Final Exam Review 2012

Week #17 Final Exam Week

Review for final exam. Ace it!!!

Antigone by Sophocles

Week #16 December 10-14, 2012

Literature: Antigone by Sophocles
Writing: Final Exam Essay
Vocabulary: Refer to your final vocab list

Homework:

• STUDY for final Exam.

SCHEDULE of Final Exam

Dec. 18 - 2nd and 5th

Dec. 19 - 3rd and 7th

Dec. 20 - 4th and 6th

Dec. 21 - 1 and 8th

Monday-Friday

• Read and analyze archetypes in Antigone.
• Understand and analyze Greek Drama elements.
• Write final exam essay (if not done yet).
• Review for final exam.

Greek Drama, Antigone, Sophocles

Week #15 December 3-7, 2012

Literature: Greek Drama, Antigone by Sophocles
Vocabulary: Final Exam vocabulary words - Note: Please refer to the list I will provide this week.

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes on verbs that reveal - Due: Dec. 4

Monday-Tuesday

• Take the OMM and vocab unit test.
• Read about Greek drama in the Literature textbook.

Wednesday-Friday

• Read Antigone.
• Analytically answer guide questions and provide text evidence for each response.

Expository, Literary, and Persuasive Essay

Week #14 November 26-30, 2012

Literature: Greek Drama introduction
Writing: Expository, Literary, and Persuasive Writing
Vocabulary: Verbs that reveal -  acknowledges, clarifies, demonstrates, discloses, exhibits, exposes, illustrates, opens, shows, unveils

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes on verbs that communicate - due: Nov 27

Monday-Friday

• Monday and Tuesday will be test days for a writing test.
• This week, we will look at different samples of essays and peer review our own.
• We will also look at examples of SARs and peer review our own.
• Towards the end of the week, we will study an introduction to Greek Drama.

Of Mice and Men video

Week #13 November 19-20, 2012

Video Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Film with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich)
Vocabulary: Same as last week

Homework:

• SAT vocab words - verbs that communicate : due Nov. 27

Monday-Tuesday

• View the Of Mice and Men film.

Wednesday-Friday

• Thanksgiving holiday

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Reading Assessment

Week #12 November 12-19, 2012

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR)
Vocabulary: VERBS THAT COMMUNICATE - acquaints, advertises, announces, appeals, betrays, breaks, concludes, connects, corresponds, declares

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes on SAT/OMM Week 4 - due: Nov. 13

Monday-Tuesday

• Take a common reading assessment and practice SAR.

Wednesday

• Early dismissal. Activity is TBA.

Thursday-Friday

• Go over the common assessment.
• Identify vocabulary word functions.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Week #11 November 5-9, 2012

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Writing: Expository or Persuasive Essay
Vocabulary: SAT/OMM week 4 - taciturn, succinct, garrulous, prattle, narcissistic, supercilious, ostentatious, platitude, lackluster

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes for SAT/OMM Week 3 - due: Nov. 6

Monday

• Take an open notes test.
• Continue reading the novel.

Tuesday - Friday

• Continue reading, annotating, and discussing the novel.

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Week #10 October 29-November 2, 2012

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Writing: Persuasive Essay, sentence rearranging and combining
Grammar: prepositional phrases, clause
Vocabulary: SAT/OMM #3 - pithy, quiescent, colloquial, diffuse, complacent, contemptuous, hackneyed, insipid, monotony, pugnacious

Homework:
- SAT Vocab SAT/OMM #2 - due: Oct. 30

Monday

• Take a quiz on SAT/OMM vocab #s 1 and 2.
• Continue reading the novel.

Tuesday - Wednesday

• I was absent Tuesday and you read chapter 2. You also answered the questions given that day in your reading notebook. You also received the SAT/OMM Week 3 vocabulary.  Please study those and take notes in your vocabulary notebook. Use the format I gave you.
• Today, Wednesday, we will discuss chapter 2 and hopefully continue to read the novel.

Thursday and Friday

• We continue reading chapters in the novel and answering questions in your reading notebook.

Literary Analysis, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Week #9 October 22-26, 2012

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Writing: Literary Analysis 2nd draft
Vocabulary: Same as last week's

Homework:
- SAT Vocab notes on SAT and OMM words #2 - due: Oct. 23

Monday

• Take a vocabulary quiz.
• For the last several days, we have been reading about John Steinbeck, the Great Depression and the migrant experience. We will finish discussion on these topics today.

