Quarter 3, Week 1 (1/20-1/24)
Monday, January 20, 2014
No school- MLK Day
Tuesday, January 21, 2014(Professional Development Early Dismissal)
Today…
1. Discuss Civil War; what was the war fought over? What effect did this have on the country?
2. Civil War Intro PPT
3. Listen to spirituals and discuss what they have in common http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83BWsmT0II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vzallCu820 (:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQKZ5Nmpa0
4. Read spirituals and individually complete “Reading Strategy” (in links)
Homework: None
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 (Activity Schedule)
1.Pass out Vocabulary, quiz Friday
2. Spirituals and Today's Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ib36OXrEL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AyHupByuU
3.Talk about what, besides heaven, some of these spirituals might be “coded” as
4.Listen to “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” go over codes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBOP8t2hlFQ
5.Worksheet on codes and personal response (in linke)
6. Understanding Spirituals Worksheet
7.Discuss life of Frederick Douglass and begin reading “My Bondage and My Freedom”
Homework:1. Read "My Bondage and My Freedom" and answer #s 1-3
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Today…
1. Discuss Frederick Douglass
2.Read Hayden’s poem; underline in pencil significant words/phrases
3.Discuss reaction to Hayden’s poem
4.What is “gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians”? what is “lives grown out of his life”?
5.Introduce “anaphora,” do anaphoric exercise
6.Review vocab
Homework:Vocab quiz tomorrow!
Friday, January 24, 2014
Today…
1.Vocab quiz
2.intro to Walt Whitman
3. Read “I Hear America Singing”: discuss repetition and parallelism
4.Read “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
5.Whitman Worksheet (in links)
Homework: Read “Song of Myself”
Quarter 3, Week 2 (1/27-1/31)
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
1.new vocab
2.parallelism
3.Discuss “Song of Myself”
4.Discuss Song of Myself; lead to: song inspires a person to be their true self
Homework: none
Thursday, January 30, 2014
1.vocab
2.parallelism
3.Begin Dickinson
4.Discuss full rhyme and slant rhyme
5.Read 3 poems
Homework: Read "Owl Creek Bridge" on p 829 in your book. Test Tuesday, Vocab quiz tomorrow.
Friday, January 31, 2014
1.introduce Bierce
2.Connotation vs. Denotation
3.Bitter Bierce
4.Begin “Owl Creek”
Homework: Test Tuesday
Quarter 3, Week 3 (2/4-2/7)
Monday, February 4, 2014
1.Go over plot of story
2.Discuss ending: surprised or not? Read last two paragraphs and look for clues that it was all just a dream (382)—in hindsight, what else was dreamlike?
3.Compare “how slowly…” with experience in water; “counterswirl” , “roared” “current” “rising sheet” “vortex”
4. Where did these visions even come from?
5.Explain 3rd-person omniscient and 3rd person limited
Homework:1. Study for your test tomorrow. 2. Bitter Bierce due tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 5, 2014 (extended HR)
1.Civil War Era Test
Wednesday, February 6, 2014
1.Introduction Realism ppt
2.Dialect handout
3.Begin reading “the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (925), have study guide alongside
Homework: Read "Jumping Frog" p 925 and complete the reading guide (in the links)
Thursday, February 7, 2014
1.Go over Jumping Frog Guide
2.discuss realistic aspects (dialect, emphasis on character)
Homework: 1. Read your assigned article for class tomorrow. 2. Have Huck Finn for Monday.
Friday, February 8, 2014
1.racism bell ringer
3.background/Jena 6/ Eisenhower articles in groups (jigsaw)
4.racism in our times worksheet
5. ask them how they think they can promote true integration and cross-racial understanding at their school. Discuss situation here.
Homework: Complete the "Racism in our times" worksheet for Monday. Please do not complete the letter yet.
