Ms. Betz's Agenda

2011-2012

Week of:

May 14

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

Agenda

Read Prologue p. 483 and finish Notes

Make Props

Begin Reading Act I, Scene 1

HMWK:

Timeline Notes

HMWK: Type 1 Sonnet

Love at First Sight

Read Act I, Scenes 4-5

Timeline Notes

HMWK:  Do Making Connections (1-12) page 504

Quiz on Baseline and Act One

Video Act One

HMWK:  

Read Act II, Scenes 1-2-3

(Balcony Scene)

Dialogue Worksheet

HMWK:

Advanced Placement English B

Senior Projects are due by 3:00

Senior Project Presentations

1st Hour:  Henry Fanson

3rd Hour:  Davey Bishop

HMWK:   Work on Senior Project

Senior Survey 2nd Hour Media Center

Senior Project Presentations

3rd Hour:  Jacob Rainey

4:00 Kelsey DeLarere

5:00 Aliyah Zaman

6:00 ________

7:00 Kelly Spurlock

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Lasagna Dinner

AP Language and Composition Exam

8:00 in B203

No Senior Project Presentations

3rd Hour Media Center

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Senior Project Presentations

3rd Hour:  Tom Nafziger

4:00 Kayla Lustig

5:00 __________

6:00 Rachel Reed

7:00 Samantha Weldon

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Senior Project Presentations

1st Hour:  Chelsea Slagle

3rd Hour:  Mitchell Carpenter

HMWK:   Work on Senior Project

Week of:

May 7

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

Agenda

Finish Speech by Elie Wiesel

Character Review

Do Responding Chapters 6-9

HMWK: Study

Night Exam

HMWK: Who is Responsible? Type 1

Questions are due EOH

HMWK:  Bring Newspapers by Friday

Media Center

Read Pages 476-7 Reading a Shakespearean Play

Take Notes on the Globe p. 479-80

HMWK:  Bring Newspapers by Friday

Type 1 Character Predictions

Read Prologue p. 483 and finish Notes

Make Props

Begin Reading Act One, Scene 1

HMWK:

Advanced Placement English B

Weekly Update due from last week!

Media Center

Week #3 for Senior Projects

Begin Working on Presentation for Senior Project

HMWK:   Read and Talk-to-the-text Chapter 4 and 5 Essays due Wednesday

Media Center

 Working on Senior Project

HMWK:  Read and Talk-to-the-text Chapter 4 and 5 Essays

Media Center

 Working on Senior Project

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

AP Literature and Composition Exam

8:00 in B203

Media Center

 Working on Senior Project

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Media Center

 Working on Senior Project

Weekly Update Sheet by EOH

HMWK:   Work on Senior Project

Week of:

April 30

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

Agenda

Check Chapter 5 BOH

Do Responding Chapters 3 -5 and "Extending Your Response" with Four Images

HMWK: Chapter 6 due Wednesday

Read Chapter 6 SSR

HMWK: Chapter 6 due Wednesday

Check Chapter 6

Quiz Chaps. 4-6

Discuss Chapters 4-5-6

HMWK: Chapters 7-8-9 due Friday

Type 2 Quotes

HMWK: Chapters 7-8-9 due Friday

Discuss Chapters 7-8-9

Do Responding Chapters 6-9

HMWK: Night Exam on Tuesday

Advanced Placement English B

Novel Notebooks

Media Center

Week #2 for Senior Projects

Begin Writing for Senior Project

HMWK:   Read and Talk-to-the-text Chapter 3 Poetry (Pages 109-120) due Wednesday

Media Center

 Writing for Senior Project

HMWK:  Read and Talk-to-the-text Chapter 3 Poetry (Pages 109-120) due Wednesday

Media Center

 Writing for Senior Project

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Pre-Registration for A.P. Exams

Media Center

 Writing for Senior Project

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Media Center

 Writing for Senior Project

Weekly Update Sheet by EOH

HMWK:   Work on Senior Project

Week of:

April 23

Spring Fling Week

Monday

Neon Day

Tuesday

Plaid Day

Wednesday

Crazy Hair Day

Thursday

Aloha Day

Friday

Spring Sport Day

Foundations in English B

Agenda

Check Chapter 1

Read "Fifty Years After the Eve of Destruction"

Answer Questions

Read Chapter 2 SSR

Do Responding Chapters 1-2 and Personal Letter

HMWK: Chapter 2-3 due Wednesday

Collect Responding to Chapters 1-2 and Personal Letter

Read Chapter 3 SSR

Mrs. DeKeyser will present Explore Scores and Transcripts

HMWK: Chapter 2-3 due Wednesday

Check Chapters 2-3

Discuss Chapters 1-2-3

HMWK: Chapter 4 due Friday

HMWK: Chapter 4 due Friday

Literary Circles for Plot Review of Chapters 1-4

Importance of Quotations

HMWK: Chapter 5 due Monday

Advanced Placement English B

Collect Assignments

Media Center

Week # 1 for Senior Projects

Begin Research for Senior Project

Weekly Update Sheet by EOH

HMWK:  Read and Highlight Chapter 2 from AP Practice Binder pages 72-84  

Media Center

Begin Research for Senior Project

HMWK:  Do Practice Exercise pages 85-89

Read and Highlight Chapter 8 Grammar Review P. 207

Read and Highlight Chapter 9 Literary Terms Review P. 217  

Novel Notebooks

Media Center

 Research for Senior Project

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Check Chapter 2 for Participation

Media Center

 Research for Senior Project

HMWK:  Work on Senior Project

Media Center

 Research for Senior Project

Final Thesis today!

Weekly Update Sheet by EOH

HMWK:   Work on Senior Project

Week of:

April 16

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

The Odyssey Movie

Review

HMWK:  The Odyssey Assessment tomorrow

The Odyssey Assessment

Night by Elie Wiesel 

Organize Folders/Logs/Books

Introducing the Memoir

Meet Elie Wiesel

HMWK: Begin Reading Baseline

Define Jewish Terms and write Type 1 about Holocaust

Finish Reading Baseline Info

HMWK: Read Preface and Forward (vii-xxi)

Silent Sustained Reading 

Read Chapter 1 (1-22) and Do Study Guide and Image Log 1

HMWK: Chapter 1 due Monday

Advanced Placement English B

AP Practice Test

Novel Notebooks

Senior Project - Sign Ups

Allusions Project Presentations

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Assignments

Collect Assignments

Allusions Project Presentations

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Assignments

Collect Assignments

Allusions Project Presentations

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Assignments

Collect Assignments

Allusions Project Presentations

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Assignments

Collect Assignments

Allusions Project Presentations

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Assignments

Week of:

April 9

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

Agenda

Review "The Voyage" 

Begin "The Homecoming"

HMWK: 

