8th Hour- English 9 Mrs. Daniels
Harlan Community High School English, Speech, Reading Teacher
 
QUARTER FOUR
WEEK ONE

WEEK 8 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: Alphabetizing in a dictionary, linking verbs, declarative sentences, root words, prepositional phrases, intransitive verbs, subject of a sentence, punctuating dialogue, indefinite pronouns, capitalization, punctuation and spelling errors.

Monday 3/12
DLS
History of Shakespeare
What do we know about Shakespeare?

Tuesday 3/13
DLS
Recall vs. Inferencing Questions
Getting Acquainted with Shakespeare

Wednesday 3/14
DLS
A Look at Shakepeare's London

Thursday 3/15
DLS
Turn in History of Shakespeare questions
What do we know about Shakespeare now?
Select parts for Romeo and Juliet

Friday 3/16
DLS
Reading Day!

WEEK TWO

WEEK 9 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: helping verbs, plural form of bacterium, independent clause, root word phon, verb and tense, contractions, coordinating conjunction, complex sentences, simple predicate and complete predicate.

Monday 3/19- Pep Assembly Schedule
DLS
Begin reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Tuesday 3/20- 2 Hour Early Out- Conferences 4-7:30
DLS
Continue reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 3/21
DLS
Continue reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Thursday 3/22- NO CLASSES- CAREER FAIR FOR 10th and 11th Grade!
Conferences 3:30-6:30

Friday 3/23- NO SCHOOL! VACATION DAY!

WEEK THREE

WEEK 10 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: alphabetizing, subordinate clause, adverbs, punctuating dialogue, infinitive, know what indigenous means, abstract noun, main verbs, when to use who, which or that, subject of the sentence, exclamatory sentences, know how to punctuate and write a business letter.

Monday 3/26
DLS
Reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Tuesday 3/27
DLS
Reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 3/28
DLS
Finish Act I of Romeo and Juliet/Intro proposals for Rock Project

Thursday 3/29
DLS
Rock Project Day- Proposals
Rock Project Proposal

Friday 3/30
DLS
Proposal Creation

WEEK FOUR

WEEK 11 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: transitive verbs, personification, simple subject and simple predicate, prefix that means together, past perfect verb, prepositional phrases, fixing run-on sentences, subordinating conjunction, direct and indirect objects, and punctuating dialogue.

Monday 4/2
DLS
Watch Act I Romeo and Juliet

Tuesday 4/3
DLS
Review Act I Romeo and Juliet
Act I Review

Wednesday 4/4
DLS
Quiz Act I Romeo and Juliet

Thursday 4/5
DLS
Rock Project Proposals due at the end of the hour

Friday 4/6
NO SCHOOL-EASTER BREAK!

WEEK FIVE

Monday 4/9
NO SCHOOL-EASTER BREAK!

WEEK FIVE

WEEK 12 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: plural form of axis and species, independent clause, correctly punctuate dialogue, object of a preposition, the meaning of the root word "chron", complete sentence or fragment, who, which or that, know how to correctly write an outline.

Monday 4/9
NO SCHOOL-EASTER BREAK!

Tuesday 4/10
DLS
Reading Act II

Wednesday 4/11
DLS
Reading Act II

Thursday 4/12
DLS
Reading Act II

Friday 4/13
DLS
Finish Act II/Reading Day!
Homework: Review for Act II
Act II Review
Act II Review KEY

WEEK SIX

WEEK 13 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: subordinate clause, predicate noun and the subject that renames it, adverbs and the questions that go with them, participles and the noun that is modified by the participle, antecedent of the pronoun, what is an idiom, abstract nouns, and how to combine to complete sentences or independent clauses.

Monday 4/16
DLS
Watch Act II

Tuesday 4/17
DLS
Act II Romeo and Juliet Quiz

Wednesday 4/18- 2 Hour Early Out- Teacher PD/Work Day
Rock Project Proposal Day!

Thursday 4/19
NO DLS TODAY!
Stanford Diagnostic Testing

Friday 4/20
DLS
Begin Act III

WEEK SEVEN

WEEK 14 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: Monday- correlative conjunctions, direct and indirect objects, past participles- Tuesday- simple and complete predicates, indefinite pronouns, interrogative sentences, Wednesday- subject pronoun, object pronoun, possessive nouns- Thursday- transitive and intransitive verbs, compound subject, what is an analogy? Friday: capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors

Monday 4/23
DLS
Reading Act III

Tuesday 4/24
DLS
Reading Act III

Wednesday 4/25
DLS
Reading Act III

Thursday 4/26
DLS
Watch Act III

Friday 4/27
DLS
Reading Day! Have your novel with you!

