ENGLISH 11R

"Work for the Week" 2006-2007 

Last updated on Thursday September 10, 2009

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FIRST QUARTER:   WEEK ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN (ALT)*
Second Quarter:  WEEK ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN Regents Exam (ALT)*
Third Quarter:   WEEK ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE,  (ALT)*
Fourth Quarter:    WEEK ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE   (ALT)*

 

 

Accommodation for Special Education

      Alternative assignments (signified by an "Alt" in the work for the week) are only provided for students who legitimately do not have access to the media under study or through direct collaboration with resource teachers: they will be accepted in lieu of other work only when a student, parent, or resource teacher has arranged the substitution with the instructor prior to the due date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST QUARTER:

WEEK ONE

 

Work for the Week

  Monday  
September  5 Tuesday Conference Day
6 Wednesday  Welcome Back!   We will review class rules and curriculum complete my "About You" questionnaire (Check as done r).   Copy work for the week into your note book.  Home Work: Complete the "Parent and Guardian Information Sheet" Due Monday 11th (Check as done r)
7 Thursday Notes on setting Smart Goals; Create 3 Smart Goals for yourself (one for this quarter, one for the year, and one for after graduation) and explain how they are S.M.A.R.T. [Specific, Measurable, Action Oriented, Realistic, and Timely] Notes on creating a "personal mission statement" -- Work on personal mission statement (Check as done r) Due Friday 15th

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Friday Be prepared to show me the rough draft r the final draft of your personal mission statement and Smart Goals are due Monday the 11th.    For extra credit, (in proper English) identify why Homer was doomed to fail and why Bart was doomed too!

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WEEK TWO  
11 Monday Copy the work for the week into your notebook; Copy Unit 1 Spelling and Vocabulary into notebook (Spelling is worth 2pts; Definition is worth 2pts; sentence is worth 1pt.) (Check as done r)   Also, on a separate sheet of paper, write sentences that use the words correctly to show their meaning and turn them in (if not done complete tonight for HW).  Personal Mission Statement is Due as is your Smart Goals Goals Assignment at start of class.  HW-- Study five words per night all this week ask about bonus!.
12 Tuesday Turn in HW Unit 1 Spelling and Vocabulary Sentences. Copy notes on "How to read;" Begin reading log for "World on a Turtles Back."
13 Wednesday Complete reading and create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the Iroquois creation story with any other creation story that is familiar to you (Visit Here if you don't know any!).(Check as done r)
14 Thursday HW study for test.   complete textbook questions at end of "World on a Turtles Back." Venn Diagram IS DUE keep questions in literary Log;
15 Friday Unit 1 Spelling and Vocabulary Test.   I will say the word you will spell it define it and put it into a sentence.  Make up test only with legal absence don't be late. ALSO --3 ring binder notebook checked Monday first notebook check for credit: no three ring binder no credit (SECTIONS: Work for the Week; Spelling and Vocabulary; Literature; Grammar and Composition, Test and Quiz).

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WEEK THREE  
18 Monday Copy the work for the week into your notebook; Open your notebook and leave it on your desk for notebook check.  Copy into your literary log for World on a Turtles Back: Native Americans used their stories and myths to aid them in their everyday lives.  View Joseph Campbell: Mythos 1.2 - The Spirit Land and identify three examples of how these stories taught the young about the world,
  19 Tuesday View Joseph Campbell: Mythos 1.2 - The Spirit Land and identify three examples of why certain things must done and how to accomplish them.
 20 Wednesday View Smoke Signals Identify the ways culture clashes... Do stories (Myths) work in this movie?  What's missing in modern culture as revealed here?
21 Thursday View Smoke Signals Identify the ways culture clashes... Do stories (Myths) work in this movie?  What's missing in modern culture as revealed here?
22 Friday View Smoke Signals Identify the ways culture clashes... Do stories (Myths) work in this movie?  What's missing in modern culture as revealed here? Notebook Test.

