December 9-13, 2013

Please note:  This schedule is a tentative list of things I hope to cover this week.  I will make adjustments when needed to meet the needs of my students.

Final exams are next week.  Please try to be present every single day. 

8th period's English Exam is Tuesday

2nd and 6th periods are Wednesday

4th and 7th are Thursday

5th and 1st on Friday.

We will be reviewing all week in conjunction with regular lessons.  Please be mindful and pay attention.  I will let you know as we go through the week which things you need to really laser focus upon because you will see them on the final exam next week.

December 18, all A.R. tests must be completed in order to take advantage of the extra credit opportunity, and it is the only extra credit for the 6 weeks as I mentioned on the first day of the six weeks.

Smiles,

Mrs. G.

 

Monday

December 9

1.     Adjective clause and verb tenses

2.    Finish final copy of essay

3.    “Charles” foreshadowing

4.    Hw:  finish essay if you didn’t hand it in today and grammar handout

Tuesday

December 10

1.     Review grammar HW and quotations for bellringer
 

2.    Collect essays owed (bullying)

3.    Finish “Charles”

4.    “Charles” questions for a grade and characterization in pairs

5.    Foreshadowing

6.    Hw:  Grammar, “Charles,”  and foreshadowing

Wednesday

TUTORIALS TODAY!

1.     Library Day
Begin Final Exam essay in class:  Finish tomorrow

2.    “The Christmas Carol” (if time allows!)

3.    Major/minor characters

4.    Plot Diagram, Pov

5.    Hw:  grammar, “Charles,” and foreshadowing quiz Thursday

Thursday

 

1.    “The Christmas Carol” (?)
FINISH your in-class essay; It is part of your final exam grade!

2.    HW:  none

 

Friday

1.     “The Christmas Carol”

Hw:  none

Week 12

 Tuesday

1. Allusion “Love Story” Taylor Swift

2.Thesis statement

3.Vocab #7

4.9 week assessment review

5.Hw:  lit circle (Thursday), vocab(Friday), and Thesis Hw (Wed.)

 

Wednesday

1.Expository Essay-Bullying Introduction

2.Nonfiction article on bullying

3.Thesis statement share

4.Expository Pillar

5.Lit Circle

6.Hw:  Lit Circle, Vocab

Thursday

1. Lit Circle Share

2.Essay assigned:  Write an essay explaining how schools can create a code of conduct for dealing with bullying.

Friday

1. Vocabulary Due

2.Finish Essay, due Monday

3.Hw:  none

week 10

Mystery Museum projects will be presented on Halloween day.  Please come and enjoy your student's hard work!!

Monday 10-28-13

9 week assessment Review

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Tuesday

9 week assessment

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Wednesday

M.M. workday

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Thursday

M.M.

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Friday

Peer evaluations

Halloween stories are due today!

Week 9

Monday

1.   Read personal narrative

2.  Assign personal narrative due Thursday

Hw:  personal narrative

Tuesday

1.   Color my personal narrative, then color yours

2.  Edgar A. Poe intro/documentary fill-in-the-blank notes

3.  Hw: library book tomorrow, color your personal narrative-due Thurs., vocab. Quiz Thursday

Wednesday

1.   Library day

2.  Accelerated Reader explanation

3.  Analogies

4.  “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” by Edgar Allan Poe

5.  Hw:  vocabulary quiz, colored personal narrative, and work on M.M. project

Thursday

1.   Quiz

2.  Collect colored personal narratives

3.  “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”

4.  Poe documentary cont’d, with fill-in-the-blank notes

Friday

Mystery museum WORKDAY! Bring materials to be productive during class time.

Week 8

Monday

October 14

Go over M.M. packet

Visit briefly with group

Hw:  M.M. research

 

 

Tuesday

New vocab list #5 (demo, dic, dox)--DueThurs.

List #4 vocab (cred, culp, crypt) quiz

Nonfiction articles “Somali Pirates”

Think-pair-share

Hw:  vocab #5 due Thursday

 

 

Wednesday

Share “Somali Pirates” articles

Personal Narrative Essay assigned due Friday

Analogies

Hw:  Personal Narrative, M.M. research, vocabulary HW due tomorrow

 

Thursday

Go over vocabulary hw

Finish analogies

 

Thesis statement

 

Hw:  M.M. research (work day tomorrow), personal narrative due Friday

 

Friday

Poetry Friday

M.M. work day

Hw:  vocabulary quiz Monday on list #5

Week 7

The Mystery Museum projects will be due October 31.  Parents will be invited to come to our museum during your student's class period.  I still need a few parent volunteers for October 31.  If you can only volunteer during your student's period, that is fine.  Please let me know if you can help out.

Monday

NO SCHOOL

 

Tuesday

“Harrison Bergeron” Handicaps due

Irony Review

Allusion

New Vocab list; vocab due Thursday

Hw:  Grammar, vocab.

 

Wednesday

Early Release

Work in M.M. groups

Hw:  Grammar, vocab

 

Thursday

Go over vocab #5

Personal Narrative assigned, due Monday

Satire

Genre Jeopardy

Hw:  Grammar, vocab, personal narrative, mystery museum

Friday

Work in M.M. groups in library

 

Week 6

This is the last week that grades will be taken for the first six weeks.  Tutorials will be held Wednesday after school from 4:00-4:30. 

