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ENGLISH 12NOVEMBER AGENDAS

AGENDA 11/1/12

• Grendel Quiz• Finish reading Grendel Chapters 11-12• Complete Study Guide Questions• Last day for 1st quarter make-up work

• Grendel Study Guides due Wed. Nov. 7th • Rewrite of children’s story due Friday Nov. 9th

GRENDEL QUIZ

• Answer the following prompt in a fully developed paragraph. Make sure to provide textual support in your answer.

• Why do you think Gardner made the decision to use Grendel as a narrator? How does Grendel’s status as a monster affect the way he tells the story?

AGENDA 11/7/12

• Movie Vocabulary Set 4• Zodiac Signs: What’s Your Sign? What is

Grendel’s?• Grendel Study Guides due!• Different Point of View stories due Friday, Nov. 9th

MOVIE SAT VOCABULARY 4

James: So you’re a cadet. You’re studying. What’s your focus?

Uhura: Xenolinguistics. You have no idea what that means.

James: The study of alien languages, morphology, phonology, syntax. Means you’ve got a talented tongue.

MOVIE: STAR TREK, PARAMOUNT PICTURES, 2009

• Xenolinguistics means the study of alien languages.• Morphology in the field of linguistics means the

study of word forms and word relationships.• Phonology means the study of speech sounds of

a language.• Syntax means arranging words together to make

well-formed sentences.

ZODIAC ESSAY

• In the first paragraph, look at the description of your zodiac sign and discuss the similarities and differences between the description and your own personality. Give specific examples.• In the second paragraph, look at the chapter in

Grendel that uses your zodiac sign, how does that sign apply to the chapter? Give specific examples.• Provide an introduction and a conclusion.

AGENDA 11/9/12

• Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 4• P.O.V. Stories due today! Share!• Say goodbye to the Anglo-Saxon period and hello

to the Medieval period• Take notes• Quiz next class

MOVIE SAT VOCABULARY SET 4John: What is the extraction plan for the prisoners?General: Extraction plan? There is no extraction plan, we’re

going to level the place.John: Negative. I told you, SkyNet Central is filled with human

prisoners.

Kate: It has a hybrid nervous system. One human cortex, one machine.

Marcus: Blair, what have they done?John: Who built you?Marcus: My name is Marcus Wright.John: You think you’re human?Marcus: I am human.

MOVIE: TERMINATOR SALVATION, WARNER BROS., 2009

• Extraction means removal.• Hybrid means mixture, in this case part human,

part machine. Synonyms: amalgamation, composite, fusion.• Cortex translates as bark in Latin and refers, in

this case, to the outer layer of the front part of the brain, so it’s like the bark of the front part of the brain.

AGENDA 11/14/12

• SAT Movie Vocabulary Lesson 4• Quiz on Friday, Nov. 16th

• Medieval Period Notes Quiz• Chivalry and Courtly Love• Ten Commandments of Chivalry• Tenants of Courtly Love

• Prologue to Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer• Pilgrim Match

SAT MOVIE VOCABULARY SET 3-LESSON 4

Sydney: I’ve found that at the classy open houses, the spread is usually pretty decent and there’s a beautiful bevy of attractive and newly single women.

Pete: I don’t know what to say. Thank you for your honesty.

Sydney: Thank you for the sundried tomato aioli, because it’s a revelation.

Pete: Oh, wow! Hey, thanks for noticing.Sydney: Yeah. All right, I’m going to take this panini

for the road. There’s an open house in Belle Air that promises to be replete with cougars.

MOVIE: I LOVE YOU, MAN, DREAMWORKS PICTURES, 2009

• Bevy means large group. Synonyms: horde, throng.• Revelation means surprising or dramatic

announcement or realization, like the truth has been revealed. Synonym: epiphany.• Replete means full.

• Quiz on Lesson 4 on Friday, Nov. 16th

AGENDA 11/16/12

• Lesson 4 SAT Movie Vocabulary Quiz• SSR-30 min• Canterbury Tales prologue cont.-pg. 103• Complete Pilgrim Match as we read

AGENDA 11/20/12

• Canterbury Tales prologue, finish page 108• Turn in completed Pilgrim Match sheets• College essay tips.• HW: Next class bring 1 college essay prompt.

AGENDA 11/26/12

• Even Day Flex ¾• SAT Movie Vocabulary Set 5• Read “The Pardoner’s Tale” page 124• Answer Questions 1-8 after the story• College Essay Tips/What are they looking for?• Work in partners to develop an outline for answering the

college prompt.

SAT MOVIE VOCABULARY #5

• Jules: There’s this passage I got memorized: Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”

MOVIE: PULP FICTION, 1994• Righteous means moral or honorable. Synonyms: ethical

scrupulous, upright, virtuous. • Beset means troubled or afflicted. Synonyms: assailed,

bedeviled, beleaguered, besieged, harassed, inundated, oppressed, plagued, tormented.

• Iniquities means sins. Synonyms: depravity, impiousness, impropriety, transgression, turpitude, vice, villainy.

• Tyranny means cruel and harsh leadership. Synonyms: authoritarianism, despotism, fascism, oppression, subjugation, totalitarianism.

• Vengeance means revenge. Synonyms: reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution.

AGENDA 11/28/12

• Today: Flex 5/6• SAT Movie Vocabulary #2- Set 5• College Essay Examples• Would you accept them, deny them, or wait-list them?

• College Essay Prompts• In partners, share your chosen prompt. Brainstorm ideas

for writing, create an outline, and begin writing your rough draft.

SAT MOVIE VOCABULARY #2-SET 5

• Tyler: You know why they put oxygen masks on planes?• Jack: So you can breathe.• Tyler: Oxygen…gets you high. In a catastrophic

emergency, you’re taking giant, panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile, you accept your fate. It’s all right here. (He points to the passive faces of the figures on the Emergency Landing Instruction Card.) Emergency water landing…600 miles an hour…blank faces…calm as Hindu cows.

MOVIE: FIGHT CLUB, 20TH CENTURY FOX, 1999

• Catastrophic means disastrous. Synonyms: apocalyptic, calamitous, cataclysmic.• Euphoric means blissful. Synonyms: buoyant,

ebullient, ecstatic, elated, exuberant, exultant, jubilant, rapturous.• Docile means unquestionably obedient.

Synonyms: acquiescent, amenable, biddable, compliant, deferential, malleable, pliant, submissive, unassertive.