Tier III - Block 4 - Fall 2025

Course Description

This course is designed to build a solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and strategies that will be refined, applied, and extended as students engage in more complex ideas, texts, and tasks. Students will be introduced to various genres of classical and contemporary narrative and informational texts, while developing and enhancing their grammar and writing skills.

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Due:

Monday, October 27, 2025 - Friday, October 31, 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025

Bell Work

Lesson 10

1. credentials - written evidence showing that a person has a right to a certain position or authority

2. genial - favorable to growth or human comfort; kindly and friendly

3. morbid - having an abnormal interest in the unwholesome; gruesome

4. cumbersome - clumsy; unweildy; hard to handle

5. hoax - an act that is intended to fool or deceive; something that has been established by fraudulent means

6. plaintiff - a person who initiates a lawsuit; the complaining party

7. larceny - theft; unlawful taking and carrying away of another's property

8. prospective - probable; expected in the future

9. quorum - the minimum number of members needed at a meeting to make official decisions

10. superfluous - more than is needed; excessive; surplus

 
 

We are going to read the article "The Complexity of Fear."

You will complete the questions that go with the reading.

You will write two paragraphs to answer the discussion question at the end of the article.

 

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Lesson 10 - Exercise 2

We will listen to the short story "The Landlady" and discuss the story as we listen.

You will complete the questions that go with the story.

You will also complete the writing assignment that goes with the story.

Notes for the story:
Foreshadowing in "The Landlady"                              Warning Signs Billy Missed
The Bed and Breakfast sign                                        The empty streets and lack of guests
The landlady's peculiar behavior                                 The landlady's overeagerness
The guestbook                                                             Familiar names in the guestbook
The stuffed pets                                                           The stuffed dog and parrot
The tea                                                                         The taste of the tea
                                                                                     The landlady's strange comments
 
 
 

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Lesson 10 - Exercise 3

You will complete the questions that go with the story "The Landlady".

You will also complete the writing assignment that goes with the story. Please see me for the handout for the writing.

Notes for the story:
Foreshadowing in "The Landlady"                              Warning Signs Billy Missed
The Bed and Breakfast sign                                        The empty streets and lack of guests
The landlady's peculiar behavior                                 The landlady's overeagerness
The guestbook                                                             Familiar names in the guestbook
The stuffed pets                                                           The stuffed dog and parrot
The tea                                                                         The taste of the tea
                                                                                     The landlady's strange comments
 

When you have completed all assignments for "The Landlady", you will begin this assignment.

You MUST take complete notes over all videos!!! When you take notes, you will need to write down the important things you see written down.

Title each video before writing the notes for them.

 

How to Write a Thesis Statement

Shmoop: Thesis Statement vs Topic Sentence

How to Write an Introductory Paragraph

 
 

Now you will watch these last two videos and take notes over them as well.

 
 

 

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Lesson 10 - Exercise 4

 

 

Friday, October 31, 2025