Monday, December 19, 2016

12-19 Update

Periods 5/6
No vocab this week!
We will read Romeo and Juliet's fifth act and take a quiz on the act on Wednesday.
Be sure to fill out your study guides.

Periods 7/8
Please see the given calendars.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Mon,. 12/12

Period 7
Please follow the given December calendar.


Period 8
There is one change to the calendar: we will review chapters 5-8 on Wednesday, take the 5-8 quiz on Thursday, and discuss chapter 9 on Friday


Periods 5/6
Vocab WS due Tuesday (quiz Friday)
We will wrap up Act 3 of R and J this week, and we will start and likely finish Act 4.  Please make sure you are keeping up with your study guides.

Monday, December 5, 2016

Monday, 12/5 Update

PERIODS 5/6
WS 7B Due Tuesday
Act 2 Quiz Thursday
Quiz 7B Friday

PERIODS 7/8
Please follow the given calendars.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Week of 11/28

Periods 5/6
Vocab Quiz Friday
We will begin Romeo and Juliet this week.  Be sure that you're keeping up with your study guides.





PERIOD 7 CALENDAR
27

28
29
Textbook sonnets


30
Textbook sonnets

1                             2
“Dark Lady” Sonnets


*Sonnet creation
assignment

                                                  2nd practice poetry essay
                                                

  

December  2016
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
4

5
Sonnet review
A few extra sonnets? 
(John Donne and John Milton)
6
SONNET QUIZ

7
Poetry essay review

8
Macbeth Introduction
9
Macbeth Act 1- Scenes 1-3


*Sonnets due
10

11

12
Act 1- Scenes 4-7
13
Act 2- Scenes 1-2

Assignment of Close Reading Activity


14
****MR. WAGNER ABSENT

SHORT Essay Quiz on Act 1

15
Act 2- Scenes 3-4




16
Act 3- Scenes 1-3



Assignment of Vocab List #5
17

18

19
Act 3- Scenes 4-6
20
Act 4- Scenes 1-3


21
 ACTS 3 AND 4 QUIZ

Assignment of Short Historical Essay assignment

Assignment of Article Response Activity
22
Act 5- Scenes 1-4

Close reading due


23
11:00 A.M. dismissal
24

25

26
27
28
29
30
31
**Finish the last few scenes of the play over the break. 

**Article Response and Short Historical Essays are each due Monday, January 9th

**Vocab Quiz 5 on Wednesday, January 11h

Notes: We will not have a quiz on Act 5 of Macbeth.  There will be some overarching questions for the entire play on the midterm. 







PERIOD 8 CALENDAR
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29
Group Work
“The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions” (please have this read before class)
and
“Shakespeare’s Sister”

Pg. 179
30
<<<<< Review
1                              2
Group Work                             <<<<< Review
“On Seeing England
 for the First Time” (please
have this read before class)
and
“XXIII” from Midsummer          

**Short response paper assignment
More Calendars with US Holidays: Dec 2016, Jan 2017, PDF Calendar

December  2016
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
4

5
Lord of the Flies
Chapters 1-2


6
LotF
Chapters 3-4

Vocab WS 8+13 Check
7
LotF
Reviewing/Catching up

Short response paper due  
8
LotF
Chapters 1-4 Quiz
9
Vocab Quiz 8+13
10

11

12
LotF
Chapters 5-6
13
LotF
Chapters 7-8
14
LotF
Chapter 9


15
 Reviewing/Catching up
16
LotF
Chapters 5-8 Quiz
17

18

19
LotF Chapters 10-12


20
LotF Final Discussion
21
LotF Overall quiz
22
LotF theme activity


23
11:00 A.M. dismissal
24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31


Notes: I would like you to produce another critical review (much like you did for 1984).  You will be asked to talk about one theme and one character from Lord of the Flies.  
This will be due FRIDAY, 1/6/17.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Week of 11/21

Periods 5/6
There is no vocab for this short week; we will talk about Shakespeare and preface our reading of Romeo and Juliet

Period 7
Vocab Quiz Tuesday

Period 8
We will present our Contemporary Tales this week

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Week of Mon., 11/14 Update

Periods 5/6
Vocab Worksheet 6B Due Tuesday; Quiz Friday
Night Test Wednesday

Period 7
Please follow the given calendar (Essay test on The Awakening and A Doll's House FRIDAY).

Period 8
Please follow the given calendar (Canterbury Tales test FRIDAY, including characters, background from the textbook and my "homemade" notes, and craft/structure/conventions information from the textbook).

Monday, November 7, 2016

Monday, 11/7

Periods 5/6
Vocab WS Due Tuesday
Quiz Friday

Keep up with your Night study guides and character charts.


Periods 7/8
Please see the given November Calendars

Monday, October 31, 2016

Monday, 10/31 Update

Periods 5/6
Keep up with your character charts and study guides.
Vocab WS due Wednesday; Quiz Friday

Periods 7/8
Please see the given November calendars.

Friday, October 28, 2016

Periods 7 and 8 November Calendars

Period 7- November 2016

AP ENGLISH- November  2016
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat

Intro to Chopin/The Awakening
1
The Awakening chapters 1-9 (pg. 1-26)                   
2
10-15 (26-45) 
3
16-21 (45-64)                  
4
2nd practice AP prose essay
5

6

7
22-30 (65-91)
8
31-39 (92-116)
9 Data Delay
The Awakening article response activity
(Start reading and annotating: complete, typed response due Monday)
10
Final discussion and wrapping up The Awakening
11
Reviewing practice prose essays
12

13

14
A Doll’s House
Act 1


Article response due

15
A Doll’s House
Act 2

16
A Doll’s House
Act 3

17
A Doll’s House final review

18
Essay test on The Awakening and A Doll’s House
19

20

21
Vocab Quiz 4: Poetry Terms
22
Starting sonnets! J J J
Shakespeare/Renaissance background info
23
11:00 A.M. dismissal
24
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29
Textbook sonnets


30
Textbook sonnets

1                             2
“Dark Lady” Sonnets


*Sonnet creation
assignment

                                                  2nd practice poetry essay
                                                







Period 8- November 2016


HONORS ENGLISH 12- November  2016
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat


PART III Chapters 5-6
(pages 282-298)

1
Final 1984 discussion
2
1984 PART 3/OVERALL QUIZ
3
Unit 2 Textbook Introduction:
“Standing up to Absolute Power”
“England: The Beginnings”
“About the Author: Geoffrey Chaucer”
“About The Canterbury Tales
4
Vocab Quiz 7


5

6

7
“The Prologue”
(Up to page 140: stop at the Skipper)


1984 Critical Reviews due
8
“The Prologue”
(The rest of it!)
9 Data Delay

Begin working on character sketches
10
“The Prologue” Textbook Activities and Review



11
“The Prologue” Quiz


Assignment of Contemporary Tale (narrative writing) activity
12

13

14
“The Pardoner’s Tale”

Character sketches due
15
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
16
“The Tale of Sir Thopas”
17
“The Tale of Sir Thopas”
18
Quiz on “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Tale of Sir Thopas”

Assignment of Vocab List and Worksheet 8 + 13
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20

21
Contemporary Tale
Storytelling Contest
22
Contemporary Tale
Storytelling Contest
23
11:00 A.M. dismissal
24
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29
Group Work
“The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions” (please have this read before class)
and
“Shakespeare’s Sister”

Pg. 179
30
<<<<< Review
1                              2
Group Work                             <<<<< Review
“On Seeing England
 for the First Time” (please
have this read before class)
and
“XXIII” from Midsummer          

**Short response paper assignment