Tuesday

• I will assign a book to each student to borrow and read during class only as I only have a class set of Of Mice and Men. 
• We will start reading the book today.

Wednesday - Friday

• We will continue to read Of Mice and Men, and answer and discuss guide questions. 
• On Thursday, you should be ready with your 2nd draft of the literary analysis essay we have been working on for the last several days. You will submit the essay on www.turnitin.com. 

Literary Analysis Essay, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Great Depression, and The Migrant Experience

Week #8 October 15-19, 2012

Literature: "The Great Depression", "The Migrant Experience", Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Writing: Expository essay
Vocabulary: SAT/OMM Week 2 - laconic, circumlocution, braggart, derivative, aloof, appreciate, apprehend, belligerent, bemuse, brittle



Homework:

• SAT vocabulary notes on SAT and OMM week 1 list - due: Oct.16
• First draft of literary analysis essay on indirect characterization and foreshadowing - due: Oct. 18

Monday

• Write an expository essay.
• If students finish early, they need to continue writing the first draft.

Tuesday

• Complete "The Flood" and John Steinbeck biography questions.
• Read about "The Great Depression."

Literary Analysis Essay, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, "The Flood" by John Steinbeck, Purpose and Rhetoric, Literary Nonfiction and Purpose, Rhetoric in Expository Essays

Week #7 October 8-12, 2012

Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Purpose and Rhetoric, Literary Nonfiction and Purpose, Rhetoric in Expository Essays
Writing: Literary Analysis Essay, Expository and Persuasive Essays
Vocabulary: SAt/OMM Week 1 - arrogant, banal, bombastic, brevity, solitaire, nuisance, rheumatism, subdued, reverently, solemnly

Homework:

• SAT vocabulary notes with SS words - due: Oct. 9
• PSAT practice section 5 - due: Oct. Oct. 10

Monday

• Take vocabulary and figurative language quiz.
• Continue and finish outline for literary analysis essay.

Tuesday-Thursday

• Read John Steinbeck's biography and about "The Great Depression and The Migrant Experience" and answer questions.
• Read "The Flood" by John Steinbeck and answer questions.
• Read chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men. 
• Go over expository essay rubric.

Friday

• Writing workshop.

"A Sound of Thunder" Literary Analysis

Week #6 October 1-5, 2012

Literature: Short Stories 
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: SS/Pedetrian words - commiserate, disengage, indomitable, rudimentary, savoring, unavailing, voluble, wizened, revue, halt, ebb, murmur, antiseptic, regressive, tendencies

Homework:

• - SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" additional words - due: Oct. 2
• - Annotated "The Pedestrian" - due: Oct. 1

Monday

• Today, you will take a quiz on the additional words from ASOT. Timed for 15 minutes.
• After the quiz, you will be given the additional minutes for the PSAT practice test.
• And then, we will analyze tone and mood in "The Pedestrian." You will provide context clues to the tone and mood.

Tuesday

• Review the outline for an essay.
• Go over a sample literary analysis essay on foreshadowing in ASOT.
• Write an outline of a literary analysis on characterization.  
• Students who finish early and have conferred with me will work on a sentence combining or rearranging assignment or an imagery analysis assignment on "The Pedestrian".

Wednesday

• Write the introduction of the literary analysis essay.
• Students who finish early and have conferred with me will work on a sentence combining or rearranging assignment or an imagery analysis assignment on "The Pedestrian".

Thursday - Friday

• Write the body paragraphs.
• Write the conclusion.

"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, "The Pedestrian" by Kurt Vonnegut

Week # 5 September 24-28, 2012

Literature: " A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, 
Writing: Literary analysis
Vocabulary: "A Sound of Thunder" additional words: aurora, revoke, primeval, taint, teeming, remit, graft, chaos, comparable, cavernous, pelvic, gauze, sterilize, disproportion

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" words - due: Sept. 25
- SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" additional words - due: Oct. 2

Monday

• Take the You Don't Know Me test.
• Continue reading and annotating "A Sound of Thunder.

Tuesday - Wednesday

• View Ray Bradbury video and answer viewing guide. 
• Read and annotate "The Pedestrian" and analyze passages for tone and mood.
• Discuss short stories.

Thursday - Friday

• Writing Workshop.
• Write an outline for a literary analysis essay. 