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WEEK FOUR   *INTERIM REPORTS* ALL LATE WORK IS DUE BY Thursday
 25 MONDAY Place WFW into notes.  Use Unit 2 Spelling and Vocabulary  correctly in sentences and study five words a night.  Prepare for Surprise Notebook Test. Copy notes on Conflict into notebook.
26 TUESDAY Blue 11R textbooks distributed.  Begin a new reading log for "A Man to send Rain Clouds" and read it in class.  
27 WEDNESDAY Answer 1-6 in complete sentences keep in your Literary Log. Read, "I will Fight No More Forever" Respond in your Literary Log-- What was he trying to say?
28 THURSDAY On your own, locate complete a reading log and read from Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (use the  textbook): identify spider grandmother’s two rules.  HW study again for test. Surprise Notebook Test at end of class.
29 FRIDAY Unit 2 Spelling and Vocabulary Test. 

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WEEK FIVE  
2 MONDAY Closed
3 TUESDAY Copy Work for Week into notes;  Introduction to Arthur Miller's The Crucible  & reading as a class
4 WEDNESDAY Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class Reminder--Open school night (1)
5    THURSDAY Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class
6 FRIDAY Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class and TEST on the weeks work. Surprise notebook  test?

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WEEK SIX  
9 MONDAY Closed
10 TUESDAY Copy Work for Week into notes;  Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class.  Reminder--Open school night (2) Be sure you can log onto a computer by the end of the week.. next week we are in the computer lab working on this quarter's project (if you would like a head start click here: WEB QUEST/ RESEARCH PROJECT
11 WEDNESDAY Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class.
12 THURSDAY Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class.

Using complete sentences, answer questions:

1, 2, 6 & 7 from act I on page 190 in ORANGE TEXTBOOK and

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 on act II on page 206 in ORANGE TEXTBOOK collected as a test grade

****Note, this is the test indicated previously in the work for the week!

13 FRIDAY Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible as a class. TEST on the weeks work. Surprise notebook  test? HW-- Meet in computer lab by Library

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WEEK SEVEN  
16 MONDAY Meet in computer lab by Library  Begin WEB QUEST/ RESEARCH PROJECT
17 TUESDAY Meet in computer lab by Library  Begin WEB QUEST/ RESEARCH PROJECT
18 WEDNESDAY 7:10am      All students to period 1 class for attendance purposes
7:20am      All students released to testing/Senior Day activities
ROOM               1608              PSAT
7:30am      Students in testing rooms and materials delivered
8:00am      Exams to begin -- Specific time allotments to be noted as per exam
11:00am All exams to be completed and turned in
11:05am Students to be released to buses and
BOCES students to Café 1 for bagged lunch.   WAIT FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Café 1 supervisors to be in Café 1 to supervise BOCES students.  All testing materials returned to room 1711.
11:15am Buses depart.
19 THURSDAY Meet in computer lab by Library  Begin WEB QUEST/ RESEARCH PROJECT
20 FRIDAY Meet in computer lab by Library  Begin WEB QUEST/ RESEARCH PROJECT  Due Friday 27th

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WEEK EIGHT  
23 MONDAY Copy into note book: REMINDER: WEB QUEST/ RESEARCH PROJECT  Due Friday 27th  ALL LATE WORK IS DUE BY FRIDAY.  READING THE CRUCIBLE in Class
24 TUESDAY READING THE CRUCIBLE in Class: Answer questions at the end of act III; Answer 678 on page 228
25 WEDNESDAY READING THE CRUCIBLE in class with guest.
26 THURSDAY READING THE CRUCIBLE in Class Answer questions at the end of act IV and Answer Final Questions--- questions to be collected as part of notebook test.
27 FRIDAY Test on the play next week . ALL LATE WORK IS DUE. Projects due.

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WEEK NINE  
30 MONDAY Answer questions at the end of act IV and Answer Final Questions--- questions to be collected as part of notebook test.  Notes on Imagery--On your own read "The Devil and Tom Walker"  (If you don't complete the reading in class complete it for HW) and answer questions  1-6  at end of story (on page 288 in the Blue Textbook --same questions as in class--different page)
October 31 BOO! TUESDAY   View The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and keep a literary log of the use of imagery in the film.
November 1 WEDNESDAY Turn in questions 1-6 at start of class. View The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and keep a daily literary log of the use of imagery in the film.
2 THURSDAY View The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and keep a daily literary log of the use of imagery in the film.
3 FRIDAY

View The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and keep a daily literary log of the use of imagery in the film.

Turn in literary log on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving at the end of class.

