Week #16 December 12-16, 2011

Final Exam Week

Monday
Review for final exam.

Tuesday
2nd and 5th period

Wednesday
3rd and 7th period

Thursday
4 and 6th period

Friday
1st and 8th period

Week #15 December 5-9, 2011

Literature: Sophocles' Antigone

Writing: Short answers

Homework:
REVIEW for final exam.

Activities
Monday- Friday
Continue reading and annotating Antigone.
Review for final exam.

Week #14 November 28-December 2, 2011

Literature: Sophocles' Antigone
Writing: Final exam essay.

Homework:
- Prepare for final exam.
- Prepare for a notebook check on Nov. 28, Monday. Notes should include Greek theater history. 
- No new vocabulary will be given this week. This week will be a reading week. 

Actvities:
Monday
1. Take a notebook quiz on Classical Greek Drama.

Tuesday
2. Discuss the final exam essay. Brainstorm ideas. Wednesday

3. Write the final exam essay.


4. Discuss classical Greek drama.
5. Read Antigone summary. Discuss the thematic ideas.

Thursday
6. Read Antigone.
7. Answer study guide questions, and quote parts that has a specific thematic idea.

Friday.
8. Continue reading Antigone.

Week #13 November 21-22, 2011

Literature: Sophocles' Antigone BACKGROUND to Greek Classical Drama
Writing: Final rough draft for OMM literary analysis
Vocabulary: No vocabulary

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Tuesday

Activities
Monday
1. Finalize final rough draft for OMM literary analysis.
2. Go over GUM pages.

Tuesday
Read and take notes on background to classical Greek drama.

An Antigone video clip

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v6500520enmWbc7f?h1=Antigone

Week #13 Nov. 14-18, 2011

Literature: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Writing: Literary analysis - The Issue of Loneliness and Isolation
Vocabulary: skitter, gingham, retort, belligerent, monotonous

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - Due every Tuesday
- Study for the unit test

Activities
Monday
1. Finish viewing the OMM film. Answer and discuss the viewing guide.
2. Prepare for the unit test.

Tuesday
1. Take the unit test. Discuss test after students finish, if there's enough time left during class.
2. Write a draft for the literary analysis based on graded outlines.

Wednesday
1. Edit and proofread rough draft.
2. Write a final draft.

Thursday
1. Work on an editing and proofreading grammar assignment.
2. Discuss.

Friday
1. Prepare for Antigone.
2. Watch a video on TRAGEDY. (United Streaming)

Week #12 November 7-11, 2011

Literarture: John Steinbeck's Of MIce and Men
Writing: Literary analysis essay
Vocabulary: mottled, poised, hame, fawn, disarming, sullen, contemptuous, indignation, avert, appraise, crestfallen, wisp, writhe, lance, scud

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due on Tuesday
- Prepare for the unit test. - TBA

Activities
Monday
1. Take Test #11 (skinner to euchre) and the novel.
2. Write outline for essay.
3. View film if time allows.

Tuesday-Friday
1. Write an outline for a literary abalysis essay.
2. Write a rough draft for the literary analysis essay.
3. View a film, if time allows.

Week #11 Oct. 31- Nov. 4, 2011

Literature: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Vocabulary: skinner, grizzled mollify, pugnacious, handy, slough, flounce, plaintive, mourn, timid, bridle, gravity, complacent, rumple, euchre

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due every Tuesday

Activities:
Monday
1. Take a quiz on vocabulary words (beginning in "recumbent" to "bucker").
2. Contine reading and annotating novel.

Tuesday-Friday
1. Continue reading and annotating the novel.
2. Analyze themes in the novel.
3. View film.

Week #10 October 24-28, 2011

Literature: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Writing/Grammar: Write complete sentences.
Vocabulary: recumbent, tramp, stilted, drone, periscope, brusque, pantomime, dejected, litter, crafty, ticking, scoff, scourge, bristly, bucker


Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Tuesday
- Complete study questions - due daily


Activities
Monday
1. Take vocabulary quiz.
2. Continue reading and annotating passages in the novel OMM.


Tuesday-Friday
1. Continue reading and annotating passages in the novel OMM.
2. Locate examples of thematic ideas found in OMM: loneliness and isolation, family and friendship, racism and sexism, and the pursuit of the American dream. Other thematic ideas might come up during discussion.
3. Study vocabulary words by doing the SAT vocabulary notes.

