Final Exam Review 2012

Week #17 Final Exam Week

Review for final exam. Ace it!!! :)

Rhetorical Analysis, Persuasion and Argument, Final Exam Review

Week #16 December 10-14, 2012

Literature: All selections for this semester
Writing: Final Exam Essay
Vocabulary: Refer to your final exam review

Homework:

• STUDY for final exam

SCHEDULE of Final Exam

Dec. 18 - 2nd and 5th

Dec. 19 - 3rd and 7th

Dec. 20 - 4th and 6th

Dec. 21 - 1 and 8th

Monday - Friday

• Write final exam essay.
• Study rhetorical devices in argument and persuasion.
• Review for final exam.

Odyssey, Literary Devices, Epic Elements, Rhetorical Devices

Week #15 December 3-7, 2012

Literature: The Odyssey by Homer
Vocabulary: Final Exam vocabulary - Refer to the list I will provide this week.

Homework:

• SAT notes on Odyssey Week 6 words - due: Dec. 3

Monday

• Vocabulary test.
• Continue reading the epic poem.

Tuesday-Friday

• Continue reading and finish the epic poem. 
• Go over rhetorical devices.

The Odyssey by Homer

Week #14 November 26-30, 2012

Literature: The Odyssey by Homer

Vocabulary: Odyssey #6 - azure, bare, brim, courier, craft, crane, crimson, deflect, dislodge, downcast, entrails, expel, flutter, impostor, jostle, lithe, lurch, pliant, rally, revelry, taut, thunderstruck, tremulous, underhanded

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes on Odyssey #5 - due: Nov. 26

Monday

• Students will take a vocabulary and reading test.
• Continue reading The Odyssey.

Tuesday

• Go over samples of literary essay. 
• Peer review essays.

Wednesday

• Go over SAR responses.
• Peer review responses.

Thursday-Friday

• Continue reading and annotating the epic poem The Odyssey.
• Complete study guide.

The Odyssey by Homer

Week #13 November 19-20, 2012

Literature: The Odyssey by Homer
Vocabulary: Same as last week

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes Odyssey #5 - due: Nov. 26

Monday-Tuesday

• Write a literary essay.
• View the Odyssey video.

Thursday-Friday

• Thanksgiving holiday.

The Odyssey by Homer

Week #12 November 12-16, 2012

Literature: The Odyssey by Homer
Writing: Persuasive Expository Writing
Vocabulary: Odyssey Week 5 - trance, bewitch, lurk, chaos, peril, quest, commandeer, throng, rubbish, aft, contemptible, aloof, defy, fraud, hone, incredulous, jest, lavish, justification, murmur, marvel, meddle, rash, reek, revulsion

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes for Odyssey #4 - due: Nov. 9
• Late essay outline - due: Nov. 12
• First draft - due: Nov. 14
• Second draft - due: Nov. 17 on www.turnitin.com

Monday-Tuesday

• Take a reading test- common assessment.

Wednesday

• Go over the reading test.

Thursday - Friday

• Continue reading and annotating the epic poem.

The Odyssey by Homer

Week #11 November 5-9, 2012

Literature: The Odyssey by Homer
Writing: Persuasive Essay
Grammar:Sentence structure
Vocabulary: Odyssey #4 - abominable, assuage, atone, beguile, bereft, brazen, fawn, frantic, grapple, insolent, scourge, seethe, skirt, wrath, bliss, blunder, fend, profusion, sage, stately, tidbit, titanic, lag, besiege

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes on Odyssey #3 - due: Nov. 5
• Essay Outline - due: Nov. 8
• First draft - due: Nov. 14
• Second draft - due: Nov. 17 at www.turnitin.com

Monday

• Today, you will take a vocabulary quiz.
• We will continue reading and annotating the epic poem.
• Analyze examples of epic simile, epic hero qualities, epithet, and figurative language.