Quarter 3, Week 4 (2/10-2/14)
Monday, February 10, 2014
1. Huck Finn intro ppt
2. Begin reading together
Homework: 1. Read ch. 1-2 2. Letter due Thursday. Must submit to turnitin.com
If you are having trouble with your iBook version of Huck Finn, you can get a refund from Apple and purchase it through Amazon. You will then read it through the Kindle app. Purchase here: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Bantam-Classic-ebook/dp/B000QCS8S8
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 (Professional Development)
1. “Anticipation Guide”
2. Once they have finished, bring the students together, and have them read chapters 3-4 together.
Homework: 1. Ch. 3-4 for tomorrow; be prepared for a reading quiz on 1-4 2. 2. Letter due Thursday. Must submit to turnitin.com
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
1. ch. 1-4 reading quiz.
2.In partners, have the students complete the “Foil” worksheet.
Homework: 1. Read Ch. 5-7 and complete the 4-7 study guide. There will be a quiz tomorrow. 2. Letter due Thursday. Must submit to turnitin.com
Thursday, February 13, 2014
1. collect the study guides
2. ch. 5-7 reading quiz.
3.Students should then complete the “Pap Finn” worksheets.
Homework: Read ch. 8-11 and complete the study guide questions. There will be a quiz Tuesday.
Friday, February 14, 2014
No School! Happy Valentine's Day!
Quarter 3, Week 5 (2/17-2/21)
Monday, February 17, 2014
No school
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 (professional development)
Today…
1.Ch. 8-11 reading quiz
2.Satire ppt
3.superstition
Homework: 1.Read and complete the reading guide for ch. 12&13 2. Complete the superstition worksheet
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Today…
1.introduce research project
2.satire group work for ch 1-11
Homework:Movie choices due tomorrow--Use the google form in the links!
Thursday, February 20, 2014
1.mapping the story
2.Discuss chapters 1-13
Homework:Read and complete the study guide for ch. 14-16
Friday, February 21, 2014
1.Ch. 14-16 quiz
2.Discuss 14-16
Homework:17-18 for Monday
Quarter 3, Week 6(2/24-2/28)
Monday, February 24, 2014
1.Ch. 17-18 Quiz
2.Cycle of Irony PPT
3.Irony after the Grangerfords
Homework:Ch. 19-21 and Huck Character Analysis
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
1.quiz on 19-21
2.Group work on topics
Homework:Ch. 22-24 due Friday; finish your group topic page for Friday.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Arlington Heights Library Presentation on Research
Homework:Ch. 22-24 due Friday; finish your group topic page for Friday.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
1.Discuss citations and finding good sources
2.Look at websites to determine if credible/not credible; make citations
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2009/12/17/avatar-restores-a-sense-of-wonder-to-the-moviegoing-experience/
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941773.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fheadlines+%28Variety+-+Latest+News%29&query=avatar+review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/20/film-review-avatar/
3.Practice works cited & bibliographies based off of books and websites
4.Sources due – stamp with approval
5.Explain notecards procedure
6.Give time to begin researching and recording on notecards
Homework:Ch. 22-24 due Friday; finish your group topic page for Friday.
Friday, February 28, 2014
1.Quiz on 22-24
2.discuss the Damned Human race
Homework: None
Quarter 3, Week 7 (3/3-3/7)
Monday, March 3, 2014
1.continue discussion
2.Freewrite and send to Mrs J: In a paragraph, explain why Huck is so ashamed of humanity. What other examples of the “damned human race” are shown in Huck Finn? What would Huck think of our society?
Homework:25-26 and study guide
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Today…
1.25-26 quiz
2.explain extra credit satire
3.Differentiated group work
Homework:Ch. 27-28 and reading guide; works cited due tomorrow; Download the app Pic Collage for Thurs!
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 (Ash Wednesday)
1.collect Works Cited—explain notecards
2.ch. 27-28 quiz
3.Differentiated groups continued
4.discuss chapters
Homework:Ch. 29-33; Download the app Pic Collage for Thurs!
