January 19 - January 23, 2009

Monday 1/19/09
NO SCHOOL MLK JR DAY

Tuesday 1/20/09
Rules and Expectations
Grading
Notecards
Overview of units
Intro writing prompt -- Due Tomorrow
Book cover Due Friday

Wednesday 1/21/09
Intro Writing Due Vocab List 1, 1-10
Data Pre-Test and Self-evaluation Literary Terms and Quickwrite p. 8 worktime

Thursday 1/22/09
Review Vocab
Check off terms and turn in Quickwrite
Discuss "suspense" and share QW responses
Begin listening to "Cold Equations"

Friday 1/23/09
Vocab Quiz 1, 1-10
Book Cover Due
Continue "CE" and discuss

January 26 - January 30, 2009

Monday 1/26/09
Vocab List 1, 11-20
Continue "Cold Equations"

Tuesday 1/27/09
Continue/Finish "CE"
Work time for writing assignment

Wednesday 1/28/09
Review Vocab
Finish "CE" if needed
Writing time: Final Due tomorrow

Thursday 1/29/09
Writing Due share?
Plot Mini-lesson
Start "The Bass, The River..." if time

Friday 1/30/09
Vocab Quiz 1, 11-20
Start/Continue "The Bass..."
What is the climax of the story? Why?
Make a movie poster for the story

February 2 - February 6, 2009

Monday 2/2/09
Vocab List 1, 21-30
"Bass" Due
Begin "Everyday Use"

Tuesday 2/3/09
Continue/Finish "Ev Use"
Discuss 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 from book
Design quilt to represent you: minimum 15 boxes

Wednesday 2/4/09
Review Vocab
Quilt Due -- share?
Start "Two Kinds"

Thursday 2/5/09
Finish "Two Kinds"
Venn moms and daughters from the two stories
Discuss blind dates, arranged marriages, etc. for next story if time

Friday 2/6/09
Vocab Quiz
Start/Continue "First Seven Years"
Writing Assignment: Due Monday

February 9 - February 13, 2009

Monday 2/9/09
"First Seven Years" Due
Start "Charming Billy"

Tuesday 2/10/09
Finish "Billy"
Analyzing a Character p. 164
if time, start "The Bet"

Wednesday 2/11/09
Review Vocab
"The Bet"

Thursday 2/12/09
Vocab Quiz
"The Bet"
Character Essay Due Monday

Friday 2/13/09
No SCHOOL!!

February 16 - February 20, 2009

Monday 2/16/09
List 2, 1-10
Character Trait Charts for "The Bet" characterization
Pick 3 traits; for each trait, find 3 quotes to "prove" trait fits

Tuesday 2/17/09
Check off charts
Sm Groups C/C traits and proof
Begin paragraphs if time

Wednesday 2/18/09
Review Vocab
Rough Draft Paragraphs from charts

Thursday 2/19/09
Peer Edit
Intro & Conclusion
Paper Due Tomorrow

Friday 2/20/09
Vocab Quiz
Paper Due
Start "Trap"
Complete for Monday with Story Map

February 23 - February 27, 2009

Monday 2/23/09
Vocab List 2, 11-20
"Trap" Due
Assign Original Story -- Due Friday
Discuss classes -- work time

Tuesday 2/24/09
Scheduling Presentation from Counselors

Wednesday 2/25/09
Review Vocab
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Work Time

Thursday 2/26/09
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Work time if available

Friday 2/27/09
Scheduling
Vocab if time -- probably not

March 2 - March 6, 2009

Monday 3/2/09
Vocab List 2, 21-30
Fiction Exam

Tuesday 3/3/09
Begin Literary Analysis
Interpretation of a text: "On the Sidewalk Bleeding"

Wednesday 3/4/09
Review Vocab
Continue Chart for literary terms with "OSB"

Thursday 3/5/09
Continue "OSB"
if finish, thesis patterns modeled

Friday 3/6/09
Voc Quiz 2, 21-30
Thesis if needed
Model outline if time

March 9 - March 13, 2009

Monday 3/9/09
List 2, 30 word
Thesis statement if needed
Model outline

Tuesday 3/10/09
Outline work -- due tomorrow
Intro & conclusion
Intro together, conclusion due tomorrow

Wednesday 3/11/09
Review Vocab
Check off outline & intro/conclusion
T charts body paragraphs
"Story of Hour" ex or do point from "OSB"
"OSB" charts due tomorrow

Thursday 3/12/09
Rough Draft time -- charts to paragraphs
Model with one
Work time -- RD Due tomorrow

Friday 3/13/09
Voc 2, 30 word
RD Due
Work time -- peer edit -- final with all parts Due Mon 3/23

March 23 - March 27, 2009

Monday 3/23/09
Vocab List 3, 1-10
LA DUE -- with all parts
Intro Poetry: Quote p. 500
Conversation with Walker
Steps to reading a poem
Apply to first poem if time -- "Abandoned Farmhouse"

Tuesday 3/24/09
Lit terms -- groups
Define and find an example of your assigned terms
Share

Wednesday 3/25/09
Review Vocab P. 2 Quiz tomorrow b/c of UNI teachers
Define Courage
Read Poem "Courage" and C/C our definition and poem
Small groups -- complete worksheet -- due tomorrow

Thursday 3/26/09
P. 2 Vocab Quiz
Discuss worksheet
Read "Mother to Son"
Do Quick write, explain symbols

Friday 3/27/09
p. 2 UNI Teachers
p. 4 Vocab Quiz
pictures for figurative language -- similes, metaphors, personification

March 30 - April 3, 2009

Monday 3/30/09
p. 2 UNI teachers
p. 4 Symbols "Stopping by the Woods" literal and figurative meanings
"Miss Rosie" questions 4-6

Tuesday 3/31/09
p. 2 Monday's p. 4
p. 4 Imagery p. 548-9
"I'm Offering..."
"Since Feeling is First"
"Just Another Love Poem"
C/C figurative language in 3 love poems -- Graphic Organizer due tomorrow

Wednesday 4/1/09
p. 2 Tuesday's p.4
p. 4 Rhythm p. 558
Apply to "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
Answer questions 1 - 10

Thursday 4/2/09
Conferences 1 - 8:30

Friday 4/3/09
Conferences 7:30 - 11:30

April 6 - April 10, 2009

Monday 4/6/09
Vocab List 3, 11-20
"Shall I Due" p. 4
p. 2 Wednesday's p. 4 "Bonny..." 565 -- Think she's hard-hearted? Why/not?

