Mon Sept 21

3C1
-watched unsolved mysteries as a finale to the DB Cooper saga

Tomorrow
- element of fiction #4 - Theme
-"Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

After this story there will be a quiz in the first three stories and the first 5 elements followed by a writing assignment.

4U1
-homework check
-more literary devices - paradox, oxymoron and allusion
-practice rhetorical devices
-correction of assigned "Snapshot" questions

Homework
-continue to review the 3 essays we have studied as well as the old and new devices

Tomorrow
-finish "Snapshots" and intro to writing assignment

**Minor writing assignment will be handed out tomorrow

**Rhetorical devices quiz at the end of the week - most likely Thursday

**Final test on essays and devices will be after the sixth essay studied

Friday September 18

3C1

Friday
-as follow up to the short story, completed a web quest (for evaluation) on DB Cooper

Weekend Homework
-complete web quest and submit on Monday if you did not hand in at the end of the class

Monday
-hand in web quest!
-an unsolved mystery???
**bring a snack and a drink

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
-Monsters

4U1

Friday
-completed a note on dialogue
-photographs and writing
-read "Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women" from Echoes p.384

Weekend Homework
-complete assigned questions on "Snaphot"
-continue to review rhetorical devices

Monday
-complete "Snapshot"

Tuesday and Wednesday
-instruction on first writing assignment—The Narrative/Descriptive—plus a few more rhetorical devices 

Tuesday Sept. 15

3C1

Tuesday
-worked and and took up questions on "The Interlopers"
-watched short on Interlopers

Homework
-make sure all questions on worksheet are complete

Wednesday
-element of fiction #2 - nemesis
-critical thinking questions on Interlopers
-watch 2nd short on Interlopers

Wednesday Homework
-after all this, you better know the story of Interlopers!

4U1

Tuesday
-how and when to use a semi colon
-group work; working on "The Skier" 
-added to each group's answers
-final summation by D'Angela of "The Skier"

Homework
-reread "The Skier" and make sure you can apply poetic, rhetorical, sense imagery and diction choices to it

Wednesday
-"Growing Up Native" and the narrative essay

Monday September 14

3C1

Monday
-checked signatures
-pseudonym definition and game
-read "The Interlopers"

Tuesday
-questions on Interlopers
-element of fiction #2 - nemesis

4U1

Monday
-worked on chart for "The Skier"

Homework
-finish chart and answer these two questions:
1. What organizational strategy is used in the essay?
2.  What is the dominant impression of the essay (remember its two pronged)?
-make sure you have your signatures 

Tuesday
-check signatures
-take up questions
-group work closure activity
-note on narrative writing

Wed. Sept. 9

3C1
Wednesday
-who am I? and share time
-got text books (Between the Lines and Communicate)
-3C1 Course Outline and Student Work Habits

Tomorrow
-Course Overview
-Element of Fiction #1 - Conflict
-English Course Guidelines

Friday
-grade meeting

Over the Weekend
-get 2 sheets signed

For Monday
-have signatures

4U1
Wednesday
-who am I? and share time
-explanation of Student Work Habits
-got textbooks (Echoes, Reading and Writing and A Man for All Seasons)
-English Course Guidelines

Thursday
-Rhetorical Devices PPT
-if time, begin to look up 8 literary devices

Homework
-finish up defining the following: alliteration, allusion, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, understatement (this should all be review of prior knowledge)

Friday
-note on types of essays
-read "The Skier"

Over the Weekend
-get 2 sheets signed

Monday
-have signatures
-continue with "The Skier"

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