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

Week of February 6-10

Monday, February 6
Journal: Why do people do wrong things even when they know they're wrong?
Assignments: Technology survey. Introduce memoir project. Read night.

Tuesday, February 7
Bell work: Your v. you're
Assignments: 15 minutes of pre-writing time for your memoir project. Read Night silently to page 65 and come up with 8 questions for tomorrow's Socratic Circle (Two at each of the four levels)

Wednesday, February 8
Assignments: Socratic circle

Thursday, February 9
Journal Why is it important for us to read about historical events like the Holocaust?
Assignments: 15 minutes of pre-writing time for your memoir project. Read Night out loud. Night Connections worksheet.
Homework: Night connections worksheet.

Friday, February 10
Items Due: Night Connections worksheet
Bell Work: Grammar practice
Assignments: Today you need to bring in your memoir project for a work day. I will be checking to make sure you have made progress!

Week of January 30- February 3

Monday, January 30
Assignments: On Demand

Tuesday, January 31
Bell Work: Journal: List everything you know about the Holocaust
Assignments: Into to memoir and the Holocaust

Wednesday, February 1
Journal: What surprised you the most in the presentation yesterday?
Assignments: Read Oprah's interview with Elie Wiesel. Annotate it and answer the questions on the last page of the interview. Recieve vocab: Due Friday!
Homework: Questions from Oprah interview

Thursday, February 2
Items Due: Questions from the Oprah interview
Journal: Think of three people in your life who have really impacted you for better or for worse. What did they do thtat was so special? Are there any moments that stand out to you?
Assignments: Read "Fighting Hate, Across Cultures and Generations" and answer questions. Create triptych
Homework: Vocab cards due tomorrow. Finish triptych at home

Firday, February 3
Items Due: Vacab cards Triptych
Journal: What is genocide? why do you think genocide occurs? What are some examples of genocide in the past two centuries?
Assignments: Begin reading Night

Week of January 23-27

Monday January,23
Assignments: Today is the last day to work in class on your research assignment!
Homework: Bring in your completed research assignment tomorrow for peer review.

Tuesday January,24
Items due: Research assignment
Assignments: Peer review and conferencing
Homework: Research assignment with corrections

Wednesday January, 25
Items due: Research assignment with corrections
Bell Work: Journal: What is your overall impression of Hemingway? Do you like his writing style? Explain why and give specific examples.
Assignments:• Turn in your research assignment
• Laying out an essay with your index cards

Thursday,January 26
Bell Work: Grammar review
Assignments: • Socratic Circle
Homework: Grammar, vocab and The Old Man and the Sea quiz tomorrow

Friday, January 27
Assingnments: • Quiz over affect v. effect, comma splices, there/their/they’re, vocab and The Old Man and the Sea

Week of January 17-20, 2012

Here is our agenda for the week.

January 17: Reading and working
January 18: Library day for research
January 19: Continue reading and working
January 20: Continue reading and working

If you are doing the AP assignment, here is the agenda.

January 17: Continue reading and working (10 points)
January 18: Thesis statement due at the beginning of class on an index card, Library day for research
January 19: Continue reading and working (40 points)
January 20: 10 index cards due at the beginning of class with MLA citations, summaries, and quotes (these are not necessarily your final sources, but they give me a good idea of where you stand with your paper), Continue reading and working

Week of January 9-13

Monday, January 9
Items due: Read to p. 60
Journal: After you get your paper back, write a paragraph about reflecting on how you could start discovering what is below the surface of your personal iceberg.Discussion over the reading Read to page 90 Homework:Read to page 90, work on vocabulary cards and Understand...ing Literature packet

Tuesday, January 10
Items due: Read to p. 90
Journal: Agree or disagree with the following statement and explain your opinion: Victory is not a prerequisite for honor.Their, there and they’re lesson Finish the book
Homework: Finish the book (if needed), vocabulary cards due tomorrow!

Wednesday, January 11
Items due: Vocabulary cards, Book finished
Journal: Write a reflection from the perspective of the old man (Santiago) or the boy (Manolin) after the old man returned from his journey.Go over vocab cards Introduction to literary criticism with 1952 Time article Introduction to 5-part thesis statement (if time permits) Homework: Understanding Literature packet

Thursday, January 12
Bell work: Read “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway. When you are finished, write four questions about the piece that could be used in a Socratic Circle discussion (one for each level).Discussion over the piece and themes from Hemingway’s works Intro to 5-part thesis statement (if we didn’t get to it Wednesday) Practice writing the thesis statement in groups Homework: Understanding Literature packet due tomorrow!

Friday, January 13
Items due: Understanding Literature packetGrammar review (affect v. effect, comma splices, there, their and they’re)Receive research assignment Begin working on research assignment.