English 12    

9-9   Chapter 3 of Memory Book

9-10 Chapter 4 of Memory Book

9-11 Chapter 5 of Memory Book

9-12 Chapters 2-5 Due / Discuss College Entrance or Scholarship essays

9-13 Work on practice college essay_________________________________

9-16 Peer Edit essay / revise / turn in

9-17 Notes over PPT of Literary Terms

9-18 Finish notes / Watch clips of Beowulf movie

9-19 Read Beowulf pgs 33-59 in purple book / 2 thought provoking questions

9-20 Round Table - students lead discussion & get participation points_______

9-23 Notes on Beowulf / Review Lit terms

9-24 Lit Term Test / Videos of Sword in the Stone & King Arthur or Camelot

9-25 Read Chaucer Notes / Translate Prologue

9-26 College Access Day

9-27 NO SCHOOL_________________________________________________

9-30 "Pardoner's Tale" 142-151

10-1 Business Day Speakers

10-2 Quiz / Discuss Pardoner's Tale / Begin "Wife of Bath" Prologue

10-3 Read "Wife of Bath" 155-166 & take quiz

10-4 Discuss "Wife of Bath" and start "The Miller's Tale"___________________

10-7 Finish "The Miller's Tale" / Notes

10-8 Read "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight" 210-221

10-9 Discuss "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight" / Start 3 Ballads

10-10 Finish Ballads  193-197 / Explain Epic Poem

10-11 Work on Epic Poem___________________________________________

10-14 Share Epic Poems

10-15 Theme Sheet Together / Review

10-16 Test over Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, "Sir Gawain" and 3 ballads

10-17 Go over resumes & interview questions

10-18 Business Interviews___________________________________________

10-21 NO SCHOOL

10-22 Business Wrap Up

10-23 Knight's Tale

10-24 Knight's Tale

10-25 Knight's Tale__________________________________________________

10-28 NO SCHOOL

10-29 Write Essay

10-30 Write Essay

10-31  Notes on King James, Theater, & Shakespeare

11-1  Finish notes/ Vocab words / Essay Due Monday________________________

11-4 Turn in Essay / Read Act 1 in Class of Macbeth

11-5 Go over Study Guide / Quiz

11-6 Listen to Act II of Study Guide

11-7 Vocab Quiz / Discuss Themes, setting, character

11-8 Test / Prenotes on Act I & II________________________________________

11-11 Read Act III & Study Guide

11-12 Groups of 3 / 4 themes and 2 quotes each

11-13 Act IV listen to reading / Study Guide

11-14 Finish Act IV / Quiz III & IV

11-15 Act V on own / Read study guide___________________________________

11-18 Partners / Thee & quote work

11-19 Act III - V / test / Finish theme work

11-20 Explain Essay / Develop Outline

11-21 Type Intro - check

11-22 Type Essay____________________________________________________

11-25 Type Essay

11-26 Peer Edit / revise / turnitin.com

11-27 Harlem Hopscotch / worksheet with 4 songs:family, childhood, group, emotions

11-28 thru 11-29   Thanksgiving Break_____________________________________

12-2 Share songs / modern lyrics for Tues

12-3 Share song - time period & message

12-4 Poem Packet  - groups of 2-4 assigned a poem to analyze & teach

12-5 Teach poem to the class

12-6 Elizabethean Era - "My Mistress Eyes" / Sonnet on partner__________________

12-9 Romantic Era / Keats "Ode to a Nightengale" & Byron "Where we Two Parted"

12-10 Victorian / Tennyson "Lady of Shallott" & Browning "My Last Duchess"

12-11 Share Sonnets

12-12 Early 20th / Eliot "Shallow Man"  Frost "Out Out" & Randall "Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner"

12-13 Brainstorm Ideas for personal poem____________________________________

12-16 Work on Poem

12-17 Late 20th / Plath "Daddy"  Brooks "We Real Cool" & Howe "What the Living Do"