Read "Father and Son" page 773

Read "Beggar at Manor" page 776

HMWK: Making Connections (1-6) page 779 in complete sentences

Read "Death in the Great Hall" p. 783-7

Read "The Trunk of the Olive Tree" p. 789-91

Begin The Odyssey Movie

HMWK:   

Making Connections p. 792 (1-9)

The Odyssey Assessment on Tuesday

 The Odyssey Movie

HMWK:  The Odyssey Assessment on Tuesday

Advanced Placement English B

No School

AP Practice Test

Novel Notebooks

Review Senior Project - Update

Allusions Project 

HMWK:  

Work on Pages 51-55 in AP Practice Test Binder

Read and take Notes Sound and Sense Chapter 8

Pick Allusion

Review Essay Notes on AP Practice Test 

Pick on Allusion

Media Center to Research Allusion

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Project

Write Thesis for Senior Project

Work on Allusion Presentation

Consultations about Thesis

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Project

Work on Allusion Presentation

Consultations about Thesis

HMWK:  Work on Allusion Project

Due Monday

Week of:

March 26

Monday

Tuesday

Substitute

Wednesday

Substitute

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

2nd hour:  Finish "The Goddess Circe"

Read "The Sirens" page 760 and "Scylla and Charybdis" page 767

Making Connections p. 769 (1-6)

HMWK: Type 1: Compare Odysseus to a Modern Hero

Type Rough Drafts

2nd Hour: Sprow

4th Hour: Media Center

5th Hour:  Laptops

Peer Edit

Revise 

HMWK: Study for "The Voyage" Test

Finish Typing Final Drafts

2nd Hour: Sprow

4th Hour: Media Center

5th Hour:  Laptops

Persuasive Essay Due EOH

Review: Making Connections

HMWK: Study for "The Voyage" Test

"The Voyage" Test

HMWK:  

The Odyssey Cartoon

Type 1: Reflection

HMWK:

Advanced Placement English B

AP Practice Test

Novel Notebooks

Bigger Groups with Book One and Book Two

Present

HMWK:  Read Book Three by Wednesday

AP Practice Test

Continue Discussion of Books One and Two

HMWK: Read Book Three by Wednesday 

AP Testers Due

AP Practice Test

Collect Book Three Study Guide Questions

Comprehension Quiz on Native Son

Group Discussion of Book Three/Symbols Chart

HMWK:  Prepare for In-Class Essay

Symbols Chart Due

AP Practice Test

In-Class Essay on Native Son

Game of Symbols - Collect Symbols Chart

HMWK:  Review Senior Projects

Novel Notebooks

Movie and Write Criticism

HMWK:  Think about Thesis for Senior Project

Week of:

March 19

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

Type 1 Project Reflection

Semicolons

Finish Baseline Info. on Homer and Greek Mythology Read pages 730-4

Read 12 Olympians pages 801-3

Adventures Chart

Begin Reading "The Voyage"  (page 735) 

HMWK:  Type 1:  A Day as a Greek

Semicolons

Continue "The Voyage" and Chart  page 735 

Read "Sailing From Troy"

Questions Pg 738 Connections 1-5

HMWK: Type 1 on Persistence with TBE

Finish "The Cyclops" page 739 

Making Connections page 751 (1-6)

HMWK: Type 1:  Strength with TBE

Reading Check Quiz

Read "The Goddess Circe" page 752

HMWK: Making Connections page 759 (1-6) and Type 1 Wisdom with TBE

Read "The Sirens" page 760 and "Scylla and Charybdis" page 767

Making Connections p. 769 (1-6)

HMWK: Type 1 Courage with TBE

Advanced Placement English B

Quiz on Book One

(Mrs. Taylor's Room)

Discuss Book One using Study Guide Questions

AP Practice Test

HMWK:  Read Book Two by Thursday

AP Practice Test

Continue Discussion of Book One

HMWK:  Read Book Two by Thursday

AP Practice Test

Continue Discussion of Book One

HMWK:  Read Book Two by Thursday

AP Practice Test

Quiz on Book Two

Discuss Book Two with Study Guide Questions

HMWK:  Read Book Three by Monday

Novel Notebooks

Continue Discussion of Book Two

HMWK:  Read Book Three by Monday

Week of:

March 12

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English B

Commas and Semi Colons due BOH

Assign Literature Books

Literary Terms

HMWK: Greek God Assignment due Thursday

Begin The Odyssey

Baseline Info. on Homer and Greek Mythology Read pages 730-4

Read 12 Olympians pages 801-3

HMWK: Greek God Assignment due Thursday

Rubric for Greek God Assignment

Research on Greek Gods due tomorrow

2nd Hour:  Mr. Sprow's Room

4th Hour:  Media Center

5th Hour: ???

HMWK: Greek God Assignment due Thursday

Present Greek God Assignments

HMWK: Type 1: Assignment Reflection

Begin Reading "The Voyage"  (page 735) 

Read "Sailing From Troy"

HMWK:  Questions Pg 738 Connections 1-5, Vocabulary 1-5

Advanced Placement English B

Final Exam Feedback

Novel Notebooks

HMWK:  

Read Introduction and "How Bigger Was Born"

Wright and his Poetry

Discuss Introduction and "How Bigger was Born"

HMWK:  

Read "To Be a Communist" by Thursday

Research Background and Chicago Black Belt

Computers:  Mrs. Taylor's Room

Present

HMWK:  

Read "To Be a Communist" by Thursday

Discuss "To Be a Communist"

Study Guide for Book One

HMWK:  

Read Book One by Monday

HMWK:  

Read Book One by Monday

Week of:

February 27

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Finish Reading Chapters 30-31

Finish Discussing To Kill A Mockingbird

Video

HMWK: Tea and Character Analysis due Wednesday

Check Reading Log-31

Finish Discussing To Kill A Mockingbird

Video

HMWK: Tea and Character Analysis due Wednesday

Tea with Aunt Alexandra and Character Analysis

Finish Discussing To Kill A Mockingbird

Video

HMWK: Review Sheet

Finish Video

Review for Exams

HMWK: Study for the Final Exam

5th Hour Final Exam

1st and 2nd Hour Exams

Collect Books

Advanced Placement English B

"Everyone is a Critic"

Snow Falling on Cedars Video

HMWK: Review Sheet

AP Practice Tests

Review / Q & A

Snow Falling on Cedars Video

HMWK: Review 

Review / Q & A

Snow Falling on Cedars Video

Assessment of Video

HMWK: Review 

Part One Final Exam

Part Two Final Exam on Monday

HMWK: Study for the Final Exam on Monday

5th Hour Final Exam

3rd and 4th Hour Exams on Monday

Foundations in English B

Act IV Video

HMWK:  Begin IMPETUOSITY Paragraph 

Four Square with Quotes

Check Four Square

Begin Reading Act V, Scenes 1, 2, 3

HMWK:  Finish IMPETUOSITY Paragraph 

Do Making Connections (1-10) p. 579 

Act V Video

HMWK:  Write Introduction and Conclusion

Review Sheet

Review for Final Exam

HMWK:  Study for Final Exam on Monday

Collect Books

5th Hour Final Exam

3rd and 4th Hour Exams on Monday

Keep in Touch

3rd and 4th Hour Exams on Monday

Week of:

