Week at a glance April 2 - 6, 2012

Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes figurative language including: idiom, imagery, and symbolism (11.1.2.K4), uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions (11.1.4.K5), compares/contrasts textual aspects: character traits, themes, character motives, and author's purpose (11.1.4.K7), analyzes and evaluates how the author's style (word choice and sentence structure) and use of literary devices work together to achieve his/her purpose by using tone, mood, and imagery (11.1.4.K11d, e, and h), and analyzes contextual aspects of setting and their influence on characters and events in the story including the contexts of history, society, and culture (11.2.1.K2a-c).

Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):

1. anni/enni - year - annual, bicentennial
2. giga - billion - gigajoule, gigavolt
3. kilo - thousand - kilogram, kilometer
4. mega - million - megabyte, megawatt
5. proto - first - prototype, protein

This week we'll wrap up our brief unit over American Folklore.  Students will begin the week with a quick overview of urban legends.  Students will then have a creative writing opportunity as they write their own urban legend -- within specific and set boundaries.  We'll wrap up the week with a root words quiz, an opportunity to share urban legends, and time to read for our 4th Quarter Independent Book Project.

• Mon: "Sleep Hollow" study guide due.  New root words; quiz on Friday.  American Folklore: Urban Legends - discussion and assignment overview.
• Tues: Urban legend - continue shaping and writing the short story.
• Wed: Urban legend - rough and final draft due by the end of the hour.
• Thurs: Root words quiz.  Urban legend - opportunity to share.  Independent book project reading.
• Fri: No school - teacher in-service