Jan. 8 & 9 ~ Block Day

BACKGROUND

  • Finish presentations from yesterday.

SUFFIXES
  • ance, ancy - action, process, state
  • ary, ery, ory - relating to, quality, place where
  • cian - possessing a specific skill or art
GRAMMAR
ACTIVITY
  • The hunt! Look for images of love in the magazines. Look for two categories: Ideal Love and Love Gone Wrong.
HOMEWORK - Download app. (Shakespeare in Bits, Midsummer)

     
  • Write a little story (3 pages or less) about your received image. Make sure your story has some truth about love in it.
  • Your story will be graded based on the theme and grammar. Make sure your story has a lesson about love, uses NO run-on/fragment sentence and has no dangling modifiers.
PREP
*Because the play was meant to be performed, we will be reading most of it out loud. This is a chance to polish your own reading skills. You will be graded on your reading out loud during this play based on fluency, clarity, audibility, and pronunciation. Practice your part if you are assigned the day before!
  • Theseus
  • Philostrate
  • Hermia
  • Demetrius
  • Bottom
  • Snout
  • Starveling
  • Hippolyta
  • Egeus
  • Lysander
  • Helena
  • Flute
  • Quince
  • Snug
HOMEWORK
  • Practice your reading if you got a part.
  • Complete your short story! Bridgette's class - Rough draft for peer editing due Monday.