Monday, June 1:
- Project submission instructions
- Watch Romeo and Juliet (1996). Pay close attention to the contents of the movie; this is one of your essay questions that you can choose for your final exam.
- Project due Thursday
- Final Exam study guide due Monday
Tuesday, June 2:
- Continue watching Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Wednesday, June 3:
- Finish watching Romeo and Juliet (1996)
- Discuss this version of the movie vs. the 1968 version
Thursday, June 4:
- Romeo and Juliet Technology Project Presentations
Friday, June 5:
- Finish project presentations
- Work on final exam study guide - due Monday
Monday, May 25:
Tuesday, May 26:
- Quiz: Acts IV and V
- Computer lab time to work on projects
Wednesday, May 27:
- Computer lab time to work on projects
- Binder Check tomorrow!
Thursday, May 28:
- Binder Check
- Computer lab time to work on projects
Friday, May 29:
- Reading Common Assessment
- Work on Final Exam review packet - due Monday, June 8
Monday, May 18:
- Warm-Up
- Act IV Lit Terms Practice: Pun, Allusion, Imagery
- Finish reading Act IV
Tuesday, May 19:
- Warm-Up
- Begin reading Act V
Wednesday, May 20:
- Finish reading Act V
- Review: Act V
- Acts IV and V quiz next week Tuesday
Thursday, May 21:
- Finish and go over the Act V review
- Watch Acts IV and V of the Romeo and Juliet movie
Friday, May 22:
- Romeo and Juliet Technology Project - due Thursday, June 4
- Discuss project guidelines
- Choose group members and work on a project plan - due at the end of the hour
Monday, May 11:
- Review: Act III
- Watch Act III of Romeo and Juliet
- Act III quiz on Wednesday
- Non-Fiction this week
Tuesday, May 12:
- Finish watching Act III of Romeo and Juliet
- Writing Common Assessment - due at the end of the hour
Wednesday, May 13:
- Substitute teacher today: Begin reading Act IV in groups. Get as far as you can and write down 3 questions that you have about the reading (to be answered tomorrow)
Thursday, May 14:
- Quiz: Act III
- Begin reading Act IV
Friday, May 15:
- Non-Fiction Friday #6:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
Monday, May 4:
- Quiz: Act II
- Begin reading Act III
- Pass back old work
- Active/Passive Voice Quiz on Thursday
- Fiction this week
Tuesday, May 5:
- Warm Up
- Act III Lit Terms Practice: Alliteration, Assonance, and Hyperbole
- Continue reading Act III
Wednesday, May 6:
- Go over Act II quiz
- Go over Act III Lit Terms
- Final Practice: Active/Passive Voice
- Continue reading Act III
Thursday, May 7:
- Warm-Up
- Finish reading Act III
- Quiz: Active/Passive Voice
Friday, May 8:
- Fiction Friday #6:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
Monday, April 27:
- Warm-Up
- Pass back more old work
- Go over Subject-Verb Agreement quiz
- Continue reading Act II
- Non-Fiction this week
Tuesday, April 28:
- Warm-Up
- Pass back and go over Act I quiz
- Finish reading Act II
- Act II quiz next week Monday
Wednesday, April 29:
- Warm-Up
- Work on Act II review
- Watch Act II
Thursday, April 30:
- Check and go over Act II review
- Finish watching Act II
- Act II, Scene 2 activity:
- Translate lines 66-88 (on p. 39) to modern English. Line-by-line translations are not required - just get the "gist" of the text. We will share translations at the end of the hour.
Friday, May 1:
- Non-Fiction Friday #5:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
- Act II quiz on Monday!
Monday, April 20:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in Act I Journal
- Check and discuss "Love Connection" activity
- Act I Review
- Work on the review in groups. You may use your books. We will go over the review at the beginning of class tomorrow.
- Act I Quiz on Wednesday
- Fiction Friday #5 will be held on Wednesday (substitute teacher)
Tuesday, April 21:
- Active/Passive Voice Practice
- Check and go over Act I Review
- Watch Act I of Romeo and Juliet (1968 version)
Wednesday, April 22:
- Substitute teacher today
- Quiz: Act I
- Fiction Friday (Wednesday) #5:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
Thursday, April 23:
- Warm-Up
- Finish watching Act I
- Begin reading Act II
Friday, April 24:
- Act II Lit Terms Practice: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification
- Pass back old work
- Continue reading Act II
Monday, April 13:
- Warm-Up
- Anticipation Guide: Romeo and Juliet
- Begin reading Act I, Scene I of Romeo and Juliet
- Pass back and discuss Things Fall Apart Essays
- Non-Fiction this week!
