Final Exam Week Spring 2013

Week #36 June 3-7, 2013

Final Exam Schedule

Monday
2nd and 5th

Tuesday
3rd and 7th

Wednesday
4th and 6th 

Thursday
1st and 8th

Friday
Teacher prep day


Have a great summer! :)

Review for Final Exam

Week #37 May 28-31, 2013

Activities:

• On Tuesday, students will take the Romeo and Juliet unit test.
• The rest of the week will be spent on reviewing for the final exam. At intervals, students will view the film adaptation of RJ.

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Week #36 May 20-24, 2013

Literature: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Review: Vocabulary words

Homework:

• Last week, you submitted the last vocabulary notes and a poster of your sonnet. The previous was due Tuesday, May 14, and the latter was due Monday, May 13.
• This week, you need to collect all your vocabulary notes and begin studying/reviewing them for the final exam.

Activities

• Last week, we read and analyzed characters and motives in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. We will continue to do so this week.
• We also analyzed the following Shakespearean conventions: short lines, shared lines, Alexandrine, feminine ending, soliloquy, monologue, aside, oxymoron, puns, and the purpose of each application in the play. We will also continue to analyze these conventions this week.
• On Monday, May 20, you will write your final exam essay.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Week #35 May 13-17, 2013

Literature: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Vocabulary: 

Homework:

• SAT vocabulary notes and sentences - due: Tuesday, May 14

Activities

• From Monday through Friday, we will keep on reading and annotating Romeo and Juliet. 
• Continue to analyze the following terms: feminine ending, Alexandrine, short lines, shared lines, soliloquy, aside, foil, tragic hero, tragedy, blank verse, iambic pentameter, iambic hexameter, etc.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Week #34 May 6-10, 2013

Literature: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Vocabulary: Shrift, Posterity, Vain, Solemnity, Disparagement, Scathe, Esteem, Conjure, Invocation, Embed, Perverse, Orb, Idolatry, Bounty, Virtue, Predominant, Exposition, Consume, Addle, Dexterity, Calamity,Dissemble, Enamor, Tempest, Doleful, Lamentable, Melancholy, Pilgrimage, Solace, Behold, Sunder, Auspicious, Engross, Unsavory
TERMS TO REVIEW: shared lines, short lines, feminine ending, Alexandrine, iamb

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes with sentences - due: Tuesday, May 7
• Sonnet posters - due: Friday, May 10

Activities

• Monday, as usual, is a quiz day. So, study up! It will cover the vocabulary from week #33 and some questions on part of speech and figurative language using quotes from Romeo and Juliet. 
• Tuesday through Friday will be spent reading and annotating Romeo and Juliet. 

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Week 33 April 29-May 3, 2013

Literature: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR)
Vocabulary: baleful, jest, wanton, rancor, brine, ascend, chide, shrine, fickle, amorous, absolve, impatient, dismal, sober, plague, immoderate, inundation, slander, behoove, arbitrate

Activities

It is that time of the year again when we read and study a Shakespearean play. But before reading and studying a Shakespearean play, on Monday, students will take a vocabulary test covering the list from week 32. From Tuesday to Friday, students will read and annotate Romeo and Juliet. Students will analyze the use of Shakespearean conventions such as aside, soliloquy, foil, blank verse, iambic pentameter, characterization, irony, and tragedy and tragic hero.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Week #32 April 22-26, 2013

Literature: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Writing: Sonnet concessions/Short Answer Responses (SAR)
Vocabulary: boisterous, obscure, perjure, purge, shun, splendor, trespass, condolences, intercession, peril, retain, rite, woe, importune, transgression, propagate, assail, languish, warrant
Drama terms: catharsis, image, motivation, tragedy, scene

Homework:

• SAT vocabulary notes and sentences - due: Tuesday, April 30
• Animal Farm Book report - due: Wednesday, April 24 on www.turnitin.com

Activities
 TAKS week: April 23, 24, and 25 (shortened periods)

• On Monday, April 22, students will take a sonnet and Romeo and Juliet vocabulary test. 
• On Tuesday, students will discuss William Shakespeare and the prologue to Romeo and Juliet.
• On Wednesday, begin reading and annotating Romeo and Juliet. 
• On Thursday and Friday, continue reading and annotating Romeo and Juliet. 