1st quarter ends-- Grades will be mailed home-- Don't ask me as I every time you ask or e-mail I have to stop grading and it actually takes longer: besides, you can figure it out as easily as me-- after all you are required to keep all work in your notebook-- right? Average it out.  FYI-- as soon as I am done I will give the grades to guidance try here: but note, in the past we have been directed not to give grades out ahead of time.

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SECOND QUARTER:

WEEK ONE  
6 MONDAY Letter assignment due at end of class. FYI Practice Regents Exams are Here:  Begin Literary Poster Project  (Due Monday 13th)-- sign up for devices fort come first serve! HW-- Bring Your ID Card.
7 TUESDAY Conference Day -- no classes
8 WEDNESDAY Introductory Notes on Hemmingway and The Old Man and the Sea; Reading in class.  Meet in class first then pick up The Old Man and the Sea from the library-- YOU MUST BRING THE OLD MAN TO CLASS EVERY DAY-- (it counts as a HW grade).  Work on Poster Project in Class-- Due Monday 13th Poster paper distributed --you may want to bring pens/ pencils/ or markers.
9 THURSDAY Work on Poster Project in Class-- Due Monday 13th 
10 FRIDAY Closed

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WEEK TWO  
13 MONDAY Use Unit 3 Spelling and Vocabulary  correctly in sentences and study five words a night.  Reading Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea (be sure to take notes in your reading log)
14 TUESDAY Reading Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea (be sure to take notes in your reading log)
15 WEDNESDAY Reading Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea (be sure to take notes in your reading log) -- Notes on Literary Devices for test Monday 20th
16 THURSDAY Reading Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea (be sure to take notes in your reading log) Surprise NotebookTest Friday
17 FRIDAY Reading Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea (be sure to take notes in your reading log)  Unit 3 Spelling and Vocabulary Test -- HW  Complete Reading the Novella For HW and Test Next Week.  Notebook Test AS MENTIONED IN CLASS OPEN NOTEBOOK!

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WEEK THREE  
20 MONDAY View Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea; Test on Reading and Literary Devices!!!! 
21 TUESDAY View Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea;
22 WEDNESDAY View Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea;
23 THURSDAY Thanksgiving Recess
24 FRIDAY Thanksgiving Recess

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WEEK FOUR  
27 MONDAY Use Unit 4 Spelling and Vocabulary  correctly in sentences and study five words a night. 
28 TUESDAY Hemmingway's  The Old Man and the Sea questions due. (Check as done    ) Introduction to Regents Exam Packet THIS IS A PROJECT GRADE 20% of QUARTER  Begin Session 2b prewriting and handwritten essay Due Monday 4th at start of class-- If you do not have this in on time you will get a comment about possible failure on your interim.
29 WEDNESDAY Working in class quietly on Session 2b prewriting and handwritten essay.
30 THURSDAY Working in class quietly on Session 2b prewriting and handwritten essay.
December 1 FRIDAY Unit 4 Spelling and Vocabulary Test

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WEEK FIVE    **Interim Reports**  
4 MONDAY Session 2b prewriting and handwritten essay due today at start of class-- If you do not have this in on time you will get a comment about possible failure on your interim. (Check as done    )  Meet in class... Drop off old man and pick up Catcher in the Rye  HW--Bring it to class every day!--- Notes on psycological perspective and banned books--Begin reading in class take notes for each chapter!
5 TUESDAY Catcher in the Rye
6 WEDNESDAY Introduction to essay 2a Work on Graphic organizer and essay due next Friday.
7 THURSDAY Reading / working on essay --- Catcher in the Rye
8 FRIDAY Catcher in the Rye   HW--complete chapters 1-6 open notebook test Monday.

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 WEEK SIX  
11 MONDAY Open notebook test on chapters 1-6 Catcher in the Rye-- work on session 2a essay
12 TUESDAY Begin reading chapter 7-- remember to take notes for each chapter!
13 WEDNESDAY Essay 2a 
14 THURSDAY Essay 2a/ 2b returned.
15 FRIDAY Essay 2a and prewriting are due.

