Monday, January 19th:
No school today!
Tuesday, January 20th:
1st and 2nd Periods:
Grammar:
Writer’s Choice, pages 542 – 544; exercises 9 and 10; this will be due on Wednesday, January 21st.
Exercise 9: write the adjective clause and the noun it modifies:
Example:
Ceremonial dances – they have been performing in the same way for centuries.
If there is a relative pronoun, underline the relative pronoun.
If there is a relative pronoun, underline the relative pronoun.
Exercise 10: write the adjective clause and the noun it modifies; then identify it as essential or nonessential.
Example:
Zoo – that we visited last week. Essential
Zoo – which has several species of rhino on display. Nonessential.
Vocabulary Unit 5 is due today
Go over Writer's Choice; pages 542 - 544; exercises 9 and 10. This will be due on Wednesday, January 21st.
Notes for the grammar homework:
Notes for the grammar homework:
Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whose, whoever, whomever, whom
The relative pronoun connects the subject or noun with the
adjective clause which describes the noun or subject.
The relative pronoun almost always immediately follows the
noun or subject.
Subordinating Conjunctions, such as when and where, can be used as relative pronouns which introduce adjective clauses.
Essential or Restrictive Clauses are adjective clauses which are essential to the meaning of the sentence. If the clause is removed, then the sentence would not make sense. The essential clause is introduced by the relative pronoun "that".
The nonessential or nonrestrictive clause may provide additional information about the noun or subject it describes, but is not essential to the meaning of the sentence. It is introduced by the relative pronoun "which".
Read The Bluest Eye
Work on "Chasing the Motif" chart
Work on the character chart for The Bluest Eye
Work on the time line for The Bluest Eye
Patch Work Quilt: Go through the book, find incidents in the
lives of the following characters, and write the incidents (along with the page number) down on a sheet of paper and
draw a box around them.
Pecola
Polly
Cholly
Claudia
2nd Period:
Vocabulary Unit 5 is due today
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23RD, THERE WILL BE A VOCABULARY TEST!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23RD, THERE WILL BE A VOCABULARY TEST!
Go over Writer's Choice; pages 542 - 544; exercises 9 and 10. This will be due on Wednesday, January 21st. See above notes.
Read The Great Gatsby; pages 127 - 130
Work on "Chasing the Motif" chart
Work on the character chart for The Great Gatsby
Work on the time line for The Great Gatsby
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Alex
went over the vocabulary quiz which he will give on Friday.
Briefly
went over the grammar homework; pages 542 – 544; exercises 9 and 10
Due
tomorrow, Wednesday
Read
The Great Gatsby; pages 128 – 130
Briefly
went over The Great Gatsby’s character
chart and time line and how to do it.
Kids
squirrelly today: Hilda sitting with Rebecca, resistant to moving; Macie
talking with Chuy, not listening, both resistant to moving; Chantal, Maryrose,
Ivette did not have books, sitting together. Davion didn’t have book, slouched
between two girls, not paying attention, resistant to moving. Tyler pushing
broken stapler with her foot in front of class, apparently for attention.
I asked her several times to pick it up and throw it away. She pushed the
broken stapler with foot until it reached the waste basket, then and only then
did she pick it up.
Tomorrow,
give them assigned seating.
Wednesday, January 21st:
1st Period:
Grammar is due today: Writer's Choice; pages 542 - 544; exercises 9 and 10.
Read The Bluest Eye
Work on "Chasing the Motif" chart
Work on the character chart for The Bluest Eye
Work on the time line for The Bluest Eye
2nd Period:
Grammar is due today; Writer's Choice; pages 542 - 544; exercises 9 and 10
Read The Great Gatsby
Pages 137 - 152
Work on the "Chasing the Motif" for The Great Gatsby
Work on the character chart for The Great Gatsby
Work on the time line for The Great Gatsby
Thursday, January 22nd:
1st Period:
On page 45, look for quotations regarding Pecola’s desire for blue eyes and her desire to
disappear into oblivion.
Oblivion: complete state of nothingness.
Oblivious: not aware of one’s surroundings
Quotations from The
Bluest EYE relating to Pecola’s desire for blue eyes (and why) and her
desire to disappear into oblivion.
Stephanie: “Every night, without fail, she prayed for blue
eyes.”
Stephanie: “Try as she might, she could never get her eyes
to disappear.”
Karla: “Please, God,” she whispered in her palm, “Please
make me disappear.”
Jasmine, “It had occurred to Pecola, some time ago that if
her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures , and knew the sight, if those eyes
were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be beautiful.”
Tereza: “…she would never know her beauty. She would see
only what there was to see: the eyes of other people”
Justin: “Why look at Pretty-Eyed Pecola! We mustn’t do bad
things in front of those pretty eyes!”
Kamron: “Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty
eyes.”
Christian: “As long as she looked the way she did, as long
as she was ugly, she would to stay with these people. Somehow she belonged to
them. Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret
of the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and
classmates alike.”
TIME LINE:
The Incident at the Store (page 49): Pecola goes into a
store to buy some candy with her three pennies, but the store owner, a
fifty-year old immigrant from eastern Europe, does not “see” her. He has no
interest in her. For him, she isn’t really even human, worthy of being looked
at.
Stephanie: “She holds the money towards him. He hesitates,
not wanting to touch her hand.”
Christian: “She looks up and sees the vacuum where curiosity
ought to lodge…..the vacuum edged with distaste in white eyes.”
Stephanie: “At some point in time….there is nothing to see.”
Answers to grammar homework: adjective clauses!
2nd Period:
Grammar Contest:
Divided class into two groups and went through the answers
to last night’s homework. Team Tyler won!
Read The Great Gatsby;
pages 137 – 150
Discussion of characters
Friday, January 23rd:
1st Period:
Read The Bluest Eye
Work on the "Chasing the Motif" for The Bluest Eye
Work on the character chart for The Bluest Eye
Work on the time line for The Bluest Eye
2nd Period:
Mr. Fox will be teaching the class today.
Today there will be a vocabulary test!
Today there will be a vocabulary test!
Vocabulary Unit
5 Test
The Vocabulary Unit 5 Narrative part of the test is due
today.
Continue work on the time line for The Bluest Eye
Pages 50 - 58:
Pecola visits the three prostitutes, China, Poland and the Maginot lines.
Chelsy: The women, who are outcasts themselves, are the only
ones in town (beside Claudia and Frieda) who accept Pecola. Pecola goes to the three prostitutes because she feels safe and comfortable
with them. Pecola is like a member
of their tribe – society’s outcasts – so they stick together.
Christian: It must be difficult for Pecola to be constantly
met with indifference from other people’s eyes. We are social beings – we need
and want the company of other people – and we are hurt when we are rejected by
others who do not see us as fully human.
Question:
What sets these women apart from the other women in the
town?
Answer:
Christian: The women are independent and are not dependent
on husbands or fathers to pay their way.
The women have bonded together and created their own family.
2nd Period:
Mr. Fox will be teaching the class today.
Today there will be a vocabulary test!
Today there will be a vocabulary test!
Vocabulary Unit
5 Test
The Vocabulary Unit 5 Narrative part of the test is due
today.
