Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Friday, February 11 (E9)
Today's Objective: Students will review "pathos," "ethos," and "logos" in preparation for the Q3 Methods of Persuasion Unit.
Today's SAT Word: Defend (v.): to stick up for
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Today's SAT Word: Defend (v.): to stick up for
"If I plan to make a persuasive argument, then I will need to defend it."
Today's Warm-Up Question: Do men cause more problems in the world, or do women cause more problems in the world?
Provide three reasons why you believe what you believe on this issue!
Today's Warm-Up Question: Do men cause more problems in the world, or do women cause more problems in the world?
Provide three reasons why you believe what you believe on this issue!
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Write a one-paragraph BCR (five sentences) in which you identify which method of persuasion you believe is the most effective way to make an argument. DEFEND your answer!
The Pearl, Day 4 (E10 4B)
Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Tithe
Insubstantial
Vigor
Inferior
Stout
Instinctively
Perplexed
Collusion
Monstrosity
Lethargy
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 4.
Insubstantial
Vigor
Inferior
Stout
Instinctively
Perplexed
Collusion
Monstrosity
Lethargy
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 4.
Death of a Salesman, Day 4 (E10 3A)
Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Consumes
Saccharine
Dictation
Fascinating
Solitary
Reliance
Proposition
Pennant
Incredulously
Mocking
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "goal posts" on page 69.
Saccharine
Dictation
Fascinating
Solitary
Reliance
Proposition
Pennant
Incredulously
Mocking
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "goal posts" on page 69.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Brian's Song, Day 4 (E10 1B)
Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Blustery
Grim
Stoic
Befuddled
Quell
Imperceptible
Dwindle
Sprawling
Vibrant
Exuberantly
Enervated
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "I'm pregnant" on page 84.
Grim
Stoic
Befuddled
Quell
Imperceptible
Dwindle
Sprawling
Vibrant
Exuberantly
Enervated
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "I'm pregnant" on page 84.
Waiting for Godot, Day 4 (E10 4B)
Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Agitatedly
Manifests
Broods
Feverishly
Indifferent
Vexed
Sententious
Anguish
Triumphantly
Insignificant
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up through page 45.
Manifests
Broods
Feverishly
Indifferent
Vexed
Sententious
Anguish
Triumphantly
Insignificant
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up through page 45.
Animal Farm, Day 4 (E10 2B)
Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem
Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Sufficient
Toiling
Efficient
Solicitor
Simultaneously
Ration
Emboldened
Pretext
Decreed
Capitulated
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the paragraph that begins with the word "Now" on page 90.
Toiling
Efficient
Solicitor
Simultaneously
Ration
Emboldened
Pretext
Decreed
Capitulated
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the paragraph that begins with the word "Now" on page 90.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The Pearl, Day 3 (E10 4A)
Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Cackled
Essence
Speculations
Lusts
Disparagement
Murmured
Prophecy
Benediction
Consequently
Discontentedly
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 3.
Essence
Speculations
Lusts
Disparagement
Murmured
Prophecy
Benediction
Consequently
Discontentedly
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 3.
Death of a Salesman, Day 3 (E10 3A)
Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Correspondence
Spewing
Commission
Remiss
Resentment
Exhibitions
Ridden
Caliber
Magnificent
Timidly
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading Act 1.
Spewing
Commission
Remiss
Resentment
Exhibitions
Ridden
Caliber
Magnificent
Timidly
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading Act 1.
Wednesday, February 9 (E9)
Today's Objective: Students will study "pathos" in preparation for the Q3 Methods of Persuasion Unit.
Today's SAT Word: Passionate (adj.): having intense feelings for something
Today's SAT Word: Passionate (adj.): having intense feelings for something
"Mr. Meehan is passionate about the New England Patriots."
Today's Warm-Up Question: Is it ever acceptable to break up with someone using Facebook, telephone, and/or text message? Or should break-ups always be done in person?
Today's Warm-Up Question: Is it ever acceptable to break up with someone using Facebook, telephone, and/or text message? Or should break-ups always be done in person?
For today's warm-up, provide three MORE reasons why you believe what you believe on this issue!
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Write a one-paragraph BCR (five sentences) in which you identify how a television commercial or a print advertisement of your choosing uses PATHOS to make its point.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Waiting for Godot, Day 3 (E10 4B)
Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Pantomime
Convulsed
Subsides
Firmament
Witticism
Luminous
Prosaic
Fervently
Indignantly
Consternation
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading act 1.
Convulsed
Subsides
Firmament
Witticism
Luminous
Prosaic
Fervently
Indignantly
Consternation
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading act 1.
Animal Farm, Day 3 (E10 2B)
Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Tractable
Astonishing
Flogging
Alighted
Vengeance
Sentimentality
Unanimously
Posthumously
Canvassing
Disinterred
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapters 4 and 5.
Astonishing
Flogging
Alighted
Vengeance
Sentimentality
Unanimously
Posthumously
Canvassing
Disinterred
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapters 4 and 5.
Brian's Song, Day 3 (E10 1B)
Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.
The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Typified
Bewildered
Drones
Residual
Fatalistically
Undercurrent
Bashful
Spastic
Balefully
Tentative
Timidly
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "chilled metal" on page 61.
Bewildered
Drones
Residual
Fatalistically
Undercurrent
Bashful
Spastic
Balefully
Tentative
Timidly
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "chilled metal" on page 61.
The Pearl, Day 2 (E10 4A)
Today's Objective: Students will review tone and mood while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.
The author's tone shapes the mood of a story.
Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?
Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Estuary
Sputtered
Haze
Undulating
Perceptible
Deliberately
Gleam
Speculatively
Reluctant
Incandescence
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 2.
Sputtered
Haze
Undulating
Perceptible
Deliberately
Gleam
Speculatively
Reluctant
Incandescence
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 2.
Death of a Salesman, Day 2 (E10 3A)
Today's Objective: Students will review tone and mood while continuing to read their first Q3 text.
Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.
The author's tone shapes the mood of a story.
Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?
Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?
Today's New Vocabulary Terms:
Chamois
Regulation
Inventory
Scrim
Subsiding
Scandalized
Mending
Agitation
Aura
Ignoramus
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the words "Ben is gone" on page 37.
Regulation
Inventory
Scrim
Subsiding
Scandalized
Mending
Agitation
Aura
Ignoramus
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the words "Ben is gone" on page 37.
Monday, February 7 (E9)
Today's Objective: Students will study "logos" in preparation for the Q3 Methods of Persuasion Unit.
Today's SAT Word: Fallacy (n.): a false statement.
Today's SAT Word: Fallacy (n.): a false statement.
"George Bush told the country that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but that was a fallacy."
Today's Warm-Up Question: Is it ever acceptable to break up with someone using Facebook, telephone, and/or text message? Or should break-ups always be done in person?
Today's Warm-Up Question: Is it ever acceptable to break up with someone using Facebook, telephone, and/or text message? Or should break-ups always be done in person?
For today's warm-up, provide three reasons why you believe what you believe on this issue!
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Write a one-paragraph BCR (five sentences) in which you identify how a television commercial or a print advertisement of your choosing uses LOGOS to make its point.
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