February 20

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Agenda

MUG's #15

finish Mock Trial

Discuss

Reading Check Quiz on Mock Trial

Read Chapter 24 and Do Reading Log 24

HMWK: Read Chapter 25 and Do Reading Log 25

MUG's #16

Discuss

Read Chapter 26 and Do Reading Log 26

HMWK: Read Chapter 27 and Do Reading Log 27

MUG's #17

Discuss

Read Chapter 28 and Do Reading Log 28

Assign Tea with Aunt Alexandra due Wednesday

HMWK: Read Chapters 29 and Do Reading Logs 29

MUG's #18

MUG's Quiz 

Check MUG's #15-18

Check Reading Logs 24-29

Read Chapters 30-31

Discuss the ending

HMWK: Finish Reading the Novel and Do Reading Logs 30-31

Advanced Placement English B

 Vocabulary 18

Finish Discussing the Timeline (Courtroom)

Discuss SFOC ending

Symbols Chart due

HMWK: Vocabulary 18

Snow Falling on Cedars Assessment

Check Vocabulary 18

Snow Falling on Cedars Assessment

HMWK:  Read Related Materials

Snow Falling on Cedars Assessment

HMWK:  Study Vocabulary 18

Test Explanations

Group Work on Related Readings 

Present

HMWK:  Prepare Related Readings

Foundations in English B

Check LOVE Paragraph

Begin Reading Act III, Scenes 1, 2, 3

HMWK:  Begin LOSS Paragraph 

Four Square with Quotes

Check Four Square

Read Act III, Scenes 4, 5

Act III Video

HMWK:  Finish LOSS Paragraph

Do Making Connections (1-10) p. 550 

HMWK: Assessment of Act III 

HMWK:  

Keep in Touch

Week of:

February 13

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

MUG's #11

Check Reading Logs 15-18

Begin Mock Trial

HMWK: 

HMWK: Read Chapter 19 and Do Reading Log 19

MUG's #12

Mock Trial

HMWK: Read Chapter 20 and Do Reading Log 20

MUG's #13

Finish Mock Trial

HMWK: Read Chapter 21 and Do Reading Log 21

MUG's #14

MUG's Quiz 

Check MUG's #11-14

Check Reading Logs 19-21

Reading Check Quiz on Mock Trial

HMWK: Read Chapters 22-23 and Do Reading Logs 22-23

Advanced Placement English B

Internment Camps Journal and Collages due

Themes

Importance of Setting

HMWK:  Vocab 17

Epigraph Assignment

Read SFOC Ch.23-26  by Tuesday

Check Vocabulary 17

Quiz on SFOC Ch. 23-26 and Dante

Finish Setting

HMWK: 

Imagery Assignment

Read SFOC Ch. 27-30 by Thursday

Structure of the Novel

Timeline - Metaphor of the Courtroom

HMWK:  

Vocab 17 Quiz tomorrow

Read SFOC Ch. 27-30 by Thursday

Quiz on Vocab 17

Quiz Ch. 27-30

Allegory of the Cedar Tree Forest

HMWK:  

Read Related Materials

Read SFOC Ch. 31-32 by Tuesday

Foundations in English B

 Read Act Two

Scenes 2-3

Do Dialogue Worksheet

HMWK:   

Finish Reading Act Two, Scenes 4-5-6

Timeline

HMWK:  Do Making Connections (1-11) page 525

Check Connections

Act Two Video

Quiz on Act Two

LOVE Paragraph

HMWK:  Find Quotes and Work on Four Squares

Work on Rough Draft of LOVE Paragraph

Edit/Revise

HMWK:   Finish Final Draft of LOVE Paragraph

Keep in Touch

Week of:

February 6

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

MUG's #7

Check Reading Logs 8-11

Review Part One

Quotables

HMWK: Study

Part One Exam

Quotables

HMWK: Read Chapter 12 and Do Reading Log 12

MUG's #8

Read Ch. 13

Do Reading Log 13

HMWK: Read Chapter 14 and Do Reading Log 14

MUG's #9

Read Ch. 15

Do Reading Log 15

HMWK: Read Chapter 16 and Do Reading Log 16

MUG's Quiz 

Check MUG's #7-9

Check Reading Logs 9-16

Reading Check Quiz 12-16 

Read Chapter 17

Do Reading Log 17

HMWK: Read Chapter 18 and Do Reading Log 18

Advanced Placement English B

Poetry Tools Assessment

Characters

Symbols

HMWK:  Vocab 16

Read SFOC Ch.14-17  by Tuesday

Check Vocabulary 16

Quiz on SFOC Ch. 6-17

Effects of War

HMWK: Read SFOC Ch. 18-22 by Friday

Japanese Internment Camps

Structure of the Novel

HMWK: Read SFOC Ch. 18-22 by Friday

Discuss SFOC

HMWK:  Vocab 16 Quiz tomorrow

Read SFOC Ch. 18-22 by Friday

Quiz on Vocab 16 

Quiz Ch. 18-22

Trial

  HMWK: Read SFOC Ch. 23-26 by Tuesday

Foundations in English B

Type 1 Predictions

HMWK:   

Finish Reading Act One, Scene 5

Timeline

HMWK:  Do Making Connections (1-12) page 504

Check Connections

Act One Video

Quiz on Baseline Info and Act I

HMWK:  Type 1 Love at first sight

Scenes 1-2-3

HMWK:   

Read Act Two Scenes 3-4

Tone and Adjectives

Video Act II

HMWK:  Connections p. 525 (1-11)

Keep in Touch

Week of:

