Classwork and homework assignments for the week of April 27, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Romance Literature Introduction p. 948-949
Responding to the Video
Romance, Chivalry, Quest
Drawing Conclusions
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sord in the Stone
G. O. 1st column
Characterization
Elements of reading Romance Literature
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Round Table
Extending the Meaning
G. O. 2nd column
Grammar – Gerunds
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Tale of Sir Lancelot du Lake
Interpreting the story
G. O. 3rd column
Simple, Compound, Complex sentences
Friday, May 01, 2009
Test on: The Sword in the Stone The Round Table
Grammar test on sentences
Something to think about: The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of April 20th, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
4 corners graphic organizer for descriptive essay
family member, family member, famous person, friend
one simile/metaphor
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Outline of descriptive essay
Page one
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Outline of descriptive essay
Page two
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Outline of descriptive essay
Page three
Friday, April 24, 2009
Library to type essay periods 1 and 3
Hwk: finish typing essay and turn in on Monday.
Something to think about: The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” Tommy Lasorda
Classwork and homework assignments for the week of April 13, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Taoist Anecdotes
A Design for Living
G. O. Comprehension
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Vocab and Comprehension
Word Maps
Context Clues
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Richer, the Poorer
Compare and Contrast
Reading Comprehension and Making Inferences
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Vocab and Comprehension
Synonyms and Antonyms
Friday, April 17, 2009
The First Day
Tone, Mood and Theme
Making connection to the text
Something to think about: Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of April 6th, 2009
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Didactic Literature
Teaching Lessons
The Koran
Reading Strategies: Monitoring your reading
Grammar check
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Taoist Anecdotes
Viewing and Representing Videocassette B, Segment 13
Identifying Cause and Effect
Grammar check
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
Summarizing
Drawing Conclusions
Thursday, April 8th, 2009
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
contd.
Class test
Friday, April 9th, 2009
No School
Easter Holiday
Something to think about: However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source. (Yoruba)
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of March 23, 2009
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Psalm 23
The power of parallelism
To Every Thing There is a Season
Parallel structure
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Understanding Allegory
The Parable of the Prodigal S on
To Every Thing There is a Season
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Review for test
Allegory
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Parables
Group Work - creating a parable
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Test on Psalm 23, To Every Thing there is a Season, and The Prodigal Son
Something to think about: Time is a great storyteller (Irish)
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of March 16th, 2009
Monday, March 16th, 2009
DSTP Testing
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
DSTP Testing
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Abraham and Isaac
Characterization – compare and contrast
Psalm 23 – The Power of Parallelism
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
DSTP Testing
Friday, March 20th, 2009
DSTP Testing
Something to think about: It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of March 9th, 2009
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Sonnet Extra Credit Presentations
DSTP Practice tests and review
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
DSTP puzzle
Looking at a DSTP style rubric
Benchmarking sample tests
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
DSTP Testing
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
DSTP Test
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Sources of Wisdom p. 903
The Bible
Grammar check – parts of speech
Something to think about: The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, -- over every idea. Latin Proverb
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of February 23, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Hugs for hero letters
Reading comprehension sample test
Practice for DSTP
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Human Match Quiz – Literary elements Onomatopoeia, Rhyme, Alliteration
I want to be Somebody poems
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Reading Comp Test
Grammar Review Sentences
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Shakespeare #18 Sonnet
Structure
Unstressed/stressed syllables (graphic organizer)
Rhythm and Meter
Friday, February 27, 2009
Group Work on Shakespeare sonnets
Something to think about: “If you don’t do it, you’ll never know what would have happened if you had done it. ~ Ashleign Brittiant
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 16, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
President’s Day
No School
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sound Effects
Rhyme, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia
Ex-Basketball Player
Stuck in the Past Dream G.O.
Connecting to the text
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dreams Lost and Found
Ex-Basketball Player Worksheet
Understanding Rhyme, Alliteration, and Onomatopoeia
Words to Own – Developing Vocabulary
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Human review of Rhyme, Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Sea Fever
Graphic Organizers for Active Reading
Friday, February 20, 2009
Meter
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
Iambic pentameter
Unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry
Something to think about: It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. J. Petit Senn
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 9, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Tone, Mood, Theme Power point presentation
Heart we will forget him!
Hwk: Tone and Imagery worksheet
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Tone an Attitude
Preposition worksheet
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tone words
Original preposition in sentences using tone words
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Mending Wall
Pre Reading Strategies
Tone Worksheet
Friday, February 13, 2009
Test on Tone, Mood and Theme
Reading Comp. Test
Something to think about: Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. Daniel Webster
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of February 2, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Syntax
Introduction Paragraph for Laws of Life essay
Hwk: work on Laws of Life essay
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Reading comprehension: Should School be Open All Year?
Hwk: work on Laws of Life essay
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Grammar Workshop
Hwk: work on Laws of Life essay
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Literary Terms
Moons
Poetry Graphic Organizer
Compare and Contrast John Haines/Emily Dickinson
Hwk: work on Laws of Life essay
Friday, February 6, 2009
I am Offering this Poem
Since Feeling is first
Marking Period Evaluation
Hwk: work on Laws of Life essay
Something to think about: Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for
the character. James Russel Lowell
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 26, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
The Bet
Interpreting meaning
Graphic Organizer – compare and contrast
Hwk: Work on intro paragraph
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Bet – contd.
Grammar check
Hwk: finish intro paragraph
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Snow Day – No School
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Finish The Bet
Passive/Active Voice
Vocab in Context
Hwk: work on Laws of Life Essay
Friday, January 30, 2009
Selection Test on The Bet
Something to think about: Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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Classwork and homework assignments for the week of January 12, 2009
Homework assignments from now until February 8th will be that students work on the 2 page Laws of Life essay.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Laws of Life Essay Contest/Assignment (4th Essay in curriculum)
Pre writing – selecting a topic
Graphic organizer – web
Review revised soda drinking essays
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Text Based Writing portion of the Mid Term Exam
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Text Based Writing portion of the Mid Term Exam
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Text Based Writing portion of the Mid Term Exam
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thesis Statements and
Introduction paragraphs for
Laws of Life Essay
Something to think about: The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
Class work and homework assignments for the week of December 5, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Main Idea
Summarizing
The Man in the Water p. 471
Hwk: Words to Own
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Making Meanings p. 476
The Man in the Water
Quickwrite – an anecdote
Now That’s Scary
Hwk: fact vs. opinion
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Viewing and Representing
Children and TV violence
Making Meanings p. 486
Hwk: Grammar worksheet
Thursday, January 8, 2009
The Unknown Rebel
Quickwrite: The most couragous thing you have done
Reading for Life p. 498-499
Friday, January 9, 2009
Selection Tests on Man in the Water/Now that’s Scary
Something to think about: Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. Lord Chesterfield
Class work and homework assignments for the week of December 1, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Hair
From the Autobiography of Malcolm X
Tone
Vocab in context
Semantic Mapping
Hwk: Up and Beyond: Detail
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
What’s in/What’s not posters
A Piercing Issue p. 349
Hwk: Up and Beyond: Diction
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Videocassette A, Seg. 5
Connecting to the Video
Combining Sentences: Using Subordination
Hwk: Up and Beyond Syntax
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Group
Selection Test: Hair
Friday, December 5, 2008
Type Essay on Soda Drinking in Library II
Something to think about: You don’t get harmony if everyone sings the same note. Doug Floyd
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 24, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Esay No. 3 "Dangers of drinking Soda"
Hwk: Finish outline for essay and return with completed outline
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Turn in outline
Grade Analysis by marking period
"Writing Prompt" If you could ask the person who knows the answer to everything one question, what would ask and why?
Wednesday November 26, 2008 - Friday, November 28, 2008 Teacher Inservice and Thanksgiving Holiday!
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 17th, 2008
Monday, November 17th, 2008
Irony
The Cast of Amontillado
Hwk: The Necklace take home quiz
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Irony
The Musgrave Ritual
Hwk: The Cast of Amontillado quiz
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Irony test
Hwk: Analysis of marking period grades
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Analyzing Problems and Solutions Outline: Dangers of drinking soda
attention grabbing opener
thesis statement
Friday, November 21, 2008
Analyzing Problems and Solutions Outline: Dangers of drinking soda
analysis of problem
evidence: Statistics
Something to think about:
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 10, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Finish Genre Test: Short Stories
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
No School Veteran’s Day
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Word Maps for The Necklace
Hwk: Sentences for words
Thursday, November 13, 2008
The Necklace
Characterization
Irony
Hwk: grammar check
Friday, November 14, 2008
The Musgrave Ritual
Characterization
Irony
Finish Graphic Organizer on irony stories
Something to think about: Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russel Lowell
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 27th, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Irony
War by Jack London
Graphic Organizer
Hwk: finish persuasive essay on gun control
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
NO SCHOOL ELECTION DAY
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Irony
The Tiger or The Lady
Graphic Organizer
Hwk: grammar check
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Genre Test – Short Story
Hwk: finish persuasive essay on gun control
Friday, November 7, 2008
Turn in revisions of gun control persuasive essay
Genre Test – Short Story
Something to think about: By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin Proverb
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Monday, October 27, 2008
The Gift of Love
Words in context
Reading Strategy: Making generalizations
I am Offering this Poem
Hwk: No homework
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Literary Pal
Pre Reading Strategy: Making predictions
Hwk: Vocab in context 1-10
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Dictionary Game
Hwk: Vocab in Context
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Don’t Look Through Drive Through Window
Reading Strategy
Hwk: work on persuasive essay
Friday, October 31, 2008
Crazy Clown – writing prompt
Something to think about: The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 20th, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Loveliest of Trees
Capturing Time
Connotations
Courage
Figurative Language - similes and metaphors
Hwk: Grammar check: capitalization
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
George Gray
Quickwrite: What are the most important things in life?
Compare and contrast George Gray and Loveliest of Trees
Grammar Check: Imagery
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The Legend
Tone: An attitude
Miss Rosie
Idioms: Not literally true
Hwk: Quickwrite: Homeless person
Hwk: finish revisions on college essay
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hwk: finish revisions on college essay
Friday, October 24, 2008
Test on Poems
Figurative Language
Something to think about: Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. Lord Chesterfield
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 13, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Symbolic meaning
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
Hwk: finish persuasive essay outline on Gun Control
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Library II
Persuasive essay on Gun Control
Hwk: The Power of a Poem
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Courage by Anne Sexton
Figures of speech
Hwk:
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Library II
Persuasive essay on Gun Control
Hwk: Finish essay to turn in on Friday
Friday, October 17, 2008
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Symbolic Meaning
Something to think about: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Classwork and Homework assignments for the week of September 22, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Student Activity 2B: Analyze the Newspaper
Exploration and Response
Hwk: Fast Food handout reponse
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Making Predictions Lesson 3: Before, During and After reading
The 5ws on a newspaper story
Complete performance rubric
Hwk: Discussion Web (blackline master 3) gun control
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Persuasive Writing
Gun Control
Introduction to steps to complete outline
Hwk: read and highlight information in article
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Persuasive Writing
Gun Control outline
Hwk: read and highlight information in article
Friday, September 26, 2008
Persuasive Writing
Gun Control outline
Introduction to steps to complete outline
Something to think about: Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 15, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Plot: The Story’s Framework p. 32
Read and take notes for test on Friday
Hwk: Create a story template about an event in your life
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Two Kinds
Motivation
Making inferences about character
Quickwrite – what do you want to be doing 10 years from now
Hwk: write sentences for Words to Own
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Two Kinds contd
Irony
Hwk: Complete graphic organizer on Two Kinds
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Two Kinds completion
Identifying Details
Hwk: Study notes on Plot and Two Kinds
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Test on Plot and Two Kinds
Something to think about: The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 8th, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Internal/External conflict graphic organizer
Words to Own The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant
Hwk: There, Their, and They’re workshet 1-15
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Cause and effect relationships
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
Hwk: There, Their, and They’re workshet 16-30
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
1st Person Narrative
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant contd.
