September 26-30 WORKDAY FRIDAY!

This will be a wonderful, blessed week!  I hope that you are keeping up with the readings.   Please make sure you're asking questions for clarification if you are confused at any point in the reading.   This is a short week; Friday is a workday!

5th period

Monday

1.         

New Vocabulary (see packet for words)

2.       “FFA” Test (35 minutes)

3.       The Pearl, novel packet

4.       3 Motif Posters will be hanging in our classroom throughout the reading.  Each time one of the following motifs appears, we’ll add a quote that supports it to the poster:  music, animals, and the Peal’s symbolism

Hw:  write sentences for each word, using context clues to identify the unfamiliar terms (Due Wednesday); read chapter 1 in The Pearl for homework, answer Bloom’s questions in novel packet

Tuesday

1.        Good vs Evil

2.       Which characters are clearly good guys?  Which ones are bad guys?
       Sentence diagramming and identifying adverbs, adjectives in sentences

3.       Dialect

4.       Listen to mountain talk CD

5.       Discuss the characteristics of the dialect used in the text

6.       Human versus animals.  Do any characters appear to take on animalistic qualities?

Hw:  dialect interview

Wednesday

1.         

Check vocabulary

2.       Animal, Symbol, Music Motifs  (A quote will be added to the 3 posters each time something comes up that relates to these motifs)

3.       Nonfiction piece about real lottery winners

4.       Students will complete SOAPSTONE

Hw:  SOAPSTONE due tomorrow; sentence diagramming; Respond to this:  Excerpt from The People, YesCarl Sandburg



Money is power: so said one.
Money is a cushion: so said another.
Money is the root of evil: so said still another.
Money means freedom: so runs an old saying.

And money is all of these- and more.
Money pays for whatever you want– if
you have the money.
Money buys food, clothes, houses, land,
guns, jewels, men, women, time to be lazy and
listen to music.
Money buys everything except love,
personality, freedom, immortality,
silence, peace.

Thursday-Friday

1.      

 Go over homework

2.       Interims go home today

3.       Read chapters 2 and 3 over weekend

Hw:  finish Bloom’s questions in novel packet; due Monday

Friday

1.        No SCHOOL!  WORKDAY!

2, 4, 6, and 7

This week we will look at two of Ray Bradbury's short stories, comparing them to F451.  One of them, "There Will Come Soft Rains" was actually written based on a poem by another writer.  Ray Bradbury included a portion of the poem in the short story.  Both take a look at the rise in technology and a decline in human interaction with each other.  Take mental (or physical) notes on things that you observe in Montag's society.  Soon, you will be asked to "build" your very own utopia, taking into consideration things that could be deemed as failures in the societies that you will read about.  If you're interested in some independent reading that deals with similar topics explored in our current texts, then here is a list of possible choices:

The Uglies
Lord of the Flies
Among the Hidden
Animal Farm
1984
I, Robot
Anthem

 

Monday

1.        Collect essays
2.       New vocabulary (adversary; conspicuous; cunnung; deft;disdain;dispel; uncanny; swagger; scarcity; pristine)

3.  Allusions in the Simpsons

4.       Write vocabulary sentences, using each type of context clues by Wednesday
5.  Background on part I of F451 PPT

6.       Discuss text
7.       PPT in groups(Ray Bradbury; Cold War; McCarthyism; banned books; Nazi book burnings; technology in 40s and 50s; totalitarianism; family life in 40s and 50s  (We need to know what life was like during the time the book was written, so you'll know what was missing during that time- -How was the author able to make these predictions?  What did he see coming down the line that others didn't see?), dystopias- -Each group must discuss one or more of the following:  what happens when things are censored like freedom, religion, speech, art, media, etc. Look at your these as they relate to your group's topic.  For instance, present Ray Bradbury's views about what happens when freedom is censored...)
8.       Read “The Pedestrian” (I, Robot trailer) 

Hw:  Vocabulary sentences using context clues(blue sheet given last week); finish reading “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury; PPT due Thursday (computer lab on Wed.)

