Important Documents

Vocabulary Practice Sheets

Friday Talk Prep Sheets Period One Period Two Period Four Short Story Analysis Sheet
 

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Remember to do a submission for a writing contest!!  This is due by fourth quarter.

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September

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Superintendent's Conference Day
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Freshmen Orientation
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Review Syllabus
Literary Elements
Heading
Writing Contest Submission
HW: Goal Chat Worksheet
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Profile Project

HW: Complete to hand in Monday
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9 10
Summer Reading Essay
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Summer Reading Essay
12
Friday Talks
Topic Suggestions
Rubric
Academic Integrity Policy
1st Qtr. Independent Reading Project
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Library Orientation
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Library Orientation
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Intro to Poetry:
Dead Poet's Society Clip 1
Dead Poet's Society Clip 2
Why choose these two clips?
What do they suggest about poetry?
Discuss interest in, knowledge of and past experiences with poetry
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SLO Pretest
(Please email me any questions or concerns)
Passed out poetry packet
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Intro to Poetry:
"Introduction to Poetry"
and "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins

HW: Start illustration sheet in class and finish for hw.
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Illustrations Collected
Poetry Pretest - 1. Students take
2. Teacher reviews answers
3. Students fill out index card citing terms and skills they are unfamiliar with
21
Roots, suffixes and prefixes lesson taught by student teacher
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23 24
SRI Testing
(Please email me any questions or concerns)
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Figuring out rhyme scheme and structure
Practice
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No School
27
Rhyme Scheme
Rhyming
"Love the Way you Lie" - Video
Lyrics
28
Friday Talk
Review answers to song activity
HW: Bring in song lyrics to analyze for Monday
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October

Sunday

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Saturday

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Song Lyric Activity
Look at "The Tyger" by William Blake
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Notes on Explication
Practice with "What Lips my Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Notes on Sonnets
Review answers for "What Lips my Lips Have Kissed..."
HW: Be ready to discuss Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
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Practice with "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by William Shakespeare
and "A Dream Lies Dead" by Dorothy Parker
5
Friday Talk

Start writing  sonnets! - Due Monday Oct. 15
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No School
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The life of Walt Whitman - Video

HW: Whitman Assignment
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Go over Whitman assignment in groups

HW: "They shut me up in prose" by Emily Dickinson
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Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie

Langston Hughes
What are the common themes in these poems?
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Interims
Friday Talk
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Sonnets due!
Maya Angelou - "Still I Rise"

HW: Explicate "Sympathy" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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Meet in computer lab to research Dunbar

HW: How does "Sympathy" reflect Dunbar's life?
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Discuss "Poetic Vision"


Research Vocab
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Practice in paraphrasing and summarizing
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Friday Talk
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IN LIBRARY
Poet selection day
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IN LIBRARY
Poem finding/printing
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Research Project Scoring Guide

Work on poems in class
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Explication Summary Rubric

Work on poems in class
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Friday Talk
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IN LIBRARY
Finding Book Sources

Research Tips
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IN LIBRARY
Finding Book Sources/Making Citations
31
IN LIBRARY
Finding Journal Sources
     
 

November

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Notes on Note Taking

Notes Sheet
2
Friday Talk
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IN LIBRARY
Web Sources
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IN LIBRARY
Web Sources
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IN LIBRARY
Working on Summary

Internal Citations
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Poem Explications and Summary DUE

Creating a Thesis
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1st. Qtr. Ends
Friday Talk

Sample Outline

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No School
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IN LIBRARY

Model Outline
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IN LIBRARY

Evolution of my thesis
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Outline, Thesis, Notes, and Sources DUE
IRP 2:1 Assigned
Pass back all graded work
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Friday Talk

Model Paper

Research Project Rubric
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ROUGH DRAFT DUE
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IN LIBRARY
Revision

Tips for Revision
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IN LIBRARY
Revision
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No School
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No School
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Research Papers due
Pass out books
Begin Ch. 1/ Visualization
Handout Calendar and Study Guide

HW: Read Ch. 1
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Background Research in Library
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Background Research in Library
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Quiz on Ch. 1
Discussion using Asking Questions WS
Poem "To a Mouse" activity

HW: Read Ch. 2
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Friday Talk
Begin discussing themes
American Dreams
Lending Tree commercial
Friends
Abominable Snowman
LOST - DVD clip
 
 

December

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

2 3
Quiz on Ch. 2
Finish discussion of themes
Self-Monitoring WS

HW: Read Ch. 3 and Ch. 4
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Ch. 1-2 Quote and Lit Elements WS
Answer Key
Work on Posters
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Poster Presentations
Rubric
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Listening Passage Practice
(Ch. 3 needs to be done by today)
Ch. 3 Quote and Lit Element WS
Answer Key
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Friday Talk
Quiz on Ch. 3-4
Inference WS


HW: Read
Ch. 5
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"American Dreams" article with Roundtable discussion and Making Connections WS
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Ch. 5 Quiz
Making Predictions WS

HW: Read Ch. 6
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Ch. 6 Quiz
Ch. 4-6 Quote and Lit Elements WS
Answer Key
Character and Theme Charts
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Discuss Timeline of plot, Character and Theme worksheets
14
Friday Talk
Make-a-Wish Letter
MAW Letter Instructions
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16 17
Of Mice and Men Final Test
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East of Eden
Analysis Sheets for East of Eden and The Pearl
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East of Eden
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Interims
East of Eden