Hwk: write sentences for Words to Own
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Imagery
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant conclusion
Hwk: study vocab and review notes on story for test
Friday, September 12, 2008
Selection Test
Test on The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
Something to think about: He that climbs the tall tree has a right to the fruit. Sir Walter Scott
Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 2nd, 2008
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Labor Day Holiday – No school
Tueday, September 2nd, 2008
Review test on prepositions and informal/formal language
Review handout on writing an effective introduction
Hwk: revise intro paragraph
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Continuing reading Everyday Use
Compare and Contrast characters
Hwk: revise intro paragraph
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Turn in revised intro college paragraph
Test on Everyday Use
Hwk: 5 original sentences for prepositions
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Students share homework
Internal/External Conflict
Intro The Bass, the River, and Shield Mant
Something to think about: If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of August 25th, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Review homework on prepositions
Diction
Identifying Informal/Formal Language
Everyday Use
Hwk: type Most Wanted Posters
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Review homework on prepositions
Test on Informal and Formal diction
Everyday Use
Meet the Author Alice Walker
Hwk: words to own worksheet on Everyday Use
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Compare and contrast
Making Inferences
Everyday Use
Hwk: Intro paragraph to college essay
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Everyday Use – contd.
Graphic Organizer on compare/contrast
Friday, August 29, 2008
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Something to think about: Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russel Lowell
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Class work and homework assignments for the week of August 18th, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Welcome Back
Course Introduction
Popcorn – Reading Strategies QARs
Most Wanted Posters – intro
Hwk: Prepositional Phases worksheet
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Most Wanted Posters
Everyday Use – Traditions
Internal/External conflicts
Hwk: Test Smarts Answering Inference Questions
Friday, August 22, 2008
Everyday Use – Character Development
Inferencing
Informal/Formal Language
Something to think about: You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Henry David Thoreau
Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of May 5, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Coat of Arms
The Round Table
Characterization and Setting
Connecting to the text
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
There, Their, They’re Test
Sundiata
Reading Comprehension
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Sundiata Test
Let’s Do Math
Read to succeed
Writing Primpt – Making a choice
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Before Hip was Hip Hop
Figurative Language
Friday, May 9, 2008
Before Hip was Hip Hop
Figurative Language
Grammar check
Something to think about: Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine
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Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of May 5, 2008
Wiki Response: What lesson can we learn from the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin?
Monday, May 5, 2008
Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday p. 1160
Words to Own
Hwk: study vocab words
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Vocab #9 Test
Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday
Hwk: grammar worksheet and wiki
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
A Worn Path p. 634
Theme
Quickwrite
Hwk: vocab sentences 1-10 unit #10 and wiki
Thursday, May 8, 2008
A Worn Path p. 634
Words to Own
Hwk: vocab sentences 11-20 unit #10 and wiki
Friday, May 9, 2008
Choice Selection Test
Something to think about: The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of April 28, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Zen Parables
Human Qualities
The Tiger, The Brahman, The Jackel
Grammar check
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Zen Parables – contd.
Writing a Fable
Collaborative group work
Presentation rough drafts
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Fable Presentations
Qualities of Romance Literature
Thursday, May 1, 2008
In search of a hero
Responding to the video
Romance Literature contd.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Selection Tests on Zen Parables
And The Tiger, The Braham, The Jackel
Something to think about: You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Henry David Thoreau
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 28, 2008
Wiki Response: What is the American Dream? Why do some people spend their whole lives in search of attaining that dream?
Monday, April 28, 2008
Vocabulary Test #8
Finish movie Lions to Lambs
Hwk: wiki and response to movie
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Winter Dreams
Drawing inferences about characters
Hwk: wiki and sentences for #9 1-10
Wednesday, April 30, 208
Winter Dreams
Motivation
Hwk: wiki and sentences for #9 11-20
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Test on Winter Dreams
Hwk: wiki and study for vocab test on Monday
Friday, May 2, 2008
A Worn Path
Imagery
Characterization
Hwk: wiki and study for vocab test on Monday
Something to think about: Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
- Abbie Hoffman
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of April 21, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Raisin in the Sun – The Movie
Sources of Wisdom
Abraham and Isaac
Connecting to the text
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sources of Wisdom
Abraham & Isaac
Compare/Contrast
Psalm 23
To Every Thing…
Parallelism
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Allegory
Active Reading
Test Smarts – Parallel Structure
To Every Thing There is a Season
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Greatest of These is Charity
To Every Think There is a Season –
Parallelism Test
Friday, April 25, 2008
Taoist Anecdotes
Paradox
Simile
Grammar Post Test
Something to think about: Education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. Robert Hutchins
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Period 5 class work and homework assignments for the week of April 21, 2008
Wiki Response: Free Response week
Monday, April 21, 2008
Fallen Angels p. 253-262
Hwk: Vocab Unit #8 1-10 Sentences and wiki
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Fallen Angels p. 262-271
Hwk: Vocab Unit #8 11-20 Sentences and wiki
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Guest Speaker: Dr. Menzer
Hwk: wiki and study vocab words
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Writing Conferences
Hwk: wiki and study vocab words
Friday, April 25, 2008
War on 4 levels - notes
Congress, Press, Classroom, Soldiers
Connection to the Text
Hwk: wiki and study for vocab test on Monday
Something to think about: Education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. Robert Hutchins
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of April 14th, 2008
Monday, April 14th, 2008
We Shall Overcome
Reading Groups – and presentation
Raisin in the Sun
Act II Scene III
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Vocab in Context
Raisin in the Sun
Act II Scene III
Wednesday, April 16th, 1008
Raisin in the Sun
Final Act and Scene
Review for test
Thursday, April 17th, 1008
Modern Movie version
Text to world connections
Evaluation of movie genre
Friday, April 18th, 2008
In-service day
No School for students
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Period 5 class work and homework assignments for the week of April 14th, 2008
Wiki Response: Share with the class in the wiki one fact you found interesting as a result of doing your research essay.
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Fallen Angels p. 189-204
Essays due tomorrow
Hwk: finish essay
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Turn in Essay
Fallen Angels p.205-217
Hwk: wiki response
Wednesday, April 16th, 1008
Fallen Angels p. 218-231
Hwk: wiki response
Thursday, April 17th, 1008
Fallen Angels -p.232-52
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, April 18th, 2008
In-service day
No School for students
Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of March 31, 2008
Wiki Response: No response this week
Monday, March 31, 20088
Primary/Secondary Sources
Fallen Angels
Vocab Unit #7 sentences
Hwk: Vocab Sentences and research essay
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The War Escalates
Interpreting and Identifying
Compare/Contrast
Hwk: Vocab Sentences and research essay
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Fallen Angels reading and answering questions
Connecting to the text
Hwk: Vocab Sentences and research essay
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Fallen Angels reading and answering questions
Theme
Hwk: Vocab Sentences and research essay
Friday, April 4, 2008
Subject/Verb Agreement Post Test
Fallen Angels reading and answering questions
Hwk: Vocab Sentences and research essay
Something to think about: The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Period 1-2 and 3-4: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of March 17, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Persuasive Essay Intro – Advertisements Pro/Con
Please Remove the Boob Tube by Allison Wood
Active Reading Strategies
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Setting
The Scarlet Ibis
Character Development
Literary Elements: Similes
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Guidance Presentation on schedule next year
Persuasive Essay – Background and Opinion Statement
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Emotional Appeal
Persuasive Essay
Friday, March 21, 2008
Begin Spring Break
Something to think about: “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” Chinese Proverb
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 17, 2008
Wiki Response: Is war necessary?
Monday, March 17, 2008
Subject-Verb Agreement Test
Fallen Angels pages 42-57
Chain of Command
Hwk: work on research essay
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Fallen Angels pages 57-69
Tracking Characters
Hwk: work on research essay
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Fallen Angels pages 70-82
Symbols
Hwk: work on research essay
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Library – research for essay
Hwk: work on research essay
Friday, March 21, 2008
Begin Spring Break
Something to think about: I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 10, 2008
Wiki Response: No response this week.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Story “War”
Irony
Fallen Angels books handed out
Hwk: work on research essay
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Vocab Test #6
Background on Fallen Angels discussed
Hwk: work on research essay
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Fallen Angels pages 3-12
Research Rubric and literary period test review
Hwk: work on research essay
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Subject-Verb Agreement Pre test
Fallen Angels pages 13-24
Hwk: work on research essay
Friday, March 14, 2008
Review Subject –Verb Agreement test
Fallen Angels pages 25-41
Hwk: work on research essay
Something to think about: No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; but grateful take the good I find, the best of now and here. John G. Whittier
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Period 1-2 and 3-4: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 3, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Celebrate what you know puzzle
DSTP preparation and review
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Irony
The Necklace
Review DSTP testing taking tips
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
DSTP Testing
Thursday, March 6, 2008
DSTP Testing
Friday, March 7, 2008
Short summary Review using the Pfotzerdy game
English Literary terms quiz
Something to think about: Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream. Walloon Proverb
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of March 3, 2008
Wiki Response: No response this week
Monday, March 3, 2008
Group presentation on Pair of Silk Stockings
Hwk: writing sentences 1-20 for Unit #6
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Frederick Douglas
Shackles Theme
Responding to the video
Hwk: writing sentences 11-20 for Unit #6
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Black History Month Speeches in the Auditorium
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Black History Month Speeches in the Auditorium
Friday, March 7, 2008
Research Project
Writing a Thesis Statement
Choosing a topic
MLA and APA Citation
Something to think about: Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
- Walloon Proverb
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 25, 2008
Wiki Response: No response this week.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Pair of Silk Stockings Group Project Presentations
Hwk: Individual essay on PSS
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Journey to the Golden Door
Narrative Text
Vocab in C ontext
Hwk: Individual essay on PSS
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Vocab Test #5
Hwk: Individual essay on PSS
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Literary Period Test
Hwk: Individual essay on PSS
Friday, February 29, 2008
Literary Period Test
Something to think about: Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of February 25, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
DSTP Practice Test
Bright Idea
Inferencing
Letter to Character
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The Cask of Amontillado
Point of View
Suspense
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
DSTP Celebrate what you know puzzle
Journey to the Golden Door
Tone
Thursday, February 28, 2008
African American Literature
Theme
Speech to Benjamin Banneker
Tone
Friday, February 29, 2008
BHM Speeches
Perennials
Inferencing
Words in Context
Something to think about: Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 19, 2008
Wiki Response: Is Mrs. Sommers in Pair of Silk Stockings justified in spending the money on herself? Is she entitled to spurge on herself once in a while?
Monday, February 18, 2008
President’s Day – no school
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Connecting to the text
Hwk: study vocab words for test and respond to wiki
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Vocab Test #4
Group work on Pair of Silk Stockings project
Hwk: Vocab unit #5 sentences 1-10 and do wiki
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Group work on Pair of Silk Stockings project
Hwk: Vocab unit #5 sentences 11-20 and do wiki
Friday, February 22, 2008
Write a story connecting to Pair of Silk Stockings
Explain the details on your purchases and what they reveal about you.
Something to think about:
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil
Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of February 19, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
President’s Day – no school
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Guest Speaker – Dr. Menzer
DSTP practice
Determining, Interpreting, Extending
What I did on my summer vacation
War multiple questions
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
DSTP practice
Determining, Interpreting, Extending
What is the temperature?