Tuesday

1.        “The Pedestrian”animated video of short story  (Clarisse had an uncle arrested for being a pedestrian)
2.        Discuss Setting, mood, and purpose of the short story
3.       What was Leonard’s crime?  How is this story similar to F451?  Who is the sole representative of the totalitarian society?  In what way is the community depicted as a soulless society?  What is ironic about the place where Mead is taken?
4.       Isolation; relationship; individual and society; progress
5.       Read F451

he job of SF writers is to see the problems in the world and project what would happen in the future if we continue on this path. They are social critics. Find the problem the writer is critiquing and whether s/he was right in his/her prediction.

Hw:  grammar; vocabulary; finish reading Part I by Thursday; Venn Diagram (compare/contrast “Harrison Bergeron” to “The Pedestrian”)

•Adversary- n.  An opponent or enemy

•Cunning-Adj.  Sly; crafty; clever

•Conspicuous-adj. easily seen; obvious

•Deft-adj.  Skillful and quick;

•Disdain-n.  Feeling that something or someone is bad; contempt or scorn

•Dispel-v; to cause to disappear; drive away; disperse

•Uncanny- adj; arousing wonder and fear as if supernatural; eerie

•Swagger-Verb; to walk in a way that makes you think you’re important

•Scarcity; N.  A shortage; insufficient amount of supply

Pristine;  adj; remaining in a pure; unspoiled state

Wednesday

1.       Go over Venn Diagram
2.        Vocabulary is due
3.       Go over vocabulary

4.       BD diagnostic     EOG style reading assessment =for grade!
5.       “There will Come Soft Rains” Ray Bradbury
6.       Discuss text

7.  Computer lab to finalize PPT due tomorrow

Hw:  Finish reading short story; grammar sentence for the week; vocabulary quiz on Monday;

Thursday

1.       INTERIMS go home TODAY!  DUE MONDAY!  EXTRA HOMEWORK GRADE!
2.       PPT presentations (3 minutes max)
3.       Reading quiz on part 1 of F451
4.       What would the world be like without us?
5.       “There Will Come Soft Rains” writing piece, due Monday (typed!) by Ray Bradbury (McCllenan, Clarisse's last name)

6.  Ray Bradbury- -Psychic or Just lucky?   (groups- -What did he predict that has come true?  What did he miss?)

Hw:  grammar; typed writing piece, due Monday.  Vocabulary quiz Monday

Friday:  NO SCHOOL!  HAVE A WONDERFUL, BLESSED WEEKEND!

   

NEXT WEEK:  Allusion mini-project

September 19-23

This week promises to be fun, engaging, and challenging for all.  I enjoyed meeting the parents who made it to open house last week.  If we didn't have a chance to meet last week, please know that I'm committed to helping your child be successful this school year.  Please contact me if you feel the need. 

Period 5

Monday

Class Time:

1.      

Collect POV homework

2.       Volunteers share homework

3.       Why are journals used as the medium to tell Charlie’s story?  How effective are they?

4.       Exit slip:  Predicting and confirming (Why is the story called “Flowers for Algernon?”  Make a prediction about the story.  Explain your prediction.  We’ll see if it comes true in the end.

5.       Inferences (Reading between the lines…)  This is what a good police detective will do, analyze the facts, evaluate the situation and the suspects involved (if any) and then make some good guesses, develop some hunches, utilize some inferences

6.       Editorial cartoons for inferences

7.       “It says, I say, and so” for inferences

8.       Exit slips

Hw:  Write 3 questions for “I say, it says, so” and fill in the chart in the correct areas.

Tuesday

Class Time:

1.      

Go over homework in pairs, then in a group

2.       Finish “Flowers for Algernon”

3.       FBI agents (facts + background=inferences)

4.       Group riddles; solve them using “It says, I say, and so…”

5.       Read “Flowers for Algernon”

Hw:  political cartoon

Wednesday

Class time:

1.      