Science Fiction, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale (poem), "A Sound of Thunder", Ray Bradbury

Week # 4 September 18-21, 2012
 Literature: Science Fiction, short story, poetry
Writing: Literary Analysis
Vocabulary: annihilate, correlate, expendable, infinitesimally, malfunctioning, paradox, resilient, stagnating, subliminal, undulate

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "There Will Come Soft Rains" - due: Wednesday, Sept. 19
- SAT vocab notes on "A Sound of Thunder" - due: Tuesday, Sept. Sept. 25

Monday - Holiday
Tuesday

• Review TWCSR vocabulary puzzle before taking the vocabulary quiz.
• Continue analysis of narrative devices in TWCSR (short story).
• Receive vocabulary handout for "A Sound of Thunder".

Wednesday 

• Discuss narrative devices in TWCSR (short story).
• Read and annotate TWCSR (poem) by Sara Teasdale. Identify and analyze poetic devices.

Thursday

• Read " A sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.
• Analyze science fiction elements in the story.
• View the Ray Bradbury video and answer a viewing guide.

Friday

• Continue viewing the Ray Bradbury video and answer a viewing guide.
• Work on a crossword puzzle.
• Review how to outline an essay.

Science Fiction, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

Week #3 September 10-14, 2012

Literature: Short story - "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction/ "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale, poetry
Writing: Literary Analysis Essay
Vocabulary: 

• manipulate, oblivious, paranoia, silhouette, sublime, tremulous, shriveled, acrawl, radioactive, titanic, inconvenience, miniature, burrow, incinerator, yelping
• SCIENCE FICTION TERMS: science, technology, extrapolation
• SCIENCE FICTION ELEMENTS: characters (protagonist/antagonist), future time and alternate location setting, conflict, evidence of advanced technology, strange powers, resolution

HOMEWORK:

• SAT vocabulary notes - due: Tuesday, September 11

Monday

• Review vocabulary and practice using them.
• Take a vocabulary quiz.

Tuesday

• Finish HB literary analysis: plot and conflict.
• Discuss science fiction elements.

Wednesday

• View a film about Ray Bradbury and take notes.
• Read and annotate " There Will Come Soft Rains". 

Thursday

• Continue to read and annotate "There Will Come Soft Rains" - the short story and the poem.
• Go over parts of an essay and essay rubric.

Friday

• Write an outline for a literary analysis essay.

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

Week #2 September 4-7, 2012

Literature: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
Writing: style, tone, and voice
Vocabulary: calibrated, consternation, cower, hindrance, indomitable, luminous, neutralize, omen, symmetry, synchronize, unavailing, vague, vigilance, voluble, wince

Homework:

• Materials for this class: three composition notebook, folder or binder - due: September 4
• SAT vocabulary notebook notes - due: September 4 and 5

Activities
Monday - LABOR DAY holiday
Tuesday

• Students will take the Beginning of Year (BOY) assessment.
• Students will finish the letter with specific style, tone and voice.

Wednesday

• Students will take the You Don't Know Me vocabulary quiz.
• Students will finish the letter with specific style, tone and voice.

Thursday

• Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
• Complete letter written in a specifuc style, tone, and voice.

Friday

• Discuss "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
• Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Monday.

Welcome to the new school year 2012-2013

Week#1 August 27-31, 2012

Literature: Summer reading - You Don't Know Me by David Klass
Writing: Sentences
Vocabulary: levitating, salient, ponderous, tundra, prowess, crescendo, portal, incremental, girth, mayhem, edification, emetic, heinous,eviscerated, nostalgia

Homework:

• Bring all materials required in the syllabus by August 31 or September 4.
• Bring back the white paper part of the syllabus by August 28.
• Bring a small photo of you, glue stick and colored pens or markers by August 29.
• Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, September 4.

Activities
Monday - Wednesday

• Receive syllabus and welcome letter.
• Write a personal bio-poem and a literary bio-poem and share with the class. You may use a word, or words from the vocabulary list. Create a poster of the bio-poem.

Thursday

• Go over the summer novel.
• Discuss irony, point of view, and tone.  Read and analyze a quote/passage from the novel. Analyze the irony, point of view and tone in the quote/passage.
• Work on a writing assignment.

Friday

• Listen to a reading of a short, short, short fairy tale story to review the elements of fiction. Be ready with your pen and notebook.
• Identify the setting, character traits, point of view, and theme; and write answers in an Elements of Fiction Chart.

Week #35 May 21-25, 2012

The remaining number of times we meet from Monday through Thursday this week will be used for final exam preparation. Make sure you have been working on the exercises in your study packet. Bring your reviewer everyday. Books issued to you by me will be collected this week. Please make sure you have it/them with you. Friday of this week is the first day of final exams.

