Have a jolly holiday, everyone!
Keep yourself updated about activities and future readings in CP English by periodically checking the blog. Sometime during the holiday, I will post lessons for Week #17 January January 3-6, 2012. Our January reading could possibly be William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. We'll see.
Be safe during the holiday.
P.S. DO NOT FORGET TO REGISTER ON NAVIANCE. Use the link below to access the Naviance registration page.
http://www.bellaire.org/Naviance.php
Friday, December 16, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Week #16 December 12-16, 2011
Final Exam Week
Monday
Review for final exam.
Tuesday
2nd and 5th period
Wednesday
3rd and 7th period
Thursday
4 and 6th period
Friday
1st and 8th period
Monday
Review for final exam.
Tuesday
2nd and 5th period
Wednesday
3rd and 7th period
Thursday
4 and 6th period
Friday
1st and 8th period
Friday, December 2, 2011
Week #15 December 5-9, 2011
Literature: Shakespeare's World
Writng: Final Exam Essay
Homework:
REVIEW for final exam.
Activities
Monday
Write the final exam essay.
Tuesday
Read Shakespeare's World. Discuss and annotate.
Read two love poems from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Annotate poems. Discuss.
Wednesday - Friday
Review parts of speech, parts of a sentence, prepositional phrases, literary terms, epic literary terms, short stories, elements of fiction, vocabulary, etc.
Writng: Final Exam Essay
Homework:
REVIEW for final exam.
Activities
Monday
Write the final exam essay.
Tuesday
Read Shakespeare's World. Discuss and annotate.
Read two love poems from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Annotate poems. Discuss.
Wednesday - Friday
Review parts of speech, parts of a sentence, prepositional phrases, literary terms, epic literary terms, short stories, elements of fiction, vocabulary, etc.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Week #14 November 28-December 2, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Essay writing
Vocabulary: Refer to handout provided for Twelfth Night.
Homework:
- Prepare SAT vocabulary notes for every 25 words in the Twelfth Night list in time for January. The first 25 words on the list are due on January 3, 2012.
- Review ALL words in your notebook for final exam.
- Part Three activity - due Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011
Activities:
Monday
1. Prepare for NOTEBOOK QUIZ #3. Study all notes. Prepare all notes from pages 1188-1193, character notes on page 1191, and the powerpoint notes. This is going to be the last notebook quiz.
2. Continue film viewing.
Tuesday
1. Go over the Part Three handout.
2. Continue fillm viewing.
Wednesday
1. Finish up the film viewing.
2. WARM-UP: disguise and misdirection, eiron, and thematic game.
Thursday
1. Read two love speeches from Twelfth Night, and take notes on the speeches.
2. Read about Shakespeare's World in the textbook.
Friday
1. Brainstorm for the final exam essay.
2. Write an outline.
Writing: Essay writing
Vocabulary: Refer to handout provided for Twelfth Night.
Homework:
- Prepare SAT vocabulary notes for every 25 words in the Twelfth Night list in time for January. The first 25 words on the list are due on January 3, 2012.
- Review ALL words in your notebook for final exam.
- Part Three activity - due Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011
Activities:
Monday
1. Prepare for NOTEBOOK QUIZ #3. Study all notes. Prepare all notes from pages 1188-1193, character notes on page 1191, and the powerpoint notes. This is going to be the last notebook quiz.
2. Continue film viewing.
Tuesday
1. Go over the Part Three handout.
2. Continue fillm viewing.
Wednesday
1. Finish up the film viewing.
2. WARM-UP: disguise and misdirection, eiron, and thematic game.
Thursday
1. Read two love speeches from Twelfth Night, and take notes on the speeches.
2. Read about Shakespeare's World in the textbook.
Friday
1. Brainstorm for the final exam essay.
2. Write an outline.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Week #13 November 21-22, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing: Narrative Letter or Blog post
Vocabulary: No vocabulary this week
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Monday
- Prepare for a NOTEBOOK quiz on Tuesday, Nov. 22
- Prepare your drafts for submission on http://www.turnitin.com/ on Monday.
Monday
1. Go to the library to submit drafts of the Odyssey project to http://www.turnitin.com/.
2. Prepare for a notebook quiz.
Tuesday
Take a notebook quiz.
Writing: Narrative Letter or Blog post
Vocabulary: No vocabulary this week
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Monday
- Prepare for a NOTEBOOK quiz on Tuesday, Nov. 22
- Prepare your drafts for submission on http://www.turnitin.com/ on Monday.
Monday
1. Go to the library to submit drafts of the Odyssey project to http://www.turnitin.com/.
2. Prepare for a notebook quiz.
Tuesday
Take a notebook quiz.
MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Click on the link below to learn more about proper citation.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
Friday, November 11, 2011
Week #13 Nov. 14-18, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing: The Odyssey Project - a narrative letter or blog post -
Vocabulary: Week #6 - azure, bare, brim, courier, craft, crane, crimson, deflect, dislodge, downcast, entrails, expel, flutter, impostor, infuse, jostle, lithe, lurch, pliant, rally, revelry, taut, thunderstruck, tremulous, underhanded
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Vocabulary worksheet - due Monday, 11/14
- Five (5) sets of notes (taken from book article, magazine article, web article, etc.) - due Wednesday, 11/16 (Check for completion today.)
- Narrative letter or blog post draft - due Thursday 11/15 (before one-on-one conference on Friday)
- Narrative letter or blog post - due 11/21 on http://www.turnitin.com/ (We will do the submission together as a class and take a trip to the library. You should have an electronic copy as well as a hard copy of your letter or blog post with you on this day. You can email the assignment to your own email, so that it will be easy to access it from the library. DO NOT SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENT FROM HOME.)
NOTE: A reading schedule will be given on Tuesday for home reading.
Activities
Monday
1. Read an article on plagiarism (provided by Mr. C.). Have a small or big group dialogue on the issue of plagiarism. (20 minutes)
2. Take a 25 minute test on The Odyssey.
Tuesday
1. Mr. C. will come and visit us in the classroom, and talk about plagiarism.
2. Depending on how long we will spend on plagiarism, if we have time, we will continue reading. Other readings will be assigned at home.
Wednesday
1. Continue reading for the first half of the class period.
2. Write a draft of the narrative letter or blog post while I call students to present their five (5) sets of notes to me for check-up.
Thursday
1. Prepare for a reading check according to reading schedule.
2. Present draft of narrative letter or blog post.
Friday
1. Prepare a redaing check according on reading schedule.
2. Have a one-on-one conference with about your draft to prepare it for the final draft.
Writing: The Odyssey Project - a narrative letter or blog post -
Vocabulary: Week #6 - azure, bare, brim, courier, craft, crane, crimson, deflect, dislodge, downcast, entrails, expel, flutter, impostor, infuse, jostle, lithe, lurch, pliant, rally, revelry, taut, thunderstruck, tremulous, underhanded
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Vocabulary worksheet - due Monday, 11/14
- Five (5) sets of notes (taken from book article, magazine article, web article, etc.) - due Wednesday, 11/16 (Check for completion today.)
- Narrative letter or blog post draft - due Thursday 11/15 (before one-on-one conference on Friday)
- Narrative letter or blog post - due 11/21 on http://www.turnitin.com/ (We will do the submission together as a class and take a trip to the library. You should have an electronic copy as well as a hard copy of your letter or blog post with you on this day. You can email the assignment to your own email, so that it will be easy to access it from the library. DO NOT SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENT FROM HOME.)
NOTE: A reading schedule will be given on Tuesday for home reading.
Activities
Monday
1. Read an article on plagiarism (provided by Mr. C.). Have a small or big group dialogue on the issue of plagiarism. (20 minutes)
2. Take a 25 minute test on The Odyssey.
Tuesday
1. Mr. C. will come and visit us in the classroom, and talk about plagiarism.
2. Depending on how long we will spend on plagiarism, if we have time, we will continue reading. Other readings will be assigned at home.
Wednesday
1. Continue reading for the first half of the class period.
2. Write a draft of the narrative letter or blog post while I call students to present their five (5) sets of notes to me for check-up.
Thursday
1. Prepare for a reading check according to reading schedule.
2. Present draft of narrative letter or blog post.
Friday
1. Prepare a redaing check according on reading schedule.
2. Have a one-on-one conference with about your draft to prepare it for the final draft.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Week #12 November 7-11, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing/Grammar: sentences, appositive and verbals
Vocabulary: Odyssey Week 5 - trance, bewitch, lurk, chaos, peril, quest, commandeer, throng, rubbish, aft, contemptible, aloof, defy, fraud, hone, incredulity, jest, lavish, justification, murmur, marvel, meddle, rash, reek, revulsion
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due on Monday
- Odyssey "Who's who?" - due: on the day of the 3rd notebook quiz (TBA- soon)
- Odyssey essay - due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on TBA
http://www.greeka.com/ionian/ithaca/ithaca-myths/odysseus.htm
Activities
Monday
1. Take Test #11 on week #4 vocabulary and prepositional phrases.
2. Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Tuesday
Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Wednesday
Take a short adjective and adverb prepositional phrase test.
Thursday and Friday
Work in the library on a project.
Writing/Grammar: sentences, appositive and verbals
Vocabulary: Odyssey Week 5 - trance, bewitch, lurk, chaos, peril, quest, commandeer, throng, rubbish, aft, contemptible, aloof, defy, fraud, hone, incredulity, jest, lavish, justification, murmur, marvel, meddle, rash, reek, revulsion
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due on Monday
- Odyssey "Who's who?" - due: on the day of the 3rd notebook quiz (TBA- soon)
- Odyssey essay - due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on TBA
http://www.greeka.com/ionian/ithaca/ithaca-myths/odysseus.htm
Activities
Monday
1. Take Test #11 on week #4 vocabulary and prepositional phrases.
2. Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Tuesday
Continue reading and annotating The Odyssey.
Wednesday
Take a short adjective and adverb prepositional phrase test.
Thursday and Friday
Work in the library on a project.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Week #11 Oct. 31-Nov.4, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Grammar: Adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: Abominably, Ardor, Assuage, Atone, Avail, Beguile, Bereft, Brazen, Dire, Dwindle, Fawn, Frantic, Grapple, Implacable, Insolent, Scourge, Seethe, Skirt (v), Vile, Wrath, Bliss, Blunder, Fend, Profusion, Sage, Stately, Tidbit, Titanic, Lag, Besiege
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Annotations in the packet - due daily
Activities
Monday
1. Take vocabulary quiz on week 3 words.
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
Grammar: Adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: Abominably, Ardor, Assuage, Atone, Avail, Beguile, Bereft, Brazen, Dire, Dwindle, Fawn, Frantic, Grapple, Implacable, Insolent, Scourge, Seethe, Skirt (v), Vile, Wrath, Bliss, Blunder, Fend, Profusion, Sage, Stately, Tidbit, Titanic, Lag, Besiege
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Monday
- Annotations in the packet - due daily
Activities
Monday
1. Take vocabulary quiz on week 3 words.
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
- epic hero qualities
- epic formula
- epic plot
- epithet
- epic simile (Homeric)
- figurative language
- imagery
- details/description
- characterization
2. Continue to read and annotate the epic poem.
- epic hero qualities
- epic formula
- epic plot
- epithet
- epic simile (Homeric)
- figurative language
- imagery
- details/description
- characterization
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Week #10 October 24-28, 2011
Literature: Homer's The Odyssey
Writing/Grammar: phrases, sentence structure, clauses, figurative language
Vocabulary: adversity, desolate, douse, exile, forlorn, formidable, immortal, mandate, ornate, pine, plunder, pummel, versatile,maelstrom, avail, ardor, dwindle, tumult, travail, flay, dire, blanch, din, heft, implacable
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Monday
- Annotations - due Daily
PROJECT IDEA: Interactive Odyssey MAP making. (If you have ideas how to make reading of The Odyssey more interesting, let Mrs. T. know. She will give extra credit to whoever will come up with a unique idea that is academic, time-friendly, and creator-friendly.)
