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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
-William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
-William Shakespeare
Important Class Information:
- Invisible Children Change for Change contest between classes! Class Contacts: P3: Allison, P4: Bettina
- Period 3 winns the MANNA CONTEST BETWEEN CLASSES!
Upcoming Assignments/Units:
- Autobiographical complete essay packet is due Mon. 12/1/08: Autobiographical Essay (The due date was extended until after break. See link for packet detailes.)
- Vocab Test #3 on Tuesday 11/25/08: Study vocab lessons 9-12.
- Currently we are studying A Tale of Two Cities: TTC Schedule
- Vocabulary Quiz at the end of each week. Test after every four lessons.
- Study ELC Ch 8.—quiz on Tuesday 11/25/08!
- ELC (grammar) Quiz every few weeks.
Daily Agendas:
Friday: 11.21.08
- Vocabulary # 12 Quiz: A Tale of Two Cities Bk2 Ch 2-19
- Autobiographical essay peer-reviews
Rubric (See rubric revision in bold below.)
--/100 Points Possible--
/20 Purpose
/20 Author’s Thoughts
/15 Awareness of Audience
/15 Writing Effectiveness & Style
/10 Sensory Details
/10 Tense, POV, and Organization
/10 900-1200 words/ research integration
- ELC Ch 8 exercise check
Homework: 11.21.08
- Consider your peers’ comments, revise your essay, and bring in the updated copy on Monday!!
- Read and annotate (3-5 per Ch.) A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 18-19. Focus on identifying literary devices and their affects on the text. Yes, you may read ahead; Monday night has a lot of reading.
- TTC ongoing assignments: 1) Summaries, 2) Character Sheet, and 3) Annotations
- If you are behind in reading and annotations, catch up this weekend!!!!!!
- Study ELC Ch 8.—quiz on Tuesday! Bring your book on Monday.
- Study vocab lessons 9-12 for Vocab Test #3 on Tuesday!
Thursday: 11.20.08
- Pair share French Rev. Vocab then collect
- TTC: Silent reading
- Informal seminar –Bk2 Ch 15.
Homework: 11.20.08
- Read and annotate (3-5 per Ch.) A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 16-17. Focus on identifying literary devices and their affects on the text.
- TTC ongoing assignments: Character Sheet and annotations
- Study Vocab #12
- Study vocab lessons 9-12 for Vocab Test #3 on Tuesday 11/25/08!
- ELC Ch. 8: Study pages 208-217. Complete even from Review B (216) and Review C (218).
- Autobiographical essay rough draft due Friday.
Wednesday: 11.19.08
- TTC: Silent reading and ongoing assignments
- Work on your autobiographical essay
- Read and annotate (3-5 per Ch.) A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 14-15. Focus on identifying literary devices and their affects on the text.
- TTC ongoing assignments: Character Sheet and annotations
- Study Vocab #12
- Autobiographical Essay rough draft due Friday.
- ELC Ch 8: Study
- Due: TTC #1 Seminar & reflection
- Vocabulary Introduction #12
- Handout Work:
- Literary Terms: Denotation and Connotation handout—students should read and comprehend connotation
- Animal Imagery and Connotation Bk 2 Ch 8-20 handout—students need to work on independently.
- Small groups: discuss Animal imagery work
- Small groups: discuss last night’s reading of TTC Book 2 Ch 9-11.
- TTC silent reading
- Read and annotate (3-5 per Ch.) A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 12-13. Annotations: Focus on identifying literary devices and their affects on the text.
- TTC ongoing assignments: 1) Summaries, 2) Character Sheet, and 3) Annotations
- Study Vocab #12
- ELC Ch. 8: Study pages 203-207 and complete Ex 2 (204) and Ex 4 ( 207).
- Work on your autobiographical essay. Keep all of your current work in your Writing Process divider.
- French Rev. Vocab. due tomorrow!
- PreWriting
- Autobio research due. (10 points)
- Autobio Writing: 7 min. prewrite, 2min. intro prewrite, close eyes and put self in environment, 15 min. begin introduction of the essay.
- Due: Satirical cartoon with the corrigible faults noted.(5 points)
- TTC: Bk 2 Ch 7-8 small-group seminar
- Print: TTC Animal Imagery
- Read and annotate (3-5 per Ch.) A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 9-11. Annotations: Focus on identifying literary devices and their affects on the text.
- TTC ongoing assignments: 1)Summaries, 2)Character Sheet, and 3) Annotations
- TTC: French Revolution Vocab due Wednesday.
- TTC Seminar #1 seminar notes and reflection due tomorrow, Tue.
- Study Vocab #12
- Autobiographical Due dates: Rough Draft/Peer Review Fri. 11/21. Final Essay Due: Monday, 11/24. Remember to submit your essay to turnitin.com and print the receipt.
- ELC: This week study chapter 8 on Using Modifiers Correctly.
- Vocabulary # 11 Quiz: A Tale of Two Cities Bk1 Ch 1-4
- Satire Questions Continued
- A Tale of Two Cities seminar continued
- Autobiographical research and notes due Monday!!
- Read and annotate (3-5 per Ch.) A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 7-8. You may read ahead.
- TTC ongoing assignments: Add to your Summary Sheet (Do your own work!), Character Sheet and annotations
- French Revolution Vocab—due Wed. 11/19--20 points.
- Print Vocab #12
- Manna contest ends November 24th.
- Seminar reflection due Tuesday.
- 15 minutes to finish Bk 1 quiz or read
- Literary Term Review: tone and mood
- TTC critical reading discussion. (Bk1 Ch 1-3).
- Rough draft of autobiographical research notes due Monday.
- Write a short summary of all the chapters (12 chapters total: Bk1-Bk2 Ch6). Make sure you re-read difficult passages that you didn’t understand on the first reading.
- TTC ongoing assignments: Character Sheet and annotations. On your review of each chapter, make sure your Character Sheet is up-to-date.
- French Revolution Vocab— Due Wed. Nov. 19th.
- Vocab #11 quiz tomorrow!!