Tuesday-Friday

• The rest of the week will be spent reading The Odyssey.
• Essay products are to be accomplished this week.

The Odyssey, Homer

Week #10 October 29-November 2, 2012

Literature: The Odyssey by Homer
Writing: Persuasive Essay (based on "Ozymandias" and biographies)
Grammar: Sentence Structure,
Vocabulary: Odyssey #3 - 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 vocab notes on Odyssey #3 words - due: Nov. 5
- Bibliography - due: Nov. 2
- Outline - due: Nov. 6
- First draft - due: Nov. 8
- Second draft online at www.turnitin.com - due: Nov. 10

Monday

• Take quiz #9 with Odyssey #2 vocabulary.
• Continue with the PowerPoint presentation. 
• Take notes on the characters in the Odyssey. 

Tuesday - Wednesday

• I was absent on Tuesday, but you worked on the 2nd notebook quiz and a vocabulary study and practice assignments. Today, Wednesday, we are going to talk about the notebook quiz and begin reading the epic poem.

Thursday

• We will go to the library, so that you can find resources for your persuasive essay.

Friday

• I am going to give you the 3rd notebook quiz. So, get your character and places notes ready.
• We will continue reading the epic poem.

Theme and Point of View, The Epic Adventure

Week #9 October 22-26, 2012

Literature: "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley, Epic, The Odyssey by Homer
Writing: Persuasive writing (due on www.turnitin.com)
Vocabulary: NO NEW VOCABULARY this week (More words to follow the week after. Let us finish all the assignments on "Ozymandias" first.)

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on Odyssey words #2 - due: Oct. 22

Monday

• I will not give a vocabulary quiz today.  Instead, we are going to finish the "Ozymandias" activities. 
• Watch this video at home. Because it is on YouTube, we cannot access it in school.  "Ozymandias" text reading and video
• If you want to review the slideshow we viewed in school, here's the link to it. "Ozymandias" prezi presentation by Sheila Curlin

Tuesday - Wednesday

• Today, we will continue what we did not finish yesterday discussing "Ozymandias."
• Let's review essay writing and go over types of persuasive writing and rhetorical devices.

Thursday - Friday

• Read about "Homer's World" in the Literature textbook. Take notes in your reading notebook. 
• Read about the epic and its elements, also in the Literature textbook. 
• I will give a reading check will be given on these topics.

Theme and Point of View

Week #8 October 15-19, 2012

Literature: Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" 
Writing: Sentence writing
Vocabulary: 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 vocab notes on Odyssey words #1 - due: Oct. 15
• Sentence Homework #4 - due: Oct. 17

Monday

• Go over "How Evil Came Into the World."
• Take vocabulary quiz (Odyssey #1) and mythology, creation, and Pandora's box.

Tuesday

• View a prezi on "Ozymandias."
• Read and annotate "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelly.
• Analyze and discuss tone, irony, and theme in the poem.

Wednesday

• Take the PSAT.
• Go over sentence homework.
• Analyze an discuss tone, irony, and theme in the poem.

Thursday - Friday

• Work on the Ozymandias activities and discuss them. 

Greek and Roman Mythology, What is a myth?

Week #7 October 8-12, 2012

Literature: Greek Mythology

Writing: Expository essay

Vocabulary: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 with "I Don'T See George," and "Why Write" vocabulary - due: Oct. 8
• PSAT Section 5 - due: Oct. 9

Monday

• Reading test: "Cask of Amontillado" and vocabulary.

Tuesday - Thursday

• Go over the reading test SAR objectives and rubric.
• Read an article on mythology.
• Answer short answer questions.

Friday

• Writing Workshop.

