Sub Plan for 9/27

Hi Kids:

VOCAB:

Here’s the vocab list for Round 2; I’ll get your sentences together for you soon, but I’m running out of time tonight.  Get your pages set up, and work on your definitions box, and the “anti-definition” box, and an illustration if you can.  

Your vocab work is 8+8, which includes THESE eight words, and then eight words of your choice:

pragmatic	moot	ubiquitous	enigmatic
cacophony	sanguine	esoteric	mitigate

ART OF STYLING SENTENCES

Pattern 3, page 15 (Yes, we’re skipping Pattern 2 for now)

The Colon: the Punctuation Mark of Expectation or Addition

Read the explanation and examples on pages 15-17, plus the brief summary on page 147.  

Complete the exercises on page 17 in your notebook on the Art of Styling Sentences page; you have such a page.  Find it (check your index), and continue your work.

LANGUAGE OF COMPOSITION

[Dear Period 1:  After we ran out of time while working on Death of a Moth, I just took that right off the agenda for the rest of the day.  We are having a do-over on Thursday.]

Today’s work:

Skip right over Death of a Moth (for now), and go to “Writing a Close Analysis Essay” on page 58.  Read this section, please.  Take a look at the Groucho Marx letter to Warner Bros., glance over the questions on 61.  But the FOCUS for this section is “Developing a Thesis Statement” on page 61-62.  Study the examples on the top of page 62, and read the sample close analysis essay on pages 62-63.  

Any time leftover?  Why not take a look at the vocabulary on pages 78-80?  See you tomorrow!