May 21-23
Monday Finish Hero Essay Tuesday Semester Test Review Wednesday Semester Test 5 and 7 Thursday Semester Tests 4 and 6 May 13-17 Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday Simon Burch---see movie on home page Wednesday Simon Burch Assignment #1 due http://goo.gl/0KDAx Thursday Influence paper--see Assignments #2-3 on above link Friday The Necklace / The Sniper---Irony 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 Finish 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 Scarlet Ibis AR Points Due--10 April 29- May 3 Monday Greek word pre-test Tuesday Greek prefixes and suffixesWorksheet: http://goo.gl/fcvZc Wednesday Greek prefixes and suffixes Thursday Words from Greek PLAY DAY Friday Final Greek words test Use link at right to study 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 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 Greek Games Tuesday Review Greek Test Wednesday Greek Test Thursday An Odyssey Friday An Odyssey April 1-5 Monday Computer lab Greek flyers Tuesday Finish Greek flyers and presentation Wednesday Greek Mythology Reports Thursday Greek Mythology Reports Friday Greek Mythology Jeopardy March 25-29 Monday DOL #1 Write each one wrong, then right Greek References in Modern Times Tuesday DOL #2 Greek References Presentations--Students as Teachers The Greek Gods 1 or 4 video (see right) and worksheet Wednesday DOL #3 Beginning of the Greek gods and goddesss http://goo.gl/ab1zu Parts of Underworld http://goo.gl/lr9MY Thursday DOL #4 Greek Projects--Research Friday DOL #5 Work in computer lab--Research March 18-22 Spring Break March 11-15 (week 9) Monday Shakespeare's Words Tuesday Shakespeare Review Wednesday Benchmarks Thursday Exam Friday NO SCHOOL--PLC Day for Teachers March 4-8 (week 8)Monday Write memorization twice Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Tuesday Write memorization twice Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Wednesday Write memorization twice Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Thursday Write memorization twice--due 8 times Finish Romeo and Juliet Worksheet Act 5 Friday Romeo and Juliet Timeline 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 Act 3.1 Acting Thursday Act 3 Work on memorization Friday Response to teaching video "What's in a name?" Finish Act 3 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. SEE LIST OF MEMORIZATION CHOICES ON RIGHT 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 3-8 (week 4.5) Monday-Wednesday Romeo and Juliet: the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Fill out worksheet during movie. Thursday Shakespeare's Dentist Friday Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
January 28-February 1 (week 4)
HELPFUL HINT: IF POSSIBLE, 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. Do not skip any lines. At the end of the week, you should have 1 FULL page of writing to turn in. 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 Reading Log Living Iambic Pentameter (see YouTube video below for extra lesson) 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. Romeo and Juliet 1.1 Thursday Journal: One person's craziness is another person's reality. Tim Burton Acting Romeo and Juliet 1.1 Friday: Journal: Any parting could be forever, and we don't know it. Stephen King Turn in journals for the week. Wrap up 1.1 of Romeo and Juliet |
Click here to take the Greek Word Pre-testClick here for Our Odyssey Project instructionsDOLs
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romeo_and_juliet_memorization.docx |
January 21-25 (week 3)
Monday
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
Journal: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Suess
Literary Term Final Test
Wednesday
Journal:"Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude." Jesse Jackson
Shakespeare Prezi. See file below.
Thursday
Journal: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Shakespeare
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.
Romeo and Juliet
Monday
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
Journal: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Suess
Literary Term Final Test
Wednesday
Journal:"Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude." Jesse Jackson
Shakespeare Prezi. See file below.
Thursday
Journal: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Shakespeare
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.
Romeo and Juliet
January 14-18 (week 2)
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.
Fill out a Reading Log for the book you are reading. Remember 5 AR points due by March 15.
Tuesday
Journal: Don't lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out. Unknown
Finding literary devices in songs
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.
Literary Term Worksheet
Thursday
Journal: A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Literary Terms worksheet
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 (week 1)
Bonus for this week: Follow "Carlisle Clan at CHS" on Twitter or like on Facebook--10 pts.
Bring a box of tissue--10 pts.
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. 5 AR points due by 3/15, 10 due by end of the semester.
Tuesday
Journal: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literary Term Notes from PowerPoint
Wednesday
Journal: "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." Jonathan Winters
Literary Term Notes from PowerPoint. See file below
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Thursday
Journal: "Stop Wishing. Start doing."
Literary Terms in Beatles Songs--worksheet. See file below.
Friday
Journal: "You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Wayne Gretsky ONE FULL PAGE OF WRITING DUE TODAY.
Computer Lab: Finding literary terms in popular songs. See file below.
literary_terms.ppt |
literary_terms_beatles_worksheet.pdf |
lit_terms_in_songs_one_song.indd |