WARMUP:  Create a crossword puzzle clue for each of the following vocab words.  You are not allowed to use any of the terms from your vocab sheets.

• Chaos
• Extant
• Obviate
• Waive

IN CLASS:  Work Day.  You can focus on either of the following

1. Finishing your assignment from yesterday (Due at end of class)
2. Reading Chapter 3  (Due tomorrow)

QUICK LECTURE: TERMS FROM OF MICE AND MEN

REMEMBER:  QUIZ TOMORROW

• Literary Terms (anything that we’ve added to the master sheet I gave you is fair game–as is FORESHADOWING).
• Also, anything from Chapters 1-3 of Of Mice and Men.

WARMUP:  Write a paragraph that includes correct usage of the following words

• Abhor
• Buffet
• Turbulent
• Vociferous

LEARNING TARGETS: by the end of class you should be able to

• Be able to define, in your own words, THE AMERICAN DREAM
• Be able to correctly identify the 8 most important characters in “Of Mice and Men”
• Understand the journal assignment that is due FRIDAY

Reading Day

Remember: Quiz Friday  (Of Mice and Men + Literary Terms)

WARMUP:  Pretend you are a cartoonist and you are making a version of Of Mice and Men where all the characters would be shown as animals.  What animals would you use for George and Lenny? Why?

LEARNING TARGETS:  as a result of today’s class, you should be able to 

1. Understand the key points of chapter 1 in the novel
2. Correctly pronounce all Unit 7 vocab words
3. Explain the term “FORESHADOWING.”

THE BIG OLD MASTER PRESENTATION:  OF MICE AND MEN

English 10 Unit 7 Vocab Packet.docx

LEARNING TARGETS

• Explain the basic biography of John Steinbeck
  • Explain the basic ideas of Communism and Socialism as presented by Karl Marx
  • Be able to describe the characters of Lenny and George as introduced in Chapter 1 of “Of Mice and Men.”
• HOMEWORK: FINISH CHAPTER 1 by tomorrow.

LEARNING TARGETS:  

1. Be able to explain, in your own words, each of the three types of IRONY
   1. SITUATIONAL
   2. DRAMATIC
   3. VERBAL
2. Be able to explain the concept of JUXTAPOSITION

IN CLASS

• Monday: Intro to second semester, pass out Literary Term sheets for second semester.
• Brief lecture:  Irony.
• TUESDAY:
  • LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of class today, you should be able to explain the irony in:
    • The TWILIGHT ZONE episode “Time Enough At Last”
    • The Short Story: THE STORY OF AN HOUR