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.