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August 13-14 |
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Thursday 13 |
School startsTest on Scarlet Letter H/O Materials list and Course Orientation |
Help your parents send me an e-mail. |
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Friday 14 |
CAPI test - Early College Placement test (diagnostic) |
Bring your copy of The Scarlet Letter all next week. Read text pages 2-11 |
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August 17-21 |
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Monday 17 |
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Read "Of Special attention to the man described at the top of page 80. |
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Tuesday 18 |
Computer Lab
“The Custom House” |
Read "The Custom House" Introductory in The Scarlet Letter |
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Wednesday 19 |
Journal #1 Literature is a long, on-going conversation and each piece adds to the dialogue. (Discuss, write out the prompt and fill the entire page 6 or more words per line and the whole page.) Read and annotate the articles on President Clinton, Judging a President, and Clinton Apologies Issues to look for: allusion, key words that show
attitude, attitude shift based on audience, point being made. New vocabulary: connotation, denotation, abstract, specific, concrete, ambiguous, euphemism. Discussion of context of The Scarlet Letter/The Custom House |
Continue to annotate the articles on President Clinton, Judging a President, and Clinton Apologies |
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Thursday 20 |
Journal #2 Why is this story a classic that people are required to read? Does it deserve to be? Quiz on text readings H/O Socratic Seminar on The Scarlet Letter |
Prepare for SS on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. |
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Friday 21 |
Vocabulary 10 H/O Latin list 1 |
complete the handout. Due Monday |
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August 24-28 |
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Monday 24 |
Bag activity. Group essay - Turn in Group Essay |
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Tuesday 25 |
SS on The Scarlet Letter |
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Wednesday 26 |
SS on The Scarlet Letter |
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Thursday 27 |
Journal 3 Freewrite Discussion of Language - using The Custom House |
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Friday 28 |
Journal #4 "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? Vocabulary 20 |
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Monday 31 |
Journal #5 Where do you see "spin"
used today? Discussion of Language Articles Know the audience |
Write two sides of a page or typed double spaced narrating something that happened to you that feels important. |
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Tuesday 1 |
Journal #6 List and explain as many idioms as you can think of. E.g. a close shave - a narrow escape coming up smelling like a rose - to come out of as disaster with a better reputation no spring chicken - old List of images from school lunch. Rewrite sentence #15 from the language articles only replacing each word with one about lunch. Discussion of Language Articles Discuss changes in audience and how they affect how you speak. Audiences to choose from (You are not restricted to these) Grandmother – proper and formal personal journal |
Choose two diverse audiences. Rewrite your story for audience #1 |
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Wednesday 2 |
Journal#7 : Using as many of the following pairs as you have room for, explain their denotative meaning and the differences in their shades of connotative meaning. o
Slender/skinny o
high-strung/freaked-out o
trusting/gullible o
firm/stubborn o
reckless/adventurous o
flexible/wishy-washy o
relaxed/flaked out o
hypocritical/diplomatic o
hard worker/workaholic o
assertive/pushy o
playboy/eligible bachelor o
original/weird o
plodding/methodical o
scholar/bookworm o
appropriate/snatch o
clever/slick o
concise/terse o
meticulous/persnickety o
unattached/spinster o
kitsch/artwork o
destiny/doom o
consummation/finish o
ultimate/tail-end o
levity/flippancy o
grizzled/silvered o
drowsy/weary o
nasal organ/schnoz o
theatrical/histrionic o
accommodation/compromise o
idealist/dreamer Continued discussion of Language Articles. Share with a partner your first version of your "important story". |
Rewrite the story for audience #2 and submit both in one document to TURNITIN.com The TURNITIN window will be open from 7am today through midnight on Saturday. It should be turned in today, but in case of computer issues I have given you a longer window. Create a hard copy and bring it to class tomorrow. |
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Thursday 3 |
