Week # 23 February 20-24, 2012

Literature: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Reading is postponed until after STAAR.)
Writing: Timed-writing - literary writing
Vocabulary: literary terms (Check the scoring handout I gave you. There is an attached list of terms you need to review.) - conflict/main conflict (internal/external), point of view, theme, figurative language (simile/metaphor/personification/hyperbole), foreshadowing, tone, climax, suspense/tension, dialogue, turning point, summary, narrator, function (of a paragraph), symbol, flashback, fable, repetition, sarcasm, irony (verbal, dramatic, situational), allusion, connotation/denotation, imagery, generalization, definition, persuasion/persuasive technique, synonym/antonym, opposes/supports, disclose/reveal/convey, develop, audience, character/characterize/characterization, inference, conclude

NOTE: Regular vocabulary work/notes will resume next week.

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - #s 799-823 - due Monday, Feb. 20

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Work on a STAAR timed writing assignment.
• Review literary terms and techniques.
• Review grammar and mechanics.
• Go over sample essays and scoring rubric.

Week # 22 February 13-17, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Literary and Expository Writing
Vocabulary: #s 799-823 flabbergasted, forage, licentious, lewd, profane, fortuitous, serendipity, abrogate, algid, brumal, hiemal, impecunious, hapless, hiatus, gregarious, inquisitor, iniquities, goad, ingenious, subsist, notoriety, blandish, flattery, innocuous, neonate

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 774-778 - due Monday, Feb. 13
- SAT vocab notes #s 779-823 - due Monday, Feb. 20
- Expository essay practice on greatness - due Monday, Feb. 13

Activities
Monday - Friday
STAAR practices
Reading and annotating
Editing and Proofreading
Figurative Language
Verbal Phrases

Week #21 February 6-10, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Grammar: Verbal phrases
Writing: Sentences (Common Usage Problems)
Vocabulary: #s 774-798 quotidian, fey, gay, pervasive, douse, pliable, neologism, commendable, profuse, abundant, radiant, fecund, forestall, poach, fetter, figurative, myriad, plethora, sacrosanct, fabricatte, facile, fatuous, perfunctory, mandatory, flaccid

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 101-120 - due: Monday, February 6
- SAT vocab notes #s 774-798 - due Monday, February 13

Activities
Monday - Friday
- Quiz #5
- Reading and annotation of play
- Verbal phrases
- Common usage problems
- STAAR Expository scoring rubric

Week #20 January 30-February 3, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: STAAR Literary and Expository writing (scoring rubric)
Vocabulary: TN#s 101-120 troth, foreswear, abhor, upbraid, whet, surfeit, aversion, amulet, dour, haughtily, heresy, prude, puritan, salve, visceral, stricture, sonnet, housewifery, rigging, steward

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 76-100 - due: Monday, Jan. 30
- SAT vocab notes #s 101-120 - due Monday, Feb, 6
- Sentence HW #2 - due Thursday, Feb. 3

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #4  (covers vocab #s 61-81 and Act II).
2. Go over S/V agreement assignment.

Tuesday-Friday
1. Receive Commonly Confused Words list and go over it.
2. Go over STAAR expository scoring rubric.
3. Receive sentence HW.
4. Continue to read and annotate the play.
5. Practice, practice, practice.

Week #19 January 23, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Literary and Expository essays
Vocabulary: TN #s 76-100 dallies, niggardly, contemplation, curtsy, sequel, probation, cudgel, peevishly, churlish, frailty, scholar, rouse, knave, mitigation, indignation, wench, giddy, spinster, melancholy, palate, sinews, tendon, abatement, caper, quaff

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 51-75 - due: Monday, January 23
- SAT vocab notes #s 76-100 - due: Monday, January 30

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Write literary essay.
• Write expository essay.
• Discuss STAAR writing test.
• Continue to read and annotate play.
• Answer and discuss study guide.

Week #18 January 17-20, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Sentences with verbals
Vocabulary: #s 51-76 commission, cunning, nonpareil, divulged, contemned, perchance, recompense, contempt, blazon, malignancy, extravagancy (archaic), estimable, bosom, peevishly, equinoctial, mellifluous, contagious, caterwauling, consanguineous, mitigation, puritan, gait, skittish, dallies

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 51-76- due: January 23
- Sentence HW - due: January 18

Activities
Monday
MLK Holiday

Tuesday-Friday
- Take quiz #2 covering vocabulary #s 26-50, Act 1, and verbals.
- Continue to read and annotate the play.
- Answer and discuss study questions.
- Take a sample STAAR test.

Prepare for Monday's quiz.

Week #17 January 9-13, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing: Sentences
Vocabulary: #s 26-50 
resolute,oft, amend, transgress,cuckold,calamity, dexterously, 
catechize,infirmity,barren,rascal,discreet,lethargy,lechery, 
draught,fortified,codling, contemptible,sinister,malice,
usurp,swabber, homage,profanation,doctrine


Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 26-50 - due: Monday, Jan 16
- Comment on the lasted blog post if you have reviewed the syllabus posted on the blog. - due: by Tuesday, Jan. 10
- Read the first few pages of the Twelfth Night book from the Editor's Preface on page ix to xlix to the Explanatory Notes on page 1. - due: Monday, Jan 9, 2012 in time for the first test.
- Review vocabulary #s 1-25 for the test on Monday, Jan 9. 
- Sentence homework - due: Friday, Jan. 18

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz/Test #1 covering vocabulary #s 1-25 and Shakespeare's World/Drama.
2. View a power point presentation on the conventions of Shakespearean Drama and take notes. Notes will be used on an open notes test.
3. Understand and identify conventions of Shakespearean Drama while reading and studying a play.

• types of Shakespearean drama
• blank verse
• iambic pentameter
• aside
• soliloquy
• shared lines
• Alexandria
• short lines
• dramatic irony
• pun
• plot elements
• theme
• characters and foil
• figurative language

Tuesday

1. Continue reading and annotating the play.
2. Discuss answers to study questions.


Wednesday
1. Discuss GUM page 69.
2. Continue reading and annotating the play.


Thursday
1. Discuss vocabulary words. 
2. Continue reading and annotating. 


Friday
1. Discuss GUM p. 73.
2. Continue reading and annotating the play and work on character found poems activity.

Prepare for a test on Monday.