Week 18
Monday: minimum day. Results of One Act Play voting. Casting
Tuesday: Literature Rectangles. One Act play planning. Homework, novel response.
Wednesday: Personal statements returned. 2nd draft due Friday. Limited One Act Play planning. Personal dictionary quicklook. Save your personal dictionary to your computer by Friday. Submit to turnitin.com by Sunday night.
Thursday: Novel response to literature due, class discussion. limited One Act Play planning
Friday: One Act Play prep. 2nd draft personal statement due.
Week 17
Memorial Day holiday
Tuesday: continue lit rectangles, assignments based on novel. One Act play due today. Remember to submit it to turnitin.com
Wednesday: return to computer lab for college research and more work on personal statements, brag sheets, etc. HW: typed draft of personal statement due Thursday.
Thursday: Lit rectangles, assignments based on novel. One Act play sharing/voting.
Friday: Assembly schedule. Catcher Socratic Seminar. Begin organizing for One Acts
Compose letter to self/ due Monday
Week 16
Catcher in the Rye
AP reading circles link
Continue to work on writing and editing personal statements
One Act Play assignment begins
Revisit AP essays
Socratic Seminar moved to Thursday
Catcher homework link above.
Remember to return your Everything's an Argument textbook
Week 14
Brag sheet
One Act Plays
Wow.
Here we are. Breakfast and lunch were both fun. How about the exam? Fun too? I hope so :)
Literature circle choices:
Old Man and the Sea
The Awakening
Beloved
Catcher in the Rye
Ethan Frome
Choices due on Friday.
Also, portfolios due back to class with all college choice essays inside. Collect six adjectives from specified people about YOU. Due Monday. Download the brag sheet (link above) to your computer and begin to work on it over the weekend. Save what you have done and print out a draft to bring to class Monday.
Once Act Play assignment sheet link above. This is a little pre mature, but you might want to look at it now.
Week 13
Review, Relax, Rethink
Share, Simplify, Strategize
Practice, Prepare, Position
Week 12
ELC form due with parent signature
We will be in review mode now with May approaching. I am also in my classroom during lunch everyday and am available by appointment before or after school just like usual if you want to schedule an appointment to review your portfolio and writing again.
Sign ups for full practice exam. Choices: Sunday, May 2 9-12 or Saturday, May 8 9-12
Monday: You must sign up so please discuss this with your parents and understand that it is like a reservation. Signups begin on Monday.
Using the books you brought to class today (one pre 20th century favorite and one 20th century favorite) practice with sentence stems and utilizing your rhetorical device literary term list and personal dictionary.
Tuesday: Last in-class practice timed write and multiple choice practice (later)
Wednesday: STAR testing and then periods 1,3,5 meet. Do your best on the test :) I will see you on Thursday.
Thursday: STAR testing and then periods 1 through 6 meet. Quote response, sentence analysis practice, rhetorical term review. Please try to complete the sentence stems we began on Monday, before class today.
Friday: STAR testing and then periods 2,4,6 meet. A touch of poetry today.
Week 11
Thoreau/White link for inclass/homework paragraph comparing conclusions these authors made in two of their writings Submit to turnitin.com and hard copy due Friday.
EB Whte Once More to the Lake text link
Where I lived... study questions
Monday: Share discussion questions from Economy, Marginalized real life people paragraphs due, Read 'Where I lived chapter. Finish as homework.
Tuesday: Relook at Economy discussion questions. Share marginalized people paragraphs, Where I lived study questions for group discussion. Type answers and turn in Wednesday.
Wednesday: " Where I lived" study questions answers (typed and printed) due. Timed write on Walden Economy and Where I live. Use of study questions and book allowed. Homework: Print "Once More to the Lake" by EB White. Close read Thursday in class on THursday. Do not read it, we will do that in groups.
