Block Day, Week 23

* Pray

* Collect Journal

* Quiz

* Reno's classes: Comma section 32.
Punctuation: The Comma
Read and take notes on 32, 32a, and 32b.
Do 32-1 letters and numbers.

* Work on your Q3 CWP.

HW: Read Dickens

Wednesday, 1/18: Writing

* Pray

* Grammar
32-1
a. no comma needed in sentence
b. animation, The Adventures
c. weeks, you (comma deleted elsewhere and added here)
d. correct
e. violin, but
1. driving, a
2. no comma needed in this sentence
3. lamps, hundreds
4. correct
5. instruments, but

* Read Scott's Essay (below)

* Discuss

* Work on J23

HW: J23

Tuesday 1/17: Grammar, Poetry... (No school on Monday; Martin Luther King, Jr.)

* Pray

Review ch. 2 ideas and poems:

Now reconsider last week's poem with the four questions above:
"Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt"

Answer the four questions in your notes for each:
Ready for a rather tricky poem? 
"Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman

The tricky part has to do with the kind of imagery the author has chosen for spring.

A dark, tricky poem by the same author?
"Is My Team Ploughing" by A.E. Housman

A trick there is discerning the speaker(s).

And some sea faring:
"Sea Fever" by John Masefield

Vocabulary for the Week



Journal 23: Dickens chapters 6-10 and vocabulary (below).  Answer two questions per chapter (unless a chapter only has one question).  Provide two sentences for each vocabulary word.  This is (as always) due on your block day. 

11. dregs
12. excommunicate
13. ablution
14. alight
15. sullen
16. transfix
17. adamantine
18. caparisoned
19. felicitous
20. fortuitous

Grammar: Begin Punctuation: The Comma
Read and take notes on 32, 32a, and 32b.
Do 32-1 letters and numbers.

* Remember that we have a quiz on our block day this week; it covers vocab. 1-20 and ch. 1-10 of Dickens.

HW: Finish grammar, Work on J23