Goldilocks - graphic organizer
Adding details
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Sample DSTP test
Cinderella
Friday, February 22, 2008
Sample DSTP test
Bright Idea
Something to think about:
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 11, 2008
Wiki Response: Respond to my wiki
Monday, February 11, 2008
Library II – Black History Month Research
Outline
Hwk: study for vocab unit #3 test
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Vocabulary test Unit #3
The Celebrated Jumping Frog…
Extending and Evaluating
Hwk: Vocab unit #4 sentences 1-10 and do wiki
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Humor
Hwk: Vocab unit #4 sentences 10-20 and do wiki
Thursday, February 14, 2008
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Humor
Hwk: Study vocabulary words and do wiki
Friday, February 15, 2008
Library II – Black History Month Research
Something to think about: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of February 11, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Library II – Black History Month Speech Research
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The Musgrave Ritual
Frame Tale – Story within a story
Anomaly
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Musgrave Ritual
Conclusion and Reading Response Questions
Persuasive techniques review
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Make-up day
Friday, February 15, 2008
Library II – Black History Month Research
Something to think about: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 11, 2008
Wiki Response: Respond to my wiki
Monday, February 11, 2008
Library II – Black History Month Research
Outline
Hwk: study for vocab unit #3 test
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Vocabulary test Unit #3
Hwk: Vocab unit #4 sentences 1-10 and do wiki
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Humor
Hwk: Vocab unit #4 sentences 10-20 and do wiki
Thursday, February 14, 2008
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Humor
Hwk: Study vocabulary words and do wiki
Friday, February 15, 2008
Library II – Black History Month Research
Something to think about: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of February 4, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
from Sundiata an epic of Old Mali
Vocabulary check
African American Literature
Compare and Contrast
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
From Sundiata an epic of Old Mali – contd.
African American Literature
Connecting to the theme
Imagery – Test Smarts
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Letter to Soldiers
Finish from Sundiata an epic of Old Mali
Thursday, February 7, 2008
War by Jack London
Irony
Quickwrite: hero traits
Reading comprehension
Friday, February 8, 2008
The Lady, or the Tiger?
Plot – suspense
Connecting to the text
Something to think about: Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 4, 2008
Wiki Response: Free response week
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Story of the Hour – by Chopin
Irony
Vocab Unit #2 test
Hwk: write sentences for unit #3 1-10
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Shackles
Response to the Video
Discrimination and Civil Disobedience
Hwk: write sentences for unit #3 11-20 and wiki
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Facts vs. Opinions on Civil Disobedience
Vocabulary: Affixes chart
Hwk: study vocab words, write essay due Friday and do wiki
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Timeline for Narrative of Frederick Douglas
Metaphors
Hwk: study vocab words, write essay due Friday and do wiki
Friday, February 8, 2008
Something to think about: Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru
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Period 1-2 and 3-4: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 28, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
African American Literature
Spider’s Bargain with God
Inference
Connecting to the theme
Shelf with Two Candles
Looking at the Painting – Connection to Poem George Gray
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The Son of Kim-ana-u-eze and the Daughter
Of the Sun and the Moon
Folk Tales
Compare and Contrast
African American Literature
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sub plans – I will be in Dover for DSTP benchmarking
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sub plans – I will be in Dover for DSTP benchmarking
Friday, February 1, 2008
Writing a folk tale
Students will work in groups to write a folk tale
Something to think about: Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 28, 2008
Wiki Response: Under what circumstances would you be willing to go to jail for a moral or political principle?
Monday, January 28, 2008
from Resistance to Civil Government
Thoreau
Paradox
Expressing an Opinion
Hwk: vocab and wiki
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
from Resistance to Civil Government
Thoreau
Hwk: vocab and wiki
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 – substitute day
Finish story and take open book test
from Resistance to Civil Government
Thoreau
Hwk: Create a list of ideas on controversial issue
Thursday, January 31, 2008– substitute day
from Letter from Birmingham City Jail
write a letter to Martin L. King
Hwk: wiki
Friday, February 1, 2008
In class writing assignment on Civil Disobedience
Hwk: Study vocabulary for test on Monday
Something to thing about: Hope is the dream of a man awake.
French Proverb
Period 1-2 and 3-4 class work and homework assignments for the week of January 21, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Martin L. King holiday – no school
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Writing a memo
African American Literature
Poetry – Imagery
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Poetry Selection Tests
Loveliest of Trees
George Gray
Stopping by the Woods…
Mother to Son
Thursday, January 24, 2008
African American Literature Poetry Test
Grammar review – prep. Phrases
Friday, January 25, 2008
Library 2 – typing memorandums
Something to think about: Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke
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Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of January 19th, 2008
Wiki Response: Answer this question… How do I really want to live? What do I need in order to feel fulfilled and what am I doing now that’s unnecessary?
Monday, January 21, 2008
Martin Luther King Holiday
No School
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
from Walden
Economy
First person point of view
Hwk: wiki and vocabulary sentences
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
from Walden
Group work on Life in the Woods
Hwk: wiki and vocabulary paragraph
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Group work on Life in the Woods
Hwk: wiki and vocabulary (study for test)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Presentations
Vocabulary Test
Something to think about: Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Period 1-2 and 3-4 classwork and homework assignments for the week of January 14, 2007
Monday, January 14, 2007
Goals and reflection for new and past marking period
Well words
Symbols – Symbolic meaning
Quickwrite “What are the most important things in life?”
George Gray p. 522
looking at the speaker of a poem
Tuesday, January 15, 2007
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening p. 517
Loveliest of Trees – connotations p. 521
Quickwrite hear, smell, taste, feel, see
Compare and Contrast two poems
Wednesday, January 16, 2007
Miss Rosie p. 534
Quickwrite – homeless person
The Legend p. 530
tone
Thursday, January 17, 2007
Poetry writing p. 541
Friday, January 18, 2007
Reading for life p. 546
writing memos
Cultural reading
Something to think about: The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
~ Ferdinand Foch ~
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of January 14, 2007
Wiki Response: Do you agree with the Transcendentalist’ optimistic views of human perfectibility? Or are you more like the Dark Romantics, believeing that the world has a dark, irrational side that can’t be ignored?
Monday, January 14, 2007
University of Delaware Drug Survey
Tuesday, January 15, 2007
The American Renaissance
A Literary Coming of Age
Hwk: Vocabulary and wiki
Wednesday, January 16, 2007
from Nature p. 219
“The Eye” from Emerson
Hwk: Vocabulary and wiki
Thursday, January 17, 2007
Emerson’s Aphorisms p. 222
Hwk: Vocabulary and wiki
Friday, January 18, 2007
Imagination p. 227
The coloring of a rose
Vocabulary Test
Something to think about: The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
~ Ferdinand Foch ~
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Period 1-2 and 3-4: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of January 7, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Mother to Son
Poetry Analysis
Study sheet and group work
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Period 1 Midterm Exam
continue with Poetry Analysis of Mother to Son
working towards compare and contrast of two poems
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Period 2 and 3 Exam
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Period 4 and 5 Exam
Friday, January 11, 2008
Period 6 and 7 Exam
Something to think about:
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of January 7, 2008
Wiki Response: no response because of exams
Monday, January 7, 2008
Begin Thanatopsis by Bryant – background and Poetry Analysis (Surface Level questions)
Hwk: Define vocabulary words from poem – Ans. question 2 from study sheet
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Period 1 Midterm Exam
Thanatopsis contd. (Deeper Level, Application)
Hwk: Answer Evaluation Level questions from study sheet
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Period 2 and 3 Exam
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Period 4 and 5 Exam
Friday, January 11, 2008
Period 6 and 7 Exam
Something to think about:
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Period 1-2 and 3-4 classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 10, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
That’s Scary p. 479
Fact and opinions
Children and TV Violence
The Unknown Rebel p. 489
Analyzing persuasion
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Persuasion p. 468
Persuasion Posters
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
TBW for Midterm
Thursday, December 13, 2007
TBW for Midterm
Friday, December 14, 2007
Abandoned Farmhouse p. 504
Writing activity: If these walls could talk
Something to think about: It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 10, 2007
Wiki Response: Free Response week. Respond to topics of interest to you at this time.
Monday, December 10, 2007
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow
Extended metaphors
Meter, Mood, Tone
Persuasive Essays: Tenn Driving
Hwk: Wiki Response and grammar worksheet
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Rip Van Winkle
Irony
Setting
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Hwk: wiki reponse
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Rip Van Winkle
Drawing Inferences
Hwk: wiki response
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Rip Van Winkle
Review
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Friday, December 14, 2007
Test on Rip Van Winkle
Something to think about: It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Period 1-2 and 3-4 classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 3, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
Irony – Titanic
Connections: Eyewitness Accounts p. 404/405
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Objective/subjective writing
No News from Auschwitz p. 409
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Main Ideas – Details that support
The Man in the Water p. 470
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Thursday, December 6, 2007
That’s Scary p. 479
Fact and opinions
Children and TV Violence
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Friday, December 7, 2007
The Unknown Rebel p. 489
Analyzing persuasion
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Something to think about: In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 3, 2007
Wiki Response: Longfellow in his poem The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls speaks of a traveller who comes to the shore only to see his footprints washed away. What lesson can the washing away of footprints teach us?
Monday, December 3, 2007
Group work on Emily Dickinson
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Hwk: Grammar check
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Group Presentations on Emily Dickinson
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Hwk: wiki response
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
TBW for Midterm
Hwk: wiki response
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Thursday, December 6, 2007
TBW for Midterm
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, December 7, 2007
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow
Extended metaphors
Meter, Mood, Tone
Persuasive Essays: Teen Driving
Something to think about: In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer
Period 1-2 and 3-4 classwork and homework assignments for the week of November 26th, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Words to Own p. 268 antonyms
Typhoid Fever
Comic Relief
Introduction to Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Typhoid Fever contd.
Standardized Test Prep
Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Wednedsday, November 28, 207
It Can’t be Helped p. 354
Graphic Organizer
Quickwrite Inside/Outside the group/s
Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Thursday, November 29, 2007
It Can’t be Helped p. 354
Fine Art Transparency 8
Viewing and Representing
Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Friday, November 30, 2007
SelectionTests on Typhoid Fever and
It Can’t be Helped
Something to think about: We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of November 26th, 2007
Wiki Response: What site in America would you suggest for someone to see who has never been to America and why?
Monday, November 26, 2007
Groups on Whitman p. 348-350
from Song of Myself p. 347
Introduction to Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Hwk: grammar worksheet
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Quickwrite: What sort of jobs would you celebrate in a truly American epic written today?
I Hear America Singing
Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Hwk: wiki response
Wednedsday, November 28, 207
Elements of Free Verse – notes p. 355
Emily Dickinson p. 372-3 Bio
Videocassette B. seg. 6
Quickwrite – intellect or feelings p. 374
Persuasive Essay on Teen Driving
Hwk: grammar worksheet and wiki
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Emily Dickinson groupwork on poems
Hwk: wiki reponse
Friday, November 30, 2007
Selection Test on Whitman and Dickinson
Something to think about: We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles
Period 1-2 and 3-4: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of November 19th, 2007
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Reading Skills and Strategies
Logographs and notes
Be a Better Reader
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Make-up Day
Students who are missing assignments have the option to make up work missed.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007 Thanksgiving Holiday – no school
Friday, November 23, 2007
Something to think about: Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley
Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of November 19th, 2007
Wiki Response: no wiki this week because of Thanksgiving
Monday, Novembe 19th, 2007
Bell Ringer Warm up
The Glass Menagerie Acting Project
Hwk: no homework for this week
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
A New American Poetry Outline
Hwk: no homework for this week
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007 Thanksgiving Holiday – no school
Friday, November 23, 2007
Something to think about: Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley
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Period 1-2 and 3-4: Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 12, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Veterans Day – No School
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Malcolm X Speeches – Looking at Tone
A Piercing Issue Reading Mini-Test
What’s In – What’s Not posters
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
DSTP Field Test
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Invasion of the Identity Snatchers p. 77
Reading Skills and Strategies
Recognizing Authors Purpose
Friday, November 16, 2007
Reading an Editorial
Reading Mini Test
Lunar Legacy p. 10
Boys and Girls: A Poll p. 14
Reading Mini Test
Something to think about: Live by your convictions and others will seek your approval.