Thursday, March 6, 2014
1.29-33 quiz
2.Pic Collage chapter summaries in groups
Homework:Read chapter summaries
Friday, March 7, 2014
1.Go over summaries
2.What Huck has realized and how he has changed—epiphany
3.Why he thinks the letter is moral/why tearing it up is immoral: the irony
4.Read-through of actual story ending
5.Read last chapter aloud
6.Review last chapter and the meaning of freedom
7.Why does Huck want to keep going instead of go back to Widow Douglas’?
8.Go over River Symbolism
Homework: Notecards due Tuesday. Huck Finn test on Thursday.
Quarter 3, Week 8 (3/10-3/14)
Monday, March 10, 2014
1.Continue to discuss end of novel
2. Introduce Panel Project
Homework: 1. notecards due tomorrow. 2. Test on Thursday. 3. Reading packet due Thurs. 4. EC due Thurs.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 (professional development)
1.Check in notecards
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOaIGyjqRA
3.3pt thesis statements ppt
4.intro paragraphs
5.construction of thesis in class
6.evaluation of thesis statements
Homework: 1.Test on Thursday. 2. Reading packet due Thurs. 3. EC due Thurs.
Wednesday , March 12 , 2014 (Assembly)
1.review for test
Homework: 1.Test on Thursday. 2. Reading packet due Thurs. 3. EC due Thurs.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
1.Huck Finn Test
Homework: intro due Monday.
Friday, March 14, 2014 (assembly)
Work on Panel project
Homework: Intro due Monday
Quarter 4, Week 1 (3/17-3/21)
Monday, March 17, 2014
Peer edit intros/work on outlines
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 (professional development)
1. introduce counterargument (graphic organizer in links)
2.Work on Panels
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 (activity)
Intro to Feminist Realism
Homework: Read and complete study guide for “The Story of an Hour” found in your textbook p 1062-1065. Outline due Monday 3/31
Thursday, March 20, 2014
We will discuss “The Story of an Hour” (ppt)
Homework: Outline due 3/31
Friday, March 21, 2014
Work on Panels
Homework: Outline due 3/31. If you will not be here Monday, you must email it to me.
Happy Spring Break!!!!
Quarter 4, Week 2 (3/31-4/4)
Monday, March 31, 2014
1. "Three Stories of an Hour"
2.Intro to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Homework: Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 1079 and complete the active reading chart for Wed.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
1.Blending quotes/BP structure
2.Work on body paragraphs
Homework:Panels Thursday on Huck Finn; Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” and complete the active reading chart.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
1.Discuss Yellow Wallpaper/ Women’s Roles
Homework: Panels Thursday on Huck Finn
Thursday, April 3, 2014
1.Panels today!
Homework:For Monday, bring revised intro, first BP, and revised works cited. Revised First BP due Tuesday.(submit to turnitin.com)
Friday, April 4, 2014
1.Review plagiarism
2.Work on Body Paragraphs
Homework:For Monday, bring revised intro, first BP, and revised works cited. Revised First BP due Tuesday (submit to turnitin.com)
Quarter 4, Week 3 (4/7-4/11)
Monday, April 7, 2014
1.Quick peer edit--checklist
2.Assign vocab (all of the words—words will be on test)
