Week #18 January 4-7, 2011

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: sentence structure and punctuation
Vocabulary: prostrate, interlude, reprieve, rations, dysentery, robust, quarantine, apathy, humane, grimace, nocturnal, livid, pious, interminable, wizened, morale, infernal, refuge, oppressive, and expelled

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT NOTES - due every Thursday
- Click on the link below and view the video on the Holocaust, and then leave a comment. Due Friday, Jan. 7.
http://nterrycloth-march.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-memoriam-holocaust.html

NOTE: The video segment above is not in full recording. I will show the rest of the segments tomorrow in class. Do not worry. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Activities
Monday
Teacher preparation day

Tuesday
1. Discuss course outline.
2. Distribute Glossary of Terms and list of vocabulary words in Night. Read and discuss.
3. Review blog resource and vocabulary format.
4. View part of the Discovery World War II videos.

Wednesday
1. Distribute "Frequently asked Questions about the Holocaust" and remind students of the homework online due Friday (online).
2. Continue viewing the videos and take the viewing check.

Thursday
1. Check vocabulary notebook.
2. Assign a copy of Night to each student, receive a set of reading guide questions, and begin reading.

Friday
1. Continue reading.

Week #17 Dec. 13-17, 2010

FINAL EXAM WEEK

Monday
REVIEW

Tuesday, December 14
8:00am
2nd Period Final Exam
10:30am
5th Period Final Exam

Wednesday, December 15
8:00am
3rd Period Final Exam
10:30am
7th Period Final Exam

Thursday, December 16
8:00am
4th Period Final Exam
10:30am
6th Period Final Exam

Friday, December 17
8:00am
1st Period Final Exam

Week #16 Dec. 6-10, 2010

Literature: Antigone by Sophocles
Grammar: Review - parts of speech, punctuation, writing styles
Vocabulary: Review all 50 words on the list (included in the review packet)

Homework:
- Complete all zeros

Acitivities:
Monday
Final Exam essay
Receive review packet

Tuesday
MOYA

Wednesday
Unit Test on Antigone

Thursday/Friday
Review for final exam.

Week #15 Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2010

Literature: Antigone by Sophocles
Grammar: Writing Style
Vocabulary: SAT words - auspicious, austere, avarice, averse, baleful, benediction, benevolent, benign, bequeath, blight, cajole, capacious, capitulate, and capricious

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT sentences- due on Thursday
- Vocabulary SAt notes from last week - due Monday, Nov. 29

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #!! - Vocabulary quiz
2. Go over the quiz before going back to reading the selection.

Tuesday
1. Go over the "old" assignment - writing style.
2. Continue reading and prepare for a reading check.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
1. Continue reading and annotating Antigone.
2. Complete guide questions.
3. Work on a vocabulary puzzle.

Antigone by Sophocles

Soundtrack for Antigone by Sophocles

Week #14 Nov. 22-23, 2010

Literature: Antigone by Sophocles
Grammar: Writing Style
Vocabulary: anarchist, auspicious, contempt, defile, impassively, insolence, lamentation, perverse, reverence, sate, sententiously, transgress

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAt words - due every Thursday - will be due on Monday after the holiday

Activities
Monday
1. Benchmark test
2. Quiz #10 - Last week's academic vocabulary

Tuesday
1. Go over Grammar and style activity.
2. Continue to read Antigone.

Week #13 Nov. 15-19, 2010

Literature: Antigone by Sophocles
Grammar: editing, proofreading, and revision (vary sentence stucture)
Academic Vocabulary: drama, emerge, encounter, globe, underlie, adjacent, collapse, fluctuate, inevitable, scenario / SAT vocabulary: ascetic, asperity, assail, assiduous

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Peer review online at http://www.turnitin.com/ - due 11/22
- Language Handbook, pp. 99-100 - due 11/16
- Web quest - History of Greek Theater at http://www.krucli.com/greek_drama_notes.htm#GREEK%20HISTORY
due 11/17

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #8 SAT vocabulary/ commonly confused words
2. Read about the history of classical Greek drama in the textbook.
3. Period 4 will finish the tail-end of Of Mice and Men film.

