Honors+English+III+Essential+Questions

CCSS: Writing Strand 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Writing Strand 9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Write four sentences each day, including the ACT/SAT word of the day in one of the four sentences.

Week one:

Day Two
Can you determine tone and theme from a text message? What helps or prevents understanding of the intended message?

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hegemony(n.) domination over others
Consider author's purpose in writing. What ignites the spark to write? Reflect on your summer reading and select one as you describe the author's purpose in writing? media type="custom" key="26480304"
 * Day Three:**

**anomaly (** // **noun** //// **) ** // **oddities; things that don't seem to fit**


 * Day Four:**

Consider the relationship of an individual to the community. How can an individual maintain integrity and pursue personal dreams while contributing to the overall society?

Create a unique sentence highlighting the benefit of this device in sentence.

Please write this in your journal daily. If you are given a daily vocabulary word, please include the word in one of your four original sentences. If the part of speech is a verb, you may modify the verb tense. For example, surmise can be surmised if it works better in your sentence. media type="custom" key="26434904"
 * surmize (//verb//) guess; conjecture, suspect**

Week two:
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Reflect on the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter as you indicate the three visuals in your response. Consider the imagery and symbolism in your response. Four sentences/ACT/SAT word.
Have you ever treated someone as though they had a single story? Explain the circumstances and how you feel about it now? Four sentences/word of the day.

Has anyone ever treated you as though you had a single story? Explain the circumstances. Did it change how you felt about yourself or the other person? Four sentences/word of the day.

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 * Week Three: **

Has anyone ever treated you as though you had a single story? Explain the circumstances. Did it change how you felt about yourself or the other person? Four sentences/word of the day.

Henry David Thoreau said, "I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Consider Hester's retreat to isolation as you analyze the role of nature as a symbol of life. Four sentences/SAT Word.

Hawthorne focuses his attention on the problem of evil and the nature of sin. How does he develop this theme in the complex relationships between characters through the use of symbolism? Four sentences/SAT Words


 * Week Four:**

Hawthorne uses images frequently to create the mood and emphasize his ideas. Notice especially the use of plant life to differentiate between those with whom nature sympathizes and those with whom nature does not. Select one such example and examine it thoroughly with examples. Four sentences/SAT word.

Consider the use of darkness and shadows and the sunlight of the forest as you evaluate the relationships of characters to setting. Four sentences/SAT word.

Synthesize the role of the outsider in the act of public condemnation in the context of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Hester Prynne. Four sentences/SAT word.

Week Five:
In your opinion, why do the Puritan's refuse to believe Dimmesdale is the father of Hester's child? What does this say about society as a whole?

Denotation is the dictionary meaning of a word. Beyond the literal meaning, a word may have suggested or overtones of meaning. Examine the word of the day for its dictionary meaning and then try to write two different sentences with a different meaning.

In essence, connotation is the suggestion beyond the literal view. In advertising an athlete will endorse, or suggest, use of a product. Why does an individual want to but a product more when a famous person says it is good? What is implied?

Week Six:
Drawing inferences visual: You will write three inferences in your notebook from the picture in this video. media type="youtube" key="to30AJm2epQ" width="560" height="315"

You will use the skills of drawing inference from yesterday's visual and apply them to today's activity. Activity: answer the questions in your notebook, as prompted, in the video. media type="youtube" key="HDi66yKKxDM" width="420" height="315"

Sentence structure: watch the video as it demonstrates how a variety of sentences and lengths can mirror, or parallel, the theme or tone of a piece of work:

Alternating sentence structure engages the reader and gives writing variety. Explore the city of New Orleans and the mysterious events aboard a haunted riverboat to see how sentence structure increases the suspenseful tone of the video. media type="file" key="Supernatural_Structure.mp4" width="300" height="300"

Provide an objective summary, or factual summary without opinion, in three sentences of different lengths with one sentence including the word of the day.

Examine the meaning of the following statement:

"A poem is not like a newspaper, to be hastily read and cast into the wa stebasket. It is to be hung on the wall of one's mind."



Examine the meaning of the following statement:

"A poem is not like a newspaper, to be hastily read and cast into the wastebasket. It is to be hung on the wall of one's mind."

Week Seven:

EQ: Consider the main idea of a passage. How does one distinguish between the subject, supporting details and main idea. How does the main idea support theme? Reflect on this concept and be prepared to respond in the activity. proscribe (v.) to condemn, outlaw, or prohibit

After one minute I will ask you to tell me the subject of the video, the main idea and the supporting details. What can you infer from the initial scene? Predict which scenes will be selected to support the main idea. Hint: we will only see ten minutes of clips.

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Predict what you think will happen next. Support your predictions with at least two details from the first video

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Week Nine Essential Questions are embedded in the lesson and appear on activities here through activities and exits tickets for satire.