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap
http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Odyssey/voyage1.htm
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/iliad.html
http://www.sigmabooks.gr/maps_en_enArgoEur.html
Activities
Monday
1. Take a vocabulary quiz, and notebook quiz #2.
2. Finish the sentence stories, and transfer draft to posters.
Tuesday- Friday
1. Read and annotate The Odyssey.
2. Take sporadic reading checks.
3. Write thoughts about The Odyssey on paper/in binder notes consistently.
4. Be on the look-out for literary techniques/styles, character changes/motives, heroic qualities, hubris, hamartia, etc.
Writing/Grammar: phrases, sentence structure, clauses, figurative language
Vocabulary: adversity, desolate, douse, exile, forlorn, formidable, immortal, mandate, ornate, pine, plunder, pummel, versatile,maelstrom, avail, ardor, dwindle, tumult, travail, flay, dire, blanch, din, heft, implacable
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Monday
- Annotations - due Daily
PROJECT IDEA: Interactive Odyssey MAP making. (If you have ideas how to make reading of The Odyssey more interesting, let Mrs. T. know. She will give extra credit to whoever will come up with a unique idea that is academic, time-friendly, and creator-friendly.)
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap
http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Odyssey/voyage1.htm
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng120/odyjour.htm - Order of Odysseus’s journey
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/iliad.html
http://www.sigmabooks.gr/maps_en_enArgoEur.html
Activities
Monday
1. Take a vocabulary quiz, and notebook quiz #2.
2. Finish the sentence stories, and transfer draft to posters.
Tuesday- Friday
1. Read and annotate The Odyssey.
2. Take sporadic reading checks.
3. Write thoughts about The Odyssey on paper/in binder notes consistently.
4. Be on the look-out for literary techniques/styles, character changes/motives, heroic qualities, hubris, hamartia, etc.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Week #9 October 17-21, 2011
Literature: Reading - Homer's The Odyssey
Discussion - "What is a myth?"
"How Evil Came into the World"
"Creation"
Writing: phrases/sentence structure
Vocabulary: #121- 145 divers, breach, tactic, convey, adversary, fury, avowal, disdain, glade, stealth, snare, vile, fodder, foreboding, kinsmen,succumb, dote, entice, flawless, chide, treachery, exquisite, consent, cleft, regale
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Monday
- Finished assignments ("What is a myth?," "How Evil Came into the World," "Creation") - Due for grading on Monday and Tuesday
- TSI study guide and annotated passage - Due Wednesday
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz # 8 on vocabulary #s 96-120 and "What is a myth?."
2. Go over the sentence writing classwork.
Tuesday
1. Go over myth homework and reading classwork.
2. Receive Odyssey handout for annotation.
Wednesday
1. Go over a reading classwork.
2. Read about Homer's world, and take notes using Cornel notes format. Refer to the format on the board.
Thursday- Friday
1. Take note of the characteristics of an epic.
2. View a powerpoint presentation, and discuss epic characteristics.
Discussion - "What is a myth?"
"How Evil Came into the World"
"Creation"
Writing: phrases/sentence structure
Vocabulary: #121- 145 divers, breach, tactic, convey, adversary, fury, avowal, disdain, glade, stealth, snare, vile, fodder, foreboding, kinsmen,succumb, dote, entice, flawless, chide, treachery, exquisite, consent, cleft, regale
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Monday
- Finished assignments ("What is a myth?," "How Evil Came into the World," "Creation") - Due for grading on Monday and Tuesday
- TSI study guide and annotated passage - Due Wednesday
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz # 8 on vocabulary #s 96-120 and "What is a myth?."
2. Go over the sentence writing classwork.
Tuesday
1. Go over myth homework and reading classwork.
2. Receive Odyssey handout for annotation.
Wednesday
1. Go over a reading classwork.
2. Read about Homer's world, and take notes using Cornel notes format. Refer to the format on the board.
Thursday- Friday
1. Take note of the characteristics of an epic.
2. View a powerpoint presentation, and discuss epic characteristics.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Week #8 October 10-14, 2011
Literature: James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis"
Homer's The Odyssey
"What is a myth?"
"How Evil Came into the World"
"Creation"
Grammar and Writing: phrases, short answer paragraphs
Vocabulary: #s96-120 contend, harried, valor, guile, muster, indifferent, prodigious, solitude, victuals, vessel, stoke, rogue, ravage, entreat, avenge, whim, appall, ponderous, dispatch, brace, ponder, hew, venture, cordial, bellow
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: Every MONDAY
- CASPAR chart - Due: TBA (I know this assignment has appeared on the blog so many different times, but soon you will get to submit it. Let us finish one last short story and annotate it to the MAX. What you will learn in annotating "The Scarlet Ibis" are skills you will get to use in The Odyssey and other literature in the future. 8=) Be patient with good, old Mrs. T.)
- "What is a myth?" - Due: Friday, Oct. 15
Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #8 - "The Scarlet Ibis" vocabulary.
2. Complete reading and annotating of "The Scarlet Ibis."
Tuesday
1. Review/practice for PSAT.
2. Continue reading and annotating "Ibis."
3. Receive "What is a myth?" homework. - Sorry, Mrs. T. forgot. I will give you the assignment tomorrow. Please remind me.
Wednesday
PSAT testing
1. Continue reading and annotating "Ibis." (diction, imagery, figurative language, tone)
2. Continue discussion.
Thursday
1. Continue reading annotating "Ibis." (flashback, diction, author's purpose, symbolism).
Friday
1. Submit the "myth" homework.
2. Read "How Evil Came Into the World" and "Creation" and annotate.
3. Write sentences.
Homer's The Odyssey
"What is a myth?"
"How Evil Came into the World"
"Creation"
Grammar and Writing: phrases, short answer paragraphs
Vocabulary: #s96-120 contend, harried, valor, guile, muster, indifferent, prodigious, solitude, victuals, vessel, stoke, rogue, ravage, entreat, avenge, whim, appall, ponderous, dispatch, brace, ponder, hew, venture, cordial, bellow
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: Every MONDAY
- CASPAR chart - Due: TBA (I know this assignment has appeared on the blog so many different times, but soon you will get to submit it. Let us finish one last short story and annotate it to the MAX. What you will learn in annotating "The Scarlet Ibis" are skills you will get to use in The Odyssey and other literature in the future. 8=) Be patient with good, old Mrs. T.)
- "What is a myth?" - Due: Friday, Oct. 15
Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #8 - "The Scarlet Ibis" vocabulary.
2. Complete reading and annotating of "The Scarlet Ibis."
Tuesday
1. Review/practice for PSAT.
2. Continue reading and annotating "Ibis."
3. Receive "What is a myth?" homework. - Sorry, Mrs. T. forgot. I will give you the assignment tomorrow. Please remind me.
Wednesday
PSAT testing
1. Continue reading and annotating "Ibis." (diction, imagery, figurative language, tone)
2. Continue discussion.
Thursday
1. Continue reading annotating "Ibis." (flashback, diction, author's purpose, symbolism).
Friday
1. Submit the "myth" homework.
2. Read "How Evil Came Into the World" and "Creation" and annotate.
3. Write sentences.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Week# 7 October 3-7, 2011
Literature: James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis"
Writing/Grammar: phrases
Literary strategy: imagery/sensory details
Vocabulary: #s 73-95 prim, spruce, billow, gleam, careen, bedeck, sullen, loll, imminent, infallible, dogged, exotic, armada, vermilion, heresy, clove, invalid, iridescent, reiterate, snipe, bar, glid, moon, nudge, rustle
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: every week on Monday
- Marcel Proust quote based personal narrative - Due: Wednesday, Oct. 5
- CASPAR - DUE: Friday, Oct. 7
NOTES:
* If you did not submit the 9/11 essay, please submit it now because it will be a part of the 2nd cycle grading.
* If you want to STILL take advantage of the TPP extra credit, bring $10 on Monday, Oct. 3, and buy a subscription from a TPP representative. Monday is the last time for this extra credit opportunity.
Activities
Monday
1. VOCABULARY and LITERARY test: covers the vocab words for "Cask..." and the story "Cask..." Please study.
Tuesday
1. Continue the test on "Cask..." and vocabulary story.
2. Review imagery/sensory details
Wednesday
1. Work on a diagnostic activity on phrases.
Thursday
1. Read a background on "Scarlet Ibis," and read the story.
2. Analyze the literature using CASPAR.
Friday
1. Work on annotating a passage in "Scarlet Ibis."
2. Review for Monday's test.
Writing/Grammar: phrases
Literary strategy: imagery/sensory details
Vocabulary: #s 73-95 prim, spruce, billow, gleam, careen, bedeck, sullen, loll, imminent, infallible, dogged, exotic, armada, vermilion, heresy, clove, invalid, iridescent, reiterate, snipe, bar, glid, moon, nudge, rustle
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: every week on Monday
- Marcel Proust quote based personal narrative - Due: Wednesday, Oct. 5
- CASPAR - DUE: Friday, Oct. 7
NOTES:
* If you did not submit the 9/11 essay, please submit it now because it will be a part of the 2nd cycle grading.
* If you want to STILL take advantage of the TPP extra credit, bring $10 on Monday, Oct. 3, and buy a subscription from a TPP representative. Monday is the last time for this extra credit opportunity.
Activities
Monday
1. VOCABULARY and LITERARY test: covers the vocab words for "Cask..." and the story "Cask..." Please study.
Tuesday
1. Continue the test on "Cask..." and vocabulary story.
2. Review imagery/sensory details
Wednesday
1. Work on a diagnostic activity on phrases.
2. Look at examples of responses and have groups edit, proofread, and rewrite.
Thursday
1. Read a background on "Scarlet Ibis," and read the story.
2. Analyze the literature using CASPAR.
Friday
1. Work on annotating a passage in "Scarlet Ibis."
2. Review for Monday's test.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Week # 6 September 26-30, 2011
Literature: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
Grammar/Writing: Process paper/adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: #s 32-55
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes with "The Most Dangerous Game" (TMDG) additional words - Due: Monday, 9/26
Note: 1st and 3rd periods except 7th period - Please include the crossword puzzle. 7th period, unfortunately did not receive the puzzle on Friday, so the students in that class will receive it at the beginning of the period on Monday.
- Sentence Writing #3 - Due: Friday, 9/30
- Figurative Language and Plot Devices - Due: Tuesday, 9/27
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 on additional TMDG words.
Discuss if time allows.
Tuesday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases, or reading check on TMDG. (We'll see which one we'll have.)
