Week 7( 03/23/09 -03/27/09)

03/23/09

Aim: How does “A Child of Our Time" article inspire you?

Do Now:

• Copy Word of the Day (brief definition, partsof speech, and the example sentence)
• Copy Daily Test Prep( question and answer)
• Read and copy ONE news summary
• On this Day in History ( after reading, copy down one snippet of On this Day in History )

Activites

1.Journal #18 Describe an experience in which you attended a concert. How did the concert affect you? If you have never attended a live concert, who is your favorite singer/musician? How does the singer's music affect you?

2.Read the article "Before the Spring, a Bleak Winter of the Soul" . Describe three features about the concert that are unique and inspiring to you.

HW #26

A.After reading the article "Before the Spring, a Bleak Winter of the Soul" , describe how the article inspired you.

B. Pick three new vocabulary word that you don't know from the two articles. Find the definitions of each word and copy the sentences in wich the words are used.

1. oratorio:a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery
2. a cappella: without instrumental accompaniment
3. evoke::to call forth or up; to re-create imaginatively
4. reprisal:: the regaining of something (as by recapture)

03/24/09

Aim: How does the article "Pilgrimage to Hallowed Ground With Plenty of Joyful Noise" transform your thoughts about Gospel music?

Do Now:

• Copy Word of the Day (brief definition, partsof speech, and the example sentence)
• Copy Daily Test Prep( question and answer)
• Read and copy ONE news summary
• On this Day in History ( after reading, copy down one snippet of On this Day in History )

Activites

1.Journal #19 What do you know about the spiritual and gospel music? Listen to Kirk Franklin's gospel music. Aretha Franklin's soul music Find three adjectives to describe the music and how the music makes you feel.

2.Read the article "Pilgrimage to Hallowed Ground With Plenty of Joyful Noise" .Identify 5 adjectives from the article to describe the event. Explain the meaning of each adjective.

HW #27

Make a sentence ( of your own) using each adjective.

• charismatic
• flamboyant
• embellished
• blissful
• soulful

03/25/09

Aim: How do the audience review harpsichordist Richard Egarr's performance of Bach's music?

Do Now:

• Copy Word of the Day (brief definition, partsof speech, and the example sentence)
• Copy Daily Test Prep( question and answer)
• Read and copy ONE news summary
• On this Day in History ( after reading, copy down one snippet of On this Day in History )

Activites

1.Journal #20 Describe your understanding of classical music.Listen to Bach's Brandenburg. What signifies it? Doe it give you the same feelings as the gospel or soul music ? Describe it.

2.What's a concerto(a piece for one or more soloists and orchestra with three contrasting movements )? Read the article "Six Concertos From Bach, One Lesson in Symmetry". In your notebook, answer-

• How does the author of the article feel about Mr. Richard Egarr's performance? Select three sentences to show his attitude( complete the activity in class).
• Would you go to the concert ( if you could) after reading the article? Explain.

HW #28

A. Copy the sentences in the article where the vocabulary words are used.

B. Make a sentence ( of your own) using each new vocabulary-

1. traversal: making a study of : examine
2. interpolating : to alter or corrupt (as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter
3. cadenza:an exceptionally brilliant part of an artistic ; technically brilliant sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto
4. arpeggiated: production of the tones of a chord in succession and not simultaneously
5. susceptibility:: open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus, influence, or agency
6. numerological: the study of the occult(shut off from view or exposure ) significance of numbers
7. Adagio
8. veer: to change direction or course
9. flair: a uniquely attractive quality

03/26/09

Aim: How does classic Rock 'n Roll differ from today's rock 'n roll?

Do Now:

• Copy Word of the Day (brief definition, partsof speech, and the example sentence)
• Copy Daily Test Prep( question and answer)
• Read and copy ONE news summary
• On this Day in History ( after reading, copy down one snippet of On this Day in History )

Activites

1.Journal #21 Do you recognize any of the singers listed? What type of music did he sing? What do you like about his music?( Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley)

2.Read the article " If Something’s Missing, All the Better".

How did Ms. White add ingenuity into her music? What's missing?

HW #29

A. Pick three new vocabulary word that you don't know from the two articles. Find the definitions of each word and copy the sentences in wich the words are used.

B. After reading the article, answer: How did Ms. White add ingenuity into her music? What's missing?

03/27/09

Aim: To review the new vocabulary words for the quiz on Tuesday 03/31

Here is an example of the quiz format-

It was Valentine's Day and ________ couples were enjoying romantic candlelit dinners at the city's many fine restaurants.

Answer is spoony. Fill in the answer "spoony" in the blank.

Vocabulary Review: use the archives or notebook to study the definition of the words

cognate          girandole          clepe          metathesis     anecdotes   lexical   slumgullion          keelhaul          pleonasm     onerous          imbibition       revanche     hoke           incarnadine          oligopoly          purfle      scratch            pooh-bah     crepuscular          proliferate           acedia          flibbertigibbet    tremulous    blarney    eyas     enclave     vatic      sciolism       negotiate     edentulous        dross         basilisk