"I Don't See George Anymore" by Phillip Oakes, "Why Write" by Paul Auster, and "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway, "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

Week #6 October 1-5, 2012

Literature: Short Narratives, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (tone and mood)
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 vocabulary notes on "TMDG" additional and "Cask..." combined with a total of 25 words only. Choose twenty words you like the most and use those words in your vocab study notes. - due: Oct. 1
• - Annotated "Cask of Amontillado" - due: Oct. 1 (Original due date was last Friday, Sept. 28)
• - Sentence writing homework #2 - due: Oct. 2
• - Narrative Essay - due: Oct. 3 
• - Prepare for a long vocabulary test on the "The Most Dangerous Game" (TMDG) additional on Monday, Oct. 1
• - Prepare for a reading test on Wednesday, Oct. 3, with words from "The Cask of Amontillado".

Monday

• Today,we are going to take the vocabulary test on the additional words from "The Most Dangerous Game". The test will be timed, so prepare by studying the words from TMDG.
• We will spend ten minutes of discussion of "Cask..."

Tuesday

• Write sentences for a warm-up exercise.
• Read "I Don't See George Anymore" and annotate for diction, imagery, details, figurative language, and syntax (focus on prepositional phrases).
• Discuss the story.

Wednesday

• Take a timed reading test.
• Read and annotate "Why Write" during the last fifteen minutes of class. Highlight specific diction, imagery, details, figurative language, and syntax (focus on prepositional phrases) again. 

Thursday

• Read "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway. Annotate for tone, diction, mood, theme, imagery, and character.
• Discuss story and compare to the other stories. 

Friday

• Work on a timed writing prompt.

NOTE: This week is the last week of the 1st cycle. Please take care of your grades. Everything depends on how you deal with your grade situation. 

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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Literary analysis in TMDG, narrative writing

Week # 5 September 24-28, 2012

Literature: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
Writing: Literary writing
Vocabulary: "The Most Dangerous Game" additional words: mirage, braggart, pungent, precarious, placid, mystify, anguish, vigor, leer, discern, disarming, ardent, debacle, surmount, grisly, naive, elude, stealthy, futile, pungent, uncanny, precarious, tangible, placid, frantic

"Cask of Amontillado" words: aperture, circumscribe, connoisseur, crypt, distill gesticulate, ignoramus, implore, impunity, insufferable, motley, perceive, recess, redress, repose, termination, vault, vintage, virtuouso

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" words - due: Sept.24
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" additional words - due: Oct.1                                                                                           
- SAT vocab notes on "The Cask of Amontillado" words - due: Oct. 8
- Sentence Homework #1 - due: Sept. 25
- Figurative and Plot Devices assignment - due: Sept. 26

Monday

• Take vocabulary Quiz #3 - "The Most Dangerous Game" words.
• Continue reading "The Most Dangerous Game" and annotate for understanding of literary techniques.

Tuesday

• Warm-up: sentence unscrambling with prepositional phrase. 
• Understand and analyze figurative language and plot devices in "The Most Dangerous Game."
• Prepare to read "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Review tone and mood in literature.

Wednesday

• Continue to read "The Cask of Amontillado" and analyze tone and mood in the story.
• Annotate the rest of the story for conflict, setting, irony, mood, narrator's purpose, foreshadowing, sound imagery, climax, and resolution.

Thursday - Friday

• Writing workshop.
• Complete narrative outline and write first draft.
• Conference with peers before writing second draft.

Hunger Games test, Excerpt from Night, "The Most Dangerous Game", Richard Connell

Week #4 September 18-21, 2012

Literature: Short story - "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, wrapping up of Hunger Games lessons including the reading of an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel.
Writing: Narrative Essay, narrative devices
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 on tone words - due: Tuesday, Sept. 18
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" words - due: Monday, Sept. 24
- Crossword puzzle for tone words - due: Tuesday, Sept. 18
- Annotation assignment on the excerpt from Night. At home, read the excerpts and highlight important details and identify some techniques used by the author. You may use SIFT.  - due: Wednesday, Sept. 19

Monday - Holiday

Tuesday - Friday

• I will give the Hunger Games test on Tuesday. Be prepared. 
• We will review the tone words using the crossword puzzle I gave you last Friday, Sept. 14, and then, you will take a vocabulary test.
• This week, you will be provided a handout on annotation and use your annotation assignment you were given last week to review information in the handout. Add annotations in your assignment if you see anything you missed according to the annotation handout.
• We will read our first short story this week: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. 
• Finally, I am hoping we can continue with the narrative outlining assignment we started a week ago. 