2. Go over the figurative language and plot devices activity from last week.
2. Review MOOD, and read and annotate Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado."
Wednesday
1. Take a reading check on TCOA.
2. Write the two-three body and one conclusion paragraphs for the quote-based essay.
Thursday
HOLIDAY - Be sure to write your sentence homework.
Friday
Read "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Annotate for SIFT.
Homework:
CASPAR chart on any short story read in class. Due: Oct. 8, Friday.
Grammar/Writing: Process paper/adjective and adverb prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: #s 32-55
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes with "The Most Dangerous Game" (TMDG) additional words - Due: Monday, 9/26
Note: 1st and 3rd periods except 7th period - Please include the crossword puzzle. 7th period, unfortunately did not receive the puzzle on Friday, so the students in that class will receive it at the beginning of the period on Monday.
- Sentence Writing #3 - Due: Friday, 9/30
- Figurative Language and Plot Devices - Due: Tuesday, 9/27
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 on additional TMDG words.
Discuss if time allows.
Tuesday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases, or reading check on TMDG. (We'll see which one we'll have.)
2. Go over the figurative language and plot devices activity from last week.
2. Review MOOD, and read and annotate Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado."
Wednesday
1. Take a reading check on TCOA.
2. Write the two-three body and one conclusion paragraphs for the quote-based essay.
Thursday
HOLIDAY - Be sure to write your sentence homework.
Friday
Read "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Annotate for SIFT.
Homework:
CASPAR chart on any short story read in class. Due: Oct. 8, Friday.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Week # 5 September 19-23, 2011
Literature: Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"
Writing: Process paper/prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: imprudent, debacle, elude, stamina, imperative, uncanny, sensuous, mystified, staccato, floundered, mirage, gargoyle, precision, debacle, surmounted, barbarous, invariably, braggart, ennui, spurred, pungent, precariously, placid, shinned, expanse
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Weekly
- Process paper (Marcel Proust quote essay) - Due part by part: TBA
- Sentence homework #2 - A persona essay on 911 - Due: Thursday, Sept. 22 (adjusted due date)
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 - TMDG vocabulary.
2. Break-out session for presentation. Any one of the following presentations is acceptable:
- narrative poem to be recited (typed for submission)
- skit to be presented (typed for submission
- song to be sung (typed for submission
Plot elements should be continuous all throughout the presentation. - CANCELLED!!!
3. Introduction one-on-one conference.
Tuesday and Wednesday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases
2. Reading and annotation of TMDG
Thursday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases
2. Reading and annotation of TMDG
Friday
1. Body paragraph writing.
2. Literary analysis of TMDG.
Writing: Process paper/prepositional phrases
Vocabulary: imprudent, debacle, elude, stamina, imperative, uncanny, sensuous, mystified, staccato, floundered, mirage, gargoyle, precision, debacle, surmounted, barbarous, invariably, braggart, ennui, spurred, pungent, precariously, placid, shinned, expanse
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Weekly
- Process paper (Marcel Proust quote essay) - Due part by part: TBA
- Sentence homework #2 - A persona essay on 911 - Due: Thursday, Sept. 22 (adjusted due date)
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 - TMDG vocabulary.
2. Break-out session for presentation. Any one of the following presentations is acceptable:
- narrative poem to be recited (typed for submission)
- skit to be presented (typed for submission
- song to be sung (typed for submission
Plot elements should be continuous all throughout the presentation. - CANCELLED!!!
3. Introduction one-on-one conference.
Tuesday and Wednesday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases
2. Reading and annotation of TMDG
Thursday
1. Warm-up: prepositional phrases
2. Reading and annotation of TMDG
Friday
1. Body paragraph writing.
2. Literary analysis of TMDG.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Process Writing Assignment: Marcel Proust's quote
Process Writing: Write about the quote below. What does it mean to you? Include a short anecdote how this quote may have applied, or will apply to you. Keep in mind while including an anecdote that it should have the short story elements. Also include an example from the stories we read this week. Keep quotations from the short stories enclosed in quotation marks. You may start taking notes at home, but when you get to class, you start afresh with your outline of ideas on one sheet of paper and your essay on a clean sheet of paper. Use proper grammar and mechanics and include at least 5 of the vocabulary words and underline each one of them.
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desires change.”– Marcel Proust
DUE: TBA
Note: By now, you should have already submitted your introduction to me, or have received it back from me for a rewrite.
Note: By now, you should have already submitted your introduction to me, or have received it back from me for a rewrite.
PSAT MOCK TEST/TUTORIAL
Free Mock PSAT on Saturday, September 24 at Bellaire:
Bellaire is offering a free mock PSAT to any interested 9th – 11th grade students. Students need to go to the following website to register by Wednesday, September 21; each student must have a specific ID number to take the test.
http://www.testmasters.com/bellaire.html
The real PSAT is on Wednesday October 12, this is a great opportunity to experience the testing environment. For more information check the daily bulletin or see Ms. Quaite in room 372.
PSAT / SAT Tutoring:
MATH (beginning the week of August 29th)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8th Period - Mr. Mazumder's room # 153
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8th Period - Ms. Park's room # 252
VERBAL AND WRITING (beginning the week of September 6th)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8th Period - Mr. Wolf's room # E 343
The PSAT will be given on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
Bellaire is offering a free mock PSAT to any interested 9th – 11th grade students. Students need to go to the following website to register by Wednesday, September 21; each student must have a specific ID number to take the test.
http://www.testmasters.com/bellaire.html
The real PSAT is on Wednesday October 12, this is a great opportunity to experience the testing environment. For more information check the daily bulletin or see Ms. Quaite in room 372.
PSAT / SAT Tutoring:
MATH (beginning the week of August 29th)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8th Period - Mr. Mazumder's room # 153
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8th Period - Ms. Park's room # 252
VERBAL AND WRITING (beginning the week of September 6th)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8th Period - Mr. Wolf's room # E 343
The PSAT will be given on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Week #4 September 12-16, 2011
Literature: Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game"
Writing: Personal Narrative/Sentences/Parts of Speech
Vocabulary: dank, palpable, opaque, lacerate, palatial, bizarre, amenity, affable, cosmopolitan, condone, droll, scruple, bland, grotesque, opiate, sallow, solicitous, venerable, deplorable, zealous, tangible, repast, quarry, disarming, cultivate
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - Due: Monday, Sept. 12
- 2nd Summer Reading Allusion Analysis Project - Due: Friday, Sept. 16
- Components of Essay Exercise - Due: Tuesday, Sept. 13
- CASPAR on a short story (TBA) - Due: TBA
- Personal Narrative based on Marcel Proust quote - Parts Due: daily until Sept. 23 (due on www.turnitin.com on or before Sept. 26 at midnight)
- Sentence Homework - 911 persona essay with vocabulary and prepositional phrases (Instructions in the handout should be followed to the letter. Peer editing on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Final draft on Wednesday, Sept. 21) - due: Monday, Sept. 19
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #3 - "Why Write" and "George" vocabulary
2. Finish "George" reading.
3. Discuss 911 (history). View a few videos online. Write TBA.
4. Prepare for "The Most Dangerous Game."
Tuesday and Wednesday
Note: Short reading check on GM.
1. Divide class in groups and read introduction to "Game."
2. Divide "Game" into parts and assign parts to individual groups.
3. Each group will work on their parts and plan for presentation.
Thursday and Friday
Group presentations. Props will be graded.
Note: An extension for presentation may be needed to allow for preparation.
Note: If you are still missing assignments, complete them ASAP.
Homework: Prepare for a quiz on Monday, Sept. 19.
Writing: Personal Narrative/Sentences/Parts of Speech
Vocabulary: dank, palpable, opaque, lacerate, palatial, bizarre, amenity, affable, cosmopolitan, condone, droll, scruple, bland, grotesque, opiate, sallow, solicitous, venerable, deplorable, zealous, tangible, repast, quarry, disarming, cultivate
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - Due: Monday, Sept. 12
- 2nd Summer Reading Allusion Analysis Project - Due: Friday, Sept. 16
- Components of Essay Exercise - Due: Tuesday, Sept. 13
- CASPAR on a short story (TBA) - Due: TBA
- Personal Narrative based on Marcel Proust quote - Parts Due: daily until Sept. 23 (due on www.turnitin.com on or before Sept. 26 at midnight)
- Sentence Homework - 911 persona essay with vocabulary and prepositional phrases (Instructions in the handout should be followed to the letter. Peer editing on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Final draft on Wednesday, Sept. 21) - due: Monday, Sept. 19
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #3 - "Why Write" and "George" vocabulary
2. Finish "George" reading.
3. Discuss 911 (history). View a few videos online. Write TBA.
4. Prepare for "The Most Dangerous Game."
Tuesday and Wednesday
Note: Short reading check on GM.
1. Divide class in groups and read introduction to "Game."
2. Divide "Game" into parts and assign parts to individual groups.
3. Each group will work on their parts and plan for presentation.
Thursday and Friday
Group presentations. Props will be graded.
Note: An extension for presentation may be needed to allow for preparation.
Note: If you are still missing assignments, complete them ASAP.
Homework: Prepare for a quiz on Monday, Sept. 19.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Time Magazine: Beyond 911 / PBS Newshour
Take the time to peruse the following links:
http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/#about
http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2092218,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2092213,00.html
PBS link:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec11/classof9_11_09-05.html
http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/#about
http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2092218,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2092213,00.html
PBS link:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec11/classof9_11_09-05.html
Friday, September 2, 2011
Week #3 September 6-9, 2011
Literature: Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" and O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"
Paul Auster's "Why Write" and Phillip Oakes' "I Don't See George Anymore"
Literary study: allusion and figurative language
Writing: Personal Narrative
Vocabulary: shenanigan, vulnerable, persist, trappings, inventory, buoyant, earnest, smolder, sensible, unconscious, tinge, grimace, stampede, headlong, adolescent, underscore, trek, stun, legitimate, materialize, detested, allotments, sympathized, blithe, tawny
Homework:
- SAT notes - for previous vocabulary - due: Tuesday, Sept. 6
- Crossword review - due Tuesday, Sept. 6
- Alternative summer due date - due: Friday, Sept. 9
- 2nd Summer Reading homework - due: Sept. 16
Activities
Monday
Labor Day
Tuesday
1. Go over the crossword puzzle first before taking the quiz.
2. Quiz #2 - "The Necklace" and "Gift of the Magi" vocabulary and literary and plot elements.
3. Discuss 2nd summer reading project.
4. Receive vocabulary list.
Wednesday
1. Review the "Necklace" story and take a reading check.
2. Read "The Gift of the Magi". - Moved to Thursday night homework.
3. Discuss allusion, figurative language. etc.
Homework: Read Paul Auster's "Why Write" is homework tonight. Annotate for plot elements, figurative language, details, character/characterization, allusions, etc.
Thursday
Picture Day
1. Discuss Paul Auster's "Why Write" and discuss.
Homework: Read O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi."
Friday
1. Read "I Don't See George Anymore".Discuss "George".
2. Go over parts of a narrative essay.
3. Write a narrative essay.
Homework:
Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Monday, "Magi" reading check on Tuesday, and CASPAR charting on Wednesday next week.
