Monday, January 12th:
1st Period:
Pass out the syllabus
2nd Period:
Pass out the syllabus
Tuesday, January 13th:
Assigned Unit 5 Vocabulary; due Tuesday, January 20th.
Went over the Motif Graphic Organizer
Assigned the Motif Graphic Organizer
THE BLUEST EYE
Vocabulary:
Supple: flexible
Read pages 97 – 109
Questions:
How does Morrison describe the Maginot Line?
What imagery does she use?
What metaphors does she use?
What similes does she use?
Compare and contrast how Mrs. Breedlove treats her daughter
and the little white girl she is paid to care for.
2nd Period:
Assigned Unit 5 Vocabulary; due Tuesday, January 20th
Vocabulary Words
Amnesty: a general pardon by a government towards an
individual or a group of people.
Autonomy: independence; self-governing
All adolescents strive for autonomy.
An adult needs to be able to make autonomous decisions.
Vocabulary from THE GREAT GATSBY
Reveries: a day dream, an idle day dream
Passed out the Motif Graphic Organizer
Went over and assigned
Read THE GREAT GATSBY; Chapter 6
Pages 98 - 100
Monday, January 12th: Wednesday, January 14th:
Wednesday, January 14th:
1st Period:
Grammar Warm-up: “Kinds of Clauses” due at 8:30
Due on Tuesday, January 20th: Vocabulary Unit 2
The Bluest Eye
Read pages 110 – 115
Vocabulary:
Belie: to cover up
Melancholy: sadness
2nd Period:
Assigned and went over grammar handout; “Kinds of Clauses”
Due tomorrow
Unit 5 Vocabulary due Tuesday, January 20th
Read The Great Gatsby;
pages 101 – 108
Vocabulary:
Inhospitably
Cordial
Perturbed
Florid
Debauchery
Antecedents
Thursday, January 15th:
1st Period:
Vocabulary Bingo!
Read THE BLUEST EYE
Pages 114 - 126
THE BLUEST EYE Vocabulary:
Foaling: the verb to describe when a mare (female horse)
gives birth.
Foal: a new born horse
Oberlin: a city in Ohio
Affinity: a
liking for; feeling a kinship with something
Watching/Observing Motif: page 123; Pauline watching Clark Gable and Jean Harlow films
2nd Period:
Grammar Handout due today!
Vocabulary Bingo
THE GREAT GATSBY
Read pages 108 – 120
Vocabulary:
Trimalchio: a character in the 1st Century book,
SATYRICON. Trimalchio came from an extremely modest background, and through
hard work amassed a fortune, which he used to throw huge, lavish parties – much
like Gatsby.
Graphic Organizer: Car motif page 113
Friday, January 16th:
Friday, January 16th:
Period 1
Motif:
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Context
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Quotation
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Analysis
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Watching/Observing
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Polly starts going to the movies where she notices the
extreme beauty of the stars and compares them with the looks of the
ordinary people around her.
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(Page 123)
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Assigned today:
WRITER’S CHOICE; page 542 – 544
Exercises 9 and 10; exercises 9 and 10 will be due on Wednesday, January 21st
THE BLUEST EYE
Page 126 – 135
Figurative Language:
Simile: comparison between two unlike things using like or
as.
Allusion: Reference to another piece of literature, such as
the Bible, or plays by Shakespeare or to mythology.
Example: She bore Cholly like a crown of thorns and the
children like a cross.
This is a reference to the Bible, specifically to Christ and
the crucifixion, and the crown of thorns he was forced to wear during his
crucifixion. This is saying that
Polly saw her husband and her children as burdens and punishment which she must
bear, much like Christ had to bear the cross and the crown of thorns.
Vocabulary:
Slovenliness: sloppiness. A state of sloppiness,
carelessness.
Reveling: to enjoy, to bask in, to glory in,
Period 2:
READER’S CHOICE; pages 542 – 544; Exercise 9 and Exercise
10; due on Wednesday, January 21st.
Read THE GREAT GATSBY; pages 120 – 127
Vocabulary:
Boisterously: to do something in a loud, noisy, unrestrained
manner
Gauge: a meter which measures the levels of liquids, as in
gas in a car. Before you put the car in drive, you should always check the gas
gauge. (Pronounced like “gage”.) Can be used as a verb which means to check the
volume, magnitude or levels.
Contingency: provisions for an emergency, or an unexpected event.
Abyss: a deep bottomless pit or chasm
Proprietor: the owner of a piece of property
Inexplicable: unexplainable
Sensuous: having to do with the senses, the pleasure of the
senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, sound
Motif
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Context
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Quotation
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Analysis
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Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s Spectacles
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It is a blistering hot summer day and Tom has just
realized that his wife is in love with another man. The drunk party of five are on their way to New York and
Tom has stopped at George Wilson’s garage to put gas in Gatsby’s car. George tells him that he needs money
so that he can move him and his wife out west.
Nick, who is riding in Gatsby’s car with Tom and Jordan,
narrates that:
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Page 122
“Then, as
Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes came into sight down the road, I remember
Gatsby’s caution about gasoline.”
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George Wilson’s garage sits in “the Valley of Ashes” – a
nightmare of industrial waste – which is the by-product of the selfish,
destructive pursuit of wealth and power. This is where the poor people live, like George and Myrtle
Wilson, who are preyed upon by the rich like Tom Buchanan. The advertising sign’s silent eyes of
the long defunct Dr. Eckleburg’s
clinic observes, watches and judges the sad, pathetic endeavors of the
inhabitants and visitors of the valley of ash.
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