Q4 - week 5/11

Day 1 - Monday 04/20/15

Essential Question:  What's up with the moths?
Agenda:
1.  Missing Moth
2.  Mothy Arguments
     - Wolf - is/not the moth
     - Dillard - broadax or moth
     - Hamlet is/not the moth
HW =  Write something Mothy - be creative, have something to say and say it - GDrive shared by midnight on Sat. 4/25 

Day 2 - Tuesday 04/21/15

Essential Question:  Who deserves and who is to say?
Agenda:
1.  Heart Transplant Arguments

Day 3 - Thursday 04/23/15

Essential Question:  Who deserves and who is to say?
Agenda:
1.  V 29 - chimerical, coterie, desiccate
     V 30 - gibe, educe, eschew       
     V31 - Abject, assiduous, callow, droll, erudite, impious, laconic, malady, misnomer, fait accompli, farcical, fecund, flotsam, flout
     V 33 - Prosaic, relegate, respite, salubrious, sedentary, stringent, swagger, tumultuous, abstruse, antediluvian, surreptitious, tirade, trenchant, upshot, whimsical, gerrymander, grist, harangue, harbinger, hirsute
     Excerpts from V 32 will be added to week 7 when we will be doing all of V34 - we will not test during week 6 because of SBAC
2.  Heart Transplant Arguments - cont.

Q4 - week 4/11

Day 1 - Monday 04/13/15

Essential Question:  Are we ready? ("The readiness is all")
CCSS - all - so don't look here after today
Agenda:
1.  Quick reading quiz
2.  Quick-ish com/con which may lead to HW
3.  Long Readiness Rant (w/ a plea for grammar) (motivation via visualization)

Day 2 - Tuesday 04/14/15

Essential Question:  Are we really ready? ("The readiness is all")
Agenda:
1.  Quick HW clarification
2.  Show Ponies Prance the SBAC

Day 3 - Thursday 04/16/15

Essential Question:  How can I show Longo the ready? ("The readiness is all")
Agenda:
1.  If there was HW assigned on Mon. 4/13, it is Due...
2.  Prima Donnas dance the SBAC 
HW 1 = read and thoroughly annotate the two Anne Dillard essays for Monday 04/20/15
HW 2 = expect an updated vocabulary list this day and be ready (it seems to be "all") for a vocabulary test on Thu. 04/23

Q4 - week 3/11

HW = read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" in Lemon Yellow on p. 472 and Maria-Cristina Mena's "The Vine-Leaf" also in Lemon on p. 477.  Some contextual research on your part would be helpful. Be prepared to compare and contrast the short stories - perhaps even with Hamlet - on Monday.

HW = prepare yourself mentally for SBAC