May 21-23
Monday Advertising Tuesday 8-Cow Wife Wednesday Semester Test 9:30 May 13-17 Monday-Tuesday Simon Burch---see movie on home page Tuesday Simon Burch Assignment #1 due http://goo.gl/0KDAx Wednesday Influence Paper--see assignments #2-#3 of above link Thursday The Necklace / The Sniper---Irony Friday May 6-10 Monday Most Dangerous Game and questions. Read online at: http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html Questions: http://goo.gl/zbYQT Tuesday Greek word Test MDG discussion and plot line Wednesday The Scarlet Ibis: a journey--Prediction slide show--http://goo.gl/jfDjZ Vocabulary slide show--http://goo.gl/JruWb Read online at: http://goo.gl/gP8XN Thursday Scarlet Ibis continued Friday AR Points Due--15 Friday-next Tuesday--Watch Simon Birch Movie--see home page April 29- May 3 Monday Greek word pre-test Tuesday Greek prefixes and suffixes Greek Word Project Info. http://goo.gl/Le9tT Greek Word Lists http://goo.gl/fcvZc Wednesday Greek Word Project group work Thursday Greek Word Project group work Testing Algebra II Friday Greek Word Test April 22-26 Monday Walk Around--Odyssey Presentations Tuesday Odyssey Presentations Wednesday The Movie--The Odyssey Thursday Quiz--The Odyssey http://goo.gl/zsDxX Friday NO SCHOOL April 15-19 Monday Library Trojan War Odyssey Project Introduction (see link to right) Tuesday-Wednesday Meet in computer lab for research Thursday Meet in classroom and finish posters Friday Our Odyssey--meet in viewing room with poster April 8-12 Monday Who are You? Greek Games Tuesday Test Review Wednesday Greek Mythology Test Thursday Greek Myths (see bundle to right)google slide link http://goo.gl/Qoznl Friday Greek Myths http://mybigcampus.com/bundles/greek-myths---151597 April 1-5 Monday My Big Campus--Sing in Me Muses Watch videos of Greek characters Tuesday MBC--Sing in Me Muses Wednesday MBC--Greek Mythology Thursday MBC--Trading Cards in computer lab Friday MBC--Trading Cards in computer lab March 25-29 Monday DOL #1 Write each one wrong, then right Comparison / Contrast Essay Tuesday DOL #2 Comparison / Contrast Essay Wednesday DOL #3 Comparison / Contrast Essay due at Beginning of hour My Big Campus Orientation Greek Mythology Thursday DOL #4 Greek Mythology Friday DOL #5 Greek Mythology March 18-22 Spring Break March 11-15 (week 9) Monday Parts of a Story Comparison Essay pre-writing Tuesday Words from Shakespeare Shakespeare Review Wednesday Benchmarks Thursday Exam Friday NO SCHOOL--PLC Day for Teachers March 4-8 (week 8) Monday Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Tuesday Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Wednesday Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Thursday Write memorization Work on Essay pre-writing Friday Romeo and Juliet Pre-writing Memorization Due--say in class February 25-March 1 (week 7) Monday--No School--Snow Day Tuesday--No School--Snow Day Watch "What's in a Name?"video and be ready to discuss Wednesday Wednesday Response to Video Act 3.1 Acting Finish reading Act 3 and write short summary of each scene--hw Thursday Act 3 Read Act 4 and summarize each scene--homework Friday Discuss teaching video Act 4 February 18-22 (week 6) Monday--No School West Side Story--Southwest Playhouse--7:00 p.m. Tuesday Some people are going to leave, but that is not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story. Quiz Act 1.5 Read Act 2.1 Wednesday Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Ghandi Read Act 2.2-4 Complete worksheet from Act 1 &2 Thursday I fear the day when technology will surpass our human interaction.The world will have a generation of idiots. Albert Einstein Quotes Due Write down 15 lines of memorization due March 8. Friday No Quote Sword Fighting February 11-15 (week 5) Monday Quotes: write a 3-line response every day. Rule of the week: Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Quote:Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. LeVar Burton Reading Contracts Parent Contact----Conferences TONIGHT 4-7 p.m. Tuesday Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein Read Romeo and Juliet 1.3-4 Wednesday Any parting could be forever, and we don't know. Stephen King Elizabethan dancing Thursday No Quote Mask Making--bring supplies to make a mask in class. Friday No Quote Acting 1.5 Dance, Act, Wear masks February 11-15 Monday Quotes: (Week 5) write a 3-line response every day. Rule of the week: Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Quote:Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. LeVar Burton Sonnets--rewrite for Wednesday (type in Word or Docs and send) Parent Contact----Conferences TONIGHT 4-7 p.m. Tuesday Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein Read Romeo and Juliet 1.1-2 Read 1. 3-4 HOMEWORK---Use Swipespeare app for easy translation Wednesday Elizabethan dancing Thursday Mask Making--bring supplies to make a mask in class. Friday Acting 1.5 Dance, Act, Wear masks February 3-8 Monday-Wednesday Romeo and Juliet: the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Fill out worksheet during movie. Thursday Shakespeare's Dentist Friday Shakespearean Sonnets--due Monday January 28-February 1 HELPFUL HINT: DOWNLOAD THE APP: SWIPESPEARE. You can see the original and modern version of R&J with a swipe of a finger. Monday Journal rules--Copy the entry into your notebook (2 lines). Underline it. Write a 3-line response to the quote. It can be what you think the quote means, how the quote makes you feel or what the quote reminds you of. Journal:Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain Shakespeare background---see Prezi below Tuesday Journal: Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might be the best day of your life. You just gotta get there. Shakespearean Insults Wednesday Journal: The tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut that held its ground. Shakespearean Insults Thursday Journal: One person's craziness is another person's reality. Tim Burton Insult Finals / Romeo and Juliet 1.1 Friday: Journal: Any parting could be forever, and we don't know it. Stephen King Shakespearean Sonnets--assignment due Friday, Feb. 8 |
Click here for Greek word Pre-testClick here for instructions for the Odyssey ProjectMap of the Underworld click to go to linkDOLs
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January 21-25
Monday
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
Journal: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Suess
Literary Pre-Test and Notes
Wednesday
Journal:"Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude." Jesse Jackson
Literary Term Notes (see PowerPoint below) / Worksheet
Thursday
Journal: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Literary Devices in Song
Friday
Journal: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo ONE FULL PAGE OF WRITING DUE TODAY.