 Go over homework

2.       “Finish Flowers for Algernon”

Hw:  Foldable and moral continuum

Thursday

Class Time:
Context Clues
Inferencing
"Flowers for Algernon" review   

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2.   

Hw:  crossword puzzle

Friday:

1.      

 Good and Evil

2.       BD assessment

3.      

Hw:  study for "FFA" test

Monday 2, 4, 6, and 7

Class Time:

1.      

Reading quiz “the Most Dangerous Game” (grade in class)

2.       Good and Evil

3.       POV (point of view) slides

4.       POV excerpts from classical novels.  students will determine the POVs of the excerpts

5.       Check novels (F451)

Write about your weekend from your point of view.  Then, rewrite from another point of view.

Hw:  diagram the plots of “The Possibility of Evil” and “the Most Dangerous Game”  grammar; POV writing

Tuesday

Class time:

1.      

 Go over homework

2.      

Character Analysis “Show, not Tell” in pairs

3.       Essay assigned, due Friday (rough draft-THURSDAY), typed and double-spaced

4.       Essay Topic:  Think about the term theme.  Select a short story that we’ve read thus far.  Select a theme for that short story.  Put your theme into a strong, crystal clear, and concise thesis statement.  Prove your thesis statement to be true with ample examples from the text.  Avoid vague terms like “good” and “suspenseful,” to name a few.  If you have trouble formulating your thesis, then think of one word to sum up your selected short story.  Put that word into your thesis statement.  Prove it…

5.       Rubric for essay goes home.

Hw:  Final Essay due Friday; Rough Draft due Thursday; grammar;

Wednesday

Class time:

1.      

 Blue Diamond/diagnostic assessment

2.       BANNED BOOK WEEK SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 1

3.       Book trailer

4.       Book burnings (photographs)

5.       Latimer and Ridley (quoted in F451)

6.       Historic impact of censorship

7.       Bradbury, a psychic?

8.       1950s culture; family life; technology

Hw:  technology opinionnaire; Essay Rough Draft due (Electronic copy in e-mail); final draft due Friday; grammar;  What book would you save?; outline due TOMORROW!

Thursday

Class time:

1.         F451
            discuss the text
           discuss context clues
           new vocabulary assignment:  due Monday with context clues identified for each sentence
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2.       Track topics (not themes until you make them into statements)  throughout the reading of F451:  These are political correctness, disintegration of the family, censorship, importance of entertainment, desire to return to nature, necessities for happiness, effects of technology, and effects of mass media.

3.       This book has tons of allusions in it.  Monday, you’ll get an allusion project (meeting of the minds, allusion project)

4.       Begin reading F451 in class (How does this anti-utopian state maintain power?); vocabulary; going over grammar sentence for the week

Hw:  Finish reading pages assigned for homework; grammar

Friday

Class time:

1.      

 Essay DRAFTS are due ELECTRONICALLY

2.       Discuss reading
         grammar

3.      

Hw:  Read in novel; grammar

September 12-16

You will have homework most nights this week.  Please check here regularly for changes and updates.  Please be sure to check the homework board daily for homework updates/changes because it is the way to get the most updated information.

Open House for parents is Thursday from 5:30-8:00. 
Early Release is Friday
 

Period 5

Mon

-Finish “Harrison Bergeron” assignment

-Share

Hw:  character biopoem  (typed) due Wednesday

Tuesday

-Pre-reading anticipatory questions:

-What is intelligence?  Is it important?

-Would you choose to be more intelligent if you have that choice?  How much more intelligent?  Why? 

-What can people find out about us based on our writing?  Based on writing abilities, what can we learn about people?

-What are some advantages/disadvantages of high intelligence?