Tuesday, April 14:
- Act I Lit Terms Practice: Oxymoron and Onomatopoeia
- Finish reading Act I, Scene I
- Notes: Active/Passive Voice
Wednesday, April 15:
- Warm-Up
- Finish Active/Passive Voice Notes
- Continue reading Act I
- HW: Act I Journal - due Monday
Thursday, April 16:
- Warm-Up
- Finish Reading Act I
- Activity: The Love Connection
- Work with a partner to complete the rest of the lines from Romeo and Juliet listed on your sheet. Then draw conclusions about what you learned about those characters' view on love and marriage.
Friday, April 17:
- Non-Fiction Friday #4:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
Monday, March 30:
- Begin your Elizabethan Era Mini-Research Project! Use the iPads to begin researching your assigned topic with your group. Keep track of the websites that you use for your Works Cited page. Here is the link to the website with all of the research information: http://cehs.clovisusd.libguides.com/content.php?pid=72201&sid=2422137
- Finish compiling your 10 most important facts for your group's topic by the end of the hour
- HW: Bring 3 pictures that represent your group's topic to class tomorrow (to use for the poster)
- Sonnet Assignment due tomorrow
- Fiction this week (on Thursday)
Tuesday, March 31:
- Turn in Sonnet Assignment
- Finish your research and begin putting your poster together. All information and images should be on the poster. Make it creative, neat, and attractive.
- HW: Use EasyBib to create your Works Cited page
Wednesday, April 1:
- Finish poster/rehearse for presentations
- Group project presentations
- Individual student reflections on you and your group members' contributions to the project. Submit these with your posters and Works Cited pages.
Thursday, April 2:
- Fiction Friday #4:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
Monday, March 23:
- Warm-Up
- Finish Shakespeare packet: Prologue analysis + questions for Romeo and Juliet
- Notes: Sonnets
- Non-Fiction this week!
Tuesday, March 24:
- Activity: Sonnet translations (you and your group members may use a dictionary or thesaurus!)
- Sonnet Assignment info + guidelines
Wednesday, March 25:
- Computer lab time to work on sonnets
Thursday, March 24:
- Watch "William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama" and complete the questions on the handout for your notes
Friday, March 25:
- Non-Fiction Friday #3:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
Monday, March 16:
- Pass back and go over Ch. 16-25 quiz
- Last day in the computer lab for essays. Finish editing and use the "Formal Writing No-Nos" sheet during the editing process. Final Draft due tomorrow!
- Fiction this week
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz on Friday
Tuesday, March 17:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in Things Fall Apart Essay
- Notes: Iambic Pentameter
- Activity: In your small groups, create a short 4-line poem in iambic pentameter. Every other line should rhyme. We will share these as a whole class.
Wednesday, March 18:
- Warm-Up
- Begin working through "Helping to Understand Shakespeare" packet
Thursday, March 19:
- No class for English 9 (4th, 5th, and 6th hours half day)
Friday, March 20:
- Quiz: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Fiction Friday #3:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
Monday, March 9:
- Substitute teacher today
- Quiz: Ch. 16-25
- Work on your essay outline packet. Tomorrow, I will check to see if 2 paragraphs of your choice are complete. One of these paragraphs MUST be a body paragraph.
Tuesday, March 10:
- Check paragraphs
- Computer lab to type essays
- Rough Draft due Thursday
Wednesday, March 11:
- Computer lab to type essays
Thursday, March 12:
- Rough Draft due - drafts will be stamped. Save your draft and turn it in on the final draft due date (Tuesday, March 17) for points.
- Self and peer editing in class
Friday, March 13:
Monday, March 2:
- Warm-Up
- Ch. 19-21 WWBS + discussion
- Things Fall Apart Argumentative Essay information packet
- Rough Draft due Thursday, March 12
- Final Draft due Tuesday, March 17
- HW: Read Ch. 22 by Wednesday
- Binder check on Friday
Tuesday, March 3:
- No school - ACT testing for Juniors
Wednesday, March 4:
- Things Fall Apart Argumentative Debate Activity
- One of the statements from the information packet will be read aloud. Choose the designated corner of the classroom (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree) that matches your opinion. Move your specified corner of the room and be ready to share your answer - and to debate with the opposing side!
- HW: Read Ch. 23 and complete the Brown vs. Smith character sheet by tomorrow
Thursday, March 5:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in Brown vs. Smith character sheet
- Notes: How to write a counter-argument and refutation
- Get started on choosing a topic, creating a thesis, and finding quotes OR you may read Things Fall Apart.