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WEEK SEVEN  
18 MONDAY Open notebook test Catcher in the Rye  test on chapters 7-14
19 TUESDAY Identify Literary Element in A Christmas Carol for use on the Regents Exam! Work on blocking A Christmas Carol using the Critical lens assigned due Tuesday January 2nd 2007
20 WEDNESDAY Identify Literary Element in A Christmas Carol  
21 THURSDAY Identify Literary Element in A Christmas Carol   Extra Credit Holiday Break Assignment!  TBA in class.
22 FRIDAY Work on Extra Credit Holiday Break Assignment (extra credit is to define the terms on page 19) and blocking both due Tuesday January 2nd 2007! HW-- Work on blocking A Christmas Carol using the Critical lens assigned.

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WEEK EIGHT  
JANUARY   1 MONDAY New Years Day -- Closed
2 TUESDAY Extra credit is due at start of class--- Do now, define the terms on page 19 of your packet for a test Friday.  Use them each in the following sentence: "The author uses________ (fill in the term) to _____________ (fill in the blank) for the reader." Blocking is due.

Vocabulary LIT SENT

3 WEDNESDAY  Work on session 1b of packet prewriting and essay due at start of class Monday January 8.
4 THURSDAY  Work on session 1b:  HW study for test.
5 FRIDAY Literary Term Test (use page 19 of the packet)   Thursday the 11th  is the last day to turn in late or missing work for credit.

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WEEK NINE  
8 MONDAY 9 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam; session 1b of packet due at start of class.  Begin session 1a (review notes on listening skills.  Thursday the 11th  is the last day to turn in late or missing work for credit.   Test on Lit terms, Sentences collected, work on session 1b. Complete Catcher in the Rye with notes by Friday
9 TUESDAY Notes on Walt Whitman's Poetry (see text page 396) and working on a poem of no less that twenty lines in the style of Whitman and according to contest rules (for the rules see me after your first draft) on the theme  "Gathering" Due Friday.  8 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam
10 WEDNESDAY Work on Walt Whitman's Poetry contest assignment 7 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam
11 THURSDAY Work on Walt Whitman's Poetry contest assignment 6 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam
12 FRIDAY Notes on listening Begin session 1A 5 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam Complete Catcher in the Rye with notes by Friday

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WEEK TEN  
15 MONDAY  Closed--  Dr. Martin Luther King's Birthday Observed 
16 TUESDAY Session 1A 4 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam
17 WEDNESDAY Session 1A 3 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam Session 1A Due
18 THURSDAY ---Final Review---2 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam
19 FRIDAY ---Final Review---1 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam

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REGENTS WEEK  
23 MONDAY 0 School Days left before Regents 2 day Exam ---Final Review---  HW-- relax, sleep well, eat  good lunch.
24 TUESDAY Regents Exam 12pm Session 1

One listening essay and one mini research paper

 

25 WEDNESDAY Regents Exam 12pm Session 2     

Two literary essays.

 

26 THURSDAY  
27 FRIDAY  

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THIRD QUARTER:

WEEK ONE  
30   MONDAY Regents Exams Results? Sorry, when I know, you will know! View O Brother Where Art Thou? a retelling of the Odyssey in 1930's America.  Write a poem about the lessons you are (may be) learning on your personal journey just as Odysseus and Ulysses Everett McGill must also learn in their journeys . NO SLANG. USE IMAGERY. Begin with an invocation.  (HW 3.1.1 Check as done __) Describe the challenges you must overcome (yes, you may portray me as a monster) While your assignment doesn't have to be an EPIC it must be at least twenty lines in length. Turn in your rough draft with your final version.--Review NEW HW POLICY  all work that is not given a specific due date is due on the last day of the week
30   TUESDAY View O Brother Where Art Thou? and work on poem.
31   WEDNESDAY View O Brother Where Art Thou? and work on poem.
February    1 THURSDAY View O Brother Where Art Thou? and work on essay and poem: essay topic-- How does it feel to have someone waste your time? (HW 3.1.3  worth three HW assignments Due Monday Feb. 5 Check as done __)
2 FRIDAY Rough Draft of poem checked in class (HW 3.1.2 Check as done __).  Work on your Personal Odyssey assignment, Due Monday! 

