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.