Juniors – Week of 2/8/10
Monday, 2/8: Hamlet Act III quiz; Log 3.4 due today; poem(s) due today; sonnet assignment; start reading/listening to Act IV; HW: vocabulary sentences 41-60 due Thursday (subject is Hamlet – 10 words 2 x each); sonnet due on Friday; log TBA
Tuesday, 2/9: Act IV; log TBA; HW: Ummmm, remember grammar? Well, let’s start with a little punctuation refresher: Underlining & Quotation Marks – pp. 630-635 – complete exercises 2 & 3 on your own paper, handwritten or typed, due tomorrow.
Wednesday, 2/10: Act IV/V; log TBA
Thursday, 2/11: vocabulary review game; finish Hamlet?; log TBA
Friday, 2/12: DEAR; vocabulary quiz; sonnet due; finish Hamlet?; log TBA
Sophomores – Week of 2/8/10
Monday, 2/9: WOW; AIMS practice #4 – grade and correctives (due tomorrow); talk about narratives & make qualities of narrative posters in groups; Elephants (focus on verbs) and vocab to #59: HW: AIMS practice #5 & correctives for #4
Tuesday, 2/10: WOW; AIMS #4 correctives due; grade #5 – correctives due tomorrow; get in narratives groups for powerful verbs activity; HW: AIMS #5 correctives & RE-DO verbs worksheet
Wednesday, 2/11: WOW; AIMS #5 correctives due; RC day! 
& no homework
Thursday, 2/12: WOW; Elephants and vocabulary; narrative planning; HW: AIMS #6
Friday, 2/13: WOW quiz; AIMS #6 due today – grade and correctives due Monday; narrative outline; Elephants; HW TBA
Juniors!
We missed a lot of you today! Don’t forget — due on Monday: Log 3.4; father/confession/my story poem(s); study for Act III quiz. If you’re wondering what happened on Friday, 2/5:
1) Students “transformed” Claudius’ confession into words they would use to say the same thing – line by line. It’s a quiz grade, and it’s in the public documents
2) We talked about the three Hamlet projects coming due. That handout is also in public documents.
3) We watched a short, silly “adaptation” of Hamlet by famous Shakespeare scholar, Matt Groening. Google Simpsons Hamlet…maybe you can find it on YouTube?
4) Oh, and I collected flashcards for 41-60. Well, I forgot to do this in 5th hour. Catchya Monday.
Sophomores – Week of 2/1/10
Monday, 2/1: Finish grading AIMS practice #2 (Recycling) & correctives model; passive/active voice exercise; elephants – vocab through 59; HW: correctives for AIMS practices 1 & 2; intro and conclusion rough draft — you should have ALL FIVE rough draft paragraphs tomorrow!
Tuesday, 2/2: correctives 2 & 3 due today; rough draft intro & conclusion due today; edit rough drafts in class – sentence fluency and word choice!; elephants
Wednesday 2/3: verbs packet (this is homework – due tomorrow!); field trip to word cemetary; turn in AIMS practices 1 & 2 (correctives)
Thursday, 2/4: AIMS practice #3; edit five-paragraph essays; HW: turn your essay into a final — write in pen, one side of paper only!
Friday, 2/5: essay finals due today; AIMS practice #3 correctives due today; AIMS practice #4 in class
Juniors – Week of 2/1/10
Monday, 2/1: Vocab 21-40 review game(s); vocab test; Hamlet act II quiz; HW: vocab 41-60 flashcards due Friday — sentences about Hamlet
Tuesday, 2/3: poetry (fathers/confession/my story — your poem due next Monday — write two for extra credit)
Wednesday, 2/4: Hamlet Act III; log(s) TBA
Thursday, 2/5: Hamlet Act III log(s) TBA (quiz?)
Friday, 2/6: Flashcards 41-60 due today; Hamlet Act IV; hand out Hamlet x 3 projects
Sophomores – Week of 1/25/10
Monday, 1/25: Conjunction worksheets — sentence fluency exercises; model body paragraphs with DETAIL (examples and explanations); rewrite TREE paragraphs (rough drafts) in class — due tomorrwo; HW: finish conjunction packet — due tomorrow
Tuesday, 1/26: Body paragraph re-writes due today; sentence fluency; intros and conclusions; sentence combining worksheet due tomorrow
Wednesday, 1/27: Intro AIMS reading practice packets and first practice together; Media Center for book talk
Thursday, 1/28: Elephants & vocabulary; AIMS readings; rough draft editing and transformation
Friday, 1/29: Elephants & vocabulary; AIMS readings; rough draft editing and transformation
Juniors – Week of 1/25/10
Monday, 1/25: FD sailboats due today (extra credit); Finish reading Act I (what we don’t finish in class is homework); HW: Log I.2 and I.3 OR I.5 due tomorrow; vocabulary sentences 21-40 (choose 10: word, pos, definition, x 2 sentences each – no topic) due Thursday
Tuesday, 1/26: Start Act II – log(s) TBA & finish reading Act II at home — you have until Monday, 2/1 to do this; also write a log entry for both 2.1 & 2.2!
Wednesday, 1/27: R & G Are Dead
Thursday, 1/28: Vocabulary Review game (bring your flashcards!); R & G Are Dead
Friday, 1/29: Vocabulary test; R & G Are Dead
Attention, Juniors!
The Hamlet log form is not available under the documents link. My mistake — I will fix this on Monday. Go ahead and use the model I provided if need be. I’ll make new blank copies available on Monday as well.
Juniors – Week of (MLK) 1/19/10
Tuesday, 1/19: Finish reading Frederick Douglass’ narrative; intro (prior knowledge) critical theory; HW: Flashcards words 21-40 due Friday
Wednesday, 1/20: Intro Hamlet; critical/literary theory groups (access this packet here — link to important documents, left) — be ready to give a five-minute mini lesson on “your” theory tomorrow
Thursday, 1/21: Critical theory mini lessons; start reading Hamlet
Friday, 1/22: Flashcards 21-40 due today; read Hamlet & log assignment TBA (due Monday) — UPDATE: we read Act I, Scene 1 today in class – for Monday, complete a log entry for this scene.
Sophomores – Week of 1/19/10
Tuesday, 1/19: “If you had asked me, when I was ten years old, what I wanted to do, I’d have said…” web due tomorrow; The Children’s March video & study guide due tomorrow
Wednesday, 1/20: webs due today; finish Children’s March & study guides due; work on 11-34 elephants vocab; rough drafts of three body paragraphs due tomorrow!!!
Thursday, 1/21: body paragraph rough drafts due today; finish 11-34 elephants vocab; read elephants
Friday, 1/22: elephants vocab quiz after games and review; talk about supporting details in body paragraphs — more on this on Monday