Paul Auster's "Why Write" and Phillip Oakes' "I Don't See George Anymore"
Literary study: allusion and figurative language
Writing: Personal Narrative
Vocabulary: shenanigan, vulnerable, persist, trappings, inventory, buoyant, earnest, smolder, sensible, unconscious, tinge, grimace, stampede, headlong, adolescent, underscore, trek, stun, legitimate, materialize, detested, allotments, sympathized, blithe, tawny
Homework:
- SAT notes - for previous vocabulary - due: Tuesday, Sept. 6
- Crossword review - due Tuesday, Sept. 6
- Alternative summer due date - due: Friday, Sept. 9
- 2nd Summer Reading homework - due: Sept. 16
Activities
Monday
Labor Day
Tuesday
1. Go over the crossword puzzle first before taking the quiz.
2. Quiz #2 - "The Necklace" and "Gift of the Magi" vocabulary and literary and plot elements.
3. Discuss 2nd summer reading project.
4. Receive vocabulary list.
Wednesday
1. Review the "Necklace" story and take a reading check.
2. Read "The Gift of the Magi". - Moved to Thursday night homework.
3. Discuss allusion, figurative language. etc.
Homework: Read Paul Auster's "Why Write" is homework tonight. Annotate for plot elements, figurative language, details, character/characterization, allusions, etc.
Thursday
Picture Day
1. Discuss Paul Auster's "Why Write" and discuss.
Homework: Read O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi."
Friday
1. Read "I Don't See George Anymore".Discuss "George".
2. Go over parts of a narrative essay.
3. Write a narrative essay.
Homework:
Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Monday, "Magi" reading check on Tuesday, and CASPAR charting on Wednesday next week.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Week #2 August 29-September 2, 2011
Literature: Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" and O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi"
Writing: Sentences with words in context and a grammatical components
Vocabulary: TN#s 56-73 - dowry, poise, gnaw, disconsolate, vex, anguish, distracted, adulation, aghast, gamut, compromise, exorbitant, prospect, pauper, askew
GM - agile, assertion, chronicle, coveted, falter, instigate, prudence, ransack, ravage, vestibule
Homework:
- SAT Vocabulary notes - due: Aug. 29, Monday
- BLOG comments - due: Augu. 29, Monday
- Personal Coat of Armor (shield) - due: Aug. 30, Tuesday
- Sentence writing warm-up/homework - due: Sept. 1, Thursday
- Summer Reading - due:Sept. 2, Friday
- Summer Reading Assignment - ALTERNATIVE DUE DATE for those who were given an extension: Sept. 9
- CASPAR chart - due: TBA
- 2nd Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 16 (Handout tp be distributed next week.)
NOTE: Please make sure you have your Literature textbook ready this week. There will be a textbook check on Tuesday.
Activities:
Monday
1. Go over the crossword puzzle review.
2. Take Quiz #1 - Personal Characteristics Vocabulary and Parts of Speech. Discuss.
3. Collect SAT notes.
4. Distribute vocabulary packet and glossary of terms.
5. Go over 5 words. Use in class warm-up activity.
Tuesday
1. Warm-up: next 5 words. Collect personal coat of armor from students.
2. Go over Elements of Fiction and Plot.
3. Listen to "Characters, Setting, Plot" rap song to reinforce review of elements of plot and fiction. Use the lick below.
http://www.educationalrap.com/song/characters-setting-plot.html
4. Read "The Necklace" and use the elements chart to identify and analyze each part of the story.
5. Students receive sentence homework.
Wednesday
1. Warm-up: next 5 words. Review parts of speech: conjunction, preposition, and interjection.
2. Read "The Gift of the Magi". Discuss ALLUSION.
3. Create a CASPAR chart to identify parts of the story after reading.
4. Distribute 2nd summer reading assignment.
Thursday
1. Warm-up: 5 words.
2. Reading check for TN and GM.
2. Discuss sentence homework.
2. Distribute Components of an Essay Handout. Discuss.
Friday
1. Review Components of an Essay.
2. Writing: Write about the quote below. What does it mean to you? Include a short anecdote how this quote may have applied, or will apply to you. Keep in mind while including an anecdote that it should have the short story elements. Also include an example from the stories we read this week. Keep quotations from the short stories enclosed in quotation marks. You may start taking notes at home, but when you get to class, you start afresh with your outline of ideas on one sheet of paper and your essay on a clean sheet of paper. Use proper grammar and mechanics and include at least 5 of the vocabulary words and underline each one of them.
Reminder: Review for the Quiz on Monday. Use the crossword puzzle to review.
Writing: Sentences with words in context and a grammatical components
Vocabulary: TN#s 56-73 - dowry, poise, gnaw, disconsolate, vex, anguish, distracted, adulation, aghast, gamut, compromise, exorbitant, prospect, pauper, askew
GM - agile, assertion, chronicle, coveted, falter, instigate, prudence, ransack, ravage, vestibule
Homework:
- SAT Vocabulary notes - due: Aug. 29, Monday
- BLOG comments - due: Augu. 29, Monday
- Personal Coat of Armor (shield) - due: Aug. 30, Tuesday
- Sentence writing warm-up/homework - due: Sept. 1, Thursday
- Summer Reading - due:Sept. 2, Friday
- Summer Reading Assignment - ALTERNATIVE DUE DATE for those who were given an extension: Sept. 9
- CASPAR chart - due: TBA
- 2nd Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 16 (Handout tp be distributed next week.)
NOTE: Please make sure you have your Literature textbook ready this week. There will be a textbook check on Tuesday.
Activities:
Monday
1. Go over the crossword puzzle review.
2. Take Quiz #1 - Personal Characteristics Vocabulary and Parts of Speech. Discuss.
3. Collect SAT notes.
4. Distribute vocabulary packet and glossary of terms.
5. Go over 5 words. Use in class warm-up activity.
Tuesday
1. Warm-up: next 5 words. Collect personal coat of armor from students.
2. Go over Elements of Fiction and Plot.
3. Listen to "Characters, Setting, Plot" rap song to reinforce review of elements of plot and fiction. Use the lick below.
http://www.educationalrap.com/song/characters-setting-plot.html
4. Read "The Necklace" and use the elements chart to identify and analyze each part of the story.
5. Students receive sentence homework.
Wednesday
1. Warm-up: next 5 words. Review parts of speech: conjunction, preposition, and interjection.
2. Read "The Gift of the Magi". Discuss ALLUSION.
3. Create a CASPAR chart to identify parts of the story after reading.
4. Distribute 2nd summer reading assignment.
Thursday
1. Warm-up: 5 words.
2. Reading check for TN and GM.
2. Discuss sentence homework.
2. Distribute Components of an Essay Handout. Discuss.
Friday
1. Review Components of an Essay.
2. Writing: Write about the quote below. What does it mean to you? Include a short anecdote how this quote may have applied, or will apply to you. Keep in mind while including an anecdote that it should have the short story elements. Also include an example from the stories we read this week. Keep quotations from the short stories enclosed in quotation marks. You may start taking notes at home, but when you get to class, you start afresh with your outline of ideas on one sheet of paper and your essay on a clean sheet of paper. Use proper grammar and mechanics and include at least 5 of the vocabulary words and underline each one of them.
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desires change.”– Marcel Proust
Reminder: Review for the Quiz on Monday. Use the crossword puzzle to review.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Words and Hugh Gallagher's blog
1. Click on the link below to listen to an interview with Nikki Giovani, poet author of "Ego Tripping."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15775783
2. Click on the link below to view Hugh Gallagher's blog. LIsten to an audio of his "College Essay."
http://www.hughgallagher.net/neurofuzzy/essay.html
Leave a comment about what you learned in the Giovanni interview or in Gallagher's blog . State your name and period after the comment.
Deadline to leave the comment: August 29, 2011
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15775783
2. Click on the link below to view Hugh Gallagher's blog. LIsten to an audio of his "College Essay."
http://www.hughgallagher.net/neurofuzzy/essay.html
Leave a comment about what you learned in the Giovanni interview or in Gallagher's blog . State your name and period after the comment.
Deadline to leave the comment: August 29, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Week #1 August 22-26, 2011
Literature: Short Stories
Writing: Creative Writing (Nikki Giovanni and Hugh Gallagher pieces)
Vocabulary: Altruistic, Amiable, Autonomous, Benevolent, Compassionate, Diligent, Ebullient, Empathetic, Gregarious, Insightful, Jocular, Laconic, Magnanimous, Perceptive, Sanguine, Scintillating, Steadfast, Tenacious, Vivacious, Zealous, Condescending, Contentious, Flippant, Irreverent, Pretentious
Homework:
- Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 2.
- Summer Reading Assignment - ALTERNATIVE DUE DATE for those who were given an extension: Sept. 9
- Composition notebook - Aug. 25
- 1 1/2 to 2" binder - due this week until Monday, Aug. 29 for binder check
- Blog comments for Nikki Giovanni's interview and Hugh Gallagher's blog - DEADLINE for posting: Aug. 29
- 2nd Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 16
Activities:
Monday
1. First Day Procedures - syllabus, rules, etc.
2. Vocabulary list (cancelled)
3. Hidden Truths and a Lie - writing assignment (cancelled)
Tuesday
1. Collect paperwork from students.
2. Distribute vocabulary list and go over the 1st 10 words.
3. Go over vocabulary SAT format. Review the parts of speech as a component of the vocabulary notes.
4. Distribute Hidden Truths and a lie handout. Read Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Tripping" and Hugh Gallagher's "College Essay". Discuss activity and work on it.
Wednesday
1. Continue working on Hidden Truths and a Lie.
2. Go over five vocabulary words.
3. Discuss literary terms with focus on figurative language.
Thursday
1. Create a name card. Instructions will be given in class.
2. Distribute 2nd Summer Reading Assignment.
3. Go over five vocabulary words.
Friday
1. Go over five words.
2. Work on vocabulary crossword puzzles.
3. Read Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace.
Homework: Prepare for Monday's quiz.
Writing: Creative Writing (Nikki Giovanni and Hugh Gallagher pieces)
Vocabulary: Altruistic, Amiable, Autonomous, Benevolent, Compassionate, Diligent, Ebullient, Empathetic, Gregarious, Insightful, Jocular, Laconic, Magnanimous, Perceptive, Sanguine, Scintillating, Steadfast, Tenacious, Vivacious, Zealous, Condescending, Contentious, Flippant, Irreverent, Pretentious
Homework:
- Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 2.
- Summer Reading Assignment - ALTERNATIVE DUE DATE for those who were given an extension: Sept. 9
- Composition notebook - Aug. 25
- 1 1/2 to 2" binder - due this week until Monday, Aug. 29 for binder check
- Blog comments for Nikki Giovanni's interview and Hugh Gallagher's blog - DEADLINE for posting: Aug. 29
- 2nd Summer Reading Assignment - due: Sept. 16
Activities:
Monday
1. First Day Procedures - syllabus, rules, etc.
2. Vocabulary list (cancelled)
3. Hidden Truths and a Lie - writing assignment (cancelled)
Tuesday
1. Collect paperwork from students.
2. Distribute vocabulary list and go over the 1st 10 words.
3. Go over vocabulary SAT format. Review the parts of speech as a component of the vocabulary notes.
4. Distribute Hidden Truths and a lie handout. Read Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Tripping" and Hugh Gallagher's "College Essay". Discuss activity and work on it.
