Friday, November 13 "A Room of One's Own" finishing the graphic organizer.

Learning Targets for Wolfe's "A Room of One's Own"
                             I can read closely for textual details
                             I can annotate a text to support my comprehension and analysis
                             I can engage in a productive, evidence-based  conversation
                             I can determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary from contextual clues
                             I can generate and respond to questions in a scholarly discourse.

Essential question:  Where do we find the 

counterparts to Shakespeare's world in our own?

In class: vocabulary quiz from acquisitive to largesse

                  New vocabulary: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"      class handout / copy below.  Please note that next week's quiz is on Thursday, November 19

               Last day to work on "A Room of One's Own"

 graphic organizers.   Anyone who has extended 

time, may take them home over the weekend; 

otherwise, they are due today.


In class: continuing with "A Room of One's Own" graphic organizer.

Review of the instructions.

 "A Room of One's Own" graphic organizer

 instructions.

1. For this particular assignment, you will be working with ONE partner.  

2. You will each have a graphic organizer and will be assessed on what is written on yours alone.

3. I have broken down the text by varying the font. Next to each section there are three columns: question, response and annotation. 

3. With your partner, you will take turns reading to each other. stopping when the font changes. 

4. When you have finished reading the particular section, discuss the question and come to a consensus; that is a response that you both agree upon. You will then fill in both the response and any further comments or ideas in the annotation column.

5. Note that you must have a response and an annotation.


This is the only material you will have for the summative writing assessment.   


On the back of your vocabulary quiz, rewrite and 

correct the following sentence.

  In the first place it was snowing too hard to see the road in the second
place we had no chains. 



Correction for yesterday's sentence:


Many companies make sugar-free soft drinks, which are flavored by synthetic chemicals; the drinks usually contain only one or two calories per serving.

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Vocabulary quiz, Thursday, November 19

1.     kin (noun)- one's family and relations.

2.     kirk (noun)- church (most often used in Scotland)

3.     tyrannous (adjective)- unjustly severe  (think of a tyrant)

4.     prow (noun)- the portion of a ship's bow above water.

5.     shroud (noun)- a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial; a thing that envelops

6.     to aver (verb)- state or assert to be the case.

7.     furrow (noun)- long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow or a rut or groove

8.     agape (adjective) -     agog, wide open, especially with surprise or wonder.

9.     gossamers (noun)- a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs; used to refer to something very light, delicate.

10.                        spectre-bark (noun)    - ghost ship

11.                         vespers (noun)- the sixth of the canonical hours (times one was required to pray)

12.                         skiff (noun)- a flat bottomed boat.