Tuesday
1. Go over Greek Drama history, p. 1064 in the Literature book.
2. Work on an editing, proofreading, and revision exercise - Grammar and Style, p. 30
3. Read a summary of Antigone and view a pre-reading film.

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
1. Go over the webquest. Read Antigone. Use a set of study questions to understand the drama.
2. Discuss questions in interval while reading.

Week 12 Nov. 8-12, 2010

Literature: Of Mice and Men (video adaptation)
Grammar: Language Handbook pages - commonly confused words
Vocabulary: SAT words: acrimony, adamant, adroit, advocate, affable, ambiguous, ambivalence, ameliorate, amity, amorphous, antithesis, apathy, apex, appease, arbitrary

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Of Mice and Men essay- due Nov. 13, 2010 in http://www.turnitin.com/.

Activities
Monday
1. Benchmark Test.
2. Continue viewing the film.

Tuesday
1. Go over grammar pages.
2. Go over essay mechanics.

Wednesday
1. The writing process.
2. Take notes using the hexagonal model.
3. Write the introduction and first 2 paragraphs.

Thursday
1. Write the last next 3 paragraphs.
2. Peer review/teacher.

Friday
1. Write the conclusion.
2. Write the whole paper due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on Saturday, Nov. 13.

Week 11 Nov. 1-5, 2010

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grammar: S/V Agreement, Parts of a Sentence, Prepositional Phrase
Vocabulary: Chapter 6 words

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday

Activities
Monday
1. Unit Test
2. Go over Language Handbook pp. 9-11.

Tuesday
1. Go over Language Handbook pp. 111-119
2. Review parts of a sentence/prepositional phrases. Work on an exercise.

Wednesday/Thursday
1. View the film Of Mice and Men.
2. Answer a set of viewing questions while watching the film.

Friday
1. Brainstorm ideas for a writing prompt.
2. Create an outline using a pre-writing hexagonal diagram.

Week 10 Oct. 25-29, 2010

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grammar: Italics, Common Usage Errors, Parts of Speech, S/V Agreement, Punctuations
Vocabulary: Chapters 4 and 5

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - every Thursday
- Language Handbook pp. 9-11 - due Oct. 28 (After Stanford)
- Language Handbook pp. 11-119 - due Oct. 29 (After Stanford)

Activities:
Monday
1. Quiz #7 Vocab for Chapter 3/Chapter 3
2. Go over Common Usage Errors.

Tuesday and Wednesday
1. Stanford
2. Continue reading and annotating the novel.

Thursday
1. Go over Language Handbook exrecises on pages 9-11.
2. Collect notebooks and continue reading and annotating the novel.

Friday
1. Go over Language Handbook exercises on pages 11-119.
2. Continue reading the novel.

Week 9 Oct. 18-22, 2010

Topics:
Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grammar: Parts of speech
Vocabulary: Chapter 2 and 3

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Language Handbook, pp. 9-11 - two (2) items per exercise due daily/ ALL pages due Oct. 28 after Stanford and pp. 111-119 due Oct. 29

Activities:
Monday
1. Quiz #6 vocab and chapter 1
2. Continue reading the novel.

Tuesday
1. Review Homonym and Homophones. (R71)
2. Make subjects and Verbs agree (R65)
3. Work on pages 9-11 in the Language Handbook.

Wednesday
1. Continue reading the novel.
2. Complete focus questions.

Thursday
1. Continue reading novel.
2. Work on an exercise on homonyms and homophones.

Friday
1. Quote imagery in the novel and put together phrases to create a story. Use 5 of the 12 vocabulary words on the list this week. Group work.