3. Edwin Robinson Read poems, (1217-1218)
4. find rhyme schemes and discuss how that makes the ending more shocking
25. Look at characters. What are their flaws?
Homework:1.Read about Paul Laurence Dunbar and read poems “Douglass” and “We Wear the Mask” individually, completing handout
2. BP due tomorrow--typed, printed, TURNITIN.com
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
1.Check in worksheets and go over poems
2.Brainstorm occasions when you have worn a mask—could be serious, could be lighthearted—pick one, and then write down why you wore that mask; explain what the mask looks like
3.Begin survival game for “Open Boat”
Homework:Read "The Open Boat" p 993-1024
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 (Activity)
Go over “The Open Boat”
Naturalism notes and pdf chart
Homework:1. find one symbol/image that you feel characterizes their journey in "The Open Boat"
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Man vs Nature questions and discussion
Review for tomorrow’s quiz – they write questions, we do “around the world”
Homework: mini test tomorrow
Friday, April 11, 2014
Realism mini test
Intro to Faulkner; tell that we’re starting Gatsby soon
Ppt on Modern Fiction; have students take notes on their own papers
Quarter 4, Week 4 (4/14-4/16)
Monday, April 14, 2014
1. Students will learn the difference between the Old South and the New South through clips of Gone With the Wind
2. Mrs. Jeanneret will introduce the Roaring Twenties Project
Homework: 1. Read "A Rose for Emily" and complete the questions for 4/23 2. AFI Rough draft due 4/22. Must be typed, printed, and submitted to turnitin.com. No late work accepted. 3. Roaring Twenties presentations due 4/24 4. You must have GG downloaded by 4/22
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
1. Students will work on their group presentations
Homework: 1. Read "A Rose for Emily" and complete the questions for 4/23 2. AFI Rough draft due 4/22. Must be typed, printed, and submitted to turnitin.com. No late work accepted. 3. Roaring Twenties presentations due 4/24 4. You must have GG downloaded by 4/22
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
1. Students will work on their group presentations
Homework: 1. Read "A Rose for Emily" and complete the questions for 4/23 2. AFI Rough draft due 4/22. Must be typed, printed, and submitted to turnitin.com. No late work accepted. 3. Roaring Twenties presentations due 4/24 4. You must have GG downloaded by 4/22
Enjoy your Easter Break! Have a blessed Easter!
Quarter 4, Week 5 (4/21-4/25)
Monday, April 21, 2014
No School
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Peer edit rough drafts
Homework:1. Final draft of paper due Friday. Must be typed, printed, and submitted to turnitin.com 2. read Ch. 1 of GG and do reading guide for Monday
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Check in reading guides and go over answers/story (In partners)
In partners: details of Old South, details of New South (worksheet)
Homework:1. Final draft of paper due Friday. Must be typed, printed, and submitted to turnitin.com 2. read Ch. 1 of GG and do reading guide for Monday
Thursday, April 24, 2014 (Mass)
Presentations
Homework:1. Final draft of paper due Friday. Must be typed, printed, and submitted to turnitin.com 2. read Ch. 1 of GG and do reading guide for Monday
Friday, April 25, 2014
Collect research papers
Presentations/ start Gatsby
Quarter 4, Week 6 (4/28-5/2)
Monday, April 28
1. Check/go over Chapter 1 Reading Questions
2. Introduce Gatsby Vocab
3. Discussion of Chapter 1: Daisy’s comments about her daughter, West Egg/East Egg, setting, characters, colors
Homework:
1. Read Chapter 2 in The Great Gatsby + complete reading guide (quiz tomorrow)
2. Vocab Quiz Thursday
Tuesday, April 29—PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
1. Chapter 2 Quiz
2. Go over Chapter 2 Reading Questions
3. Discuss Chapter 2: Eckleberg, the Valley of Ashes, re-cap West Egg/East Egg
4. Review Gatsby Vocab (7 words)
Homework:
1. Read Chapter 3 + complete reading guide by Thursday
2. Vocab Quiz Thursday
Wednesday, April 30
1. Discuss Chapter 3: Gatsby and the American Dream, emptiness and superficiality in characters, re-cap of Valley of Ashes and Eckleburg
2. Work on Chapter 3 Reading Guide
Homework:
1. Finish Chapter 3 Reading Guide
2. Chapter 3 Reading Quiz (including vocab) tomorrow
3. Chapter 4 + reading guide due Monday
Thursday, May 1—EXTENDED HOMEROOM SCHEDULE
1. Chapter 3 + Vocab Quiz
2. Go over Chapter 3 Worksheet
3. Discuss Chapter 3: Gatsby’s words, Jordan and Gatsby’s conversation
Homework:
1. Chapter 4 + reading questions due Monday
Friday, May 2
1. Continue Chapter 3 Discussion: oranges, owl-eyed man, social class, Nick vs. other characters, Daisy’s reference to a “secret society” (who is in this society?)