January 30

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

MUG's #3

Reading Log 1

Read Chapter 2

Do Reading Log 2

HMWK: Read Chapter 3 and Do Reading Log 3

MUG's #4

Quiz on Baseline Info. and Ch. 1-3

Check Reading Logs 1-3

Read Ch. 4

Do Reading Log 4

HMWK: Read Chapter 5 and Do Reading Log 5

MUG's #5

Read Ch. 6

Do Reading Log 6

HMWK: Read Chapter 7 and Do Reading Log 7

MUG's #6

Check Reading Logs 1-7

Read Ch. 8

Do Reading Log 8

HMWK: Read Chapter 9 and Do Reading Log 9

MUG's Quiz 

Check MUG's #1-6 

Read Chapter 10

Do Reading Log 10

HMWK: Read Chapter 11 and Do Reading Log 11

Advanced Placement English B

Quiz on SFOC Ch. 1-5

Poetry Tool Presentations

HMWK:  Vocab 15

Read SFOC Ch. 6-9 by Wednesday

Check Vocabulary 15

Poetry Tool Presentations

HMWK: Read SFOC Ch. 6-9 by Wednesday

Quiz on Ch. 6-9

Poetry Tool Presentations

HMWK: Read SFOC Ch. 10-13 by Friday

Symbolism

HMWK:  Vocab 15 Quiz tomorrow

Read SFOC Ch. 10-13 by Friday

Quiz on Vocab 15 

Quiz Ch. 10-13

Effects of War

  HMWK: Read SFOC Ch. 14-17 by Tuesday

Foundations in English B

HMWK: Who is Responsible? Type 1

Agenda

Questions are due EOH

HMWK:  Bring Newspapers by Thursday

Read Pages 476-7 Reading a Shakespearean Play

Take Notes on the Globe p. 479-80

Type 1 Character Predictions

Read Prologue p. 483 and finish Notes

Make Props

Begin Reading Act One, Scene 1

HMWK:  Finish Reading Act One, Scene 5

Do Making Connections (1-12) page 504

Keep in Touch

Week of:

January 23

Snowcoming Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Collect Literature Books

Decades Presentations

Influences of the Decades wksht

HMWK: Need Notebooks

MUG's #1

Begin To Kill A Mockingbird

Assign Books

Baseline Information Notes

HMWK: Type 1 Predictions

MUG's #2

Finish Baseline Info

Quiz on Baseline Notes

Read Chap 1 and Do Reading Log 1

HMWK: Finish Chapter 1

MUG's Quiz   

Read Chapter 2

Do Reading Log 2

HMWK: Read Chapter 3 and 4

Do Reading Logs 3-4

Advanced Placement English B

Vocabulary 14

Finish presenting Acrostic Poems

Check page 101 #4

Quiz on Chapters 6-7

Poetry Tool Presentations

Media Center

HMWK: Vocab 14 and Work on Poetry Tool Presentation

Check Vocab 14

Poetry Tool Presentations

Media Center

HMWK: Work on Poetry Tool Presentation

HMWK:  Vocab 14 Quiz tomorrow

Quiz on Vocab 14 

Poetry Tool Presentations

  HMWK: Research Japanese Internment Camps 

Write a Type 2

Foundations in English B

Type 2: Describe one of Idek's bouts of madness

Discuss Quiz from pages 23-65

Discuss pages 66-84 

Check Reaction Logs 7 and 8

HMWK:  Read pages 85-97 and do Reaction Logs 9 and 10

Do ACT Passages #3 and #4

Quiz pages 66-97

Check Reaction Logs 9 and 10

HMWK:  Read pages 98-120 and do Vocab-Reaction Logs 11-12 by Thursday

Discuss pages 85-120 

Check Vocab-Reaction Logs 11-12 

Listen to Speech about Diversity by Elie Wiesel

  HMWK: Type 1 Reflection

Character Review Sheet

Unit Essay Question (Map)

HMWK: Study

Night Unit Test on Monday 1/30

Keep in Touch

Class Color Day

Snowcoming Dance Saturday at 7:30

Week of:

January 16

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Decades Project

Media Center 

Work on Rough Drafts due EOH

HMWK: Work on Decades Project

Peer Edit Rough Drafts then Revise 

Collaborate Drafts

Begin Intro and Conclusion and Works Cited Page

HMWK: Work on Decades Project

Decades Project

Media Center 

Finish Collaborating  Drafts

Finish Intro and Conclusion and Works Cited Page

Cover Sheet with FCA's

HMWK: Work on Decades Project

Decades Project due EOH

Media Center 

HMWK: Type 1 Decades Project Reflection (Personal and Group)

Presentations on Monday!

Advanced Placement English B

Finish A Doll House

Complete the Type 2 Questions 

Discuss Chapters 3 and 4

HMWK: Read Chapter 5:  Figurative Language 1 p. 70-80 and take Notes

Check Vocab 13

Quiz Chapter 5

Present Images from poems

Discuss Chapter 4 - 5 

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, and Metonymy

HMWK: TP-CASTT one poem from pages 81-89

HMWK:  Read Chapter 6:  Figurative Language 2  p. 90-101 and take Notes

Write Acrostic Poem

Share Acrostic Poems

Read Chapter 7:  Figurative Language 3  p. 113-123 and take Notes

Do Exercise 122-123

  HMWK: Prepare for Poetry Tool Project

Foundations in English B

Agenda

Quiz on Baseline Info, Jewish Terms, and pages 3-22

Present Holocaust Collages

HMWK:  Read pages 47-65 and do Vocab-Reaction Logs 5 and 6

Do ACT Passage #1

Check Vocab-Reaction Logs 1-2-3-4

Discuss

Responding Handouts

SSR

  HMWK: Read

Do ACT Passage #2

Check Vocab-Reaction Logs 5-6

Type 2: Describe one of Idek's bouts of madness

Character Analysis Handout

Discuss

SSR

  HMWK: Read pages 66-84 and do Reaction Logs 7 and 8

Quiz on Pages 47-84

Do ACT Passages #3 and #4

Discuss

SSR

HMWK:  Read pages 85-97 and do Reaction Logs 9 and 10

Keep in Touch

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Parent-Teacher

Conferences 

4:30 to 8

Week of:

January 9

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Short Story Assessment

Don't Forget to be Working on Your Enrichment Reading!

Preview Decades

Assignment and Groups

HMWK: Type 1 on your Decade

Don't Forget to be Working on Your Enrichment Reading!

Begin Decades Project

HMWK: Research

Don't Forget to be Working on Your Enrichment Reading!

Decades Project

Media Center for Research

HMWK: Research

Don't Forget Your Enrichment Reading is due tomorrow!