Week 8 Oct. 11-15, 2010

Topics:
Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grammar: Parts of a Sentence, preposition
Vocabulary: Chapter 2 and 3 list: apprehensive, barley, contorted, derogatory, skeptically, swamper, bemused, cowering, derision, receptive, reprehensible, and scuttled.

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Tuesday

Activities:
Monday
1. PSAT practice #2
2. Review Greek and Latin roots, prefix and suffix.

Tuesday
Review parts of a sentence and practice idetifying them in sentences.

Wednesday
1. PSAT
2. Continue reading OFMM.

Thursday
1. Go over chapter 1 focus questions. Quiz # 5 - Chapter 1 and vocabulary.
2. Continue reading OFMM.
3. Identify the root word, prefix or suffix of each word in chapter 2 vocab words.

Friday
1. Continue reading OFMM.
2. Answer questions in the study guide.

About the Great Depression and The Migrant Experience

Go to the following links and read the articles below:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html

Week 7 Oct. 4-8, 2010

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grammar:
Vocabulary: bindle, imperiously, juncture, lumbered, morosely, and yammered.

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Final draft - Wednesday

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #4 - "Searching for Summer" by Joan Aiken
2. Answer the anticipation/reaction guide to Of Mice and Men.

Tuesday
1. Learn literary terms associated with the novel.
2. Copy and take note of the vocabulary words this week.
3. Read John Steinbeck's biography.

Wednesday
1. Read about the Great Depression.
2. Discuss effects of the era on American economy.
3. Literary analysis final draft due today.

Thursday
1. Read the first three chapters of Of Mice and Men.
2. Answer guide questions and discuss.

Friday
1. Receive graded rough draft. Write final draft for homework.
2. Work on Worksheet 1 of Unit 2 in the Language Handbook - Making Subjects and Verbs Agree, pp. 9-10.

OUTLINE FOR REVIEW for SCIENCE FICTION UNIT TEST

I. Plot, characters, details
- "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
II. Elements of Science Fiction
- Extrapolation
- Catastrophe
- Technology
- Futurition
III. Literary Terms
- Dynamic Character
- Static Character
- Round Character
- Flat Character
- Tone
- Mood
- Foreshadowing
- Theme
- Figurative Language : simile, metaphor, personification
- Plot elements - exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
- Imagery
- Situational irony
- Verbal irony
- Symbolism
IV. Ray Bradbury

Week 6 Sept 27- Oct 1, 2010

Topic:
Literature: "Searching for Summer" by Joan Aiken
Writing: Literary Analysis
- Write the rough draft.
- Write the final draft.
- Grammar and mechanics
Vocabulary: commiserate, disengage, indomitable, rudimentary, savoring, unavailing, voluble, and wizened

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- "Searching for Summer" study guide - due Wednesday, Sept. 29, after reading
- Grammar - Language Handbook exercise - due Friday, Oct 1
- CASPAR chart - due on Thursday, Sept. 30 if it was not finished on Wednesday, Sept. 29

Activities
Monday
Science Fiction Unit test

Tuesday
1. Work on an activity in your Grammar Hanbook Language Exercise, Worksheet 8.
2. Write the literary analysis rough draft if you are not finished with it.

Wednesday
1. Read "Searching for Summer" and answer guide questions.
2. Create a CASPAR chart.

Thursday
1. Go over the vocabulary in context.
2. Work on Vocabulary study, practice, and strategy.

Friday
1. Write the literary analysis final draft.
2. Study for next week's quiz.

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Week 5 Sept 20-24, 2010

Topics:
Literature: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (Unit 3: Narrative Devices)
Writing: Literary Analysis
- pre-writing
- introduction
- body
- conclusion
Vocabulary: manipulate, oblivious, paranoia, silhouette, sublime, tremulous

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT Format - due: every Thursday
- Essay outline - due at the end of class on Sept. 20
- Essay rough draft - due - Sept 21 - postponed
- Essay final draft - due - Sept 24 - postponed
- PSAT MOCK test on Sept 25

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #3 - Figurative Language/ "A Sound of Thunder"
2. Complete essay outline.

