Saturday, April 14, 2012

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.

Friday, April 6, 2012

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.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

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.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

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.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Week #26 March 19-23, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Review: STAAR
Vocabulary: #s 824-848 - due: Wednesday, March 28



Sunday, March 4, 2012

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.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

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.