English II Academic: August 2011

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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.

Monday, August 22, 2011

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.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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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English II Course Outline

Dear Students/Parents/Guardian,

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the school year 2012-2013 at Bellaire High School. This letter includes the set of class rules. It is vital that the student and the parents co-exist with the teacher in monitoring the activities a student has to work on and the rules that apply when a rule is broken especially if it disrupts the smooth flow of scheduled activities. I look forward to having a harmonious teamwork with all of you throughout the school year.

Thank you.

Norina S. Terry

nterry@houstonisd.org

CLASSROOM RULES

1. Be polite and use good manners.

2. Follow directions and complete work.

3. Raise hand before speaking or leaving seat/work station.

4. Bring materials to school and be ready to work.

5. Respect your own and other’s property.

Specific rules:

1. Be in class on time.

2. Keep your hands and your feet to yourself at all times.

3. Do not use vulgar or offensive language.

4. NO gum chewing in class.

5. Always take turns when speaking or when using a book or any material in class.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO BREAK A RULE:

First Offense: Verbal warning

Second Offense: Written warning

Third Offense: Parental Contact

Fourth Offense: Administrative Referral

Fifth Offense: Detention/Removal from class

*Late submission of work may not be accepted for daily grades. Deductions will be incurred for accepted late work: 15 points/percent on the first day, 25 points/percent on the 2^nd day, 35 points/percent on the 3^rd day, 50 points/percent on the 4^th day, and zero on the 5^th day. Any work not turned in after five days may not be accepted for a grade anymore.

*The student is responsible to ask the teacher for missed work after every absence occurs.

*The student can be allowed make-up work for every excused absence and may earn 100% replacing a low grade within 3-5 days, or as per student-teacher agreement from the day the student comes back from an absence. It is the student’s responsibility to ask for make-up work.

RECEIPT of Syllabus, Rules, and Regulations

Student: I have read the syllabus and class rules and I understand them perfectly. I will honor it while I am enrolled at Bellaire HS in Ms. Terry’s class.

Print Name: ________________________ Signature:

Parent/Guardian: My/Our child discussed the syllabus and class rules with us. I understand and will support them.

Print Name: ________________________ Signature:

Teacher: I will be fair and consistent in administering the lessons and this discipline plan for this SY 2011-12.

Print Name:______________________ Signature:

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ENGLISH II Syllabus

Course Description:

English II is a course that covers the elements of fiction and non-fiction, the parts of speech, and selected texts. The lessons will encompass a study of literary structure, literary devices, and interpretation of meaning through reading, learning through teamwork, analysis through writing, significance of culture and diversity, a time in American history, a Shakespearean play, and research writing.

Course Goals/Objectives:

Reading – Students will read, respond to, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts in order to increase vocabulary, increase knowledge of their own and others’ cultures, and research topics

Writing – Students will use the recursive writing process to write effectively in a variety of forms and will evaluate their own and others’ writings.

Speaking and Listening – Students will present informative, persuasive, and literary messages appropriate to the purpose and audience, and will listen attentively to and analyze and evaluate others’ presentations.

Viewing and Representing – Students will interpret, analyze, evaluate and produce visual representations.

Grading:

A = 90- 100

B = 80- 89

C = 75- 79

D = 70- 74

F = 69- below

Course Evaluations:

Major Grades (quiz/test) 50%

Daily Grades 40%

Homework / Participation 10%

Textbook(s):

Holt McDougall Literature

Class Projects/Activities:

Analytical essay and poem

Essay (personal, narrative, persuasive, etc.)

Video/Photo essay of a natural disaster

Research paper

Close Reading

Resources:

Library

Internet

Houston Teacher’s Institute Curriculum Units

CDs/DVDs/VHS

Supplies Needed:

1. 1 1/2” Binder with 3 dividers/loose sheets of paper

2. 3 Composition notebooks

3. Pen and paper

4. Assigned textbook or novel

5. Handouts (provided by teacher)

Helpful Hints:

1. Read ahead of schedule.

2. Outline what was read.

3. Take notes.

4. Review notes on a regular basis.

Course Outline:

Fall Semester

Summer Reading- You Don't Know Me by David Klass

Short Stories

“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut

“Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury

“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury

“Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken

Other Short Stories we may read if time allows

“Two Friends” by Guy de Maupassant

“The Interlopers” by Saki

Poetry - TBA

Reading novel and a classical Greek Drama

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Antigone by Sophocles

Grammar/Syntax

Vocabulary: 10-15 words per week

STAAR preparation

Spring Semester

Night by Elie Wiesel

Julius Caesar, a tragedy by William Shakespeare

I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant

For other information, please go to:

http://www.bellaire.org/

BLOG - http://nterrycloth-march.blogspot.com/

http://nscots.blogspot.com

NIGHT by Elie Wiesel VOCAULARY

NIGHT by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary

prostrate
interlude
reprieve
rations
dysentery
robust
quarantine
apathy
humane
grimace
nocturnal
livid
pious
interminable
wizened
morale
infernal
refuge
oppressive
expelled
profoundly
ordeal
legacy
glacial
transcend
inmate
morbid
phenomenon
holocaust
abomination
interlocutor
crematoria
ghetto
relic
conflagration
constraints
hallucinating
colossus
floundering
ascertain
liberation
communal
wizened
vibration
confinement
audible
notorious
infirmary
automaton
inventory
charred
linger
accumulate
mauling
vitality
crematorium
fraction
liquidate
traumatize
legacy

English II Academic

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Week #2 August 29-September 2, 2011

Monday, August 22, 2011

Week #1 August 22-26, 2011

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

WELCOME S/Y 2011-12

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