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 12, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Veterans Day – No School
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Play reading and group assignments
Hwk: grammar worksheet
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
DSTP Field Testing
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Play reading and group assignments
Hwk: grammar worksheet
Friday, November 16, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Play reading and group assignments
Something to think about: Live by your convictions and others will seek your approval.
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Period 1-2 and 3-4: Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 5, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Library II to type Persuasive Essays on The Death Penalty
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Finish Through the Tunnel
Selection Test in groups
Hair – What’s in – What’s Not…
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Pronouns
Words to Own Video on Malcolm X
Culture Groups
Thursday, November 8, 2007
My Dungeon Shook
Reading Strategies that Work
James Baldwin – Storyboards
Culture Groups
Something to think about: Decisions, not environment, rule our actions.
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 5, 2007
Wiki Response: No wiki response this week. The wiki will return next week – same time – same place…
Monday, November 5, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Characterization
Hwk: Worksheet: A Memory Play
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Inferencing
Hwk: Shyness in Action
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Determining Meaning
Hwk: Conflict between Wills
Thursday, November 8, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Extending Meaning
Hwk: Finish Questions Hunchback poem
Friday, November 9, 2007
The Glass Menagerie
Preposition Test
Do You Know Your Prepositions
Something to think about: Decisions, not environment, rule our actions.
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Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 29, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Pair day
Working in pairs – Adjectives
Quiz on Adjectives
Adjective Magnet words
Descriptive writing powerpoint
Erin and Brooke on the step
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
You are Now Entering the Human Heart p. 235
Answer questions on p. 238 1 to 5
Write next paragraph of persuasive essay
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Through the Tunnel p. 277
Omniscient Point of View
Finding Details
Write 3rd paragraph of persuasive essay
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Through the Tunnel p. 277
Write 4th paragraph of persuasive essay
Friday, November 2, 2007
Selection Test on Through The Tunnel
Write conclusion to persuasive essay
Something to think about: The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi
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Period 5: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 29, 2007
Wiki Response: Why do individuals find it easier to deal in illusions rather than in real life? In other words, what aspects of our lives do we seem to run from rather than run towards?
Monday, October 29, 2007
Themes, Motifs, Symbols
The Glass Menagerie
Play Overview
Hwk: wiki
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
Abandonment
Hwk: wiki
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
The Fire Escape
Hwk: wiki
Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
The Unrelenting Power of Memory
Hwk: wiki
Friday, November 2, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
The difficulty of accepting reality
Something to think about: The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. Vince Lombardi
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Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 29, 2007
Wiki Response: Why do individuals find it easier to deal in illusions rather than real life? In other words, what aspects of our lives do we seem to run from rather than run towards?
Monday, October 29, 2007
Themes, Motifs, Symbols
The Glass Menagerie
Play overview
Hwk: wiki
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
Abandonment
Hwk: wiki
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
The Fire Escape
Hwk: wiki
Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
The Unrelenting Power of Memory
Hwk: wiki
Friday, November 2, 2007
The Glass Menagerie contd.
The difficulty of accepting reality
Something to think about: The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi
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Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 22, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
The Death Penalty
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Using Context Clues
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Death Penalty
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Extending the Text
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Death Penalty
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Conflict
Thursday, October 25, 2007
The Death Penalty
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Making Inferences
Friday, October 26, 2007
The Death Penalty
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Selection Test
Something to think about: Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
- Walloon Proverb
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 22, 2007
Wiki Response: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
Monday, October 22, 2007
Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday
Identifying Main Ideas
Figures of Speech
Hwk: Grammar worksheet and wiki
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Straw into Gold - contd.
Tone
Hwk: Grammar worksheet and wiki
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Descriptive Essay
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Descriptive Essay
Friday, October 26, 2007
Descriptive Essay
Something to think about: Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
- Walloon Proverb
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Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 15th, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Irony and Satire Power Point
Where Have You’ve Gone Charming Billy p. 197
Quickwrite: Have you ever been in a frightening situation
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Where Have You’ve Gone Charming Billy p. 197
Tone
Theme and Character
Words to Own
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Character Interviews p. 202
Where Have You’ve Gone Charming Billy p. 197
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Storyboard Flashbacks of War
Where Have You’ve Gone Charming Billy – contd.
Grammar check
Friday, October 19, 2007
Test on Where Have You’ve Gone
Grammar check
Something to think about: Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
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Period 5: classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 15th, 2007
Wiki Response: Robert F. Kennedy once said, “You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.” Discuss a time in your life when this was true.
Monday, October 15, 2007
The Crucible Act IV – contd.
Motivation
Hwk: wiki and essay revisions
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Crucible Act IV – contd.
Interpreting a Text
Using Context clues
Hwk: wiki and essay revisions
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Crucible Act IV – contd.
Inferencing
Hwk: wiki and essay revisions
Thursday, October 18, 2007
The Crucible Act IV – contd.
Analyzing
Hwk: wiki and essay revisions
Friday, October 19, 2007
Test on The Crucible Act IV
Turn in Essays
Something to think about: Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
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Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 8th, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy p. 196
understanding historical context
theme and character
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy p. 196 – contd.
understanding historical context
theme and character
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Genre test: Short Story
Make-ups and revisions
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Inservice Day No School
Friday, October 12, 2007
Inservice Day No School
Something to think about: He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 8th, 2007
Wiki Response: No wiki this week. The wiki will return next week at its usually schedule time.
Monday, October 8, 2007
The Crucible Act III test
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Literary Period Test: Drama
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Literary Period Test: Drama
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Inservice Day No School
Friday, October 12, 2007
Inservice Day No School
Something to think about: He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
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Period ½ and 3/4: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 1, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Life is Sweet at Kumansenu
Quickwrite: How strong is the power of love?
Foreshadowing
West Africa and the Spirit World p. 150
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Writing Prompt: Project Wisdom
Life is Sweet at Kumansenu – contd.
Irony
Making Inferences
Wednesday, October. 3, 2007
Life is Sweet Project
Crossing Curriculums and cultures
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Lessons of Love p. 158
Suspense
Flashbacks
Friday, October 5, 2007
Reading Strategies for struggling readers
Project Wisdom writing prompt
Something to think about: We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield
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Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of October 1, 2007
Wiki Response: What are the best ways to plan for your future? What does it take to be successful?
Monday, October 1, 2007
Turn in revised essays
Syntax – maping intro paragraphs onto graphs
The Crucible Act III
Hwk: wiki and grammar worksheet
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
The Crucible Act III – contd.
Making Inferences
Library II – colleges in area
Hwk: wiki and interpreting a plan (theme)
Wednesday, October. 3, 2007
The Crucible Act III – contd.
Hwk: wiki and interpreting a plan (theme)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Figures of speech: metaphor
The Crucible Act III – contd. - movie
Hwk: wiki and interpreting a plan (theme)
Friday, October 5, 2007
Test on Act III The Crucible
Something to think about: We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield
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Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 24, 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Chinese Americans: Culture and Contributions
Video cassette A. Seg. 2
Quickwrite: 10 years from now
Preteaching Vocabulary p. 94
Two Kinds
Motivation
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Making Predictions
Two Kinds – contd.
Motivation, setting, conflict, suspense – group work
Grammar check
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Reading Strategies for Struggling Readers
Vocabulary Test
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Review of character p. 110
Two Kinds Selection Test
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Drug Instruction
Research and Drug Pamphlet
Something to think about: The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 24, 2007
Wiki Response: Abigail Van Buren said, If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Discuss how giving responsibilities to the young can help or hurt them. Make a connection with your own experiences.
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Group Scenes from The Crucible
continue reading Act II
Hwk: wiki response and essay revisions
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Profile of the ideal settler What character traits would enable this person not only to survive the demands of pioneering but also flourish.
The Crucible II – contd.
Hwk: wiki response and essay revisions
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Establishing a colony in the New World
The Crucible Act II – contd.
Hwk: wiki reponse and essay revisions
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Crucible Act II test
Hwk: wiki reponse and essay revisions
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Essay revisions due
The Crucible Act III
Character motivation
Something to think about: The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach
Period ½ and ¾ classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 17th, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Analyzing a Writing Prompt
Writing Prompt: Classes missing from the School curriculum p. 62-63
Answering Inferences Questions on reading test p. 60-61
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
What happened during the Ice Storm p. 4
Setting
Dialogue with text – reading questions
Grammar check
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Setting p. 50-51
Boys and Girls
Quickwrite – expectations of girls/boys
Reading check p. 66
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Reading Skills and Strategies
Struggling Readers
Grammar check
Friday, September 21, 2007
Same Song p. 65
Critical Thinking
Compare/Contrast
Debate on Boys/Girls
Something to think about: The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
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Period 5 classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 17th, 2007
Wiki Response: How we deal with losses in life is perhaps the greatest test of our inner strength. Some losses are so enormous that they shake us to our core and challenge our very sense of self. How can one recover from such a loss and silence the internal debate between self and soul?
Monday, September 17, 2007
The Crucible Act I
Movie and test
Connections to the film
Hwk: Crucible project
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Crucible Act II
Motivation
Hwk: Crucible project
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The Crucible Act II
viewing and representing
Interpreting Text
Hwk: wiki
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The Crucible Act II
Character Analysis
Hwk: wiki
Friday, September 21, 2007
Drama Outline
Projects due Monday
Something to think about: The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
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Period ½ and ¾ : Classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 10, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Plot: The Story’s Framework
Story Templates
Grammar: Preposition/Noun/Verbs index cards
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Picture Day
Understanding Tone
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
Quickwrite: giving up one thing for another
Internal/External conflict
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant – contd.
Words to Own
Making Connections
Dramatic Irony
Friday, September 14, 2007
Test on The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
Dictionary Game
Something to think about: He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander. Aristotle
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Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 10, 2007
Wiki Response: The Puritans believed they could and should be the “light in the world.” Explain how you could be a light to those around you.
Monday, September 10, 2007
The Crucible Act One contd.
Theology – washing away of sins
Tone
Hwk: Words to Own
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Picture Day
Writing Conferences
Grammer check
Hwk: wiki response
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Crucible Act One contd.
Archaisms interpreted
Hwk: wiki response
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Crucible Act One contd.
Synthesizing and Interpreting a Text
Hwk: Standard Test Prep
Friday, September 14, 2007
The Crucible Act One contd.
Motivation
Making Inferences
Hwk: work on essay – due on Sept. 17th
Something to think about: “Do what you fear most and you control fear.”
by Tom Hopkins
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Period 1/2 and 3/4 class work and homework assignments for the week of September 3rd, 2007
Grammar focus for the week: prepositions
Monday, September 3, 2007
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Course Syllabus Introduction
Everyday Use Quilts – contd.