Friday, March 6:
- Binder check
- Continue to work on essay outline/finish the book
- HW: Read Ch. 24-25 (finish the book) by Monday
- Ch. 16-25 Quiz on Monday
Monday, February 23:
- Warm-Up
- Pass back and go over Ch. 11-12 Qs
- Work on Ch. 13-14 Qs in groups - class discussion to follow
- HW: Read Ch. 15-17 by Wednesday
- Ch. 9-15 Quiz on Wednesday
- Non-Fiction this week
Tuesday, February 24:
- Subject-Verb Agreement Pre-test
- Notes + Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement
Wednesday, February 25:
- Warm-Up
- Quiz: Ch. 9-15
- Read/work on Ch. 17-18 Questions - due tomorrow
- HW: Read Ch. 18 by tomorrow
Thursday, February 26:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in Ch. 17-18 Questions
- Discuss Ch. 17-18
- Argumentative Writing Activity
Friday, February 27:
- Non-Fiction Friday #2:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
- HW: Read Ch. 19-21 by Monday
Monday, February 9:
- Warm-Up
- Quiz: Ch. 5-8
- Ch. 1-7 "Who, Wants, But, So" activity. In your groups, complete the chart by filling in the missing characters, character motivations, and plot elements. We will use this for discussion of the chapters.
- HW: Read Ch. 10-11 by Wednesday
- Fiction this week!
Tuesday, February 10:
- Warm-Up
- Ch. 8 Group Drawing - due at the end of the hour
- Re-read the descriptions of Akueke (p. 60-61) and Okonkwo (p. 54)
- Write down complete sentences from the passage that your group believes to be important as a basis for illustration
- Illustrate the passage
- Only use color when indicated in the passage
- Repeat the same steps for the second passage
- Verb quiz on Friday
Wednesday, February 11:
- Warm-Up
- Ch. 9-10 Confusion Questions
- In your groups, come up with possible explanations for the three difficult questions on your handout. We will discuss possible answers for these confusing situations in Ch. 9 and 10.
- HW: Read Ch. 12 by tomorrow
- HW: Ch. 11-12 questions due tomorrow
Thursday, February 12:
- Things Fall Apart Part I Group Body Paragraph
- Many changes happened in Okonkwo’s village and the surrounding areas. You, as young members of the village, want to institute yet another change. Your assignment is to think of a change you would make in the daily life/customs of the village. Write a 2 chunk body paragraph to the egwugwu to persuade them to approve of your idea. Due at the end of the hour.
Friday, February 13:
- Quiz: Verbs
- Fiction Friday #2:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
- HW: Read Ch. 13-14 by Monday, February 23 (the day we come back from break)
- HW: Complete the Ch. 13-14 Writing Prompt (due on Monday, February 23)
- Have a great Mid-Winter Break! :)
Monday, February 2:
- SNOW DAY! Enjoy your day off! :)
Tuesday, February 3:
- SNOW DAY! Enjoy your day off! :)
Wednesday, February 4:
- Warm-Up
- Quiz: Ch. 1-4
- Ch. 1-4 Quiz - Peer grading and corrections
- Picture slideshow for Things Fall Apart
Thursday, February 5:
- Warm-Up
- Discuss Ch. 5-6
- Verb Practice 2
Friday, February 6:
- Non-Fiction Friday #1:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
- HW: Read Ch. 7-9 by Monday
- Ch. 5-8 Quiz on Monday!
Monday, January 26:
- Binder clean out
- Book room "field trip" - return The Odyssey and pick up Things Fall Apart
- New homework and bathroom passes
- Verbs pretest
- Fiction this week!
Tuesday, January 27:
- Warm-Up
- Notes: Verbs
- Read "Dead Men's Path" (p. 1275) aloud as a class
- HW: "Dead Men's Path" writing prompt due on Thursday
Wednesday, January 28:
- Warm-Up
- Work on writing prompt
- Background readings activity for Things Fall Apart (we will begin the novel in class on Thursday)
- Each group will read and summarize key points of an article concerning the Ibo people of Nigeria. No one group will receive the same article.
- After reading and summarizing, each group will present its article to the class. The other groups will take notes on the articles presented.
Thursday, January 29:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in writing prompt
- Begin reading Ch. 1-2 of Things Fall Apart aloud in class
Friday, January 30:
- Fiction Friday #1:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
- HW: Ch. 1-2 Writing Prompt due Monday
- HW: Ch. 3 due Monday
Monday, January 12:
- Finish watching O'Brother, Where Art Thou? and complete the t-chart
- Binder check on Wednesday
Tuesday, January 13:
- Discuss midterm exam and study guide
- Begin working on the study guide in class. The study guide is due on Thursday.
Wednesday, January 14:
- Binder check
- Finish working on the study guide
Thursday, January 15:
- Check study guides
- Go over the grammar portion/ask questions about this part of the exam
Friday, January 16:
- The Odyssey review game - practice for the exam
