Assignments:
Vocabulary:
1. augury 2. feign 3. pretext 4. lucidity 5. penury
6. mulatto 7. resolute 8. precipice 9. ephemeral 10. peremptory
11. dispersion 12. pestilential 13. prodigious 14. enigma
April 21: Begin group work with passages from Chronicle
Finish vocabulary presentations
April 25: Journal #3 due--Trace the steps of the Vicario brothers before, during, and after the murder.
Finish group work
Continue passages work
April 27: Review Chapter 3
Last of the group presentations--Latino machismo.
Do a color-marking IN CLASS.
May 1: Discuss how Chapter 4 is different from the rest and why the book is broken into these five distinctive chapters. Based on the formatting so far, where does Chapter 5 go?
Read Chapter 5 for homework.
Begin narrowing topics for the final paper.
Discuss the final paper--format and topics.
May 3: Finish reflective statements.
Groups: #1--minor characters and their reason for not telling Santiago
#2--events from the story and putting those in order
May 5: Groups will discuss their results
Supervised writings
Journal #4 due--Speculate on the five-part structure of the work. What is different about the five sections? Is there a progression? A logic to the presentation? A chronology? Support your speculations with specific textual references (at least five).
May 9: Chronicle test.
May 15: Final papers due
Review
Finish vocabulary presentations
April 25: Journal #3 due--Trace the steps of the Vicario brothers before, during, and after the murder.
Finish group work
Continue passages work
April 27: Review Chapter 3
Last of the group presentations--Latino machismo.
Do a color-marking IN CLASS.
May 1: Discuss how Chapter 4 is different from the rest and why the book is broken into these five distinctive chapters. Based on the formatting so far, where does Chapter 5 go?
Read Chapter 5 for homework.
Begin narrowing topics for the final paper.
Discuss the final paper--format and topics.
May 3: Finish reflective statements.
Groups: #1--minor characters and their reason for not telling Santiago
#2--events from the story and putting those in order
May 5: Groups will discuss their results
Supervised writings
Journal #4 due--Speculate on the five-part structure of the work. What is different about the five sections? Is there a progression? A logic to the presentation? A chronology? Support your speculations with specific textual references (at least five).
May 9: Chronicle test.
May 15: Final papers due
Review