Week #34 May 14-18, 2012

Literature: Poetry
Writing: Script, poetry, essay
Vocabulary: literary terms

Homework:
- Study for final exam

Activities
Monday - Friday

• Learn poetry and its elements.
• Present reality shows.

Week #33 May 7-11, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and poetry
Writing: script, iambic pentameter, feminine ending, shared lines
Vocabulary:

Homework:

• vocabulary notes - due Tuesday and Wednesday, May 8 and 9
• Script - May 7
• Video presentation - May 14 or 15

Activities

Monday-Friday

• Each group should prepare for the project presentation next week. 
• Read, annotate, and discuss selected poems.
• Prepare for a poetry test.

Week #32 April 30-May 4, 2012

Lesson: Julius Caesar project, poetry and scriptwriting
Vocabulary: alliteration, allusion, assonance, diction, onomatopoeia, end rhyme, form, metaphor, meter, narrator, rhyme, scheme, simile, metaphor, stanza, tone, rhythm, paradox, refrain, ballad, dramatic, lyric, couplet, quatrains, sonnet, parallelism


Activities

• Work on a sentence completion activity.
• Break into groups for the Julius Caesar project.
• Discuss thematic connections.

Week #31 April 23-27, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Writing: Script
Vocabulary: No new vocab

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Tuesday or Wednesday, April 24 or 25

Activities
Monday - Discuss the last two sets of JC study questions.
Tuesday to Friday

• Get in groups and discuss JC project.
• TAKS testing

Week #30 April 16-20, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Writing: short responses with relevant quotes
Vocabulary:  insuppressive, contriver, envy, hew, contagion, rank, modesty, oration, censure, extenuated, reverence, mantle, rent, dint, vesture

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes taper to cautelous - due Tuesday, April 17
- SAT vocab notes insuppressive to vesture - due Tuesday, April 24

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Take a test on Act III and vocabulary.
• Continue reading play.
• Discuss and analyze actions and reactions of characters.
• Answer study questions.

Week #29 April 9-13, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Vocabulary: taper, adder, proof, augmented, exhalations, whet, interim, phantasma, insurrection, visage, affability, semblance, prick, palter, cautelous

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Tuesday, April 10

Activities

• Take Test #7 covering Act II and vocabulary.
• Continue reading the play.
• Answer and discuss study questions.

Week #28 April 2-5, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Writing: short answers
Vocabulary: tempests, rived, exalted, incences, glazed, perilous, unbraced, bared, heralds, ordinance, yoke, offal, fleering, factious, redress, gait, praetor, alchemy, conceited

Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due Tuesday, April 3
- Study guide questions for Act II - due any day this week

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Take a TEST on Act I and vocabulary from last week and the week before: cobbler, knave, bessech, cull, exalted, servile, barren, press, throng, gamesome, velied, countenance, vexed, cogitations, lamented/shadow, jealous, rout, indifferently, speed, lief, accoutered, buffet, sinews, ere, bestride, aim, chew, repute, ferret.
• Continue to read, answer, and discuss guide questions.
  
  
  

Week#27 March 26-30, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Vocabulary: shadow, jealous, rout, indifferently, speed, lief, accoutered, buffet, sinews, ere, bestride, aim, chew, repute, ferret
Homework:
- SAT vocabulary notes from last week - due Wednesday, March 28
- SAT vocabulary notes this week - due Tuesday, April 3
Assignments

• Continue reading Julius Caesar.
• Answer and discuss study questions.
• Identify and analyze literary strategies used in JC.

March 28 WITS with dr. Lacy Johnson.

Week#26 March 19-23, 2012

Literature: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Vocabulary: cobbler, knave, bessech, cull, exalted, servile, barren, press, throng, gamesome, velied, countenance, vexed, cogitations, lamented

HOMEWORK:
- SAT vocabulary notes - due: Wednesday, March 28

Activities
Monday- Friday
1. Read Shakespeare's background.
2. Read Act I of Julius Caesar. Answer guide questions.

Week #25 March 6-10, 2012

This week will be our last TAKS preparation for Wednesday's test. We will continue to look at your writing and samples.

ACE the test!

Week # 24 February 27-March 2, 2012

This whole week, we are going to continue preparing for TAKS.

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - Night additional vocabulary - all words - due Tuesday, Feb 28.