Wednesday
1. Continue working on Hidden Truths and a Lie.
2. Go over five vocabulary words.
3. Discuss literary terms with focus on figurative language.
Thursday
1. Create a name card. Instructions will be given in class.
2. Distribute 2nd Summer Reading Assignment.
3. Go over five vocabulary words.
Friday
1. Go over five words.
2. Work on vocabulary crossword puzzles.
3. Read Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace.
Homework: Prepare for Monday's quiz.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
WELCOME S/Y 2011-12
Welcome to the new school year!
This blog is designed for your convenient use. Students and parents should not have difficulty navigating the links and use the blog as a useful resource. Communicate thoughts or questions through the blog. Follow English I CP!
N. Terry
8=)
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS 2011
Here's a link to the 2011 Summer Assignments for all English class levels, art, Italian, and social studies.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Week #38 May 31-June 3, 2011
FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE 2011
Tuesday
2nd and 5th
Wednesday
3rd and 7th
Thursday
4th and 6th
Friday
1st and 8th
GOOD LUCK on your tests, Folks!
Have a great vacation. 8=)
Tuesday
2nd and 5th
Wednesday
3rd and 7th
Thursday
4th and 6th
Friday
1st and 8th
GOOD LUCK on your tests, Folks!
Have a great vacation. 8=)
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Week #37 May 23-27, 2011
Literature: All selections read this semester. Check study packet.
Grammar: All concepts focused on this semester.
Vocabulary: All vocabulary words in teh study packet.
Homework:
Monday
Grammar: All concepts focused on this semester.
Vocabulary: All vocabulary words in teh study packet.
Homework:
- Review for final exam.
- Renaissance masks - due May 23
Monday
- Group presentations - 1, 2, and 3
- Review the revising and editing assignment.
- Recieve a handout on CAPITALIZATION.
- WITS pull-out of several readers for Tuesday WITS assemblies..
- WITS assemblies.
- Continue review for final exam.
- Group presentation - 4 and 5
- Continue review for final exam.
- RJ unit test.
- Continue review for final exam.
- Renaissance Banquet - Students in costumes and masks will receive extra credit.
- Each group will bring Renaissance-inspired dishes.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Week #36 May 16-20, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar: Revising and Editing, conventions, spelling, punctuation, improving sentences
Vocabulary: NONE ---Yey!!!
Homework:
- Prepare for group presentations. The following will be graded:
- The following should be submitted with the script:
- SAT activity - due Monday, 5/16
- Masks - due 5/23
- Final exam essay prompt will be given one day this week.
Activities
Monday
Continue with film viewing. Let us not interrupt this activity anymore until we finish all viwing and discussions.
Thursday
All students will take the final exam essay.
Friday
All groups will complete their group filming for the project.
Note: Prepare for a unit test next week.
Grammar: Revising and Editing, conventions, spelling, punctuation, improving sentences
Vocabulary: NONE ---Yey!!!
Homework:
- Prepare for group presentations. The following will be graded:
- script written in blank verse
- examples of feminine ending
- examples of shared lines
- examples of Alexandria (if there are any)
- accuracy of details in the plot and character portrayal
- use of costumes and props - minimal use or not
- The following should be submitted with the script:
- Cover sheet - Title of play, act #, group #, members, and roles played
- Introduction - summary and thematic analysis essay
- Script - with director's cues, music cues, actor's cues in parenthesis or brackets and italicized\
- SAT activity - due Monday, 5/16
- Masks - due 5/23
- Final exam essay prompt will be given one day this week.
Activities
Monday
- Short Quiz #12.
- Discuss SAT activity.
- Continue film viewing.
Continue with film viewing. Let us not interrupt this activity anymore until we finish all viwing and discussions.
Thursday
All students will take the final exam essay.
Friday
All groups will complete their group filming for the project.
Note: Prepare for a unit test next week.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
ROMEO AND JULIET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
The project is NOT CANCELLED contrary to rumors! The only part of the project I did cancel was the individual essay due on www.turnitin.com. Each group is still going to have a thematic essay - not individual ones- and everything else still GOES!!!
Adjustments have to be made to the due dates. If your group has not had the chance to meet yet to plan the script, don't worry too much. You will have your chance this week. I made this announcement in class early this week. If you didn't listen, then that's why you are confused. I will repeat it again tomorrow.
DO NOT LISTEN TO RUMOR-MONGERS!!!
The project is NOT CANCELLED contrary to rumors! The only part of the project I did cancel was the individual essay due on www.turnitin.com. Each group is still going to have a thematic essay - not individual ones- and everything else still GOES!!!
Adjustments have to be made to the due dates. If your group has not had the chance to meet yet to plan the script, don't worry too much. You will have your chance this week. I made this announcement in class early this week. If you didn't listen, then that's why you are confused. I will repeat it again tomorrow.
DO NOT LISTEN TO RUMOR-MONGERS!!!
Friday, May 6, 2011
Week #35 May 9-13, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar:
Homework:-
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due Thursday
- Romeo and Juliet project - check handout for due dates
Activities
Monday
1. Review poetry terms to prepare for a test. Take the poetry test.
2. Continue to view RJ play and discuss guide questions.
Tuesday
1. Continue to view play and discuss RJ study questions.
2. Rehearse for parts in the RJ project.
Wednesday-Friday
Continue to view play and discuss RJ study questions.
Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Monday.
Grammar:
- Write five sentences daily using words in context - twenty five at the end of the week total. Surprise me with a grammatical and a literary concept you have mastered all through out the school year. You may write the sentences traditionally, or write them in a poem or a story. Identify the concepts you love and mastered.
- Write five POPS with a metonymy or synecdoche.
Homework:-
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due Thursday
- Romeo and Juliet project - check handout for due dates
- Script - Thursday, May 11
- Recorded Group presentation - May 16-20
- Mask - May 23
- Banquet - May 24
Activities
Monday
1. Review poetry terms to prepare for a test. Take the poetry test.
2. Continue to view RJ play and discuss guide questions.
Tuesday
1. Continue to view play and discuss RJ study questions.
2. Rehearse for parts in the RJ project.
Wednesday-Friday
Continue to view play and discuss RJ study questions.
Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Monday.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Week # 34 May 2-6, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar:
Homework:
Monday
Grammar:
- Write sentences types according to structure with vocabulary word in context. Label each set.
- #s 734-738 simple
- #s 739-743 compound
- #s 744- 748 complex
- #s 749- 753 compound-complex
- #s 754-758 Write sentences with figurative language and word in context. Highlight the word in context and underline and identify the figurative language (simile, metaphor, personificaction, hyperbole, allusions, synecdoche, metonymy, etc.).
- Review capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Write five American haikus with allusions.
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- American haikus - daily
- Sentences - daily
- RJ project - refer to the handout provided to you.
Monday
- Work on a SAT sentence completion assignment for RJ Act II.
- Work on Shakespearean Sonnets activity and analyze W.S. Sonnet 18.
- Discuss previous day's activities.
- Continue viewing of the last part of Act I.
- Continue reading, annotating, and discussing RJ.
- Check study questions.
- Discuss certain poetic terms used/applied in RJ.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Week #33 April 25-29, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar: Capitalization and punctuation
RJ#s 709-733 - discourse, fickle, conduit, tempest, proportion, stratagem, dissemble, calamity, haste, immoderate, inundation, slander, arouse, arbitrate, commission, vial, peevish, prostrate, provision, behoove, conceit, shroud, lamentable, heir
Homework:
Daily Assignments:
Monday
Grammar and vocabulary SAt activities will be given throughout the week in place of a quiz.
TAKS daily - testing schedule
9th graders come to school at 12 noon on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Fiday. On Thursday, 9th graders come at regular time to take the math test.
Grammar: Capitalization and punctuation
- Write POPS with a couplet.
- Write a sentence for each word in the vocabulary list this week with an internal rhyme. For a change, you might want to write a story about your day, or week; or a fictional one about anything instead of writing individual sentences for each word. EXTRA credit will be given if you have a story to tell. HIGHLIGHT all the words in context and UNDERLINE the internal rhyme. Follow the rules of capialization and punctuation.
RJ#s 709-733 - discourse, fickle, conduit, tempest, proportion, stratagem, dissemble, calamity, haste, immoderate, inundation, slander, arouse, arbitrate, commission, vial, peevish, prostrate, provision, behoove, conceit, shroud, lamentable, heir
Homework:
- - Vocabulary SAT notes - due Thursday
- - POPS with a couplet - due anytime this week not next week
- - Sentences or story - due on Friday
- - R & J Project 2011 - refer to handout for other details (due dates are subject to adjustments depending on testing dates.
- SCRIPT with introduction due date: May 9-10, 2011
- Recorded group presentation: May 16-20, 2011
- Individual analysis essay due in class May 13, 2011 and on www.turnitin.com on May 16, 2011
- Mask due date: May 23, 2011
- Banquet (if time allows) – May 24, 2011 (Each group brings Renaissance-inspired dishes and students may come in their costumes for extra credit.)
Daily Assignments:
Monday
Grammar and vocabulary SAt activities will be given throughout the week in place of a quiz.
- Continue to read, annotate, and discuss R & J.
- Work on a grammar activity (Grammardog).
TAKS daily - testing schedule
9th graders come to school at 12 noon on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Fiday. On Thursday, 9th graders come at regular time to take the math test.
- View a clip of Act I.
- Continue to read, annotate, and discuss R & J.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Week #32 April 18-21, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Grammar:
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due every Friday
- POPS - with oxymoron - due daily
- Concession poem - due on Wednesday, April 20
Activities
Monday
WITS - 1st period
1. Take Quiz # 11- RJ s 654-683/Shakespeare's World/Prologue. Discuss quiz after it is done.
2. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss Act I.
Tuesday- Thursday
1. WITS on Tuesday - 5th and 7th periods
2. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss the play.
3. Distribute project mechanics.
Grammar:
- Write pops with oxymoron.
- Write sentences for each word in the list. Identify parts of the sentence. Include any of the verbals.
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due every Friday
- POPS - with oxymoron - due daily
- Concession poem - due on Wednesday, April 20
Activities
Monday
WITS - 1st period
1. Take Quiz # 11- RJ s 654-683/Shakespeare's World/Prologue. Discuss quiz after it is done.
2. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss Act I.
Tuesday- Thursday
1. WITS on Tuesday - 5th and 7th periods
2. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss the play.
3. Distribute project mechanics.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Week #31 April 11-15, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar: infinitive, gerund, participle, prepositional phrase, and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: RJ #s 659-683 beseech, bondage, hoarse, wanton, virtue, predominant, intercession, brine, woe, rancor, afflict, constrain, exposition, gross, feign, consume, vanity, incorporate, baleful, addle, plague, dexterity, exile, amorous, sober
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - Identify and label the parts required. Circle or highlight the word in context. - due on Friday
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #10 - RJ #s 634-658 and Shakespearean drama
2. Discuss quiz.
3. Read POPS- American Haikus via individual cellphones or emails. (homework from last week).
4. 7th period - anaphoric poetry set to music (two more groups to present)
Tuesday- Thursday
1. Read Act I scenes 1-5 of Romeo and Juliet.
2. Answer study questions.
WEDNESDAY ONLY
Work on a revising and editing activity and a sentence completion activity for vocabulary words in Act I of Romeo and Juliet.
