War Stories
May 27, 2011 |
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| Read "In Another Country" 731, "Camouflaging the Chimera" 1080, and "Ambush" 1082. Answer the critical thinking questions on pages 734 1-6, 1081 1-4, and 1083 1-4. |
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Final Project Presentations
May 25, 2011 |
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| Finish the group power point presentations |
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Final Project Presentations
May 23, 2011 |
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| The group power point presentations are due today. |
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The Crucible - Final Project
May 19, 2011 |
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| Time in the computer lab to finalize your group's power point presentation. |
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The Crucible - Final Project
May 17, 2011 |
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| No journal today. Time in the library to work on your projects. |
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The Crucible - Final Project
May 13, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe three things you can do today to achieve freedom and peace for tomorrow. Time in the library for you and your partner to work on your projects. |
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The Crucible - Final Test (homework)
Due Date: May 11, 2011 |
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| Journal: Jot down a list of entertaining tales from your life. Final test for The Crucible. Discuss, choose partners, and brainstorm for the final project for The Crucible. |
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 The Crucible Final Project (29.12 KB)
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The Crucible - McCarthyism
May 9, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe a fairy tale that has a deeper meaning. What is the allegory of the story? Read the handout about and view the video clip about McCarthyism. Create a Venn diagram comparing the play with the McCarthy trials. |
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The Crucible - Act IV
May 5, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe your thoughts about the United States' capture and killing of Bin Laden. Finish Act IV. Answer the Check Your Comprehension 1-4 page 1167 and literary Focus 1-2 page 1168. |
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The Crucible - Act III
May 3, 2011 |
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| Journal: Jot down your thoughts about why it is dangerous for Americans to take civil rights for granted. Grade and discuss the questions for At III you completed on Friday of last week. View video clips from the play. |
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The Crucible - Act III
April 29, 2011 |
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| Journal: Imagine ten years from now you have become a writer. Consider the kind of writer you might be. Then draft a short biographical sketch highlighting your background and interests for the jacket of your first novel. Finish reading Act III in the literature books. Then answer the check your comprehension 1-5 and critical thinking 1-7 on page 1151. Turn these into the basket when you are done. Once everyone has turned in their assignment, we can watch the beginning of the movie. |
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The Crucible - Act III
April 27, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe one or two examples of courageous behavior that you have admired in another person. Reading circle for reader's theater for Act III of The Crucible. |
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The Crucible - Act II
April 25, 2011 |
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| Journal: How do you think communities can shape people's actions, attitudes, or values? Jot down your response. Finish reading Act II. Then answer the check your comprehension 1-2 and critical thinking 1-3 on page 1129. |
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NO SCHOOL - SENIOR PROJECTS
April 20, 2011 |
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The Crucible
April 18, 2011 |
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| Journal: Briefly describe an incident from a film or your own life in which a false rumor was accepted by many as truth. What were the consequences? We will finish reading Act I of The Crucible. Answer Check Your Comprehension and Critical Thinking. |
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The Crucible
April 14, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe the best prank or practical joke you have witnessed. Today we will begin reading the play, The Crucible. |
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Of Mice and Men - Creative Project (homework)
Due Date: April 12, 2011 |
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| Journal: What is your definition of love? After reading the complete novel, you are to choose a project that appeals to your own personal talents and interests. Your objective is to represent the story in some form of a creative or artistic approach. |
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 Of Mice and Men - Creative Project (25.09 KB)
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Of Mice and Men
April 8, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe your goals or plans for this summer. We will grade and discuss the study guides for the last chapters of the novel. We will view the ending of the movie. |
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Of Mice and Men (homework)
Due Date: April 6, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe your goals for the last nine weeks of this school year. Today had we have a reading circle. We read sections four and five together as a class. You need to read the last chapter on your own and complete the study guide before Friday. |
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Of Mice and Men
April 4, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe what you did during Spring break. Take home quiz is due through chapter three. We will have a class discussion covering the first three chapters of the novel. After the discussion, we will view some scenes from the beginning of the novel |
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Of Mice and Men (homework)
Due Date: March 24, 2011 |
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| Journal: Imagine you went for a job interview and were asked to describe a negative quality about yourself. How would you respond? Explain. Quiz and discussion for chapter one. Read chapters two and three and get the take home quiz. Due Monday April 4. |
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The 1930's - The Great Depression and Of Mice and Men (homework)
Due Date: March 22, 2011 |
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| Journal: Imagine you went for a job interview and were asked to describe a positive quality about yourself. How would you respond? Explain. We watched a video on the history of the 1930's and answered discussion questions from the video. We then checked out Of Mice and Men. Students are to read chapter one before our next class. |
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The Great Gatsby - Essay Project
March 18, 2011 |
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Today we had time in the library to complete the essay and project for The Great Gatsby. Here is the ID and Password for turnitin.com:
1A - ID: 3809451 Password: Gatsby
2A - ID: 3809454 Password: Mice
3A - ID: 3809458 Password: Raisin |
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The Great Gatsby - Essay Project
March 16, 2011 |
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| Today we will have time in the library for research and writing. You have eight choices for an essay/project. |
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Essay/Project The Great Gatsby (24.58 KB)
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The Great Gatsby - Group Project
March 14, 2011 |
