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17 March 2014 English IV Do Now: Get ready to present! Presentation on Frankenstein extras Frankenstein on film Prezi. 17 March 2014 PSAT-10 Do Now: Get out worksheets on Idiom & Diction and a highlighter! Looking at the 9 weeks test Writing skills: Modifiers & Irregular verbs
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17 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Get ready to present! • Presentation on Frankensteinextras • Frankenstein on film Prezi
17 March 2014 • PSAT-10 • Do Now: Get out worksheets on Idiom & Diction and a highlighter! • Looking at the 9 weeks test • Writing skills: Modifiers & Irregular verbs • HW-Math!
17 March 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 93 • 4th 9 weeks poetry response assignment • Contemporary novel project assignment • Poetry-reading and discussing Love and Longing & Humor and Satire collections • HW-Pick a novel from the list by thisFriday!
18 March 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • Nonfiction! • Talking terms/Elements of Fin NF • Reading/Discussing a work of NF • Reading/Answering questions about a work of NF
18 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Correcting common errors, Fragments and Run-ons A • The Victorian Period, background • HW-Vocab quiz 22; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 3
18 March 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Tone 93 • 20thCentury, background • HW-Vocab quiz 22; Buy Ocean at the End of the Lane before class on April 8
19 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Correcting common errors, Fragments and Run-ons A • The Victorian Period, background • HW-Vocab quiz 22; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 4
19 March 2014 • PSAT-10 • Math! • HW-Simon Quiz 5
19 March 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 94 • Poetry-reading and discussing Milestones& The Natural World collections • HW-PR #1; Pick contemporary novel!
20 March 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • More Nonfiction! • Discussion of MS Tamale essay • Groups reading 2 sets of NF essays • Discussion on their connections • If time, start film…
20 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz! • Vocabulary quiz 22-Latin and Greek Unit 1 • Read: Tennyson’s “Lady of Shallott” and “Ulysses” • Respond: Analyze the conflict experienced by the protagonists and how it emphasizes the overall themes in these poems. • HW-Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 3
20 March 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz; Tone 94 • Vocabulary quiz 22-Latin and Greek Unit 1 • Read: Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard” and Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” • Watch: “Life in the trenches” • Respond: Write a analysis of the two poems, comparing and contrasting the imagery, sound devices, and structure used.
21 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz! • Vocabulary quiz 22-Latin and Greek Unit 1 • Read: Tennyson’s “Lady of Shallott” and “Ulysses” • Respond: Analyze the conflict experienced by the protagonists and how it emphasizes the overall themes in these poems. • HW-Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 4
21 March 2014 • PSAT-10 • Do Now: Ferris time! • Ferris Bueller5, 15 mins. • Simon quiz 5 • Discussing CR section from 9 weeks test • HW-Verbal packet 5 due.
21 March 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 95; PR #1 • Discussing contemporary novel picks • Poetry-2013 MC practice, 45minutes timed • HW-Get a copy of contemporary noveland start reading/working : )
24 March 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • Finishing up film • Discussing bias in it • HW-Bring NF book for in class reading
24 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Subject-Verb agreement A • Read: Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” • Respond: Analyze the relationships of these two couples and what they reveal • to the reader about the two speakers. • HW-Vocab quiz 23; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 3
24 March 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Tone 95 • Read: Eliot’s “Preludes” and “The Hollow Men” • Watch: “The Hollow Men” • Respond: Write an analysis of imagery in both poems. How does it reveal what • Eliot is saying about modern life? • HW-Vocab quiz 23
25 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Subject-Verb agreement A • Read: Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” • Respond: Analyze the relationships of these two couples and what they reveal • to the reader about the two speakers. • HW-Vocab quiz 23; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 4
25 March 2014 • PSAT-10 • Do Now: Get out Verbal packet 5 and a highlighter! • Receive packet 6; due April 2nd • Writing skills: Subjunctive & CoordinationSubjunctive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErbphJRKu74Coordination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NG70E1JAs • HW-Math
25 March 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 96 • Poetry-2008 AP Essay, 40 minutes timed • HW-PR #2
26 March 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • Do Now: Get out your nonfiction book. • In-class reading time! • HW-Bring book for in-class rough draft.