Note: If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask them here using the comment section below. 

SIFT, Allusion, Excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel, 9-11

Week #3 September 10-14, 2012

Literature: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel
Writing: Literary Writing, style, tone, and voice
Vocabulary: TONE WORDS: apprehensive, awe, bitter, clinical, compassionate, condescending, contentious, derisive, detached, elated, facetious, flippant, haughty, indignant, insolent, irreverent, jovial, mournful, nostalgic, obsequious, pessimistic, petty, pretentious, ridiculing, sarcastic, shocked, somber, taunting, urgent, wrathful  (NOTE: Choose 25 words to study and use.)

HOMEWORK:
- SAT Vocabulary notes #2 - due: Monday, September 10
- Allusion project - due: Thursday, September 13
- Leave a comment below. - due until Friday,  
                                                September 14
- Prepare for the HUNGER GAMES test -TUESDAY, September 18.
Monday

• Take a vocabulary quiz on the first two lists.
• Continue the SIFT lesson.

Tuesday

• Continue the SIFT lesson and have each group present to class.
• Read an article about 9-11 and work on an activity.

Wednesday

• Read an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel. Analyze style, tone, and theme. 
• Work on a compare and contrast activity.

Thursday and Friday

• Review elements of a narrative.
• Complete narrative outline.
• Write a narrative essay.

SIFT

Week #2 September 4-7, 2012

Literature: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Writing: Narrative essay
Vocabulary: surly, irredeemable, mediocre, banal, gossamer, ferocity, urn, catacombs, serrated, smoldering, foresight, imprudent, inferno, corruption, vipers, stupor, fiend, bravado, befuddled, noxious, evasion, rendezvous, copse, impotence, despondency

Homework:

• Materials for class: three composition notebooks, and folder or binder - due September 4
• SAT vocabulary notebook notes - due September 4
• Shield of hidden truths and lies - September 5
• Allusion project - September 7 (Due date might change for a later date. We will see.) - POSTPONED. New due date is September 11.

Activities
Monday - LABOR DAY holiday
Tuesday

• Students will take the Beginning of Year assessment (BOY).

Wednesday

• Students will complete the outline for the narrative essay.
• Students will be divided into groups of 5 or 6.  Each group will analyze symbol, imagery, figurative language, tone, and theme (SIFT) in Hunger Games.
• Students will take a reading on HG Part I chapters.

Thursday

• Continuation: Groups of 5 or 6 will continue to analyze symbol, imagery, figurative language, tone, and theme in Hunger Games.
• Each group will discuss their analysis.
• Students will take a reading check on HG Part II chapters.

Friday

• Students will finish up SIFT analysis.
• Students will take a reading check on HG Part III chapters.

Welcome to the new school year of 2012-2013!

Week #1 August 27-31, 2012

Literature: Summer Reading discussion - Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games, Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Tripping" and Hugh Gallagher's "College Essay"
Writing: Personal poem and literary essay
Vocabulary: utopia, dystopia, entrails, reap, tessera, apothecary, tribute, treason, repentance, sustenance, plait, tenuous, insurmountable, mace, sanctioned, demeanor, decrepit, inexplicable, tureen, cornucopia, swathe, affectations, adversaries, deluge, oblivious

Homework:

• Bring back the white paper part of the syllabus with your and your parent's signature on August 28.
• Bring a small photo of you and colored pencils or markers on August 28. You will use these materials for a shield project due on or before September 5.
• Bring all required materials mentioned in the syllabus by Friday, August 31 or Tuesday, September 4.
• The Hunger Games project is due on September 7. If you submit the project ahead of time, you will earn extra points.
• Review for Hunger Games test on September 10.
• SAT vocabulary notes in Cornell note format are due every Tuesday of every week.
• Review for a quiz or test every Monday or Tuesday (if Monday is a holiday).