- Print: TTC Schedule
- Time Capsule Presentations
- Title: Satire: What Problem is Dickens Exposing?
- Bk 2 Ch1 (61, 1-2) The first two paragraphs in the chapter: “Tellson’s bank by Temple Bar . . . .”
- Read and annotate A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 5-6. Annotation Focus: literary techniques and their affects on the text—especially tone, mood, and satire.
- Study: Vocab #11
- I will collect the satirical cartoon tomorrow. Why is it satirical and what is it criticizing?
- TTC Seminar and annotation check Thursday 11/13/08. Please be current with your work.
- Autobiography research (hour of time and notes) due 11/17/08!
- TTC ongoing assignments: Character Sheet and annotations. Annotation check tomorrow: 15 minimum!
- French Revolution Vocabulary List: Due Wed. Nov. 19th.
- Vocabulary #11 Introduction
- ELC Test on Ch 3-7 (30 points: 1 point each)
- TTC Book 1 Open-Book Quiz.
- If time allows, silently read A Tale of Two Cities; annotate as you read. You may also add to your Character Chart.
- Read and annotate A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Ch 4. Annotation Focus: literary techniques and their affects on the text.
- Study: Vocab #11
- Bring in a satirical cartoon. Note the corrigible faults! Due Wednesday 11/12/08!
- Time Capsule presentations Wednesday 11/12/08!
- TTC Seminar and annotation check Thursday 11/13/08. Please be current with your work.
- Autobiography research (hour of time and notes) due Monday 11/17/08!
- TTC ongoing assignments: Character Sheet, annotations
- French Revolution Vocabulary List: Due Wed. 11/19/08!
- Vocabulary #10 Quiz: Our Town
- ELC Ch 7 Quiz
- Reading Fluency: Satire
- Add Satire and a definition to your Literary Term divider
- Discuss Satire
- Time Capsule presentations postponed until Wednesday 11/12/08!
- TTC: read and annotate Bk 2 Ch1-3. Annotation focus: literary terms—especially satire—and their affects on the text.
- Bring in a satirical cartoon. Note the corrigible fault(s)! Due Wednesday!
- TTC Book 1 quiz on Monday.
- Autobiography research (hour of time and notes) due 11/17/08!
- Print: Vocab #11
- Test Monday: ELC Ch 3-7
- ELC Ch 7 unclear references
- TKAM essay error analysis
- Update Writing Goals
- Print: Satire
- Time Capsule presentations postponed until Wednesday 11/12/08!
- Quizzes tomorrow: Vocab #10 and ELC Ch 7
- TTC: read and annotate Ch 6. Annotation focus: literary terms and their affects on the text.
- TTC Book 1 quiz on Monday.
- Test Monday: ELC Ch 3-7
- Autobiography research (hour of time) due 11/17/08!
- E-mail me P2: Christina P3: Jacob & Henry P; P4: Bettina and Chris
- TTC Book 1 Ch 5 (This is your ticket in to the TTC Book 1 seminar discussion tomorrow!)
- Compare the scene outside the wine shop to the scene inside the wine shop.
- Compare these two passages: “Others, men and women dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women’s heads, which were squeezed dry into infants’ mouths;” with “The time was to come, when that wine to would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.”
- Work on Time Capsule
- TTC silent reading
- Per 3: Invisible Children assembly
- Keep the Cast-of-Characters HO up-to-date as you read.
- Work on the TTC Vocab.
- Read and annotate: TTC Ch 4-5. You need 3-5 annotations per night’s reading. Please choose one excerpt that you want to discuss tomorrow. Note it and write your ideas about it.
- Work on your Time Capsule and set up the research for the Autobiographical essay.
- Study ELC Ch 3-7—quiz Friday.
- Study vocab #10.
- Turn in ESLR essay packet
- Per 2: Time Capsule Discussion
- Discuss annotations on “Homeless.”
- ELC Ch 7: Correct Ex 5 (188) F (190)
- Begin TTC: The Impact of the Revolution HO
- Print: TTC Cast of Characters and keep this up-to-date as you read.
- Per 4: read The Impact of the Revolution: TTC Lesson1 handouts
- Read and annotate: TTC Ch 1-3. You need 3-5 annotations per night’s reading.
- Work on your Time Capsule and set up the research for the Autobiographical essay.
- Study ELC Ch 3-7, especially 193-94 and complete Ex 8 (194).
- Study vocab #10.
- Collect ESLR listening sheets and Our Town notes & reflection Per 3 & 4
- Vocab #9 Quiz
- Vocabulary #10 Intro: Our Town
- Time Capsule discussion
- Autobiography Introduction
- Analysis of model essay “On Compassion” by Barbara Asher
- ESLR Packet: Clip together
- rubric (put your name on it)
- final essay (Yes, the Works Cited should be the last page.)
- rough-draft with my comments on it
- peer review sheets
- detailed outline
- rough outline
- turnitin.com receipt. (Zero unless you have this!!)
- ESLR essay packet due tomorrow. (See above for order.)
- Print: Autobiographical Essay
- Read and annotate “Homeless” by ANNA QUINDLEN. Note aspects that you want to emulate in your essay.
- Study Vocab # 10.
- Study ELC Ch 7. Also study Ch 3-7—test Nov. 7 Friday.
- Friday, Nov. 7: Time Capsule Guidelines and Presentation Due.
- The last of the presentations.
- ESLR seminar
- ESLR essay packet due Tuesday. Bring in your most current draft on Monday. We will work on it.
- Study vocab #9 Quiz on Monday.
- Print: Vocab # 10 and A Tale of Two Cities handout. Bring TTC every day in November!
- Study ELC Ch 7. Also study Ch 3-7—test Nov. 7 Friday.
- Friday, Nov. 7: Time Capsule and Presentation Due.
- Autobiographical research (your 1 hour) and notes due November 15th.
- MANNA CONTEST BETWEEN CLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (you will be rewarded!!)
- Presentations
- P4: ESLR seminar
- ESLR essay packet due Tuesday. Bring in your most current draft on Monday. We will work on it.
