English II Academic: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

"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.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

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.

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

Friday, August 31, 2012

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Welcome to the new school year 2012-2013

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