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English Honors 10A Click on month to move to that part of the log: September, October, November, December, Finals |
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August 13-14 |
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Thursday 13 |
School starts |
Help your parents to send me an e-mail listing your name and class. Get your materials for class. Materials Needed for English 1.
200 Blue 3X5 index cards (Available
for purchase from the Supply Shack on campus or Mrs. H. for $2.00 per 100
cards. If you can find them in a store for less, go for it. Office Depot can
order them in for you in 24 hours if they don't have them.) 2.
1 composition book (the kind with
hard back and NO
coil binding and also available for purchase from Mrs. H. for $2.00) 3.
3-4 pens (black or blue) 4.
red or green or purple pen for
grading 5.
1 highlighter (color of your choice)
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binder with 5 dividers labeled: 1.
Notes 2.
Current Unit 3.
Grammar and Pronunciation 4.
Misc. 5.
Essays 7.
LOTS of paper |
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Friday 14 |
Turn in signed signature page. Test on Brave New World Turn in your annotated copy of the book. |
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August 17-21 |
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Monday 17 |
Take notes on BNW lecture H/O Socratic Seminar discussion questions and two articles.. |
Refine notes Know your student ID and pasword. |
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Tuesday 18 |
Computer Lab H/O Scavenger Hunt (due tomorrow) |
Complete the Scavenger Hunt assignment - due tomorrow. |
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Wednesday 19 |
Turn in the Scavenger Hunt page H/O Brave New World Atlantis Article Take notes.
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Read and take notes on the Brave New World Atlantis Article. |
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Thursday 20 |
Journal: #2 Do you think that Huxley was prophetic or just pessimistic? continued discussion |
Continue your notes on the Atlantis Article. |
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Friday 21 |
Journal #3 freewrite First Vocabulary test on 10 cards Grammar page - nouns |
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August 24-28 |
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Monday 24 |
Turn in Grammar homework Bag Activity Essay with a partner, Turn in the essay |
Prep for Socratic Seminar |
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Tuesday 25 |
Socratic Seminar on BNW |
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Wednesday 26 |
Socratic Seminar on BNW |
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Thursday 27 |
Journal #4 If you were to warn the world about
some kind of current danger that you see, what would it be and why is it a
problem? |
Start work on your essay. |
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Friday 28 |
Journal #5 "What is in a name? a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Juliet Discuss names - yours, others', characters'. Do the names fit? Grammar Page - adjectives Vocabulary 20 |
complete the grammar page |
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Monday 31 |
Journal #6 Read the Unintended consequences
article and then write aobut how it relates to Brave New World. Modern Lit discussion H/O Unintended Consequences article Discussion of unintended consequences of shifts in policy, attitutudes or behaviors in society. |
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Tuesday 1 |
STOP project with partners |
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Wednesday 2 |
STOP project with partners Complete and present |
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Thursday 3 |
Min Day (Staff Development)Presented the STOP Project
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Friday 4 |
Journal #7: What is a workable solution to deal with work that is turned in without a name? Is it reasonable to expect Honors tudents to remember to upt their names on their work? Vocabulary 30 H/O /verbs |
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September
7-11 |
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Monday 7 |
Labour Day – No school |
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Tuesday 8 |
Journal #8 freewrite Correct the adjectives and verbs together. Discuss "Informing Ourselves to Death"
Read the story and annotate |
Submit essay through TURNITIN.com Read the story and annotate |
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Wednesday 9 |
Journal #9: Is the pursuit of wealth and social
position wrong? |
Read and annotate "The Rocking Horse Winner" |
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Thursday 10 |
Journal #10:If you were looking back on your life at the end, what will you wish you had done? Is there something you want to be able to say you accomplished?
