual Imagery: Color, size, brightness, shape,

position, motion• “shoots dangled and drooped. . . Hung down long yellow

evil necks”• The bulbs were sprouting and their shoots hung down

from the boxes where they were stored.• “As he paces in cramped circles over and over,/ the

movement of his powerful, soft strides/ is like a ritual dance”• The panther paced in his cage

• “the white eyes writhing in his face”• His eyes rolled back so you could not see the pupils

and irises.

Aural• “In a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”• “Hedge crickets sing”• “Gathering swallows twitter in the skies”• Gnats, crickets and swallows all make

noises at dusk • “Deaf even to the hoots of gas shells

dropping softly behind”• They couldn’t even hear the sound of

the gas shells

Images do not have to be literal

• “And the hapless Soldier’s sigh/Runs in blood down Palace walls” • Literally=the government is indifferent to the pain and

death faced by the soldier• “And here we are as on a darkling plain/ Swept

with confused alarms of struggle and flight/ Where ignorant armies clash by night” • This is a simile comparing life to a struggle on a dark battlefield

where the soldiers don’t know who or what they are fighting

Friday: OMM Imagery Work

• Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men contains lots of different imagery!• Journal title: Imagery in Chpt 1 OMM• Find and rewrite at least 2 uses of imagery in

Chapter 1. • Then, for one of the sections you found, draw a

sketch of what you picture (imagine) in your mind because of his writing.