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WEEK TWO  
5 MONDAY Use Unit 5 Spelling and Vocabulary  (3.2.1) correctly in sentences and study five words a night.   (3.1.1 due  3.1.2  3.1.3  due)  HW Bring ID Card  Review Participation Rubric and keep in notebook.
6 TUESDAY Meet in class and then go to library to pick up Death of a Salesman bring to class every day.  Begin reading log for "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave"  (p562) (3.2.2 Check as done __)
7 WEDNESDAY Complete reading log and answer questions 1-8 on page 571 (3.2.2 Check as done __) Begin reading logs for "Frederick Douglas" by Robert Hayden (P 615) and Nikki Giovanni's "Revolutionary Dreams" (p1145) (3.2.3 Check as done __) -- HW Death of a Salesman bring to class every day.  HW-- Ask your parents or guardians "What is the American dream?"
8 THURSDAY Begin Reading Log some notes for Death of a Salesman bring to class every day.
9 FRIDAY Spelling and Vocabulary test Unit 5 Spelling and Vocabulary

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WEEK THREE  
12 MONDAY Introduction to the Wisdom in Reflection assignment (3.3.1. Due Monday, February 26 Counts as Test Grade [worth four quiz grades])
13 TUESDAY SNOW? Begin Reading Log some notes for Death of a Salesman bring to class every day counts as H.W.
14 WEDNESDAY Death of a Salesman
15 THURSDAY Death of a Salesman
16 FRIDAY Work on HW-- Wisdom in Reflection assignment (Due Monday, February 26 Counts as Test Grade [worth four quiz grades])

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WEEK FOUR  
26 MONDAY  
27 TUESDAY Wisdom in Reflection assignment 3.3.1.(Due Monday, February 26 Counts as Test Grade [worth four quiz grades]) Death of a Salesman (DOAS) bring to class every day counts as H.W. 
28 WEDNESDAY Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman reading in class
March 1 THURSDAY Death of a Salesman  HW Complete Reading DOAS
2 FRIDAY Test on DOAS

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WEEK FIVE  
5 MONDAY Copy Unit 6 Spelling and Vocabulary into notebook.   Write sentences that use the words correctly to how their meaning and turn in (if not done complete for HW).  HW-- Study five words per night all this week.
6 TUESDAY Reading DOAS Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman
7 WEDNESDAY View end of DOAS Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman
8 THURSDAY View Interview w/ Arthur Miller In your notes, from the interview, what are his reasons for writing The Crucible and Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman-- Study for test on Unit 6
9 FRIDAY Unit 6 Spelling and Vocabulary

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WEEK SIX  
12 MONDAY Copy Unit 7 Spelling and Vocabulary into notebook 3.6.1.   Write sentences that use the words correctly to how their meaning and turn in (if not done complete for HW).  HW-- Study five words per night all this week. H.W. Complete reading Death of a Salesman for Test Thursday.
13 TUESDAY End of Interview w/ Arthur Miller In your notes, from the interview, what are his reasons for writing The Crucible and Death of a Salesman 3.6.2
14 WEDNESDAY Introduction to Third Quarter Poetry Project Due 22nd.  Select Poems.
15 THURSDAY Final Test On Death of a Salesman / Memorize Poems
16 FRIDAY Unit 7 Spelling and Vocabulary Quiz  Notebook Test?  H.W. Memorize first 1/2 of Poems for Monday

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WEEK SEVEN  
19 MONDAY Notebook Test?  H.W. Memorize second 1/2 of Poems.  Turn in 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 if you have not done so already--
20 TUESDAY Lit. analysis
21 WEDNESDAY Metaphor assignment 3 7 1
22 THURSDAY Recite Poems.
23 FRIDAY Metaphor assignment  -- Recite Poems.

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WEEK EIGHT  
26 MONDAY Notebook check( Surprise!): have your 3 ring binder open  and on your desk 20%-- turn in 322 20% and 323 20% a copy of  week four work for the week 20% and  week five work for the week20%.  Staple the last four together.  Last chance recitations.
27 TUESDAY Extended Metaphor assignment (as presented in class) is due 3 7 1  This assignment TBA in class and will be updated as materials are avaliable.
28 WEDNESDAY This assignment TBA in class and will be updated as materials are avaliable.
29 THURSDAY This assignment TBA in class and will be updated as materials are avaliable.
30 FRIDAY Spring Break Next Week through April 11

This assignment TBA in class and will be updated as materials are avaliable.

