Welcome to English II---Thielemann
August 7/8--orientation
August 11---August 15
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--set up notebook. LIFE OF PI quiz. Vocabulary unit one(handout) due next time. Textbooks issued.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--check homework--vocabulary. Begin work on chapter 20(usage)pp636-638, exercises A and B. Vocabulary lesson #2 for next time,
Friday(A)/Monday,August 18(B)--check voc lesson #2. Assign unit one test for next time. Usage--work exercises 1 and 2, pp 642-644. Begin work on literary terms.
August 18---August 22
Monday(B)--see above
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--vocabulary unit test one, usage ex3 and ex4 pp646-647, begin reading TWELVE ANGRY MEN, voc lesson #3 for hw.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--check vocabulary lesson #3, usage ex5 and ex6 pp649-651, continue reading TAM, voc lesson #4 for hw.
August 25----August 29
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--check vocabulary unit #4, assign vocabulary test on lessons #3and #4. Workbook pages 221-225. Essay assigned on TAM to be prewritten and finalized in class.
Prewrite today; final copy due at the end of next class period.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--Vocabulary unit test#2. Workbook pages 226-230. Finish essay on TAM.
Friday(A)/Tuesday, September 2(B)-- Finish rough copy of essay. Usage pages 354-358.
September 2(B)--September 5(A)
September 2(B)--see above
September 3(A)/September 4(B)-- Finish final copy of essay. Watch Movie TAM. Review all usage. Test next time on usage.
September 5(A)/September 8(B)--Usage unit test. Finish essay. Assign vocabulary lesson #5.
September 8---September 12
September 8(B)--see above
September 9(A)/September10(B)--Begin pretest. This is in preparation for the test in the spring. Check lesson #5. Assign lesson #6.
September 11(A)/September 12(B)--Finish pretest. Check lesson #6. Vocabulary Unit #3 test next time. Subject/verb agreement. Grammar workbook, pages 111-113, orally; homework is pages 114-115; subject/verb agreement****ALL MAKE-UP WORK IS DUE NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 17(A)WEDNESDAY AND SEPTEMBER 18(B)THURSDAY********
September 15--September 19
September 15(A)/September 16(B)--s/v ag--workbook pages 116-117, orally; homework is pages 118-119. Read "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" in class from old books. Read "The Road Not Taken", handout given in class. Fill out story detail sheet on "Contents."
September 17(A)/September 18(B)--svag--workbook pages 120-121 orally; hw 122-123, read "Contents" in class. Fill out story detail sheet.
September 19(A)/September 22(B)--svag--workbook pages 124-125 orally, 126-127 for homework---finish "Contents" in class. Read "Everyday Use" for homework--pp70-75. Fill out story detail sheet in pencil. Copies of poems that relate to the short stories given out in class.
September 22--September 26
Monday, September 22(B)--see above
September 23(A)/September 24(B)--pn/ant ag, wb pages 128-129 orally--130-133 for homework. Discuss "Everyday Use" and "Mother to Son." Read "Through the Tunnel" for homework in the book at home, pp 277-284, and "Success is Counted Sweetest." Fill out story detail sheet in pencil.
September 25(A)/September 26(B)--go over agreement review. SUBJECT/VERB AND PRONOUN/ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT TEST. Notes given in class on advanced punctuation, Read "Through the Tunnel", pages 277-284 in book at home, pages 147-153 in "dancer" book in class. Fill out story detail sheet in pencil. BRING GRAMMAR BOOKS NEXT TIME!!!!!
September 29--October 3
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--get back tests. Go over sds for "Through the Tunnel." Assign "Book of Sand", pages 43-47 in book at home. Complete sds in pencil. Work in class on pronouns--chapter 17 in the book. Go over pages 546--550 in class. Work exercises 3 and 4, review A and B for homework, page 550--552.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--go over sds for "Book." Assign "Life is Sweet at Kumansenu" pages 147-153 to be read at home. Complete story detail sheet in pencil. Check hw from last time. Work pages 553-556 in class. Work exercises 8 and 9 pages 559-560 (special problems, who and whom) for homework.
Friday(A)/Tuesday(B)--Go over sds for "Life." Work pages 561--top of 564 in class. Reflexsive and intensive pronouns, pages 564-565. REMEMBER TO STUDY FOR NINE WEEKS TESTS**********************NINE WEEKS TESTS ARE NEXT WEEK. 5th and 6th are on Tuesday; 1st and 2nd are on Wednesday; 7th and 8th are on Thursday; and 3rd and 4th are on Friday. TEST FORMAT; 10 definitions from literary term list(students have a list of 20 definitions to study; 10 multiple choice questions on usage; 10 multiple choice questions on agreement; and 8 questions on an unassigned reading passage. ********************************************
October 13(B)---October 17(B)
Monday-review for short story test on Thursday and Friday of this week. Work in class on story, terms, pld. Pronoun review for chapter test. Chapter 17 review exercises. Review from workbook as needed. Pronoun test Monday and Tuesday of next week, October 20 and 21.