Collect Enrichment Reading

Decades Project

Media Center for Research

Bib and Note Cards due EOH

HMWK: Write Rough Draft

Advanced Placement English B

Type 1:  Senior Project Update

Vocabulary 12

 Research Norway in 1800's

Introduce Henrik Ibsen

Read A Doll House

HMWK:  Vocab 12

Work on Type 2 Questions due Wednesday

Check Vocab 12

Read A Doll House

HMWK: Work on Type 2 Questions due Wednesday

Complete the Type 2 Questions due EOH (only if we finish reading)

HMWK:  Read and take Notes on Sound and Sense Chapter 3

Discuss Chapter 3

HMWK:  Do Suggestions for Writing on page 55 (Type 1)

Collect Connotation and Denotative Type 1 

HMWK:  Chapter 4: Imagery p. 56 Read and Take Notes

Choose 2 poems and draw images to express the meanings

Use any poem from p. 59-69 and Chp. 1-3

Foundations in English B

Watch The Odyssey Video

Introduce Memoirs 

Introduce Night and Elie Wiesel

HMWK:  Finish reading/highlighting worksheet about Wiesel 

and 

Read pages vi to xxi  

Baseline Information 

Holocaust Collage due Friday

Jewish terms and Vocabulary 

Laptops

Vocabulary Maps

  HMWK: Work on Holocaust Collage and Read pages 3-10 and Reaction Log 1

Finish Reading 10-22 and do Reaction Log 2

Check Reaction Logs 1-2

Discuss Baseline Info. and Pages 3-22

  HMWK: Holocaust Collage and Study for Quiz

Collect Holocaust Collages

Quiz on Baseline Info, Jewish Terms, and pages 3-22

SSR pages 23-28 and do Reaction Log 3

HMWK:  Read pages 29-46 and do Reaction Log 4

Keep in Touch

Week of:

December 19

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Quiz on "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Cask of Amontillado" and Vocabulary and Sentence Structure

  Vocabulary and Point of View p. 96

HMWK:

Read "The Necklace" p. 97

Making Connections p. (1-8) p. 104

Discuss "The Necklace" p. 97

Making Connections p. (1-8) p. 104

HMWK: Handouts

Vocabulary/Symbolism

Read "The Gift of the Magi" p. 584

HMWK: Handout

HMWK: See me if you would like to start reading To Kill a Mockingbird over the break.

See me if you would like to start reading To Kill a Mockingbird over the break!

Advanced Placement English B

Present Art Analysis Project

Work on Holiday Skit

HMWK:  Research Norway in 1800's

Read A Doll House

Work on Holiday Skit

HMWK:  Work on Type 2 Questions due Thursday

Read A Doll House

Work on Holiday Skit

HMWK: Don't Forget your Holiday Used Book that is wrapped.

Collect Type 2 Questions

Work on Holiday Skit

Holiday Used Book Exchange

HMWK:  Read Your Modern Classic for Senior Project

Foundations in English B

Collect Myths

Present Myth

HMWK: Type 1: Reflect upon your myth 

Watch The Odyssey Video

HMWK:  Type 1:  Do you think Ody is portrayed as a Hero in the video?

Watch The Odyssey Video

HMWK:  Type 1:  Respond to the video

Watch The Odyssey Video

Introduce Elie Wiesel and Night

Image Logs

HMWK:  See me if you want to begin Reading Night and Image Logs over the break!

Keep in Touch

Pajama Day

Ugly Holiday Sweater Day

Red or Green Day

Holiday Assembly

Week of:

December 12

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

New Seating Charts

Finish Reading "The Most Dangerous Game" p. 18

HMWK:  Finish Reading "The Most Dangerous Game" and do Making Connections page 35 (1-9)

Check Making Connections

Draw Ship Trap Island in Partners

HMWK:  Irony/Vocabulary p. 37 

Grammar Review: Simple Sentences

Introduce Edgar Allan Poe/Irony

Video on Edgar Allan Poe

20 Facts I learned about Poe - Collect (Type 1)

HMWK: Read "Annabel Lee" p. 582 and Write a Type 1 about the poem

Read "The Cask of Amontillado" p. 38

Making Connections 1-8 p. 45 (type 2)

HMWK: Study for quiz

Quiz on "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Cask of Amontillado" and Vocabulary and Sentence Structure

HMWK: 

Advanced Placement English B

Vocab 11

Explanation of Senior Project

Senior Questionnaires Discussed

Library

Preliminary Internet Search

HMWK:  Type 1: Update on Senior Project

Absent Students: Vocab 10 Quiz and The Stranger In-Class Essay

Senior Project

Library

Preliminary Internet Search

HMWK:  Begin Work on Preliminary Outline

Senior Project

Library

Check Preliminary Outline

Preliminary Internet Search

HMWK:  Find your Favorite Art

Library 

Art Research

HMWK:  Work on Essay and Presentation

Art Analysis Project

Library 

Art Research

HMWK:  Work on Essay and Presentation

Foundations in English B

Collect Persuasive Heroic Essay BOH

"The Voyage" Test

Work on Myth with Partner

Read "Father and Son" page 773

HMWK:  Work on Myth

Read "Beggar at Manor" page 776

Read "The Test of the Bow" p. 780-2

Read "Death in the Great Hall" p. 783-7

Work on Myth with Partner

HMWK:  Work on Myth

Read "The Trunk of the Olive Tree" p. 789-91

Making Connection Questions (1-7) p. 788

Making Connection Questions (1-9) p. 792

Work on Myth with Partner

HMWK:  Work on Myth

"The Homecoming" Assessment

Collect Myths

Present Myth

Keep in Touch

Week of:

December 5

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Rough Drafts due BOH

Peer Editing

Revising

Begin Second Draft

HMWK:  Finish Second Draft

 Check Second Draft

Type Final Draft in Library

Essay due EOH

HMWK:  Type 1: Personal Reflection on your Essay

Assign Literature Books

Literary Terms: Survey; Write Paragraph; Define; Check

Begin Reading "All the Years of Her Life" p. xxii and  Do Reading Strategy (Type 1)

HMWK:  Finish Reading "All the Years of Her Life"

Quiz on Literary Terms and story

Check Post its

Review Notes on Short Stories p. 2-3

Vocabulary/Plot

Read "The Most Dangerous Game" p. 18

HMWK:  Finish Reading "The Most Dangerous Game" and do Making Connections page 35 (1-9)

Advanced Placement English B

Vocab 10

Poem Share

Finish Discussion on Meursault

HMWK:  Read "Tragedy and the Common Man" and Answer question in Type 1

Finish Characterization

Type 2 on Meursault

Focus on the Crime and Significance of Miller's Essay

Mock Trial Preparations in Groups

HMWK:  Prepare for Mock Trial

HMWK:  Prepare for Mock Trial

Review

HMWK:  Type 1 Trial Reflection

Study

The Stranger In-Class Essay

Foundations in English B

"The Voyage" and Chart  page 735 

Read "Sailing From Troy"

Questions Pg 738 Connections 1-5

HMWK:  Type 1 on Persistence with TBE

Finish "The Cyclops" page 739 

Making Connections page 751 (1-6)

HMWK:  Type 1:  Describe a day in the life of a Cyclops and Strength with TBE

Reading Check Quiz

Read "The Goddess Circe" page 752

HMWK: Making Connections page 759 (1-6) and Type 1 Wisdom with TBE

Read "The Sirens" page 760 and "Scylla and Charybdis" page 767

Making Connections p. 769 (1-6)

HMWK: Type 1 Courage with TBE

Review

"The Voyage" Test

Keep in Touch

Week of:

