1. Pronoun Quiz

2. Journal #1 for Lit Circles

3. Lit Circle discussion #1

4. A bit of silent reading time

Homework: Read from book, complete 2 Bookmarks, prepare for your role in the Wednesday's Lit Circle.

1. Pronoun Problem practice sheet + answers

2. Discuss Invisible Man by Ellison, turn in questions

3. Introduce Lit Circles, find group, pick book, assign roles and pages for first circle.

Homework: Complete one bookmark, prepare for your role in the lit circle, read your assigned book. Study for Grammar Quiz

1. Pronoun Cases #3

2. Write about your idea of freedom

3. Read The Story of an Hour

4. Begin Reading ch. 1-2 of Invisible Man

Homework: finish I.M., write 3 discussion questions based on the reading for Weds.

1. Pronoun Cases #2

2. Finish discussing Emily Dickinson poems in groups

3. Socratic Discussion on end of The Things They Carried

Homework: Study for Thursday's In-Class Essay--Essay Topics Here

1. Vocabulary Quiz

2. Found Poem exercise + craft!!

Homework: Finish TTTC for Tuesday; write out 5 analysis questions for these last few chapters for Socratic discussion.

1. AP style reading quiz

2. Things Character Chart

Homework: Read Ch. 16-17

1. Pronoun Problems--Nominative vs. Objective Case Define and practice

2. Things They Carried Time Magazine Article

3. Finish Friday's discussion on The Rainy River

Homework: Read the next chapter in TTTC. 26 pages.

1. Grammar Quiz: Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement

2. Practice AP-style reading quiz #2 in groups--share and explain answers

3. Socratic discussion on two chapters of The Things They Carried, based on student questions brought to class.

Homework: Read through The Dentist in TTTC.

1. Vocabulary List #6 (from The Things They Carried)

2. Ch. 1 Reading Quiz

3. Practice AP-style reading quiz for The Things They Carried--Go over and discuss.

Homework: Read next 3 chapters, bring in 5 typed discussion questions and 1 favorite/relevant line from the text. Be ready to discuss the chapters.

1. Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement #3

2. Briefly discuss Hemingway's "In Another Country"

3. Write creatively: war scene about a character...what does he bring along with him/her.

4. Begin reading The Things They Carried

Homework: Finish Ch. 1 for Wednesday

1. The Devil's Dictionary Handout + You define a few words

2. Read + Discuss An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge

3. Ernest Hemingway Power Point

Homework: Read In Another Country for Monday; answer questions 1-11

1. Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement #2

2. Melville/Moby Dick Power Point

3. Read Moby Dick from text book

Homework: Finish Moby Dick section

1. Proofread and turn in Comparison Essays

2. Take A Separate Peace Test

3. Reading time for Choice Book

Homework: Finish book over Spring Break, begin preparing for Book Talk Speech

1. Finish Pleasantville, discuss connects to the book A Separate Peace

2. Pass out Spring Break Reading Project and parent letter

3. Work on Individual Revision Checklist w/ rough draft

4. Read example paper for Comparison Paper

Homework: Final Draft due on Thursday; study for Separate Peace Test

1. Watch Pleasantville, connect it to A Separate Peace

2. Work on Rough Draft of comparison paper

Homework: RD due Tuesday

1. Watch Kevin's Giraffe go through the 5 Stages of Grief

2. Assign Separate Peace Comparison/Contrast Essay

3. Go over Separate Peace and the 5 Stages--finish discussing the book

Homework: Write Thesis for Thursday

1. Parallel Structure Quiz

2. Story of Genesis vs. A Separate Peace comparisons

3. Before the Fall of Finny vs. After the Fall of Finny

4. Define The Kubler-Ross 5 Stages of Grief

Homework: Tie Stages of Grief to A Separate Peace (on handout)

1. New Vocabulary List (#6)

2. Parallel Structure Review Sheet plus sentence practice

3. Comparison of A Separate Peace to Genesis/The Bible

Homework: Study for Friday Parallel Structure Grammar Quiz

1. Finish DPS

2. Begin writing assignment: One paragraph defending the thesis "BLANK CHARACTER best exemplifies the themes of Thoreau/Emerson."