Min Day (Staff Development) Write a paragraph explaining your changes and attach it to the hard copy and turn them both in. |
Study vocab cards. |
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Friday 4 |
Journal #8 Think about the way Hawthorne presents the elderly workers in the Custom House. How des he set up his audience to feel disdain rather than reverence for the earlier Puritans. Is he "poisoning the well"? Vocabulary 30 |
Complete the Latin list. |
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September
7-11 |
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Monday 7 |
Labour Day – No school |
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Tuesday 8 |
Journal #9 What do you percieve as the benefits and sacrifices of computers. What is this Faustian bargain? PAPA square. apply to "Informing Ourselves to Death." |
Create PAPA square for What's in a Word" - last of the language articles |
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Wednesday 9 |
Journal #10 freewrite Using magazine ads - create PAPA squares in groups. |
Bring copy of Scarlet Letter tomorrow. |
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Thursday 10 |
Journal #11 Using the Custom House, together do PAPA analysis |
Reread chapters 1-3 of The Scarlet Letter |
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Friday 11 |
Vocabulary 40 Journal #12 Test on Lists 1-2 |
Finish list 5. |
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September
14-18 |
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Monday 14 |
Turn in List 4 Group discussions with the green PAPA squares Journal #12Why should parents attend "Back to School" night? Compare PAPA square on the Language article |
Reread"of Plymouth Plantation and create a PAPA square for it. Bring the square AND the textbook to class tomorrow |
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Tuesday 15 |
Minimum Day Discuss "Voice" of Wm. Bradford and his points
Back to School Night |
Back to School Night Create PAPA square for John Smith's General History of Virginia. |
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Wednesday 16 |
Journal #13 Compare Smith vs. Bradford |
Read "Huswifry" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband." pages 100-103 |
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Thursday 17 |
Journals Due Today Discussion of Puritan Poetry |
Prep vocabulary cards. |
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Friday 18 |
End of Grading Period Vocabulary 50 |
Latin List 3&4 test on Monday. Complete List 5 Bring your |
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September
21-25 |
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Monday 21 |
Test on Latin List 3&4. Passed out list 5 for any who didn't download it over the weekend. |
complete list 5 |
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Tuesday 22 |
Journal #15: "What do you believe about life after death and the fate of the righteous and the wicked?" discussion of concrete vs. abstract imagery. Intro to Logos, Pathos, Ethos - appeals Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards. |
Reread Sinners and annotate in regard to the type of appeals used by Jonathan Edwards. |
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Wednesday 23 |
Last day to turn in list 5. Concrete/Abstract images read "Ernie Pyle" and catagorize the images as concrete, abstract or mixed. |
Complete the images page. |
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Thursday 24 |
Journal #16 When someone is trying to persuade you to do something, what works best and why? E.g. peer pressure (everyone else is doing it), flattery, logical reasoning, intimidateion, cajoling, guilt. Discussion of images page application of the logos, pathos, ethos to the advertisements. Turn in the 3 PAPA squares on advertisements |
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Friday 25 |
Journal #17 Freewrite Vocabulary 60 |
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Monday 28 |
Fall Break |
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Tuesday 29 |
Fall Break |
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Wednesday 30 |
Guest Lecturer - Dan Williams Hold onto these papers for later |
Read chapters 1 and 2 of Language in Thought and Action. |
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Thursday 1 |
Min Day (Staff Development) Discussion of chapter 1-2 of Language in Thought and Action Journal: Discuss the confusion that occurs when people assume that the potrayal is the real thing. Based on chapters 1 and 2 of Language in Thought and Action. H/O Eleven by Sandra Cisneros |
Read chapters 3 & 4 of LTA. Read Eleven |
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Friday 2 |
Annotate Eleven |
Read chapters 5 and 7 of LTA |
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October 5-9 |
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Monday 5 |
Journal #20 What is Hayakawa's explanation of the
value of unoriginal remarks? Explain how you experience this in your life.