Week #9 October 17-21, 2011

Literature: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Writing: Sentence variety with phrases
Vocabulary: Chapters 3 and 4 - bemused, cowering, derision, receptive, reprehensible, scuttled, aloof, appraised, brutally, crestfallen, disarming, indignation


Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due Monday


Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #9 Chapters 1 and 2 vocabulary.
2. Chapter reading check.


Tuesday
1. Go over chapter 1 and continue reading.
2. Find examples of figurative language.

Wednesday- Friday
1. Read and discuss chapters 2-4.
2. Work on focus questions while reading.
3. Locate thematic examples in context.

Week #8 October 10-14, 2011

Literature: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and "The Flood" Excerpt from Grapes of Wrath
Vocabulary: Chapters 1 and 2 - bindle, imperiously, juncture, lumbered, morosely, yammered, apprehensive, barley, contorted, derogatory, skeptically, swamper

Homework:
- SAT Vocabulary notes - Due: weekly every Tuesday
- "The Great Depression" and "The Migrant Experience"

Activities
Monday
1. Take quiz #7 on TP words and academic words, and open notebook test on "The Great Depression" and "The Migrant Experience.
2. Complete questionnaire on "The Flood," an excerpt from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Tuesday
1. Review/practice for PSAT.
2. Go over "The Great Depression" and "Migrant Experience" HW that was used on the open notes test yesterday.
3. Finish "The Flood" questions, and discuss.

Wednesday
PSAT testing
1. Go over "The Great Depression" and "The Migrant Experience HW. Discussion continued from the previous day.
2. Discuss "Flood" questions.

Thursday
1. Receive Of Mice and Men chapter 1 study questions.
2. Begin reading.

Friday
1. Work on vocabulary words in notebook. Use the dictionary in the classroom. Submit for grading when done. Discuss words.
2. Work on a crossword puzzle.

Week# 7 October 3-7, 2011

Literature: Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian" and later in the week, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Writing and Grammar: sentence writing with phrases
Vocabulary: TP words
 Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due every Tuesday
- The Great Depression/The Migrant Experience homework - Due Friday, 10/10

Activities:
Monday
1. Vocabulary test - covers words from "Searching for Summer" and "The Pedestrian."
2. Finish "Searching for Summer" guide, and submit.
3. Read "The Pedestrian."


Tuesday
1. Watch a video on Ray Bradbury.
2. Work on a viewing guide, and discuss the video.
3. Prepare for a literary terms and short story test.


Wednesday
Note: Finish the Ray Bradbury video.
1. Prepare for the short story unit test.
2. Prepare for Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Know John Steinbeck.

Thursday
1. Take the unit test.
2. Read "The Flood," an excerpt from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Friday
1. Discuss TD/TME homework.

 

Week # 6 September 26-30, 2011

Literature: Joan Aiken's "Searching for Summer" and Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian"
Writing and Grammar: Parts of a sentence and punctuation
Vocabulary: commiserate, disengage, indomitable, rudimentary, savoring, unavailing, voluble, wizened, revue, halt, ebb, murmur, antiseptic, regressive, tendencies

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes on "There Will Come Soft Rains" words - Due: Monday, 9/26

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 on "There Will Come Soft Rains" words.
2. Read Joan Aiken's "Searching for Summer."

Tuesday
1. Continue reading SS.
2. Annotate for plot elements, figurative language, and details.
3. Take a reading check.

Wednesday
1. Read Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian." Annotate for setting, plot, characters, theme, sensory details, simile, and repetition.
2. Work on guide questions.
3. View Ray Bradbury film.


Thursday
Holiday


Friday
Continue viewing and answer viewing guide. 

Week # 5 September 19-23, 2011

Literature: Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Writing: Process paper - ASOT Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: manipulate, oblivious, paranoia, silhouette, sublime, tremulous, shriveled, acrawl, radioactive, titanic, inconvenience, miniature, burrows, incinerator, yelping
Academic words: consequent, crucial, initial, shift, survive

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - Due: every week (any day, so prepare)

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #5 - ASOT additional words
2. Literary analysis - introduction

Tuesday
1. Discuss how technology might have taken over life? If it does, what will happen? What are some limitations of technology?
2. Read "There Will Come Soft Rains" and answer a study guide.
3. Analyze a literary element: chronology and personification.

Wednesday
1. Reading check.
2. Vocabulary practice.
3. Write body paragraphs for the literary analysis.