- Study vocab #9 Quiz on Monday.
- Print: Vocab # 10 and A Tale of Two Cities handout. Bring TTC every day in November!
- Study ELC Ch 7. Also study Ch 3-7—test Nov. 7 Friday.
- Friday, Nov. 7: Time Capsule and Presentation Due.
- Presentations
- Our Town Final seminar—students must refer to the text to earn an A.
- ESLR Presentations
- Study vocab #9 and ELC Ch 7. Also study Ch 3-7.
- Print Time Capsule Guidelines
- Friday, Nov. 7: Time Capsule and Presentation Due.
- Print: Our Town Time Capsule Guidelines
- 100-150 word seminar reflection on Our Town.
- ELC exercises due tomorrow!
- MANNA CONTEST BETWEEN CLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (you will be rewarded!!)
- Presentations
- ELC Ch 7 Objective case; who/whom
- Our Town: Tomorrow: Annotation check and final seminar. Prepare an Our Town final seminar note sheet. Please write out one important quotation and be prepared to discuss its significance with the class.
- Study Vocab #9
- Study ELC. Ex 5 (188) and F (190).
- There will be a Final on points of focus from Ch 3-7.
- Final ESLR essay packet due Tuesday, November 4th.
- November we will study A Tale of Two Cities—yeah!
- Vocab Test #2
- Vocab #9 Intro.
- Practice Presentations
- Our Town Annotation check Wednesday.
- Study Vocab #9
- Study ELC Ch 7. There will be a Final on points of focus from Ch 3-7.
- ESLR Style Revision—CREATE SENTENCE VARIETY: 1) vary sentence length--type 2) vary sentence beginnings 3) vary sentence construction (subject, verb, predicate). Bring in your essay tomorrow—we are still working on style revision.
- Final ESLR essay packet due Tuesday, November 4th.
- Ms. Hunter’s packet: presentation rubric and essay.
- PowerPoint
- Your presentation notes, etc.
- Professional appearance and demeanor
- Vocabulary #8 Quiz: Odyssey
- Peer Review #2
- Finish Our Town
- Revise your ESLR essay—yes again. Print the revised version and bring it in on Monday.
- Work on your ESLR presentation. Practice presentations on Monday. Print the PowerPoint slides, so you can use them while you practice.
- Vocabulary Test #2 (lessons 5-8 on Monday!!!) 40 points.
- Print Vocab #9
- Next week, we will continue to study ELC Ch 7
- ELC Ch 7: Objective and who/whom.
- Check Ex 2 (180).
- Discuss Objective Case
- Check Ex. 3 (180)
- Peer review #1 continued
- ESLR: Revise your rough draft and work on your presentation. Please don’t procrastinate!!
- Print and bring in your revised Rough Draft tomorrow! You want the review tomorrow to be progressive.
- Study Vocab #8—quiz tomorrow.
- Vocabulary Test #2 (lessons 5-8 on Monday!!!) 40 points.
- Bring in a test PowerPoint slide on your memory stick.
- Practice presentations tomorrow and Monday.
- ELC Ch 7: Read and study. Quiz next week.
- ESLR Presentation Instructions & Rubric.
- When you present, you need to come prepared with the following:
- 1) Presentation rubric (filled out)
- 2) ESLR Packet: Clip together
- rubric (put your name on it)
- final essay (yes, the Works Cited should be the last page)
- peer-reviewed essay
- detailed outline
- rough outline
- turnitin.com receipt. (zero unless you have this!!)
- 1st peer review: writer response and reader response
- ESLR: Work on your presentation.
- Bring in your Rough Draft tomorrow!!! We will continue peer reviews!
- Our Town: 77-95 (read and annotate)
- ELC Ch 7: Read and study. Exercises due tomorrow.
- Study Vocab #8
- Share a few seminar reflections
- Discuss and turn in “To a Mouse” seminar reflection packet: 1) Seminar Notes, 2) Poem analysis, and 3) Annotated poem. (10 points)
- Add to Writing Goals
- ELC Ch 7: Nominative (subjective), Objective, and Possessive Case
- MLA Format Lecture for ESLR essay
- ESLR essay questions
- ESLR: rough draft due tomorrow—with the Works Cited page.
- Print: Style Revision HO
- No Our Town tonight—because your rough draft needs to rock!!!
- ELC: Read and study pages 177-184 and complete Ex 2 (180), Ex 3 (181), and Ex. 4 (182). Due Thursday!
- Study Vocab #8
- Make sure you have last night's handouts.
- Turn in your annotated ESLR work
- Binder check (5 pts.)
- Vocabulary #8 Intro: Odyssey
- Finish analysis: 10 minutes
- Create Seminar Note Sheet for the poem “To a Mouse.”
- Seminar: discussion of Robert Burns poem “To a Mouse.” Discuss poem and share aspects of your ONE-page analysis of the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns and how you related it to the novel Of Mice and Men.
- Our Town: read and annotate pages 66-76 (not through page 83).
- Finish “To a Mouse” seminar reflection. Tomorrow I will collect the packet: 1) Seminar Notes, 2) Poem analysis, and 3) Annotated poem. (10 points)
- Work on your ESLR report of information—rough draft due Wednesday.
- Print: Peer Review HO and ESLR Presentation Instructions & Rubric.
- Study vocab #8 and ELC Ch 7
- Vocabulary #7 Quiz: OMAM Ch 1-3
- ELC Ch 6 Quiz: Using Verbs Correctly and Active and Passive Voice
- Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLR) goal discussion, writers journal and annotation discussion.
- Binder Check Monday: 5 pts.
- Print: Vocab #8 and ESLR Goals
- Annotate the ESLR handout—at least two annotations for every point. Please use pen and write neatly. I will select a few quality papers from each period to post.
- Work on your ESLR rough draft—due—with the Works Cited page—Wednesday.
- Our Town: (47-65)
- Next week we will study ELC ch 7.