2. “Secret Societies” at SVHS (social groups)
3. Secret Society Worksheets
Homework:
1. Finish reading Chapter 4 + reading questions (due Monday)
Quarter 4, Week 7 (5/5-5/9)
Monday, May 5, 2014
1. Reading Quiz
2. Review: a.where Gatsby gets his money from
b. Daisy’s history with Gatsby; discuss green light
c.Daisy and Tom’s dysfunctional relationship
3.Gatsby: Fraud or Genuine?: one example of each, debate over which is truer
Homework: Ch 5 and reading guide
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
1. Ch. 5 quiz
2.Find awk moments
3.Green light—what did it mean?
4.Quotations handout – bring to Daisy = materialistic and showy, and Gatsby transparently wants to impress her.
Homework: ch 6 + reading guide and vocab quiz tomorrow
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
1.Vocab and chapter 6 quiz
2.Gatsby’s background
3.Gatsby’s expectations: page 109
4. Characters and color
Homework: Ch. 7 and reading homework
Thursday, May 8, 2014
1.Colors: whites and reds
2.Class warfare
3.Hit-and-run (143)
4. the Love Triangle
5.Test Study Guide--Test is Wednesday.
Homework: Ch. 8
Friday, May 9, 2014
1. Characters and Color
2.Chapter 8 discussion
Homework: Ch 9 and reading guide; TEST WEDNESDAY.
Quarter 4, Week 8 (5/11-5/16)
Monday, May 12, 2014
Ch. 9 quiz.
On board: write where each character ends up (179-Daisy and Tom)
Are these characters the “exception” or “rule” in life?
Discuss: why does Nick even care? Point to quotes about his dishonesty. (177)
Discuss: what made the characters from The Great Gatsby’s lives empty? What is the critique of how we live our lives?
Read last page, discuss, and finish Fitzgerald’s sentence.
Freewrite: Does The Great Gatsby defend or denounce the idea of the American Dream? Share responses.
Homework: Vocab quiz tomorrow; Gatsby Test Wed
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
4 corners
vocab quiz
review for test
Homework: Gatsby Test tomorrow. Packets will be collected.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Gatsby Test!
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Watch Great Gatsby
Friday, May 16, 2013
Watch Great Gatsby
Quarter 4 Week 9
Monday, May 19
1. Go over Exam Review Sheet
2. Watch Gatsby
Homework:
1. Read “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway (pp. 1328-1334) + complete reading questions (due tomorrow)
Tuesday, May 20
1. Ernest Hemingway PowerPoint Notes
2. Discuss “In Another Country”
3. Begin reading “Hills like White Elephants”
Homework:
1. Read “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (link below) + complete reading questions (due tomorrow)
Wednesday, May 21
1. Finish watching Gatsby
2. Turn in film worksheet
3. Hand back research papers
4. Discuss “Hills Like White Elephants”
Homework:
1. Read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot (link on Quia)
Thursday, May 23
1. Finish discussion of “Hills Like White Elephants”
2. Complete “Prufrock” reading guide in small groups + share
Homework:
1. Finish the Prufrock worksheet for homework
2.Begin studying for your semester exam
Friday, May 24—EXTENDED HOMEROOM SCHEDULE
1. Go over "Prufrock"
2. Work on Semester Exam Review Packet
Homework:
1. Study for your semester exam
Tuesday, May 27
1. Semester Exam Review Sheet
Homework:
1. Study for your semester exam
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR EXAMS!
Wednesday, May 28—EXAM SCHEDULE
1. Period 8 Exam: 8-9 a.m.
2. Period 4 Exam: 9:15-10:15
Friday, May 30—EXAM SCHEDULE
1. Period 1 Exam: 8:00-9:00 a.m.
HAVE A WONDERFUL, FUN, AND RELAXING SUMMER! SEE YOU IN AUGUST!
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