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=)

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:

• Review for final exam.
• Renaissance masks - due May 23

Assignments
Monday

1. Group presentations - 1, 2, and 3
2. Review the revising and editing assignment.
3. Recieve a handout on CAPITALIZATION.
4. WITS pull-out of several readers for Tuesday WITS assemblies..

Tuesday

1. WITS assemblies.
2. Continue review for final exam.

Wednesday

1. Group presentation - 4 and 5
2. Continue review for final exam.
3. RJ unit test.

Thursday

1. Continue review for final exam.

Friday

1. Renaissance Banquet - Students in costumes and masks will receive extra credit.
2. Each group will bring Renaissance-inspired dishes.

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:

• 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

- Script - due Friday, May 13 for 1st and 5th periods; Monday, May 16 for 7th periods (Rewrites due date as instructed)
             - 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\

NOTE: Group presentations will be rescheduled. All presentations will begin Tuesday, May 24, since on May 23, all 9th grade classes that had WITS will have big and small assemblies for poetry reading, hence we cannot have any group film presentations then. We will have two presentations a day. Those students who visited this blog last weekend may see considerable changes.

- SAT activity - due Monday, 5/16
- Masks - due 5/23
- Final exam essay prompt will be given one day this week.

Activities
Monday

1. Short Quiz #12.
2. Discuss SAT activity.
3. Continue film viewing.

Tuesday- Wednesday
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.

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!!!

Week #35 May 9-13, 2011

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

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.

Vocabulary: RJ#s 759-783 provoke, inter, sunder, paramour, inauspicious, engross, unsavory, bliss, discern, sepulcher, conspire, ambiguity, impeach, tedious, savory, quotidian, fey, gay, pervasive, douse, pliable, neologism, commendable, profuse, abundant

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

- POPS and sentences - Friday

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.

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.