Animal Farm, Day 5 (E10 2B)

Today's Objective: Students will review symbolism, foreshadowing, and motifs while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Motif (n.): a re-occurring image, symbol, or item that carries special significance each time it reappears in a work of fiction.

In "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman's daydreams are often surrounded by a musical motif.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Lurking
Sternly
Tumult
Abolished
Retinue
Negotiations
Scoundrels
Nocturnal
Forsook
Contrived

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up through chapter 8.

Brian's Song, Day 5 (E10 1B)

Today's Objective: Students will review symbolism, foreshadowing, and motifs while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Motif (n.): a re-occurring image, symbol, or item that carries special significance each time it reappears in a work of fiction.

In "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman's daydreams are often surrounded by a musical motif.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Bellow
Catatonic
Blindsided
Reluctant
Abrupt
Anguish
Misnomer
Remnant
Overstepped
Urgent

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the word "urgent" on page 101.

The Pearl, Day 5 (E10 4B)

Today's Objective: Students will review symbolism, foreshadowing, and motifs while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Motif (n.): a re-occurring image, symbol, or item that carries special significance each time it reappears in a work of fiction.

In "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman's daydreams are often surrounded by a musical motif.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Clenched
Preservation
Glimmer
Sluggishly
Scampering
Exhilaration
Scuttling
Keening
Lament
Rummaged

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapter 5.

Death of a Salesman, Day 5 (E10 3A)

Today's Objective: Students will review symbolism, foreshadowing, and motifs while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Motif (n.): a re-occurring image, symbol, or item that carries special significance each time it reappears in a work of fiction.

In "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman's daydreams are often surrounded by a musical motif.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Confidentially
Resentment
Raucous
Lavishly
Bewildered
Gesture
Tension
Agonized
Audible
Sensuous

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to page 92.

Tuesday, February 14 (E9)

For today's lesson, students will take part in a full-class debate in an effort to use and identify methods of persuasion and fallacies in an actual setting.

The topic for today's debate is as follows:

"Who causes more problems in the world -- MEN or WOMEN?"

Student participation in today's class meeting will be given an assessment grade.