Collect IRP 2:1
Assign IRP 2:2
The Pearl
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Friday Talk
Finish East of Eden
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No School
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No School
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No School
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No School
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No School
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No School
         
 

January

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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No School
2
Start drama terms
3
Review OMM test
Pass back graded work
Finish drama terms (answers)
4
Shakespeare in the Classroom video
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6 7
Friday Talk
Answers to SitC guided notes
Background info on Shakespeare, The Globe theatre, and the Elizabethan Era
8
Finish background info
R&J unit vocabulary
9
Pass out books
Prologue activity
10
Review Prologue
Intro discussion: questions and video clip
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Friday Talk
Begin Act I
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13 14
Critical Lens Essay Lesson
IRP instruction sheet
Assign Shakespeare's Language Packet
(due after Regents Week)
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Computer Lab for Essay
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Continue Act I
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IRP 2:2 Essay due
Finish Act I
Review WS
Quiz
Video clip (Luhrmann)
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2nd Qtr. Ends
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20 21
No School
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Regents Week
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Regents Week
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Regents Week
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Regents Week
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Introduce Qtr. 3 IRP

Begin Act II
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Continue Act II
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Finish Act II
Review WS
Quiz
Video Clip (Zefferelli)
31
Drama terms quiz
Vocab. race
   
 

February

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Friday Talk
Begin Act III
2
3 4
Continue Act III
5
Finish Act III
Review WS
Quiz
Video clip
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Begin Act IV
7
Finish Act IV
Review WS
Quiz
Video Clip
8
Friday Talk
Quote Pkt.
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10 11
Act V
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Review WS
Quiz
Video clip
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Horoscope Pkt
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R&J Final Test
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Respect Day
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17 18
No School
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No School
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No School
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No School
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No School
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24 25
Pass back materials/Essay poetry
Introduce Essay
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Work in the computer lab to start essay
27
Watch Shakespeare in Love
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Watch Shakespeare in Love
   
 

March

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Watch Shakespeare in Love
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3 4
Friday Talk
Great Expectations materials
Ch. 1-15 SG
Essay due: Peer editing
5
Novel Notes -
Begin vocab. packet

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Finish vocab. packet
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Charles Dickens biography and guide
8
Friday Talk
Collect IRP
Answers to video guide
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10 11
Discuss Ch. 1-15/quiz
Assign Ch. 16-31
12
Interims
Meet in Computer lab for GE background research brochure
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Meet in Computer lab for GE background research brochure
14
Brochure presentations
15
Friday Talk
Finish brochure presentations
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17 18
Silent reading
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Discuss Ch. 16-31/quiz
Assign Ch. 32-44
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Symbolism Lesson

WS
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Symbolism Lesson
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Superintendent's Conference Day - No School
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Silent reading
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Movie
27
Discuss Ch. 32-44/quiz
Assign. Ch. 45-59
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Mystery Game
Silent Reading
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No School
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April

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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No School
2
No School
3
No School
4
No School
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No School
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"The Child's Story"
by Charles Dickens
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Finish story - answers
Vocab. review activity
10
Discuss Ch. 45-59/quiz
11
Reciprocal teaching activity
Start poems
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3rd Qtr. Ends
Friday Talk
Finish poems
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14 15
Empathy Journals
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Character chart, plot and vocab. review
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Character chart, plot and vocab. review
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Test
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Friday Talk
Victorian Tea
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21 22
Vocabulary work with Roots, suffixes and prefixes
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In computer lab for background research
Rubric
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In computer lab for background research
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Begin "Love Enough"
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Finish "Love Enough"
Work on Ch. 1 worksheet - hand in at end of class
HW: bring in project supplies
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28 29
Work on research project
30
Begin "A Night Different from Any Other"
If time, start
Ch. 2 WS
       
 

May

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

      1
Finish work on "A Night Different From Any Other"
Netherlands Map
Discussion WS
HW: Finish
Ch. 2 WS
2
Research Project Presentations
Notes Sheet
3
Friday Talks
(One For Per. 4)
4
5 6
Finish "Adagia"
Start "Hyacinth Blues"
HW: Ch. 3 WS
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Finish "Hyacinth Blues"
HW: Ch. 4 WS
8
Ch. 4 Quiz
Start "Morningshine"
HW: Start
Ch. 5 WS
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Finish "Morningshine"
HW: Ch. 5 WS
10
Friday Talk X2
(None for Per 4)
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12 13
Finish "From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers"
HW: Finish
Ch. 6 WS
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Read "Still Life"
HW: Ch. 7 WS
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SRI Testing
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Read "Magdalena Looking"
HW: Ch. 8 WS
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Interims
Friday Talk X2
(None for Per. 4)
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Review Novel
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Girl In Hyacinth Blue unit final
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Begin Review for the Final Exam
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Review for the Final Exam
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No School
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No School
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Review for the Final Exam
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Review for the Final Exam
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Review for the Final Exam
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Collect Qtr. 4 IRP
Final Exam Begins - Listening
 

 * Due Date for Writing Contest Submission = June 3, 2013

 

June

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Final Exam - MC Day 1
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Final Exam - Critical Lens Essay
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Final Exam - Critical Lens Essay
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Final Exam - MC Day 2
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Last Day of Classes
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