English 10 Week 3
Eng 10 DO NOW 11/10/14
• Match the word to its definition:
1. Fibrous
2. Calabashes
3. Frenzy
4. Intoxicating
5. Bouts
6. Feign
7. Rebuke
8. Stunted
9. Harbingers
10. Copiously
A. violent mental
agitation’ wild excitement
B. contests; matches
C. Threadlike
D. pretend; represent falsely
E. stopped from growing
F. containers made from dried
gourds
G. stimulating or exciting
H. forerunners
I. Abundantly
J. criticized’ reprimanded
Success Today Means
• You can demonstrate success by
completing the chapter 6 handout and
verbalizing at the end of class similarities
and differences between American sports
and Ibo sports.
• HW: Read chapter 7. Finish all study guide
questions for Chapters 5-7
Eng 10 DO NOW 11/11/14
• Gather all your materials to turn in today at
your desk (Do Nows since last reading
check, Week of Peace assignment,
Chapter 6 handout from yesterday if not
stamped already)
• Have any notes you took from Chapters 57 on your desk. Have a pen/pencil out as
well.
Eng 10 Success Today Means
• Students demonstrate their reading
comprehension through their reading
check quiz answers.
• Students work to find definitions for the
next vocab quiz:
• valor, resignation, elude, mutilate,
malevolence, listless, specious,
manifest, communal, pandemonium,
esoteric, approbation
Eng 10 DO NOW 11-12-14
• How does Genesis 22:1-19 relate to Ch. 7?
• “Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him,
“Abraham!”
• “Here I am,” he replied.
• Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you
love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him
there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”……
• Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
• “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
• “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the
lamb for the burnt offering?”
• Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the
burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
Success Today Means
• You can analyze character motives and
relationships in ch. 7
• You demonstrate this by completing the
graphic organizer AND verbally share your
responses with your partner and class.
• You quiz yourself over vocab words and
note which words you need to study.
Eng 10 DO NOW 11/13/14
• Take a Vocab Matching Sheet. Without
using any notes, just your brain try to
match the vocab words to their definitions.
We will pick our focus words today.
Success Today Means 11/13
• Students will practice vocab in order to better
comprehend their reading today.
• Students will also read Chapter 8for
comprehension using the study guide to find
critical information.
• You know you were successful when you
have your list of vocab words ready to study
and answers to Chapter 8 questions
Eng 10 DO NOW 11/14/14
• Make a list of the most popular names for
newborns in the last few years (What are
some common names moms/dads are
using to name their kids?)
• What does your name mean? Why did
your parents give you this name? If you
could change your name, what would you
change it to? Why would you choose this
name?
• HW: Finish reading chapters 8-10
• Okonkwo’s second wife Ekwefi “had suffered a good
deal in her life. She had borne ten children and
• nine of them had died in infancy, usually before the
age of three.” This misfortune is attributed
• to ogbanjie, wicked children who are repeatedly
reincarnated. Because of the deaths, Ekwefi gives her
• children names that reflect her belief in the
reincarnation process. In addition, names are so
important to the members of the Ibo tribe that they
hold naming ceremonies seven weeks after the birth of
a child.
Success Today Means 11/14
• Students will read chapter 9 in order to
gain an understanding of the Ibo view of
life/death and to find out what else is
happening in Okonkwo’s world.
• You know you are successful if you find all
the study guide answers to chapter 9