November 28

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English A

Introductions

Seating Charts

Syllabus

HMWK: Get Syllabus signed by Friday

John Collin's Writing Method

Sample Type 1

The Writing Process and Structure of the Essay Review

Parts of Speech 

Review

HMWK: Finish Parts of Speech Packet

Parts of Speech Assessment

HMWK:  Greeting Card

Paragraph Review

Thesis Statements

My Life and Goals Essay due Tuesday

HMWK:  Prewrite Essay Topics and Get Syllabus signed by Friday

Collect Signed Syllabus

Work on Rough Draft of Essay due BOH Monday

HMWK:  Finish Rough Draft

Advanced Placement English B

Trimester 2 Expectations

Vocab 9

HMWK:  Review The Stranger Part I 

Write a Highly Structured Paragraph on Meursault's Pleasures

and Read Lyrics and write Type 1

Vocab 9 Check

Reading Check on The Stranger

HMWK:   Read "The Myth of Sisyphus" and answer Type 2 Question

Discuss the Cure's Lyrics and the Myth

Baseline Notes on Camus and The Stranger

Library to Research Existentialists

Handout: Camus's Philosophy

HMWK:  Type 2 on Influences for The Stranger 

Review The Stranger Part II 

The Stranger Stations

HMWK:  Do Absurd Crime Handout and Accusations of Callousness Handout

Finish The Stranger Stations

Prepare for Mock Trial

 HMWK: Do Focus on Trial Handout

Foundations in English B

Seating Charts

Assign Books

Literary Terms

Begin The Odyssey page 730

HMWK: Greek God Assignment

Check Literary Terms

Baseline Info. on Homer and Greek Mythology Read pages 730-4

Read 12 Olympians pages 801-3

HMWK:  Greek God Assignment

Library Research on Greek Gods due Thursday

HMWK:  Finish Greek God Assignment

Rubric

 Begin Reading "The Voyage" and Chart  page 735 

Read "Sailing From Troy"

HMWK:  Questions Pg 738 Connections 1-5, Vocabulary 1-5 

Keep in Touch

Week of:

November 20

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Advanced Placement English

Part Three:  Objective Test

Summer Readings, Novels and Plays and Short Stories, Poetry

HMWK:  Read The Stranger

Due Monday, November 28th

Due Monday, November 28th

Due Monday, November 28th

Due Monday, November 28th

Due Monday, November 28th

Dramatic Fiction

Finish Act Three

Assessment Questions for The Importance of Being Earnest

Keep in Touch

Preview of Tri 2 Classes

Week of:

November 14

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Themes of the Novel

To Kill a Mockingbird Video

HMWK:   Work on Character Analysis for Tuesday

1. Social and Props

2. Character Analysis

5th Hour: Review for the Final Exam

5th Hour: Final Exam

Collecting Books

Collecting Books

Advanced Placement English

Review for Final Exam

Introduce Albert Camus and The Stranger (due November 28th) 

HMWK: Poetry Explication

Sample AP Multiple Choices Questions

Review Vendler

HMWK:  Study

HMWK:  Study

Part Two:  In-Class Essay

HMWK:  Study

Dramatic Fiction

Students will analyze the social criticisms hidden within Wilde’s comic repartee.

Assign Characters  

Talk-to-the-Text (Highlight)

Assessment Questions p. 725 in Groups

Begin Reading Act Two

Talk-to-the-Text (Highlight)

Assessment Questions p. 741 in Groups

Begin Act Three

Talk-to-the-Text (Highlight)

Assessment Questions p. 751 in Groups

Participation Credit and Credit for Talking-to-the-text

Attendance Required

Keep in Touch

Monday:  3rd and 4th Hour Exams

Week of:

November 7

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

  Check the Quiz on Chapters 15-25

Reading Log Check

Character Review Sheet 

Assign Characters for Aunt Alexandra's Tea

HMWK:   Chapter  30-31 and do Vocab/Reading Log

Review Chapters 22-29

Read aloud and Discuss Chapters 30-31

HMWK:   Type 1 Reflect on the end of the novel

Themes of the Novel

Begin To Kill a Mockingbird Video

HMWK:   

MUG's Quiz #4

MUGs check

 To Kill a Mockingbird Video

HMWK:   Work on Character Analysis for Tuesday

Rake -N- Run

• Dress Warm and in work clothes

• Bring money or a bag lunch

• Bring a rake and gloves

HMWK:   Work on Character Analysis for Tuesday

Advanced Placement English

Collect Type 2 Author Research

Vocab Week 8

Oral Quiz on Poetry Terms for Points

Alienation and Short Stories

HMWK: Vocabulary Week 8

Read "Shooting an Elephant"

Check Vocab 8 

Oral Quiz on Poetry Terms for Points

Sample AP Multiple Choices Questions

Review Poetry Chapters 1, 2, 12

 Review Rhetorical Triangle and Vendler 

HMWK:  Practice the three methods of analyzing poetry

Oral Quiz on Poetry Terms for Points

Sample AP Multiple Choices Questions

Introduce Poetry Explication

Assign Poems

HMWK:  Study Vocab Week 8

Poetry Explication

Vocab Week 8 Quiz

Preliminary Research on Senior Project in Media Center

HMWK: Poetry Explication

HMWK:  Poetry Explication

Dramatic Fiction

Presentations

The Importance of Being Ernest

Students will analyze the social criticisms hidden within Wilde’s comic repartee.

Assign Characters 

Anticipation Guide

Talk-to-the-Text (Highlight)

Assessment Questions p. 725 in Groups

Assessment Questions p. 741 in Groups

Keep in Touch

Rake -N- Run

Extra Credit: Bring a Signed Program from Play

Week of:

October 31

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Collecting Late Enrichment Reading Calendars

Watch "The Raven Video"

HMWK:   Chapter  20-21 and do Vocab/Reading Log

MUG Activity:  Independent/Dependant Clauses

Continue the Mock Trial

HMWK:   Chapters 22-23  and do Vocab/Reading Logs

MUG Activity:  Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses

Continue the Mock Trial

Type 1 Reflection on Mock Trial and Verdict

HMWK:   Chapter 24-25  and do Vocab/Reading Log

MUG Activity:  Who/Whom

Quiz on Chapters 15-25

Reading Log Check

Character Review Sheet due EOH

HMWK:   Chapter  26-27 and do Vocab/Reading Log

MUG's Quiz #3

MUGs check

Assign Characters for Aunt Alexandra's Tea

Notes and Discussion

HMWK:   Read Chapter 28-29 and do Vocab/ Reading Logs

Advanced Placement English

Vocab Week 7

Check Chapter 1 and TP-CASTT

Oral Review on Poetry Terms

 Introduce More Methods:  Rhetorical Triangle and Vendler

HMWK: Vocabulary Week 7

Oral Review on Poetry Terms

Check Vocab 7

Sample AP Multiple Choices Questions

Read Chapter 2 pages 24-33 and take Notes

With a Partner Do a Rhetorical Triangle on one poem from pages 33-41

and 

Do a Vendler from a different poem from pages 33-41 

HMWK:  Practice the three methods of analyzing poetry

Oral Review on Poetry Terms

Quiz on Analyzing Poetry

Read and Take Notes on Chapter 12

Do Exercise #1 on page 212

Do questions 1-2 on page 223

HMWK:  Read "Zero Hour"