Tuesday
1. PSAT practice test.
2. Look at question stems in PSAT.
3. Go over the grammar worksheets submitted last week.

Wednesday
1. Discuss the BIG QUESTION: Is technology taking over?
Read about the author.
2. Read and annotate "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.

Thursday
1. Write rough draft and edit and proofread. - postponed
Watch the "Ray Bradbury" video documentary and take notes.
2. Work on Vocabulary study, practice, and strategy. - postponed

Friday
1. Write the final draft. - postponed
Work on Vocabulary study, practice, and strategy and complete short story study guide.

Week 4 Sept. 13-16, 2010

Topic:
Writing: Literary Analysis
- pre-writing
- introduction
- body
- conclusion

Homework:- Grammar packet Worksheets 4, 5, and 6 - Due: Sept. 14
- Analyzing figurative language - Due: Sept. 15

Activities:
Monday
1. Quiz #2 "A Sound of Thunder" and vocabulary
2. Discuss quiz.
3. Receive literary analysis packet and go over the mechanics.
4. Beainstorm ideas for the literary analysis.

Tuesday
1. Go over Grammar worksheets 4, 5, and 6.
2. Practice on more grammar exercises.
3. Pre-write essay and develop the thesis statement and introduction.

Wednesday
1. Continue writing the literary analysis essay.
2. Use context vocabulary or academic words in the essay.
3. Develop the body and conclusion.

Thursday
1. Edit and proofread introduction and body.
2. Write the conclusion of the literary essay.

3rd Week Sept 7-10, 2010

Topics:
Literatute: "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
Grammar: Sentence fragments, parts of speech
Vocabulary: annihiliate, correlate, expendable, infinitesimally, malfunctioning, paradox, resilient, stagnating, subliminal, and undulate

Homework:
- Vocabulary notebook - every Thursday
- Grammar packet - due Tuesday (in class work)
- Study questions - due Wednesday (in class)
- Foreshadowing activity - due Thursday (in class)

Activities
MondayHOLIDAY

Tuesday
1. Quiz #1 "Harrison Bergeron" and vocabulary
2. Grammar packet - worksheets 4 and 5.

Wednesday
1. Read and annotate "A Sound of Thunder."
2. Answer study questions while reading.

Thursday
1. Work on foreshadowing activity.
2. Discuss activities.

Friday
Edit and proofread essay and write the 3rd and final draft.

2nd Week Aug 30 - Sept 3, 2010

Topics:
Literature: "Harrison Bergergon" by Richard Connell
Grammar and Writing: adjectives
Academic Vocabulary: plot, character, setting, conflict, and theme

Homework:
- Vocabulary - due every Thursday
- Grammar Practice packet - due: Aug 31 - Tuesday

Daily Activities
Monday
1. Summer reading test
2. Continue reading "Harrison Bergeron" and write annotations in the notes tab of binder. Binder check this week.

Tuesday
1. Grammar activity check: worksheet #s 1 and 2.
2. Discuss answers.
3. Identify precise adjectives in the short story "Harrison Bergeron." List ten precise adjectives with page numbers in the notes section of your binder. Label it PRECISE ADJECTIVES from "Harrison Bergeron."

Wednesday
1. Answer questions on page 45 and 46.
2. Discuss answers after the activity.

Thursday
1. Collect composition notebook.
2. Work on Vocabulary Study and Practice sheets.

Friday
1. Edit and proofread essay. Identify or add precise adjectives. Underline or highlight those adjectives.
2. Receive literary analysis pre-writing chart, rubric, and sample.

1st Week August 23-27, 2010

M - Announce Summer Reading
Assignment Reminder and introduce vocabulary format.