Thursday: Peer edit timed write. In class close read of "Once More to the Lake" compare/contrast to "Where I Lived". Homework: come to open house :) Also, finish the paragraph you started in class and submit it to turnitin.com. The prompt link is listed above. Finally begin to brainstorm a list characters you have read about this year who have been marginalized.
Friday: Bring Walden and EAA (Toulmin work). Bring literary device list and personal dictionary. Homework: Select a favorite book you have read from the 20th century and one from pre 20th century. Bring to class on Monday.
Week 10
Walden: Economy group discussion question link
Welcome back! Debrief from spring break.
Do Now quote responses continue
Score our multiple choice passage
Score the integrating quote practice sheet
Peer edit Adversity essay
Precis practice in pairs and sharing
Begin Walden
Create a mandala representing what you know of Thoreau's beliefs at this point. Due Friday. Share with group and class.
Economy Part A "When I wrote... to...their own golden or silver fetters." Begin discussion questions on Thursday.
Additional Walden readings will be spread over the next two weeks and will include the following excerpts:
Economy Part C "As for a Shelter... to...same purpose as the Iliad." Read 4/15 to be included in discussion questions on Part A
Economy Part D "It would be worth the while" to "owned their thirds in mills, may be alarmed." Weekend reading: skim this section please.
Research marginalized real people. Write a paragraph about that person to share with the class on Monday.
Where I Lived and What I Lived For (full chapter) Begin reading in class on Monday, April 19. Finish for homework Monday night.
Solitude (full chapter)
The Bean-Field (full chapter)
House-Warming (full chapter)
Spring (full chapter)
Week 9
Monday: minimum day. Study questions for Civil Disobedience due. Preparation for Socratic Seminar continues.
Pick up Walden.
Guest speaker regarding private colleges
Tuesday: Civil Disobedience groupwork in class
Wednesday: Socratic Seminar, Civil Disobedience
Thursday: Begin Walden and Counselors will visit class to discuss course selection for next year.
Friday: end of quarter, minimum day. Walden
Week 8
Study questions for the weekend, due Monday, typed answers please.
Link: Civil Disobedience
BirmJailDisc?
Socratic Semninar on Monday Discussion question link is above, for your weekend preparation and reflection prior to our Socratic Seminar
Precis practice, yes, again
Revisit incorporating quotes and MLA style, include practice
Toulmin and EAA
Synthesis inclass essay on Thursday
Begin Thoreau. Print On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Read through, first read, bring to class on Wednesday. Here is a great link: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/
Friday: special guest panel of GHS alum regarding college app process, college choices, testing, This will extend through lunch for additional Q and A time.
SMAP: Sunday, March 28 9-11 our house
Week 7
BirmJailDisc?
MLK Birmingham Jail colored coded
MLK HW
Complete Julius Caesar Brutus/Antony speech anaylsis
Relook at how to write a precis
MLK I have a dream and Birmingham Jail
Relook and clarify Toulmin
EAP Wednesday
Check out Walden (maybe next week)
Birmingham Jail analysis begins. Socratic seminar probably next Monday or Tuesday.
3rd columnist write up due on Friday.
SMAP Saturday 9-11 with Ms Ciotti
College essay rewrite postponed
Week 6
MLK Letter from a Birmingham J
Continue fallacy look, Chapter 17 EAA
EAA Chapter 6, Toulmin
Analyze and refine our college argument essays: computer lab on Friday
Nicenet posting before Monday, March 15
Listen to Justin and other famous speeches, analyze for rhetorical strategies.
Write and submit a Precis of MLK I have a dream speech. Print hard copy due Friday, March 12 and submit to turnitin.com before midnight Friday.
Represent your class at oratorical. Good luck Justin, Kimmie, and Jimmie!
Over the weekend: Printout and do a "first read" of MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail. Bring to class on Monday. Here is the letter: MLK Letter from a Birmingham J
Columnist #3 due Friday, March 19.