Oral Review on Poetry Terms

Sample AP Multiple Choices Questions

Read "Green Patches"

HMWK: Study Vocab Week 7

Review Poetry Chapters 1, 2, 12

Alienation and Short Stories

HMWK:  Type 2 on Authors Bradbury and Asimov

Dramatic Fiction

Finish Act One Video                           

Collect

Begin Act Two

Type 1:  Reflect on Act Two

Video Act Two

Musicals Review

Media Center to Research

Presentations

Keep in Touch

Happy Halloween!

Substitute Teacher is present!

Substitute Teacher is present!

Substitute Teacher is present!

Hopefully, I will return today!

Week of:

October 24

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Review Part One

HMWK:   Study

Enrichment Reading due Friday!

Quotables Exam Part One

HMWK:   Chapters 12-13  and do Vocab/Reading Logs

Enrichment Reading due Friday!

Read Chapter 14

Do Vocabulary and Reading Log

HMWK:   Chapter 15  and do Vocab/Reading Log

Enrichment Reading due Friday!

Read Chapter 16

Do Vocabulary and Reading Log

Begin Mock Trial

HMWK:   Chapter  17 and do Vocab/Reading Log

Enrichment Reading due Tomorrow!

MUG's Quiz #2

Enrichment Reading due Today!

Mock Trial

HMWK:   Read Chapter 18-19 and do Vocab/ Reading Logs

Advanced Placement English

Vocab Week 6

Analyze the Language

HMWK: Vocabulary Week 6 and Review

Heart of Darkness In-Class Essay 

Explanation of Senior Project

Senior Questionnaires

HMWK: Poetry Terms

Check Terms

Need Sound and Sense Books

Read and Take Notes Chapter 1 and do questions 1-2 on page 23

HMWK: TP-CASTT one poem from pages 12-22

Share TP-CASTT

HMWK: Read Chapter 2 pages 24-33 and Do one TP-CASTT from a poem from pages 33-41

More Methods:  Rhetorical Triangle and Vendler

HMWK:  Choose Two Poems from pages 33-41; and Do RT and Vendler

Dramatic Fiction

Family Survey

Introduce West Side Story

Introduce Musicals Genre

Introduce Authors

Type 1:  What do ya know about Romeo?

Assign Characters

Begin Act One

Discuss

Video Act One

Type 1:  Act One

Work on Video Questions - Collect

Discuss

Begin Act Two

(in theater)

Keep in Touch

Week of:

October 17

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

MUG's and Logs Check

Review 1-4

HMWK:   Chapter 5 and do Vocab/Reading Logs

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

Quiz on Chapters 1-5

Read Chapter 6

Do Vocabulary and Reading Log

HMWK:   GET RESTED FOR MEAP TESTING

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

MEAP TESTING

HMWK:   Chapter 7 and do Vocab/Reading Log

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

Read Chapter 8

Do Vocabulary and Reading Log

HMWK:   Chapter 9 and do Vocab/Reading Log

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

MUG's Quiz #1

Read Chapter 10

Do Vocabulary and Reading Log

HMWK:   Read Chapter 11 and do Vocab/ Reading Log

Part One Exam on Tuesday

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

Advanced Placement English

Vocab Week 5

Conclude The Glass Menagerie

Reading Comprehension Quiz for Heart of Darkness

HMWK: Close Reading of Section I

 Plots and Setting

HMWK: Close Reading of Section II

Plots and Suspense

HMWK: Critics Response and Type 1

Symbolism, Contrasts and Irony

HMWK: 

Study for Vocab Week 5 Quiz

Motifs and Themes

Point of View, Mood and Tone

HMWK:  Analyze the Language

Dramatic Fiction

Finish Act One

Discuss

Characterization

Read Death of a Salesman

Act Two

Discuss

Discuss

Discuss

Discuss

Assessment

Free Writes

Keep in Touch

Week of:

October 10

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Parent-Teacher Conferences 4:30 to 8

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Agenda

Decades Project due EOH!

Due:  

1.  Cover Page with names and decade

2.  Outline to indicate Sections

3.  FCA's and Completed Essay with Parenthetical Citations

4. Works Cited Page (alphabetized and properly formatted)

Last day in Computer Labs

HMWK:  Type 1 Reflection on Decades Project

Enrichment Reading!

Groups Share Decades

Influential Notes on Chart

Begin To Kill A Mockingbird

Baseline Information Notes

HMWK:  

Enrichment Reading!

Assign To Kill A Mockingbird

Baseline Information Notes

Enrichment Reading!

Quiz on Baseline Notes

Read Chap 1 and Do Reading Log 1

HMWK:   finish Chapter 1

Enrichment Reading!

Read Chapter 2

Do Vocabulary and Reading Log

HMWK:   Chapter 3-4 and do Vocab/Reading Logs

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

Advanced Placement English

Vocab Week 4

Introduce The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Assign Books

Begin The Glass Menagerie

HMWK: Read Heart of Darkness Packet and Novella by Monday

The Glass Menagerie

Symbolism

HMWK: Read Heart of Darkness Packet and Novella by Monday

Read The Glass Menagerie

Discuss

HMWK: Read Heart of Darkness Packet and Novella by Monday

Read The Glass Menagerie

Discuss

HMWK: Read Heart of Darkness Packet and Novella by Monday

Study for Vocab Week 4 Quiz

Read The Glass Menagerie

Discuss

AP Practice Test

HMWK: Read Heart of Darkness Packet and Novella by Monday

Dramatic Fiction

Making a Prediction

Introduce Susan Glaspell

Read Trifles in Theater

Discuss 

Making Connections p. 465 (1-8)

Read Riders to the Sea

Compare One Act Tradegies

Baseline Notes and Introduce Arthur Miller

Discuss

Keep in Touch

70's or 80's

Half Day/Pep Assembly

Parade/Game

Week of:

October 3

Homecoming

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Agenda

Decades Project

Media Center for Research

HMWK: Research

Don't Forget to be Working on Your Enrichment Reading!

Decades Project

Media Center for Research

Bib and Note Cards due EOH

HMWK: Write Rough Draft

Enrichment Reading!

Rough Draft

Edit and Revise

Compile Sections

HMWK: 

Enrichment Reading!

