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.