-History of IQ testing
-POV (point of view)

Hw:biopoem; study literary elements in packet for quiz on Thursday

Wednesday

-collect biopoem

-Rorschach inkblots test

-Begin reading “Flowers for Algernon”

Hw:  Rewrite one of Charlie's early progress reports using correct spelling and grammar. 

Thursday

-analyze the inkblots; turn it in 3 different directions.  (What do you see in the inkblot?  Write a response in the form of a creative writing piece like a poem, song, newspaper article, top ten list, etc.)
-quiz on Literary elements in packet

-Read “Flowers for Algernon”

-look at loaded words in the text

Hw:  Finish inkblot assignment

Friday

-Early Release
-BD assessment

-movie

Hw:  

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7
Get F451

Monday

-25 minute satire skit groups

-tone/mood PDF file

-tone/mood exercise in groups

-How are little old ladies stereotyped?

Hw:  satire skit tomorrow; grammar sentence; read “The Possibility of evil” by Shirley Jackson

here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-kyHVq95m0fvEnT16SIKkL8pGJ0teuzXJnHBPffauZE/edit?hl=en_US

Tuesday

-present skits (ad-libbing is okay)

-mood in beginning contrasted with the mood at the end of the story

-symbols in the story? 
-What is Mrs. Strangeworth's objective?  What's her reason behind her behavior?  Is she doing good or doing evil?  How does she think she's trying to "save" her town?

-find mood, tone, and irony in past stories

-theme

Hw:  grammar; dear John/Susan letter (1 page) using your assigned tone. 

Wednesday

-thesis writing intro

-reading quiz

-indirect characterization/Jackson’s significance of character names?

Hw:  thesis writing handout

Thursday

-POV (point of view) PPT (2 slides)

-What is the most dangerous game?
-Survival kit:  what items would be essential to surviving if you were in the middle of nowhere?  There isn't any cell phone capabilities in the wilderness where you are located.  Work in pairs to come up with top 3 items to have with you in this situation.

-Begin reading “The Most Dangerous Game”

Hw:  Finish reading the short story online  by Richard Connell; find examples of foreshadowing in the text.  Print a copy of the story.  You can listen to it online at finalrune.com

Friday-Early Release

-BD assessment
-theme

-Select a story discussed:  What does the story reveal about human nature?

-character analysis

Hw:  Finish your writing/character analysis due Monday

September 6-9 Have a blessed week! Check back here regularly for updates!

Tuesday

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

1.        Reading quiz on “The Lottery”

2.       Collect handicaps assignment

3.       Finish “The Lottery” PPThttps://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AZoLV5ql7YSqZGNuczczMmNfMTZkajhrc3BjaA&hl=en_US

4.       Symbols:  “the Lottery”  (do authors intentionally include concrete objects that have abstract meanings into their narratives, or are they inventions of teachers?)

Jackson gives interesting names to a number of her characters. Can you explain the possible allusions or symbolism of some of these?
Delacroix
Graves
Summers
Bentham
Hutchinson
Warner
Martin

5.      Transitive and intransitive verbs

6.       Go over Grammar sentences (Monday and Tuesday)

Hw:  grammar sentence; grammar practice; Shirley Jackson short response (due tomorrow- -Wednesday) Friday’s notebook check

 Period 5

1.        Finish “Charles” plot line

2.       Introduce tone and mood with definitions and PPT

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5oLV5ql7YSqMTU3NDMwZGUtZTk5Ny00YjY4LWEzNDMtYjhmYjJkMmE4MmVk&hl=en_US

3.       Each student will be assigned a tone to present:  “These pretzels are making me thirsty”  List of literary tones: 

hurt
romantic
angry
sardonic
despondent
appreciative
paranoid
aloof
plaintive
joyful
playful
pleading
languid
condescending
cynical
sincere
disgusted
facetious
haughty
soothing
melancholy
depressed
nervous
patronizing
affectionate
scornful
ecstatic
distant
enthusiastic
sympathetic
emphatic
ironic
whimsical
lackadaisical
light-hearted
vibrant
intense
sad
passive
didactic
disinterested
earnest

4.      