Intro/Conclusion

Works Cited

Cover Page/Outline

HMWK: 

Enrichment Reading!

HMWK: 

Enrichment Reading due October 28th!

Advanced Placement English

No Vocab this week!

Streetcar Named Desire

Symbolism

HMWK: Illusion vs. Reality

Mrs. DeKeyser's College Help

Meet in Ms. Gordon's Room

Streetcar Named Desire Assessment

Satire

Introduce The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Assign Books

Begin The Glass Menagerie

HMWK: Read The Glass Menagerie

Read The Glass Menagerie

Discuss

HMWK:  Read The Glass Menagerie

Read The Glass Menagerie

Discuss

HMWK: Compare Tennessee Williams Plays

Type 1:  Reflection on AP Tests

HMWK: 

Dramatic Fiction

Study Guide due

Assessment

HMWK:  Compare Shakespeare and Historical Events

Share Comparisons

Keep in Touch

70's or 80's

Half Day/Pep Assembly

Parade/Game

Week of:

September 26

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Agenda

Review Parts of Speech

Point of View and Vocabulary

Read "The Necklace" p. 96

HMWK: Handout

Dealing with Differences and Symbolism and Vocabulary

SSR "The Scarlet Ibis" p. 134

HMWK: Handout

HMWK: 

Assignment and Groups

HMWK: Type 1 on your Decade

HMWK: Research

Advanced Placement English

Vocab Week 3

Revise College Essays

Discuss "A Modest Proposal"

HMWK: Vocab Week 3 and Final Draft of College Essay

College Essay due BOH

Background Info on Tennessee Williams

Modern Drama

Characterization 

Streetcar Named Desire

HMWK: Color Symbolism

Continue Reading

HMWK:  Handouts

Quiz on Streetcar Named Desire and Notes

Finish Play

HMWK: Study for Vocab. Quiz 

Satire

Discuss Play and Satire

HMWK: 

Dramatic Fiction

Complete Character Sheet

Do Making connections (1-11) p. 732

HMWK:  Et Tu Cartoon

Read The Globe p. 734-5

Begin Act Four 

Do Making Connections (1-10) p. 749

Video Act Five

Do Making connections (1-12) p. 763

Julius Caesar Video

Caesar Sampler p. 764

Keep in Touch

Homecoming Next Week

Week of:

September 19

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Agenda

Review Short Story Notes

Plot/Vocabulary p. 17

Begin "The Most Dangerous Game" p. 18-34

HMWK: Finish Reading and Plotting

Do Making Connections (1-9) p. 35

Check Making Connections

Draw Ship Trap Island in Partners

HMWK:  Irony/Vocabulary p. 37

Grammar Review: Simple Sentences

Introduce Edgar Allan Poe/Irony

Video on Edgar Allan Poe

20 Facts I learned about Poe - Collect (Type 1)

HMWK: Read "Annabel Lee" p. 582 and Write a Type 1 about the poem

Read "The Cask of Amontillado" p. 38

"Annabel Lee" p. 581

Making Connections 1-8 p. 45 (type 2)

HMWK: Study for quiz

Quiz on "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Cask of Amontillado" and Vocabulary

HMWK: Parts of Speech Review Packet

Advanced Placement English

Vocabulary Week 2 (Compound Sentences and Semicolons)

Discussion/Notes/Satire

HMWK:  Do Vocab Week 2

Character in a Bag for Lord of the Flies

Finish Discussion on Brave New World

Related Readings

HMWK: Read Discussion Notes for Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies Presentation

Characterization

Discussion/Notes/Satire

HMWK:  Read Vonnegut Background and Cite Pages

Slaughterhouse - Five Presentation

Notes/Discussion/Satire

HMWK: Study for Vocab. Quiz 

and Write Rough Draft of College Essay

Rough Draft of College Essay due BOH

HMWK: Revise College Essays

and Read "A Modest Proposal"

Dramatic Fiction

Finish Act One

Do Making Connections (1-12) p. 697

Video Act One

Video Act Two

Do Making Connections (1-14) p. 713

Characters

Do Making connections (1-11) p. 732

and Et Tu Cartoon

Video Act Three

Keep in Touch

Week of:

September 12

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Agenda

Check Prewrite Outline

Begin Work on 1st Rough Draft

HMWK: Finish Rough Drafts

Proofread/Checklist

Revise

HMWK:  Finish Final Drafts

Media Center Orientation

HMWK: Literary Terms Survey and Write Type 2 Paragraph

Define Terms from Lit Books in Notebooks

Read "All the Years of Her Life" p. xxii

HMWK: Finish Story and Reading Strategy

HMWK: Read Short Stories p. 2-3

Advanced Placement English

Collect Summer Reading Reflections

Compile College Essay Writing Prompts

Finish Book Club

Vocabulary Week 1

Favorites Game

Group Work

HMWK: Review Plots 

Background Research on Authors

Present

Satire and Shrek

HMWK: BNW Project due Thursday

 Discussion/Notes

Related Readings

HMWK: BNW Project due Thursday

Present Projects

HMWK: Study

Begin BNW

HMWK: Pick a Quote and Write Type 2

Write 3 Paragraph from Personal Superlatives

Dramatic Fiction

Work on Complaint Box Infomercials

Group work

HMWK:  Present Infomercials 

Written Scripts and Props Required

Present Infomercials 

Written Scripts and Props Required

Background on Julius Caesar

Page 672-678

Characters

Begin Act One

Keep in Touch

Parent Night at 7

Picture Day

Week of:

September 5

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Foundations in English

Welcome!

Introductions

Seating Charts 

Agenda

Reading Enrichment Assignment

(Get Signed by Friday)

The Writing Process

HMWK:  Proofread the Crickets Paragraph

Collin's Writing Method

Review Structure of the Sentence, Paragraph, and Essay

My Life and Goals Essay Assignment due September 13

HMWK: Prewrite Topics

Check Topic Prewrite

Prewrite Outline

Begin Work on Rough Draft

HMWK: Finish Rough Drafts for Monday

Advanced Placement English

Welcome!

Collect Summer Reading Logs and Major Works Data Sheets

Questions about Summer Reading?

HMWK: Review

Syllabus

College Essay

HMWK: Review

Reflection

HMWK: Prepare Presentations

Bring Book

Book Club

Favorites Game

HMWK: Type 1 Reflection on Summer Reading/Exams (typed)

Research College Essay Writing Prompts

Dramatic Fiction

Introductions

Syllabus

(Signed by Friday)

Create a Pet-Peeve Infomercial 

Read Complaint Boxes from NY Times

Collect Notes

Work on Complaint Box

Due MOH

Work on Infomercials

Group work

HMWK:  Present Infomercials on Monday

Props Required

Keep in Touch