WEEK EIGHT

WEEK 15 DLS REVIEW TOPICS: Monday- simple and complete subjects, prepostional phrases, subject of an imperative sentence; Tuesday- coordinating conjunctions, complete sentence or fragment, helping verbs; Wednesday- plural form of stimulus, how to punctuate dialogue, adverbs and what question is answered- how, where, when or to what extent; Thursday- direct and indirect objects, suffix- gram, independent clauses; Friday- passive vs. active voice

Monday 4/30
DLS
Reviewing Act III
Romeo and Juliet Act III Review

Tuesday 5/1
DLS
Quiz Act III of Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 5/2
DLS
Reading Act IV

Thursday 5/3
DLS
Reading Act IV

Friday 5/4
DLS
FINAL reading day! Have novel with you!

WEEK NINE
DLS Review Topics

Monday 5/7
DLS
Review/Watch Act IV
Romeo and Juliet Act IV Review

Tuesday 5/8
DLS
Quiz Act IV of Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 5/9
DLS
Reading Act V

Thursday 5/10
DLS
Reading Act V

Friday 5/11
DLS
1,000 pages finished TODAY!
Reading Report Cards Due TODAY by 3:30!
Review and watch Act V

WEEK TEN

Monday 5/14
Quiz Act V of Romeo and Juliet

Tuesday 5/15
Semester Test Review!

Wednesday 5/16
Semester Testing

Thursday 5/17
Semester Testing

Friday 5/18
Make Up Testing Day

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QUARTER THREE
WEEK ONE

Wednesday 1/4
Seating Chart
Update Book Log
Students need to have workbook with them
Note: Rock Project Letter: Have stamps, mailing address or email addresses to mail out to 5 people on Friday!

Thursday 1/5
Vocabulary PowerPoint for "The Most Dangerous Game"
Most Dangerous Game Vocabulary PowerPoint

Friday 1/6
Free Reading and Rock Project Day: Students may free read, log the letters sent out, email or prepare envelopes to send out letters.

WEEK TWO

Monday 1/9
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Reading of "The Most Dangerous Game"
Students will read selection in class, stop and discuss and prepare to identify the plot outline with a group.

Tuesday 1/10
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Reading of "The Most Dangerous Game" Stopped on pg. 25
Students will read selection in class, stop and discuss and prepare to identify the plot outline with a group.

Wednesday 1/11
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Reading of "The Most Dangerous Game" Stopped on pg. 31
Students will read selection in class, stop and discuss and prepare to identify the plot outline with a group.

Thursday 1/12
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Reading of "The Most Dangerous Game" Stopped on pg. 36
Students will read selection in class, stop and discuss and prepare to identify the plot outline with a group.

Friday 1/13
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Free Reading Day! Have your novel with you!

WEEK THREE

Monday 1/16
No School- Teacher PD/Work Day

Tuesday 1/17
WTL- Pretend you are explaining to one of your friends one of the rules that you learned from last week's DLS activities. This has to be something you did not know or know well prior to last week's lessons. Begin with the following statement. One thing you should remember about ____________ is. . .
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Finish Reading "The Most Dangerous Game."

Wednesday 1/18- Sub- Mrs. Daniels Gone
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Group Activity- Plotting "The Most Dangerous Game"

Thursday 1/19-
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Review Activities for "The Most Dangerous Game" on Quia. Do all 4 of them.

Friday 1/20-
DLS- Daily Language Skills
Free Reading Day!

WEEK FOUR

Monday 1/23
DLS
CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT IS ASSESSED WEEKLY!
Rock Project Day!
Review on Quia for Most Dangerous Game Quiz tomorrow!

Tuesday 1/24
DLS
Quiz "The Most Dangerous Game"

Wednesday 1/25
WTL on Quia- Reviewing DLS Week #2
DLS
Scarlet Ibis Vocabulary Activity- Within their table groups, students will be given pages from the story to scan. Look for words you don't know or words that seem important in understanding the text. Write them in your personal word list at the back of your workbook. Complete the rest of the blanks for this activity.
Group 1- Pages 199-201
Group 2- Pages 202-204
Group 3- Pages 205-207
Group 4- Pages 208-210
Group 5- Pages 211-212
Group 6- Pages 213-214

Thursday 1/26
DLS
Continue Scarlet Ibis Vocabulary

Friday 1/27
DLS
Reading Day!

