2/17/10

  • Work on Friday's vocabulary(from last week)
  • Read poem "Upon the Burning of our House"
  • Power Point and discussion over poem-Point out Puritan ideals
  • Discuss rhyme scheme of poem
  • Pass out essays over "Public Smoking"
  • discuss
  • 2nd block-Hand out redone tests
  • Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
  • Assignment- Find 3 similies, 3 metaphors, and 1 example of personification

2/18/10

  • Take up homework
  • Worksheets on "Sinners"
  • Grade and discuss worksheets
  • Possibly show clips from "Roots"  while discussing slave trade in America
  • Holt Reader- Read and discuss "The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano"
  • Assign pg. 44 in Holt Reader

2/19/10

  • Vocabulary quiz over words 31-40
  • Work on words 41-50
  • Check portfolio assignment
  • Assign next week's portfolio assignment
  • Discuss "The Interesting Life"
  • Quiz
  • Read Ben Franklin's Autobiography. Focus on inferences about the writer's beliefs.
  • Discuss Franklin's 13 virtues.
  • Read "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" on page 74
  • Discussion

2/22/10

  • Review Franklin's 13 virtues
  • Read Franklin's aphorisms from "Poor Richard's Almanac"
  • Group work- Translate and summarize assigned aphorisms
  • Share with class and form list of all aphorisms
  • Discussion
  • Each group must then create an aphorism. We will then form some class aphorisms which will be put on poster and displayed.

2/23/10

  • Review for Collection 1 test
  • Give copy of test for students to complete with notes and book in groups. After taking homework grade, give back to student to study.
  • Logic problem solving if time permits.

2/24/10

  • Collection 1 test with essay/no notes
  • Power point over "The Crucible"/Arthur Miller/The Red Scare
  • Cast play
  • Give "Crucible" research assignment for groups
  • Begin reading orally in class. Act 1 Scene 1

2/25/10

  • Quiz over Act 1 Scene 1
  • Complete Act 1
  • Discussion
  • Make character list with motivations for each
  • Vocab review/portfolio time

2/26/10

  • Check portfolios
  • Vocabulary quiz/grade
  • Work on next week's vocab
  • Begin Act 2 in "The Crucible"
  • Critical listening activity

3/1

  • Complete Act 1 of "The Crucible"
  • quiz over Act 1
  • discussion
  • Begin Act 2 of "The Crucible"

3/2

  • ACT paperwork

3/3

  • 1st block-Complete Act 2 of "The Crucible"
  • discussion
  • work on foreign words for midterm
  • 2nd block-Fashion show

3/4

  • Quiz over Act 2 of "The Crucible"
  • Possible computer time for project
  • Practice vocabulary for Friday
  • Begin Act 3 of "The Crucible"

3/5

  • vocabulary test
  • work on vocab for midterm
  • Possible computer time for project
  • take up portfolio assignments
  • Read Act 2 of "The Crucible"

3/8

  • Work on makeup portfolios
  • review foreign words for midterm
  • 1st block-research
  • 2nd block-  vocab quiz
  • complete Act 1 of "The Crucible"
  • quiz
  • Begin Act 2

3/9

  • ACT test

3/10

  • 1st block- Complete first half of Act 3
  • Work on research assignment in groups
  • 2nd block-Complete Act 2
  • Both groups review foreign words
  • Each class will read to Trial in Act 3

  • review essay form
  • 35 minute essay assignment

3/11

  • Review for midterm

3/12

  • midterm

3/22

  • 1st block- Present research posters
  • Possibly read to middle of Act 3
  • Assign acting if read that far
  • go over new vocabulary and portfolio assignment
  • 2nd block- Read "The Crucible" Act 2
  • Review quiz

3/23

  • 1st block- Give acting assignment
  • Must have director, set designer, script writer, actors, etc. for group interpretation of Act 3 courtroom scene
  • Rehearse
  • 2nd block- Read to middle of Act 3

3/24

  • 1st block- Rehearse
  • vocab assignment
  • 2nd block- read
  • Make acting assignment

3/25

  • 1st block- short rehearsal time
  • Act
  • 2nd block- rehearse

3/26

  • 1st block-quiz over Act 3
  • Read Act 4
  • discussion
  • Vocab test
  • take up portfolios
  • 2nd block- Short rehearsal time
  • Act

3/29

  • 1st block- vocabulary time
  • read to middle of Act 4
  • 2nd block- rehearsal

3/30

Vol State  Rep. to speak to both classes

  • 1st block- complete "The Crucible"
  • Begin movie comparing and contrasting with the play
  • 2nd block- Performance

3/31

  •  Complete movie- complete compare/contrast essay
  • Study for exam

4/1

  • Exam over "The Crucible"
  • vocabulary quiz
  • check portfolio

4/4

  • 1st block-Walked on Greenway preparing for poems and original stories
  • Review for exam
  • 2nd block- Reviewed for exam

4/5

  • Exam over "The Crucible"
  • Assign   Lit Book pgs. 162-173  take notes
  • work on vocab 81-90

4/6

  • Quiz over American Romanticism
  • Teach summary of American Romanticism after comprehension quiz
  • Assign- "The Devil and Tom Walker" Read all for Thursday