Week # 34 May 2-6, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
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.

Vocabulary: RJ #s 734-758 pilgrimage, rejoice, solace, ordain, melancholy, dirge, doleful, oppress, presage, kindred, defy, cull, penury, apothecary, disperse, contempt, pestilence, tread, behold, inexorable, prosperous, detestable, cram, apprehend, mercy

Homework:

• Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
• American haikus - daily
• Sentences - daily
• RJ project - refer to the handout provided to you.

Activities:
Monday

1. Work on a SAT sentence completion assignment for RJ Act II.
2. Work on Shakespearean Sonnets activity and analyze W.S. Sonnet 18.

Tuesday

1. Discuss previous day's activities.
2. Continue viewing of the last part of Act I.

Wednesday- Friday

1. Continue reading, annotating, and discussing RJ.
2. Check study questions.
3. Discuss certain poetic terms used/applied in RJ. 

Week #33 April 25-29, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
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.

Vocabulary:
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.

1. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss R & J.
2. Work on a grammar activity (Grammardog).

Tuesday-Friday

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.

1. View a clip of Act I.
2. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss R & J.

Week #32 April 18-21, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Grammar:

• Write pops with oxymoron.
• Write sentences for each word in the list. Identify parts of the sentence. Include any of the verbals.

Vocabulary: RJ #s 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:
- 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.

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

• #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

- Write daily POPS featuring similes to heavenly bodies.

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.

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.

• 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

Activities
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.

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

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.