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.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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.
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.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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.
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.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
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.
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.
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