Introduce “tone” in the short story “Charles”

5.       Assign each student a tone.  Tone posters due Thursday (picture and quote)

Hw:  Tone posters due Thursday; grammar handout (prepositions); Friday’s notebook check

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

Wednesday

1.        Go over grammar homework

2.       Vocabulary quiz (bene/mal words)

3.       Introduce Irony, foreshadowing, symbol, tone, mood and theme

4.       Apply vocabulary to short stories studied

5.       Satire readings think-pair-share  

https://docs.google.com/document/d/199iiWXo_REgPYNVgupySOzrSzb7u_rYA36npr6WjztI/edit?hl=en_US

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      Diagram the plots of “The Lottery” and “Harrison Bergeron”

7.       Satire skit:  to be presented on Friday

Extra credit alert:  Write a satirical essay, similar to the one discussed in class.  It should be two pages.  Then, write a 1-page explanation for the essay.  What is being satirized?  Why is it important to be brought to the forefront of public attention?  What is the target?

Remember:  Extra credit is only for those who completed all regular class assignments;  No dessert if you haven't finished your entre!

Hw:  grammar; diagram the plots of “The Lottery and “Harrison Bergeron”(identify the following in the plot lines:  irony; mood; tone; foreshadowing; symbols; tone, theme; characterization; exposition, rising action, climax (turning point); falling action, and resolution); develop material for your skit;

Period 5

1.       Vocabulary quiz (Mort)

2.       Review tone, and mood

3.       “Harrison Bergeron” 

4.       Introduce the themes and students will trace them by highlighting throughout the text  (themes are below)

5.       Review historical fiction and science fiction (show a quick movie trailer)  (match game of characteristics)

6.       “Harrison Bergeron” reading guide

7.       Introduce theme:  topic + what the author is trying to say about the topic

Hw:  grammar practice; respond to the following:  Make a prediction about our world.  What do you think it will be like living in the USA in just twenty years?  You’ll be 34 years old.  Explain why you have come to these conclusions about our world.  In other words, how or why did you come to these conclusions about our world? 

Thursday

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

1.        Go over plot diagrams/ think-pair-share first comparing yours to another’s

2.       Tone/mood PPT

3.       Work in groups 25 minutes

4.       Tone handout in pairs (to be performed in front of the class)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tSbFnQX9aFDNgJFxzf3gHIdScg7US3VUYYw5SiERLuI/edit?hl=en_USh

.       Diagram sentences with prep. Phrases

Hw:  grammar handout; grammar sentence for the week; satire skit due MOnday

Period 5

1.        Finish reading “Harrison Bergeron”

2.       Tone posters are due TODAY!

3.       Discuss the text/finish discussion questions

4.       Diagram the plot

Hw:  diagram the plot of “Harrison Bergeron.”  Identify the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution; foreshadowing, tone, mood, conflict; irony; characterization; setting; point of view;

Friday

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

1.        Notebook check

2.       Finish tone handout

3.       Go over grammar sentence

4.       Present satire skits on Monday (25 minutes to work together)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQk3qkVywE5n8vwiEDaKw6M_lyHBFANXuZLQiFgZZl4/edit?hl=en_US

Hw:  grammar sentence; Read “the Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson

Period 5

1.        Notebook check

2.       Go over plot lines; comparing in think-pair-share first

3.       Watch 2081

4.       How effective is the science fiction genre for “Harrison Bergeron?”

5.       Topic+ what the author is trying to say about the topic (THEME!)

6.       Themes (Equality; Sameness;  Power; freedom; individuality; social equality; )  take the topics and turn them into themes using the formula.

7.       Handicap rubric; due Monday

Hw:  Handicap assignment (Handicap yourself; illustrate it and color it; then, explain WHY);  Write a paragraph on irony as it applies to "Harrison Bergeron."