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.