Friday - Early Dismissal day
1. WITS - 1st period
2. Work on a crossword puzzle and a grammar activity.
Grammar: infinitive, gerund, participle, prepositional phrase, and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: RJ #s 659-683 beseech, bondage, hoarse, wanton, virtue, predominant, intercession, brine, woe, rancor, afflict, constrain, exposition, gross, feign, consume, vanity, incorporate, baleful, addle, plague, dexterity, exile, amorous, sober
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - Identify and label the parts required. Circle or highlight the word in context. - due on Friday
- #s 659-663 - with infinitive
- #s 664-668 - with gerund
- #s 669-673 - with participle
- #s 674-678 - with prepositional phrase
- #s 679-683 - with prepositional phrase
Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #10 - RJ #s 634-658 and Shakespearean drama
2. Discuss quiz.
3. Read POPS- American Haikus via individual cellphones or emails. (homework from last week).
4. 7th period - anaphoric poetry set to music (two more groups to present)
Tuesday- Thursday
1. Read Act I scenes 1-5 of Romeo and Juliet.
2. Answer study questions.
WEDNESDAY ONLY
Work on a revising and editing activity and a sentence completion activity for vocabulary words in Act I of Romeo and Juliet.
Friday - Early Dismissal day
1. WITS - 1st period
2. Work on a crossword puzzle and a grammar activity.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Week #30 April 4-8, 2011
Literature: William Shakespeare's The TRagedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar: Focus on appositive and absolute phrases and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: RJ #s 634-658 antic, solemnity, disparagement, scathe, purge, trespass, loathe, esteem, boisterous, endure, conjure, adjacent, invocation, jest, embed, retain, peril, perjury, perverse, cunning, orb, idolatry, bounty, rite
Writing: Write daily POPS - feature oxymoron.
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday (sentences by Friday)
Write a sentence for each word that contains the following grammatical component in your vocabulary notebook. Identify the parts of a sentence.
Monday
1. Quiz #9 Vocabulary quiz #s 609-638.
2. Discuss quiz.
3. Finish the group poem and presentation.
Tuesday
1. Continue group poem and presentation.
2. Discuss William Shakespeare background.
Wednesday
1. Read and study the elements of Shakespearean Drama.
2. Scan pages of the play Romeo and Juliet and find examples of each element.
3. Prepare students for the viewing of the play on Friday in the auditorium.
Thursday- Friday
1. Read Act I scenes 1-5 and answer study questions.
2. Friday- Watch the play in the auditorium at 8 am.
Grammar: Focus on appositive and absolute phrases and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: RJ #s 634-658 antic, solemnity, disparagement, scathe, purge, trespass, loathe, esteem, boisterous, endure, conjure, adjacent, invocation, jest, embed, retain, peril, perjury, perverse, cunning, orb, idolatry, bounty, rite
Writing: Write daily POPS - feature oxymoron.
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday (sentences by Friday)
Write a sentence for each word that contains the following grammatical component in your vocabulary notebook. Identify the parts of a sentence.
- For #s 634-638 - appositive phrase
- For #s 639-643 - appositive phrase
- For #s 644-648 - appositive phrase
- For #s 649-653 - absolute phrase
- For #s 654-658 - absolute phrase
Monday
1. Quiz #9 Vocabulary quiz #s 609-638.
2. Discuss quiz.
3. Finish the group poem and presentation.
Tuesday
1. Continue group poem and presentation.
2. Discuss William Shakespeare background.
Wednesday
1. Read and study the elements of Shakespearean Drama.
2. Scan pages of the play Romeo and Juliet and find examples of each element.
3. Prepare students for the viewing of the play on Friday in the auditorium.
Thursday- Friday
1. Read Act I scenes 1-5 and answer study questions.
2. Friday- Watch the play in the auditorium at 8 am.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Week #29 March 28-April 1, 2011
Literature:Four of Emily Dickinson's Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music by Aaron Copland / Emily Dickinson's "I watch the Moon Around the House"/ Jack Prelutsky's "The Witch"/ William Shakespeare background
Grammar: Focus on appositive and absolute phrase
Vocabulary: RJ #s 609-633 - mutiny, choler, foe, brawl, canker, forfeit, defiance, scorn, pursue, shun, augment, portentous, importune, envious, shrift, transgression, propagate, assail, posterity, languish, heretic, splendor, warrants, benefice, idle
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due every Friday
* For #s 609-620, write sentences with an appositive phrase. Identify the parts of the sentence (S- subject, V- verb, LV- linking verb, DO- direct object, IO- indirect object, PA-predicate adjective, PN- predicate nominative)
* For #s 621-633, write sentences with an absolute phrase. Identify the parts of the sentence (S- subject, V- verb, LV- linking verb, DO- direct object, IO- indirect object, PA-predicate adjective, PN- predicate nominative)
- Individual Reading Project - March 28, 2011
Activities
Monday
1. Benchmark test. Go over the test after it is done.
2. Finish the group poetry writing and present and do an impromptu setting of poem to music.
3. Discuss poetry terms: enjambment, ceasura, and endstopped. Find examples in the Dickinson poems.
Tuesday
1. 5th and 7th period will have WITS with Ms. Hagle.
2. In 1st period, each group will continue with their project: poetry with anaphora set to music using the word matrix.
NOTE: Quiz is postponed until Wednesday or Thursday.
Wednesday
1. 5th and 7th period will have Quiz #8
2. Each group will continue with their project: poetry with anaphora set to music using the word matrix.
3. Each group will prepare their poem with anaphora set to music, and present in front of the class.
Thursday
1. Possible presentations of groups that did not get to present.
2. Read on William Shakespeare in the Literature textbook. Read and discuss Shakespeare’s background in the Literature textbook.- Take note of details in W.S. life, the theater, and W.S. contributions in the English language.
Friday Read, take notes, and discuss the elements of Shakespearean drama. - Tragedy - Tragic hero - soliloquy - aside - blank verse - iambic pentameter
Grammar: Focus on appositive and absolute phrase
Vocabulary: RJ #s 609-633 - mutiny, choler, foe, brawl, canker, forfeit, defiance, scorn, pursue, shun, augment, portentous, importune, envious, shrift, transgression, propagate, assail, posterity, languish, heretic, splendor, warrants, benefice, idle
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due every Friday
* For #s 609-620, write sentences with an appositive phrase. Identify the parts of the sentence (S- subject, V- verb, LV- linking verb, DO- direct object, IO- indirect object, PA-predicate adjective, PN- predicate nominative)
* For #s 621-633, write sentences with an absolute phrase. Identify the parts of the sentence (S- subject, V- verb, LV- linking verb, DO- direct object, IO- indirect object, PA-predicate adjective, PN- predicate nominative)
- Individual Reading Project - March 28, 2011
Activities
Monday
1. Benchmark test. Go over the test after it is done.
2. Finish the group poetry writing and present and do an impromptu setting of poem to music.
3. Discuss poetry terms: enjambment, ceasura, and endstopped. Find examples in the Dickinson poems.
Tuesday
1. 5th and 7th period will have WITS with Ms. Hagle.
2. In 1st period, each group will continue with their project: poetry with anaphora set to music using the word matrix.
NOTE: Quiz is postponed until Wednesday or Thursday.
Wednesday
1. 5th and 7th period will have Quiz #8
2. Each group will continue with their project: poetry with anaphora set to music using the word matrix.
3. Each group will prepare their poem with anaphora set to music, and present in front of the class.
Thursday
1. Possible presentations of groups that did not get to present.
2. Read on William Shakespeare in the Literature textbook. Read and discuss Shakespeare’s background in the Literature textbook.- Take note of details in W.S. life, the theater, and W.S. contributions in the English language.
Friday Read, take notes, and discuss the elements of Shakespearean drama. - Tragedy - Tragic hero - soliloquy - aside - blank verse - iambic pentameter
Friday, March 11, 2011
Week #28 March 21-25, 2011
Literature: Poetry - Four of Emily Dickinson's Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music by Aaron Copland / Jack Prelutsky's "The Witch"
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of sentence, phrases (infinitive, prepositional, gerund, participial, appositive, and absolute)
Vocabulary: #s 945-964- negligible, pathos, patronize, prerogative, prolific, reconcile, rhetoric, stint, subsidy, uniform, vicissitude, accolade, beleaguer, bias, cynic, deficit, discreet, efficacy, eke, and endemic Literary vocabulary: scansion, enjambment, meter, breve, iamb, blank verse, feminine ending, masculine ending, Alexandria, sound devices, figurative language, details, and diction
Homework: - Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday - Sentences - due Friday *For #s 945-948 - Write a sentence for each with a predicate nominative (PN) or adjective (PA) and a participial, a gerund, or an infinitive phrase. Identify the phrase. * For #s 949-952 - Write a sentence for each word that is either a simple or a compound sentence. Identify the sentence. * For #s 953-956 - Write a sentence for each word that is either a compound or complex sentence. Identify the sentence. Circle the coordinating conjunction and box the subordinating conjunction. * For #s 957-960 - Write a sentence for each word that has a prepositional phrase. Enclose the phrase in brackets and identify whether it is adjective or adverb. * For #s 961-964 - Write a sentence for each word that has an appositive or an absolute phrase. Identify the phrase.
Activities
Monday 1. Quiz #7- Voc #s 925-944/phrases(appositive, absolute, introductory phrase) 2. Go over the quiz. 3. Read and annotate Emily Dickinson's "Nature, the Gentlest Mother." Take note of figurative, rhyme, meter, sound devices, and meaning.
Tuesday 1. Identify phrases in the poem "Nature, the Gentlest Mother." 2. Discuss the poem and listen to the artsong.
Wednesday-Thursday 1. Read and annotate the other three poems and discuss each one. 2. Listen to the artsong. 3. Groupwork: Students will write their own poem and set it to music (own choice).
Friday 1. Groupwork: Students will write their own poem and set it to music (own choice). - Group poem using the CWP Word Matrix (WITS-inspired) - NOTE: The assignment was not finished and will be pursued after Monday's Benchmark test. 2. Perform in class. 3. Read and annotate Jack Prelutsky's "The Witch." -To be read next week.
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of sentence, phrases (infinitive, prepositional, gerund, participial, appositive, and absolute)
Vocabulary: #s 945-964- negligible, pathos, patronize, prerogative, prolific, reconcile, rhetoric, stint, subsidy, uniform, vicissitude, accolade, beleaguer, bias, cynic, deficit, discreet, efficacy, eke, and endemic Literary vocabulary: scansion, enjambment, meter, breve, iamb, blank verse, feminine ending, masculine ending, Alexandria, sound devices, figurative language, details, and diction
Homework: - Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday - Sentences - due Friday *For #s 945-948 - Write a sentence for each with a predicate nominative (PN) or adjective (PA) and a participial, a gerund, or an infinitive phrase. Identify the phrase. * For #s 949-952 - Write a sentence for each word that is either a simple or a compound sentence. Identify the sentence. * For #s 953-956 - Write a sentence for each word that is either a compound or complex sentence. Identify the sentence. Circle the coordinating conjunction and box the subordinating conjunction. * For #s 957-960 - Write a sentence for each word that has a prepositional phrase. Enclose the phrase in brackets and identify whether it is adjective or adverb. * For #s 961-964 - Write a sentence for each word that has an appositive or an absolute phrase. Identify the phrase.
