Brighton Beach MemoirsMiss Rice

20 March 2013

Warm-Up

• What do you think the tone of Brighton Beach Memoirs is? Think about what Simon’s purpose was in writing this play. • Use one of your vocabulary words to describe the tone

*Please take out journal #2 to be collected

Agenda

• Suffixes• Vocabulary• BBM Review• Postcards

ENG. 10 Objectives 3/20

• To make personal connections to vocabulary words.• To analyze tone in Brighton Beach Memoirs.• To understand and apply traits of the characters in

Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Suffix Assignment

• Suffix HW assignment• Find a school appropriate newspaper article, magazine

article, or song lyrics • Print or cut this document out and highlight 5 words

within it that use 5 different suffixes that we talked about in class

• Then, on a separate sheet of paper, write how each suffix changes the root word

DUE TUESDAY, 3/26

Vocabulary

• HW due tomorrow?

• Vobackulary

BBM Quiz

• What is going on in Europe and how does this affect the Jerome family?

Warm-Up

• What do you think the tone of Brighton Beach Memoirs is? Think about what Simon’s purpose was in writing this play. • Use one of your vocabulary words to describe the tone

*Please take out journal #2 to be collected

Yesterday’s Work

• Reading comprehension questions• What is the dinner conversation like that night at “The

Infamous Dinner?” (41) • Before Jack knows that there is an issue with Stanley

at work, what does he tell Stanley to do? • How does the war in Europe affect the Jerome family?

(49)• When does Nora finally get to talk to Jack? (54)

Postcards

• Guidelines• Brainstorming

BBM

• Reading time!

Homework

• Vocab. HW due tomorrow• Postcard due Friday• Vocab. Quiz Friday