Assignments:

Monday - Wednesday

• Fill out enrollment forms and receive class syllabus and letter to parents.
• Work on "The Hidden Truth...or...The Hidden Lie" assignment after reading Nikki Giovanni's poem called "Ego Tripping" and and Hugh Gallagher's "College Essay".
• On Tuesday or Wednesday, write a poem or a paragraph with your hidden truth or lie, and create your own shield of information. Check due date above.
• Receive vocabulary handouts and discuss the SAT format.

Thursday - Friday

• Discuss allusion and the allusion project. Work on a mini-lesson based on the summer novel.
• Analyze symbol, imagery, figurative language, tone and theme (SIFT) in the summer novel. Read and discuss short passages in groups of 5. 

NOTE: Please register on www.turnitin.com. Details about this assignment will be given in class.

Reading schedule: 5^th Period

While reading or re-reading the novel Hunger Games, highlight passages you would like to share with the class. These could be passages that are important moments, curious incidents, confusing decisions, hard to understand, well written, or for some other reason a moment just stands out for you.

 Note: A short reading check will be given the day after the readings are due. The reading schedule is just a guide that informs what chapters are going to be discussed. The novel was a summer reading assignment and you should have already read all the chapters in the book before coming back to school.

August 30-31 – Part 1, pages 3-130 (reading check– September 5)

September 4-5 – Part 2, pages 133-244 (reading check – September 6)

September 6-7 – Part 3, pages 247-374 (reading check – September 7)

Week #35 May 21-25, 2012

Monday through Thursday will be about wrapping up lessons and reviewing for the final exam. Make sure you have your review packet with you at all times. I will also be picking up books that were issued to you by me and those that have not been returned in the past. Please make sure you have everything you need to return this week.

Week#34 May 14-18, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Writing: Lyric poetry, final essay
Vocabulary: same as last week's

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Monday, May 14
- RJ project presentation

Activities:
Monday-Friday

• Revising and Editing #2
• Practice with group and record performance.
• Write an essay.
• Performance presentation and banquet.

EXTRA CREDIT: Wear a Renaissance costume on the day of video presentation.

Week #33 May 7-11, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Writing: Lyric poem
Vocabulary: #684-708  mantle, garish, dismal, banish, chide, beguile, enamor, crave, tiding, purgatory, validity, carrion, absolve, prevail, predicament, disposition, decree, ascend, hasten, sojourn, signify, jocund, exhale, discord, chamber

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 659-683 - due Monday, May 7
- SAT vocab notes #s 684-708 - due Monday May 14

Activities
Monday

• Work on revising and editing practice 1 and 2.
• Break into groups for group project. 
• Read summaries of RJ.

Tuesday-Thursday

• STAAR testing
• Continue to read RJ and write group lyric poem.

Friday

• Take a reading check for Acts 3, 4 , and 5.

Week #32 April 30-May 4, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Writing:
Vocabulary: #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:
- SAT vocab notes #s 684-658 - due Monday, April 30
- SAT vocab notes #s 659-683 - due Monday, MAy 7

Activities

• Take Test #9 vocab #s 684-658 and Act I.
• Read Act II.
• Analyze lines and how lines contribute to characterization.

Week #31 April 23-27, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Writing: TBA
Vocabulary: #s 634-658 vain, antic, solemnity, disparagement, scathe, purge, tresspass, loathe, esteem, boisterous, endure, conjure, adjacent, imvocation, jest, embed, retain, peril, perjury, perverse, cunning, orb, idolatry, bounty, rite

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 609-633 - due Monday, April 23
- SAT vocab notes #s 634-658 - due Monday, April 30

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Take Test #8 vocab #s 609-633 and RJ Prologue.
• Continue reading RJ.