- ELC Ch 6: lie/lay review quiz
- A Writer’s Reference Intro
- Detailed outline peer reviews
- Attention grabber
- Broadly addresses topic: 1)connection with the reader 2) creates interest
- Coherent transition(s) (logical order: “flow”)
- Thesis statement (clear, precise Topic and Focus)
- Logical Order (categories, sub categories)
- Thesis and Outline compliment each other
- Note if there are gaps or non-essential areas
- ***Does the author keep his or her audience in mind?
- Work on your ESLR rough draft due—with the Works Cited page—Wednesday 10/22.
- Our Town: (25-46)
- Study vocab. #7—quiz tomorrow!
- Study ELC Ch 6—quiz tomorrow!
- Binder Check Monday: 5 pts.
- Vocabulary #7 Intro: OMAM Ch 1-3
- Reading Fluency: Ode
- Read original “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. Written in the 1700’s.
- Read and annotate the paraphrased version of “To a Mouse.”
- In-class analysis: Write a ONE-page analysis of the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns and relate it to the novel OMAM. Yes, you may also use the novel.
You are not allowed to go on the computer or talk to anyone but Ms. Hunter about the poem.J
- Work on your ESLR. Peer reviews of detailed outlines—tomorrow!! You must have a hard copy of your outline. (10 points).
- Begin Our Town: Wed. 10/15: pages 3-24 (first half of Act I). Remember--3-5 annotations per night.
- Print: Our Town Schedule
- Study vocab. #7
- Study ELC Ch 6
- Binder Check Monday: 5 pts.
- Collect OMAM Seminar Notes & Reflection
- ELC: Ch 6 Past & Present Tense; Lie& Lay
- 35 note cards due--5 sources required!
- Work on detailed outlines
- Work on your ESLR. Detailed outline due Thursday, October 16th.
- Bring in all of your ESLR work!!!
- Study vocab. #7
- Study ELC Ch 6
- Bring Our Town tomorrow
- Discuss revised working ESLR thesis statements
- OMAM Final seminar and reflection
- Print: OMAM: To a Mouse
- 35 note cards due tomorrow (5 sources required)
- Work on your ESLR and bring ALL of your supplies. (You will spend most of the period working on your ESLR. You may bring a laptop computer.)
- Study ELC Ch 6 163-67. Complete EVEN on Exercises 7&8 and all of Exercise 9.Due tomorrow.
- Study vocab. #7 Five-ten minutes a night. Don’t just read this, study. It is not optional.
- Vocabulary #6 Quiz: Of Mice and Men Ch1
- ELC Ch 5 Quiz
- Silent reading: OMAM
- Working thesis and rough outline due
- Thesis statement discussion/check
- Work on your ESLR assignment. 35 card total due Tuesday (35pts.)
- Make sure you have read and annotated through OMAM Ch 5-6. FINISH NOVEL!!
- Annotation check Monday: 20 pts. for quality annotations. Highlight and summary don’t count as thoughtful annotations.
- Prepare a OMAM Final Seminar Note sheet (20 points for seminar).
- ****Seminar Ticket: 1)finish reading novella, 2) annotations, 3) Prepared seminar note sheet. If you don’t have all three, you may not participate in the seminar!
- Bring in revised working thesis statement, and put it on the board when you come in on Monday.
- Print Vocab #7
- ELC: Next week we will study Ch 6: Using Verbs Correctly (parts, tense, voice, mood)
- If you failed (C+ or lower) the ELC quiz, you may make it up at lunch on Monday 10.13.08 (new score-10% for retake).
- No school
- Library Research Day
- Work on your ESLR assignment. Working thesis and rough outline due Friday. (10 pts.)
- Read and annotate Of Mice and Men (OMAM) Ch 5-6.
- Study Vocab #6—Quiz Friday.
- Study ELC Ch 5: Agreement. Be sure you study on Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent page135-140. I suggest you work on Review exercises E, F & G. Quiz Friday!
- Read and annotate the Of Mice and Men (OMAM) Historical Context handout
- P2: ESLR due date calendar
- Discuss rough and detailed outlines
- Prewriting review
- Sketch Rough Outline
- ELC Ch 5: Check exercises.
- Bring money and index cards for our Library day tomorrow!
- Read and annotate (3 per chapter) Of Mice and Men (OMAM) Ch 2.
- Study Vocab #6--quiz Friday!
- Study ELC Ch 5: Agreement--quiz Friday!
- Work on researching for your ESLR assignment: ESLR Assignment
- Vocabulary #6 introduction: Of Mice and Men Ch1
- ELC Ch 5: Agreement through collective nouns.
- Read and briefly discuss ESLR Prompt and due dates
- Discuss Wikipedia and Google
- Read and annotate (3 per chapter) Of Mice and Men (OMAM) Ch 1.
- Bring in Of Mice and Men (OMAM).
- Study Vocab #6
- Study ELC Ch 5: Agreement. Complete Ex 6 (127).
- Print: Of Mice and Men HO
- OMAM Reading Schedule
- Work on researching for your ESLR assignment: find 5 good sources. Begin creating source and note cards--they are due Tuesday, October 14th.
- Bring your supplies: note cards and money. You will be in the library Wed. 10/8 only.
- October Calendar--Tentative
- Vocab #5 Quiz: TKAM Ch 28-31
- Arthur Ashe: PreResearch Assignment Part 2 (Encyclopedic writing, plain and direct.)
- Read the “Arthur Ashe” encyclopedic biography (from library).
- Create a source card, 1 summary card, 1 paraphrase card, and 1 quotation card.
- Don’t foget to put the page number after the note in a proper MLA parenthetical citation—on every card!! Remember: Only one note—idea--per card; do not use back of card.
- Put all the note cards in logical order.
- Research your ESLR topic: you should be looking for good sources for your ESLR topic. When you find a good source, begin to write your cards. You need a source card and several note cards for each good source. You may have a maximum of three sources from the NPHS Library Online Subscriptions.
- Print vocab #6
- Study ELC Ch 5 (124-34). Complete: Ex 5 1-10 (125), Ex 9 even (133-34), and Review D even (134).
- Print: ESLR Prompt
- We begin Of Mice and Men next week--bring your novel. Grace, I have yours.
