Samurai Essay / The Silver Kiss VII / The Most Dangerous Game

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Grade 12

• Continued writing the Samurai essay in class. This is the last period devoted to this. Essay due on Friday.
• Tomorrow is peer review for question #88.

Grade 10

• Copied vocabulary while hw was checked:

12. Anecdote: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
13. Profound: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; great, important meaning
14. Thesis: A statement that is maintained by argument
15. Annotate: to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes

• Discussed most of chapter 9, especially the conversation between Zoe and Simon at the door to her house.
• HW: read chapter 10 through page 116 and write a log. (This chapter is long so I cut it in half.)

Grade 9

• Yesterday's vocab:

3. Plot: the sequence of events in a story
4. Setting: Where and when a story takes place
5. Motivation: what inspires or provokes the main character in a story to action.
6. conflict: the persons or forces that keep the protagonist from achieving his goal
7. complication: events or obstacles that keep the protagonist from achieving his goal
8. suspense: a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement
9. dénouement: conclusion of a story
10. Annotate: to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes

• Checked HW (define first 12 vocab words bolded and underlined in the story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
• Explained the importance of annotating text. Read the first page of the story together and modeled annotating clues to literary elements (tone, theme, characterization, etc.), important ideas, confusions.
• HW: read page 2, annotate to the best of your ability.