Fix-it-all Friday

Items Due Today: None.  Time is given to make sure all students are current with their notebooks, vocab assignments, make-up work, etc.

Due Next Class:
Notebooks will be collected.  The following items should be complete and up-to-date:

1. All vocab cut-outs, esp. hydra- and aqua-
2. Robin Hood "Varying Sentence Openers"
3. Multicultural Stories Scrolls (See end of this post for text, if needed)
   
4. Any "Redo" work, with a small Post-It flag to mark requested re-grading.

Future Due Dates:

• Tuesday, 09/27: Group Children's Story presentation, during 8th, in Cardinal Theatre
• Thursday, 09/29: Children's Story Individual Essay, via Edmodo (more info to come) by MIDNIGHT.

Coming Up: Storyteller guest presenter, Monday, 09/26 during COHORT;  Computer Lab 211, Tuesday, 09/27 to type Children's Story Essay.

Today's Bellringer: none today

What we did today: Reviewed proper format for vocab activities; read "Night", from the Rig Veda, an Indian Epic poem.  Discussed imagery (literal/visual vs. symbolic/figurative); in-text vocabulary; connotation vs. denotation; proper method for citing lines in poetry; theme and author's message.

Skills: Vocabulary; interpretation of text; visual and figurative imagery.

ELA Common Core Standards covered:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1
  Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2
  Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4
  Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone)
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.4.a
  Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.4.d
  Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).