Thursday
1. Learn academic words and use at least one academic word from the list to write a paragraph describing the initial crisis and consequent problems when technology fails and causes widespread trouble.

Friday
1. View Ray Bradbury video.
2. Answer video guide.

Friday
1. Write the conclusion for the literary analysis.
2. Write the final draft after peer review.

Week #4 September 12-16, 2011

Literature: Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: aurora, revoke, primeval, taint, teeming, remit, graft, chaos, comparable, cavernous, pelvic, gauze, Butterfly Effect, sterilize, disproportion

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due: Monday, Sept. 12
- Literary Analysis Essay - due: TBA
- Direct and Indirect Characterization  - due: TBA

Activities:
Monday
1. Take Quiz #4 - "A Sound of Thunder" vocabulary quiz and "Harrison Bergeron" literary quiz.
2. Discuss "A Sound of Thunder" study questions.

Tuesday
1. Take "A Sound of Thunder" reading check.
2. Go over the reading check.
3. Work on direct and indirect analysis of characters in ASOT.

Wednesday
1. Warm- up: ASOT figurative language. Use Literary Glossary of Terms.
2. Discuss activity.
3. Write introduction for literary analysis essay. Peer review.

Thursday
1. Edit and proofread intro.
2. Write second and third body paragraphs.
3. Peer review.

Friday
1. Edit and proofread body and add a third.
2. Write the conclusion and edit and proofread rough draft.
3. Take home draft and write or type final draft. Follow a format.

Week #3 September 6-9, 2011

Literature: Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron" and Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: annihilate, correlate, expendable, infinitesimally, malfunctioning, paradox, resilient, stagnating, subliminal, and undulate 


Homework: 
- SAT vocab notes


Activities
Monday
Labor Day


Tuesday
1. Review Harrison Bergeron and vocabulary before taking the quiz.
2. Take Quiz #2. Discuss.
3. Work on a character study lesson and learn how to use quotes to describe characters.


Wednesday
1. Study an author. View a video on Ray Bradbury.
2. Discuss video.


Thursday
1. Read "Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder.
2. Discuss the story.


Friday
1. Analyze literary technique: foreshadowing in "A Sound of Thunder."
2. Begin writing.

Week #2 August 29-September 2, 2011

Literature: Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
Writing: Using Precise Adjectives
Vocabulary: calibrated, consternation, cower, hindrance, luminous, symmetry, synchronizing, vague, vigilance, wince, indomitable, omen, unavailing, voluble, withered


Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due: August 29, Monday
- Bio-poem - due: August 30, Tuesday
- Sentence homework - due: Sept. 1, Thursday


Activities
Monday
1. Take the novel and vocabulary test: David Klass' You Don't Know Me.
2. Review elements of fiction and plot from last week's "Red" sponge activity.
3. Receive new vocabulary handout.
4. Receive science fiction elements handout. 


Tuesday
1. Warm-up on vocabulary and collect finished bio-poems.
2. Respond to an anticipation prompt and write a 1/2 page response.
3. Begin reading Connell's "Harrison Bergeron" and use  the provided guide questions to further understanding of the story.


Wednesday
1. Warm-up on vocabulary.
2. Continue redaing the short story and annotate.

Thursday
1. Continue reading the short story and annotate.
2. Work on short story questions.

Friday
1. Continue work on the short story questions.
2. Discuss questions.

Week #1 August 22-26, 2011

Literature: Short Stories- science fiction
Writing: Character bio-poem
Vocabulary: Levitating (4), salient (16), ponderous (20), tundra (20), prowess (20), crescendo (21), portal (27), incremental (41), girth (46), mayhem (48), edification (48), emetic (51), heinous (55), eveiscerated (55), nostalgia (56)

Homework:
- Summer Reading - Prepare for a test on Aug. 29
- Composition notebook check: Aug. 25

Activities
Monday
1. First Day Procedures
2. Survey and writing.

Tuesday
1. Complete survey and writing.
2. Distribute vocabulary handout and SAT format.
3. Review parts of speech as a component of vocabulary notes.

Wednesday
1. Discuss 5 words from the list.
2. Write two bio-poems.
3. Create a poster of the bio-poems.

Thursday
1. Work on a crossword puzzle.
2. Discuss puzzle.
3. Continue writing bio-poems.

Friday
1. Work ona  sponge activity.
2. Discuss elements of fiction.

