Week at a Glance: Dec 14-18

I'll be leaving this last "Week at a Glance" up for the holidays so you can check it before you come back and refresh your memory as to where we left off in December.

English 11

• Monday: 1.1 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 5 in Readers' Theatre. LIT and RHETORICAL DEVICES COMPREHENSION CHECKPOINT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Know all your terms! (All the ones on the poster in our classroom.)
• Tuesday - Friday: We'll be watching a Macbeth film in class and comparing it to the script.
• FRIDAY: Screenwriters must hand in the script today.
• NOTE
• http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/ has a modern English and a Shakesprean English text. Check it out!
• The words you need to know for our checkpoints are as follows: Ethos, Logos, Pathos, anaphora, allusion, simile, metaphor, imagery, rhetorical question, active voice, alliteration, antithesis, contrast, diction, historical reference, paradox, parallelism, repetition, resolution, tone, voice, pathetic fallacy, character foil, aside, soliloquy, dramatic irony
• ****First week back in January: in-class essay. You can use you quotation chart, but not the text. So please be sure you've filled it out compeltely.****

English 8

• Tuesday: Here is the assignment that we started in class on Friday and that is due today
• Choose a paragraph from Chapter One in which Ponyboy introduces a member of his gang to the reader. Then, introduce someone you know using the same sentence structure that Ponyboy uses in the paragraph.
  
  
  
  
  Here is an example that I started to write about my husband, Al. I use the sentence structure from the paragraph about Dallas Winston on page 10.
  

  If I had to pick the real rock in my life, it would be Alexander Moore – my husband. I always look forward to getting home after work, for then I can sit down to enjoy the dinners he always prepares. He has a love for cooking, with fresh ingredients and his best pots and sometimes adventurous recipes. His hair is blond, almost touches his ears..,
  

  
  
• Thursday: Today you will finish the draft of your person introduction.
  
• ****end of the first week in January:
  The Outsiders comprehension test on Chapters 1-8.****

 English 11 Pre-AP

• Monday: Posters are due.
• Wednesday: OPEN HOUSE TODAY! And revised Integrated Papers are due - attach it to your rough copy.
• ****Special Guest Lecturer will be here on January 7th to give a seminar on Lyrical Poetry.****

Writing 12

• MONDAY/WEDNESDAY online classes: Today you should prepare your gifts of writing. Give someone a gift of your writing (like the one I made for Al and which I showed you in class or something you think of all on your own) and give it to someone over the holidays. Bring a copy of it or a photo of it to class on January 5th.

Week at a Glance: Dec 7-11

English 11
Before you come to class, you'd be smart to pre-read the Act at http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/ as this site has the Shakspearean English and the Modern English side-by-side. You'll get MUCH more out of class if you do this. Also, if you forget your text at school you can always use the site to practice for your Readers' Theatre.

• Monday: 2.1 and 2.4 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 3 in Readers' Theatre. We'll start AT THE BELL as the Act is a big one and we'll need to use every second of the block.
• Tuesday: 1.1 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 3 in Readers' Theatre.
• Wednesday: 2.1 and 2.4 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 4 in Readers' Theatre.
• Thursday: 1.1 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 4 in Readers' Theatre.
• Friday: 2.1 and 2.4 must be ready to perform their roles if signed up for ACT 5 in Readers' Theatre. COMPREHENSION TEST TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

English 8

• Monday: Today I will give you a situation and you and your group will discuss how you would handle it if the situation were real. Why are we doing this? To get you in the right mindset for our novel study!
• Wednesday: Today we'll start reading The Outsiders. If you miss class today, be sure to read Chapter One of the novel so you're ready for next day. Homework assigned today: Character Chart.
• Friday: DUE: Character chart. Today you will write about someone in your life in the same style as S.E. Hinton does when she has Ponyboy introduce all the important people in his life.

English 11 Pre-AP
This week is all about communicating what you learned in your inquiry in a visual way. While you are working on the poster, I will be meeting with you as individuals to discuss your writing so that we both know specifically what you need to work on throughout Term 2.

• Tuesday: Bring everything you need to work on your poster.
• Thursday: Peer evaluations of posters today. Then further work on the poster.
• Note: Posters are due on Monday the 14th.

Writing 12

• Tuesday: Today you should bring your earliest memory piece to class. We'll workshop it.
• Thursday: Due - your polished Earliest Memory Piece.