Thursday, November 22, 2012

Week 15 2012-2013


Week 15
Class Work
Homework
Monday

Academic Vocabulary Words

Synthesis
Exposition
Symbol
Allegory
Ambiguity
Irony
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Biographical Knowledge
Biographical approach
Read Irony and Ambiguity pp. 92-93

Symbolism and Allegory by John Malcolm Brinnin

Highlight and Annotate p. 94-95

Do Test Practice pp. 95
Vocabulary Book C Unit 4
Completing the sentence








Objective:

Students will be able to identify a work as a satire, identify the object of ridicule of the satire, and the various techniques of the satirist.
From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality — and to effect reform through such exposure.

Do pp. 100-103
Answer After you Read questions, p 100
Complete Table p. 101
Answer Questions pp. 102

Targets of Satire

a. Society and its institutions

b. Types of people

c. A particular person

d. A place (city, state, nation)


Vocabulary Unit Book 4
Synonyms and Antonyms

Student is to bring 3 different satirical cartoons to class and answer the following questions:
What is being satirized in each of them-what is the object of ridicule?

 The cartoons should/could have as targets: Individuals, Types of Individuals, Institutions, Society, and Places.
Wednesday

Read prologue from Walking with the Wind By John Lewis p. 103-110

Take Cornell Style Notes


Answer questions After You read questions p. 111-112
Vocabulary Book C Unit 4 
Choosing the Right Word



Finish After you read questions p. 11-112

Go to John Lewis Website

http://johnlewis.house.gov/John Lewis Congressional Webiste
Thursday

Visit John Lewis Websites




Allegory Chart
Complete In teams



Vocabulary Book C Unit 4
Vocabulary in Context




Do pp. 114 A and B

Do a Roman Numeral Outline 5-paragraph Constructed response Essay

The story Lewis relates in this section has guided him in his Life. What does this story symbolize to him?



Friday

Innocuous
Visceral
Filial
Melodramatic
Mundane
Ravenous


Study for Book C Unit 4 Vocabulary Exam on Monday

This is practice for the essay section your final exam.

Essay- try to write this essay in 1 hour.
Use a timer!


Remember to write neatly or type, skip lines or triple -space,
Save time to proof read.
Check for topic sentences, use of transition words,  no sentence fragments or run-on sentences.

Remember you can practice for the vocabulary test online at




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