September

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

2 3 4
Superintendent's Conference Day
5
Freshman Orientation
6
Review Syllabus
Literary Elements
Heading
HW: Goal Chat Worksheet
7
Profile Project

HW: Complete to hand in Monday
8
9 10
In-Class Writing Sample
11
In-Class Writing Sample
12
Academic Integrity Policy
1st Qtr. Independent Reading Project
13
Library Orientation
14
Library Orientation
15
16 17
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
18
SLO Pretest
(Please email me any questions or concerns)
Handed out poetry packet
19
Intro to Poetry:
"Introduction to Poetry"
and "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins

HW: Start illustration sheet in class and finish for hw.
20
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
22
23 24
SRI Testing
(Please email me any questions or concerns)
25
Figuring out rhyme scheme and structure
Practice
26
No School
27
Rhyme Scheme
Rhyming
Love the Way you Lie - Video
Lyrics
28
Review answers to song activity
Analyze "Some Nights" for meaning- Lyrics
Video
HW: Bring in song lyrics to analyze for Monday
29
 

October

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

30 1
Song Lyric activity
Look at "The Tyger" by William Blake
2
Notes on Explication
Practice with "What Lips my Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
3
Notes on Sonnets
Review answers for "What Lips my Lips Have Kissed..."
HW: Be ready to discuss Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
4
Practice with "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by William Shakespeare

Start writing sonnets! Due Oct. 15
5
Practice with "A Dream Lies Dead" by Dorothy Parker

Continue writing sonnets!
6
7 8
No School
9
The life of Walt Whitman - Video

HW: Whitman Assignment
10
Go over Whitman Assignment in groups

HW: "They shut me up in prose" by Emily Dickinson
11
Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie

Langston Hughes
What are the common themes in these poems?
12
Interims
13
14 15
Sonnets due!
Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

HW: Explicate "The Land of Counterpane" by Robert Louis Stevenson
16
Meet in computer lab to research Stevenson

HW: How does "The Land of Counterpane" reflect the life of Robert Louis Stevenson?
17
Discuss "Poetic Vision"


Research Vocab
18
Practice in paraphrasing and summarizing
19 20
21 22
IN LIBRARY
Poet selection day
23
IN LIBRARY
Poem finding/printing
24
Research Project Scoring Guide

Work on poems in class
25
Explication Summary Rubric

Work on poems in class
26 27
28 29
IN LIBRARY
Finding Book Sources

Research Tips
30
IN LIBRARY
Finding Book Sources/Making Citations
31
IN LIBRARY
Finding Journal Sources
     
 

November

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

        1
Notes on Note Taking

Notes Sheets
2 3
4 5
IN LIBRARY
6
IN LIBRARY
7
IN LIBRARY
8
Poem Explication and  Summary DUE

Creating a Thesis
9
1st. Qtr. Ends

Outline
10
11 12
No School
13
IN LIBRARY

Model Outline
14
IN LIBRARY

Evolution of my thesis
15
Outline, thesis, notes, and sources DUE
Assign IRP Qtr 2
Pass back all graded work
16
Model Paper

Research Project Rubric
17
18 19
ROUGH DRAFT DUE
20
IN LIBRARY
Revision

Tips for Revision
21
IN LIBRARY
Revision
22
No School
23
No School
24
25 26
Research Papers due
Research Paper Quiz
Pass out books
Begin Ch. 1/ Visualization
Handout Calendar and Study Guide

HW: Read Ch. 1
27
Background Research in Library
28
Background research in Library
29
Quiz on Ch. 1
Discussion using Asking Questions WS
Begin Ch. 2

HW: Read Ch. 2
30
Introduce novel through discussion of themes and video clips
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
Self-Monitoring WS

HW: Ch. 3
4
"The Price is Right" Game
Make-a-Wish Letters
Instructions for MAW letter
5
Work on Posters
6
Quiz on Ch. 3
Ch. 1-2 and Ch. 3 Quotes and Lit Elements WS
Ch. 1-2 Answers
Ch. 3 Answers
Inference WS


HW: Ch. 4
7
Poster Presentations
Rubric
8
9 10
Quiz on Ch. 4
Listening Passage Practice

HW: Ch. 5
11
"American Dreams" Article

Roundtable discussion and Making Connections WS
12
Quiz on Ch. 5
Making Predictions WS

HW: Ch. 6
13
Quiz on Ch. 6
Ch. 4-6 Quotes and Lit Elements WS
Answer Key
Character and Theme Charts
14
Vocab. Activity
15
16 17
Discuss timeline of plot, and Character & Theme WS
18
OMM Final Test
19
Of Mice and Men movie
20
Interims

Of Mice and Men movie
21
Of Mice and Men movie
22
23 24
No School
25
No School
26
No School
27
No School
28
No School
29
30 31
No School
         
 