T – Assign Vocabulary Words for short story (“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Summer reading test - August 30

W – Grammar – Review Parts of Speech
- Find examples of each part of speech on page 38.
- Look for examples of precise adjectives all throughout the story.
Language Handbook - Diagnostic - TBA

Th – Begin the short story unit
- Read (“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (p. 38 and annotate for SIFT in the IR (if available). Answer questions on p. 45.

F – Writing assignment - Discuss the quotation: “You don’t know me. Just for example, you think I’m upstairs in my room doing homework” (Klass 1)- If you have or have not read the book, what do you think of the character who said this line? Write a one page description of what you think of this character. (15)
- Pre write a draft or outline.

Bellaire HS 2010 Summer Reading

Click on the link below or paste on your browser to access 2010 summer reading assignments:

http://www.bellaire.org/Summer10.php


Happy reading!

Have a GREAT SUMMER VACATION!

Be safe and have fun...loads of fun! See ya'll next school year...not in my classroom, but in the hallway. 8=)

Here's a link to teacher tube where you'll find what you have worked so hard on this last few weeks before the final exam: http://www.teachertube.com/viewProfile.php?user=Nscots8&ref=Nscots8

36th Week May 17-21, 2010

Our week will begin with the final exam essay on Monday. I will give your unit test on Julius Caesar on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we will have the video presentation of your adpoted reality show based on Julius Caesar characters. Then for the rest of the week, we will review for the final exam. If we can insert in the schedule viewing of the Julius Caesar film, we will have it.

Don't forget to prepare your final exam review packet. 8=)

35th Week May 10-114, 2010

This week, we start off with your group work. Continue planning your "Adopt a Reality Show Project." Since we lost one day last Friday, you will write your script with your group members, or you may already have it and practice speaking the lines today. ON Tuesday, we will go out into the courtyard and you will act out your lines and video tape the reality show. Hopefully by Wednesday, we have videos we can show in class or we may use the day for video taping. Thursday will definitely a showing day. Then on Friday, I will give you a review on JC so that you can prepare for the UNIT Test on Tuesday next week. On Monday, May 17, I will give you your final exam essay.

34th week May 3-7, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #34 Week #34
May 3-7, 2010

Selection: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Homework:
Act V words – cross, exigent, parley, reveler, consorted, disconsolate, pit, smatch
Act IV study guide – due this week

Activities
Monday will be our regular quiz day covering the vocabulary last week. I might throw in a few questions on Act IV. Then we will finish Act V.
Tuesday will be study questions day. You will finish all questions and then we will have a discussion of the answers.
Wednesday will be group day. You will talk to your group members what and how to do the project assigned to you. You will give me the reality show you are adopting for this project today.
Thursday will be planning day again where you will flesh out your plans and start writing your script for your skit. You will decide whether to video tape the skit or present it live in class. You will practice with your group. If the weather is nice, we will go out to the courtyard and you can practice your roles with your group.
Friday will be practice day. You will turn in a copy of the script to me today.

Prepare for a unit test on Friday, May 15, of next week.

33rd Week April 26-30, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #33 Week #33
April 26-30, 2010

Selection:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Homework:
Act IV vocabulary: proscription, perils, hollow, charges, choler, waspish, vaunting, covetous, rote, vilely
Act IV study guide – due this week

Activities
Monday
Today is quiz day (#15) covering Act III vocabulary and scenes. There will be literary terms/strategies questions.
Tuesday
TAKS
Continue reading.
Wednesday
TAKS
Continue reading.
Thursday
TAKS
Continue reading.
Friday
TAKS
Continue reading.

32nd Week April 19-23, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #32 Week #32
April 19-23, 2010

Selection:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Homework:
Act III vocabulary: puissant, couching, fond, cur, apprehensive, bootless, knot, group, rank, modesty, oration
Act III study guide – due this week

Activities
Monday
Study Act II and the vocabulary words. I will give a quiz covering these topics today. After the quiz, we will discuss the answers and continue reading Act III.
Tuesday
We will continue reading Act III and answer and discuss the study questions.
Wednesday
Today we read Act IV if Act III is already finished.
Thursday
We will continue reading and answering the study questions.
Friday
We will discuss and review for the quiz on Monday.