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--Continue working on "Thank You, M'am" for the short story test and the pronoun review.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--Short story test. Pronoun Test on Monday(A) and Tuesday(B). Verb homoework--Diagnostic test A, p572, reviews B-C, p573, answers only.
STUDENTS NEED A COPY OF A SEPARATE PEACE IN CLASS BY November 5(A) or November 6(B). STUDENTS MAY "BUY"A USED COPY FROM ME FOR TEN CANS TO DONATE TO THE CANNED FOOD DRIVE on or before October 31. Cans may not be turned in next week. OF COURSE, COPIES CAN BE PURCHASED AT BARNES AND NOBLE OR ANY OTHER BOOKSTORE. COPIES OF THE BOOK IN CLASS BY THE APPOINTED DAY ARE WORTH A 100 DAILY GRADE. BOOKS TURNED IN AT THE END OF THE UNIT ARE WORTH 10 POINTS ON THE UNIT TEST.
OCTOBER 20(A)/OCTOBER 24(A)
Monday/Tuesday--Pronoun test. Verbs exercises 2,3,4, pp580-581m refer to charts on pp557-579 as needed (classwork or homework)
Wednesday/Thursday--Troublesome verbs, pp582-590.exercises 5,6,7. (classwork and homework)ANTIGONE introduction. Hand out sheets for notebooks. Read 685-690 in book at home. Read pages 272-273 in DANCER books at school. Copy vocabulary on pages 274 and 290. Fill out family tree.
Friday/Monday, October 27--Grammar--exercises 8,9(p586) and Reviews A and B (pp587-590). Students will read ANTIGONE aloud in assigned parts--prologue(answer questions 1-9)parados(questions 10-12)Scene I(questions 13-21).
OCTOBER 27(B)/October 31(B)
Monday, October 27--see above
Tuesday/Wednesday--ANTIGONE-- read aloud in assigned parts. Ode I, Sc 2,Ode II ; questions through #31. Verbs--tense 590-599; each student will conjugate one verb in the active voice through all 6 tenses and the emphatic form and the progressive form.
Thursday/Friday--Verbs--exercises 11 and 12, pp596-7;exercise 13,pp598-5=
The middle part of my school notes has apparently been erased. I apologize. I am trying to find out what happened. Until that time, I am rewriting my notes for January,2009.
January 5--January 7
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--Work lesson #1 in BUCKLE DOWN workbooks. Work exercise 6 on dangling phrases on pages 626-627 of the grammar book. Watch JULIUS CAESAR movie.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--BD lesson #2, pages 20-24; misplaced modifiers, grammar book, 627-692, exercise 7. Finish movie.
Friday(A)/Monday, January 12(B)--BD lesson #2,pages 25-33; ex #8,pp630-631,grammar; JULIUS CAESAR movie.
January 12--16
Monday(B)--see above.
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--BD lesson #3a, Review B,p631, grammar,movie.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--BD lesson #3b, chapter 19 review, B and C, pp633-634; finish movie.
Monday, January 19, Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday--school holiday
January 20--23
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--go over homework--test next time on misplaced and dangling modifiers. Begin writing essay on JULIUS CAESAR--position paper.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--Test on misplaced modifiers. Rough copy of essay finished. Turn in final copy next time--in black ink!
January 26--January 30
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--Complete final copy of essay. The Clause--Chapter 15--pp490-491, diagnostic preview, clauses and sentence types--answers only. ASP introduced. Notes given in class--character list and backgound, and homework--read chapter 1. Quiz next time.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday--go over homework. What is a clause? pp492-495, exercises 1 and 2 orally, pp493-495. Adjective clauses--essential and nonessential, relative pronouns, ex #3, 497-498. Quiz on ASP, chapter 1. Read chapters 2 and 3 for next time. Answer questions. Define vocabulary.
Friday(A)/Monday, February 2(B)--go over homework. Adverb clauses, pp498-top of 501..copy list of subordinate conjunctions into notebook, exercises #4 and #5, 499-500, review A, 500-501. ASP quiz, chapters 2 and 3. Read chapters 4 and 5 for next time.
Answer questions. Define vocabulary.
February 2--February 6
Monday, B---see above
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--go over hw. Noun clauses, pp501-503. Copy list of words that start clauses, ex #6, 502 and review B,503. ASP quiz chapters 4 and 5. Read chapters 6 and 7 for next time. Answer questions.Define vocabulary.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--go over hw. Classification of sentences, pp504-506. ASP quiz 6 and 7. Read chapters 8 and 9 for next time. Answer questions/define vocabulary.
February 9--13
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--go over hw. Homework--chapter review 507-509. Quiz chapters 8 and 9. Read chapters 10 and 11 for next time. Answer questions/define vocabulary.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--Go over chapter review. Clause test next time. Quiz on chapters 10 and 11. Read chapters 12 and 13 for next time. Answer questions/define vocabulary.