Sentence Modeling: Building from the basics p. 91
Writer’s Workshop: Shaping & reshaping of sentence p. 91
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Persuasive p. 85 Personal Narrative
Reading Matters Outline
Thursday, September 6, 2007
.Persuasive p. 85 Personal Narrative
Reading Matters Outline
Friday, September 7, 2007
Persuasive p. 85 Personal Narrative
Reading Matters Outline
Something to think about: Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. Theodore T. Hunger
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Period 5 class work and homework assignments for the week of September 3rd, 2007
Wiki Response: Discuss how people can be true to their values. What situations might challenge their honesty and integrity.
Grammar focus for the week: prepositions
Monday, September 3, 2007
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Course Syllabus Introduction
Arthur Miller p. 826 and
Why I Wrote The Crucible p. 827
Hwk: read pages 830 – 832 Act One (An Overture)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Interpreting text
Act One The Crucible
hwk: p. 37 When A Dictionary Can Help (Try it Out)
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Figures of Speech
Act One The Crucible
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, September 7, 2007
Speculating and Motivation
Act OneThe Crucible
Something to think about: If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
Period 1/2 and 3/4 class work and homework assignments for the week of August 27th, 2007
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Test on Informal and Formal Language
Everyday Use – contd.
Most Wanted Posters
Grammar check - prepositions
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Everyday Use – contd.
Vocabulary development
Most Wanted Posters – contd.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Test on Everyday Use
Making a quilt – connecting to the text
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Alice Walker – 4-2-1 triangle
Traditions – a writing response
Grammar review - prepositions
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Something to think about:
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin
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Period 5 class work and homework assignments for the week of August 27th, 2007
Wiki Response: There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. - Rainer Maria Rilke. Identify a time in your life that you had to deal with something that was difficult.
Grammar focus for the week: prepositions
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Intrepreting stories for audiences – group creations
The Sky Tree
Hwk: Poem response The Journey
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
The Journey responses
Group Presentations on Huron Myths
Hwk: Intro to college essay
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Coyote Finishes His Work
Character – The Trickster
Select an animal and create a myth
Hwk: wiki response a-m
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Group presentations on animal tricksters
Hwk: wiki response n – z
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Something to think about:
Something to think about: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
Period 5: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of August 22, 2007
Wiki Response:
Type a response (Introduce yourself)
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Introduction to course
Beginnings
Group Work on intro to unit
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The Sky Tree
Symbols
College Essay
Hwk: Write intro paragraph for college essay
Friday, August 24, 2007
Visions and Voyages
The Sky Tree – contd.
Symbols
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us. So that is we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
- John Winthrop, from a sermon delivered aboard the Arbella, on the way to New England, spring 1630
Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of May 14, 2007
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Period 1/2 and 3/4: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of August 22, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2006
Introduction to course – Why are you here activity.
Meet the Writer ? Alice Walker (4-2-1 Triangle) Everyday Use
Identify traditions
Conflicts
Compare and Contrast Characters
Designing a quilt
Thursday, August 23, 2006
Everyday Use ? contd.
Viewing and Representing
Mini Read Skill Lesson p. 44
Friday, August 24, 2006
Test on Everyday use
Designing a quilt T79
Most Wanted Posters
Something to think about: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
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Assignments below this line are from 2006-2007 school year
Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of May 14th, 2007
Wiki Response: No wiki this week because of project
Monday, May 14, 2007
Fallen Angels p/ 205-218/ reading quiz
Text to Text connections: Obituary for Lt. Carroll
Fallen Angels p. 218-232
Hwk: webquest project
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Fallen Angels p. 218-232
Literary Elements: Characterization
Hwk: webquest project
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Fallen Angels p. 232-252
Literary Elements: Internal and External Conflicts
Hwk: webquest project
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Text Based writing (Final)
Hwk: webquest project
Friday, May 18, 2007
Text Based writing (Final)
Finish reading
Something to think about: Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of May 14, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Raisin in the Sun Movie
Characterization
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Raisin in the Sun Movie
Literary Elements: Internal and External Conflict
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Text Based Writing (Final)
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Text Based Writing (Final
Friday, May 18, 2007
Raisin in the Sun Final Test
Section I and II
Something to think about: Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of May 7th, 2007
Wiki Response: If you could change anything from your past, what would it be?
Monday, May 7, 2007
Semantic Features Analysis p. 726
Fallen Angels p. 145-150
Hwk: wiki response and finish questions
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Fallen Angels p. 151-166
Hwk: wiki response and finish questions
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Fallen Angels
Novel Notes Connection Issue 2
Read p. 167-176
Hwk: wiki response and finish questions
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Fallen Angels
Read p. 176-188
Hwk: wiki response and finish questions
Friday, May 11, 2007
Fallen Angels
p. 188-204
Something to think about: Deal with painful decisions as quickly as you deal with pleasurable choices and find strength in balance.
Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 30th, 2007
Wiki Response: This week is a free response week. I know you all like this so enjoy.
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of May 7th, 2007
Monday, May 7, 2007
Vocabulary Context clues
Raisin in the Sun Act 2 Scene 3
Review and make up work
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Raisin in the Sun Act 2 Scene 3 contd.
Reading Log
Persuasive Writing: Editorial
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Raisin in the Sun Act 2 Scene 3 contd.
Making meaning
Drawing conclusions
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Drawing conclusions – contd.
House Sense – Novel Notes issue connection
Plants – characterization
Friday, May 11, 2007
Raisin in the Sun
Marathon reading
Drawing conclusions
Internal and External conflict
Something to think about: Deal with painful decisions as quickly as you deal with pleasurable choices and find strength in balance
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Fallen Angels
p. 108-120
Reader’s Log entry
Hwk: Wiki and finish questions
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Fallen Angels Webquest Lib 2
Why are you here? 4 questions
Hwk: wiki and work on webquest
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Fallen Angels Webquest Lib 2
p. 121-129
Hwk: Wiki and finish questions
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Fallen Angels Webquest Lib 2
p. 129-145
Hwk: Wiki and finish questions
Friday, May 4, 2007
Library 2 – Research webquest
Something to think about: Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 30th, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
Raisin in the Sun
Play Notes Act One graphic organizer
Reader’s Log entry
Act I Scene II
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Raisin in the Sun
Semantic Map
Vocabulary – context clues
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Raisin in the Sun
Making Judgments
Reading technical text
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Symbols
Raisin in the Sun
Reading Log Entry
Friday, May 4, 2007
Raisin in the Sun
Context clues
Text to self-connections
Character Analysis
Something to think about: Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 23, 2007
Wiki Response: Respond to another student’s wiki about how war is or is not necessary.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Fallen Angels
Irony
Read to pages 56
Hwk: wiki response
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Fallen Angels
Theme
Read to pages 69
Hwk: wiki response
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Fallen Angels
Randomness of War
Read to pages 82
Hwk: wiki response
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Fallen Angels
Compare and Contrast
Read to pages 96
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, April 27, 2007
Fallen Angels
Irony
Read to pages 107
Something to think about: "Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." Chinese Proverb
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 23, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
What is a Tragic Hero?
A look at the function of tragedy in literature
Vocabulary – context clues Lesson 3
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Now you might Think – Poetry Response
Project Wisdom – Writer’s Workshop
Words to Own – Julius Caesar
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Making Inferences
Respond to the Video on Love and Honor
Raisin in the Sun Intro
Writing Response - $10,000
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Shaping Interpretations
Connecting with the Text
Symbols in Raisin in the Sun
Friday, April 27, 2007
Raisin in the Sun
Characterization and You (MaMa)
Something to think about: "The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." Robert Frost
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 16, 2007
Wiki Response: Discuss if you think war is necessary.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Fallen Angels
Hwk: Wiki – Frederick Douglas
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Fallen Angels
Green Beret p. 325 – Songs of war
Hwk: Wiki
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Fallen Angels
Group work on Poetry from war
Hwk: Wiki and illustration
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Fallen Angels
Group Presentations on poetry illustration
Hwk: Wiki
Friday, April 20, 2007
Fallen Angels
Letters of war to and from home
Something to think about: Let us all remember those who died in the incident at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 16, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Compare & Contrast
You’ve got a friend
Por Mi Camino
Reading Response: To Every Thing
Parallel Structure
Psalm 23
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
The Greatest of These is Charity p. 922
Teaching Lessons: Didactic Literature p. 924
Project Wisdom – writing response: A Fair Character is a fair fortune
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Context Clues
Vocabulary Lesson 1
SSR – Reader’s Digest
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Context Clues
Vocabulary Lesson 2
Didactic Literature Quiz
Heroes
The Sword in the Stone p. 950
Friday, April 20, 2007
Context Clues
Vocabulary Lesson 3
Writing a Fable with a moral
Something to think about: Let us all remember those who died in the incident at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 9, 2007
Wiki Response: Which is more important to spend money on – a luxury or a necessity and why?
Monday, April 09, 2007
Introduction Collection 9: Shackles
A Pair of Silk Stockings – Chopin
Dialogue with Text
Hwk: Wiki response and creative vocabulary theme
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
A Pair of Silk Stockings – Chopin
Inbterpreting
Hwk: Wiki response and creative vocabulary theme
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
A Pair of Silk Stockings – Chopin
Group Presentations
Hwk: Wiki response and creative vocabulary theme
Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dialogue with Text
Main Idea
Hwk: Wiki response and words to own sentences
Friday, April 13, 2007
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Analyzing motives
Something to think about: "Will is character in action." William Mcdougall
Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of April 9, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
Words to Own Act One: I Never Sang for My Father
Connotations
Grammar Link – End Marks Act One
Act Two - I Never Sang…
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Act Two – I Never Sang…
Word Choice
Analyzing Dialogue
Grammar Check
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Act Two – I Never Sang…
Character
Making Inferences
Grammar Check
Thursday, April 12, 2007
He Heart Belongs to “Father” p. 676
Connections: A Movie Review
Those Winter Sundays
Daddy Doll Under the Bed
Compare/Contrast
Friday, April 13, 2007
Test on I Never Sang for My Father
A Letter from Birmingham Jail p. 744
Extending the Theme
Something to think about: "Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." Chinese Proverb
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 26, 2007
Wiki Response: No wiki this week. The wiki will return in its regularly scheduled time slot after Spring Break.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Finish Literary Period Test
Rise of Realism
Hwk: Rise of Realism Outline
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The Moderns Outline
Beliefs and Traditions
Hwk: Rise of Realism Outline
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The Moderns Outline – contd.
Hwk: Rise of Realism Outline
Thursday, March 29, 2007
The Moderns Outline – contd.
Hwk: Rise of Realism Outline
Friday, March 30, 2007
TEST on The Moderns Outline
Something to think about: “The eyes have one language everywhere.” George Herbert
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 26, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
DSTP Survey
Drama Outline
Taking Action
Review Poetry Genre Test
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
I Never Sang for My Father Act I
Expectations
Intro Outline to Drama
Test on Intro
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Group work on Poetry
Crank Poems – word choice, main idea, tone
I Never Sang for My Father Act I
Thursday, March 29, 2007
I Never Sang for My Father Act I – contd.
Vocabulary in context
Friday, March 30, 2007
Viewing and Representing
I Never Sang for My Father Act II – intro
Honorable people
Something to think about: “The eyes have one language everywhere.” George Herbert
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 19th, 2007
Wiki Response: No wiki this week because of DSTP testing. Your infamous wiki will return next week at the regular scheduled time…
Monday, March 19, 2007
DSTP Testing
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
DSTP Testing
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Literary Period Test
The Rise of Realism
Thursday, March 22, 2007
DSTP Testing
Friday, March 23, 2007
DSTP Testing
Something to think about: Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin
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Period 2/3 and 5.8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 19th, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
DSTP Testing
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
DSTP Testing
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Word Choice
Group work on poetry creations
Review of Sportsmanship prompt
Looking at Rubrics for the DSTP
Thursday, March 22, 2007
DSTP Testing
Friday, March 23, 2007
DSTP Testing
Something to think about: You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin. – Will Rogers
Period 9 class work and homework assignments for the week of March 12, 2007.
