MONDAY:

• Bellwork: Guidance announcements
• Take up outlines from Friday
• Begin reading Macbeth together in class starting on page 298

TUESDAY:

• Bellwork: Vocab Unit 14: 1-5
• Continue Macbeth from yesterday’s stopping point
• Answer Act I follow along on back of pre-reading vocab page
• Answer Act I study guide questions from blue sheet

WEDNESDAY:

• Bellwork: Vocab Unit 14: 6-10
• Continue Macbeth with study guide questions and discussion

THURSDAY:

• Bellwork: “How does Macbeth feel about the prophecy that he will be king, according to his letter to Lady Macbeth in Act I, scene 5?”
• Continue Macbeth with study guide questions and discussion

FRIDAY:

• Bellwork: Vocabulary review
• Vocab quiz
• Act I questions from the literature book, page 318 (answer questions a-e and 2-8) – Due Monday!

MONDAY:

• ACT Practice
• Review grammar exercise 3 and review A from last week
• Continue working together on exercises 4, 5, 6, and review B

TUESDAY:

• Vocab Unit 14: 1-5
• Finish grammar exercises from yesterday

WEDNESDAY:

• Vocab Unit 14: 6-10
• Review grammar exercises and collect
• Discuss and show examples for the different parts/features of a persuasive essay
• Examine TCAP prompts for persuasive elements

THURSDAY:

• ACT Practice
• Use iBooks to respond to a TCAP prompt

FRIDAY:

• Vocab review
• Vocab quiz
• TCAP essay review

For those interested:

Memorial Service for Mr. Aaron Masur
Saturday, January 21, 2012
3:00-5:00 pm
The Shelby Farms Visitor Center

In tribute to Mr. Masur’s devotion to stray dogs, his family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to no-kill animal shelters.

MONDAY:

• No School – MLK Day

TUESDAY:

• Finish literary elements presentations

WEDNESDAY (A/B Club Day):

• Vocab Unit 13: 1-5
• Begin working on Macbeth
• Handouts:

• Macbeth Study Guide Questions
• Handout – Macbeth Prereading Vocab Exercise Act I
• Shakespeare’s Patterns and Devices
• Macbeth – Tragedy and the Tragic Hero
• Macbeth behind the scenes

THURSDAY:

• Vocab 13: 6-10 on Wednesday
• Intro to Macbeth – animated short play
• Macbeth Pre-reading vocabulary handout – due tomorrow.
  

FRIDAY (Pep Rally Schedule):

• Vocab Quiz
• Outline textbook pages 282-297 – due Monday for a grade.