4 January 2009 • No Comments
MONDAY:
SPIs:
1.01 Write to process knowledge, clarify thinking, synthesize and evaluate information, improve study skills, gain confidence, and promote lifelong communication.
1.17 Develop personal, imaginative, and analytical responses to literature.
2.07 Read independently for a variety of purposes.
Procedures:
- BW - Who was your favorite character in Hamlet? Provide three reasons from the play to support your answer.
- Hamlet Assessment
- Read “The Renaissance Theatre” in your textbooks, pages 282-296. Create a detailed outline in the Notes Section of your binders.
- Homework:
- Complete outline of Renaissance Theatre. Due Tuesday in class for a grade. Be prepared for a basic comprehension quiz.
- Begin working on Vocabulary Unit 11 in your workbooks. Due Wednesday in class for a grade.
- Acquire a copy of Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World. Due in class on January 26th for full credit and no later than January 30th for any credit at all. We will be reading this together in class.
- Revive your Renaissance Festival assignments and begin working with your groups.
TUESDAY:
SPIs:
4.08 Demonstrate critical listening skills essential for comprehension and evaluation.
Procedures:
- BW - What is the difference between miracle/mystery plays and morality plays?
- Check outlines for a grade
- Take short True/False and Matching quiz over reading
- Discuss “The Renaissance Theatre” and Shakespeare’s life
WEDNESDAY:
SPIs:
2.02 Extend reading vocabulary.
Procedures:
- BW - List three (3) specific things that you learned about Shakespeare’s plays from the reading.
- Check Vocabulary Unit 11 for accuracy and record grades
- Continue discussion of “The Renaissance Theatre” and Shakespeare’s Life, as needed
- Complete Anticipation Guide for Macbeth (Macbeth - Anticipation Guide PDF) and discuss responses
THURSDAY:
SPIs:
2.01 Develop an understanding of and respect for multicultural, gender, and ethnic diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects, as well as for the development of the English language.
2.02 Extend reading vocabulary.
2.09 Determine the impact of literary elements on texts.
Procedures:
- BW - Why do you think some people fall to temptation more easily than others?
- Watch Standard Deviants: Macbeth
- Review handout on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Patterns: Shakespeare’s Dramatic Patterns PDF
- Homework: Pre-reading vocabulary handout on Act I, due tomorrow in class for a grade. Macbeth Pre-Reading Vocabulary Act I Exercise
- VOCABULARY UNIT 11 QUIZ TOMORROW!
FRIDAY:
SPIs:
2.04 Improve comprehension by interpreting, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating written text.
2.06 Increase fluency in oral reading
2.08 Determine the effectiveness of figurative language in various texts.
Procedures:
- BW - After watching yesterday’s summary, what part(s) of Macbeth do you think you’re most looking forward to?
- Vocabulary Quiz on Unit 11 (30 minutes timed)
- Check Macbeth Act I vocabulary homework assignment
- Read Macbeth Intro, pages 297-99
3 January 2009 • No Comments
Firstly, I just want to thank you all so much for the thoughtful Christmas cards, gifts, and baked yummies!! You were all so kind; it was simply overwhelming! I appreciate each and every one of you, and, like you, I look forward to the start of a new year, a new semester, and what is the home stretch of your high school careers. Get ready to buckle down. It’s going to be a fast-paced ride from here on out!
This post is just a reminder that everyone should have read Hamlet over the break. Please be prepared to answer a few short essay response questions on Monday when you return. If you’d like a little extra help, feel free to download and review the following handouts. Please note that these handouts will not replace the original text when it comes to your assessment on Monday.
Hamlet eNotes Summary and Analysis PDF
Hamlet eNotes Characters Discussed PDF
Hamlet eNotes Places Discussed PDF
Please bring your vocabulary books to class with you on Monday!
Also, to those of you who’ve inquired about your grades, I’m locked out of PowerSchool just like you are and cannot view my electronic grade book and my printed copy is at the school, which is closed. I apologize that I have not written any of you back with answers; I thought I was going to be able to get into the building over the break and was going to try to get that information for you. Report cards are coming soon, though, and access to PowerSchool should be reinstated on the fifth of January, if the Board is done backing up grades and completing server maintenance. Thank you for your understanding on this issue.
18 December 2008 • 1 Comment
Attention all classes!!
I just wanted to let you know that, after reviewing the Chaucer essay scores and the grading category breakdowns, I will be moving the grade for the Chaucer essay to the third nine weeks where we can have more assignments for that category to counteract some of the poor decisions made by some to plagiarize or not to complete the assignment at all. You may still see the score listed in your PowerSchool breakdown for a bit, until I can record them elsewhere, but know that it is not included in the final Q2 or S1 average. Withholding this grade for the next nine weeks helped EVERYONE, and I felt it was the right thing to do because I thought that this one grade was carrying too much weight in the grand scheme of things. I’m sure no one will argue with higher quarterly and semester averages.
Don’t forget to read Hamlet over the break! Have a safe and happy holiday, and I’ll see you folks next year!
18 December 2008 • No Comments
MONDAY:
Sonnet Presentations
TUESDAY:
Finish Sonnet Presentations
Shakespeare’s Language Helper Handout (see NOTES page)
Hamlet summary
WEDNESDAY:
Exam review
Midterm Review Sheet
THURSDAY:
1st and 2nd - review
4th-6th - exams
FRIDAY:
1st and 2nd - exams
Dismiss at 10:30am
Have a happy and safe break, and don’t forget to read Hamlet!!!
7 December 2008 • No Comments
MONDAY:
- Finish presentation
- Review outlines
- Check for Hamlet
- NOTEBOOK CHECK AND BELLWORK ASSESSMENT ON FRIDAY!!!!
TUESDAY - THURSDAY:
- Intro Sonnets
- Get handouts from NOTES page
- Elements of Literature: Poetic Meter, page 216
- Sonnet types, page 220
- Carpe Diem literature: page 231
- The Birth of Modern English, pages 271-274
Sonnets that will be covered this week:
- Sir Thomas Wyatt: page 214
- Whoso List to Hunt, page 215
- Edmund Spenser, page 217
- Sonnet 30, page 218
- Sonnet 75, page 219
- The Faerie Queen, pages 221-222
- William Shakespeare, pages 223-224
- Sonnet 29, page 225
- Sonnet 73, page 226
- Sonnet 116, page 228
- Sonnet 130, page 229
- Christopher Marlowe, page 232
- The Passionate Shepard to His Love, page 233
- Sir Walter Raleigh, page 234
- The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard, page 235
- Robert Herrick, page 238
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, page 239
- Andrew Marvell, page 240
- To His Coy Mistress, pages 241-242
- John Donne, page 244
- Song, page 245
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, pages 247-248
- Meditation 17, pages 250-251
- Death Be Not Proud, page 253
- Ben Jonson, page 256
- On My First Son, page 257
- Song: To Celia, page 258
- Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace, page 262
- Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?, page 263
- To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, page 264
- To Althea, from Prison, page 265
- Pablo Neruda, page 267
- Sonnets 17 and 79, pages 268-270
FRIDAY:
- Bellwork Assessment
- Notebook Check
- Finish Sonnets as needed
