Week #26 March 19-23, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Review: STAAR

Vocabulary: #s 824-848 - due: Wednesday, March 28

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.

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.

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.