31st Week April 12-16, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #31 Week #31
April 12-16, 2010

Selection:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Homework:
Act I Scene II vocabulary : barren, press, throng, countenance, cogitations, accoutred, rabblement, repute, rogues, mettle

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #13 Shakespeare's era timeline/ vocabulary/ Act II Scene 2
2. Continue reading, Act I scene II.

Tuesday
1. Read all of Act II and work on study guide questions.

Wednesday
1. Read all of Act III and work on study guide questions.

Thursday
1. Discuss Act III.
2. Discuss syntax in JC. Work on an activity with a group.

Friday
Group presentation.

30th Week April 5-9, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #30 Week #30
April 5-9, 2010

Selection:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Homework:
Define rhetorical devices: repetition, parallelism, rhetorical questions. Due Thursday
Act I Scene II vocabulary

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #12 based on literary terms, Act I Scene I vocabulary, and Act I Scene I.
2. Continue reading, Act I scene II.

Tuesday
1. Read Act I Scene II and III.
2. Answer and discuss study guide questions.

Wednesday
1. Read Act I Scene IV.
2. Answer and discuss study questions.
PLC Early release

Thursday
1. Read Act I Scene V.
2. Answer and discuss study questions.

Friday
1. Read Act II Scene I.
2. Answer and discuss study questions.

Prepare for a quiz on Monday.

PROJECT SHAKESPEARE

English IIB
PROJECT SHAKESPEARE
Due: April 9, 2010

1. Class is divided in five (5) groups.
2. Read about William Shakespeare’s world on pp. 683-685 of the Language of Literature textbook and pp. 8-14 of Shakespeare Made Easy: Julius Caesar.
3. All information should be typed on white or colored paper. Choose your own font size and style.
4. Information should include the following:
a. Timeline – Shakespeare life and times
b. Facts – example: monarch, era, theater
c. Photos (in color)
d. List of plays according to COMEDY, TRAGEDY, and HISTORY (Include some photos for some of the plays.
5. The project should be presented in a poster board or as a diorama.

RUBRIC:
Relevance of information – 50 points
Creativity – 25 points
Neatness – 10 points
Group effort – 10 points
Promptness – 5 points

29th Week March 29-April 2, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #29 Week #29
March 29- April 2, 2010

Selection:
Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston (Quiz)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Homework:
Define Shakespearean Terms: Shakespearean drama, tragedy, tragic hero, blank verse, soliloquy, aside, and dramatic irony. Due Thursday
Define rhetorical devices: repetition, parallelism, rhetorical questions. Due Thursday

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #11 – FM #s 1-10/Farewell to Manzanar.
2. Work on definition of terms. LOL pp. 686-687.

Tuesday
1. Read “Shakespeare’s World” on pp. 683-685 in the LOL textbook.
2. Take notes.
3. Distribute copies of JC, study guide questions, and terms definition sheet.

Wednesday
1. Read background on JC on p. 689 of LOL.
2. Use foldable paper in two columns and list all characters’ names leaving two spaces in between names. As you read, take notes on important details about the character.
3. Start reading JC.

Thursday
1. Discuss terms defined.
2. Find examples as you go.

Friday
NO SCHOOL

28th Week March 22-26, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #28 Week #28
March 22-26, 2010

Selection: Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston

Homework:
Vocabulary #s 1-10 barracks, plank, swagger, ambush, quiver, scuttled, councilors, inevitable, designation, protest

Activities
On Monday, I will give a quiz. Please study autobiography, Executive Order 9066, Loyalty Oath, Nisei Regiment, Internment camp, Concentration camp, Patriarch, Shikata Ga Nai, Issei, Samurai, Inu, Nisei, and Oori. After the quiz, we will proceed to read the excerpt starting on page 602 of the Language of Literature.