January

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

    1
No School
2
Start drama terms
3
Review OMM test
Pass back graded work
Finish drama terms
4
Shakespeare in the Classroom video
5
6 7
Finish drama terms (answers)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
11
IRP due
Pass out books and pick parts
Begin Act I
12
13 14
Act I
15
Finish Act I
Review WS
Quiz
Video Clip (Luhrmann)
16
Begin Act II
17
Continue Act II
Review WS
18
2nd Qtr. Ends
Quiz
Video Clip (Zefferelli)
Shakespeare's Language Pkt. (due after Regents Week)
19
20 21
No School
22
Regents Week
23
Regents Week
24
Regents Week
25
Regents Week
26
27 28
Introduce Qtr. 3 IRP
Begin Act III
29
Continue Act III
30
Finish Act III
Review WS
Quiz
Video Clip (West Side Story)
31
Drama Terms quiz
Vocab. Race
   
 

February

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

          1
Quote Pkt. (due Monday)
2
3 4
Begin Act IV
5
Finish Act IV
Review WS
Quiz
Video Clip
6
Act V
7
Review WS
Quiz
Video Clip )Luhrmann)
8
Horoscope Pkt. (due Monday)
9
10 11
Finish Act IV
12
Finish Act V
13
Horoscope Packet and Review
14
R&J Final Test
15
Respect Day
16
17 18
No School
19
No School
20
No School
21
No School
22
No School
23
24 25
Pass back materials/Essay poetry
Introduce Essay
26
Work in the computer lab to start essay
27
Watch Shakespeare in Love
28
Watch Shakespeare in Love
   
 

March

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

          1
Watch Shakespeare in Love
2
3 4
Essay due: Peer editing
Vocab. Packet
5
Begin "The Most Dangerous Game"
6
Finish "MDG"
Begin notes on plot and figurative language
7
Finish notes
Figurative Language worksheet
Short Story Analysis Sheet (SSAS) (Key)
8
Plot Map
9
10 11
Read "The Necklace"
12
Interims
Notes on theme and irony
Irony WS

HW: SSAS
13
Read "The Black Cat"
14
Finish "TBC"
Notes on Characterization
HW: SSAS
15
Read "The Lottery"
Notes on Conflict
16
17 18
Read "The Scarlet Ibis"
Notes: Start symbolism notes
19
Finish symbolism notes
20
"TSI" jigsaw group activity
21
Vocabulary review activity
Work on "TL" SSAS and "TSI" SSAS
HW: Finish
22
Superintendent's Conference Day - No School
23
24 25
Critical Lens Essay Lesson
26
Meet in the computer lab to begin typing the Critical Lens Essay
27
Short Story unit test
28
Essay due - peer editing
Funny in Farsi Vocabulary packet
29
No School
30
 

April

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

31 1
No School
2
No School
3
No School
4
No School
5
No School
6
7
Per 7 Groups
Per 8 Groups
All materials are due the day of discussion - There won't be a test, just the chapter summary materials will count for a grade.
8
Funny in Farsi vocabulary
9
Presetting Activities:
Nacirema Tribe
Language Barriers
10
Group Background Research
11
Ppt
Farsi
Close Reading Lesson using Ch. 1-2
Homework: Ch. 3-6 (each group member reads one chapter)
Ch. 3, 4, 5, 6
12
3rd Qtr. Ends
Discuss Ch. 3-6 as groups
Homework: Ch. 7-10
Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10
13
14 15
Vocabulary Due
Journal Entry 1
Discuss Ch. 7-10
Homework: Ch. 11-14
Ch. 11, 12, 13, 14
16
Journal Entry 2
Discuss Ch. 11-14
Homework: Ch. 15-18
Ch. 15, 16, 17, 18
17
Discuss Ch. 15-18
Homework: Ch. 19-22
Ch. 19, 20, 21, 22
18
Journal Entry 3
Discuss Ch. 19-22
Homework: Ch. 23-26
Ch. 23, 24, 25, 26
19
Journal Entry 4
Discuss Ch. 23-26
20
21 22
Vocabulary work with Roots, suffixes and prefixes
23
In computer lab for background research
Rubric
24
In computer lab for background research
25
Begin "Love Enough"
26
Finish "Love Enough"
Work on Ch. 1 worksheet - hand in at end of class
HW: bring in project supplies
27
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
Discuss Ch. 1&2
Begin "Adagia"
4
5 6
Finish "Adagia"
Start "Hyacinth Blues"
HW: Ch. 3 WS
7
Finish "Hyacinth Blues"
HW: Ch. 4 WS
8
Ch. 4 Quiz
Start "Morningshine"
HW: Start
Ch. 5 WS
9
Finish "Morningshine"
HW: Ch. 5 WS
10
Begin "From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers"
HW: Start
Ch. 6 WS
11
12 13
Finish "From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers"
HW: Finish
Ch. 6 WS
14
Read "Still Life"
HW: Ch. 7 WS
15
SRI Testing
16
Read "Magdalena Looking"
HW: Ch. 8 WS
17
Interims
Review Novel
18
19 20
Review Novel
21
Girl In Hyacinth Blue unit final
22
Begin Review for the Final Exam
23
Review for the Final Exam
24
No School
25
26 27
No School
28
Review for the Final Exam
29
Review for the Final Exam
30
Review for the Final Exam
31
Collect Qtr. 4 IRP
Final Exam Begins - Listening
 
 

June

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

2 3
Final Exam - MC Day 1
4
Final Exam - Critical Lens Essay
5
Final Exam - Critical Lens Essay
6
Final Exam - MC Day 2
7
Last Day of Classes
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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