1. Write "Man, that's deep" sentences on the board

2. Watch DPS and connect story to Emerson and Thoreau

1. Emerson and Thoreau Presentation from Evan and Dana

2. Define Transcendentalism

3. Read Self-Reliance; discuss theme of non-conformity

4. Discuss Thoreau and significance of Civil Disobedience

5. Read Walden; write down "Man, that's deep" sentences

Homework: Finish Walden for Tuesday

1. Turn in Wellington Hills Stories

2. Read classmates stories; respond to them on index cards

3. Vocabulary List #5

Homework: Finish Vocab Sheet for Friday

1. Active/Passive Voice Grammar Quiz

2. Winesburg, Ohio Reading Comprehension Quest

3. Smiley Face Tricks Sheet #2--Implement into your final draft. We also read "The Mound" for examples of these tricks.

Homework: Write final draft of Wellington Hills Story for Wednesday

Tuesday

1-8-07

1. Write about a Saline "character"

2. Exercise "A" on active vs. passive voice

3. Begin reading Winesburg, Ohio

Homework: Read Hands through Nobody Knows...p. 62

Friday

12-22-07

1. Vocabulary List #4

2. Go over Expository Paragraph format

3. Write paragraph blaming the man for his own downfall.

Homework: Finish Paragraph for Break

Wednesday

12-20-07

1. Survival Preparations

2. Read "To Build a Fire"

Homework: List all of his mistakes

Friday

12-14-07

1. Semicolon Quiz

2. Huck Unit Test

Wednesday

12-12-07

1. Finish Watching Film version of Huck Finn

2. Discuss differences between film and novel.

3. Major/Minor Characters Handout + Important Quotes Handout

Homework: Study for Semicolon Quiz + Huck Finn Unit Test

Monday

12-10-07

Thursday

12-6-07

1. Map of Huck's Travels

2. Significance of Minor Characters in Huck...Why? (Handout), discuss

Homework: Foils and Contrasts in Huck Sheet for Homework.

Tuesday

12-4-07

1. Pass out Censorship of books articles

2. Discuss Censorship Pros/Cons

3. Semicolon PP + practice handout

4. Censorship article on Huck Finn

Homework: Write letter to the editor, opposing or supporting the censorship of Huck Finn (3 paragraphs--1 thesis, 2 supporting)

Friday

11-30-07

1. Vocabulary Quiz #3

2. Finish up Odes

3. Present Odes to Class

Wednesday

11-28-07

1. Semicolon, Colon Grammar Book Exercises

2. Look at Emmeline Grangerford's Ode

3. From Pictures, write Ode with a partner

Homework: Read Huck ch. 30-34 p. 201-232, Vocab Quiz on Friday

Monday

11-26-07

1. Huck Finn Reading Quiz

2. Watch Mark Twain A & E Biography

Homework: Read Huck Finn Ch. through 29

Thursday

11-22-07

1. Mark Twain Presentation

2. Read ahead in book

Monday

11-5-07

1. Trade rough drafts, write three specific questions about details on page one.

2. Answer questions, as a new opening sentence for your paper.

3. Individual Revision Checklist

4. Peer Revision Checklist w/partner

Homework: Final Drafts due on Wednesday

Thursday

11-1-07

1. Trade suspense stories, underline well-written phrases/sentences.

2.Three card writing exercise...one setting, two characters for suspense writing

3. 30 minutes to write with randomly distributed cards

4. Suspense story Assignment

Homework: Rough Draft of Suspense story due on Monday

Tuesday

10-30-07

1. Dangling Modifier Grammar Exercises

2. Come up with Starter Sentences for a suspense story

3. Write suspense story w/one of starter sentences

Homework: Type draft of story.

Friday

10-26-07

1. Vocabulalry Quiz #2

2. Discuss Black Veil

3. What do authors do to build suspense?

Homework: None

Wednesday

10-24-07

1. Dangling Modifier Handout

2. Nathanial Hawthorne Presentation

3. In-class writing: Do you act differently around your friends than your family?

4. Begin Reading "The Minister's Black Veil," write out what you think the author is trying to say with this story. What's his point?

