H10+-+October+31+-+November+4

= = Monday, October 31 = = =Tuesday, November 1= = = =Wednesday, November 2=
 * vocab warm-up
 * write a rhyming nursery rhyme using your three favorite vocab words
 * sonnet handout
 * Go over McKay's "On a Primitive Canoe"
 * rhyme scheme - English vs. Italian
 * meter - iambic pentameter
 * structure of meaning in quatrains and final couplet
 * Discuss other examples on back
 * variations in patterns
 * sonnet assignment - due Monday, November 7
 * get record player from Connie
 * look at machine
 * discuss differences of live vs. recorded sound
 * listen to McKay reading "If We Must Die"
 * vocab quiz - Latin Roots II
 * sonnet discussion
 * I am a pirate with a wooden leg
 * Class sonnet writing
 * Sonnet assignment - due Thursday, Nov. 10
 * ======Grammar warm-up======
 * ======Find a grammar book. Turn to page 187.======
 * ======On a little piece of paper write the answers (full sentences)======
 * ======Exercise 19-1, #1-5======
 * ======if you're having trouble, look through the book and try #a-e======
 * "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
 * analysis - notes
 * model paragraph
 * "Third Degree" by Langston Hughes
 * give notes in class
 * Homework: Write a paragraph on a poem we have looked at in class. Discuss how the poet uses one literary device to get across a theme, idea, or mood.

= = =Thursday, November 3= = = =Friday, November 4= > Born in Salinas, California. > > == wrote about his home area == > = in high school = > == he worked on the school paper == > == summers he worked on local ranches == > == However, he was not a great student == > = 1919 – entered Stanford = > == went off and on for several years == > == worked on a ranch in between == > == finally left in 1925 with no degree and no job prospects == > = 1925 – Went to New York City – hoping to become a writer = > == got a job on a small paper == > == got fired because his writing was too subjective == > = Late 20’s – = > == manuscript for a book of short stories rejected == > == went back to CA as a deckhand on a freighter (ship) == > == worked as a caretaker at a lodge in the Sierra Mtns. – that gave him time to write == > = 1929 - Stock Market crashes = > = 1931 – 10,000,000 Americans out of work = > = Early 1930’s -2 books published, not well received. = > = 1935 – Publishes Of Mice and Men = > == a realistic story of the Salinas Valley == > = 1937-40 – travels on and off with migrant farm workers for a newspaper story = > = 1962 – Nobel Prize for Literature = > == Grapes of Wrath his best known book == > = 1964 – Awarded the US Medal of Freedom by President Johnson = > = 1968 – died in NYC = > = = > = OM&M first book that gave Steinbeck national recognition = > = Critics loved the book; some of the public disapproved = > == It has been banned from libraries & schools == > ===characters use bad words & swearing=== > ===characters use bad grammar=== > = Steinbeck wrote with Realism = > == what life is really like ==
 * Notes on prepositional phrases! Yay!
 * Assignment on song lyrics - due Monday
 * grammar warm-up: identifying prepositional phrases
 * Steinbeck notes
 * John Steinbeck 1902-1968
 * record player for McKay sonnet
 * listen to McKay read his own sonnet, and his introduction