Week #30 April 16-20, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Writing: Narrative writing
Vocabulary: #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, warrant, benefice, idle

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 891-916 - due Monday, April 16
- SAT vocab notes #s 609-633 - due Monday, April 23

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Take a unit test on Twelfth Night.
• Review assignment from Friday, April 13.
• Read and annotate Act I of Romeo and Juliet. 
• Discuss and analyze Shakespearean conventions identified in the play.

Wednesday
NOTE: Today, we finished Exercice 13 (Literary Analysis), Shakespeare's language activity, and sonnet notetaking and analysis.

Week #29 April 9-13, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Poetry: American Haiku (POPS)
Vocabulary: #s 891-916 resort, rudiment, snippet, staid, wayward, admonish, approbation, artifice, bathos, blithe, condole, congest, deference, devout, disband, drab, drudgery, edict, epithet, exemplify, exterminate, impend, impotent, impotent, incidental, inherent, momentary

Homework:
- SAT Vocab #s 866-890 - due Monday, April 9
- SAT Vocab #s 891-916 - due Monday, April 16

Activities

• Take Test # 6 - Acts IV and V of Twelfth Night and vocab #s 866-890.
• Read and analyze POPS. Create a poster.
• Read background on Romeo and Juliet and a short summary.
• Receive vocabulary list.
• Work on Exercises 12 and 13.

Week #28 April 2-5, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and other plays (reduced on video)
Poetry: American Haiku or Pops by John Kerouac
Writing: Poetry using poetic devices in POPS
Vocabulary: #s 866-890 authentic, averse, bane, caustic, comestible, consort, consummate, derision, desultory, diagnose, eccentric, epoch, excerpt, fervent, flaunt, glean, impediment, incomparable, malinger, moral, morale, motif, offset, portray, preposterous

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 849-865 - due Monday, April 2
- SAT vocab notes #s 866-890 - due Monday, April 9
- American haiku or POPS - using technology (cellphone, Ipod, Ipad, Zune, or other internet capable device posted via text message, Facebook wall comment or update, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.) due the week of April 2 to share with the class.  Poetry reading. Students will be allowed to use their device only in the classroom within class time. There should be a series of posts using haikus filled with deep meaning, connection to nature, images, and a poetic device. (NOTE: Please do not use MySpace.)

Assignments
Monday-Friday

• Take Test #6 covering vocab #s 824-848, Act III and parts of Acts I and II, figurative language, and poetic devices.
• American haiku or POPS sharing using Jack Kerouac's style in writing haikus.
• Continue watching "Reduced Shakespeare's Theater." Pay attention to the conventions of drama used by the actors and the retelling of each play in a reduced format.
• Continue reading Twelfth Night Act IV and answer and discuss guide questions.

Week#27 March 26-30, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and other plays
Monday
STAAR Writing/Odd schedule
Tuesday
STAAR Reading/Even schedule

Vocabulary: #s 849-865 of the Shakespeare is Hip Hop handout
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 824-848 - due Wednesday, March 28
- SAT vocab notes #s 849-865 - due Monday, April 2
- American haikus - texts, on Facebook wall, Tumblr wall, or email - Due: Monday, April 2 after the quiz

Activities

• Continue to read and discuss Twelfth Night. 
• Answer and discuss study questions.
• View Shakespearean plays - all 37 of them. 
• Review poetic devices and work on an activity with poetic devices.
• Discuss American Haiku and Jack Kerouac.

Week #26 March 19-23, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Review: STAAR

Vocabulary: #s 824-848 - due: Wednesday, March 28

Week #25 March 6-10, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Writing Groups

This week's assignments:
1. STAAR writing practice.
2. STAAR OER practice.
3. Clause, figurative language, and poetic devices activities.