26 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Get ready for quiz! • Vocabulary quiz 23-Latin and Greek Unit 2 • Hardy’s “Channel Firing” and Housman’s “Is My Team Ploughing?” • Response: Analyze the use of irony and anticlimax in these poems and what they reveal about Victorian life and concerns. • HW-Read Doyle’s “The Final Problem”; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 3
26 March 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz; Tone 96 • Vocabulary quiz 23-Latin and Greek Unit 2 • Read: Yeats’s “Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “Easter, 1916” • Watch: “The Easter Rising of 1916” • Respond: Some critics consider Yeats to bethe first Modern poet, while others see him • as continuing the Romantic tradition. Read other Yeats poems in our book (“The Second Coming” 923 and “The Wild Swans at Coole” 982) then argue whether you see him as a poet with Romantic or Modern concerns. Use examples from the 4 poems as support.
27 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Get ready for quiz! • Vocabulary quiz 23-Latin and Greek Unit 2 • Hardy’s “Channel Firing” and Housman’s “Is My Team Ploughing?” • Response: Analyze the use of irony and anticlimax in these poems and what they reveal about Victorian life and concerns. • HW-Read Doyle’s “The Final Problem”; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 4
27 March 2014 • PSAT-10 • Math! • HW-Simon quiz 6
27 March 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 97; PR #2 • Poetry-Workshop of essay from last class, revise and type final draft • HW-Bring rough and final drafts of essay
28 March 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • In-class analysis writing, based on the NF work you read • HW-Bring rough draft to finish up and conference on with Schooler.
28 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now:Pronoun-Antecedent agreement A • Quiz on HW reading • Doyle background • Start watching “The Reichenbach Fall” • HW-Vocab quiz 24; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 3
28 March 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Tone 97 • Read: Thomas’s “Fern Hill” and “Do Not Go Gentle” • Watch: • Respond: Compare and contrast Thomas’s thoughts on youth and old age as • presented in these poems. • HW-Vocab quiz 24
31 March 2014 • English IV • Do Now:Pronoun-Antecedent agreement A • Quiz on HW reading • Doyle background • Start watching “The Reichenbach Fall” • HW-Vocab quiz 24; Buy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before class on April 3
31 March 2014 • PSAT-10 • Do Now: Get ready for Ferris 5 check! • Ferris Bueller6, 11 mins. • Simon Quiz 6 • HW-Verbal packet 6 due
31 March 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 98 • Prose-Reading and discussing
1 April 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • Finish up final draft • Conference with Schooler • HW-Type final draft of essay; bring rough draft.
1 April 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz! • Vocabulary quiz 24-Latin and Greek Unit 3 • Finish watching “The Reichenbach Fall” • Compare/contrast writing • HW-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!
1 April 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz; Tone 98 • Vocabulary quiz 24-Latin and Greek Unit 3 • Read: Heaney’s “Digging” and “The Grauballe Man” • Watch: • Respond: Discuss how the poet’s use of comparisons in both works reveal his themes.
2 April 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Prepare for quiz! • Vocabulary quiz 24-Latin and Greek Unit 3 • Finish watching “The Reichenbach Fall” • Compare/contrast writing • HW-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!
2 April 2014 • PSAT-10 • Do Now: Get out Verbal packet 6 and a highlighter! • Receive 7; due April 10th • Writing-PSAT practice in groups • HW-Math
2 April 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 99 • Prose-Reading and discussing • HW-PR #3
3 April 2014 • Dual Credit/English IV • Discussing Inquiry paper • Reading examples in Sticks and Stones • HW-Bring 3 questions for inquiry
3 April 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Pronoun forms A • The 20th Century background notes • Assigning reading schedule and journal for Hitchhiker’s Guide • HW- Vocab quiz 25
3 April 2014 • ACC English IV • Do Now: Tone 99 • Read: Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” • Respond: Activity with art • HW-Read Achebe’s “Marriage is a Private Affair”; Vocab quiz 25
4 April 2014 • English IV • Do Now: Pronoun forms A • The 20th Century background notes • Assigning reading schedule and journal for Hitchhiker’s Guide • HW- Vocab quiz 25
4 April 2014 • PSAT-10 • Math! • HW-Simon quiz 7
4 April 2014 • AP English IV • Do Now: Tone 100; PR #3 • Prose-2013 MC practice, timed