In text read "The Door in the Wall" page 804 |
create analysis chart for The Door in the Wall. |
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Friday 11 |
Vocabulary 40 Journal #11 What do you think actually happened to Lionel Wallace in the end? Discussion of annotations for "The Rocking Horse Winner" |
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September
14-18 |
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Monday 14 |
Journal #12 |
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Tuesday 15 |
Minimum Day Back to School Night |
Back to School Night |
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Wednesday 16 |
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Thursday 17 |
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Friday 18 |
End of Grading Period Vocabulary 50 Grammar Handout |
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September
21-25 |
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Monday 21 |
Corrected Grammar Discussion of story terms |
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Tuesday 22 |
Journal How can you help your classmates to succeed? Read Miss Brill page 864 - watch for the clues to her status and the irony of what she notices about others. |
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Wednesday 23 |
Continued discussion of Brill |
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Thursday 24 |
Essay scoring |
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Friday 25 |
Journal freewrite Vocabulary 60 |
vocab, reading. |
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Monday 28 |
Fall Break |
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Tuesday 29 |
Fall Break |
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Wednesday 30 |
Socratic Seminar presentation Beginning of Anglo-Saxon History |
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Thursday 1 |
Min Day (Staff Development) |
Read the biographical info on 820 and "The Verger" by Somerset Maugham Complete a literary analysis chart explaining 5-6 different tools used such as diction, irony, foreshadowing, action, comparison, juxtaposition of incongruities, characterization, imagery, dialect Prepare for Socratic Seminar on Wednesday of next week. Prepare questions to deal with. Include discussion of theme, how it is presented, and any of the tools you noticed being used. |
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Friday 2 |
Begin Beowulf. |
Complete the poetry handout Read through Beowulf in the text (actually pretty short excerpt.) |
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October 5-9 |
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Monday 5 |
Journal: What is your reaction to a braggart? Is this an admirable quality? share out examples of Kennings Continue to read Beowulf |
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Tuesday 6 |
Journal: What makes someone heroic today? |
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Wednesday 7 |
Socratic Seminar on The Verger |
Vocabulary |
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Thursday 8 |
Essay Requirements: in Paragraph 1 – definition of your term. This is not Webster’s, but rather clarifying what you mean by hero or heroic. Your thesis will include the unifying element and make clear how you are supporting it. This may or may not be three specific concepts. Thesis example: My grandfather, Charles M. Ackroyd is heroic because he… The body paragraphs will include the evidence/support/explanation in the form of a narrative of a specific incident or narrative of typical responses over time, description of responses… It MUST include explicit connection of how that evidence is indeed heroic by your standard. Closing paragraph – reiterate the central idea and pull all your evidence together in a succinct statement of how this is all evidence of heroism. Samples of perspectives on heroism: Real heroism
does not require a cape, a hidden lair of a side kick. It is the courage to persevere in doing what
is right despite the personal cost… It is the little things, honesty, courtesy, kindness,
practiced day after day that add up to a hero. Being willing to risk your life for the sake of
someone else… This person is my hero because they are the best at
(insert sport, profession, skill…) A hero is someone who makes a real change for good in
the world… Saving someone’s life makes a person a hero… |
Vocabulary |
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Friday 9 |
Vocabulary 70 Grammar pages JOURNAL: |
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October 12-16 |
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Monday 12 |
Journal: What are the things in your life for which you ought to express gratitude? Corrected grammar page from Friday Formed Hero Project groups |
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Tuesday 13 |
H/O Beowulf Project, Flow of Formal Debate, Heroism Debate instructions Discussion of proceedure. |
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Wednesday 14 |
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Thursday 15 |
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Friday 16 |
Journal Freewrite End of First Quarter & Grading Period Vocabulary 80 |
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October 19-23 |
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Monday 19 |
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Tuesday 20 |
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Wednesday 21 |
Mr. Gale to help with debate projects. |
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Thursday 22 |
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Friday 23 |
Vocabulary 90 Journal 31: Do you agree or disagree with the statement below? Provide concrete examples to support your position. "Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of your time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities." Marshall McLuhan And....work on Hero debate |
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October 26-30 |
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Monday 26 |
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Tuesday 27 |
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Wednesday 28 |
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Thursday 29 |
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Friday 30 |
Vocabulary 100 You can work on the notes after the vocabulary exercise. |
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Monday 2 |
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Tuesday 3 |
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Wednesday 4 |
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Thursday 5 |
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Friday 6 |
Vocabulary 110 Journal: Had you been among the "victims" of a drunk driver yeterday, what would you want to have said to those you left behind? Grammar packet - copies available in the Honors binder. |
Start your vocabulary cards for next week. Continue to work on the Canterbury Tales characters. |
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November 9-13 |
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Monday 9 |
Canterbury Tales characters continued. |
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Tuesday 10 |
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Wednesday 11 |
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Thursday 12 |
Min Day (Staff Development) Journals due |
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Friday 13 |
End of Grading Period Vocabulary 120 |
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November 16-20 |
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Monday 16 |
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Tuesday 17 |
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Wednesday 18 |
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Thursday 19 |
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Friday 20 |
Journal: If you could inhabit the world of any comput4r or video game, which one would you choose? Why? Vocabulary 130 Grammar packet - parallel structure |
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November 23-27 |
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Monday 23 |
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Tuesday 24 |
Final version due November 30 |
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Wednesday 25 |
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Thursday 26 |
Thanksgiving |
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Friday 27 |
No School |
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Monday 30 |
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Tuesday 1 |
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Wednesday 2 |
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Thursday 3 |
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Friday 4 |
Vocabulary 140 |
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December 7-11 |
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Monday 7 |
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Tuesday 8 |
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Wednesday 9 |
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Thursday 10 |
Min Day (Senior Projects) |
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Friday 11 |
Complete that last Vocabulary and turn in all the 140 cards. |
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Monday 14 |
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Tuesday 15 |
Finals3,5,1 |
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Wednesday 16 |
Finals4,6,8 |
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Thursday 17 |
Finals2.7 |
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School starts again January 11 |
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