Week # 24 February 27-March 2, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Expository and Literary writing
Vocabulary: The same literary terms below. Terms and definitions are due Tuesday, Feb. 28.

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes 779-823 - extended due date: Feb 27, Monday
- Grammar worksheets - due as assigned

Activities
Monday-Friday
1. Continue with STAAR test preparation.
2. Continue reading and annotating the play.
3. Continue working on grammar practice, poetic devices, and figurative language activities.

Week # 23 February 20-24, 2012

Literature: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Reading is postponed until after STAAR.)
Writing: Timed-writing - literary writing
Vocabulary: literary terms (Check the scoring handout I gave you. There is an attached list of terms you need to review.) - conflict/main conflict (internal/external), point of view, theme, figurative language (simile/metaphor/personification/hyperbole), foreshadowing, tone, climax, suspense/tension, dialogue, turning point, summary, narrator, function (of a paragraph), symbol, flashback, fable, repetition, sarcasm, irony (verbal, dramatic, situational), allusion, connotation/denotation, imagery, generalization, definition, persuasion/persuasive technique, synonym/antonym, opposes/supports, disclose/reveal/convey, develop, audience, character/characterize/characterization, inference, conclude

NOTE: Regular vocabulary work/notes will resume next week.

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - #s 799-823 - due Monday, Feb. 20

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Work on a STAAR timed writing assignment.
• Review literary terms and techniques.
• Review grammar and mechanics.
• Go over sample essays and scoring rubric.

Week # 22 February 13-17, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Literary and Expository Writing
Vocabulary: #s 799-823 flabbergasted, forage, licentious, lewd, profane, fortuitous, serendipity, abrogate, algid, brumal, hiemal, impecunious, hapless, hiatus, gregarious, inquisitor, iniquities, goad, ingenious, subsist, notoriety, blandish, flattery, innocuous, neonate

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 774-778 - due Monday, Feb. 13
- SAT vocab notes #s 779-823 - due Monday, Feb. 20
- Expository essay practice on greatness - due Monday, Feb. 13

Activities
Monday - Friday
STAAR practices
Reading and annotating
Editing and Proofreading
Figurative Language
Verbal Phrases

Week #21 February 6-10, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Grammar: Verbal phrases
Writing: Sentences (Common Usage Problems)
Vocabulary: #s 774-798 quotidian, fey, gay, pervasive, douse, pliable, neologism, commendable, profuse, abundant, radiant, fecund, forestall, poach, fetter, figurative, myriad, plethora, sacrosanct, fabricatte, facile, fatuous, perfunctory, mandatory, flaccid

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 101-120 - due: Monday, February 6
- SAT vocab notes #s 774-798 - due Monday, February 13

Activities
Monday - Friday
- Quiz #5
- Reading and annotation of play
- Verbal phrases
- Common usage problems
- STAAR Expository scoring rubric

Week #20 January 30-February 3, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: STAAR Literary and Expository writing (scoring rubric)
Vocabulary: TN#s 101-120 troth, foreswear, abhor, upbraid, whet, surfeit, aversion, amulet, dour, haughtily, heresy, prude, puritan, salve, visceral, stricture, sonnet, housewifery, rigging, steward

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 76-100 - due: Monday, Jan. 30
- SAT vocab notes #s 101-120 - due Monday, Feb, 6
- Sentence HW #2 - due Thursday, Feb. 3

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #4  (covers vocab #s 61-81 and Act II).
2. Go over S/V agreement assignment.

Tuesday-Friday
1. Receive Commonly Confused Words list and go over it.
2. Go over STAAR expository scoring rubric.
3. Receive sentence HW.
4. Continue to read and annotate the play.
5. Practice, practice, practice.

