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.