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FOURTH QUARTER:

 

WEEK ONE  
 9 MONDAY Spring Break
10 TUESDAY Spring Break
APRIL 11 WEDNESDAY Welcome Back!  An introduction to "The show me don't tell me poetry projectProject due May 24 -- Create  10 HAIKU  five on the the following topics (barbeque, taking a test, summer, silence, the beach) and five of your own devising due Friday (4.1.1 Check as done __)
12 THURSDAY CINQUAIN  Create five Cinquain due Friday (4.1.2 Check as done __)
13 FRIDAY Notes on Pattern poems-- Create three 10 line pattern poems each a different pattern and label the pattern for each poem (Due Monday) (4.1.3 Check as done __) .  Turn in Haiku 4.1.1 and Cinquain 4.1.2.

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WEEK TWO ASSIGNMENTS
16 MONDAY Copy work for week into notebook (Check as done __)  -- Copy Unit 8 Spelling and Vocabulary into notebook 4.2.1 (Check as done __)   Write sentences that use the words correctly to how their meaning and turn in (if not done complete for HW -- Check as done __). [Turn in pattern poems 4.1.3]  HW-- Study five words per night all this week.  Reminder, all work e-mailed to me is not considered received unless I have e-mailed you a reply. I frequently check my e-mail during school hours; however, if your grade is depending on an assignment you have failed to turn in on time-- I will accept a US postmark addressed to me here at Longwood as the date completed and submitted to me.
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17 TUESDAY Notes on The Sonnet  An introduction and working in class. First Sonnet 4.2.2  (Check as done __)  Due Friday
18 WEDNESDAY Second Sonnet due Monday 4.2.2 (Check as done __) 
19 THURSDAY Work on poems and Study for Unit 8 Spelling and Vocabulary  quiz.
20 FRIDAY First Sonnet Due  Unit 8 Spelling and Vocabulary  quiz.

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WEEK THREE  
23 MONDAY Copy Unit 9 Spelling and Vocabulary into notebook 4.3.1 (Check as done __)   Write sentences that use the words correctly to how their meaning and turn in (if not done complete for HW -- Check as done __). Remainder of Work for the week distributed in class...  and will be updated Tuesday.
24 TUESDAY Turn in BOTH Sonnets 4.2.2   Free Verse  4.3.2. One each due Thursday (Concrete Poem is not due this week... will explain Thursday)
25 WEDNESDAY  See number 9 on project: Open Letter to Reader 4 3 3
26 THURSDAY Work on other project elements! Computer Lab Next Week May 2, 3, 4-- Room 1102—HW prepare for quiz.
27 FRIDAY Unit 9 Quiz

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WEEK FOUR  
30 MONDAY Be prepared for notebook test this week! What is a concrete poem?  Work on project.
MAY 1 TUESDAY Work on project  --- questions?  HW -- meet in  1102 by library and bring notebooks each day... work on projects!
2 WEDNESDAY Meet in 1102 (computer Lab) Work on “The show me don't tell me poetry project  Project due May 24
3 THURSDAY Meet in 1102 (computer Lab) Work on “The show me don't tell me poetry project Project due May 24
4 FRIDAY Meet in 1102 (computer Lab) Work on “The show me don't tell me poetry project Project due May 24

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WEEK FIVE  
7 MONDAY View Mona Lisa Smile and notes  (Check why the movie has the title taken from a renaissance painting Notes Tuesday in Computer Lab) then cite at least 5 specific examples from the film. 4 5 1
8 TUESDAY Meet in 1102 (computer Lab) Work on “The show me don't tell me poetry project Project due May 24  Notes on why the movie has the title taken from a renaissance painting.
9 WEDNESDAY Meet in 1102 (computer Lab) Work on “The show me don't tell me poetry project Project due May 24
10 THURSDAY View Mona Lisa Smile
11 FRIDAY View Mona Lisa Smile

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WEEK SIX  
14 MONDAY View end of Mona Lisa Smile Write a response in essay format about why the movie has the title taken from a renaissance painting using your own evidence from the movie and the background information you obtained 4 5 5 Turn this in Friday.  Begin, Roxanne an adaptation (Americanized Version) of a 17th century French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.  Using appropriate language, compare in a venn diagram on the types of love represented by C.D. and Chris 4 6 1 then write a fictional love letter in the style of C.D. 4 6 2 and create a fictional “Hallmark” card from Chris 4 6 3.  You may include these in your poetry project for extra credit!
15 TUESDAY Roxanne an adaptation of a 17th century French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
16 WEDNESDAY Roxanne an adaptation of a 17th century French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
17 THURSDAY  Roxanne an adaptation of a 17th century French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.  Work on this weeks assignments.
18 FRIDAY Work on this weeks 4. 6. 1 & 2 & 3 assignments due Monday.