Friday(A)/Tuesday, February 17(B)--Clause test. Review ASP for test next time. ASP quiz on chapters 12 and 13.
Remember: Monday is a holiday for students.
February 17--20
Tuesday(B)--see above
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--unit test on ASP. Notes should be copied from board for expository essay.
Friday(A)/Monday, February 22(B)--work on clause test remediation--begin watching ASP movie
February23---February 27
Monday(B)--see above
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--turn in corrected sentences from clause test--watch ASP movie--correct terms from ASP test--read "The Lowest Animal" in text at home. Be ready for test next time. You may bring your text to class to use on the quiz.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--Work in class on expository essay--complete outline-- Begin reading and discussing essays from text."The Lowest Animal," in book at home, pp456. Be ready for quiz Read in class "The Dog that Bit People," p 405 in Dancer book and answer questions.
March 2--6
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--Read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" at home. Quiz next time. You may bring your book to class to use on the quiz if you like. Read "On Summer" in class. Test next time on essays read. Work on expository essay.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)-- Work on expository essay.
Friday(A)/Monday, March 9(B)--Get back completed expository essays. Read copies of "good" expository essays. Copy writer's checklist used on test. Read examples of other expository essays.
March 9---March 13
Nine weeks tests are this week.
Monday--see above
Tuesday--1st and 2nd, discuss position papers,write
Wednesday--5th and 6th,discuss position papers,write
Thursday--3rd and 4th,discuss position papers,write
Friday--7th and 8th,discuss position papers, write
SPRING BREAK---MARCH 16-March 20
March 23--March 27 ENGLISH II WRITING TEST THURSDAY
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--BUCKLE DOWN SATP book--wrting modes
read sample papers, orally "set-up" essays using prompts from the state website, work pages run off on characteristics of writing
Wednesday(A)--Begin advanced punctuation. Work in district-provided workbooks, pages 280,282--semicolons. Answer any questions about writing tomorrow.
Thursday--Test day
Friday(A)/Monday, March 30(B)--Advanced punctuation--semicolons and colons, copy rules from the grammar book in class--include an example sentence for each rule; worksheet pages 162-163; district workbook pages 280--288.
March 30--April 3
Monday(B)--see above
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--Underlining and italics, quotation marks--copy rules from the grammar book in class, worksheets 164-165, workbook pages 294--307.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, brackets--copy rules from grammar book in class--worksheets pages 164--169; workbooks 313-330.
(This may take more than one class period.) Test next time (or the time after that, if extra time is needed).
STATE TEST -- MAY 1 -- MULTIPLE CHOICE -- VOCABULARY AND READING, TEST 1; GRAMMAR AND WRITING, TEST 2
April 6(A)/April 9(B)
###Remember next Friday is Good Friday, a school holiday.###
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--test on advanced punctuation. Begin work on poetry review. Review terms.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--Check poetry terms. Go over poems in class, finding examples of terms and talking about how to explicate poems. BD workbook--pages 61-71.
Friday--Good Friday
April 13(A)/April 17(B)
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--SATP practice test per request of central office
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--SATP practice test per request of central office
Friday(A)/Monday, April 20(B)--SATP practice test per request of central office
April 20(B)/April 24(B)
Monday--finish SATP test, B day
Tuesday(A)/Wednesday(B)--poetry test,, open book, may use notes and workbook. Begin going over the pretest in class, 20-25 questions at a time. Review terms used and correct answers. Work in BD workbook--drama.
Thursday(A)/Friday(B)--rReview paragraph structure, worksheets. Review practice test, questions 25-50; correct answers and terms used. Work in BD workbook--author's purpose. Introduce reading strategy--marking up the paragraph.
SATURDAY REVIEW DAY FOR SATP
April 27(A)/May 1(A)
Monday(A)/Tuesday(B)--Finish review of practice test. BD workbook--effective communication, pages 105,108-113;120-121; 128-131;152-157.
Wednesday(A)/Thursday(B)--reading skills review/comprehension, BD practice test A.
Friday--SATP English II
May 4(B)/May 8(B)
Mon/Tues--Legend of the Hero--notes from lecture by Joseph Campbell. Read "Arthur Becomes King of Britain" pp720-730, girl/fruit book in class.
Wed/Thurs--watch BATMAN BEGINS. Answer questions on handout sheet.
Friday/Monday, May 11--Read "Arthur Becomes King of Britain", 690-699 and "The Marriage of King Arthur", 701-702, both stories are in the dancer book in class.
May 11(A)/May 15(A) EXAMS begin on Friday
Mon/Tues--Watch HARRY POTTER and the GOBLET of FIRE.
Wed/Thurs--begin review for exams.
Friday exams begin.
Education Gateways makes no warranty for SchoolNotes.com.
Information on this site is generated by the users. The views
expressed are not necessarily those of Education Gateways or its members, and
Education Gateways is not responsible for user's conduct on SchoolNotes.com.