Wiki Response and homework: Because of DSTP testing, there will be no homework assignments or wiki reponse for the next two weeks.
Monday, March 12, 2007
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Comic Devices
Figurative Language
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Comic Devices
Figurative Language
Vocabulary – Context clues
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
DSTP Testing
Thursday, March 15, 2007
DSTP Testing
Friday, March 16, 2007
Test on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Something to think about: “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of March 12, 2007.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Interpreting Graphs p. 624
Bar, Pie, Line graphs, and charts
SSR – Reader’s Digest article and response questions
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Drug Instruction
Article and extending meaning questions
Making a graph p. 624
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
DSTP Testing
Thursday, March 15, 2007
DSTP Testing
Friday, March 16, 2007
Struggling Readers
Logographic clues
The Year of El Nino
Something to think about: “We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.” Basil S. Walsh
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 5, 2007
Wiki Response: Back by popular demand, you have a free topic week. Respond with comments, and concerns.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Black History Month Speeches
Auditorium
Hwk: wiki response
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Black History Month Speeches
Auditorium
Hwk: wiki response
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
Frame story
Comic devices
Vernacular
Hwk: wiki response
Thursday, March 8, 2007
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
Frame story
Comic devices
Vernacular
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, March 9, 2007
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
Essay Exam
Something to think about: "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
–– George Bernard Shaw
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of March 5, 2007
Monday, March 5, 2007
Ex-Basketball Player p. 592
Quickwrite: Do you think sports prepare people for life?
Making Inferences
Irony
Prefixes and Suffixes
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
I Want to be Somebody p. 595
Expressing an Opinion
Shift in Verb tense
Prefixes and Suffixes
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
The Bean Eaters p. 598
We Real Cool p. 599
Invented words
Prefixes and Suffixes
Thursday, March 8, 2007
A Voice
Videocassette B, Seg. 10
Tone p. 603
Friday, March 9, 2007
Genre Test - Poetry
Something to think about: "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 26, 2007
Wiki Response: This week is an open week. Discuss any pressing issues you feel strongly about. What’s on your mind?
Monday, February 26, 2007 to Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Group work on Emily Dickinson
Research group poem for presentations on Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Hwk: wiki responses and revisions on Black History Month Speeches and research on poem.
Friday, March 2, 2007
Group Presentations on Emily Dickinson
Something to think about: I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 26, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Rhyme Outline/Test
Sound Effects in Poetry
Sea Fever
Quickwrite: What is the American Dream?
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Expository Writing
Compare and Contrast
Dance at Bougival
Wedding above the Village
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Expository Writing
Compare and Contrast
Dance at Bougival
Wedding above the Village
Black History Month Speech Presentations
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Expository Writing
Compare and Contrast
Dance at Bougival
Wedding above the Village
Black History Month Speech Presentations
Friday, March 2, 2007
Expository Writing
Compare and Contrast
Dance at Bougival
Wedding above the Village
Black History Month Speech Presentations
Something to think about: "Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
– David Ben
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 20, 2007
Wiki Response: Walt Whitman says he hears America singing in the workers who perform their daily tasks. Discuss what there is to sing about in your life right now.
Monday, February 19, 2007
President’s Day
No School
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman
Elements of Literature
Free Verse p. 355
Hwk: wiki and Black History month speeches
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Quiz on Elements of Literature
Free Verse
from Song of Myself #33
Making Inferences
Hwk: wiki and Black History month speeches
Thursday, February 22, 2007
from Song of Myself #52
Unusual verbs
Hwk: wiki and Black History month speeches
Friday, February 23, 2007
Test on Whitman’s poetry
Turn in Black History Month Outlines/Speeches
Something to think about: There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
- Robert Fripp
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 20, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
President’s Day
No School
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Elements of Poetry
Compare and Contrast
Dickinson p. 568, Tanks p. 570, Baca p. 551, Lorde p. 574
Black History Month Speeches
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Videocassette B. Segment 9
Poetry in the Golden Age of Japan p. 572
Analyzing and Appreciating Art p. 586
Black History Month Speeches
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Sound Effects p. 588-589
Sea Fever p. 591
Quickwrite – Meter
Black History Month Speeches
Friday, February 23, 2007
Ex-Basketball Player
Questions p. 596
We Real Cool – p. 599
The Bean Eaters – p. 598
Questions p. 601
Something to think about: One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 12, 2007
Wiki Response: How do songs we listen to today reflect our culture?
Monday, February 12, 2007
A New American Poetry Outline
Hwk: wiki and sentences
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Large Hearts of Heroes – quickwrite
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman - bio
Hwk: wiki and sentences
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Viewing and Representing – No. 7
I Hear America Singing
Hwi: wiki – response to art work on p. 352
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Research in Library for Black History Month Speeches
Friday, February 16, 2007
Research in Library for Black History Month Speeches
Something to think about: People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of February 12, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
DSTP test practice
Viewing and Representing: Making a Point Collection 7
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Quickwrite – popular love songs
Bonny Barbara Allan – the Ballad
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Quickwrite – mind or heart - which is stronger
Heart! We will forget him!
Hanging Fire
Quickwrite – What is the speaker waiting for?
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Research in Library for Black History Month Speeches
Friday, February 16, 2007
Research in Library for Black History Month Speeches
Something to think about: People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 5, 2007
Wiki Response: Listen to the Words of Wisdom throughout the week. Select one of the weeks messages, and respond to that message.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bio and quiz
The Minister’s Black Veil
Drawing Inferences
Hwk: wiki and vocabulary sheet
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The Minister’s Black Veil
Symbols
Hwk: wiki and words to own sheet
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Behind the Veil p. 309
Responding to the text
Hwk: wiki and picture response on pg. 302
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Review for test on Hawthorne’s M.B.V.
Hwk: wiki and study for test
Friday, February 9, 2007
Test on The Minister’s Black Veil
Something to think about: Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of February 5, 2007
Monday, February 5, 2007
Is There Really Such a Thing as Talent?
Quickwrite – jobs you like to have p. 538
Descriptive Writing p. 541
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Memorandum p. 546
Descriptive Writing p. 541
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Imagery p. 548-9
Descriptive Writing p. 541
Thursday, February 8, 2007
I Am Offering This Poem p. 551
Descriptive Writing p. 541
Friday, February 9, 2007
Since feeling is first p. 552
Descriptive Writing p. 541
Something to think about: Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 29, 2007
Wiki Response: Albert Einstein said, Imagination is more important than knowledge. What did he mean when he said this?
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Realms of Darkness
Poe p. 260-1
The Gothic Tradition p. 274
Videocassette B Seg 8
Hwk: wiki and words to own
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Raven – Poe
Melodies of Language
Sound Effects
Hwk: wiki and collage portrait of Poe
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Minister’s Black Veil
Drawing Inferences
Preteaching vocabulary
Hwk: wiki and collage portrait of Poe
Thursday, February 1, 2007
The Minister’s Black Veil – contd.
Symbols
Evaluating
Hwk: wiki and collage portrait of Poe
Friday, February 2, 2007
The Minister’s Black Veil – contd.
Interpreting
Something to think about: Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of January 29, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Multiple meanings
Intro to Poetry unit
Figurative language
Quickwrite: Compare your life to a concrete object
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Langston Hughes
Mother to Son
The Power of a Poem p. 510
Courage by Anne Sexton
Graphic Organizer: visual connections
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Symbols
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening p. 516
Symbolic meaning
Loveliest of Trees
Connotations
Thursday, February 1, 2007
George Gray
Quick: What are the most important things in life?
Compare and contrast Housman and Masters
The Legend p. 530
Tone
Friday, February 2, 2007
In-service for teachers
No school
Something to think about: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
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Period 9 class work and homework assignments for the week of January 22, 2007
Wiki Response: Under what circumstances would you be willing to go to jail for a moral or political principle? Write a brief description of the principle and your feelings about it.
Monday, January 22, 2007
from Walden, or Life in the Woods
Thoreau
group work on determining author’s purpose
Hwk: wiki
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
from Walden, or Life in the Woods – contd.
Thoreau
group work on determining author’s purpose
Hwk: presentations and wiki
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
from Resistance to Civil Government
Civil disobedience
Parodox
Hwk: presentations and wiki
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Making a connection
Group presentations
Friday, January 26, 2007
Group presentations
Something to think about: Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of January 22, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Making a Point
The Lowest Animal p. 457
Making a Connection
Videocassette A seg. 7
Satire
Utopia – group work
SSR
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Intro to Persuasion p. 469
SSR
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Man in the Water
Who’s a hero?
Main Idea
SSR
Thursday, January 25, 2007
That’s Scary p. 479
Children and Violence
Viewing Fine Art
SSR
Friday, January 26, 2007
The Unknown Rebel p. 489
Utopia Presentations p. 504
Abandoned Farmhouse
Personification
SSR
Something to think about: Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. -Joshua J. Marine
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 15, 2007
Wiki Response: Discuss if people lose their innocence and sense of wonder, as they grow older.
What causes them to lose this innocence, and how can they get it back?
Monday, January 15, 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
No School
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Read from Nature by Emerson on page 219-221
Answer questions on handout
Hwk: wiki
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Imagination
A personal response to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay: “Self-Reliance”
Hwk: wiki
Thursday, January 18, 2007
from Walden, or Life in the Woods
Thoreau
Group work on determining author’s purpose
Hwk: work on presentation – research ideas and facts on section
Friday, January 19, 2007
from Walden, or Life in the Woods
Thoreau
Group work on determining author’s purpose
Something to think about: “It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” Somerset Maugham
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 15, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
No School
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Read story No News from Auschwitz on page 409
Complete Graphic Organizer for active reading; Remembering History
Words to Own: Typhoid Fever – related meanings
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Into Thin Air
Cause and Effect
Sensory Imagery
SSR
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Into Thin Air – contd.
Cause and Effect
Sensory Imagery
SSR
Friday, January 19, 2007
Writer’s Notebook: Is mountain climbing a foolhardy risk of life and limb, or a worthwhile adventure?
Analogies p. 432
SSR
Something to think about: “Regardless of your past, your future is a clean slate.” Kay Lyons
Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 8th, 2007
Wiki Response: No response this week because of Mid Term Exams
Monday, January 8th, 2007 – Wednesday, January 10th, 2007: Mid Term Exams
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Group Work on Emerson’s Aphorisms
Interpreting the text
Friday, January 12, 2007
from Self-Reliance
by Emerson
Figures of speech
Hwk: words to own Self-Reliance
Something to think about: A man is a god in ruins. – Emerson – Nature
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Period 2/3 and 7/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 8th, 2007
Monday, January 8th, 2007 – Wednesday, January 10th, 2007: Mid Term Exams
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Videocassette A, seg. 6
Titanic
Irony and Mood
Chronological Order
SSR
Friday, January 12, 2007
A Fireman’s Story
From a Lifeboat
Making a connection
Illustration of the ship sinking
SSR
Something to think about: “Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” St. Francis De Sales
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 3, 2007
Wiki Response: no wiki this week
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The American Renaissance Outline – p.206
A Literary Coming of Age
Hwk: That was then…This is now! Writing response
Thursday, January 3, 2007
The American Renaissance Outline – contd.
