Investigating Your Background Knowledge: August 27, 2018

Focus: How can background information help strengthen our reading skills?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Exploring one more painting with your reading strategies

3. Offering you a little mythical education; revisiting the warm-up painting

• How did your background information strengthen your interpretation of this painting?

4. Refreshing your grammar skills with our first IXL lesson:

• A reminder poster on IXL

HW:
1. For TOMORROW: Please read the W.H. Auden poem, "Musee des Beaux Arts" (handed out in class and linked here); complete one side of your blue three-columned notes as you analyze this poem.

2. For FRIDAY:

• IXL: Achieve a score of at least 85 on any two lessons from "Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons." The recommended level for English 10 is Level J, but move up or move down based on your skills.

• Independent reading PROPOSAL, SIGNATURES, AND BOOK due this Friday.