March 25-29

March 25-29

Monday: 
Periods 1,2,4,5:

Review for test on Tuesday/Wednesday
Vocabulary words:
corpulent, jauntily, apathetic, obstinate, complacent, superfluous, languid, supercilious, garrulous, vicarious, denizen, laudable, nebulous, elusive, vacuous, complacent, ingratiate, insiduous, permeate, dilatory

Notebook #3 Due  120 points
1) Reading/Discussion questions (70 points)

2) Three X-Word puzzles (30 points)

3) Storyboard (20 points)

Independent Book #2 due (50 points)

Tuesday:
Periods 4&5
Final Exam The Great Gatsby

Wednesday:
Movie

Thursday:
Movie

Friday:
Persuasive Essay practice/Take Home

2/25-3/1


Monday:
All Periods
Read Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby
Note page numbers on vocabulary words and copy sentence with word
Complete Part A
Periods 1 & 2:
2nd independent book due Friday 3/8 (next Fri)
Periods 4 & 5: 1st independent book due Friday 3/8


Notebook #2 Due today:
1) Categorize/Synonyms: Transcendentalism Vocabulary
2) Foldable/Flashcards
3) Reading Guide Questions Thoreau
4) Elizabeth Peratrovich/Thoreau: three similarities
5) KWL Chart Roaring Twenties
10 Important Events
3 Problems that are still concerns today

February 11-15, 2013

NO school Thursday and Friday
Parent/Teacher Conferences
TWTH schedule 

Monday (Tuesday schedule):
Periods 4,5,6
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day
Presentations
Cornell Notes: Include at least three big ideas
and your thoughts about them. 

Tuesday (Wednesday schedule)
Periods 1,2,5
Read pp 72-79, pp 80-92
pp 97-101

Wednesday (Thursday Schedule): 
Periods 1,2,3,41st Independent Book Due per 1 & 2

Finish reading 

Quiz 

Begin discussion about Roaring Twenties
in preparation for The Great Gatsby
Return Thoreau and check out Gatsby


Thursday:
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Friday:
Parent/Teacher Conferences

January 28 - February 1

Monday:
Period 1,2,4,5

Be sure Quick Write #1 is completed
Do Convention Exercise
Correct in class
Period 1&2
Look over essay assignment
Cast The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

Tuesday:
Periods 4 &5
Read to p20

Wednesday:
Periods 1,2
Read to p 20
Period 5:
Read 21-37

Thursday:
Periods 1,2
Read 21-37
Period 4:
Read 21-37

Friday:
All classes:
Read up through 44

January 21-25

M&T - No school

Wednesday:

Periods 1,2,5:

Same as above

Thursday: Periods 4&5

4th: Read from Walden and Handouts

Recite quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Friday:

Begin The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

January 12-16

Monday:
Periods 1&2:
POL presentations

PM
Course Fair

Tuesday:
Periods 4 & 5:
POL presentations

Wednesday:
Periods 1,2,5:
Same as above

Thursday: 
Periods 1&2
Complete transcendentalists study
Quiz
Period 4:
Complete POL presentations
 
Friday:
Periods 1,2,5:
Introduce Dead Poet's Society poetry
Begin movie
Period 4:
Complete transcendentalists study

Second Semester 

January 7-11

Monday:
POL Partner Practice
Watch past winners presentations

Tuesday:
Periods 4 & 5:
Practice poems by writing the lines down
30 minutes work on memorization

Wednesday:
Periods 1,2,5:
Same as above
Practice reciting poem with partner
Critique each other

Thursday: 
Periods 1,2,4:
Practice reciting poem with partner
Critique each other

Friday:
Final preparation
Practice performances