A Literary Coming of Age
Hwk: The American Renaissance Introduction Test
Friday, January 4, 2007
Characture of Emerson
from Nature p. 219
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paradox
Something to think about:
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." O.W. Holmes
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of January 3, 2007
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
It Can’t be Helped
Graphic Organizers for active reading
K-W-L-S Chart on Japanese Internment Camps
Chronological Order
Quickwrite
Thursday, January 3, 2007
Typhoid Fever
From Angela’s Ashes
Comic Releif
Friday, January 4, 2007
Theme for English B
Quickwrite: Life in the city
Reading a textbook p. 386
Words to Own
Something to think about:
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." O.W. Holmes
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Period 9: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 18, 2006
Wiki Response: No wiki this week
Monday, December 18, 2006
The Chambered Nautilus
Recycling the Past
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Chambered Nautilus – contd.
Old Ironsides
Quickwrite: Remembering the past
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Letter to self on progress
Voice
Analogies
Synonyms/ Antonyms
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Review of writing process
Friday, December 22, 2006
January 2, 2007
Christmas Break
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 18, 2006
Monday, December 18, 2006
Hair
Everybody does it
Before/After Reading
Words 2 Own
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
DSTP
Grease Eaters
Writing Prompt
Working with rubrics
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Be a Better Reader
Cause & Effect
The Great Blackout p. 165
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Review for mid terms
Friday, December 22, 2006
January 2, 2007
Christmas Break
Period 9: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 11, 2006
Wiki Response: How do you see yourself in relation to nature. Are you an integral part of the natural world around you, or do you live in it without being part of it? Is nature your friend or enemy? Explain.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Text Based Writing
Pre writing
Hwk: wiki and essay
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Text Based Writing
Final Draft
Hwk: wiki and essay
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Thanatopsis
Inverted Sentences
Hwk: wiki and essay
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Thanatopsis
Hwk: wiki and essay
Friday, December 15, 2006
Test on Thanatopsis
Something to think about: Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” – Louisa May Alcott
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of December 11, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Text Based Writing
Pre writing and Final draft
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Symbols
With All Flags Flying
Quickwrite: Record your thoughts on the subject of old age
Collaborative Groups p. 308
Idioms
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Evaluating a Story or Movie p. 328
Persuasive Writing
Non-Fiction Collection
The Wrestlers – Dialogue with Text
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Becoming Myself
Hair
Quickwrite and creative collages: What’s in and what’s out!
Friday, December 15, 2006
A “Piercing” Issue p. 349
It Can’t be Helped
Insiders/Outsiders
Chronological Order
Something to think about: “Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life – hope and faith.” – Basil S. Walsh
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of December 4, 2006
Wiki Response: What happens to people who run away from their problems?
Monday, December 4, 2006
Washington Irving bio
Setting
Rip Van Winkle
Expository Essay introduced
Inferences and making predictions
Videocassett A Seg. 4
Hwk: wiki and words to own
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Rip Van Winkle contd.
Hwk: wiki and sentences for words to own
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Rip Van Winkle contd.
Hwk: wiki and put words to own into a paragraph about a thanksgiving dinner
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Review for test on Rip
Writing essay
Hwk: write essay
Friday, December 8, 2006
Test on Rip Van Winkle
Something to think about: Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.
- William Wordsworth
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of December 4, 2006
Monday, December 4, 2006
Trap of Gold
Quickwrite: Money makes the world go round
Chronological order
Suspense
Words to Own
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Trap of Gold - contd.
Setting
Fine Art Transparency #6
Words to Own
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Book test on Point of View p. 262
Through the Tunnel
Quickwrite: time you committed yourself to achieve something
Words to own
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Analogies: p. 287
Through the Tunnel
Words to Own
Friday, December 8, 2006
Test on Through the Tunnel
Reading strategies
With All Flags Flying
Something to think about: There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. - Robert Fripp
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Period 9: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of November 27th, 2006
Wiki Response: What role do deeds and heroes from the past play in your feelings about your civic duties, freedom, and the American Dream? What inspirational deeds and unique accomplishments enable an individual to stand out from the crowd?
Monday, November 27, 2006
Speech to the Virginia Convention
Modes of Persuasion
Hwk: Words to Own and wiki
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Writing Style
Syntax chart to map sentence length
The Crisis, No. 1
Modes of Persuasion
Hwk: Phillis Wheatley: A Revolutionary Woman - How does Wheatley explain her love of freedom?
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Outline of American Romanticism
Hwk: Response: Have you ever joined with others in a team effort for a common cause?
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Outline of American Romanticism contd.
Hwk: wiki
Friday, December 1, 2006
Reading Skills and Strategies
Setting
Drawing Inferences and Making Predictions
Something to think about: Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of November 27th, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Analyzing a Story
Quickwrite: Where do I belong? What makes me feel at home?
The Pedestrian
What questions do you have about what life will be like in the year 2053?
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Irony and Satire: The Might of the Word p. 194-5
The Bet
The death penalty vs. Life in prison
Words to Own
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Irony and Satire: The Might of the Word p. 194-5
The Bet
Selection Test on The Bet
Thursday, November 30, 2006
You are now entering the human heart
How to Own a Word p. 234
Analyzing a Story: Expository writing p. 240-1
Friday, December 1, 2006
Analyzing a Story: Expository writing p. 240-1
Something to think about:
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
- Brian Tracy
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Period 9 class work and homework assignments for the week of November 20, 2006
Wiki Response: Ghandi said, “The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Restate in your own words what this means to you.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Writing Conferences
KWLSH chart on Pilgrims
Hwk: Wiki Response
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Speech to the Virginia Convention
Modes of persuasion
Syntax
Hwk: Wiki Response
Wednesday, November 22 – 24
Inservice Day and
Thanksgiving Holiday
No School
Something to think about: Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.
- William Wordsworth
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of November 20, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Reading a Map
Liberty by Alverez
Understanding Tone
Quickwrite: Family in danger and must leave
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Meet the Writer Julia Alvarez
Liberty by Alverez – contd.
A Sentimental Journey to la Casa of Childhood
Connections: An essay
Wednesday, November 22 – 24
Inservice Day and
Thanksgiving Holiday
No School
Something to think about: Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.
- William Wordsworth
Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of November 13, 2006
Wiki Response: Robert Fulghum states that we learn
the basic values of life in kindergarten. Share everything, play fair, don't hit people, put things back where you found them,
say you?re sorry when you hurt somebody, etc. What important lesson in kindergarten do you think teens and adults have forgotten to follow?
Monday, November 13, 2006
Ben Franklin Virtue Project presentations
Hwk: wiki response
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Ben Franklin Virtue Project presentations
Hwk: Wiki response
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Sayings of Poor Richard
Writing Aphorisms
Hwk: Finish The Crucible projects
Thursday, November 16, 2006
from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
connections: An Essay
Hwk: Written response: What do you regard as your greatest strength?
Friday, November 17, 2006
The Crucible Project Differentiated Instruction Project (food)
Something to think about: The future depends on what we do in the present. Gandhi
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of November 13, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Connections: A Letter Home p. 116
A Biblical Allusion p. 128
Powder p. 141
After reading these three connections to the theme: Lessons of Love, answer questions.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Character’s Workshop -
Analyzing a Character p. 164
Expository Writing
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Analyzing a Character p. 164 – contd.
Theme: The Story’s Meaning and Roots
Expository Writing
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Analyzing a Character p. 164 – contd.
Lessons of Love p. 158
Expository Writing
Friday, November 17, 2006
Analyzing a Character p. 164 – contd.
Expository Writing
Lessons of Love p. 158
Something to think about: I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
–Henry David Thoreau
Period 9 class work and homework assignments for the week of November 6, 2006
Wiki Response: Respond to another student?s wiki. Do you agree with them or disagree with them and then share your own experience.
Reminder: Crucible ?Food? projects due on November 17th, 2006
Monday, November 6, 2006
Finish The Crucible Act IV
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Election Day ? No School
Work on Projects for The Crucible
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Responding to the Art
Words to Own
From The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin
Hwk:
Thursday, November 9, 2006
From The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin
Understanding Sequence of Events
Making Predictions
Friday, November 10, 2006
From The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin ? contd.
Groups on Virtues
Something to think about: ?Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.? Ben Franklin
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: class work and homework assignments for the week of November 6, 2006
Monday, November 6, 2006
Distillation - intro
Imagery
Critical Thinking
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Election Day ? No school
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Drug Instruction
Research in Library
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Distillation ? contd.
Interpreting the text
Friday, November 10, 2006
Crossing the Curriculum ? Distillation
Art, Science, Health, Spanish p. 138 extending the meaning of the text
Something to think about: ?Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security? Ben Franklin
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Period 9 class work and homework assignments for the week of October 30, 2006
Wiki Response: Make a connection to one of Benjamin Franklin?s 13 virtues: Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity, Humility. Why is this virtue important in making you a better person?
Monday, October 30, 2006
The Crucible ? Act III ? contd.
Hwk: Finish The Crucible ans. questions
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The Crucible the movie
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Responding to the Art
Words to Own
From The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin
Hwk: wiki
Thursday, November 2, 2006
From The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin
Understanding Sequence of Events
Making Predictions
Virtue selection for group projects
Hwk: wiki
Friday, November 3, 2006
From The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin ? contd.
Groups on Virtues
Something to think about: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. ? Benjamin Franklin
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 class work and homework assignments for the week of October 30, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Elements of Literature: Character p. 110
The First Seven Years
Words to Own mapping
Analyzing
Dialect
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The First Seven Years
Conflict
Compare and Contrast
Grammar check
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
The First Seven Years ? contd.
Fine Art Transparency p.3 worksheet p. 12
Grammar check
Thursday, November 2, 2006
I Wish I had Said? Student to Student
Metaphor
Reading Check ? story map p. 129
Friday, November 3, 2006
Poem Connection
Selection Test on The First Seven Years
Something to think about: ?When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.? -J. Lubbock
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 23, 2006
Wiki Response: In sports, in politics, and in war, people often demonize their opponents?that is, they portray their enemies as incarnations of evil. What effect do you think such behavior has on society as a whole?
Monday, October 23, 2006
Literary Period Test: Drama
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Act III The Crucible
Interpreting Idioms
Hwk: wiki and make a text-to-text connection with The Crucible (paragraph)
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Act III The Crucible
Motivation
Analyzing
Hwk: wiki and make a text- to- self connection with The Crucible (paragraph)
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Act III The Crucible
Making Judgments
Hwk: wiki and make a text- to- world connection with The Crucible (paragraph)
Friday, October 27, 2006
Test and Movie of The Crucible
Something to think about: A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 23, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
Genre Test ? Short Stories
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Preteaching Vocabulary
Hearts that Love
Two Kinds
Making Inferences
Sometimes it hurts to Love ? Making the connection
Graphic Organizer
6 Traits of Writing ? paragraph on vacation ? Ideas & Organization
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Two Kinds ? contd.
Motivation
6 Traits of Writing ? paragraph on vacation ? Voice ? Sentence Fluency
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Two Kinds ? contd.
6 Traits of Writing ? paragraph on vacation ? Word Choice
Friday, October 27, 2006
Test on Two Kinds
6 Traits of Writing ? paragraph on vacation ? final copy
Something to think about: A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. - Karl Kraus
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 16, 2006
Wiki Response: We will be discussing the concept/action of motivation in class this week. Money, other people, religion, inner beliefs, etc. motivate many people. Discuss what is your personal source of motivation. What motivates you to perform on a daily basis at school?
Monday, October 16, 2006
The Crucible ? contd.
Figures of Speech
Motivation
Hwk: wiki response and vocabulary Lesson 1 - definitions
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
The Crucible ? contd.
Interpreting a Text
Analyzing
Hwk: wiki response and vocabulary Lesson 1 - word busting
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The Crucible ? contd.