Back to Sonnets with William Shakespeare

Week #31 April 15-19, 2013

Literature: William Shakespeare's sonnets - 18, 29, and 130; Romeo and Juliet's Prologue
Writing: Concession poem or essay (persuasive)
Vocabulary: From "Sonnet 29" - disgrace, beweep, bootless, fate, featured, scope, thee, lark, sullen, scorn; From "Sonnet 130" - damask, dun, reek, tread, belied, hath, coral, mistress;
From Romeo and Juliet - adjacent, afflict, augment, beseech,brawl, constrain, cunning, defiance, endure, envious, feign, idle, loathe, mutiny, foe, forfeit, scorn, pursue, shun, portentous
Academic/poetry terms - sonnet, meter, feet, stanza, quatrain, couplet, iambic pentameter, volta, rhyme, revelation, epiphany, Renaissance, William Shakespeare, concession

Homework:

• SAT vocabulary sentences for AF#s 219-228, AF#s 229-238 and M#s 31-40 - due: Tuesday, April 16
• Animal Farm book report - due: Wednesday, April 24
• Maus II take home reading check - due: Wednesday, April 17

Activities:

• On Monday, students will take a vocabulary quiz covering AF#s 219-228, AF#s 229-238 and M#s 42-51. Students will also receive vocabulary lists today and review sonnets. (Note: Remember "Ozymandias"?)
• On Tuesday, students will read, annotate, and analyze "Sonnet 18."
• On Wednesday, students will read, annotate, and analyze "Sonnet 29."
• On Thursday, students will read, annotate, and analyze "Sonnet 130."
• On Friday, students will read and take notes (Cornell notes) pages in the Literature textbook about William Shakespeare; and read, annotate, and analyze Romeo and Juliet's Prologue.

Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman

Week #30 April 8-12, 2013

Literature:Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman
Writing: Persuasive Essay
Vocabulary: Same as last week 29

Homework: 

• SAT vocabulary sentences with adverb clause - due: April 15
• Maus study guide - due: April 11
• Animal Farm study guide - due: April 12
• Read Animal Farm at home - end date for the reading will be April 14.

Note: The due dates for AF and M are adjusted dates from the original posted weeks ago.

Activities:

On Monday, students will take the Maus I test. After the test,they will 

On Tuesday to Friday, students will complete reading of Maus II in class. Students will continue to read Animal Farm at home. (Refer to homework notes.)

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, students will read articles and write a persuasive essay.

On Friday, students will write final draft.

Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman

Week #29 April 1-5, 2013

Literature: Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman
Vocabulary: AF#s 229-238; M#s 42-51 

Homework: 

• SAT vocabulary sentences for AF#s 219-228 with adverb clause - due: Wednesday, April 3

Last week, we had a review on STAAR test and postponed our regular lessons.  This week, we will resume with our lessons beginning with grammar practice covering adverb clause.  

Please also be reminded that this week's schedule is odd-even alternately. 

• April 1 - STAAR I Writing, odd schedule
• April 2 - STAAR I Reading, even schedule
• April 3 - STAAR II Writing, odd schedule
• April 4 - STAAR II Reading, even schedule 

STAAR Review

Week #28 March 25-28, 2013

This week, we will postpone our regular lessons and readings.  Instead, we will review the STAAR test everyday of the week until Thursday. We will review the following:

Monday: Expository Essay
Tuesday: Literary Essay.  WITS will be with the class today.
Wednesday: Reading multiple choice and SAR questions.
                     Note: Please bring your short answer responses 
                          (SARs) to class today.
Thursday: Revising and Editing questions

Homework:

• ALL homework assignments, including vocabulary sentences, due last week and this week will be due after your tests.