Literary Devices
Monday
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
Journal: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Suess
Literary Pre-Test and Notes
Wednesday
Journal:"Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude." Jesse Jackson
Literary Term Notes (see PowerPoint below) / Worksheet
Thursday
Journal: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Literary Devices in Song
Friday
Journal: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo ONE FULL PAGE OF WRITING DUE TODAY.
Literary Devices
literary_terms.ppt |
January 14-18
Monday
Journal rules--Copy the entry into your notebook (2 lines). Underline it. Write a 3-line response to the quote. It can be what you think the quote means,
how the quote makes you feel or what the quote reminds you of. Do not skip any lines. At the end of the week, you should have 1 FULL page of writing to turn in.
Journal: If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
Biography Project finishing touches
Tuesday
Journal: Don't lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out. Unknown
Biography reports
Wednesday
Journal: Only as high as I reach can I grow. Only as far as I seek can I go.
Only as deep as I look can I see. Only as much as I dream can I be.
Biography Reports
Thursday
Journal: A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Biography Reports
Friday:
Journal: Don't write you name on sand, waves will wash it away.
Don't write your name in sky, wind may blow it away.
Write you name in hearts of people you come in touch with.
That's where it will stay.
Turn in journals for the week.
In groups, write a story including 5 literary devices.
January 7-11
Monday
Begin journals--Copy the entry into your notebook (2 lines). Underline it. Write a 3-line response to the quote. It can be what you think the quote means, how the quote makes you feel or what the quote reminds you of. Do not skip any lines. At the end of the week, you should have 1 FULL page of writing to turn in.
Journal: "Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are." Kurt Cobain.
Get a library book to read. 7 AR points due by 3/15, 15 due by end of the semester.
Discuss Biography assignment due Monday, January 14.
Tuesday
Journal: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Analyzing a website. Read the following article: http://goo.gl/9oQHI
Wednesday
Journal: "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." Jonathan Winters
How to write a bibliography and Work Cited page.
Thursday
Journal: "Stop Wishing. Start doing."
Work on biography project
Friday
Journal: "You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Wayne Gretsky
Work on biography project
Monday
Journal rules--Copy the entry into your notebook (2 lines). Underline it. Write a 3-line response to the quote. It can be what you think the quote means,
how the quote makes you feel or what the quote reminds you of. Do not skip any lines. At the end of the week, you should have 1 FULL page of writing to turn in.
Journal: If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
Biography Project finishing touches
Tuesday
Journal: Don't lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out. Unknown
Biography reports
Wednesday
Journal: Only as high as I reach can I grow. Only as far as I seek can I go.
Only as deep as I look can I see. Only as much as I dream can I be.
Biography Reports
Thursday
Journal: A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Biography Reports
Friday:
Journal: Don't write you name on sand, waves will wash it away.
Don't write your name in sky, wind may blow it away.
Write you name in hearts of people you come in touch with.
That's where it will stay.
Turn in journals for the week.
In groups, write a story including 5 literary devices.
January 7-11
Monday
Begin journals--Copy the entry into your notebook (2 lines). Underline it. Write a 3-line response to the quote. It can be what you think the quote means, how the quote makes you feel or what the quote reminds you of. Do not skip any lines. At the end of the week, you should have 1 FULL page of writing to turn in.
Journal: "Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are." Kurt Cobain.
Get a library book to read. 7 AR points due by 3/15, 15 due by end of the semester.
Discuss Biography assignment due Monday, January 14.
Tuesday
Journal: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Analyzing a website. Read the following article: http://goo.gl/9oQHI
Wednesday
Journal: "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." Jonathan Winters
How to write a bibliography and Work Cited page.
Thursday
Journal: "Stop Wishing. Start doing."
Work on biography project
Friday
Journal: "You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Wayne Gretsky
Work on biography project