Tue/Wed

Gatsby Vocabulary
privy-corroborate for Thur/Friday quiz
Write sentences for vocab

Passages
Gatsby is a seismograph (2)

Daisy's house (12)

Daisy's child's birth (21)

Watch movie a bit.

Gatsby Vocabulary
privy-corroborate for Thur/Friday quiz

HOMEWORK:
1.Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
Words cantankerous-relinquish for test next Monday
2. Quiz over last 30 pages of The Grapes of Wrath online. That's chapters 28-end and in the online text it starts at page 281. The quiz is difficult, so be sure to read very carefully!!
The Grapes of Wrath
3. Discuss ending of the book.
What point is Steinbeck making about the problems with capitalism?
What point is Steinbeck making about the ways that people can find strength to prevail?
4. Check out Gatsby
HOMEWORK:
Read Gatsby pp. 1-

HOMEWORK:
Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
1. Memorize first 10 words for Tue/Wed Quiz "bemused"--"truculent"
2. Find Valentine's Day poem and post it on blog (see link below)
3. Review Of Mice and Men for Tue/Wed Test (20 points)
Short answer, identify the speaker of the quote

In class we will watch The Grapes of Wrath today and Tue/Wed

It's almost Valentine's Day, so in the spirit of love, I'd like each one of you to find a poem about love and enter it on the class Google Doc. Since some of you are grumpy Valentine's Day haters, I'll allow you to enter a poem that deals with any aspect of love as it was defined by the Greeks:

Philia--friendship and brotherly love
Agape--charity, compassion
Eros--romantic love; "the spark"
Storge--affection

Enter your poem here:

Love Poems, 1st Period
Love Poems, 4th Period 
Love Poems, 5th Period 

Create your entry like this:

Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare (Mr. Isom)

To make a link:
Find the poem on the Internet, highlight the URL and copy.
Then type the title of the poem in this document below the dotted line. 
Then highlight the title you typed and press ctrl K, and then ctrl V, and then enter

somewhere i have never traveled, by e.e. cummings (Mr. Isom)
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The Title of Your Poem, by Famous Poet (Your Name)





4th Period Love Poems
5th Period Love Poems

Tuesday/Wednesday

With a partner, write a vocabulary story using at least five of our vocabulary words from this week as well as one word from last week (6 total).
Vocabulary for Next Thur/Friday: Of Mice and Men, Quizlet deck
Words after "meager" (and be sure to review words from last week)

Read 20 minutes

To a Mouse, by Robert Burns
To a Mouse read in Scots by "Robert Burns"


Robert Frost poems
The Pasture
The Road Not Taken