Week #19 January 23, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Literary and Expository essays
Vocabulary: TN #s 76-100 dallies, niggardly, contemplation, curtsy, sequel, probation, cudgel, peevishly, churlish, frailty, scholar, rouse, knave, mitigation, indignation, wench, giddy, spinster, melancholy, palate, sinews, tendon, abatement, caper, quaff

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 51-75 - due: Monday, January 23
- SAT vocab notes #s 76-100 - due: Monday, January 30

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Write literary essay.
• Write expository essay.
• Discuss STAAR writing test.
• Continue to read and annotate play.
• Answer and discuss study guide.

Week #18 January 17-20, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Sentences with verbals
Vocabulary: #s 51-76 commission, cunning, nonpareil, divulged, contemned, perchance, recompense, contempt, blazon, malignancy, extravagancy (archaic), estimable, bosom, peevishly, equinoctial, mellifluous, contagious, caterwauling, consanguineous, mitigation, puritan, gait, skittish, dallies

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 51-76- due: January 23
- Sentence HW - due: January 18

Activities
Monday
MLK Holiday

Tuesday-Friday
- Take quiz #2 covering vocabulary #s 26-50, Act 1, and verbals.
- Continue to read and annotate the play.
- Answer and discuss study questions.
- Take a sample STAAR test.

Prepare for Monday's quiz.

Week #17 January 9-13, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Sentences
Vocabulary: #s 26-50 
resolute,oft, amend, transgress,cuckold,calamity, dexterously, 
catechize,infirmity,barren,rascal,discreet,lethargy,lechery, 
draught,fortified,codling, contemptible,sinister,malice,
usurp,swabber, homage,profanation,doctrine


Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 26-50 - due: Monday, Jan 16
- Comment on the lasted blog post if you have reviewed the syllabus posted on the blog. - due: by Tuesday, Jan. 10
- Read the first few pages of the Twelfth Night book from the Editor's Preface on page ix to xlix to the Explanatory Notes on page 1. - due: Monday, Jan 9, 2012 in time for the first test.
- Review vocabulary #s 1-25 for the test on Monday, Jan 9. 
- Sentence homework - due: Friday, Jan. 18

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz/Test #1 covering vocabulary #s 1-25 and Shakespeare's World/Drama.
2. View a power point presentation on the conventions of Shakespearean Drama and take notes. Notes will be used on an open notes test.
3. Understand and identify conventions of Shakespearean Drama while reading and studying a play.

• types of Shakespearean drama
• blank verse
• iambic pentameter
• aside
• soliloquy
• shared lines
• Alexandria
• short lines
• dramatic irony
• pun
• plot elements
• theme
• characters and foil
• figurative language

Tuesday

1. Continue reading and annotating the play.
2. Discuss answers to study questions.


Wednesday
1. Discuss GUM page 69.
2. Continue reading and annotating the play.


Thursday
1. Discuss vocabulary words. 
2. Continue reading and annotating. 


Friday
1. Discuss GUM p. 73.
2. Continue reading and annotating the play and work on character found poems activity.

Prepare for a test on Monday.

Week #16 January 3-6, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Essay
Vocabulary: appetite, validity, fantastical, hart, brine, shaft, sovereign, bounteously, disguise, prodigal, ducats, subtractors, coistrel, shrew, accost, woo, distaff, masque, galliard, negligence, clamorous, discourse, rubious, semblative, constellation


AUDIOBOOK- LIBRIVOX: http://www.archive.org/details/twelfth_night_0906_librivox


Homework:
- SAT vocab words - Due: Monday, Jan. 9
- Research: What is the twelfth night after Christmas? What are the common traditions on the twelfth night? Any one who brings a collage of photos about the twelfth night after Christmas (not the Shakespearean play) will get extra credit. - Due: Thursday, Jan. 4


Activities
Tuesday
Write an essay. Use the "Components of an Essay" handout or the instructions on the essay prompt handout. Topic TBA.


Wednesday
Work on GUM pages.


Thursday
Receive book issue.
Receive study guide handout.
Discuss the twelfth night after Christmas homework.
Begin reading.


Friday
Continue reading and discussion of Shakespearean drama.