2nd Semester 5th week's lessons 2/25 - 2/29 - 2008

We now start William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; let us enjoy the journey. As you read use your notes in the margins, they will help you to understand the tragedy. Also you will have an extra credit opportunity this week - check the board in class.

Monday 2/25
1. Review Poetry Quiz
2. See ABC's "Shakespeare Six O’clock News"
3. Read pages 982-988 (homework)
4. Study Unit 11 do “The Last Word” Vocabulary (homework)

Tuesday 2/26
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Discuss Anticipation Guide
3. Read S.S.R. Book 30 min (homework)

Wednesday 2/27
1. Discuss Handouts: Plot Structure, Drama Terms, and The Life of Shakespeare (homework)
2. See Understanding Shakespeare

Thursday 2/28
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
2. Read and discuss The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet “The Prologue -Act I “ (homework)

Friday 2/29
1. Unit 11 Vocabulary Test
2. See discussion of Act I
3. Act I Packet (homework)

Please Read and think through the play.

2nd semester 4th week's lesson 2/19 - 2/22 - 08

Hello, please check your Aeries account and if you have questions see me. You have two test this week - be prepared. Also make sure you have all the parts of the essay we have been working on: writing prompt, notes, outline, thesis, body paragraphs, introduction and conclusion, rough draft, and final copy.

Tuesday 2/19
1. Essay due
2. Review Unit 10 Vocab
3. Review “She…Brooms”
4. Read pages 138-145 “O What is That Sound” (homework)

Wednesday 2/20
1. Unit 10 Vocabulary Test
2. Review Reading
3. Do “O What…” Packet (homework)
4. Review Week 13 and 14 Idioms (homework)

Thursday 2/21
1. Idiom Test
2. Review Packet
3. Read pages 288 – 292 Frost’s and Whitman’s Road poems (homework)

Friday 2/22
1. Discuss Poems
2. Read and discuss “Theme for English B”
3. Do Unit 11 Vocabulary (homework)

This week let's really get involve and think!

2nd Semester Lesson # 3 2/12 - 2/15 - 2008

Let's work together and put an essay together. Please work step by step with the class as we assemble "The Wreck of the Hesperus" essay. Also please check Aeries and know where you are in our class. If you did not earn all your S.S.R. reading points you may make them up Tuesday only.
Finally I will not be providing tissue for the class anymore - you have use my thirty boxes I buy for the year. However, you may bring a box for ten or fifteen points extra credit by Wednesday.

Tuesday 2/12
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Do Unit 9 Corrections (homework) {in spiral notebook}
3. Review “Hesperus” Thesis (35 points)
4. Work on Body Paragraphs (Type three, MLA format) Homework
5. Start Unit 10 Vocabulary (homework)

Wednesday 2/13
1. Review Body Paragraphs (50 points)
2. Finish Unit 10 Vocab (homework)
3. Type Introduction and Conclusion (homework)

Thursday 2/14
1. Review Unit 10 Vocabulary (70 points)
2. Review Introduction and Conclusions (45 points)
3. Type “Hesperus” Essay (homework)

Friday 2/15
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Vocabulary Pretest
2. Edit Essays
3. Read and discuss “She Sweeps with Many Colored Brooms” Dickinson
4. Type final copy of Essay (homework)

Please make sure you understand what we are doing or come for help.

Second semester 2nd lesson 2/4 - 2/8 - 2008

This week we start our next writing assignment a cause and effect essay. We also start our next set of vocabulary words. You may follow the format and do extra credit cards, which are due Wednesday on the podium before the bell. (no late cards!) Any questions come and see Miss Takeda or myself.

Monday 2/4
1. Review Vocabulary Test and take second Test
2. See a “Storm scene”
3. Read and discuss “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
4. Do all of Unit 9 Vocabulary (homework 70 points)

Tuesday 2/5
1. Review Unit 9 Vocabulary
2. Discuss “The Wreck…”
3. “The Wreck of the Hesperus” Packet (homework 70 points)

Wednesday 2/6
1. Finish discussing poem
2. Finish Packet
3. Read pages: 130, 873-878, 979, 1155-1156
Reading the Prompt, Planning, Drafting, Cause to Effect

Thursday 2/7
1. Review "The Wreck of the Hesperus" Packet
2. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
3. Review Reading (The essay)
4. Study for tests and Read S.S.R. book

Friday 2/8
1. Vocabulary and Reading
2. Review Reading (The essay)
3. Start “Hesperus” Essay develop a Thesis statement