Activities
Monday 1. Quiz #7- Voc #s 925-944/phrases(appositive, absolute, introductory phrase) 2. Go over the quiz. 3. Read and annotate Emily Dickinson's "Nature, the Gentlest Mother." Take note of figurative, rhyme, meter, sound devices, and meaning.
Tuesday 1. Identify phrases in the poem "Nature, the Gentlest Mother." 2. Discuss the poem and listen to the artsong.
Wednesday-Thursday 1. Read and annotate the other three poems and discuss each one. 2. Listen to the artsong. 3. Groupwork: Students will write their own poem and set it to music (own choice).
Friday 1. Groupwork: Students will write their own poem and set it to music (own choice). - Group poem using the CWP Word Matrix (WITS-inspired) - NOTE: The assignment was not finished and will be pursued after Monday's Benchmark test. 2. Perform in class. 3. Read and annotate Jack Prelutsky's "The Witch." -To be read next week.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Week #27 March 7-11, 2011
Literature: Poetry - Four of the Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music y Aaron Copland
Film: Finishing the Third Stage of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: Sentence and sentence style
Vocabulary: #s 925-944 strategy, akin, appreciable, articulate, broach, browse, clamorous, compact, confident, confidential, deduce, deportment, ethereal, evince, infirmity, initiate, instrumental, lithe, meteoric, negligible
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes format notebook - due every Thursday
- Monday and Tuesday - In your SAT notebook, write a specific sentence using eah word. For vocab #s 925-934, write a compound-complex sentence for each word with either an introductory phrase or clause.
- For vocab #s 935-939, write a sentence for each word with an appositive phrase.
- For vocab #s 940-944, write a sentence for each word with an absolute phrase.
- Individual reading project - due March 28, 2011 (Make sure you have the project handout.)
- Study guide for Stage 3 of Great Epectations - due Friday, March 11
Activities
Monday and Tuesday
1. Finish viewing the film and hopefully, take the test for it. Note the characters and characterization, mood, setting, and the progressing plot. Do not forget that Dickens' diction is very important in understanding the plot and ending of the novel.
2. Receive handouts for Emily Dickinson and Aaron Copland biographies. Read and annotate at home. Prepare for an activity on Thursday.
Wednesday
1. Go over the glossary of terms list and review poetry terminologies. Add to the list scansion, enjambment, meter, iamb, blank verse, feminine and masculine ending, Alexandria, etc.
2. Go over different writing styles: magic three, expanded moment, specific details, etc. and look at examples for each one.
3. Review DIDLS.
4. WITS in 5th period.
Thursday
1. Work on a crossword puzzle.
2. Work on a biography activity and discuss details.
Friday
1. Receive the four poems from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.
2. Highlight unfamiliar words and make a list.
3. Read and annotate for the following:
- What is the poem about?
- form - stanzas, lines, meter
- Figurative language - simile, metaphor, personification, symbol, allusion
- Sound Devices - alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance
- stanza by stanza - meaning
Film: Finishing the Third Stage of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: Sentence and sentence style
Vocabulary: #s 925-944 strategy, akin, appreciable, articulate, broach, browse, clamorous, compact, confident, confidential, deduce, deportment, ethereal, evince, infirmity, initiate, instrumental, lithe, meteoric, negligible
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes format notebook - due every Thursday
- Monday and Tuesday - In your SAT notebook, write a specific sentence using eah word. For vocab #s 925-934, write a compound-complex sentence for each word with either an introductory phrase or clause.
- For vocab #s 935-939, write a sentence for each word with an appositive phrase.
- For vocab #s 940-944, write a sentence for each word with an absolute phrase.
- Individual reading project - due March 28, 2011 (Make sure you have the project handout.)
- Study guide for Stage 3 of Great Epectations - due Friday, March 11
Activities
Monday and Tuesday
1. Finish viewing the film and hopefully, take the test for it. Note the characters and characterization, mood, setting, and the progressing plot. Do not forget that Dickens' diction is very important in understanding the plot and ending of the novel.
2. Receive handouts for Emily Dickinson and Aaron Copland biographies. Read and annotate at home. Prepare for an activity on Thursday.
Wednesday
1. Go over the glossary of terms list and review poetry terminologies. Add to the list scansion, enjambment, meter, iamb, blank verse, feminine and masculine ending, Alexandria, etc.
2. Go over different writing styles: magic three, expanded moment, specific details, etc. and look at examples for each one.
3. Review DIDLS.
4. WITS in 5th period.
Thursday
1. Work on a crossword puzzle.
2. Work on a biography activity and discuss details.
Friday
1. Receive the four poems from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.
2. Highlight unfamiliar words and make a list.
3. Read and annotate for the following:
- What is the poem about?
- form - stanzas, lines, meter
- Figurative language - simile, metaphor, personification, symbol, allusion
- Sound Devices - alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance
- stanza by stanza - meaning
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Week #26 Feb 28- March 4, 2011
Literature: Poetry (Four of the Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music by Aaron Copland), Film Viewing and test - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: Sentences, Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence, Phrases
Vocabulary: #s 905-924 - disband, drab, drudgery, edict, epithet, exemplify, exterminate, impend, impotent, incidental, inherent, momentary, motoive, nondescript, overture, perpetrate, perpetuate, purport, sloth
Homework
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Crossword puzzles - due March 4
- Individual reading - due March 28, 2011
- Read and annotate an Aaron Copland handout I will provide on Friday. A reading check will be given on Monday, March 7.
Activities
Monday
1. Review diction, imagery, details, language, symbolism, figurative language, plot elements, etc.
2. Tally all scores for the GE reading triplet test.
Tuesday
TAKS English in the morning. In the afternoon, we will start with the GE viewing. Each one will receive the 3rd stage study guide.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Continue the film viewing. Keep taking notes in the study guide.
Thursday
Receive a vocabulary and sentence assignment covering week 24 and 25.
Submit vocabulary notebook. Each one should have three sets of vocab work: week 24, 25, and 26.
Friday
Collect vocabulary and sentence assignment. Discuss some of the sentences.
Receive a copy of the poems and a biography of Aaron Copland and Emily Dickinson.
Grammar: Sentences, Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence, Phrases
Vocabulary: #s 905-924 - disband, drab, drudgery, edict, epithet, exemplify, exterminate, impend, impotent, incidental, inherent, momentary, motoive, nondescript, overture, perpetrate, perpetuate, purport, sloth
Homework
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Crossword puzzles - due March 4
- Individual reading - due March 28, 2011
- Read and annotate an Aaron Copland handout I will provide on Friday. A reading check will be given on Monday, March 7.
Activities
Monday
1. Review diction, imagery, details, language, symbolism, figurative language, plot elements, etc.
2. Tally all scores for the GE reading triplet test.
Tuesday
TAKS English in the morning. In the afternoon, we will start with the GE viewing. Each one will receive the 3rd stage study guide.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Continue the film viewing. Keep taking notes in the study guide.
Thursday
Receive a vocabulary and sentence assignment covering week 24 and 25.
Submit vocabulary notebook. Each one should have three sets of vocab work: week 24, 25, and 26.
Friday
Collect vocabulary and sentence assignment. Discuss some of the sentences.
Receive a copy of the poems and a biography of Aaron Copland and Emily Dickinson.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Week #25 Feb. 21-25, 2011
Main Focus: TAKS Triplet- Great Expectations Chapter XXVII excerpt, "What Are you Talking About?", viewing and representing /OER questions
Other focus: Benchmark test
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence, phrases/revising and editing
Vocabulary: #s 885-904 moral, morale, motif, offset, portray, preposterous, resort, rudiment, snippet, staid, wayward, admonish, approbation, artifice, bathos, blithe, condole, congest, deference, devout
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading - due everyday until March 28, 2011
- Do not forget the plot, setting, characters, and other things about Great Expectations. Remember, the test has not been given yet. Keep working on vocabulary assignments and prepare for a major vocabulary test after the TAKS test.
NOTE: An extra credit opportunity was emailed to you. Take advantage of it if you want to earn 10 points added to your average. Please share the opportunity to those who may not have received an email. Thank you. DUE: Feb. 21, Monday.
1. Students will read and comprehend selections.
2. Students will identify and use literary terms and techniques before, during, and after reading.
3. Students will analyze diverse texts and the use of literary terms and techniques in reading selections and use and apply conventions of writing when responding to questions.
Activities:
Monday
1. Take the benchmark test. Go over the test questions and answers.
Questions to ASK when answering questions:
- Do I know what the question is asking? Do I understand the question? What question stem is involved?
- Have I highlighted key words to help me understand the question?
- Do I have annotations on the text or the margin? Have I scanned the questions first so I can annotate the text accordingly?
2. Look at sample responses for OER questions from the previous triplet.
Tuesday
1. Take the reading test based on Great Expectations.
2. Go over the multiple choice questions.
Wednesday-Thursday - Friday
1. Go over multiple choice questions and OER questions.
2. Practice scoring.
Go over the test OER questions and answers.
Questions to ASK when answering questions:
- Do I know what the question is asking? Do I understand the question? What question stem is involved?
- Have I highlighted key words to help me understand the question?
- Do I have annotations on the text or the margin? Have I scanned the questions first so I can annotate the text accordingly?
- Does my answer address the question? Is it engaging or insightful to the reader?
- Does my quote support my response?
- Do I have a commentary that connects my response and my support? Is it analytical?
- Is the response comprehensive? What key words (lit. terms and strategies) are in the response? Are there vocabulary words incorporated in my response from our class list?
- Is my response coherent and consistent?
- ON a scale of 0 to 3, what is my score? What is my peer's score?
NOTE: Film viewing will be postponed indefinitely until all TAKS lessons and activities are covered: Great Expectations TAKS test, TAKS released test, TAKS stems and rubric, and support/evidence.
Other focus: Benchmark test
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence, phrases/revising and editing
Vocabulary: #s 885-904 moral, morale, motif, offset, portray, preposterous, resort, rudiment, snippet, staid, wayward, admonish, approbation, artifice, bathos, blithe, condole, congest, deference, devout
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading - due everyday until March 28, 2011
- Do not forget the plot, setting, characters, and other things about Great Expectations. Remember, the test has not been given yet. Keep working on vocabulary assignments and prepare for a major vocabulary test after the TAKS test.
NOTE: An extra credit opportunity was emailed to you. Take advantage of it if you want to earn 10 points added to your average. Please share the opportunity to those who may not have received an email. Thank you. DUE: Feb. 21, Monday.
Objectives:
1. Students will read and comprehend selections.
2. Students will identify and use literary terms and techniques before, during, and after reading.
3. Students will analyze diverse texts and the use of literary terms and techniques in reading selections and use and apply conventions of writing when responding to questions.
Activities:
Monday
1. Take the benchmark test. Go over the test questions and answers.
Questions to ASK when answering questions:
- Do I know what the question is asking? Do I understand the question? What question stem is involved?
- Have I highlighted key words to help me understand the question?
- Do I have annotations on the text or the margin? Have I scanned the questions first so I can annotate the text accordingly?
2. Look at sample responses for OER questions from the previous triplet.
Tuesday
1. Take the reading test based on Great Expectations.
2. Go over the multiple choice questions.
Wednesday-Thursday - Friday
1. Go over multiple choice questions and OER questions.
2. Practice scoring.
Go over the test OER questions and answers.
Questions to ASK when answering questions:
- Do I know what the question is asking? Do I understand the question? What question stem is involved?