WEEK FIVE
DLS Review Topics for Week 4: prepositions and prepositional phrases, plural form of nouns, transitive and intransitive verbs, run-on sentence, predicate noun, present participle, passive and active voice

Monday 1/30
DLS
Scarlet Ibis Vocabulary Activity- Group Presentations

Tuesday 1/31
DLS
Scarlet Ibis Vocabulary Activity- Group Presentations

Wednesday 2/1- Mrs. Daniels Gone- SUB
DLS
Read "The Scarlet Ibis"

Thursday 2/2
DLS
Finish Scarlet Ibis Vocabulary Presentations
2nd Hour Scarlet Ibis Vocabulary

Friday 2/3
DLS
Reading Day!

WEEK SIX
DLS REVIEW TOPICS FOR THE WEEK
Possessive nouns, subject of a sentence, direct and indirect objects, subject and object pronoun, helping verbs, prepositions, subordinate clauses, subject of imperative sentences, who, which or that, making complex, compound, and combined sentences

Monday 2/6
DLS
Review Scarlet Ibis- 6 Stations

Tuesday 2/7
DLS
Review Scarlet Ibis- 6 Stations

Wednesday 2/8
DLS
Review Scarlet Ibis- 6 Stations
Final Vocabulary Presentations

Thursday 2/9
DLS
Scarlet Ibis Quiz

Friday 2/10
DLS
Reading Day! Have your novel with you!

WEEK SEVEN
NO DLS FOR THIS WEEK!

Monday 2/13- Mrs. Daniels Gone- SUB
Reading Day!

Tuesday 2/14
Guidance Day!

Wednesday 2/15
In-class writing- The Scarlet Ibis on Schoology

Thursday 2/16- 2 Hour Early Out- Teacher PD
Rock Project Day!

Friday 2/17- NO SCHOOL!

WEEK EIGHT
DLS REVIEW TOPICS FOR THE WEEK
antecedent, complete predicate, simple predicate, transitive and intransitive verbs, linking verbs, fragments, interrogative sentences, punctuating dialogue, independent clauses, and alliteration

Monday 2/20- Mrs. Daniels Gone- SUB
DLS
Reading "The Necklace" silently. Begins on page 4 in the workbook. As they read, do all of the reading checks and the pause and reflect activities.

Tuesday 2/21
DLS
Cause and Effect Skill Builder page 14
Turn in assignment

Wednesday 2/22
DLS
Irony PowerPoint
Irony PowerPoint
Students will take notes

Thursday 2/23
DLS
Continue Irony Activity

Friday 2/24
DLS
Reading Day! Have novel with you!

WEEK NINE
DLS REVIEW TOPICS FOR THE WEEK: predicate nouns, run-ons, participles and modifying participles, abstract nouns, adverbs, simple subject, who-which-that, subordinating conjunctions, predicate adjectives, idioms, main verbs, simple subject and simple predicate

Monday 2/27
DLS
Information on Romeo and Juliet
No Fear Shakespeare
Permission Forms
Writing Assessment Information

Tuesday 2/28
DLS
Quiz- "The Necklace"

Wednesday 2/29
DLS
Reading Day!

Thursday 3/1
DLS
What is a narrative?- Group Inquiry Search
Share group definitions
What should be in a narrative?

Friday 3/2
DLS
Reading Day! Have your novel with you! or Study Hall

WEEK TEN

NO DLS THIS WEEK!

Monday 3/5
Average last weeks DLS
Prepare for narrative writing

Tuesday 3/6
Prepare for narrative writing

Wednesday 3/7
DISTRICT WRITING ASSESSMENT

Thursday 3/8
Guidance!

Friday 3/9
NO SCHOOL- TEACHER WORK DAY/PD

My Quia activities and quizzes
Components of Plot
https://www.quia.com/pp/269574.html
Most Dangerous Game
https://www.quia.com/pop/527606.html
Most Dangerous Game
https://www.quia.com/cb/787894.html
Most Dangerous Game Plot
https://www.quia.com/cm/560869.html
Commas Galore
https://www.quia.com/rr/775556.html
Differentiating Sentences, Run-ons, and Fragments
https://www.quia.com/rr/775544.html
Fragments Practice game
https://www.quia.com/cb/737746.html
Parts of speech: Game Review
https://www.quia.com/pop/490391.html
Sentence or Fragments?
https://www.quia.com/cm/524495.html
WTL- 1/25/12- Reviewing Week #2 DLS
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3482007.html
Sentence structure practice game
https://www.quia.com/rr/866162.html
Romeo and Juliet Act One Quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3642642.html
Romeo and Juliet Act IV Quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3675729.html
Romeo and Juliet Act V Quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3685532.html
2nd Semester- Semester Test
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3685810.html
Romeo and Juliet Act III Quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3674079.html
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