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WEEK SEVEN  
21 MONDAY The show me don't tell me poetry project  Project due at start of class May 24 and no I don't have a stapler--please prepare your work ahead of time.  Field of Dreams Assignment distributed in class (4.7.1) Due next Tuesday 29th
22 TUESDAY Field of Dreams Assignment  (4.7.1)
23 WEDNESDAY  Field of Dreams Assignment (4.7.1)
24 THURSDAY The show me don't tell me poetry project  Project due at start of class and no I don't have a stapler-- please prepare your work ahead of time.  If you write it they will come? College application/employment essay is checked in class with your notebook June 1  (4.7.2 )  Your job is to bring it to your guidance counselor after I check it. 
25 FRIDAY Snow Day not used--- School Closed!

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WEEK EIGHT  

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MONDAY CLOSED

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TUESDAY Field of Dreams Assignment Due 4.7.1  --  Begin review for Final Exam as distributed in class. 

The Red Badge of Courage: STEPHEN CRANE WAS BORN IN 1871 in Newark, New Jersey. The fourteenth child of highly religious Methodist parents, Crane lapsed into a rebellious childhood during which he spent time preparing for a career as a professional baseball player. After brief flirtations with higher learning at Lafayette College and Syracuse University, Crane turned to writing full-time. Convinced that he must invest his work with the authenticity of experience, he often went to outlandish lengths to live through situations that he intended to work into his novels. Based loosely on the events of the Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville (May 2–6, 1863)—though neither the battle, the war, nor the armies are named in the book—The Red Badge of Courage shattered American preconceptions about what a war novel could be. In the decades before Crane’s novel, most fiction about the Civil War was heavily idealistic, portraying the conflict as a great clash of opposed ideals.

Civil War Literature or Modernism? Defend your answer in a well thought out essay due June 7. (4.7.2)

          30 WEDNESDAY Review for Final Exam as distributed in class.  Be prepared for notebook test each day through June 8-- last day of classes.
31 THURSDAY Review for Final Exam as distributed in class.  Be prepared for notebook test each day through June 8-- last day of classes.
June 1 FRIDAY Review for Final Exam as distributed in class.  Be prepared for notebook test each day through June 8-- last day of classes.

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WEEK NINE  
4 MONDAY Copy work for week-- Lincoln Biography HW --Turn in Textbook
5 TUESDAY “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”  Textbook due at start of class.   Empty Lockers!
6 WEDNESDAY Red Badge of Courage Civil War Literature or Modernism? Defend your answer in a well thought out essay due June 7. (4.7.2)
7 THURSDAY

Review/ Poetry projects returned.

Select the best answer--  #38The writer of the novel the crucible is

a) Author Miller

b) Arthur Miller

c) Earnest Hemmingway

d) None of the above.  (answer is below)

Notebook Test Today (if you miss it be prepared to turn in your notebook at the final exam).

 
8 FRIDAY

Final Exam   TODAY be on time (if you have testing modifications go to Library). 

11R make-up exams All English make ups are Wednesday June 13 7:45-9:45 am rooms 2304 and 2305. Parents must notify the attendance office: 345 9200 ask for attendance or student may bring a note.

Answer: d) None of the above-- because The Crucible was a play and not a novel. 

So, read all of the answers before you pick one.

Read carefully to see what each question is actually asking.

50 questions in 38minutes---   late?  You lose the time.  Absent? Make up is next week… arrange to come in and bring a note from a parent to excuse the absence Friday.  Cut?   A zero “0” is averaged into your grade for the year!

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WEEK TEN  
11 MONDAY  
12 TUESDAY  
13 WEDNESDAY 11R make-up exams All English make ups are Wednesday June 13 7:45-9:45 am rooms 2304 and 2305. Parents must notify the attendance office: 345 9200 ask for attendance or student may bring a note.
14 THURSDAY  
15 FRIDAY  
   
18 MONDAY  
19 TUESDAY  
20 WEDNESDAY  
21 THURSDAY  
22 LAST DAY FRIDAY  

 

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