Brighton Beach Memoirs

15 March 2013

Miss Rice

Warm-Up

Use the word “contend” properly in a sentence.

Study when you are done

Look over vocab. paragraph HW and raise your hands to ask any questions you have about it

Congrats, Kyra!

(Hold onto your descriptive essays for now)

Agenda

Vocab. unit 4 test

Suffixes

Highlight descriptive essays

Read BBM

Character charts

ENG. 10 Objectives 3/15

To test knowledge of vocabulary words.

To analyze characterization in Brighton Beach Memoirs.

To interpret content in Brighton Beach Memoirs.

To reflect and personally connect with Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Warm-Up

Use the word “contend” properly in a sentence.

Vocab. Test

Any final questions?

Issues from vocab. paragraphs…

Clear desks

Work on comma WS or BBM questions when done

Suffixes

ion/tion/ation/ition

Examples: occasion, attraction, humiliation, promotion

turns words into nouns

ity/ty

state of

noun

less

without _____

Descriptive Essays

Time to highlight! Color-code where you used each sense in your essay:

Sight/Seeing: Green Touch/Feeling: Pink

Sound/Hearing: Yellow

Taste: Orange Smell/odors: Circle with pen or pencil

Homework

Comma worksheet sections 1-8 due Monday, 3/18

Quick comma quiz Tuesday, 3/19

Brighton Beach Memoirs Act 1 reading comprehension questions #1-28 due Monday, 3/18

Organize binders!!!!!

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Recap: Who is Stan? What happened to him?

Page 27

Character Charts

Let’s revisit our character charts and add more details

Homework

Comma worksheet sections 1-8 due Monday, 3/18

Quick comma quiz Tuesday, 3/19

Brighton Beach Memoirs Act 1 reading comprehension questions #1-28 due Monday, 3/18

Organize binders!!!!!