Tuesday 4/7/09
Discuss: Are dreams necessary?
Rhyme p. 592
"Ex-Basketball Player" & questions 5 - 8

Wednesday 4/8/09
Assign Poetry Speech Due Monday
Introduce poem and poet, read it, apply 3 terms
Read "I Want..." & C/C with Flick from "Ex-Basketball Player"
Creative Writing #3 due tomorrow

Thursday 4/9/09
Vocab Quiz
"We Real Cool" if time

Friday 4/10/09
NO SCHOOL April 13 - April 17, 2009

Monday 4/13/09
Vocab List 3, 21-30
Read "Ex-Basketball Player" and discuss
"I Want to be Somebody" and C/C with Flick
Write poem for Flick like "I Want..."

Tuesday 4/14/09
Start Speeches
Intro poet, give title, explain why picked it
Read poem with appropriate tone, emotion, etc.
Analyze 3 aspects of the poem
Conclude your speech

Wednesday 4/15/09
Review Vocab
Finish speeches if needed
Start "We Real Cool" if time

Thursday 4/16/09
Assign Portfolio -- Due 5/4/09

Friday 4/17/09
Vocab Quiz
Start "We Real Cool"
Read and analyze -- think cool?
Creative writing if time

Apri 20 - April 24, 2009

Monday 4/20/09
List 3, 30 Word
"We Real Cool" discussion and creative writing
Creative Writing Due Wednesday

Tuesday 4/21/09
Creative Writing Time
Work time
Due Tomorrow

Wednesday 4/22/09
Review Vocab
Writing Due Share?
"A Voice" and "Tony Went to the Bodega..."
Poetry Test tomorrow

Thursday 4/23/09
Poetry Test
Data if time

Friday 4/24/09
Vocab Quiz List 3, 30 Word
Intro Julius Caesar

April 27 - May 1, 2009

Monday 4/27/09
List 4, 1- 10
Poetry Data
Portfolio Due in 1 week!
Read 760-772 and complete worksheet -- Due tomorrow

Tuesday 4/28/09
Intro worksheet due
Continue Introduction to Shakespeare
structure, tragedy, theatre, timeline
Will's Words
Yoda Quotes

Wednesday 4/29/09
Review Vocab
Extra Credit -- make Globe by the end of the play
Start Act I if time

Thursday 4/30/09
Start/Continue Act I

Friday 5/1/09
Vocab List 4, 1-10
Continue/Finish Act I

May 4 - May 8, 2009

Monday 5/4/09
Vocab List 4, 11-20
Portfolio Due
Finish Act I and Quiz
Study Guide due tomorrow
Begin Act II

Tuesday 5/5/09
Read Act II

Wednesday 5/6/09
Review Vocab
Continue Act II

Thursday 5/7/09
Continue/Finish Act II
Study Guide and Quiz when Act completed

Friday 5/8/09
Vocab Quiz
Act II if needed
if time, start Act III

May 11 - May 15, 2009

Monday 5/11/09
Vocab List 4, 21-30
Continue Act III -- Quiz when completed

Tuesday 5/12/09
Continue Act III

Wednesday 5/13/09
Review Vocab
Continue/Finish III
Quiz when completed
Assign Recitation speech -- due at end of play

Thursday 5/14/09
Start Act IV

Friday 5/15/09
Vocab Quiz
Start/Continue Act IV

May 18 - May 22, 2009

Monday 5/18/09
List 4, 30 Word
Finish IV and quiz if time
When finish Study Guide and Graphic Organizer Due

Tuesday 5/19/09
Start V
IV SG & GO DUE

Wednesday 5/20/09
Act V Continued

Thursday 5/21/09
Act V

Friday 5/22/09
Vocab Quiz
Wanted EC Due
Continue/Finish Act V

May 25 - May 29, 2009

Monday 5/25/09
NO SCHOOL! MEMORIAL DAY

Tuesday 5/26/09
Finish V if needed and quiz
Review: Final sheet
Practice time speeches

Wednesday 5/27/09
JC SPEECHES

Thursday 5/28/09
Julius Caesar Test

Friday 5/29/09
Speeches as needed
Write Jeopardy Review Questions if needed

June 1 - June 5, 2009

Monday 6/1/09
Finish writing Jeopardy review questions
Play if time

Tuesday 6/2/09
Jeopardy/Final Review

Wednesday 6/3/09
Jeopardy/Final Review

Thursday 6/4/09
7:45 - 8:55 Period 1 Final Exam
9:00 - 10:20 Period 3 Final Exam
10:20 - 10:30 Locker Clean Out
10:35 - 11:05 Period 5 Class
B Lunch 11:05 - 11:35
11:40 - 12:10 Period 5 Class
12:10 - 1:20 Period 6 Exam
1:25 - 2:35 Period 7 Exam

Friday 6/5/09
7:45 - 8:50 Period 2 Exam
8:55 - 10:00 Period 4 Exam
10:05 - 11:10 Period 5 Exam
5 minute Locker Cleanout