WELCOME S/Y 2011-12

Welcome!

This blog is a useful resource for both students and parents. Please utilize as needed. Communicate opinions and questions through the blog.

N. Terry 

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Summer Reading 2011

Here's a link to the 2011 Summer Assignments for all English class levels, art, Italian, and social studies.

http://www.bellaire.org/Summer11.php

The link is also available on the Bellaire High School website at www.bellaire.org.

Week #38 May 31- June 3, 2011

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE 2011

Tuesday
2nd and 5th

Wednesday
3rd and 7th

Thursday
4th and 6th

Friday
1st and 8th

GOOD LUCK on your tests, Folks!
Have a great vacation. 8=)

Week #37 May 23-27, 2011

Literature: All selections read this semester.
Grammar: All concepts focused on this semester.
Vocabulary: All words in the final exam review packet.

Homework:
- Study for final exam.

Activities
Monday-Wednesday
Group presentations of adopted reality show or commercial for Julius Caesar.
Continue review for final exam.

Thursday-Friday
Continue review for final exam.

Week #36 May 16-20, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: Revising and Editing, capitalization, punctuation, spelling
Vocabulary: NONE - Yey!!!

Homework:
 - Group presentations - Julius Caesar: Adopt a reality show or TV ad - due this week
- Scripts with blank verse and character analysis - due Monday

Activities;
Monday
1. Take the final exam essay.

Tuesday- Thursday
Work on group project and present.
Recieve final exam review packet.

Friday
Take Quiz #13 on rhetorical devices.

Note: Prepare for a Julius Caesar unit test next week.

Week #35 May 9-13, 2011

Literature: Wiliiam Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: Revising and Editing
Vocabulary: drama

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - Thursday
- A clipping or photocopy of an example of drama not Shakespearean  from a newspaper or magazine - due Friday

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #12 - vocabulary mace-smatch and rhetorical devices
2. Continue to view film and discuss study questions.

Tuesday- Friday
Continue to view film and discuss study questions.
Work on a revising and editing assignment.
Rehearse for Julius Caesar project: TV ad or TV relaity show.

Week # 34 May 2-6, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Grammar: Review PARTS of a SENTENCE until students learn them.
Vocabulary: academic words TBA

Homework:
•Vocabulary SAT notes with sentences - due Thursday

•PERSUASIVE ESSAY: The assassination of Julius Caesar is, or is not, a virtuous act. - due Monday, April 26 for conferencing, and due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on Friday, May 6.

•Study guide for Act IV - due Monday, May 2, 2011

Daily Activities
Monday

1. Work on SAT sentence completion for Julius Caesar Act I. Use a dictionary.
2. Work on correcting errors on sentences.
3. Finish essay 2nd draft.

Tuesday-Friday

1. Continue film viewing and discussing plot points in both film and book.
2. Continue reading, annotating, and discussing play.
3. Analyze rhetorical devices: repetition, parallelism, and rhetorical question. Analyze what is emphasized using each device.
4. Analyze soliloquies and asides; and explain what each one reveals about the speaker's intention.

Quiz on Monday

Week #33 April 25-9, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: Review PARTS of a SENTENCE until students learn them.
Vocabulary: Act IV mace Act V cross, exigent, parley, reveller, consorted, disconsolate, pit, smatch

Homework:

• Vocabulary SAT notes with sentences - due Thursday
• PERSUASIVE ESSAY: The assassination of Julius Caesar is, or is not, a virtuous act. - due Monday, April 26 for conferencing, and due on http://www.turnitin.com/ on Friday, May 3.
• Study guide for Act IV - due Monday, May 2, 2011

Daily Activities

Monday
Have an individual conference with me about the essay homework and write the 2nd draft in class.

Tuesday - Friday

• TAKS schedule
• Continue to read, annotate, and discuss the play.
• View film clips of Julius Caesar.

Week #32 April 18-21, 2011

Literature: William Shaksepeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: Identify parts of a sentence and use proper punctuation.
Vocabulary: Act IV hollow, charges, choler, waspish, vaunting, indirection, covetous, infirmity, rote, scope, vilely, cynic, offense, ripe, ommitted, niggard

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences with identified parts and use of proper punctuation - due every Friday

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #11 voc. puissant to forms/Act II. Discuss the quiz.
2. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss the Act III.