12-18 Present Poems

12-19  Poetry test (semester test)

12-20  Poetry test (semester test)___________________________________________

College English  

9-9   Chapter 3 of Memory Book

9-10 Chapter 4 of Memory Book

9-11 Chapter 5 of Memory Book

9-12 Chapters 2-5 Due / Discuss College Entrance or Scholarship essays

9-13 Work on practice college essay__________________________________________

9-16 Peear Edit essays / revise / turn in

9-17 Introduce Narrative Essay / Read 3-18

9-18 Quiz / Brainstorm Ideas / Log 1 Use a different method for 3 ideas

9-19 Round circle discussion / Audience pg19-22 / Narrative 343-346

9-20 Group Character development / Share Character created_____________________

9-23 Log 2 Develop your characters & decide what's essential - share

9-24 Work on dialogue / thesis, climax, conflict

9-25 Writing Day

9-26 College Access Day

9-27 NO SCHOOL________________________________________________________

9-30 Writing Day

10-1 Business Resume day

10-2 Learning Letter / Learn Turnitin.com

10-3 Paper Due / Look at Compare/Contrast & samples / Read 227-232

10-4 Purple List / Brainstorm / Quiz over Block vs Point by Point / Log 3 Pick 2 & do Venn Diagram

10-7 Review Lead-ins / 40-42 Thesis / Pg 202 Log 4: Topic Proposals

10-8 Pgs 196-200 Examples / 201 Pick 2 & give examples / 86-90 Conclusions

10-9 Form Outline / Type / Transitions & hooks Pg 71-78

10-10 Work Day

10-11 Work Day______________________________________________________________

10-14 Learning Letter & Turnitin.com DUE

10-15 Video Examples of Cause & Effect / Show Example / Do one on Pet Peeves

10-16 Go over resumes & Interview Questions

10-17 Groups of 2 - find a movie & show 3 causes & 3 effects of an action

10-18 Business Interviews______________________________________________________

10-21 NO SCHOOL

10-22 Business Wrap up (Read 274-284 for Wednesday though)

10-23 Discuss reading / Syllabus & samples / Discuss Idea Hooks

10-24 Quiz / Inventory of events to Brainstorm / Log 5 Topic Proposal - Outline w/details

10-25 Share ideas & examples___________________________________________________

10-28 NO SCHOOL

10-29 Work Day

10-30 Work Day

10-31 Learning Letter & Turnitin

11-1 Paper Due / Videos of Arguments / give topic & divide on stance____________________11-4 Argue debates

11-5 Syllabus / Look at samples & Outline Essay

11-6 Log 6: 2 topics with 5 Pros and 5 Cons for each

11-7 Read 304-306 / Ok the following: topic, audience, patter, thesis, essay map

11-8 Research Day____________________________________________________________

11-11 Research Day

11-12 Research Day

11-13 Research Day / Works Cited Due end of period

11-14 Work on OUtline / Conference to show me sources & WC

11-15 Finish Conferences / Work on Outline_________________________________________11-18 Outline due end of period

11-19 Chapter 6 of Memory Book

11-20 Chapter 7 of Memory Book

11-21 Chapter 8 of Memory Book

11-22 Chapters 6-8 of Memory Book due / Look at in-text citations within paper____________

11-25 Hand back outlines / start on paper

11-26 work on RD

11-27 work on RD

11-28 thru 11-29 THANKSGIVING BREAK__________________________________________

12-2 work on RD & Title Page

12-3 No Learning Letter / 2 peer edits

12-4 Paper Due / Listen to NPR "This I Believe"

12-5 I Believe Syllabus & samples / 5 beliefs

12-6 Log 8: Look at each belief & answer How you act on it & why you developed it /share_____