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| Journal: Jot down some negative consequences that can result from a long-standing dispute between two people. Group project for The Great Gatsby. Reader's theater presentations due today. |
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The Great Gatsby - Group Project (homework)
Due Date: March 10, 2011 |
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| Journal: Record your memories of a time when you looked at something from a new perspective. Group project for The Great Gatsby. |
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Group Project - The Great Gatsby (22.89 KB)
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The Great Gatsby - Final Quiz
March 8, 2011 |
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| Final Quiz for The Great Gatsby. |
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The Great Gatsby - Symbolism (homework)
Due Date: March 4, 2011 |
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| Journal: Jot down different ways of declining and accepting a social invitation. Give a personal example. Read through the end of the novel by next Tuesday. |
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The Great Gatsby
March 2, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe a rivalry with which you are familiar. Jot down your thoughts about what might be done to put an end to the rivalry. Read together chapters five and six of The Great Gatsby. |
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The Great Gatsby and Registration
February 28, 2011 |
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| Journal: Think of an object that reminds you of a particular person or memory. Describe the object and explain why you link the two together. We will discuss the take home quiz and chapters one through four. Also, we will be in the computer lab registering for next year. |
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The Great Gatsby
February 24, 2011 |
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| Journal: If you could go back in time and meet one person who would it be? Explain. Read chapters 2, 3, and 4. Complete the take home quiz due on Monday. |
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The Great Gatsby
February 22, 2011 |
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| Journal: If you could go back in time and change one thing in your life, what would it be? Explain. Today, we have the counselors in class to go over registration for next year. After this, we will check out The Great Gatsby and read chapter one. |
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Poetry Quiz/Presentations
February 15, 2011 |
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| Journal: Think of an activity that was somehow linked to a particular place. Describe the place and the activity. We have the quiz the first part of class and then we will continue poetry presentations. |
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Poetry Presentations
February 11, 2011 |
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| Journal: Describe a time in your life when an anticipated event proved disappointing. Today, we are listening to and delivering poetry presentations. Students are presenting a poem to the class with a brief biography of the poet and an analysis of the poem. |
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Slang and Satire
February 9, 2011 |
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Journal: Jot down examples of television, radio, and print advertising that encourage people to conform to certain ways of thought, appearance, behavior. Read the article on page 642, "Slang as it is Slung". Divide into groups of five or six students. Your group will have ten minutes to make a list of slang words and their meanings. The group with the most terms, that another group hasn't duplicated, will win extra credit points. After the discussion of slang, we will read the three poems on pages 694-696: "anyone lived in a pretty how town," "old age sticks," and "The Unknown Citizen." Your group will then discuss and answer the literary focus 1-4 on page 698. DON'T FORGET THE POETRY PRESENTATIONS DUE ON FRIDAY. Here is the ID and Password for turnitin.com:
1A - ID: 3809451 Password: Gatsby
2A - ID: 3809454 Password: Mice
3A - ID: 3809458 Password: Raisin |
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Poetry Presentation Rubric (24.06 KB)
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Poetry - Paraphrase
February 7, 2011 |
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| Journal: Although people have debated the rules of the genre for ages, poetry defies definition. What is your definition of poetry? Grade and discuss "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufroc" and "Allentown." Read the four poems about creating poetry "Of Modern Poetry," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Ars Poetica," and "Poetry." Paraphrase the five lines under reading strategy on page 716. |
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Poetry - T.S. Eliot - Billy Joel
February 3, 2011 |
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| Journal: How do the particular disillusionments and discontents of our present age affect you as an individual? After reading and discussing the modernist movement, read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufroc". Answer the critical thinking questions 1-7 on page 652. Then, listen to the lyrics from Bill Joel's "Allentown". Answer critical thinking questions 1-4 on page 721. |
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Poetry - Imagism - Ezra Pound (homework)
Due Date: February 1, 2011 |
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| Journal: Think of an image you find striking - a skyscraper, a shiny new car, a sunset, a pizza hot from the oven. List sensory details that vividly convey image. Read the Ezra Pound essay "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and the two poems: "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" and "In a Station of the Metro". Answer the reader's response and thematic focus on page 659 and check your comprehension and critical thinking on page 661. |
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Poetry - Walt Whitman (homework)
Due Date: January 28, 2011 |
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Journal: Society, Death, Solitude, Consciousness, Soul. Choose one of these abstract ideas and quickly write your immediate thoughts about it.
Get together with the partner you had on Wednesday and read poems by Walt Whitman pages 404-413. You should read the biographical information on Walt Whitman, Literary Focus, and Reading Strategy. Then you are to read the poems: "Leaves of Grass," "Song of Myself," and "I hear America Sing." After reading, you are to answer Reader's Response, Thematic Focus and Group Discussion on page 407; Reader's Response, Thematic Focus, and Journal Writing on page 412; and Reader's Response and Thematic Focus on page 413. You have already answered some questions for Emily Dickinson's poems, and you should add these answers to that paper. |
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Poetry - Emily Dickinson
January 26, 2011 |
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Journal: The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Explain whether you believe this is a good or bad poem.
Read Emily Dickinson poems and biography on pages 393-401. With a partner read the poems and answer the check your comprehension questions on 1-3 on pages 397, 399, and 401. Also, answer reading strategies 1-3 on page 402. Discuss these questions and come to a consensus with your partner. |
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Classroom Expectations - Free Write
January 24, 2011 |
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| Today we covered classroom expectations and grading procedures. There was a two page free write that we wrote half a page at a time. The following were the prompts: Describe your English class from last semester. What did you learn? What did you read and write? Describe one positive and one negative experience form English class last semester. Explain. What has been your favorite English class of all time? Explain why. What would you like to learn or study this semester for English? |
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