Friday, December 13, 2013

Week of December 9 - 13

-Read "Cask of Amontillado"
-pages 105-106 SB
-Timeline and TChart on the story
-"Cask" comic strip in order with reflections
-Started a group test on "Cask" and received study sheet for the exam.

Extra Credit due Tuesday:  Choose any moment in the story. Circle it in the text. Your homework is to draw that moment. Your drawing must be detailed. Read the text carefully! You should include costume details, props, backgrounds, etc. Think of it as a movie scene that you are drawing.



Study sheet for English:
1. Theme


2. Symbol

3. Storyboard

4. Irony

5. Point of View

6. Motif

7. Attitude

8. Figurative Language

9. Tone

10. Shift

11. Paraphrase

12. Avant-garde

13. Testimonials

14. Facts and figures

15. Transfer

16. Ethos

17. Pathos

18. Logos

19. Bandwagon

20. Syntax

21. Diction

22. Voice

23. Indirect quote

24. Tone

25. Direct quote



To/Too/Two

Its/It’s

There/Their/They’re

I'm going ____ walk _____ the store for__ gallons of milk. Do you want _______________ come, _______________?

or are you _______________ tired?

The dog scratched ________ ears.

I told her that ________ crazy to not memorize the prologue.

________ is no way I'm going to put _____ books in my

locker. ________ crazy!



Punctuating quotation marks correctly:

It makes me so mad when Karon says I hate Mrs. Bennett’s class

I told William just do your work and you’ll make an A

Mrs. Bennett always says what if a mountain dies

Hush Brianna hissed at Qa'Von.

Sentences/Fragments/Runons

1. Climbing on the monkey bars in the park

2. Pass the ketchup

3. Plays trombone in the school band

4. The President made a speech on national television

5. Jessica made an “A” on her science project

6. Ran to first base when he hit the ball

7. He missed

8. The ski boat capsized in the water

9. After everyone had left the party


“Cask of Amontillado”


Friday, December 6, 2013

Spiral Contents

B1:Vocab cards (Bandwagon)
B2: Cornell Notes on pages 85, 88
B3:  Vocab cards
B4:  TPCASTT "Poison Tree"
B5:  Tim Burton Notes
B6:  Toilet Paper Notes
B7:  TChart (still blank)
B8:  Timeline (still blank)

Monday - Friday, December 2-6

- LIA test
- Page 94 - 95 in the Springboard book
B6 - Copy notes about Toilet Paper into your spiral
Create a T Chart and Timeline in your spiral for B7 and B8

As a group:
Put the “Cask” comic in order on the three pieces of paper. Glue or staple the strips down when they are right.


On the back of the first paper, work together to summarize what happens in the story using exactly 38 words.

On the back of the second paper, list the words you did not know and their definitions.

On the back of the third paper, each group member must write a +, -, ?, ! Reaction.

+ - your favorite part

- your least favorite part

? – something you don’t/didn’t understand

! – Where were you surprised?