12-9 Writing Day

12-10 Writing Day

12-11 Paper Due / Read XXXvi - XXXviii    2-3   9-12

12-12 Log 1: Past Experiences with Literature & which types

12-13 Share Experiences________________________________________________________

12-16 74-75    83-85  100-101   /Fiction Vocab

12-17    FLex day

12-18    Flex day

12-19 & 12-20  Semester Test Days (Present your "I Believe" essays)

Junior High Speech

9-9  (B) Quiz / Pysical Delivery Notes

9-10 (A) Quiz / Physical Delivery Notes

9-11 (B) Work on gestures and expressions (nursery rhyme activity)

9-12 (A) Work on gestures and expressions (nursery rhyme activity)

9-13 (B) Practice cheer w/gestures & present_________________________________________

9-16 (A) Practice cheer w/gestures & present

9-17 (B) Physical Quiz / Look at play format and create groups

9-18 (A )Physical Quiz / Look at play format and create groups

9-19 (B) Write play

9-20 (A) Write play________________________________________________________________

9-23 (B) Write play

9-24 (A) Write play

9-25 (B) Write play

9-26 (A) Write play

9-27 NO SCHOOL_________________________________________________________________

9-30 (B) Write Play

10-1 (A) Write Play

10-2 (B) Rehearse Play

10-3 (A) Rehearse Play

10-4 (B) Present Play______________________________________________________________

10-7 (A) Present Play

10-8 (B) Explain 2 minute speech & start outlining

10-9 (A) Explain 2 minute speech & start outlining

10-10 (B) Write out 2 minute speech

10-11 (A) Write out 2 minute speech__________________________________________________

10-14 (B) Finish writing 2 minute speech / rehearse

10-15 (A) Finish writing 2 minute speech / rehearse

10-16 (B) Present 2 minute speeches & video tape it

10-17 (A) Present 2 minute speeches & video tape it

10-18 (B) Breakfast Club - end of 1st quarter_____________________________________________

10-21 NO SCHOOL

10-22 (A)  Finish speeches / Watch & evaluate self

10-23 (B) Watch & evaluate self / Watch Ted Talk & another speech / Explain requirements for speech

10-24 (A) Watch Ted Talk & another speech / Explain requirements for speech

10-25 (B) Find Speech________________________________________________________________

10-28 NO SCHOOL

10-29 (A) Find Speech

10-30 (B)  Have speech approved & begin formatting

10-31 (A) Have speech approved & begin formatting

11-1  (B)  Write speech, intro, conclusion__________________________________________________

11-4 (A) Write speech, intro, conclusion

11-5 (B) Last day to write & prepare speech sections

11-6 (A) Last day to write & prepare speech sections

11-7 (B) Rehearse speech

11-8 (A) Rehearse speech______________________________________________________________

11-11 (B) Present Speeches

11-12 (A) Present Speeches

11-13 (B) Finish speeches & give a sample character speech

11-14 (A) Finish speeches & give a sample character speech

11-15 (B) Select a person & research_______________________________________________________

11-18 (A) Select a person & research

11-19 (B) Research & type info

11-20 (A) Research & type info

11-21 (B) Finish typing info for person

11-22 (A) Finish typing info for person_______________________________________________________

11-25 (B) Explain visual aids & show supplies

11-26 (A) Explain visual aids & show supplies

11--27 (B)  Work on visual aids

11-28 thru 11-20 THANKSGIVING BREAK______________________________________________________

12-2 (A) Work on visual aid

12-3 (B) Rehearse Speech

12-4 (A) Rehearse Speech

12-5 (B) Present Character Speeches

12-6 (A) Present Character Speeches________________________________________________________

12-9 (B)  Present Character Speeches

12-10 (A)  Present Character Speeches

12-11 (B)  Impromptu (2 minute plan - 1 minute present)

12-12 (A) Impromptu (2 minute plan - 1 minute present)

12-13 (B) Finish Impromptu_________________________________________________________________12-16 (A) Finish Impromptu

12-17 (B) Play Disney Pictionary as teams

12-18 (A) play Disney Pictionary as teams