Daily Agendas and Assignments for English 2
Current Units of Study: Past Units
of Study:
Of
Mice and Men Kindred
Essay
Writing The Pearl
The introduction
The conclusion
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Based upon your
reading of
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Author Study of
John Steinbeck
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Read and take
notes on Steinbeck
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Focus on his
writing style
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What parts of his
biography come through in his writing of
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Prereading Questions and Discussion
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What makes you a
friend with someone? What are the limits to that friendship? (What might make
it end?)
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What are the
difficulties of a migrant lifestyle?
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How would a
migrant lifestly make a friendship stronger? Harder?
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Today:
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Define and give
current examples of:
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Idiom
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Allusion
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Creating a Study
Guide for OMAM
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Your best friend
has won a vacation to
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Plot Summary
1.
3-5 sentence
summary of the chapter
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Allusions, define
and explain
1.
2.
3.
watchin’ that blackboard
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Idioms, define
and explain
1.
blow their stake
2.
bustin’ a gut
3.
in hot water
4.
jungle-up
5.
live off the fatta the lan’
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Vocabulary,
define
1.
acre
2.
bindle
3.
mimick
4.
morosely
5.
contemplate
6.
elaborate
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A look at page
14-15, How might this be foreshadowing?
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Today:
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Complete work
from Block Day
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Begin reading
Chapter 2
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Today:
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Plot Triangle
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Exposition
1.
Background,
setting, characters
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Rising Action
1.
Conflict
2.
Inciting Incident
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Climax (Turning
Point)
1.
Things Change for
protagonist
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Falling Action
1.
Conflict begins
to be solved
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Resolution
1.
Conflict is
solved
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Read OMAM
chapter 2
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Today:
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Chapter 2 Study
Guide
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Wednesday, December
5 (Block)
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Plot Summary
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2-3 sentences
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Exposition
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Explain how Chapters
1 and 2 are the Exposition
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Allusion
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Eatin’ raw eggs
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Work slips
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Idioms
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Canned
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Bum steer
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Got the eye
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Pants full of
ants
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Picking scraps
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Sore as hell
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Foreshadowing
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What do you think
the event with Candy’s dog foreshadows?
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Chapter 3 Study
Guide
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Chapter 4 Study
Guide
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Complete study
guides for chapters 1-4
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Reminder: Need
SSR Book for Block Day