Tuesday, January 22, 2012. (Monday was a holiday: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Periods 1-3
1. Read Excerpt from Black Boy. Discuss "Limitations, Feelings, and Defenses at end of handout.
2. Review the process for writing Short Answer Response, following steps 1-4.
3. Discuss methods of embedding quotes with lead and ellipsis.
Homework: Complete question on Black Boy and the one on Night.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Comprehension quiz over Night Chapters 4-6.
2. Turn in "Significant Quotations" homework.
3. Same as above for Black Boy.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012.
English 2B Periods 1-5
1) Review prepositional phrases with warm-up
2) Students checked "Ions" on page 23 in workbook to revise for incorrect answers.
3) Check Glossy TAKS exercise "Ions" (Except period 5).
Vocabulary Words for quiz tomorrow:
1. assent v. to agree
2. capitulate: v. to give up
3. desolation: n. abandonment; loneliness
4. guileless: adj. free of deceit or cunning; clueless
5. inaudible: adj. not able to be heard
6. foment: v. to cause to grow; incite Ex. The bad leader fomented a fighting, bickering environment.
7. intangible: adj. not capable if being perceived (felt) by the senses.
8. interim: n. period of time between events
9. overt: adj. obvious; out in the open; not covered/hidden
10. posthumous: adj. occurring after death
11. premonition: n. an inner sense that something bad will happen
12. rapt: adj. deeply absorbed
13. rescind: v. to reverse or cancel
14. subside: v. to sink to a normal level; to lessen in intensity
15. subterranean: adj. underground
Study for Quiz tomorrow!!
English 2B Periods 1-5
1) Review prepositional phrases with warm-up
2) Students checked "Ions" on page 23 in workbook to revise for incorrect answers.
3) Check Glossy TAKS exercise "Ions" (Except period 5).
Vocabulary Words for quiz tomorrow:
1. assent v. to agree
2. capitulate: v. to give up
3. desolation: n. abandonment; loneliness
4. guileless: adj. free of deceit or cunning; clueless
5. inaudible: adj. not able to be heard
6. foment: v. to cause to grow; incite Ex. The bad leader fomented a fighting, bickering environment.
7. intangible: adj. not capable if being perceived (felt) by the senses.
8. interim: n. period of time between events
9. overt: adj. obvious; out in the open; not covered/hidden
10. posthumous: adj. occurring after death
11. premonition: n. an inner sense that something bad will happen
12. rapt: adj. deeply absorbed
13. rescind: v. to reverse or cancel
14. subside: v. to sink to a normal level; to lessen in intensity
15. subterranean: adj. underground
Study for Quiz tomorrow!!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
Sentence Construction: List of subordinating conjunctions. What are the requirements for a complete sentence? What is a fragment? Review different clauses on overhead. Construct own sentences with proper punctuation:
IC. IC.
IC ; IC.
IC , (fanboys) IC.
DC, IC.
IC DC.
Prep phrase, IC.
Participial phrase, IC.
Absolute phrase, IC.
NOTE: Study Farewell to Manzanar Vocabulary Glossary words with a "4" .
Sentence Construction: List of subordinating conjunctions. What are the requirements for a complete sentence? What is a fragment? Review different clauses on overhead. Construct own sentences with proper punctuation:
IC. IC.
IC ; IC.
IC , (fanboys) IC.
DC, IC.
IC DC.
Prep phrase, IC.
Participial phrase, IC.
Absolute phrase, IC.
NOTE: Study Farewell to Manzanar Vocabulary Glossary words with a "4" .
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012.
1) Farewell to Manzanar: Read Ch. 19-21. Discuss Jeanne Wakatsuki's difficulty in assimilating into mainstream society, the racial prejudice she encounters due to her Japanese ethnicity, her struggles with respect for her father, and her difficulty in coming to terms with her Japanese roots while wanting to belong to the American culture in which she grew up and using her femininity as a tool to break the "intangible barriers" she writes about in order to fit in this society.
Study words with asterisk * from Farewell to Manzanar Glossary for quiz tomorrow.
1) Farewell to Manzanar: Read Ch. 19-21. Discuss Jeanne Wakatsuki's difficulty in assimilating into mainstream society, the racial prejudice she encounters due to her Japanese ethnicity, her struggles with respect for her father, and her difficulty in coming to terms with her Japanese roots while wanting to belong to the American culture in which she grew up and using her femininity as a tool to break the "intangible barriers" she writes about in order to fit in this society.
Study words with asterisk * from Farewell to Manzanar Glossary for quiz tomorrow.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
Farewell to Manzanar: Read Ch. 17-20. Discuss Woody's visit to Japan and how both he and Great Aunt Toyo benefit from his visit. Also discuss Jeanne Wakatsuki's return to public school and the "double impulse" she has to be "invisible" because of her Japanese ethnicity but also noticed and accepted as one who fits into mainstream society.
NOTE: Farewell Vocabulary Quiz 3 (Words with *) has been moved to Friday 2/3 due to time constraints with the memoir.
Farewell to Manzanar: Read Ch. 17-20. Discuss Woody's visit to Japan and how both he and Great Aunt Toyo benefit from his visit. Also discuss Jeanne Wakatsuki's return to public school and the "double impulse" she has to be "invisible" because of her Japanese ethnicity but also noticed and accepted as one who fits into mainstream society.
NOTE: Farewell Vocabulary Quiz 3 (Words with *) has been moved to Friday 2/3 due to time constraints with the memoir.
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