- Story Time: Sandra Cisneros “My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn.”
- Writing
- Introduce Essays: Autobiographical and ESLR
- Note Card Steps: Source card, quotation card, summary card and paraphrase card.
- Print: MLA Works Cited Instructions
- You may NOT change your ESLR topic after tomorrow.
- Read “Arthur Ashe Remembered” (683-84). It's in the anthology by John McPhee.
- Create 4 cards: 1 source card, 1 summary card, 1 paraphrase card, and 1 quotation card. Don’t foget to put the page number after the note in a proper MLA parenthetical citation—on every card!! Remember: Only one note—idea--per card; do not use back of card.
- Study Vocab #5—quiz tomorrow!
- Study ELC Ch 5: Agreement
- TKAM essay due. You must have your completed rought draft also!
- Vocabulary Test #1 (lessons 1-4; 5 words from each lesson) (40 pts.)
- Paraphrase Lecture
- Choose ESLR topic
- Study vocab #5
- Study ELC Ch 5 on Agreement (Don't bring the book tomorrow!)
- Bring: your green anthology and note cards!
- Print: Notecard Steps
- If you want, you may begin researching your topic: NPHS Library Online Subscriptions
- You may change your topic until Friday.
- Collect Final TKAM seminar reflection
- Discuss thesis statements for essay
- In-class TKAM essay
- If you choose to, you may revise and type your TKAM essay. Due Wednesday with ALL the drafts!
- Study for Vocabulary Test #1 (lessons1-4; 5 from each lesson) 40 points possible.
- Vocabulary #5 for the quiz on Friday.
- You may think about what ESLR topic you want to choose for your report on a tolerance related issue : ESLR: Topics
- Vocab Qz #4: TKAM Ch 7-11
- ELC Clause Quiz
- TKAM final seminar
- You need a 150-word seminar reflection on TKAM Final Seminar
- You may bring in a very-very brief outline for your essay.
- You may also have the following: 1) your novel w/ annotations, 2) TKAM QA sheet, 3)very brief outline, and 4) the in-class rough introduction.
- Next week we study ELC Ch 5
- Make sure you have the TKAM Prompt and Rubric
- THINK about your essay. What do you have to say that is important in regard to the novel? In-class TKAM essay Monday, Sept 29th. You will have most of the period to write the essay.
- Vocab Test #1 (lessons 1-4) Wednesday, October 1st. (40 points!)
- Introductions: TTAAG
- Brief overview of thesis statements and essay body
- Model Introductions: Mark Towner handout
- Write a rough TKAM introduction
- Clause review
- Check your grade on Zangle!! Make sure there are no surprises.
- You are only permitted into our TKAM Final Seminar if you have the following: 1) finished the novel, 2) annotated the novel, 3) completed the TKAM QA, and 4) create a thoughtful TKAM Final Seminar Note sheet.
- TKAM QA due tomorrow (6 points)
- Quizzes tomorrow: Vocab #4 and ELC Ch 4 on The Clause (You will need to identify IC, DC, and CC then punctuate accordingly.)
- Print: TKAM Prompt and Rubric
- WJ: When you realize that you are prejudice, what have you or what will you do about it? Does Scout help you understand yourself more? Explain.
- Literary Term (LT): Irony
- Discuss the three types of Irony: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony.
- TKAM #5: Ch 26 Analysis:
- TKAM Ch 26 Pages 327 or 244 to the end of the chapter: “ Adolf Hitler, Cecil,” [. . . .] ugly about folds right at home” (244-47).
- Re-read and annotate the last three pages in the chapter. Look for ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities in a text (Reading Standard 3.8).
- What significant ideas do your notice about Miss Gates? Use Writing Standard 2.2 as your prompt. Your goal is one page.
- TKAM: Finish the novel tonight: Read and annotate chapters 29-31. As you read pay attention to Reading Standard 3.8 to direct your annotations.
- Prepare for a TKAM Final seminar. You need mental preparation and the seminar note sheet. Due Friday.
- TKAM Ch 26 Analysis. Finish if you didn’t finish it in class.
- Study vocabulary #4 and ELC Ch 4/clause notes.
- In-class TKAM essay Monday, Sept 29th. You will have most of the period to write the essay.(100 points!)
- Vocab Test #1 (lessons 1-4) Wednesday, October 1st. (40 points!)
- ELC Ch 4. Begin Clause Lecture
- Integrating Quotations lecture and application
- Integrating Quotations application
- TKAM: Read and annotate chapters 25-28. As you read pay attention to Reading Standard 3.8 to direct your annotations.
- Study vocab #4
- Study ELC Clause Lecture handouts
- Work on TKAM Quotation Analysis. Due Friday, September 26th.
- Write & revise TKAM #4 paragraph and have #2 #3 quotation integration styles in the paragraph.
- Vocabulary #4 Introduction: TKAM Ch 7-11
- Please read and make notes on Reading Standard 3.8 As you read try to apply this reading standard to the text.
- Interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities in a text.
- Reader’s Theatre Ch 17-18
- Read and highlight the Integrating Quotations handout.
- TKAM Par. #4 (Ch 18): Write one analytical paragraph about Mayella’s testimony. You may choose your paragraph focus. Use the Integrating Quotations handout. Use at least 2 of the 3 quotation integration styles in your paragraph.
- TKAM: Read and annotate chapters 22-24. As you read pay attention to Reading Standard 3.8 to direct your annotations.
- Finish TKAM Paragraph #4 (see above for prompt.)
- Study ELC Ch 4. Bring your book tomorrow.
- Print: Paraphrase is . . . HO
- Study Vocab #4
- Vocab Test #1 (lessons 1-4) Wednesday, October 1st. (40 points!)
- TKAM Cast of Characters Check
- Vocabulary #3 Quiz: TKAM Ch 1-6
- Brain storm the type of prejudice focus for essay/Quotation Analysis
- Review analysis and how one’s perspective on a text affects one’s analysis
- Quoting MLA style.