The essay prompt for Eleven is: "Write an essay analyzing how the author Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques to characterize Rachel." |
Work on Vocabulary cards Read 2 chapters of LTA 7-8 |
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Tuesday 6 |
Journal #21: Explain the implied promises of directive language from chapter 7. Discussion of the “Eleven” Essays Discussion of comparison of the Momaday/Brown essays |
Create elaborate double bubble map of comparisons of both similarities and differences between the Momaday/Brown pieces. |
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Wednesday 7 |
Journal #22: How do abstractions lead to prejudices? Comparison of evidence on Momaday/Brown Write an outline for an essay on Momaday/Brown. Brief intro to the two Marriage Proposals |
Do some kind of brainstorm comparing the proposals and then write an outline of how you would write on that prompt and what specific evidence you would use to support the points. Should include a thesis and outline of paragraphs. Due Friday. |
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Thursday 8 |
"Connect to Success" |
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Friday 9 |
Journal #23: How should a person propose? Describe your idea of the perfect proposal. Vocabulary 70 |
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October 12-16 |
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Monday 12 |
Comparison of the Drafts of same paragraph |
Read chapters 13 and 14 of LTA. |
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Tuesday 13 |
Rework the outlines for all three of the essays! |
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Wednesday 14 |
Write your first draft of the essay in class. |
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Thursday 15 |
Read at least three. |
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Friday 16 |
Journal 27:freewrite End of First Quarter & Grading Period Vocabulary 80 Collect all journals. |
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October 19-23 |
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Monday 19 |
H/O Judge Sweat's speech. Write a parody of the speech on the subject of school lunches. We will compare in small groups. |
Work on vocabulary |
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Tuesday 20 |
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Wednesday 21 |
Powerpoint on matching argument with audience. Instructions included in the power point. Mr. Gail's lecture on argument. |
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Thursday 22 |
Tour of Quizlet.com - see directions in the Commonly Asked Questions link for directions. |
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Friday 23 |
Journal 32: 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 Vocabulary 90 |
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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 |
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Monday 2 |
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Tuesday 3 |
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Wednesday 4 |
H/O I Have a Dream speech |
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Thursday 5 |
Continued annotation notes and discussion of what makes the speech powerful. |
Work on vocabulary cards. |
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Friday 6 |
Journal Had you been among the "victims" of a drunk driver yesterday, what would you want to have said to those you left behind? Vocabulary 110 Annotate in great detail the Declaration of Independence - like we did for the "I Have a Dream..." speech. |
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November 9-13 |
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Monday 9 |
Group discussions of annotations of Declaration of Independence. |
Bring your American Lit text on Thursday so that you can refer to it directly. |
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Tuesday 10 |
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Wednesday 11 |
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Thursday 12 |
Min Day (Staff Development) Bring your text today. Discussion of payne. |
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Friday 13 |
End of Grading Period Journal: freewrite Journals due. Working in groups of no more than three work on the project. |
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November 16-20 |
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Monday 16 |
Complete the Comics Project and hand it in.
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Tuesday 17 |
Issues: speaker: credibility, expert evidence, motive audience: motive, reaction, morals and principles, background, future impact, other pressures, opposition and why opposed, diction, tone, body language in a speech... Outline Analysis essay "How do writers/speakers determine the approach to their topic?" Combining and adding to the above issues, what are the most important factors in the approach a writer takes to his topic? |
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Wednesday 18 |
setting - such as abandoned buildings, places with history of violence ominous music - lots of violins, suspenseful lighting - flickering, dark, strategic use of shadows camera angles - second hand-camera, Point of view shots make-up and costumes - period pieces, detailed, gruesome, blood, blood-shot eyes reactions to what you can't see, fear of the unknown timing - suspense built by waiting or sudden shock foreshadowing - characters going against warnings, curiosity characters - animalistic or inhuman dramatic irony
How much applies to written horror story? Nearly all. Even the tone, the rhythm and sound of the words can be a kind of music. |
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Thursday 19 |
List of group assignments for period 2 List of group assignments for period 3 H/O Socratic Seminar questions (due November 30) and Turn of the Screw five paragraphs (due November 30) Peer editing essay (final version due Monday, November 23). |
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Friday 20 |
Journal: If you could inhabit the world of any computer or video game, which one would you choose? Why? Vocabulary 130 Greek List #6 (due Monday, November 23) |
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November 23-27 |
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Monday 23 |
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Tuesday 24 |
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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 |
Socratic Seminar on The Turn of the Screw. |
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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 Cards can be turned in as soon as you have completed the test. Last day for card turn-in is next Friday. |
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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 Socratic Seminar |
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Wednesday 16 |
Finals4,6,8 |
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Thursday 17 |
Finals2.7 Socratic Seminar |
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School starts again January 11 |
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