Mr. Meehan's Tenth Grade English Class

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Today's Objective: Students will review plot, character, and setting and begin their first Q3 text.

Today's SAT Word: Setting (n.): where and when a story takes place.

The phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" provides the setting of the Star Wars films.

Today's Warm-Up Question: Imagine you just signed a contract with a major professional sports team.

What do you think the biggest benefit of your new career will be?

What do you think will be the biggest challenge?

Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Teleplay
Insignia
Voice over
Puzzling
Vain
Corridor
Terminology
Tendency
Laconic
Relishing

Tonight's Homework: Read from page 1-18 (up to the words "direct cut to")

For today's classes, tenth grade sections will present their team posters

Today's Objective: Students will review plot, character, and setting and begin their first Q3 text.

Today's SAT Word: Setting (n.): where and when a story takes place.

The phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" provides the setting of the Star Wars films.

Today's Warm-Up Question:

What are the benefits of being part of a family?

What sacrifices (if any) do we make to be a part of a family?

Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Stage directions
Forestage
Mercurial
Undercurrent
Accommodating
Simonizing
Bashful
Grub (beg)
Insinuates
Immersed

Tonight's Homework: Finish reading through the phrase "makin' a hit" on page 16.

Today's Objective: Students will continue reviewing rhetorical strategies in order to continue study of methods of persuasion.

Today's SAT Word: Driven (adj.): powered or motivated by

For today's warm-up, defend your belief using one argument driven by logos, one driven by pathos, and one driven by ethos.

Today's Warm-Up Question: Should same-sex unions be made legal in the United States?

Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.

Tonight's Homework: None.

For today's classes, all tenth grade sections will present their team posters