- TKAM Quotation Analysis
- TKAM read and annotate (minimum of 3 per chapter) through Ch 19-21
- Print: Irony and Vocab #4
- We will study ELC Ch 4-5 next week
- Start thinking about your TKAM essay. What do you want to say about the prejudice you chose?
- Your TKAM QA sheet should be completed (6 total) and ready to use by Friday, September 26. (12 points and you get to use it during the essay!)
- The TKAM in-class essay is at the end of the month: Monday, Sept. 29th.
- Vocabulary Test #1 (lessons 1-4) is October 1
- Poetry Analysis: Strange Fruit
- Poetry analysis discussion
- Mob mentality and TKAM Ch 15-16 discussion
- TKAM read and annotate (minimum of 3 per chapter) through Ch 17-18
- Print: Dependent Words and Comma and Semicolon handouts
- Study ELC: Ch 4—no quiz tomorrow.
- Study Vocabulary #3
- Continue working on TKAM Cast of Characters handout. I will check tomorrow.
- Review your writing.
- Writing Goals and Strengths: Look over paragraphs to help guide your first analysis of your strengths and weaknesses.
- Analysis lecture
- TKAM annotation check: Ch 1-14 10 points possible
- TKAM Small group discussions on significant ideas in the book. Discuss annotations also and add to them too.
- Share TKAM significant ideas
- TKAM read and annotate (minimum of 3 per chapter) through Ch 15-16
- TKAM Paragraph #3: (Ch 16): Write one analytical paragraph on Mob mentality. You may choose your paragraph focus. Read the beginning of chapter 16 again!: pages 155-57. One suggestion is to explain what Atticus is trying to teach Scout about mob mentality.
- Print: Integrating Quotations handout
- Study ELC: Ch 4— EVEN Ex #6 due tomorrow
- Study Vocabulary #3
- Continue working on TKAM Cast of Characters handout
- Back-to-School is tonight. Your parents may buy books tonight!
- WJ
- Class Critique
- Read the passage once through.
- Read the passage again. Except this time pay attention to how the author is communicating his or her ideas through the text. Essentially, what you are doing is preparing to critique the passage. Look at the ideas and structure.
- Write about the writing. Try to be specific.
- Things that you might address in your writing critique are the following:
- What is done well and what is done poorly? Explain. Be specific.
- Are you able to understand why the author is writing the passage?
- Are the ideas communicated in a way that is clear and appropriate? If so why?
- Discuss writing
- Please work on your TKAM Cast of Characters handout! It needs to be up-to-date by Friday.
- Period 4: Critique TKAM Paragraph #1
- Thought homework: Think about writing goals you want to set for yourself.
- TKAM read and annotate (minimum of 3-5 per chapter) through Ch 12-14
- TKAM Paragraph #2: Write one analytical paragraph about a significant idea from Part 1 in the novel. Use Writing Standard 2.2 as your prompt.
- Study ELC: Ch 4. Be sure you know what independent and subordinate clause. Complete EVEN in Exercise #6 (110)—due Thursday!
- Study Vocabulary #3
- Vocabulary #2 Quiz
- ELC Ch 3 Quiz
- Vocabulary #3 Intro: TKAM Ch 1-6
- Writing Content Standard 2.2: Write responses to literature:
- TKAM read and annotate Ch 10-11.
- Study Vocab #3
- ELC: Study Ch 4.
- TKAM Par. #1: Write one analytical paragraph on one of the prompts below. Please keep Writing Standard 2.2 in mind while writing and include the following: gerund, appositive and participle. Volunteers remember to e-mail me the paragraph.
- Library Orientation
- Print vocab #3
- Next week we study ELC Ch 4
- Read and annotate TKAM. Remember 3-5 PER CHAPTER.
- Voc #2 and ELC Ch 3 quizzes on Monday—lucky you!
- Be sure you have all the HO I asked you to print this week.
- WJ: 9/11 open journal entry
- WJ: Can a person be prejudice and ignorant to his or her prejudice and the consequence? Explain. Does it matter if a person’s prejudice is intentional or in ignorance? Explain why or why not.
- TKAM Introduction: “The Life and Work of Harper Lee” HO and PowerPoint
- Discuss annotations from TKAM Ch 1-3
- ELC: Correct EVEN on pages 93-95. ELC Ch 3
- Read and annotate TKAM Ch 4-6. Remember to annotate each chapter 3-5 times.
- Study Vocab #2
- Study ELC Ch 3
- Print 3: Reading Stand. 3.8, Writing Content Standard 2.2 and TKAM Character Chart
- Get TKAM novel and introduce reading schedule.
- ELC Ch 3: participle and participle phrases. Verb forms: participle, gerund and infinitive. Appositives
- Read and annotate To Kill a Mockingbird by Haper Lee: Ch 1-3 Use the “Interacting with the Text” handout to guide your annotations. You need 3-5 annotations for tonight's reading. Then starting tomorrow, you need 3-5 per chapter!!
- You don’t need to bring your anthology--but please bring Harper Lee's novel!!
- ELC: Complete EVEN on pages 93-95. ELC Ch 3 (Quiz Friday!!). We will go over some tomorrow, so bring your book.
- Study Vocabulary #2
- Seminar: “The Gift of the Magi” (524), “The Scarlet Ibis” (552), “The Invalid’s Story” (597) and “The Most Dangerous Game” (19).
- Read the Analytical Paragraph handout and the On Writing an Essay handout. Then revise the paragraph on Brother from “The Scarlet Ibis.” Please bring in the draft and the revision.
- Bring in all five paragraphs. You should always have them with you!!
- Seminar: Writing Reflection on today’s seminar. 100-150 words required. You may focus on one or more of the stories. Please write about specifics!!!
- Bring in your To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) book if you have one. If you don't buy the book, I will take you to the Textbook room tomorrow.
- Print :TKAM QA and TKAM Reading Schedule
- ELC: study Ch 3. Quiz on Ch 3 on Friday. Bring your book again tomorrow.
- Please take out Paragraph #5 and put it on your desk. I will come around and read/comment on a few.