Week # 23 February 20-24, 2012

Writing: Personal narrative
Literary review: verbal and dramatic irony
Vocabulary: Night additional vocabulary
                 : Literary Terms: conflict/main conflict (internal/external), point of view, theme, figurative language (simile/metaphor/personification/hyperbole), foreshadowing, tone, climax, suspense/tension, dialogue, turning point, summary, narrator, function (of a paragraph), symbol, flashback, fable, repetition, sarcasm, irony (verbal, dramatic, situational), allusion, connotation/denotation, imagery, generalization, definition, persuasion/persuasive technique, synonym/antonym, opposes/supports, disclose/reveal/convey, develop, audience, character/characterize/characterization, inference, conclude

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Review for TAKS.

Week # 22 February 13-17, 2012

Literature: Elie Weisel's Night
Writing: Personal narrative
Vocabulary:

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due Tuesday, Feb 14

Activities
Monday-Friday
Read, annotate, and finish the novel.
Take the Night test.
Continue with TAKS practice.
Go over rubric.

Week #21 February 6-10, 2012

Literature: Elie Wiesel's Night
Grammar: Clause (GUM)
Writing: Revising and Editing (RAFT)
Vocabulary: Focus words - compatriots, edict, expound, firmament, hermetically, pestilential
                   Focus terms - symbolism, imagery, figurative language, tone (SIFT); role, audience, format, topic (RAFT); punctuation, sentence fragments, verbals and verbal phrases, rhetorical answers, parts of speech

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes - due: Tuesday, February 13

Activities:
Monday - Friday
- Quiz #5
- Reading and annotating of novel/passages
- GUM pages
- Writing groups

Week #20 January 30-February 3, 2012

Literature: Elie Wiesel's Night
Writing: Personal narrative essay
Vocabulary:

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes N#s 51-60 - due: Tuesday, Jan. 31
- Night study guide Chapters 1-4 - due: Wednesday, Feb. 1

Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz #4 (covers 41-60 and Chapters 1-3).
2. Go over 26-50 Commonly Confused words.

Tuesday-Friday
1. Go over Revising and Editing (TAKS).
2. Read and annotate the novel.
3. Read and annotate an excerpt from Black Boy.
4. Go over sample OERs and essays.

Week #19 January 23-27, 2012

Literature: Elie Wiesel's Night
Writing: Expository writing
Vocabulary: N#s 51-60

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 41-50 - due: January 23
- SAT vocab notes #s 51-60 - due: January 30

Activities
Monday-Friday

• Answer OER questions and discuss scoring answers.
• Write an expository essay.
• Discuss essays and scoring guide.
• Continue to read and annotate Night.
• Answer and discuss study questions.
• Read an excerpt from Black Boy. Compare novels.

Week #18 January 17-20, 2012

Literature: Elie Wiesel's Night
Vocabulary: #s 41-50 liberation, communal, wizened, vibration, confinement, audible, notorious, infirmary, inventory

Homework;
- SAT vocab notes #s 21-40 - due: January 18
- SAT vocab notes #s 41-50 - due: January 24

Activities
Monday
MLK Holiday

Tuesday-Friday
- Take Quiz #2 - vocab #s 21-40 and chapter 1.
- Continue to read and annotate novel.
- Take a sample STAAR test.

Week #17 January 9-13, 2012

Literature: Elie Wiesel's Night
Writing: sentences
Vocabulary: #s 21-40 
profoundly, ordeal, legacy, glacial, transcend., inmate, morbid, 
phenomenon, holocaust,abomination,  interlocutor, crematoria, 
ghetto, relic, conflagration, constraints, hallucinating, colossus, 
floundering,   ascertain


Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 21-40 - due: Tuesday, Jan. 17


Activities
Monday
1. Take Quiz/Test #1 on Hitler's Rise to Power/Night historical background.
2. Discuss GUM page 85.


Tuesday-Friday
1. Continue to read and annotate the novel. Discuss.
2. Discuss GUM pages.

Week #16 January 3-6, 2011

Literature: Elie Wiesel's Night
Writing: Essay
Vocabulary: prostrate, interlude, reprieve, rations, dysentery, robust, quarantine, apathy, humane, grimace, nocturnal, livid, pious, interminable, wizened, morale, infernal, refuge, oppressive, and expelled


Homework:
- SAT vocab words - due: Tuesday, Jan. 10


Activities
Tuesday

Write an essay. Topic is TBA. Due at the end of the period.

Wednesday

Work on GUM pages.

Thursday
Receive a handout on the background of the Holocaust and World War II.
Receive book issues.
Receive study questions.
Begin reading the book.

Friday
Continue reading the novel.