Week #35 May 21-25, 2012

Monday through Thursday will be about wrapping up lessons and reviewing for the final exam. Make sure you have your review packet with you at all times. I will also be picking up books that were issued to you by me and those that have not been returned in the past. Please make sure you have everything you need to return this week.

Week#34 May 14-18, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Writing: Lyric poetry, final essay
Vocabulary: same as last week's

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Monday, May 14
- RJ project presentation

Activities:
Monday-Friday

• Revising and Editing #2
• Practice with group and record performance.
• Write an essay.
• Performance presentation and banquet.

EXTRA CREDIT: Wear a Renaissance costume on the day of video presentation.

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.