Monday

September 30

Class Time:

1.       “Harrison Bergeron”

2.      Dystopia versus utopia

3.      Think-pair-share (Macintosh 1984 Super Bowl commercial)

4.      Hw:  Study root words (arch, aud, biblio)

Tuesday

Class time:

1.       Quiz on roots (Aud, Biblio, Arch)

2.      Introducing tone

3.      Finish “Harrison Bergeron”

4.      Satire (the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues)

5.      Review grammar compound, complex, and simple

6.      Hw:  new root words due Thursday

Wednesday

Class Time:

1.       Diagram the plot of “Harrison Bergeron”

2.      Start “Harrison Bergeron” assignment

3.      analogies/break up letter "Dear John" "Dear Susan"

4.      Go over Root words #4

5.      Symbolism

6.      Hw:  “Harrison Bergeron” assignment due Tuesday

Thursday

Class Time:

1.       STAAR practice

2.      Grammar practice

3.      Harrison Bergeron movie (30 min)

4.      Hw:  “Harrison Bergeron” due Tuesday

 

Friday

Class Time:

1.      Grammar practice

2.       STAAR practice

3.      Hw:  none

4.      Have a great long weekend!!

 

Week 5

Parents,

I need a few volunteers on Fridays.  I have two already for Friday, September 27.  One more for a few hours would be helpful.  Your task this Friday will be to take signed M.M (Mystery Museum) topics and put students into groups, based upon at least 1 of their top 5 M.M. topics.  

My goal is to get topics back to students by Monday, September 30.  After groups are set, you will write each student’s name on a slip of paper with their topic.   I also need about 160 copies of the M.M. packet made, so each student has a copy.

Then, each Friday in October, I will need volunteers to supervise groups of kids, so they can work on their M.M projects.  

October 31 is M.M. presentation day.  I will need at least 5 parents to help out all day if possible.  Your task will be to help students set up their presentations and disassemble them at the end of their class period.  

We have a full week this week.  Please make sure you are planning your time well, and don’t forget tutorials are on Wednesdays, 4:00-4:30.  Progress Reports go home Monday!!  

Please keep in mind that this page is an overview of things we hope to get done this week.  In order to know exactly what is happening in English, consult your student's planner where nightly assignments should be recorded.

Thank you,

Mrs. G

Let’s Go!

Monday

September 23

Class time:

1.      Collect RAFT/volunteers share

2.     New root list

3.     Grammar complex, simple, compound sentences

4.     Fill-in-the-blank elements of fiction

5.     Hw:  new roots, due Wed.

Tuesday

Class Time:

1.      Grammar

2.     New roots List due Wed.

3.     Finish Fill-in-the-blank
Avatar movie teaser
4.     “Harrison Bergeron” discussion—

5.     Hw:  grammar, roots vocab. Due Wed. AND bring back library book

Wednesday

Class Time:

1.      Go over roots

2.     Grammar

3.     Library time

4.     Distribute M.M. topics, due Thursday if you want to get one of your top choices

5.     Hw:  finish grammar handout, study vocabulary and get topics approved

Thursday

Class Time:

1.      Collect signed topics

2.     Discuss Utopia versus dystopia

3.     “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  
1984 Macintosh Commercial

4.     Hw:  study for vocab quiz on roots tomorrow

Friday

Class Time:

1.      Vocabulary, and grammar quiz

2.     Poetry Friday

3.     “Harrison Bergeron”

4.     Hw:  none

Week 4

Week 4

Howdy!  We have a full week this week.  Please make sure you are planning your time well, and don’t forget tutorials are on Wednesdays, 4:00-4:30.  Progress Reports go home Monday!! 

Please keep in mind that this page is an overview of things we hope to get done this week.  In order to know exactly what is happening in English, consult your student's planner where nightly assignments should be recorded.

Sincerely,

 

Mrs. G.

 

Let’ Go!

 

Monday

Class Time

1.  Finish Metaphor Mania “Casey at the Bat”  due tomorrow

2.  Get new root words, due Wednesday

3.  Finish personal narrative before leaving class today!! (Write about a time you had to make a difficult choice...)

4.  Bellringer  story starter:  When Sally ignored the huge sign on Farmer Brown’s property, “Enter At your Own Risk,” she had no idea what the consequence of ignoring it would be.

Hw:  Metaphor Mania, roots

 

Tuesday

Class Time:

1.  bellringer

2.  Collect Metaphor Mania

3.  “The Highwayman” (ballad and narrative, free verse poem)

4.  Listen to the audio/ballad version of the poem

5.  Watch animation of the poem

6.  Adjectives, Adverbs, Interjections Cornell Notes

7.  RAFT “The Highwayman”  due Friday

 

Hw:  Root vocabulary, “The Highwayman” RAFT

 

Wednesday

Class Time:

1.  Go over vocabulary

2.  “The Highwayman”

3.  Adjectives, adverbs, interjections practice

4.  Bellringer

5.  Odes introduced

Hw:  “The Highwayman” RAFT

 

Thursday

Class Time:

1.  Bellringer

2.  E.A. Poe “The Raven” narrative poetry cont’d

3.  Odes:  Students will write their own odes

4.  Grammar cont’d

 

Hw:  Finish your odes and RAFT

 

Friday

Class Time:

1.  Bellringer

2.  Poetry Friday

3.  RAFT collected

4.  Quiz:  Root words, grammar (adjective, adverbs, interjections), and poem

Hw:  non