STAAR test schedule:

April 1 - Writing

April 2 - Reading

Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman

Week #27 March 18-22, 2013

Literature: Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman
Writing: Narrative essay
Vocabulary: AF#s 219-228 - filial, impromptu, expulsion, decoration, foundation, unity, disheartened, ignominy, posthumous, magistrate;
M#s 26-41 - Zionist, neurotic, obscure, clatter, void, condolences, umbilical, objective, shrine, ghetto, stoop, conscious, gestapo, collaborator, reproach, absolution; Academic Words #6 - theme, thesis, concrete details, imagery, metaphor, simile, quote, paraphrase, protagonist, compound sentence; Roots - graph, jur/just, log/logue, luc, man(u) ; additional words - obsequious, pessimistic, pretentious, haughty, somber

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes and sentences with adjective clause- due: Tuesday, March 19 (This will be our last adjective clause homework. We will  move on to adjective clause after the break.)
• SAT vocab notes and sentences with adjective clause- due: Tuesday, March 26
• Maus guide questions #s 1-35 - due: Thursday, March 21
• Animal Farm Chapter 1 questions - due: Friday, March 22

On Monday you come back from the break, you will take Quiz #9 covering all the vocabulary words from week #26.  Please prepare.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, you will work on rewriting a passage for the first 15 minutes of class. The rest of the period will be spent on reading Animal Farm.

• Wednesday - Dr. Mconn will discuss the STAAR test with the students.

On Thursday and Friday, we will resume discussion of Animal Farm and Maus. 

Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman

Week #26 March 4-8, 2013

Literature: Animal Farm by George Orwell and Maus by Art Spiegelman
Writing: Revising and Editing, WITS
Vocabulary: AF#s 209-218 - cynical, comrade, prosperity, maltreat, parasitical, seclude, lamentation, rebellion, stupefy, practiced; M #s 11-25 - Czechoslovakia, pogrom, synagogue, anti-Semitism, hemorrhaging, glaucoma, cataract, herring, nuremberg, Pashastruma, Wehrmacht, systematically, bar mitzvah, aryan, hasty; Academic Words #5 - analogy, figurative language, omniscient narrator, personification, plot, setting, conflict, climax, denouement, voice; ROOTS - -ast(er), -audi-, -auto-, -bene-, -bio-, -chrono-,-dict-, -duc-/-duce-/-duct-, -gen-, -geo-

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes and sentences for AF#s 199-208 with adjective clause - due: Tuesday, March 5
• SAT vocab notes and sentences for AF#s 209-218 with adjective clause - due: Tuesday, March 19
• MAUS SAR's - due: Thursday, March 7

Monday - Friday

WARM-UP exercise everyday: SAT question of the day.

• On Monday, we have shortened periods.  Because of the limited time in class, we will continue reading Animal Farm and discuss a short answer question for Maus. 
• On Tuesday, we will have a WITS writing.
• On Wednesday, we will continue to read Animal Farm and discuss study questions and answers.
• On Thursday, we will work on language and diction in Maus and discuss SAR questions and answers. 
• On Friday, we will look at sample expositions and work practice building scenes in a narrative essay. 

Maus by Art Spiegelman and Animal Farm by George Orwell

Week #25 February 25-March 1, 2013

Literature: Maus by Art Spiegelman and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Writing: Short Answer Responses (SAR) and Expository and Narrative Essay
Vocabulary: AF - #s 199-208 apathy, cryptic, indefatigable, malign, maxim, preeminent, perpendicular, ration; MAUS - #s 1-10 diminutive, feat, harrowing, pacify, Auschwitz, sheik, textile, dowry, communist, sanitarium
Academic vocabulary #4 -included on the list of words.

Warm-up exercises: Using adjective clause in sentences and SAT question of the day.

Homework:

• SAT vocab Flo-Cab #s 849-863 notes and sentences with adjective clause - due: Tuesday, February 26
• Read some pages of MAUS and Animal Farm at home depending on what we finish in the classroom. - pages TBA. Reading checks on Fridays.
• SCHEDULE for reading in class: Two days for Maus and two days for Animal Farm.
• SCHEDULE for WITS writing: One day every other week.