Tuesday-Thursday
1. Continue to read, annotate, and discuss the Act III and Act IV.
2. Write a thematic essay in class. Topic will be provided during class.

Week #31 April 11-15, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: Act III - puissant, couchings, cur, apprehensive, bootless, knot, rank, modesty, oration, censure, extenuate, reverence, mantle, rent,dint, vesture, forms

Homework:

- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due Friday - Use each word in a sentence that has a predicate adjective or predicate nominative. Identify all parts of the sentence.

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz # 10- augment-augurers/ Act I and Act II Scen 1
2. Discuss quiz.
3. Continue reading.

Tuesday-Thursday
Read and annotate Act III.

Friday
Early Dismissal
Work on a vocabulary crossword puzzle.

Week #30 April 4-8, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: Focus on parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: augment, whet, interim, phantasma, insurrection, visage, affability, semblance, prick, palter, cautelous, carrion, insuppressive, contriver, augurer

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due Friday - Use each word in a sentence that has a predicate adjective or predicate nominative. Identify all parts of the sentence.

Activity
Monday
1. Quiz #9 vocabulary: jealous to tempest.
2. Continue reading, annotating, and discussing play, questions, and answers.

Tuesday- Friday
Read, annotate, and discuss Julius Caesar.
Analyze grammar style used in the play.

Week #28 March 25-April 1, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Grammar: Focus on prepositional phrases.
Vocabulary: jealous, rout, indifferently, accoutered, sinew, bestried, chew, ferret, rabblement, swounded, doublet, rogues, infirmity, mettle, tempest

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes- due every Thursday
- Sentences with prepositional phrases - due Friday, April 1

Activities
Monday
1. Benchmark test. Discuss after test.
2. Continue reading.

Tuesday
1. Quiz #8 - vocabulary/Shakespearean background/Julius Caesar Scene 1 and 2
2. Continue reading.

Wednesday-Friday
1. Focus on prepositional phrases. Warm-up exercises.
2. Continue reading.

Week #28 March 21-25, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Shakespearean Theatre
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence (predicate nominative and adjective)
Vocabulary: cobbler, knave, beseech, cull, exulted, servile, barren, press, throng, gamesome, countenance, vexed, cogitations, lamented, shadow
Literary vocabulary: details, fig. language, quarto, folio, tragedy, tragic hero, iambic pentameter, Globe, blank verse, foil, soliloquy, and aside

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - Write sentences with predicate nominative and predicate adjective.

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #7 - additional voc ("Two Friends") and predicate nominative
2. Go over the quiz.
3. Read and annotate background on William Shakespeare.

Tuesday
1. Work on a Shakespeare background activity.
2. Review the elements of a Shakespearean Drama.

Wednesday
1. Read a summary of Julius Caesar, and start reading after discussing key important parts of the play.
2. Recieve a list of characters and study questions.

Thursday and Friday
Continue reading and discussing the play.

Week #27 March 7-11, 2011

Literature: "Two Friends" by Guy de Maupassant
Vocabulary: haberdasher, angler, famine, ablaze, lamented, absinthe, striding, superstitious, fuddled, gudgeon, cannonades, liveried
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence, verbals, sentences

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes format notebook - due every Thursday

Activities
Monday
1. Vocabulary quiz #6 and give the Night test.
2. Go over the quiz answers.
3. Discuss the question: What would you do for a friend?
4. Read and annotate "Two Friends" by Guy de Maupassant.

Tuesday
1. Take a reading check and discuss the short story.
2. Work on a Venn diagram. Topic TBA in class.
3. Analyze symbol in the story. (Literary Analysis)

Wednesday
1. Work on a grammar activity with a Night passage.
2. Review and discuss the parts of speech, verbals, and sentences.

Thursday
1. Work on a crossword puzzle.
2. Write a sentence for each word with a specific grammatical concept.

Friday
1. Work on a reading fluency and grammar style activity.
2. Discuss activities.

Week #26 Feb 28- March 4, 2011

Literature: "Two Friends" by Guy de Maupassant
Grammar: Revising and Editing, Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence, Sentence, Phrases, Fragment, Capitalization, and Punctuation
Vocabulary: See textbook for "Two Friends": afford, atrocity, dejected, eccentric, fanatical, pensive, rejuvenated, unperturbed

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due Thursday
- Crossword puzzle - due Friday, March 4

Activities
Monday
1. Review essay writing and scoring.
2. Go over revising and editing.