- Vocab #2 Introductiom: To Kill a Mocking Bird Ch 1-3
- Reading Fluency Introduction
- Literary Term (LT): Ambiguity
- Print, read, and annotate On Writing an Essay HO (Keep in your Writing Style divider.)
- Study ELC (grammar book) Ch 3. Questions due tomorrow! Quiz Friday.
- Study Vocab #2 (Make sure you have the words!!)
- Short story seminar tomorrow. Prepare a seminar note sheet with two-three questions or insights for the stories we have not yet discussed.
- Make sure you have hard copies of all five paragraphs on the short stories.
- We begin TKAM Wednesday.
- Vocabulary Quiz #1 : Short Stories
- Paragraph #4 Theme: Write one analytical paragraph in which you discuss one aspect of Rainsford’s moral character from Richard Connel’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” Be sure to have a minimum of two concrete details and commentary (analysis).
- Hot Seat
- Print: Writing Standard 2.2 and Vocab #2
- Paragraph #5: Write one analytical paragraph discussing the writing style or what makes Mark Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story” (597-602) humorous. Please address tone and use specific examples to support your claim.
- Save all of your paragraphs to your memory stick.
- On Monday, we will have a seminar discussion on the stories we have not yet discussed.
- If you are new to the class be sure you print and read the Seminar Introduction handout.
- Vocabulary #1 Practice Quiz: Short Stories
- ELC Intro: Overview of Ch 1-2. Diagnostic Test for Ch 3 (prepositional phrases, adjective phrase, and adverb phrase).
- Study Vocab #1
- Read and annotate (5 Post-its) Richard Connel’s “The Most Dangerous Game” (19-36).
- Write five self-chosen annotations. Pay special attention to tone!!
- ELC: Study Ch 3 and complete the following exercises: EVEN Ex 1 (72), Ex 2 (74), Ex 3 (78), and Ex 5 (80). Due Tuesday 9.9.08.
- Please make sure you printed last night’s handouts: Ambiguity, Reading Fluency Log and Analytical Paragraph.
- English binder and supply check: I will come around and check your English binder while you write.
- Today’s WJ prompt: What personal application can you make with the short story “The Scarlet Ibis”? Please be specific and detailed.
- LT: tone and mood
- Tone: the author’s implicit attitude toward the people, places, and events in a story.
When we speak, tone is conveyed by our voice inflections, our wink of an eye, or some other gesture. A teacher who says, “You’re going to fail the next exam” may be indicating concern, frustration, sympathy, alarm, humor, or indifference, depending on the tone of voice. In a literary work that spoken voice is unavailable; instead we must rely on the context in which a statement appears to interpret it correctly.- Tone is often created by the denotative & connotative meaning, context, sentence structure, and punctuation.
- Mood is the emotional response evoked in the reader; the feeling that a piece of literature creates in the reader.
- Tone and mood analysis in Hurst's story:
- Read and then identify the tone and mood in the first paragraph in Hurst’s story.
- Closely examine the tone. (Pay attention to the context and word choice.)
- What is the tone?
- How is the tone achieved?
- What mood is created by the tone?
- Read Mark Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story” (597-602). On your second reading, write five self-chosen annotations. Hint: Twain is considered the great American humorist. What is the purpose of the story? Pay attention to tone and mood!!!
- Print: Ambiguity, “Reading Fluency Log” and “Analytical Paragraph Guidelines”
- Bring your anthology and your ELC books
- Study Vocabulary #1--quiz Friday.
- Peanuts (421) and (Magi 524) Seminar (This is our first seminar.)
- Seminar Reflection
- Study vocabulary #1.
- Read “The Scarlet Ibis” (552-565) once. Then read again and annotate. (Minimum of five Post-its. You choose which ones.)
- P#3: Character: Write one well-developed paragraph in which you discuss ONE ASPECT of Brother’s character in James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis.” Please address tone or mood in some way in the paragraph. Be sure to use two examples (quotations) followed by analysis to support your point.
- English binder and supplies checked tomorrow!!
- Vocabulary Introduction Guidelines
- Highlight words you don’t/do know
- Look up and note pronunciation of words you cannot pronounce.
- Add to the definition to broaden your understanding.
- Begin to study according to your learning style: visual, audio, and kinesthetic.
- Put into practice—use the words!! Say them!
- Vocab Group Work: visual, audio, and kinesthetic
- Vocabulary #1 Introduction: Short Stories
- Discuss and create seminar note sheets
- Read “The Gift of the Magi” (524-33).
- Write five annotations (your thoughts, questions, ideas) on Post-it notes. Use the “Interacting with the Text” HO to help guide these annotations. Answer a minimum of numbers 2, 5 (central theme), 6, 8 and 10 or 11.
- Paragraph #2: Character Choose one character “The Gift of the Magi” (525-31). Write one paragraph in which you analyze one aspect of that character. Make sure your paragraph makes one claim about the character and that the body of the paragraph develops and supports the claim. Use text (the story) to support your point.
- Practice seminar on both short stories on Tuesday.
- Turn in letter about self
- Turn in syllabus slip
- Phone number and e-mail of two peers
- Writer’s Journal (WJ): Periodically, I will ask you to write in your WJ on a specific prompt. Today is the second day of class; with this in mind, discuss your specific goals for this class and the steps you need to take to reach those goals.
- “Interacting with the Text” handout (HO). You will use this often as a guide to annotating text when you read fiction. Keep this at the front of your Literature Work divider.
- Re-read and now also annotate “One Ordinary Day with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson (421-30).
- Write five annotations (your thoughts, questions, ideas) on Post-it notes. Use the “Interacting with the Text” HO to help guide your annotations. Be sure you answer a minimum of numbers 2, 5 (central theme), 6, 8 and 10 or 11. Write your annotations on Post-its, and put them next to the text that inspired your thoughts.
- Paragraph #1(theme) pre-write
- Print Vocab #1 (under Documents on the class website). Begin to study. Your first vocabulary quiz will be next Friday, Sept., 5th.
