Welcome!!!!!
I love to teach and am dedicated to seeing that all my students are successful! I want to teach things beyond the classroom walls!
"Anything worth having requires hard work." -Unknown
My goal is to be the kind of teacher that I want my children to have! EVERYDAY!!
It is going to be an awesome semester!
January 6
Get to know members of the team
Set expectations
I bet you never
20?s due Friday
January 7
Bologna and Bread
Why do we need to understand what it cost to run a household a month? Are you prepared to live on your own? Why do we need to finish high school? What are your plans beyond high school?
Exit Slip : is this an important thing to discuss? Does it have a place in the English classroom?
January 8
Life Goals
Best Thing about PH and Worst Thing about PH
Leadership/Citizenship
January 9
Start Figurative Language Notes
Positive and Negative Connotation
January 12
Figurative Language Notes
January 13
Library Research - Future College/Career
2 Colleges and 1 Job or 2 Jobs and 1 College
It is time to think about tomorrow!
January 14
Continue Library Research
January 15
Highlands Placement Test
Research Current Events
January 16
Finish F.L. Notes
Identify used of figurative language/literary devices in print. How/Why are these used in marketing. Do they influence you as a consumer?
Cut-out and identify
January 19
Job Opportunities - Navy
Work on Cut-out
January 20
Figurative language cut out
January 21 - 22
Home "House that Built Me"
Compare and Contrast
Venn Diagram
January 23
Draw and Idiom - Literal meaning
January 26
Catch up day - Finish Cut out/ Idiom Illustration/ Current Event
"Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street"
Advice for Writing
Start Compare/Contrast Essay
How can we organize such an essay?
January 27
Current Events
Writing
January 28
"Frankenstein" background information, What is SparkNotes? How are they useful?
Read Letters pages 1 - 13
January 29
Discuss Found Poetry
Start list and complete as we read
Read Chapter 1 and 2 (pg. 23)
February 2
Make-up Day - 2 hour early release
February 3
Senior Class Meeting - Financial Aid
Anticipation Guide and Moral Statements Frankenstein
February 4
Finish Anticipation Guide and Moral Statements
February 5
Debate the issue that you feel the strongest about
February 6
Read Chapter 3, Read Chapter 4
Current Event Due
February 9
Read Chapter 5 and 6
Found poem using favorite song lyrics
February 10
Work on Found Poem from song - creative representation
February 11
Barter - Discovering our inner monster
Write a letter to your monster
Draw monster on one side and what feeds the monster on the other
February 12
Library
Finish Found Poem
Frankenstein Chapter 7
February 13
Current events
Read for pleasure/make-up day
March 2
Frankenstein
Nature vs. Nurture
Locke "Essay Concerning Human Nature"
Rousseau "Emile, On Education"
What character traits are a result of nature/nurture?
Read Chapter 8
March 2
Quiz-Chapter 8
Read Chapter 8/9 as class
March 3
Read Chapter 10
Timeline of Frankenstein - Whole Group
March 4-5
Snow Day
March 9
Current Event
Create Frankenstein - use magazines and newspapers to create what Frankenstein would have looked like
March 10
Re-Read Chapter 10, Read 11 and 12
March 11
Writing/Discussion
Would Frankenstein be more accepted in today's society? Why/Why not?
Would our society have labeled Frankenstein? What labels?
Listen to "Don't Laugh at me."
What about the R word?
Explore why the R word should be taken out of our society.
March 12
Read Ch. 13, 14, and Ch. 15 up to the point of meeting the old man
in a paragraph predict what will happen
March 13
Current Events
Create Modern Frankenstein
Make-up
March 16
Read Ch. 15 - 17
March 17
Chapter 18 - 19
March 18
Chapter 20- pg 133 Ch 21
March 19
Finish 21 Read 22 and 23
March 20
Finish Frankenstein and Discuss
March 23
Found Poem - must have a page of words/phrases
15 lines
Choose image
What is your theme for your poem?
March 24
Finish found poems
March 25
Create silhouettes
March 26
Watch WB Production of Frankenstein
March 30
Finish WB Production Compare/Contrast with Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein"
Start Universal Production
April 1
Senior Skip Day
April 7
Rough Draft of Compare/Contrast Essay
April 8
"Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street"
Discuss the 6 Traits and the writing process
April 9
Revise/Edit Rough Draft to include 6 Traits
April 10
Grammar Notes
What does it take to make a complete sentence? What different patterns should we see in your writing?
April 13
"Punctuation Takes a Vacation"
Personify three pieces of punctuation. What are the personality traits? If they were to come down the runway as a model, what would it look like?
*Three due tomorrow!
April 14
Continue to personify each piece of punctuation.
Write examples together
April 15 and 16
Finish personifying all 7
April 17
Grammar/Writing Notes
April 20 and 21
Senior Questionnaire and 5 year future self letter
April 22 - May 1
Pygmalion
May 4
Pygmalion through page 78
May 5
Finish Pygmalion
May 6
Wrap up of Pygmalion
Current Event discussion
May 7
Introduction to Beowulf
Wyrd/fate
Is your destiny predetermined? Can you change it?
Pagan vs. Christian values.
Epic
Heroic characteristics
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