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Juniors
Monday 1/25
Review for the Realism exam
Tuesday
Exam
HW Study vocab 11
Wednesday
Vocab quiz
PW to Ch 4 p 17
Thursday
Vocab 12
To p 37 VIII
Friday
37-55
Possible quiz (about twenty questions to chapter 4).
Freshmen
Mon
Complete check of direct and indirect objects
Start diagramming as time permits
Tuesday
Vocab review
The Seven Ages of Man 348
Begin Shakespeare bio
Wednesday
Vocab review
Discuss Shakespeares bio
Worksheet Shakespeare’s Background
Due Friday 26 points
HW vocab review
Thursday
Vocab quiz
Review new vocab assignment
Review literary terms
Classwork Shakespeare’s Background
Review Study guide for Romeo and Juliet
Begin play as time permits
Fri
Vocab w/u 11-20
Diagramming 46,47,48
Continue play
January 19-22
Freshmen
Tuesday
2. Finish presentations- grammar as time allows
3. Last day for PN with late pass-complete any remaining presentations
complete grammar through direct objects/ intro to diagramming p 46
HW: finish any remaining grammar exercises and study vocabulary
4. Thursday and Friday
Vocabulary quiz-Save vocabulary 8-12 in binder and begin study of Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary for next week 1-10 matching test next week (daily warm-ups with vocab and or diagramming)
Critical Thinking
1173-1175 persuasion and logic/ fallacies of logic * know these
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King p439-444
Glory and Hope Nelson Mandela 445-448
Identify some of the persuasion in each speech-how do they start? What is the premise upon which each speech is based? How are the speeches developed?
Think Critically p 448
Juniors
2.
January 19-22
bookstore PW
670-676 Discuss “from Life on the Mississippi” by Twain focus on imagery and analogies
689-687 “The Notorious Jumping Frog from Calaveras County”
The authorÂ’s style 679-687
HW Study for the vocab quiz tomorrow
3. Wednesday
Vocab quiz
finish Twain assignments
Who and Whom treachery Handouts of 112-114 All sections for Friday
4. Thursday
“A Wagner Matinee”
688-696
5. Friday
Finish grammar who whom
Argumentation 1286 fallacies
“Letters from a Women Homesteader” Stewart p 700
Examine the argument and persuasion
Handout for Realism exam review (Tuesday)
PW bring book today
Intro.
Jan 11-15
Freshmen
1 Monday
Do checklist of your draft and make a note of changes you wish to make.
Peer Reviews of draft (two).
Begin working on final draft.
You may turn your paper in Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. If you get behind or need help, please see me and come in at lunch on Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
2. Mentor day. Enjoy!
3. Wednesday
Check grammar pages from last week.
Do the checklist on your final draft and make any corrections or improvements necessary. You may hand in your paper today for 4 extra credit points.
Grammar: Subject complements p.40 and 41. Due Friday
Schedule presentations starting tomorrow.
HW: Remember to do a final review of your vocabulary for the quiz tomorrow. The quiz for vocab six is fill-in-the blank and opposites.
4. Thursday
Vocabulary quiz
Work on grammar or PN until everyone is finished
Presentations
5. Friday
Presentations
January 11- 15 Juniors
Continue Realism
1. Monday
636-637 Setting in regional literature
639-643 "The Indian and the Hundred Cows
folktale by Jos'e Griego Y Maestas
Understand the moral of the folktale about cultural difference and care with one's words
p651 "I Will fight No More Forever"
Speech by Chief Joseph
Note the tone of the piece-resigned and sad-and that the audience is directly addressed as in verbal address.
654-655 Read the author study carefully and take notes. Also note that while Twain remained neutral in the war, he did volunteer with the Confederate army for a brief period of time.
p658 "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" Please note dialects, customs , portrayed and interpret. Understand the predominant mode of humor as dramatic irony.
2. Continue the "Mesmerizer" Know dramatic and situational irony.
3. Vocab quiz 9
PBS Twain
4. Continue PBS
5. quiz
Freshmen Welcome Back!
Goals for Semester II
Angela’s Ashes 243-254
Vocabulary assignment for quiz next Thursday, January 14 (vocab Lesson 6)
HW: Answer questions 2-5 Think Critically p255 for tomorrow
2 Tuesday
Narrative Writing p1152 (Lit text) Sensory descriptions PN assignment
Rough draft due on Monday, January 11
HW: Do free-writing to find your topic-remember to keep the topic small;
organize the events you want to include in a flow chart or web;
decide where dialogue will be most effective;
stay in present verb tense to let the story unfold as it happens;
You will need to include a sense of a reflection-like the warmth of the smile and interaction between grandfather and grandson in the example.
3. Wednesday
Mary Mallon’s Trail of Typhoid p258-259
With a partner, list Mary’s major movements in the narrative.
Unfinished Business 260-271
HW: Think critically questions 2-6 p 269
4.Thursday
“Good Night Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning” What is the theme-is there unfinished business in this story?
Work on your PN draft
Grammar: p34, 35, 36 B
5. Friday
Grammar check
Grammar p37, 38, 39 B
Work on your personal narrative draft-which is due Monday
January 4-8 Juniors Welcome Back!
1. Monday
Introduction to Realism (Conflicts and Expansion: Slavery and the Civil War 1861)
Handout together in class
Overview power point or KWL
Begin from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Vocabulary assignment for Wednesday
January 13 th
Paper return
HW: Complete the narrative as homework-possible quiz tomorrow
2. Tuesday
Discuss objective and subjective style in the slave narrative from yesterday
Stanzas on Freedom (Lowell) and Free Labor(Harper) 574-578 Compare rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration between the two poems
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 580 Ambrose Bierce
Do the point of view exercise on 591 Literary analysis and jot down your answers.
HW: Letter to Sarah Ballou (Sullivan Ballou)p590 Compare the themes and subjects of Sarah and Occurrence
3. Wednesday
A Mystery of Heroism (Crane) 593-602
HW: Answer question 4 p 602
What is ironic about Collin’s deeds?
Read the Literary Analysis on 602
What does the piece say about instinct and survival in the form of Collin’s actions?
4. Thursday
Coming of Age in Mississippi 609-616
(Moody)
Frederick Douglass by Hayden p615
HW: Create a theme statement that applies to both pieces
5. Friday
“Ballad of Birmingham” (Randall) p619
Do lit analysis p 620
Define a plausible theme for the ballad Writing exercise p 631
Short film: Occurrence
HW: if not finished in class read 632-637
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