William Shakespeare and the Globe

Week #24 February 18-22, 2013

Literature: Background on William Shakespeare and the Globe Theater
Writing: Persuasive Writing
Vocabulary: Act I - abhor, detest, cashiered, conjuration, deficient, incense, iniquity, insolent, uncivil, mandate
Academic words: tragic hero, soliloquy, aside, monologue, dramatic irony, motivation, characterization, foil

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes N#s 51-60 - due: Tuesday, Feb. 19

Monday - Friday

• Students will take vocabulary quiz #6.
• Students will rewrite their persuasive essays.
• Students will review sentences and sentence structure and work on a practice activity.
• Students will read the following:
• William Shakespeare background information.
• The Globe Theater.
• Students will study the academic words.
• Students will begin reading of the play Othello by William Shakespeare. 

Night by Elie Wiesel, Sentences

Week #23 February 11-15, 2013

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Writing: Expository Writing
Vocabulary: N#s 51-60 charred, linger, accumulate, mauling, vitality, crematorium, fraction, liquidation, traumatize, legacy

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes for N#s 41-50 - due: Monday, Feb.11
• SAT vocab notes for N#s 51-60 - due: Monday, Feb 18

Monday - Friday

• On Monday, take the unit test on Night.
• On Tuesday, write an expository essay.
• On Wednesday, view Elie Wiesel's biography video and students write answers to a set of guide questions about the video.
• On Thursday, continue viewing the video and discuss the questions.
• On Friday, work on a grammar assignment on sentences. 

Night, Poetry

Week #22 February 4-8, 2013

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR), Persuasive Writing, WITS writing (word choice)
Grammar: Subject and Predicate
Vocabulary: N#s 41-50 liberation, communal, wizened, vibration, confinement, audible, notorious, infirmary, automaton, inventory

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes N#s 31-40 - due: Tuesday, Feb. 5

Monday - Tuesday

• Students will take Quiz #4 on Monday.
• For the rest of the week, we will continue to read and discuss Night. 
• Students will continue to understand and analyze characters, setting, motivation, figurative language, diction, and syntax.
• On Thursday, we will have the first WITS poetry lesson, so on Wednesday, to prepare for this lesson, we will review elements of poetry.

Night by Elie Wiesel,Poetry terms

Week #21 January 28-February 1, 2013

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR)
Vocabulary: N#s 31-40 interlocutor, crematoria, ghetto, relic, conflagration, constraints, hallucinating, colossus, floundering, ascertain

Homework: 
- SAT vocab notes on N#s 21-30 - due: Tuesday, Jan 29

Monday - Friday

• On Monday, you will take Quiz #3 covering vocabulary N#s 21-30 and questions on chapters we already covered.
• We will continue to read the memoir and understand the events and the significance of these on Wiesel's life.
• Understand and analyze the characters and their motivation.
• Understand and analyze the historical context of the events that affected or influenced Wiesel's life.
• Prepare for periodic reading checks. 

NOTE:  If you have missing work, please see me during lunch ASAP. 

Night by Elie Wiesel

Week #20 January 22-25, 2013

Literature: Night by Elie Wiesel/ Revisit the Excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright
Writing: Short Answer Response (SAR)
Vocabulary: N#s 21-30 profoundly, ordeal, legacy, glacial, transcend, inmate, morbid, phenomenon, holocaust, abomination

Homework:

• SAT vocab notes on N#s 11-20 - due: January 23
• SAT vocab notes on N#s 21-30 - due: January 29 

On Tuesday, students will take Quiz #2 covering N#s 11-20 and Chapter 1.


The rest of the week, we will continue reading the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. We will

• Understand and analyze the characters, their characteristics, changes, and motivation.Understand and analyze the setting and mood.
• Understand and analyze the tone of certain characters or passages.
• Undersstand and analyze figurative languages.
• Compare, understand and analyze Elie Wiesel's and Richard Wright's experience of prejudice in Black Boy.

                                             

Night by Elie Wiesel

Week #19 January 14-18, 2013

Literature: Night By Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary: N#s 11-20 nocturnal, livid, pious, interminable, wizened, morale, infernal, refuge, oppressive, expelled

Homework:
- SAT notes N#s 1-10 - due: Jan. 15
- SAT notes N#s 11-20 - due: Jan. 22

Monday

• Today, students will take their first vocabulary quiz for the cycle.
• After the quiz, students will read and understand the motives behind the writing of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel in the "Preface".
• Define memoir.

Tuesday-Friday

• Today until Friday, we will continue to read the memoir and annotate using the guide questions.
• Understand and analyse characters, setting, tone, mood, and the historical significance of events in the memoir.

Night by Elie Weisel

Week #18 January 8-11, 2013

Topic: Night by Elie Wisel
Writing:Expository/Persuasive Essay
Vocabulary: N#s 1-10 prostrate, interlude, reprieve, rations, dysentery,robust, quarantine, apathy, humane, grimace

Homework:

• SAT sentences with grammatical and syntactical component - Due: January 15

Tuesday-Wednesday

• Receive spring semester syllabus and discuss expectations for the entire semester.
• Define and understand vocabulary words. Identify root words and affixes.

Thursday-Friday

• Read "Frequently Asked Questions about the Holocaust.
• Read the historical context of Night by Elie Wiesel and fill in the blanks in the historical context handout.
• Take an open notes reading test.

"Happy New Year!"