Monday - Friday

• Take quiz #7 on Monday covering vocab words 849-863 and prefixes.
• Read Animal Farm in class and answer reading questions. Prepare for reading checks on Fridays or Tuesdays.
• Practice writing short answer responses, expository and narrative essays. 
• Practice writing sentences with adjective clauses. 
• WITS on Friday.

Expository Readings and more

Week # 24 February 18-22, 2013

Literature: Expository articles, Background information to the Russian Revolution
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR), Expository essay
Vocabulary: Flo-Cab #s 849-863 mores, cavity, amalgamation, copious, connotation, diverse, terse, preponderance, dissonance, cacophony, harmony, discord, confound, scourge, scathing
Prefixes: bene, bi, bio, circum, dent, dia, dis/dif, equi, ex, in/mil/ir

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes and sentences Flo-Cab #s 839-848 - due: Monday, Feb. 18
• Sentences should have context clues and adjective clause.
• SAT vocab notes and sentences Flo-Cab #s 849-863 - due: Monday, Feb. 25

Monday - Friday

• On Monday, students will take the unit test on Great Expectations. Please prepare. 
• On Tuesday, will have the WITS lesson with the WITS writer. 
• On Wednesday, students will write an expository essay.
• On Thursday,students will take vocabulary quiz #6 for flo-cab #s 839-848 and suffixes. Students will work on sentences with adjective clauses.
• On Friday, students will review vocabulary and read a background on Russian Revolution and view a PowerPoint presentation on the Holocaust. 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Film Viewing

Week #23 February 11-15, 2013

Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Writing: Short Answer Responses, Expository writing
Vocabulary: Flo-cab #s 839-848 juxtapose, variegate, differentiate, ameliorate, oration, accentuate, sanguine, enervate, saccharine, maudlin
Sentences: Write a sentence for each word with context clues and an adjective clause.

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes for flo-cab #s 829-838, academic words definitions, and prefixes (extra credit) and sentences with a verbal phrase (participial, gerund, or infinitive phrase) - Due: Monday, Feb. 11
• SAT vocab notes for flo-cab #s 839-848 and sentences with adjective clause - Due: Monday, Feb. 18
• Study guide questions for chapters 16-20 - Due: Monday, Feb. 11

Monday - Friday

• Take quiz #5 (vocabulary, academic words, and prefixes) on Monday, Feb.11.
• Submit take home reading check for chapters 17-28 on Monday, Feb. 11.
• Continue viewing the 1946 film adaptation of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. 
• Understand and analyze characters, setting, figurative language, diction, motivation, and actions both in the text and in the video adaptation.
• On Friday, students will write an expository essay.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Academic Vocabulary, Prefix

Week #22 February 4-8, 2013

Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR), Expository writing, WITS writing
Vocabulary: #s 829-838 - collusion, exigent, confluence, discrete, divergent, divisive, disparage, imperious, coalesce, apocalypse
Academic Vocabulary - abstract, cliche, dilemma, euphemism, flashback, irony, mood, oxymoron, transition, pun
Preffix - ab, ann, anti/ant, auto, be

Homework:

• SAT vocab sentences with gerund and infinitive phrases (GE#s 599-608). Note: Make sure you have two sentences with context clues for each word. Due: Monday, Feb. 4.
• SAR answers for lottery articles. Due: Wednesday, Feb. 6

Monday-Friday

• On Monday, students will take Quiz #4 and review elements of poetry after the quiz.
• On Tuesday, we will have their first WITS poetry lesson.
• From Wednesday until Friday, we will continue to discuss Great Expectations and begin viewing the film adaptation. 

Note: Students should prepare for a major test on Great Expectations the following Monday.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Participial phrases

Week #21 January 28-February 1, 2013

Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Writing: Sentences with participial and gerund phrases
Vocabulary: GE#s 599-608 - impregnable, gluttony, candid, spurn, reticence, inveterate, extricate, rhapsody, abeyance, sententious
ACADEMIC WORDS - adage, anecdote, conflict, euphemism, expletive, malapropism, parenthetical, personification, scapegoat, tone, vernacular, absolute, balance, characters, denotation

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes GE#s 574-598 and sentences with participial phrases - due: Monday, Jan. 28
- SAT vocab notes GE#s 599-608 and sentences with gerund phrases - due: Monday, Feb. 4
- Prepare for a Great Expectations test.

