Week of April 23-27

Monday, April 23 Items Due: Act 2.-2 read Assignments: EOC Study Guide. Party analysis Homework: Read Act 2.3-5 Tuesday, April 24 Items Due: Act 2.3-5 Assignments: EOC Study Guide. Character mapping Homework: Read Act 3.1-3 with logs. Wednesday, April 25 Items Due: Act 3.1-3 with logs. Assignments: EOC Study Guide. Fish bowl. Homework: Read Act 3.4 with logs. Thursday, April 26 Items Due: Act 3.4 with logs. Assignments: EOC Review. Homework: Read ACt 4 with logs. Friday, April 27 Items Due: Act 4 with logs. Assignments: Practice Test. Review EOC Study Guide. Homework: Read Act 5 with logs. Review EOC Study Guide.

Week of April 16-20

Monday, April 16
Assignments: EOC Study Guide. Introduction to Shakespeare with guided notes. Conventions of Shakespearean comedy. "What ifs"
Homework: Read Act 1, Scenes 1-2 by Wednesday and complete Twelfth Night Logs for each scene.

Tuesday, April 17
Assignments: Practice ACT test (for timed skills). Review of questions.
Homework: Read Act 1.1-2 and complete act logs.

Wednesday, April 18
Items Due: Act 1.1-2 read and act logs complete.
Bell Work: Review for EOC
Assignments: Shakespearean Vocal Exercises
Homework: Read Act 1.3-5 and complete act logs.

Thursday, April 19
Items Due: Act 1.3-5 with act logs complete.
Bell Work: Review for EOC
Assignments: Contemplation Questions. Character development activity.
Homework: Read Act 2.1-2 and complete act logs.

Friday, April 20
Items Due: Act 2.1-2 with act logs complete
Bell Work: Review for EOC
Assignments: Party analysis.
Homework: Read Act 2.3-5 by Tuesday and complete act logs.

Week of March 19-23

Monday, March 19
Journal: Of the three speeches you watched on Friday, Which one was the most effective? What made it effective?
Assignments: End-of-course preview. Introduction to assignment. Turn in debate topics. Begin brainstomring/ writing thesis.
Homework: Thesis for your side of the debate. You may bring in electronics tomorrow!

Tuesday, March 20
Items Due: Thesis.
Bell Work: Review topic sentences.
Assignments: Research for debate.

Wednesday, March 21
Assignments: Research for debate

Thursday, March 22
Assignments: Research for debate
Homework: 10 source cards due tomorrow.

Friday, March 23
Items Due: 10 source cards
Assignments: Begin writing speech.

Week of March 12-16

Monday, March 12
Journal: Are there things that you believe in that you would fight for no matter what? Why? If not, why are your beliefs not worth fighting for?
Assignments: Read Antigone

Tuesday, March 13
journal: Who is the tragic hero -Antigone or Creon? Defend your point of view.
Assignments: Finish Antigone. Introduce argument/ debate and speech writing.

Wednesday, March 14
Assignments: Thesis and debate activity

Thursday, March 15
Bell Work: Topic sentence practice
Assignments: Watch and analyze speeches

Friday, March 16
Assignments: Watch and analyze speeches. Pick partner adn choose three debate topics.
Homework: Three debate topics due on Monday.

Week of March 5-9

Monday, March 5
Assignments: Finish posters

Tuesday, March 6
Bell work: Strong verbs for claims in groups
Assignments: Gallery walk of Greek theater projects

Wednesday, March 7
Bell Work: Fourth and fifth period: Scheduling. Sixth period: Bell Work: Abstract nouns will be the heartbeat of your universal idea. Come up with as many abstract nouns as you can. (Example: happiness)
Assignments: Oedipus Rex. Antigone pre-reading activity

Thursday, March 8
Bell Work: Fourth and fifth: see Wednesday. Sixth period: Scheduling
Assignments: See Wednesday

Friday, March 9
Bell Work: Thesis practice
Assignments: Begin reading Antigone

Week of February 20-24

Monday, February 20
NO SCHOOL!

Tuesday, February 21
Items Due: holocaust survivor poem
Journal: Why do we write poetry? Why do you or don't you like writing it?
Assignments: Introduction to TP-CASTT. Practice TP-CASTT with poetry. TP-CASTT with group members' poems.

Wednesday, February 22
Bellwork: Syntax and diction practice
Assignments: TP-CASTT with your poem.
Homework: TP-CASTT for your poem if you didn't finish it.

Thursday, February 23
Assignments: TP-CASTT with poetry from the textbook

Friday February 24
Assignments: Complete study guide over Night, vocabulary, grammar, syntax and diction.
Homework: Start studying!

Week of February 13-17

Monday, February 13
Items Due: Night connections worksheet
journal: What affected you the most in Night
Assignments: Discussion over connections worksheet. Finish Night.

Tuesday, February 14
Bell Work: To, too and two
Assignments: Intorduction to grammatical syntax and diction. Work in groups to find examples form the book of each type of grammatical syntax and diction.
Homework: Memoir project due tomorrow!

Wednesday, February 15
Items Due: Memoir project
Bell Work: Write a sample sentence for each type of grammatical syntax.
Assignments: Turn in memoir projects. Read "The Lottery" and discuss allusion and symbolism. Discuss the homework assignment.
Homework: Go online and find the story of a holocaust survivor. Print it, annotate it and create a MLA citation. Get to know your survivor very well!

Thursday, February 16
Items Due: Holocaust survivor
Bell Work: Adjectives v. adverbs
Assignments: Intorduction to poetry. Receive poetry assignment for Holocaust survivor. Begin writing poem.

Friday, February 17
Bell Work: Grammar practice
Assignments: Write your poem
Homework: powm due on Tuesday