Week 5: "Go On or Die" By Ann Petry From Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad pg 557 (6 pgs)
Monday: Each student will find an Internet picture that exemplifies each word's meaning. The student must then copy and paste the pictures into a PowerPoint show prepared by the teacher. This assignment also includes finding synonyms and antonyms for words. Vocabulary: (R.WS.08.04) Vocabulary (R.WS.08.04) Cajoling disheveled Dispel eloquence Fastidious fugitives Incentive incomprehensible Instill mutinous
Quotes: "There is so little that we parents can do to help our children. We can only try to set a good example… point the way. The rest you must do yourself. You must build your own character."
The Poem: An old woman defiantly shows her patriotism in the face of an invading army
Poetry Presentation
WARNING: Presentations are due at the beginning of the hour Friday. There will be no preparation time allowed--NONE! There will be no make-up!
Week 8-9
Student-Selected Novel
In the last weeks of October, we will be working on novel projects.
No vocabulary
Literary Terms:
Students will write about their novels using the literary elements we have been studying this quarter, namely: setting plot conflict character development foreshadowing theme (See English Terms.)
Literary Elements character plot theme setting conflict foreshadowing imagery personification point of view suspense frame story motivation unreliable narrator allusion climax complications direct quotations flashback biography resolution
Informational Prose Text
Literary Elements
Poetic Text
Range of Genre narrative poem free verse elegy couplet ballad lyric
Poetic Elements meter refrain rhyme scheme speaker stanza rhythm tone alliteration