On Tuesday, we will analyze tone of a passage and cite samples from the text of specific examples of tone.

On Wednesday, you will complete the Comparison and Contrast chart for Night and excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar. You will also answer guide questions.

On Thursday, we will go over the first three sets of guide questions. Then, you will work on vocabulary words.

On Friday, I will give a reading check for the excerpt. Then we will discuss the answers to the questions.

Prepare for Monday’s quiz.

27th Week March 8-12, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #27 Week #27
March 8-12, 2010

Selection: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages 89 until the end
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts


Homework:
Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Language of Literature textbook (LOL)

Activities
On Monday, I will give you a quiz on Night. Then we will discuss the questions and answers to the reading check once everyone is finished with the packet after the quiz.

On Tuesday, we will continue the discussion and maybe look at the background to Farewell to Manzanar in preparation to the reading that will follow and see similarities between Night and Manzanar.

On Wednesday, we will watch bits of the Elie Wiesel film. You will be asked to comment via an essay.

On Thursday and Friday, we will view another film (TBA/surprise). We will analyze similarities in the three selections: novel, excerpt, and film.

26th Week March 1-5, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #26 Week #26
March 1-5, 2010

Selection: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages 64-88
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework:
Prepare for reading TAKS, March 3
Vocabulary (Farewell to Manzanar)TBA

Activities
On Monday, we will go over your essays. Then, you will finish the revising and editing part of your TAKS packet. We will review grammar and mechannics, capitalization, and sentence construction. ON Tuesday, we will review imagery, voice, and details. I will give you time to practice. On Wednesday, you will take the reading TAKS test. After the test, we will go over Night guide questions. On Thursday, we will continue discussing the guide questions and I will give you a reading check based on the novel and study guide questions. We will then finish the Night reading check on Friday. I will give a long test on Night the following Monday if we finish discussion.

25th Week Feb 22-26, 2010

This week, we will continue with our TAKS lessons. Last week, we finished the literary part of the lesson. We will continue with expository and crossover as well as the writing and revising and editing part.

Make yourself familiar with ACE- ANSWER the question, provide text EVIDENCE to support your response, and provide a COMMENTARY in the form of an insightful or analytical overarching statement that binds makes a clear connection between the answer and support. After we finish all TAKS preparation, we will go back to Night and the study questions.

A vocabulary #s 51-60 quiz will be given on Monday, March 1. A test on Night and vocabulary will be given on Monday next week.

24th Week Feb 16-19, 2010

TAKS! TAKS! TAKS!!! TAKS is all we are doing this week. We'll start with the essay you wrote last time and have you write a new one with a different topic. Then we'll look at samples so you'll have an idea what each score looks like. We will look at samples of narratives with specific voice, theme, etc.
After we have exhausted everything you can learn for the essay writing, we'll look at the open ended response part of your practice TAKS.

23rd Week Feb. 8-12, 2010

Due to my absences last week, we will discuss all activities you accomplished then. On Monday, I will give you the regular vocabulary quiz and discuss the TAKS multiple choice answers. ON Tuesday and Wednesday, you will work on activities in the GUM book. ON Thursday, we will go over the open ended response questions and answers. On Friday, we'll go over Night study questions and answers.

22nd Week February 1-5, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #22 Week #22
February 1-5, 2010

Selection: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages 64-88
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

Vocabulary: Vocabulary #s 41-50

- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework:
Sentence homework #2 N #s 31-40

Grammar:
Review of the Parts of Speech and Parts of a sentence/ CLAUSE

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #4 – Vocabulary/ Chapters 1-4
2. Work on sentence assignment N#s 31-40

Tuesday
1. TAKS Practice (graded)
2. Discuss responses.

Wednesday
1. Analyze sample responses for OER and peer review each other’s responses.
2. Analyze sample essays. Score.

Thursday
1. Score essays and peer review.
2. Read Night pp. 64-88.

