Block Day, Week 3

* Open

* Vocabulary Quiz (for classes quizzing)

* Work on Your CWP while others finish the quiz

* Discuss/Collect J1 (Esther and the four parts of fiction)

* Read and take notes from Lewis Turco on plot (pages 2-3 of .pdf)

* Grammar Notes

• There (location), their (possession), they're (they are)
• Take it for granted (not granite)...oh, and avoid clichés like the plague!
• a lot (not the same as the verb allot)...oh, and avoid really, really, useless modifiers and very wimpy words
• tragedy (not tradgedy)
• Sentence Fragments: Begin reviewing Bedford section 19 (click on Grammatical Sentences on the left sidebar) if time permits.  

* Honors Only: Discuss "The Vanity of Human Wishes"

* Read "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers" in the Short Stories anthology. It follows "Esther" (pg. 35 of the .pdf or pg. 24 if you are looking at the book pages.

HW: Finish reading "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers"

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