- Paragraph #1: Theme (remember that a theme must have a message—something that you can argue is true. For ex: Love stinks.). Write one well-developed paragraph in which you discuss Shirley Jackson’s central theme in the story “One Ordinary Day with Peanuts” (421-30). Yes, I know the central theme is not obvious, but do the best you can and support your claim well with specific details from the text and analysis! Please give two points of analysis for every concrete detail.
- Print and read the Seminar Introduction handout (under the S section in Documents)
- Tomorrow we will have a seminar on “One Ordinary Day with Peanuts”
- Info sheet
- Syllabus
- Get textbooks
- For your first writing assignment, please write me a 250-300 word letter about yourself. Help me get to know you. Discuss what is important in your life and why? You may want to discuss family, hobbies, school, religion--whatever you think is important and interesting about who you are as a person.
- Write your letter about yourself. I will collect it tomorrow!
- Enroll in Turnitin.com, submit your letter, and print the receipt. If you handwrote your letter, you do NOT have to retype the entire thing. Simply type and submit the first sentence and then print the receipt. I just want you to learn the process.
- Have your parents/guardians read and sign the syllabus.
- Check out our class website, and save it to your favorites.
- Read at least the first half of “One Ordinary Day with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson (421-25).
- English binder and supplies due ASAP—I will check them on Tuesday. Please have all dividers labeled and in order by then!
- Bring your student ID with you tomorrow and every school day.
- Cover your textbooks!!
- If you can, please bring in a box of tissue to donate to the class.
Tuesday: 11.18.08
Homework: 11.18.08
Monday: 11.17.08
Homework: 11.17.08
Friday: 11.14.08
Bk2 Ch1 (62, 4 or 58 in paper) Paragraph four in the chapter: “But indeed , [. . . .] in a rather significant manner” (62, 4).
What is being criticized; what problem(s) Dickens is tying to correct?
Narrator’s Tone: Explain:
Reader’s Mood: Explain why:
Homework: 11.14.08
Thursday: 11.13.08
Homework: 11.13.08
Wednesday: 11.12.08
Directions: Look up and read the following passages.
What is being criticized; what problem(s) is Dickens trying to correct?
Narrator’s Tone: Explain:
Reader’s Mood: Explain why:
Bonus Question:
What writing style techniques does Dickens’ use to draw attention to the problems and hint that he is being satirical?
Homework: 11.12.08
Reminders:
Tuesday: 11.11.08 NO School!
Monday: 11.10.08
Homework: 11.10.08
Reminders:
Friday: 11.07.08
Homework: 11.07.08
Thursday: 11.06.08
Homework: 11.06.08 (Per 3: I have your Term 1 grades!!)
Write a one-page analysis to one of the following prompts. As your re-read and write pay attention to literary devices—especially ambiguity, nuance, and the narrator’s tone. Please title this page TTC Book 1 Ch 5: Create Your Own Subtitle.
Wednesday: 11.05.08
Homework: 11.05.08
Tuesday: 11.04.08
Homework: 11.04.08
Monday: 11.3.08
Homework: 11.3.08
Friday: 10.31.08
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
Homework: 10.31.08
Thursday: 10.30.08
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Wednesday: 10.29.08
Homework: 10.29.08
Tuesday: 10.28.08
Homework: 10.28.08
Monday: 10.27.08
Homework: 10.27.08
Presenters, you need to come prepared with the following:
Friday: 10.24.08 (Rally Schedule)
Homework:
Thursday: 10.23.08
Homework: 10.23.08
Wednesday: 10.22.08
For Ms. Hunter on the day you present.
Homework: 10.22.08
Tuesday: 10.21.08
Homework 10.21.08:
Monday: 10.20.08
Homework: 10.20.08
Friday: 10.17.08
Per. 1: WJ: What does it mean to be a 1) “critical thinker”?
Per. 3:
A WJ: What does it mean to be an 2) “effective communicator”?
B WJ: What does it mean to 3) “possess a core knowledge”?
Per. 4:
A WJ: What does it mean to be 4) “understanding and respectful individuals”?
B WJ: What does it mean to be a 5) “problem solver”?
C WJ: What does it mean to be an 6) “active community member”?
Homework: 10.17.08
Thursday: 10.16.08
Introduction Paragraph Peer Review
Outline Body Peer Review
Homework: 10.16.08
Wednesday: 10.15.08
Homework: 10.15.08
Tuesday: 10.14.08
Homework: 10.14.08
Monday: 10.13.08
Homework: 10.13.08
Friday: 10.10.08
Homework: 10.10.08
Thursday: 10.9.08
Wednesday: 10.8.08
Homework: 10.8.08
Tuesday: 10.7.08
Homework: 10.7.08
Monday: 10.6.08
Homework: 10.6.08
Friday: 10.2.08
Homework: 10.2.08
Thursday: 10.2.08
Homework: 10.2.08
Wednesday: 10.1.08
Homework: 10.1.08
Tuesday: 9.30.08 No School :)
Monday: 9.29.08
Homework: 9.29.08
Friday: 2.26.08 (End of marking period!)
Homework: 2.26.08
Thursday: 9.25.08
Homework: 9.25.08
Wednesday: 9.24.08
Homework: 2.24.08
Tuesday: 2.23.08
Homework: 2.23.08
Monday: 9.22.08
Homework: 9.22.08
Friday: 9.19.08
Homework: 9.19.09
Reminders:
Thursday: 9.18.08
Homework: 9.18.09
Wednesday: 9-17-08
Homework: 9.17.08
Tuesday: 9.16.09
Homework: 9.16.08 (There are some changes in due dates, so read closely.)
Monday: 9.15.08
Option 1 (Ch 9) Re-read the beginning of chapter nine up to the last sentence in the section that reads, “Then Christmas came and disaster struck” (77). Write one analytical paragraph in which you discuss what Atticus is trying to teach his children about courage.
Option 2(Ch9): Re-think Atticus’s motive in taking the Robinson case. Re-read (74-77). Write one analytical paragraph in which you explain why Atticus believes it is so important for him to take the Tom Robinson case.
Friday: 9.12.09
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