March 5, 2012-March 9

Period 5

reading quiz on chapters 7-9 in DBD
"The Landlady"
literary elements:
foreshadowing and irony
Your letter to the editor is due Thursday (president, ninth graders, or new teachers leaving the profession)

Hw: 

The Landlady" by Roald Dahl

Make inferences about what you really think is going on in the Bed and Breakfast from the point of view of Billy.  Use three pieces of evidence in the form of a flashback to make your inferences from Billy's perspective.  Or  Write a one page ending beginning where the author leaves off.  Your first line is, "Only me," Billy pondered...

Tuesday
Reading quiz on "The Landlady"
share your story endings from last night's homework.
Check quizzes
letter to the editor
AMSND

Hw:  letter to editor; read DBD


Wednesday

"The Necklace"
irony

Hw:  Type a paragraph that contains 7-10 sentences using several “if, then” statements.  For instance, take a situation/event in the text and write would have happened if_____________would have happened, then_____________________________would have turned out differently.  Use great details from the text.  Make predictions.

and

Describe an example of irony that is seen in the text.

Thursday
"The Necklace" quiz
letter to the editor is due
Finish AMSND

Hw:  DBD chapters 10-12 due Monday

Friday
Finish the movie AMSND.







Period 2, 4, 6, and 7

Monday

1.      

            Othello Test

Hw:  Mask due tomorrow

Othello/Iago trial prep.-due Wed; Thursday cumulative vocabulary from Othello

Tuesday

1.        Mask Due

2.       Unit:  Digging into the past

3.       History of chimney sweepers

4.       “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake

5.       Share masks

Hw:  trial  (Come to class in character.)

Wednesday

1.      

              Trial

Thursday

2.      

              Cumulative Vocabulary from Othello

3.       African American code spirituals

4.       See video clip “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

5.       foreshadowing

6.       Civil War short story “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce

Hw:  Finish reading the text online

Friday

1.        When did you realize what was happening?

2.       Journal:  what do you think go through a person’s head during their last moments on Earth?

3.       Reality versus fantasy.  “We’re all addicted to fantasy.”  Is this true?  Do you agree or disagree?  What do some people drift into fantasy when reality is too difficult to handle?

4.       Civil War Journal partner assigned

Hw:  Civil War persona due on Monday; Read “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce