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Activities
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Assessment/
Materials/
Standards
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Comments
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Wed
Aug
20
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index card,will have:
Last name, first name
cell phone
your email
your mom's name and cell
your dad's name and cell
your guardian's name and cell
How many brothers (older/younger)
How many sisters (older/younger)
Do you have a computer/printer/Internet?
Word? yes/no Excel? yes/no PowerPoint? Yes/no Keynote? yes/no
Podcast? Yes/no Webhead? yes/no
Allergies?
List your extracurricular activities: (night job, sports...)
You may use other side of the card.
Student Data Sheet will include on the other side the following
information:
What novels have you read since 9th grade? (List all that you
remember.)
Dispelling rumors and The week ahead
About Me
Summer List (The Good Things/The Not-So-Good)
Cross the Line if
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Norms, School Board
regulations, CBH policies
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HW pass
HW options
HW experts
Class Lecturers
Study card
Study buddies
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Thur
s
Aug
21
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Check Attendance
Multiple Intelligences Survey
Interests Checklist
Honors Only decide on novels to read
Questions about the Syllabus?
Thought Card reading
Syllabus
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Very rainy! Think
how you will
protect your books
from the water.
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Fri
Aug
22
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The Business Letter
Writer's Inc, page 298
Obligation Cards
Business Letter Rubric
HW-Supplies (Comp. Notebook, signatures); Business Letter
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Mon
Aug
25
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Warm Up: In Composition Notebook write a list of Things that are
Good; then write another list of Not-So-Good Things.
In Vocabulary section (or folder) develop a VIS (Vocabulary Improvement
Chart): Write
the vocabulary word in under "Word," your job is fill in the rest of the
columns. This will be graded and should be on a loose-leaf page.
Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) Correctly write the sentences.
Collect Business Letters; Give out textbooks to take home and Obligation
Cards.
Read Beowulf, page 33 (two pages) in class then continue on your own on
Wednesday to answer questions on page
HW: 1) Complete the VIS chart at home for the following words:
abase, alcove, calamity, lament, relish, affliction, purge, gorge, talon,
infamous, writhing, cowering, taut, murky,pilgrimage. Number your words
for organization.
2) Select a topic you are interested in and comfortable with talking about in
fronto fo the class. You should know a lot about this topic to talk about it for
at least three minutes. Topic due September 4th (Thursday)
3) Thought Card
4) If you are purchasing NineteenEighty-four by George Orwell, you should
get it by Wednesday.
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Word
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Synonym
Clue
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Dictionary
Definition
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Part of
Speech
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Sentence
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Understand and
appreciate a short
story. Identify conflict
and resolution. Draw
conclusions. Produce
a final document with
correct spelling.
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Tues
Aug
26
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No School -Teacher Planning
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Wed
Aug
27
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in your composition notebook, answer the folowing: What do you
consider designates a hero?
Warm Up-(WN)Who, in your mind, is a hero? Why? Describe him or
her. What characteristics or qualities does this figure display that
make him or her a hero, fictional or real?
As you continue to read Beowulf, focus on the details Read to page
44 (together with someone, groups, individual...don't matter) and
answer all questions there in Class Notes section. Then create a
senses chart: What do you see, hear, feel, smell, touch, taste, etc.
Write quotes and page number to show evidence of the image
reflected by the written word in the text. Be creative but use the
entire text to look at the writing. Then create a list of alliterative words.
Give Thought Card to substitute Teacher.
Look up in back of book glossary: alliteration, allusion, caesura,
hyperbole, irony, kenning, personification stock epithet, epic.
HW=None
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Appreciate a classic
epic (litarary
analysis); identify
alliteration and
apprciate its effects
make judgments
about Beowulf anas
an epic and Bewuolf
as a character.
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Literary devices to
know-alliteration,
allusion, caesura,
hyperbole, irony,
kenning,
personification,
stock epithet,
synecdoche,
theme
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Thur
s
Aug
28
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Warm Up-
A For 10 minutes, write a list of words that you know for sure describe Beowulf
(don't use the book).
B. Write three columns of words-one noun, one verbs, and one adjectives, using
the catalogs at your table.
Handout Proofreader's Marks
Classzone: Go to http://www.classzone.com. Click on eservices at the
top, right corner. Use the Activation Code for New Users:
CLASS8609788
Then go to http://www.nicenet.org and join a class. Use the class key,
4245900P4
Beowulf-discuss questions and talk about the qualities that the main
character holds.
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LA.1112.\The Student
Will (TSW): 1.6.1 use
new vocabulary that is
introduced and used.
1.6.5 relate new vocab
to familiar words;1.7.8
repair comprehension of
grade-appropriate text;
5.2.1 demonstrate
effective listening; 4.2.4
write a business letter;
5.1.1 use fluent and
legible handwriting skills
Primaries Today
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Fri
Aug
29
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SAT Words spurious-not genuine, false, counterfeit;
rancorous-hateful, marked by deep-seated ill-will
DOL-four sentences/Collect
College Essay Rubric-Essay format
Beowulf
HW College Essay due September,4, Tuesday 100pts. This essay
counts as your Expository/Narrative Essay. Please make sure that
you have a topic today, so that you turn the essay by Thursday.
You may choose from any of the following if you do not have one of
your own:
1) Tell about the neighborhood that you grew up in and how it helped
shape you into the kind of person you are today. (Yale and University
of CHicago)
2) Identity and culture are clearly intertwined. How has your
experience of culture influenced the development of your own
personal identity? (NYU)
3) Sartre said "Hell is other people," while Streisand sang, "People
are the luckiest people in the world." With whom do you agree?
(Amherst)
4) Discuss an important personal relationship you have had and
explain how it has changed your life.
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Let's look at the main
characters more
closely, for later on
we will have to
analyze the literature
in terms of
characterization in
order to evaluate
purpose. Then later
on, we will have to
look at other types to
further scrutinize the
texts before
us...fascinating!
Archetypes
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Mon
Sept
1
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Labor Day-No School
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Tues
Sept
2
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Mock A Month
HW-Think about a topic that you would like to speak about in front of
the class (50 pts; if you use a prop, it will be 60 pts). Topic Due Sept
4; Speech due in October
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Wed
Sept
3
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I. Warm UP
VIS Words-profound-having great depths or seriousness;
plausible-seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
Write two sentences for each SAT word about Beowulf.
II. Jonathan Green
III Find images in final stanza of Beowulf, which was read on Friday...find
kennings, allusion, alliterations, and stock epithets. Create a chart to show
these. Print it out and stick on your WN (use size 12 font). Then create another
chart (or you can continue the first chart) and show examples of what you hear,
feel, touch, taste, ...all of the senses in the same stanza.-Use Font size 12, New
Times Roman
IV. Once you are done-read this article, view the videos, and write a
response...think about Beowulf and compare both societies,that of 560 A.D. and
our contemporary one. January 29 CSM
HW-
College Essay due tomorrow
Speech Topic due tomorrow
Friday-Bring coloring pencils or markers. Bring 1984 novel to
read silently in class. Should be following the Reading
Schedule.
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Sept
4
Thur
s
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I. What is working in my life and what isn't? What do I want to be
doing? What kind of person do I want to be? What do I need to
change in my life to attain those goals-break a bad habit, think
differently? What is my overall vision for myself? How can I articulate
that in a personal mission statement?
II. View Grammar Rocks for review
III. Collect College Essays/Check Speech Topic
IV. Review Beowulf-
Answer questions on Beowulf
Grendel
HW-Bring coloring pencils or crayons
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Sept
5
Fri
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VIS=pervasive-dispersed throughout; penitent-expressing
remorse for one's misdeeds or sins.
Language of Literature, page 63-answer questions for Beowulf
under Comprehension Check (all); Think Critically, (#2-#5); Connect
to Life (#8)
Using 12 copy pages, draw plates (storyboard) on Beowulf. They
must be in a sequence and have a caption or quote from the text.
Use the entire 8" X 11". Use color if possible, but be detailed and
focus.
HW=Beowulf plates
Johnathan Green
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Mrs. Reyes Army Duty
Bee Good!
notebooks
Grade diagnostics
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Mon
Sept
8
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VIS=quandary-a state of uncertainty or perplexity;
prosaic-unimaginative, dull
DOL/Check Jonathan Green poem
SSR 1984
Write a Haiku (five syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables on nature and
your feelings).
Continue reading Beowulf/symbols in literature (take notes)
Return plates, to complete by Friday
"Wild Wild West"-kennings and other elements. What are the values described
by the song?
Bring 1984
Plates due on Friday
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Tues
9
Sept
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DOL
Grendel Video
Beowulf video
1984-/ACLU.org discuss preview
Return essays/return student work
Speech Rubric
HW:
1) Make sure you are on schedule with the reading;
2) Draw Beowulf plates.
3)Revise the essays
5) Go over your DOL
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Click on the above to
see
Big Brother watches
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Research the
appropriate use
when writing
"adventurous
stories" or
"adventure stories"
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Thur
s
Sept
11
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DOL
V
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Fri
Sept
12
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Share yesterday's Beowulf prompt from WN
DOL/collect
Beowulf-Collect Plates
Collect Expository Essays
Give back student work.
Read from Beowulf Anthology-Grendel's side of the story
Discuss "the Other"
Announcements-writing contests and Mid-term test Beowulf portion
If you were absent yesterday, you must register with Classzone.com
1984-Ordering Pizza
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Mon
Sept
15
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VIS=Nefarious, chastise
DOL I (new sheet)
Culminate Beowulf
Begin Medieval Literature
1984 discussion
Give back DOL to check
HW=for Friday, revise Mock Essay
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Tues
Sept
16
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VIS= Objectivity-treating facts influenced by emotions; obdurate-stubborn;
inflexible
WN=Based on Beowulf, respond to the following journal prompt:
“The word is mightier than the sword.” Bulwer Lytton
DOL
WN-name calling, As part of their stock in trade, Anglo-Saxon oral poets had a
"word-hoard of set phrases that they could employ . They made frequent use
of epithets, identifying expressions alongside or in place of the names of
people, places or objects. For instance, Beowulf is often called "Edgeto's
son" or Higlac's follower." There are also kennings, metaphoric compound
words in place of the simple noun. For example, the" whale-road for the sea",
and "heaven's candle" for the sun. For five minutes free write about your
name and the other names you are known by at home, with your girlfriend or
boyfriend; names you are called by your buddies and friends.
See more here: Kennings and other elements
Thought Card
Medieval Clips
HW:
1) Mock essay typed, MLA on Friday
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Wed
Sept
17
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DOL
WN=Write about your name and how you feel toward it. Look at your name from
all different angles, the aesthetics of it, and define it in your own words. Look at
its features and describe it. Write a tanka on your name: 5,7,5,7,7
1984-discuss the 2-minute hate and why it is conducted in the Winston Smith's
world.
A Good Man in Hell-General Romeu Dallaire
HW=
1) VIS=write two sentences about 1984 for each VIS word
2) Write a Haiku for your name (Haiku: a poem with three lines and seventeen
syllable with Nature as a topic.)
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Sept
18
Thur
s
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DOL
1984-Mood and Political Climate of-
Privacy Today versus 1984
HW=MOck essay revision due (Typed in MLA format)
VIS chart to be checked tomorrow
1984 conclude reading-next week begins the grind
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Sept
19
Fri
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SAT words-share sentences on 1984
DOL
collect Thought Cards
Bloom's Taxonomy/Handout
1984 discussion
Sestina Handout
HW: Imagist poem for Wednesday being Julia or Winston, Goldstein or Big
Brother
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Sept
21
Mon
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Check VIS Chart and Five questions on 1984
Textbook study, begin The Canterbury Tales
1984-group students and give out topics for presentations on Monday
Filaments of Focus
Look for threads of infomation in the book and tie to meaning as well
as relate to another area in the book using quotations.
Use Powerpoints or other visual tools and materials to present to the
class. Project is due Monday, students will have enough time to
present their material to the class that responds to their particular
prompt.
HW=Imagist Poem due Wednesday
Prepare for Speech due next week, October 1st
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Groups
1) Prophetic Vision
Alberico
Greenberg
Nagen
2) Mental
Conditioning
Alfonso
Chaves
Nunez
3) Historical Places
and Events
Felstein
Gabur
Steiler
4) Language
Gruskin
Stanley
Axinn
5) Females
Caplan
Almandoz
Scardefield
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6) Background
of Politics
Cohen
Maggi
Caruso
7)
Symbols/Motifs
Landrian
Schulman
Pick
8) Current
Trends
Rodriguez
Park
Alon
9) Morality of
Society
Moore
Steffen
Cuza
10) Sex and Love
Delgado
Hutchinson
Annett
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Tues
Sept
23
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VIS=paramount- of chief concern or importance; ostentatious-describing a
showy or pretentious display
The Canterbury Tales
Thought Cards
1984 questions quiz each other
HW=1984 Test
The Speech-using Writer's Inc, pages 422-432. Handout of Rubric; Writer's
Inc. (Please note, you will not have to turn in any written material. This is only a
presentation.)
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Wed
Sept
24
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Review Last Friday's quiz
Catching Wild Pigs
Review for test
1984 Test
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Thur
s
Sept
25
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Book Cards
"A Hanging"
HW=Prepare for speech
Early Release
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Fri
Sept
26
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Senior Brace Office Day
Canterbury Masquerade Planning
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Mon
Sept
29
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Guernica
Group Presentation work with Laptops
Speech postponed for October 6th, Monday-Wednesday
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Tues
Sept
30
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No School Rosh Hashana
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Wed
Oct
1
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Thought Card
1984 group work
Sestina-handout
Sign up with Turn it in http:www.turnitin.com
HW=Speech next Monday.
Sestina due Friday (about any theme or topic, need not be typed.
Hand in to me.)
Continue to work independently on your 1984 presentation.
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Turnitin.com
registration:
Class Id=2443762
Enrollment Password=
Ateam
If you already have
an account, just
enroll in a new class
and use the keys
above.
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Thur
s
Oct
2
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
1984 group work
Class maintenance
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Fri
Oct
3
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1984 Group work-small group conferencing
Collect Sestina poems
HW=Speech due on Monday
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Mon
Oct
4
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Speeches
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Tues
Oct
5
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Speeches
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Wed
Oct
6
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Conclude Speeches
VIS-tone, style, rhetoric, plot, structure, utopia, dystopia
Iranian teacher Farzad Kamangar, 33 an office in his union and a
defender of Kurdish minority rights and women's rights, has been
sentenced to death by Tehran court for "enmity against God." Write a
letter of appeal and protest to the Iranian president.
II. Novel-1984
A. Analysis
1. Find two onomatopoeia
2. Find two metaphors
3. Find two similes
4. What is the plot?
5. Major/Minor characters
6. Structure
1984-Handout "Dystopia/Utopia"
HW="The Politics of the English Language," due Monday
Review The Canterbury Tales; work on your 1984 group
presentations
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Thur
s
Oct
9
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Yom Kippur-No School
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John Lennon's
Anniversary
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Fri
Oct
10
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Imagine That
Imagine a world in which everything 'is good.' Describe at length what
this world is to you.
Logical Fallacies
III. Read The Canterbury Tales
A. Structure
B. Characterization
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Mon
Oct
13
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Discuss "The Politics of the English Language"
Presentations on Filaments of Focus for 1984
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Tues
Oct
14
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Presentations continue
Collect Writer's Notebooks
HW=Write three Blooms Taxonomy questions based on your filament
of focus for 1984
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When you turn in
Thought Cards, you
must have name and
date in front.
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Wed
Oct
15
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Collect Bloom's Questions based on 1984
1984 presentations conclude-Filaments of Focus
The Canterbury Tales
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4th pd must pick up
books from floor.
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Thur
s
Oct
16
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Eleanor Rigby-ppssssttt
The Canterbury Tales
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Fri
Oct
17
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The Canterbury Tales
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Mon
Oct
20
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The Canterbury Tales="The Pardoner's Tale"
Handout-Mid-Term Review
Collect 1984
The Canterbury Tales-What is the Tone?
Does the same tone show throughout the poem? Provide examples.
Explain the use of irony.
Why does Chaucer get so much into characterization?
Mid-Term review
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Fire Drill
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Tues
Oct
21
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Give back Thought Cards
The Canterbury Tales Characterization sheet-handout
Handout stock paper
Pilgrimage slideshow
Pilgrimage on Campus, capturing a snapshot through the senses
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Wed
Oct
22
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Mid-term Test for 1st and 2nd Periods
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Thur
s
Oct
23
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Mid Term
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Fri
Oct
24
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No School-Teacher Planning
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Mon
Oct
27
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The Butter Battle Book
Read pages 1274-1279, answer comprehension check from page
1279. Honor students also answer questions 7 and 9.
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Tues
Oct
28
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Read "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop handout and answer questions
Read George Orwell's letter and answer questions
Basketball game
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Wed
Oct
29
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Take out Tuesday's work
Answer questions together
Assign The Canterbury Tale characters
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Thur
s
Oct
30
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Let's talk about nice things! Has a random stranger ever done
anything nice for you? Have you ever done anything altruistic for
someone else? How did this make you feel?
Read Nadine Gordimer's "Six Feet of the Country, 1289. Answer
questions from page 1299. Honors-elect to answer any of the
following in response to the reading: monument design-create a
design for a monument to Petrus's brother, symbolizing the plight of
this family and others like them.
Improvised dialogue-with a classmate, improvise a dialogue in which
the narrator and Lerice, after the old man's departure, talk over the
events of the story. Try to convey the nature of their marital
relationship, as well as the reactions of each to the events. Character
Portrait-Choose one of the main characeters of the story-the
narrator, Lerice, Petrus, or Petrus's father-and draw a portrait of the
character. Story Review-Nadine Gordimer has been praised for her
ability to convey the importance of respecting other cultures. Write a
critical review of "Six Feet of the Country" in which you explain how
the story demonstrates this idea.
Memo for the teacher-compose a memo to a history teacher
recommending that Gordimer's story be required reading for a unit on
South Africa. Make suggestions as to what specifically should be
viewed and studied. Write a letter to the South African health
authorities demanding that the body of Petrus's brother be found.
Rubric for The Canterbury Tale masquerade
Turn in typed Sestina and Haiku for credit.
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Fri
Oct
31
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Canterbury Tales Masquerade
A Knight's Tale
oh! and Aftershock (seems to me this is more important to students
nowadays.
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Mon
Nov
3
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Nadine Mordimer's "Six Feet of the Country," discuss and check script
Macbeth Anticipated Guide
JGHG
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NS Did you take a
novel anyway?
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Johnny Got His
Gun
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Tues
Nov
4
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No School-Elections Day
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Wed
Nov
5
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VIS=anathema; pacifism; ether; stream of consciousness;
highfalutin
Write complete sentences using six or more words.
JGHG in class notes
Answer the following questions:
What is the time period in which the novel is set? Name any
technologies that are mentioned.
What sensations does the main character detect? What is his name?
What is his biggest fear?
The Compare and Contrast Essay-Choose two works by George
Orwell to write a compare and contrast essay that analyzes each
piece of literature in terms of characterization, theme, or author's
purpose. Use MLA format, typed, due Monday, Nov. 10, worth 100
pointsk submitted to Turnitin.com
JGHG
If you need help writing a compare and contrast essay, use your
textbook Language of Literature or Writer's Inc.
Here is the Rubric-Compare and Contrast Essay Rubric
The Persona Poem-Poem written in 1st person using any of the
characters we've met. Typed with title.
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*****Students
submitting to the
Literary Fair must
follow certain rules:
You need a form
signed by parents.
You work must be
double-spaced in 12
size font. Also, they
need a copy of your
Virtual Counselor
schedule for next
semester (so that
they can locate you).
THANK YOU for
following these
regulations.
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Thur
s
Nov
6
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JGHG view the following slide show These were soldiers
VIS=
The Pantoum
Vocabulary for test on Monday
C/C Essay on Orwell's works due on Monday.
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Fri
Nov
7
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Vocabulary review with definitions
Collect Persona poem
Compare/Contrast Essays due Monday by midnight via Turnitin.com
JGHG-WN In Ch.2 the Superintendent of Schools talks about
airplanes. What can you write about these ideas in terms of irony?
What is Joe's birth month? How are jelly and jam different? In Ch. 3,
during the love scene, pay closer attention and list every time his arm
is mentioned. Explain why Trumbo did this.
Why do you suppose Trumbo intersperses patriotic sayings/slogans
and people into the scene? What is an allegory? What does
Veteran's Day commemorate? What is the history of Memorial day
and what does it commemorate?
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WN #1
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Mon
Nov
10
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Vocab Test
HW=Read Chap 4 in JGHG and 5
Objectives: To get a glimpse of the life of a WWI soldier. To raise
questions about individual, group, and governmental motives for war.
To examine the moral and material justifications for wars as we look
at the gains and losses of WWI. To compare the characteristics of the
times to our times.
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Ishmael Beah at the
Miami Book Fair
tonight!
Sorry that there was
no air conditioning in
the room today. Not
my fault, but I
apologize for the
setting. I am doing my
best to improve the
conditions.
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Nov
11
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No School-Veteran's Day
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Nov
12
Wed
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1. Explain why Trumbo should write so much about Joe’s
experience working the railroads.
Describe the difference between this chapter’s romantic interest and
last chapter’s.
What does this chapter suggest about the nature of friendships?
Can you truly have a very best friend or is that just a kid’s fantasy?
Explain.
What is the worst aspect of this chapter? Pick a situation and explain
your reasoning.
Because this story is an allegory(a story that symbolizes an idea or
theme), how does it support Trumbo’s anti-war thesis? How has the
injured Joe been betrayed and by whom?
Near the end of the chapter, Trumbo says, “That night in bed was the
first time he ever cried over a girl.” Is he really just crying over
Diane? What else is ruined for him? Explain.
Chapter Five:
Please list all of Joe’s losses. Do not just mention the body parts but
also the emotional, familial, and physical. (You should have a lot if
you really think about it!)
What is the irony (when the opposite of the expected happens) about
Joe’s condition?
What is the only thing that Joe can do? How does he feel about his
one “skill?”
What are some of the memories that Joe has of his mother? Why
does he think of these specific actions now? Explain you answer.
Explain how Joe is “living.” What would you do if you were in his
situation? How would you “pass the time” for the next 20 years (or
more)?
What part of Joe’s injuries is the worst for you? Pick one and explain
why.
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Sorry that there was
no air conditioning in
the room today. Not
my fault, but I
apologize for the
setting. I am doing my
best to improve the
conditions.
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Nov
13
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Warm Up-WN-Why does Joe think about his mom? Why do you think
Trumbo makes his character remember his mom at this point in the
novel?
Discuss CH. 6 JGHG in terms of plot. How is Joe kept alive? What
does he compare this situation to? What does he give up on? List
things that Joe will never be able to do again. Explain why Joe cannot
understan why he is still alive? Why is it okay for his m
Writing a Summary-Topic, Focus, Illustration; 5W and H
Handout Copies of articles
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WN#2
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Nov
14
Fri
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Summarizing
Read
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Mon
Nov
17
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JGHG Reading Ch. 7
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Tues
18
Nov
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Johnny Got His Gun the movie
KURL:
In WN, write about this thought:
"Why not make your life a work of art? Even a mundane chore-ironing
a shirt, composing and e-mail, walking the dog, setting an
argument-can be performed exquisitely. 'When we do the best that
we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life
of another.'"
List of LOL Selections-Choose one selection to prepare for lesson
that you will give to the class. You will become the subject-matter
expert on that piece. (Calendar will be provided tomorrow.)
JGHG-Give out question:
Name two things Joe tries to recall to keep alert.
What is the most imortant thing? How does Joe track time? What
problems exist? Why does Joe remember New Year? What conuntry
does he hope to be in"? Why? Explain corporal Timlon, the Bavarian
Lazarus, and the blond 18-year old kid.
HW-Read chapters Xi and XII
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Wed
19
Nov
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Johnny Got His Gun closes with one of the most powerful anti-war,
anti-state manifestoes ever written. To quote briefly:
"Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the
slogans and we will turn them into realities. Sing the battle hymns and
we will take them up where you left off. Not one not ten thousand not
a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two
billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and
we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use
them and we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and
eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in
tranquility in security in decency in peace. You plan the wars you
masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the
gun."
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Thurs
Nov
20
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Nicenet.org
Register using 8229474P72
Period 22008
Answer the questions under Conferencing Topic: Johnny Got His Gun
View my blog at http://www.tchenglish.blogspot.com comment on one of the
entries about JGHG
Then, write a letter to Alice Walker, responding to her letter to Obama , send it to
languagearts@teacher.com
Prepare for your class by performing online research.
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Fri
Nov
21
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Fire drill
Reading about JGHG answering questions
Complete Alice Walker letter and send to languagearts@teacher.com
Access classzone.com and download ancillaries for your individual
class
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Mon
Nov
24
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In WN, Conduct SIFT for what you have read of JGHG
(For SIFT, it is necessary that you provide extensive detail, profound
explanations, evidence from the novel with page # and show how these details
support the author's purpose)
Read Ch. xiv together in class
Talk about the novel, and chapter xiv
Handouts
A. Calendar
B. Instructions for Lesson/Rubric
C. Questions fro the rest of the novel
HW: Quiz on Wednesday JGHG
Read chapters xv-xiv in WN
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Tues
Nov
25
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Check HW.
Read JGHG ch. xviii-xx in class
Take home quiz
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Wed
Nov
26
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JGHG Quiz
V for Vendetta (can we conclude this?)
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Thurs
- Fri
Nov
27-28
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Happy Thanksgiving Day-Give thanks for nature, water, brotherly love, food, clean
air, life, and most of all life. Who gave all of this to us?
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Dec
1
Mon
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Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Mallory
"Midsummer," by Derek Walcott
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Understand and
appreciate a classic
identify characterization
know what a romance is
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Dec 2
Tues
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VIS=animosity; parsimonious; adulate
The Sonnet-Petrarchan; Spencerian; Shakespearean
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We are starting a new
VIS sheet but don't forget
the vocabulary that you
have already learned.
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Dec 3
Wed
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VIS=abstract; aesthetic; alleviate
Francis Bacon
Writing as an Act of Hope
HW=Write a Sonnet-typed, double-spaced no name on front (write in pencil on
back of page. See handout Sonnet
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Dec
4
Thurs
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VIS=ambivalent; apathetic
Irony-what is it? What instances, as described by Morissette, are ironic; what are
mere coincidence? Why
Grammar Girl the Palin situation
Name-Write a response to the name. See the Name ppt; what do you think?
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"I wrote your name on a
piece of paper, but by
accident threw it away. I
wrote your name in the
sand, but the waves
whispered it away. I
wrote your name in my
heart, and forever there it
will stay."
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Dec
5
Fri
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VIS=auspicious; auspices
Collect Sonnets
Prodigal Son
Shakespeare Intro part I
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Dec
8
Mon
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VIS=benevolent; candor; cogent
Write your Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Holiday wish list
Sir Gawain
Shakespeare
Macbeth
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Dec
9
Tues
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VIS=comprehensive; diligent; hamartia; hubris
"Digging" Consider the reactions that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
have about murder. Whose reaction do you feel is more acceptable
or admirable? Discuss as much as possible.
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Dec
10
Wed
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VIS=Contemporary; dubious
Macbeth Act 1 and II Quiz
Gulliver's Travels
Begin Act III
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Dec
11
Thurs
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VIS=egregious; eclectic
Civil Peace
Macbeth-Dumb Show
HW=VIS check tomorrow
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Dec
12
Fri
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No VIS
Civil Peace
Macbeth Dumb Show Read play to 111.3
HW=A Valecdiction Forbidding Mourning
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Dec
15
Mon
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VIS=avarice; raze; pristine
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Kubla Khan
Macbeth review through film
HW= Rubaiyyat
Reflections on Marriage
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Begins a new grading
period for the
Vocabulary
Improvement Sheet
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Dec
16
Tues
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VIS=appease; niggardly; bane
Rubaiyyat
Reflections on Marriage
Continue reading Macbeth
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Dec
17
Wed
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VIS=foil; bane; petty
Presentations: Paradise Lost
The Rambler-
"The Moment"
Name Essay-An introduction
Macbeth quiz Act III and IV
(selected students only)
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