Week 5
Gatsby MC practice
Return and discuss Synthesis essays and Gatsby timed writes
Virtue logs due Monday
Columnist review #2 due Friday, March 5
Chapter 6 Everything's an Argument Wednesday through Friday
Toulmin argument and fallacy practice
Begin research for Toulmin college research essay
SMAP Saturday, March 6 from 9-11
Week 4
Diorama rubric
Remember to log your "Path to Moral Perfection" by keeping track of the virtues you trip over. :) The log should include Saturday, Feb 20 through Friday, Feb 26. It will be due on Monday, 3/01. We will do an in-class writen reflection and have time to share.
Monday 2/22: No school
Tuesday: Report to J186 for timed write on Gatsby. Prompt will be distributed at that time. Review Gatsby and work on your diorama over the weekend. Think about themes, imagery, diction, style, time period. See you Tuesday.
Wednesday: Diorama rubric link posted above. Diorama presentations, debrief Socratic Seminar, return to EAA
Thursday, Friday: Multiple choice practice with Gatsby. EAA, Toulmin, begin college research part three.
Week 3
Diorama partners and topics
IMPT: Columnist choices I have revised due dates for Columnist assignment. First due this Friday, second to Friday, March 5, third due Friday March 12. see link: Columnist assignment
Wednesday eve, read Chapter 9 in Great Gatsby
Thursday, Friday discuss Gatsby overview and preparation for Tuesday 2/23 timed write.
Diorama assignment due 2/24
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography excerpt and virtues assignment will begin on Saturday.
Next week we will return to EAA for a little bit. Toulmin here we come.
SMAP this Saturday, Feb 20 9-11 in Ms. Clark's room, B309. Confirm your reservation on Friday.
Week 2
Chapter 6 Gatsby ?s answers to these questions are due on Tuesday, Feb 16. Typed
http://grommersoft.com/greatgatsby/ This is a link to the complete text, in case you are missing pages in your book.
Gatsby Ch 3 Questions due Thursday, 2/11 Continue with Great Gatsby including group work, quikwrites, symbolism, and discussion questions. Discuss Fitzgerald purpose(s) in regards to the first three chapters.
Planned reading schedule: Ch 2 - 2/08 HW, Ch 3 - 2/09 HW, Ch 4 - 2/10, Ch 5 - in class 2/11, Ch 6 - HW 2/11, Ch 7 - HW 2/12, Ch 8 - HW 2/16, Ch 9 - HW 2/17.
Explore and research 1920's, watch video, computer research at home, partner project for a Roaring Twenties diorama due on Tuesday, Feb 23.
Winter Dreams vocabulary matching test on Friday
Consider what we consider symbols and explore how Fitzgerald uses them throughout the novel
Quote responses continue
Columnist choices due Thursday. First report due Friday 2/19.
In-class multiple choice practice if time.
SMAP continues: this week on Sunday, 2/14 from 9-11
Week 1
Current Event Part 3
Print Winter Dreams short story and bring to class on 02/02/10. We will begin reading it together in class. Here is a link you can print from. Winter Dreams
Pick up The Great Gatsby. We will begin reading it after we complete Winter Dreams.
Peer editing Mark Twain letters and relook at synthesis essays.
SMAP begins Saturday, Feb 6 9-11 to prepare for the multiple choice section of the AP test. Tell me Friday if you will attend Saturday's session.
Current event assignment continues with the final installment of part two due 02/04.
If you were on the field trip today, and missed the Winter Dreams vocabulary, here is the link. Winter Dreams Disc ?s and Voca Words with definitions are due tomorrow.
Current Event Part 3 Columnist assignment distributed Friday, Feb 5. Columnist choices are due Friday, Feb 12.
Discuss/explore/share what we know about the 1920's. Review preface.
Begin Gatsby on Friday in class. Paraphrase practice. Link here to quotations. Finish reading Chapter 1 over the weekend. Please type paraphrase practice, due Monday.
Gatsby Ch 1 paraphrase practic
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