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Monday, January 13, 2020

January 13-17: 10th Grade World Lit

This Week: This week we are going to wrap-up our mini-unit on rhetoric and speeches by practicing rhetorical appeals and a quiz on Wednesday. We will also kick off our weekly TEDTalk Tuesdays that will help us continue our discussion of rhetoric throughout the semester and will be the first stepping stone to prepare us for our unit on research in March. On Thursday, we will begin our first main unit with notes on Julius Caesar. We will also have our first vocab quiz of the semester on Friday, so make sure you are studying Unit 9 Vocab!

Monday, January 13:
  • Wrap up Greta speeches
  • Practice with Identifying and Using Rhetorical Techniques (appeals and devices)
    • I am unable to post this assignment - please see/email me if you need a copy
Tuesday, January 14:
  • TEDTalk Tuesday!
    • Bryan Stevenson - "We need to talk about an injustice"
  • Unit 9 Vocab: Work on homework
Wednesday, January 15:
Thursday, January 16:
Friday, January 17:
  • Unit 9 Vocab Quiz
  • Work on "This I Believe" Essay
Next Week:
We will begin reading and analyzing Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

Important Dates:
  • Tuesday, January 14: Signed Syllabus Due
  • Wednesday, January 15: Unit 9 Vocab HW AND Rhetorical Techniques practice due at BEGINNING of class; Rhetorical Appeals and Devices Quiz
  • Friday, January 17: Unit 9 Vocab Quiz
  • Monday, January 20: MLK Day - No school!
  • Friday, January 24: "This I Believe" essay due at BEGINNING of class
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