Friday
1. Review grammar concepts, cont.
2. Continue reading novel.

21st Week January 25-29, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #21 Week #21
January 25-29, 2010

Selection: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages 14-63
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

Vocabulary: Vocabulary #s 31-40

- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework:
Sentence homework #2 N #s 31-40

Grammar:
Review of the Parts of Speech and Parts of a sentence/ CLAUSE

Activities
Monday
1. No quiz until Thursday.
2. Review homophones and phonemes.
3. Discuss subject and predicate assignment.
4. Collect sentence homework from last week.

Tuesday
Stanford
1. Read novel.
2. Answer study guide questions.

Wednesday
Stanford
1. Read novel.
2. Answer study guide questions.

Thursday
1. Reading check on pages 14-63
2. Discuss study questions.

Friday
1. What is a CLAUSE?
2. Editing and proofreading #1.
Study for regular Monday quiz.

20th Week January 19-22

English IIB
Lesson Plan #20 Week #20
January 19-22, 2010

Topics: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages 14-38
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

Vocabulary: Vocabulary #s 21-30

- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework:
Lesson #2 Handout #6 – Scapegoats Due 1/19
Sentence homework #1N#s 21-30

Grammar:
Review of the Parts of Speech and Parts of a sentence

Activities
Monday
MLK Holiday

Tuesday
1. Vocabulary quiz #2 and Chapter 1.
2. Discuss the review on the parts of speech excerpt activity.
3. Discuss scapegoats.

Wednesday
1. Continue reading the novel.
2. Reading check after reading 15 minutes before the bell.
3. Distribute handout on the parts of a sentence.

Thursday
1. Work on vocabulary and collect assignment.
2. Review parts of a sentence.

Friday
1. Collect sentence homework.
2. Work on grammar exercise.

19th week January 11-15, 2 010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #19 Week #19
January 11-15, 2010

Topics: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages vii-13
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

Vocabulary: Vocabulary #s 11-20

- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework:
Finish activity on the excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright. – due Jan 11
Lesson #2 Handout #6 – Scapegoats

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #1 – Vocabulary #s 1-10 and Night terms. (Part I)
2. Quiz #1 – Open notes quiz on the background of the Holocaust (Part II)
3. Distribute supplement handout - Timeline of the Holocaust and copy of the book.

Tuesday
1. Discuss Black Boy assignment from last week.
2. Read pages vii – and discuss.

Wednesday
1. Work on vocabulary words.
2. Read pages – to – and discuss.

Thursday
1. Continue reading pages – to – and discuss.
2. Distribute Lesson #2 Handout #6 – Scapegoats for homework.

Friday
1. Review parts of speech. Read an excerpt from Night and answer questions pertaining to the parts of speech.
2. Discuss.

In Memoriam: The Holocaust

18th Week January 5-8, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #18 Week #18
January 5-8, 2010

Topics: Night by Elie Wiesel
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

Vocabulary:
Vocabulary #s 1-20 (handout)
Glossary of terms in Night
Jewish/Herbrew terms in Night

Close Reading:
- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework: View video on the blog at http://terrycloth-march.blogspot.com and write a comment on your viewing. DUE 1/8/2010


Activities
Tuesday
1. Distribute course outline.
2. Distribute GLOSSARY OF TERMS in Night. Discuss.
3. Pre-Reading: Work on Lesson #1 Activity on Stereotypes Handout #1. Discuss.

Wednesday
1. Distribute “Frequently Asked Questions about the Holocaust.”
2. Pre-Reading: Work on Lesson #1 Handout #2. Writing activity.

Thursday
1. Distribute vocabulary words.
2. Work on words using the SAT format.

Friday
1. Pre-Reading: Read excerpt from Black Boy, Lesson #2 Activity on Racism and Scapegoats Handout #4 with an excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright.
2. Work on Lesson #2 Handout #5 Limitations, Feelings, and Defences.