Monday, September 23rd:
Finish up the Freitag Pyramid for “The Most Dangerous Game”
plot.
Review the following terms:
Antagonist, protagonist, setting, mood, metaphor, simile and
imagery
Conflict: Person vs. Person,
Person vs. Nature
Person vs. Self
Person vs. the Supernatural
For homework tonight, finish up “The Most Dangerous Game”
Tuesday, September 24th:
“The Most Dangerous Game” vocabulary, grammar and suspense
handout is due today.
Please bring your HOLT HANDBOOK to class. The Parts of the Sentence, pages 40 - 47; exercises 1- 3. The grammar homework will be due on Thursday, September 25th.
Begin work on the essay for “The Most Dangerous Game”
The essay prompt is: How does Richard Connell use setting,
mood and character to reveal the theme that “The World Is Divided into Two
Categories: the strong and the weak, and the strong have the right to prey upon the weak. Does the ending support or challenge the theme? What does Connell seem to be saying about the belief that the strong have the right to prey upon the weak?
Begin work on your Cornell Notes for “The Most Dangerous
Game”
Find at least
three relevant quotations for your
essay
Explain in your
own words why and how the quotation supports your thesis statement.
Wednesday, September 25th:
Work on your rough draft in class.
Thursday, September 26th:
Your rough draft will be due today.
We will break into groups of four and do peer editing on the
rough draft.
The grammar homework is due today. Pages 40 - 47; exercises 4, 5 and Review will be assigned and due on Tuesday, October 1st.
Friday, September 27th:
Your final draft will be due today.
If everyone turns in her/his final draft today, we will spend Friday and Monday working on a board game for "The Most Dangerous Game" (a la "Monopoly")
Otherwise:
If everyone turns in her/his final draft today, we will spend Friday and Monday working on a board game for "The Most Dangerous Game" (a la "Monopoly")
Otherwise:
Begin reading "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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