So What's Coming Up This Week?
Great question. So happy you asked...
For starters, we'll take a unit test on Beo-Chaucer. This will consist of text + close reads, with special emphasis on alliteration, kennings, characterization, theme and author's intent. On Friday (Homecoming Day) you will also have due a narrative tale, written in rhyming couplets, heavy on the Chaucerian narrative plot, filled with irony, and thick with memorable characters of your choosing.
On Tuesday, we will visit the Media Center, where we will diagnose our reading lexiles through Achieve 3000.
Wednesday, of course, is Yom Kippur, and as such, we will have no assignments due.
Thursday, however, is fair game for grade-grinding, and we will hit the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, the would-be Scottish king, whose hands are stained with the blood of his victim, his one-time king and liege, Duncan. Spurred on by his wife, Lady Macbeth, the would be king claims his right to the throne by staining the floor with the blood of King Duncan, and his remaining days on earth are filled with the agony of guilt and fear of treachery: for if Macbeth is capable of such murderous acts, who, then, can he trust?
Assessments for Macbeth will be both written and multiple-choice...
FRIDAY, as always, finds us having prepared for yet another vocabulary quiz, in this case. quiz 5. You can study the word list below...
For starters, we'll take a unit test on Beo-Chaucer. This will consist of text + close reads, with special emphasis on alliteration, kennings, characterization, theme and author's intent. On Friday (Homecoming Day) you will also have due a narrative tale, written in rhyming couplets, heavy on the Chaucerian narrative plot, filled with irony, and thick with memorable characters of your choosing.
On Tuesday, we will visit the Media Center, where we will diagnose our reading lexiles through Achieve 3000.
Wednesday, of course, is Yom Kippur, and as such, we will have no assignments due.
Thursday, however, is fair game for grade-grinding, and we will hit the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, the would-be Scottish king, whose hands are stained with the blood of his victim, his one-time king and liege, Duncan. Spurred on by his wife, Lady Macbeth, the would be king claims his right to the throne by staining the floor with the blood of King Duncan, and his remaining days on earth are filled with the agony of guilt and fear of treachery: for if Macbeth is capable of such murderous acts, who, then, can he trust?
Assessments for Macbeth will be both written and multiple-choice...
FRIDAY, as always, finds us having prepared for yet another vocabulary quiz, in this case. quiz 5. You can study the word list below...