Monday - Friday

• On Monday, you will take a vocabulary and lit terms quiz.
• This week we will discuss chapters 11-20. You should have already finished reading the chapters assigned last week.
• Prepare for regular reading checks.  
• Hopefully, at the end of this week, we have already finished all discussions and analysis of characters, motivation,setting, figurative languages, etc., and we can view the film adaptation of Great Expectations. 
• We will also review and discuss the academic words including some poetry terms you already learned last semester.  Be prepared for exercises.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Week #20 January 22-25, 2013

Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR)
Vocabulary: GE#s 574-598 wreak, constraint, patronize, petty, impartial, inaccessible, miscreant, paroxysm, culminate, chronic, cogent, auspicious, waive, judicious, contingent, appertain, incomprehensible, relinquish, repugnant, inflammatory, dubious, expatriate, apparition, brazen, assiduous

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes and sentences for GE#s 549-573 - due: January 22
• Original sentences with context clues for GE#s 549-555 should have a participle.
• Original sentences with context clues for GE#s 556-563 should have a gerund.
• Original sentences with context clues for GE#s 564-573 should have an infinitive.
• SAT vocab notes and sentences for GE#s 574-598 - due: January 28

On Tuesday, students will take Quiz #2 covering GE#s 549-573 and "Fragments of an Autobiography" by Charles Dickens.

For the rest of the week, we will continue to read the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.  We will

• Understand and analyse the characters, their characteristics and actions.
• Understand and analyze the setting, mood, figurative language, tone, and theme in the novel.
• Understand and analyze diction.
• Understand and analyze the author's purpose.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Week #19 January 14-18, 2013

Literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Reading Schedule

• Week #1 (January 14-18, 2013) – Chapters 1-10 Stage One
• Week #2 (January 21-25, 2013) – Chapters 11-20 Stage One and Two
• Week #3 (January 28- February 1, 2013 – Chapters 21-29 Stage Two
• Week #4 (February 4-8, 2013) – Stage Three film viewing

Writing: Expository essay
Vocabulary: GE#s 549-573 diabolical, gravity, coherent, swarthy, retort, unscrupulous, malignant, surmise, exultant, pious, placate, animosity, despondency, diffident, disparity, edify, impetuous, magnanimity, mortify, penitent, apprise, supercilious, clemency, gloat, acquiesce

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes GE#s 524-548. - due: Jan. 14
    Note: Study the words in time for the quiz on Tuesday.
- SAT sentences - due: Jan.22
- Finish reading chapters 1-10. A reading check will be given any day for sets of chapters.

Monday

• Today, you will take your first vocabulary quiz for this semester after having a short review of the words.
• We will review the verbals.

Tuesday

• Today, we will distinguish between a verb and a verbal and practice on an assignment.
• We will continue reading the novel, and annotate using guide questions after a short reading check for chapters 1-5.

Wednesday-Friday

• Within the next few days, we will keep on reading the novel up to chapter 10.
• Make parallel comparisons between Pip's and Dickens' life.
• Understand and analyse characters, setting, motives, plot, literary techniques, diction, mood, and tone.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Week #18 January 8-11, 2013

Topic: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Writing:Expository writing (peer review)
Vocabulary:GE #s 524-548 audacity, felicitous, morose, omnipotent, ravenous, remonstrate, sagacious, consternation, vicarious, imprecation, profound, commiserate, apprehension, execrate, grovel, render, erudition, ablution, discomfit, testy, indiscriminate, expound, bereave, unparalleled, allude

Homework: 

• SAT sentences with specific grammatical component- due: January 14

Tuesday-Wednesday

• On Tuesday, you will receive syllabus for spring semester and discuss expectations for the next three cycles.
• We will review expository essay rubric and peer review essays written last December.

Thursday-Friday

• We will read "Fragments of an Autobiography," annotate it, and discuss.
• You will take a reading check.
• You will read chapters 1-5 and answer guide questions.

"Happy New Year!"