Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wednesday, January 5 (E10)
Today's Objective: Student will research and explore examples of direct and indirect characterization.
Today's SAT Word: Characterization (n): The author's way of revealing who a character is as a "person."
Today's Warm-Up Question: If they were to make a movie of your life, what famous person would they cast to play YOU?
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework: Review today's notes for a short quiz on the new vocabulary words for our next class.
There will be a MAJOR vocabulary unit test next Monday ("A" Day classes) and Tuesday ("B" Day classes)
Final projects for the second quarter are due on Tuesday, January 18 ("B" day classes) and Wednesday, January 19 ("A" day classes).
A digital copy of this assignment's guidelines is available online.
Today's SAT Word: Characterization (n): The author's way of revealing who a character is as a "person."
Today's Warm-Up Question: If they were to make a movie of your life, what famous person would they cast to play YOU?
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework: Review today's notes for a short quiz on the new vocabulary words for our next class.
There will be a MAJOR vocabulary unit test next Monday ("A" Day classes) and Tuesday ("B" Day classes)
Final projects for the second quarter are due on Tuesday, January 18 ("B" day classes) and Wednesday, January 19 ("A" day classes).
A digital copy of this assignment's guidelines is available online.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Tuesday, January 4 (E9)
Today's Objective: Students will continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird to determine how characters influence one another.
Today's SAT Word: Feeble-minded (adj.): Easily tricked, impressionable
"Cecil Jacobs talked about how Hitler was attempting to exert control over the feeble-minded."
Today's Warm-Up Question: What character will you be writing your end-of-quarter essay about?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapter 20)
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapters 27 and 28. There will be an open notes quiz on this material for next class.
If you are using the audiobook:
You will need to read and listen up through and including part 108. These two chapters should take you just under one hour's time if you are reading along with the audiobook.
End-of-Quarter Assignment (Reminder):
Students will compose an essay of 1,200 words in which they describe how any ONE character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was influenced by other characters throughout the course of the novel.
Also -- continue to bring in any rough drafts you may have for your end-of-quarter essays.
Finished essays are due BOTH as a printed copy AND as an electronic (e-mailed) copy on Wednesday, January 19. A detailed rubric for this assignment will be available online beginning on Thursday, January 6.
Today's SAT Word: Feeble-minded (adj.): Easily tricked, impressionable
"Cecil Jacobs talked about how Hitler was attempting to exert control over the feeble-minded."
Today's Warm-Up Question: What character will you be writing your end-of-quarter essay about?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapter 20)
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapters 27 and 28. There will be an open notes quiz on this material for next class.
If you are using the audiobook:
You will need to read and listen up through and including part 108. These two chapters should take you just under one hour's time if you are reading along with the audiobook.
End-of-Quarter Assignment (Reminder):
Students will compose an essay of 1,200 words in which they describe how any ONE character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was influenced by other characters throughout the course of the novel.
Also -- continue to bring in any rough drafts you may have for your end-of-quarter essays.
Finished essays are due BOTH as a printed copy AND as an electronic (e-mailed) copy on Wednesday, January 19. A detailed rubric for this assignment will be available online beginning on Thursday, January 6.
Tuesday, January 4 (E10)
Today's Objective: Students will read, discuss and analyze works dealing with the immigrant experience.
Today's SAT Word: Reconvene (v.): to come back together, to meet up once again.
Today's SAT Word: Reconvene (v.): to come back together, to meet up once again.
"It was great to reconvene with our extended family members over the winter break."
Today's Soundtrack: "Runaway" (Radio Edit) by Kanye West
We have chosen this song today because it implores the listener to "run away as fast as you can," which is a theme we encounter in the narrative poems we read in today's class. In the poems we studied in class today, immigrants to the United States attempt to flee an older, oppressive society in hopes of obtaining freedom and a new beginning in the land of promise and opportunity in a different country.
Today's Warm-Up Question: What do you think life is like for immigrants in the United States? What challenges do they face, and why do they stay in this country?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: "Exile" by Julia Alvarez
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Review today's notes for a short quiz on the new vocabulary words for our next class.
There will be a MAJOR vocabulary unit test next Monday ("A" Day classes) and Tuesday ("B" Day classes)
Final projects for the second quarter are due on Tuesday, January 18 ("B" day classes) and Wednesday, January 19 ("A" day classes).
A digital copy of this assignment's guidelines is available online.
Today's Soundtrack: "Runaway" (Radio Edit) by Kanye West
We have chosen this song today because it implores the listener to "run away as fast as you can," which is a theme we encounter in the narrative poems we read in today's class. In the poems we studied in class today, immigrants to the United States attempt to flee an older, oppressive society in hopes of obtaining freedom and a new beginning in the land of promise and opportunity in a different country.
Today's Warm-Up Question: What do you think life is like for immigrants in the United States? What challenges do they face, and why do they stay in this country?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: "Exile" by Julia Alvarez
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Review today's notes for a short quiz on the new vocabulary words for our next class.
There will be a MAJOR vocabulary unit test next Monday ("A" Day classes) and Tuesday ("B" Day classes)
Final projects for the second quarter are due on Tuesday, January 18 ("B" day classes) and Wednesday, January 19 ("A" day classes).
A digital copy of this assignment's guidelines is available online.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Monday, January 3 (E10)
Today's Objective: Students will read, discuss and analyze works dealing with the immigrant experience.
Today's SAT Word: Reconvene (v.): to come back together, to meet up once again.
Today's SAT Word: Reconvene (v.): to come back together, to meet up once again.
"It was great to reconvene with our extended family members over the winter break."
Today's Soundtrack: "Runaway" (Radio Edit) by Kanye West
We have chosen this song today because it implores the listener to "run away as fast as you can," which is a theme we encounter in the narrative poems we read in today's class. In the poems we studied in class today, immigrants to the United States attempt to flee an older, oppressive society in hopes of obtaining freedom and a new beginning in the land of promise and opportunity in a different country.
Today's Warm-Up Question: What do you think life is like for immigrants in the United States? What challenges do they face, and why do they stay in this country?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: "Exile" by Julia Alvarez
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Review today's notes for a short quiz on the new vocabulary words for our next class.
There will be a MAJOR vocabulary unit test next Monday ("A" Day classes) and Tuesday ("B" Day classes)
Final projects for the second quarter are due on Tuesday, January 18 ("B" day classes) and Wednesday, January 19 ("A" day classes).
A digital copy of this assignment's guidelines is available online.
Today's Soundtrack: "Runaway" (Radio Edit) by Kanye West
We have chosen this song today because it implores the listener to "run away as fast as you can," which is a theme we encounter in the narrative poems we read in today's class. In the poems we studied in class today, immigrants to the United States attempt to flee an older, oppressive society in hopes of obtaining freedom and a new beginning in the land of promise and opportunity in a different country.
Today's Warm-Up Question: What do you think life is like for immigrants in the United States? What challenges do they face, and why do they stay in this country?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: "Exile" by Julia Alvarez
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Review today's notes for a short quiz on the new vocabulary words for our next class.
There will be a MAJOR vocabulary unit test next Monday ("A" Day classes) and Tuesday ("B" Day classes)
Final projects for the second quarter are due on Tuesday, January 18 ("B" day classes) and Wednesday, January 19 ("A" day classes).
A digital copy of this assignment's guidelines is available online.
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