Homework: Veil stuff + study for vocab quiz

Monday

10-22-07

1. William Faulkner Presentation

2. Discuss "A Rose for Emily"

3. Story Structure: Exposition, Complication, Conflict, Denouement

4. Linear vs. Non-Linear structure

Thursday

10-18-07

1. Vocabulary List #2

2. Read "A Rose for Emily"

3. Answer questions 1-8

Tuesday

10-16-07

1. Comma Quiz

2. Edgar Allan Poe Presentation

Analysis of Masque of Red Death

3. Begin reading The Raven

Homework:Read The Raven, answer questions 1-8

Friday

10-12-07

1. Crucible Unit Test

2. Read The Masque of the Red Death

Homework: Study for Tuesday's Comma Quiz and talk with folks about Red Death (parent xc homework.)

Wednesday

10-10-07

1. Commas from the net.

2. Go over Motive Chart

3. Lecture on the Classical Tragedy (Shakespeare + Oedipus). Plus, the Tragic Hero

Homework: Study for Friday's Unit Test

Monday

10-8-07

1. Comma exercise

2. Watch Obedience Yale University study

Homework: Write a paragraph connecting the study to the play

Thursday

10-4-07

1. Comma exercise

2. Finish watching The Crucible

3. Joseph McCarthy bio + connection to the play.

Homework: Fill out Motive Chart for The Crucible--Also, write a paragraph that argues the one character who is most at fault for the Trials.

Tuesday

10-2-07

1. View end of Act III of The Crucible

2. Read Act IV and discuss.

3. Complete Act IV questions.

Homework: Act IV questions + look up and type out 6-7 things about Joseph McCarthey

Friday

9-28-07

1. Vocabulary quiz for The Crucible

2. Read in free reading books for 20 minutes.

3. Watch Act II and a bit more in film

No homework.

Wednesday

9-26-07

1. Grammar: Commas A + B

2. View First Act of the film The Crucible

Homework: Study for Friday's Vocabulary quiz

Monday

9-24-07

1. View funny scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail

2. Herd Mentality + its connection to The Crucible

3. Read aloud Act III of The Crucible

Homework: Answer Questions for Act III.

Thursday

9-20-07

1. Moldy Bread and Geographic Theories for Salem Witch Trial handout

2. Arthur Miller Presentation by Katie and Lauren

3. Read Act II as a class

Homework: Finish reading Act II; answer Act II questions.

Tuesday

9-18-07

1. Crucible Vocab Sheet

2. Act I of The Crucible, read aloud, take parts

3. Begin answering Act I questions

Homework: Finish Act I questions and vocab

Friday

9-14-07

1. Parts of Speech Quiz

2. 15 minutes of free reading time

3. Prized possession saved during fire--in class writing prompt

4. Read, discuss Upon the Burning of House by Anne Bradstreet

5. Begin The Crucible

Homework: Read first 10 pages of The Crucible

Wednesday

9-12-07

1. Grammar Review/Practice for the Friday quiz

2. Library for History Review sheet on Salem Witchcraft Trials

3. Pick out book for free reading assignment. Bring to class on Friday.

Homework: Study for Friday's grammar quiz

Monday

9-10-07

1. Grammar Homework: Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections

2. Finish Reading narrative pieces

3. Read Letter from an American Farmer in textbook

Homework: Create your own metaphor, a better one than the "melting pot" idea to describe America. One paragraph (minimum 8 sentences)

Thursday

9-6-07

1. Grammar assignment: First set of sentences for each of the following chapters: Nouns, Pronouns, More Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs

2.Read our narrative pieces out loud in class

Homework: Finish grammar homework!

Tuesday

9-4-07

1. Info sheet

2. Syllabus

3. In class drawing

4. Show, don't tell sheet

5. Write first person story (based on the picture)

Homework: Write story, focusing on showing, not telling. Typed, double spaced, no more than 2 pages of it.