Characterization
Figurative language
Making Predictions
Hwk: wiki response and vocabulary Lesson 1 ? context clues
Thursday, October 19, 2006
The Crucible ? contd.
Historical connections
Hwk: wiki response and vocabulary Lesson 1 ? sentence completion
Friday, October 20, 2006
Test on Act II The Crucible
Something to think about: When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.?
J. Lubbock
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Period 2/3 and 5/8 Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 16, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
The Cold Equations ? contd.
Suspense
Monitoring your reading
Prefixes
6 Traits Beginning
Tuesday, October 16, 2006
The Cold Equations ? contd.
Personification
Speculating
Making Inferences
Working with 6 traits
Wednesday, October 17, 2006
The Cold Equations ? contd.
Differentiated Instruction
Getting Students involved
Thursday, October 18, 2006
The Cold Equations ? review for test
Selection test
Friday, October 19, 2006
Genre Test: Short Stories
Something to think about: Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. - Seneca
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 9th, 2006
Wiki Response: After viewing the CD in class, discuss how looking at the good in others can make your life better. Discuss why people don?t do this more.
Monday, October 09, 2006
The Crucible Test Act I
Character/Self Motivation
Hwk: wiki response and Crucible project
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Crucible Act II
Interpreting a Text
Hwk: wiki response and Crucible project
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Crucible Act II ? contd.
Making judgments
Hwk: wiki response and Crucible project
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Teacher In-service Day
Friday, October 13, 2006
Teacher In-service Day
Something to think about: Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 9th, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
Words to Own: Cold Equations
Meet the Glossary/Check the Dictionary p. 31
Lunar Legacy p. 28
Connecting to the text
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Cold Equations
Hard Choices
Resolving conflicts
Suspense
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Cold Equations ? contd.
Looking closely at Suspense techniques
Preparing for Genre Test
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Teacher In-service Day
Friday, October 13, 2006
Teacher In-service Day
Something to think about: The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
- Anonymous
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 2, 2006
Wiki Response: By pointing out that the Puritans had no ?ritual for the washing away of sins,? Miller emphasizes their Protestant departure from Catholicism and Anglicanism, which both retained rituals such as confession, which are designed, among other things, to cleanse the penitent of sin. For the Puritans, with their Calvinist legacy of predestination to heaven or hell, these options were not available. Discuss if you agree or disagree that twentieth-century Americans have no ritual for washing away sin.
Monday, October 2, 2006
Act One ? contd.
The Crucible
Interpreting a text, motivation, characterization
Hwk: choose a project p. 842
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Act One ? contd.
The Crucible
Hwk: wiki response and project
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Act One ? contd.
The Crucible
Hwk: wiki response and continue research project
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Act One ? contd.
The Crucible
Hwk: wiki response and finish research project
Friday, October 6, 2006
Test on Act One of The Crucible
Something to think about: The way to succeed is to double your error rate. - Thomas J. Watson
Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of October 2, 2006
Monday, October 2, 2006
Holts Online Essay Scoring Project
Narrative essay on a time when you faced a challenge
Where Have You Gone Charming Billy? P. 197
Theme and Character
Understanding Historical Context
Background Information
Preteaching Vocabulary
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Visual Connections Videocassette A, Seg. 3
KWL Chart on Combat Fatigue, Shell Shock, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Using Imagery p. 199 select paragraph and identify imagery/senses
Visual Learners: Collage on Paul?s emotional state during the story p. 201
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Character Interview: p. 202
Students conduct interviews with Paul, Toby, Billy Boy about
War experiences
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Storyboard ? cooperative learning p. 202
Create a storyboard for selection
Grammar check
Friday, October 6, 2006
Test on Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?
The Friendship Only Lasted a Few Seconds
Connection: A Poem
Meet the Author at the end p. 204
Something to think about: Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. - Cullen Hightower
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 25, 2006
Wiki Response: ?In a sense I went naked to Salem, still unable to accept the most common experience of Humanity, the shifts of interests that turned loving husbands and wives into stony enemies, loving parents into indifferent supervisors or even exploiters of their children, and so forth. As I already knew from my reading, that was the real story of ancient Salem Village, what they called then the breaking charity with one another. The gray rain on my windshield was falling into my soul.? ? Authur Miller
Respond this week on the wiki to Authur Miller?s quote. What do you think Authur Miller discovers about the people of Salem when he visits the town? What do you think it means to ?break charity??
Monday, September 25, 2006
Background - The Crucible
Interpreting a Text - Motivation
Why I wrote The Crucible by Authur Miller
Hwk: Arthur Miller bio ? take notes
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Summary Act One - Public Voices, Private Lives
Hwk: Make up a profile of the ideal settler. What character traits would enable this person not only to survive the demands of pioneering but also to flourish? Would students themselves be good settlers? Why/Why not?
Wednesday, September 27, 2007
The Crucible ? contd.
Hwk: Establishing a colony in the New World ? group assignment
Thursday, September 28, 2006
The Crucible ? contd.
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, September 29, 2006
Group Presentations on the colony in the New World
Something to think about: When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 25, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Quickwrite: A summer vacation event
Internal Conflict and External Conflict
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
Mini Read Skill Lesson
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Story contd.
Rate the story The Bass, The River and Sheilal Mant
Thumbs up ? Thumbs Down
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Wednesday, September 27, 2007
Rewrite the story as a newspaper article
The Fish that Got Away
Answer the 5 W-How questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?
Begin Collection 2: Hearts that Love
Analyzing a character
Writer?s Notebook
What characters do you remember best from movies, books, etc. and why?
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Two Kinds
Making Inferences about a character
Preteaching Vocabulary
Quickwrite: 10 Years from Now
Friday, September 29, 2006
Test on The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant
Test on Two Kinds
Something to think about: To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott
Period 9: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 18, 2006
Wiki Response: How we deal with losses in life is perhaps the greatest test of our inner strength. Some losses are so enormous that they shake us to our core and challenge our very sense of self. How can one recover from such a loss and silence the internal debate between self and soul?
Monday, September 18, 2006
Concrete Poem ? length of the lines are designed to achieve an overall shape: Africa
Connection: Poem Delaware
Venn diagram: compare and contrast Equiano and Pilgrims journey to America
Reflection: Based on the presentations, what have you learned about the Native Americans?
Hwk: Writer?s Notebook: Incident in your life when you felt that one of your rights was being restricted or otherwise jeopardized.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Anne Bradstreet biography
Here follow some verses upon the burning of our house, July 10, 1666
Analyzing Test Structure: Inversion
Hwk: Writer?s Notebook: Write down two or three incidents in your own life that helped define your identity.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Fear: The great motivator
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God p. 79
Author?s purpose
Parallelism
Figures of Speech
Hwk: wiki response
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Fear: The great motivator
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God p. 79 ? contd.
Author?s purpose
Parallelism
Figures of Speech
Hwk: wiki response
Friday, September 22, 2006
Benjamin Franklin
Quickwrite: make a list of qualities you think you need to succeed in life
Rags to riches: Cinderella like success story p. 85
Something to think about:
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of September 18, 2006
Writer?s Workshop Week
Monday, September 18, 2006 through
Friday, September 22, 2006
Persuasive Writing
Persuading through Personal Narrative p. 85
Students will be researching newspaper topics on controversial issues and selecting
topics to write a personal narrative that is persuasive.
Students will also work on sentence modeling: p. 91 to make sentences more vivid
Something to think about:
Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. Roger Staubach
Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 11, 2006
Wiki Response: Who hasn?t listened with rapt attention to stories of people enduring life-threatening circumstances ? a flood, a plane crash on a snowy mountain, an earthquake, a wartime siege, or captivity as a hostage or prisoner of war? Perhaps our fascination with such stories comes from wondering how we would survive if we were put to the same test ? instead of just sitting in a safe surroundings reading about it. Explain how you would respond if put to such a menacing situation.
Monday, September 11, 2006
When a Dictionary Can Help
Words to Own
Hwk: finish W2O pg. 2
Read about the author Olaudah Equiano (p. 56)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Olaudah Equiano
A autobiography that helped fuel the crusade against slavery
Hwk: Writer?s notebook handout (p. 36)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Olaudah Equiano ? contd.
Hwk: Wiki response and work on project on Native Americans
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Native American Project Presentations
Hwk: Wiki response
Friday, September 15, 2006
Native American Project Presentations
Something to think about: The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 11, 2006
Monday, September 11, 2006
Understanding Plot p. 32
Quickwrite: Things we take for granted
Grammar Link ? personal pronouns
Vocabulary How to Own a Word: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots (p. 49)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Understanding Setting p. 50
The Book of Sands p. 44-45
Foreshadowing
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Writer?s Notebook Persuasive Essay: Making a decision
Same Song by Pat Mora p. 65
Critical Thinking ? routines
Read about the author Alice Munro ?Soul of a Story? p. 64
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Changing the ending p. 67
The Way we were ?The Good old Days? p. 67
Connecting to the story
Friday, September 15, 2006
Store map for Boys & Girls
From Travels with charley p. 81
Dialogue with text
Something to think about: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
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Period 9: Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 5, 2006
Wiki Response: ?There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.? - Rainer Maria Rilke. Identify a time in your life that you had to deal with something that was difficult.
Monday, September 4th, 2006
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Visions and Voyages
The Journey ? human being?s being confronted by nature?s laws
Responding to the poem
William Bradford the writer
Elements of Plain Style vs. High Style Writing
Hwk: from Of Plymouth Plantation Chapter 9 ans. questions
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Coyote Finishes His Work
Research Native American culture
Storytelling, ceremonies, healing, symbols, dances, myths, historical figures, language, and art
Select topic for group presentation
Hwk: finish group projects
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Research in library Native American culture
Group presentations
Hwk: from Of Plymouth Plantation Chapter 11 ans. questions
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Indian Relations and First Thanksgiving
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Class work and homework assignments for the week of September 5, 2006
Monday, September 4th, 2006
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Mini Read Skill Lesson p. 33
Selection Skill Lesson p. 40
Preteaching vocabulary
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Boys and Girls ? Gender Issues ? p. 53
Making Generalizations
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Boys and Girls ? Gender Issues ? p. 53 ? contd.
Character letter writing p. 61
Creating Titles p. 61
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Test on Boys and Girls
Elements of Literature
Setting: Putting Us There
Something to think about: Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin
Period 9: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of August 28, 2006
Wiki Response: Go to the wiki and introduce yourself
Type a response in word then cut and paste into wiki space
http://www.e2t2c2.net/penn/pfotzer then? click on?
Pfotzwiki22
Edit page
Save changes
Monday, August 28, 2006
Beginnings
Group Work on intro to unit
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Beginnings
Group Work on intro to unit
Hwk: Write intro paragraph for college essay
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Visions and Voyages
The Journey ? responding to the poem pg. T19
The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky?
Storytelling
Hwk: Work on college essay
Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Sky Tree
Symbols
Hwk: Work on college essay
Friday, September 1, 2006
Labor Day Holiday
No School
?For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us. So that is we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world??
- John Winthrop, from a sermon delivered aboard the Arbella, on the way to New England, spring 1630.
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Period 2/3 and 5/8: Classwork and homework assignments for the week of August 28, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
Meet the Writer ? Alice Walker (4-2-1 Triangle) Everyday Use
Identify traditions
Conflicts
Compare and Contrast Characters
Designing a quilt
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Everyday Use ? contd.
Viewing and Representing
Mini Read Skill Lesson p. 44
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Test on Everyday use
Designing a quilt T79
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Most Wanted Posters
From Travels with Charley
Choosing between public and private issues
Friday, September 1, 2006
Labor Day Holiday
No School
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ? Mark Twain
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