English 11 Honors

English 11 Honors
Syllabus
November 20-22, 2006

Monday, November 20, 2006
• Discuss Wikispace and assignment.
• Hand out Annotated Bibliography information. Discuss assignment.
• Test over Vocabulary 1 Lesson.
• Discuss To Kill A Mockingbird assignments.
• Read pp. 3-19 for Tuesday-“The Beginnings.” Quiz on Wednesday.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
• In lab to type Criterion #2.
• Work on information over 1930s.
• Discuss “The Beginnings” material.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
• Quiz over “The Beginnings.”
• Go over Vocabulary Lesson 2. Test is on Monday, November 27.
• Discuss To Kill A Mockingbird.

Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary:
11.1.3 Analyze the meaning of analogies encountered, analyzing specific comparisons as well as relationships and inferences
Reading

11.2.2 Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, repetition of the main ideas, organization of language, and word choice in the text
11.3.1 Analyze characteristics of subgenres, types of writings such as satire, parody, allegory, and pastoral that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres.
• Satire: using humor to point out weaknesses of people and society.
11.3.3 Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author’s style, and the sound of language achieve specific rhetorical (communication) or aesthetic (artistic) purposes or both.
Writing:
11.4.1 Discuss ideas for writing with classmates, teachers, and other writers.
11.4.6 Use language in creative and vivid ways to establish a specific tone
11.4.5 Enhance meaning using rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy and the issuance of a call for action.
11.4.9 Use a computer to integrate databases, pictures and graphics, and spreadsheets into word-processed documents.


Have a nice and safe Thanksgiving Holiday.