- Have I highlighted key words to help me understand the question?
- Do I have annotations on the text or the margin? Have I scanned the questions first so I can annotate the text accordingly?
- Does my answer address the question? Is it engaging or insightful to the reader?
- Does my quote support my response?
- Do I have a commentary that connects my response and my support? Is it analytical?
- Is the response comprehensive? What key words (lit. terms and strategies) are in the response? Are there vocabulary words incorporated in my response from our class list?
- Is my response coherent and consistent?
- ON a scale of 0 to 3, what is my score? What is my peer's score?
NOTE: Film viewing will be postponed indefinitely until all TAKS lessons and activities are covered: Great Expectations TAKS test, TAKS released test, TAKS stems and rubric, and support/evidence.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Week #24 Feb 14-18, 2011
Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence, verbal phrases
Vocabulary: Voc #s 865-884 - retract, authentic, averse, bane, caustic, comestible, consort, consummate, derision, desultory, diagnose, eccentric, epoch, excerpt, fervent, flaunt, glean, impediment, incomparable, malinger, moral
Homework:
- Vocab SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading - due every night until March 28, 2011
Objectives:
1. Students will read and comprehend selections.
2. Students will identify and use literary terms and techniques before, during, and after reading.
3. Students will analyze the use of literary terms and techniques in reading selections and use and apply conventions of writing when responding to questions.
Activities
Monday
1. Students will take a reading test on reading comprehension, use and analysis of literary devices and techniques. NOTE: Instead of the reading test I planned for this week, Monday's activity was changed to a TAKS release test due to my absence.
2. Go over the test if there is time.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Go over the test OER questions and answers.
Questions to ASK when answering questions:
- Do I know what the question is asking? Do I understand the question? What question stem is involved?
- Have I highlighted key words to help me understand the question?
- Do I have annotations on the text or the margin? Have I scanned the questions first so I can annotate the text accordingly?
- Does my answer address the question? Is it engaging or insightful to the reader?
- Does my quote support my response?
- Do I have a commentary that connects my response and my support? Is it analytical?
- Is the response comprehensive? What key words (lit. terms and strategies) are in the response? Are there vocabulary words incorporated in my response from our class list?
- Is my response coherent and consistent?
- ON a scale of 0 to 3, what is my score? What is my peer's score?
NOTE: Film viewing will be postponed indefinitely until all TAKS lessons and activities are covered: Great Expectations TAKS test, TAKS released test, TAKS stems and rubric, and support/evidence.
1. View film adaptation (BBC 1999) from the 1st stage to the 3rd stage.
2. Receive study questions for the 3rd stage and continue to annotate for literary devices, syntactical devices, and grammatical structure.
Thursday and Friday
NOTE: Film viewing will be postponed indefinitely until all TAKS lessons and activities are covered: Great Expectations TAKS test, TAKS released test, TAKS stems and rubric, and support/evidence.
1. Continue film viewing if needed.
2. Work on a TAKS released test.
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence, verbal phrases
Vocabulary: Voc #s 865-884 - retract, authentic, averse, bane, caustic, comestible, consort, consummate, derision, desultory, diagnose, eccentric, epoch, excerpt, fervent, flaunt, glean, impediment, incomparable, malinger, moral
Homework:
- Vocab SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading - due every night until March 28, 2011
Objectives:
1. Students will read and comprehend selections.
2. Students will identify and use literary terms and techniques before, during, and after reading.
3. Students will analyze the use of literary terms and techniques in reading selections and use and apply conventions of writing when responding to questions.
Activities
Monday
1. Students will take a reading test on reading comprehension, use and analysis of literary devices and techniques. NOTE: Instead of the reading test I planned for this week, Monday's activity was changed to a TAKS release test due to my absence.
2. Go over the test if there is time.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Go over the test OER questions and answers.
Questions to ASK when answering questions:
- Do I know what the question is asking? Do I understand the question? What question stem is involved?
- Have I highlighted key words to help me understand the question?
- Do I have annotations on the text or the margin? Have I scanned the questions first so I can annotate the text accordingly?
- Does my answer address the question? Is it engaging or insightful to the reader?
- Does my quote support my response?
- Do I have a commentary that connects my response and my support? Is it analytical?
- Is the response comprehensive? What key words (lit. terms and strategies) are in the response? Are there vocabulary words incorporated in my response from our class list?
- Is my response coherent and consistent?
- ON a scale of 0 to 3, what is my score? What is my peer's score?
NOTE: Film viewing will be postponed indefinitely until all TAKS lessons and activities are covered: Great Expectations TAKS test, TAKS released test, TAKS stems and rubric, and support/evidence.
1. View film adaptation (BBC 1999) from the 1st stage to the 3rd stage.
2. Receive study questions for the 3rd stage and continue to annotate for literary devices, syntactical devices, and grammatical structure.
Thursday and Friday
NOTE: Film viewing will be postponed indefinitely until all TAKS lessons and activities are covered: Great Expectations TAKS test, TAKS released test, TAKS stems and rubric, and support/evidence.
1. Continue film viewing if needed.
2. Work on a TAKS released test.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Week #23 February 7-11, 2011
Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: phrases, parts of speech, parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: Voc. #s 845-864 - Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading - ongoing and should be finished reading towards the end of February
- Crossword for last week's vocab GE#s 6-4-608/FloCab #s 829-844 - due 2/9, Wednesday
Activities
Monday
1. Go over objectives 1, 2, and 3 for TAKS Reading, OER rubric, and TAKS stems.
2. Practice Test using GE - multiple choice is a major grade/OER is peer grade
3. Discuss test. (postponed)
NOTE: Be prepared for a vocabulary quiz any day this week.
Tuesday-Friday
1. Discuss OER responses and use the OER rubric to score (peer review).
2. Continue to read and annotate and possibly begin watching film adaptation of GE towards the end of the week.
Grammar: phrases, parts of speech, parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: Voc. #s 845-864 - Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading - ongoing and should be finished reading towards the end of February
- Crossword for last week's vocab GE#s 6-4-608/FloCab #s 829-844 - due 2/9, Wednesday
Activities
Monday
1. Go over objectives 1, 2, and 3 for TAKS Reading, OER rubric, and TAKS stems.
2. Practice Test using GE - multiple choice is a major grade/OER is peer grade
3. Discuss test. (postponed)
NOTE: Be prepared for a vocabulary quiz any day this week.
Tuesday-Friday
1. Discuss OER responses and use the OER rubric to score (peer review).
2. Continue to read and annotate and possibly begin watching film adaptation of GE towards the end of the week.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Week #22 January 31-February 4, 2011
Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: phrases, parts of speech, parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: GE#s 604-608/829-844 - Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading assignment - last day to present - Monday, Jan. 31
- Read articles online. See previous post below. DUE - Feb 1-2
Activities
Monday
Take quiz #4 covering GE#s 584-603 and chapters 11-12.
Tuesday-Friday
Continue reading and annotating chapters 13-20.
Grammar: phrases, parts of speech, parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: GE#s 604-608/829-844 - Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading assignment - last day to present - Monday, Jan. 31
- Read articles online. See previous post below. DUE - Feb 1-2
Activities
Monday
Take quiz #4 covering GE#s 584-603 and chapters 11-12.
Tuesday-Friday
Continue reading and annotating chapters 13-20.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Real Miss Havisham???
Read the following articles and answer questions I have prepared for you in class. Be prepared to answer questions on Tuesday, February 1 and 2. You may print your own copy of each text.
1. http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+-c-donnithorne22950+2-2-0-1-0
2. http://charlesdickenspage.com/Remembering_Camperdown_Lodge.pdf
3. http://www.suite101.com/content/the-real-australian-miss-havisham-a297773
4. http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/squalor/famous.shtml
5. http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/The_Bridal_Banquet.html
1. http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+-c-donnithorne22950+2-2-0-1-0
2. http://charlesdickenspage.com/Remembering_Camperdown_Lodge.pdf
3. http://www.suite101.com/content/the-real-australian-miss-havisham-a297773
4. http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/squalor/famous.shtml
5. http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/The_Bridal_Banquet.html
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Week 21 January 24-28, 2011
Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: phrases and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: GE#s 584-603 the Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading book/play - due on Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Activities:
1. Administer benchmark test. Go over the answers after the test.
2. Study for the vocabulary quiz.
Tuesday-Wednesday
1. Administer Quiz #3 Vocab #s 544-563/Chapters 6-10.
2. Read and annotate chapters 11-15 and discuss guide questions.
Thursday
1. Work on a grammar assignment. Identify the verbal in sentences.
2. Look at a spoof ad.
3. Continue reading and annotating.
Friday
1. Continue reading and annotating of chapters 11-15.
Grammar: phrases and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: GE#s 584-603 the Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Individual reading book/play - due on Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Activities:
1. Administer benchmark test. Go over the answers after the test.
2. Study for the vocabulary quiz.
Tuesday-Wednesday
1. Administer Quiz #3 Vocab #s 544-563/Chapters 6-10.
2. Read and annotate chapters 11-15 and discuss guide questions.
Thursday
1. Work on a grammar assignment. Identify the verbal in sentences.
2. Look at a spoof ad.
3. Continue reading and annotating.
Friday
1. Continue reading and annotating of chapters 11-15.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
From RAGS to RICHES...
Click on the link below and read about people who succeeded in life from poverty to immense wealth.
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-rags-to-riches-stories.php
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-rags-to-riches-stories.php
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Week #20 January 18-21, 2011
Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: Phrases, parts of speech, and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: GE #s 564-583 of the Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
Activities
Monday
MLK - holiday
Tuesday
1. Quiz #2 Vocabulary/GE chapters 1-5/"Fragments of An Autobiography"
2. Discuss OER answer.
3. Continue reading - chapter 6-10.
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
Continue reading chapters 6-10.
Prepare for a quiz on Monday.
Grammar: Phrases, parts of speech, and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: GE #s 564-583 of the Master Vocabulary 2009 http://campus.digication.com/English9/1._Handouts_and_Teacher_Links
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
Activities
Monday
MLK - holiday
Tuesday
1. Quiz #2 Vocabulary/GE chapters 1-5/"Fragments of An Autobiography"
2. Discuss OER answer.
3. Continue reading - chapter 6-10.
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
Continue reading chapters 6-10.
Prepare for a quiz on Monday.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Week #19 January 10-14, 2011
Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grammar: Verbal Phrases and Parts of Sentence
Vocabulary: GE #s 544-563
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
Activities:
Monday
1. Quiz #1 - Vocabulary/Verbal and verbabl phrases
2. Receive study questions for GE. Start reading chapters 1-5.
Tuesday-Wednesday
1. Continue reading chapters 1-5.
2. Break every 10 pages and discuss,and then continue reading.
Thursday
1. Work on sentence assignments.
Friday
1. Continue discussion and answer an open ended question.
Grammar: Verbal Phrases and Parts of Sentence
Vocabulary: GE #s 544-563
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
Activities:
Monday
1. Quiz #1 - Vocabulary/Verbal and verbabl phrases
2. Receive study questions for GE. Start reading chapters 1-5.
Tuesday-Wednesday
1. Continue reading chapters 1-5.
2. Break every 10 pages and discuss,and then continue reading.
Thursday
1. Work on sentence assignments.
Friday
1. Continue discussion and answer an open ended question.
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