TENACIOUS TUESDAY

Items Due: TENACIOUS vocabulary page

Due Wednesday, 09/07: Finish Gilgamesh summary page in Composition Book.  Download PDF copy of the textbook reading, if needed.  REDO TENACIOUS page, if needed (almost everyone!).

Due Thursday, 09/08: VORACIOUS and "AER" vocabulary pages.

Coming Up: Finish Summer Assignment presentations during 8th period Thursday; Epic of Gilgamesh character analysis.

What we did today: Discussed how to properly write vocabulary sentences that show context.  Read excerpts from Epic of Gilgamesh, and worked in groups to complete page in Comp Book.

Today's Bellringer: none today

Skills: Creativity, giving reader context, character analysis

ELA Common Core Standards covered:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  
• 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.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
  

National Core Arts Standards covered:

• Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.