Tuesday
Take the TAKS test and in the afternoon, watch a film ("The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"), and then review for a test on Night.

Wednesday
Continue film viewing. Analyze parallels between film and Night.
Analyze parts of speech in an excerpt of Night.

Thursday
Read the short story "Two Friends" and discuss. Write sentences in a summary of the short story using the vocabulary words and include prepositional phrases.

Friday
Go over the assignment done on Thursday. Take a reading check on the short story.

Week #25 Feb 21-28, 2011

Lessons: Triplets, Revising and Editing, and Writing

Homework:
- Vocab SAT notes - due every Thursday - This week's vocab activity will be a crossword puzzle.
- Night test and film viweing will be indefinitely postponed until after all TAKS preparations are done.

Activities
Monday
1. Take the benchmark test and go over the answers. Identify examples of literary terms in the selection.
2. Write an outline for an essay using the hexagonal pre-writing format. Write the essay.

Tuesday
1. Finish writing the essay and rate accordingly.
2. Work on revising and editing.

Wednesday
1. Work on a revising and editing activity. Go over the answers.
2. Work on another TAKS triplet. Work on the OER questions.

Thursday - Friday
1. Rate OER questions.
2. POssible film viewing if ALL activities are finished.

Week #24 Feb 14-18, 2011

Literature: Literary and expository passage/ Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence, punctuation, verbal, writing
Vocabulary: literary terms - See Glossary of Terms

Homework:
- No vocabulary assignment this week - bring vocabulary notebook daily

Activities
Monday
1. Night Test - postponed indefintely.
2. Go over the answers if time allows.
3. Work on a grammar assignment using a Night passage.

Tuesday - Thursday
1. Continue working on a grammar packet using a Night passage and discuss in class.
2. Possibility of film viewing: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Buena Vista Entertainment) may follow. After the film viewing, students will review the writing process and will write an essay of six paragraphs comparing and contrasting the novel Night and the film.

Friday
1. Work on a TAKS released test. Go over question stems and begin the test practice.
2. Discuss mulitple choice answers.

Week #23 February 7-11, 2011

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: parts of speech, parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: Last ten (10) vocabulary in the additional vocabulary list

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Metaphor or Simile activity - due Monday, Feb 7
- Dramatic and Verbal Irony - due Wednesday, Feb. 9

Activities
Monday
1. Vocabulary quiz #5
2. Discuss simile and metaphor.
3. Study the following for the test this week:
- characters in Night/ characterization
- metaphor and simile
- setting and theme
- irony

Tuesday
Discuss irony and cite examples.
Group work: characterization activity - due at the end of the period.

Wednesday- Friday
Film viewing: TBA

Week #22 January 31-February 4, 2011

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence
Vocabulary: TBA

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday

Activities
Monday
Take quiz #4 covering N#s 51-60 and Chapters 4 and 5.

Tuesdy- Friday
Continue reading and annotating the novel.

Week # 21 January 24-28, 2011

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: Parts of speech and parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: N#s 51-65

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday

Activities
Monday
1. Administer the benchmark test and go over the answers after the test.
2. Review for vocabulary and Night quiz.

Tuesday
1. Adminsiter quiz #3 - vocab N#s 35-50 and chapters 1-3.
2. Continue reading and annotating.

Wednesday- Friday
1. Read and annotate and answer OER questions with ACE.
2. Pause to identify parts of speech and parts of a sentence.

Week #20 January 18-21, 2011

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence
Vocbulary: N #s 36-50 constraints, hallucinating, colossus, floundering, ascertain, liberation, communal, wizened, vibration, confinement, audible, notorious, infirmary, automaton, inventory

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday

Activities
Monday
MLK Holiday

Tuesday
1. Quiz #2 Night chapters 1-2/Vocab #s 21-35
2. Continue reading novel.

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
1. Continue reading the novel.
2. Answer and discuss an OER question every after a chapter is read.

Prepare for Monday's quiz.

Week #19 January 10-14, 2011

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Grammar: Parts of a sentence
Vocabulary: #s 1-15

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday

Activities
Monday
1. Quiz #1 World War II.
2. Receive reading guide for Night and begin reading the novel.

Tuesday- Wednesday
Continue reading the novel and break for answering and discussion of study questions.

Thursday
Work on sentence assignment.

Friday
Discuss sentence assignment and continue reading.