Today – Students will complete a vocab study for “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe. See the slides below for the details. If absent Monday, see yesterday’s calendar link for the story and the prep work leading up to today.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
October 24, 2016
Today – Students will complete bell work #16 and begin gaining an understanding of conjunctions and clauses found within a sentence. Afterward, they will be introduced to Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and annotate the difficult vocab words within the story. Anyone absent last Tuesday and back today will also make up the CRT. See the slide below for bell work #16.
October 18, 2016
Students will complete the CRT today to assess their current level attained regarding the following skills.
- subject/verb agreement
- context clues
- commonly confused words
- literary elements in fiction
- figurative language – simile, metaphor, and personification