Day 90:
Discuss whole book
HW: prepare a list of interpretive or applied questions that relate to the whole course in preparation for our Socratic Seminar next class. Use this worksheet if you so desire.
Day 89:
Discuss book (October/ November)
HW: finish book
Day 88:
July & August Poetry work pablo neruda poems
Write your own ode to a food product from the country of your passport (kimbab, apple pie, scones, etc)
finals discussion
HW: September & October
Day 87:
discuss May & June- Roberto, John, doves, Mama Elena,
student led discussion
Finals talk
HW: July & August and finals proposal
Day 79:
Senior wiki:College lifestyle wiki
Quiz
character analysis
HW: Read through page 178
Day 78:
Discuss reading
PBJ
small group discussion
HW: read through chapter 179 (pg 140)
Day 77:
Discuss reading
read chapter 73 & activity
HW: read through chapter 149
Day 76:
Get book
research Autism/ Asperger's
Interview w/ author autism test
Begin reading book-
HW: read through chapter 71
Day 75:
Digital Storytelling on message of story (due at end of class)
Watch movie
Day 74:
Discuss whole book
Review goals for unit
Watch movie
HW: bring digital camera to class next time
Day 73:
Discuss book 3 to this point- what is being planned? [[file/view/The Second Coming.doc|The Second Coming.doc]]
Announce new book for unit
Begin movie
HW: Finish book (pg 265) & 10 post-it annotations
Day 72:
Discuss Book 2
Group project to determine next book
Vote Text Types survey
HW: Read to pg 224
Day 71:
Questions answered
Small group discussions
reading time- finish book 2
HW: if you do not finish Book 2, it becomes HW
Day 70:
Questions answered Allusions work
Reading time in groups
HW: Read to page 155
Day 69:
Discuss reading/ big questions
1980's England history satirical map of the World
videos
HW: Read through page 108
Day 68:
Review reading- difficulties? Character organizer- discuss facts
Symbolism
HW: read to page 71
Day 67:
Finish speeches
Discuss unit/ journal
Keynote on images
Read article Graphic novels for beginners
Check out books
HW: Read through chapter 3
Day 65 & 66:
Speech presentations
Day 64:
Peer review of speeches w/ feedback [[file/view/Speech rubric 3 10.pages|Speech rubric 3 10.pages]]
HW: be ready to present speeches tomorrow
Day 63: I have a dream
"I have a dream" analysis [[file/view/I have a dream.pages|I have a dream.pages]]
Speech work time
HW: keep working on speech- peer editing & work time tomorrow
Day 62:
Holocaust poetry
Civil Rights songs
HW: Begin to write speeches
Day 61:
Discuss dreams
Finish books- discuss fathers/ sons Schindler's List
HW: dreams work on sticky
Day 58:
Holocaust/ Judaism background
Get books
HW: read chapters 1-3
Day 57:
More Harlem Renaissance poetry
Group work on last 5 poems- present next class
HW: write a "dream poem" for your people (upload to turnitin OR bring hard copy to class)
Day 56:
Finish Justice Unit- big ideas? Essential questions?
Begin Dreams/ Persecution unit
Harlem Renaissance- Langston Hughes (on Dreams and persecution page)
HW: bring to class/ or have on a "sticky" on your computer the beginning of a list of "big dreams" you have for the world- not just for yourself
Day 55:
Write an essay comparing your newspaper article/ current event to one or more of the novels in the unit. How is the issue of justice still relevant today? Is it? Which is more important: Mercy or Justice? How can this be shown in your article? This should be well written, complete and uploaded to turnitin.com at the end of class. Turn in the article to the "in box".
Day 54:
Discuss chapters
Listen to podcast of chapter 29 & discuss
Read chapters 30/31 in groups and answer questions
HW: Handout on "Sympathy" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar & find current event article
Day 53:
Discuss chapters
HW: Read through page 225
Find an article about justice or injustice and bring it to class (Hard copy) by FRIDAY (B&D) or MONDAY (F)
Day 52:
Song lyrics" 'Termination Sunday"
Discuss Jefferson
Journal
HW: read through chapter 24
Day 51:
Student led class discussion
clarification
HW: read through chapter 17
DAY 50:
Discuss chapters 1-6 and the injustices present
Discuss characters and determine main facts
HW: read through chapter 12
Semester 2
Day 49:
Get A Lesson Before Dying
Background info in Jigsaw/ listen to NEA's radio show
Read and discuss Chapter 1 &2 and their relationship to the sonnet "If We Must Die"
HW: Read through Chapter 6 (pg 50)
Day 48:
Finish Shawshank Redemption
HW: Journal: Discuss, in 500 words, the justice present in the movie. Is there any? Turn in to TURNITIN.com
Bring Cry, the Beloved Country to class tomorrow to return it to Textbook room
Day 47:
Watch Shawshank Redemption
HW: Read "If We Must Die"
Post to the "discussion tab" on the "JUSTICE" page
Day 46:
Finals
Day 45:
Discuss Book 2
Read chapter 30
Finish movie
HW: finish novel
Day 44:
Project presentations
discuss chapters 18-23
Read 24-25
HW: read 26- 30 (finish book 2)
Day 43: Survey
Assignment [[file/view/ Cry, themes.pages| Cry, themes.pages]]
Watch youtube clip Johannesburg townships
Watch Cry the Beloved Country
HW: read chapter 18- 23
Day 42:
Discuss Research papers
Discuss Chapters 5-9
discuss choice for next book
read chapter 10-11
HW: 12-17 (Finish book 1)
day 41:
Collect HW
Discuss South Africa History
Get novels
Read Chapters 1-4 in class
HW: Read chapters 5-9
Day 40:
Collect Rough drafts from those who didn't bring them on Monday/ Tuesday
Watch and discuss end of MOV movie
Begin watching Cry, the Beloved Country
HW: Apartheid worksheet
Justice sentences
Day 39:
Finish play
Writing assignment:
Journal- which character was most just? Which character least just? Was justice carried out?
Day 38:
Read into 4.1
HW: Worksheet
Day 37:
Peer edit research papers
Read through 3.2
HW: revise paper
TURNITIN.COM info: login: 3638572
password: graduation
Day 34:
What is Justice?
Bible verses
Begin Merchant of Venice- 1.1
HW: Worksheet
Day 33:
End of unit discussion/ book discussion
Research paper dates
HW: Outside reading books, research paper RD due November 16, FD Due November 22 8:00 am
Day 32:
Oral assessment
HW: 1 paragraph reflecting on assessment- how did it go, how did you do?
1 paragraph- should your book be censored? How do you feel about censorship/ book banning in general?
Make these GOOD length paragraphs!!!! (1+-2 pages)
Day 31:
Censorship Keynote
Discuss assessment & research paper
novel discussions/ large group discussions in class
HW: finish novels
Day 30:
Pleasantville clips
Group dicussions
HW: decided by groups
Day 29:
Discuss novels in class
HW: decided by groups
Day 28:
Watch PSA's
Discuss books in lit circles
HW: decided by groups
Day 27:
Discuss Censorship
Get into groups- create a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for your assigned side of the censorship argument
HW: decided by groups [[file/view/banned books HW sheet.pages|banned books HW sheet.pages]]
Day 26:
In class essay
check off P&P project
Meet in groups to determine banned book HW #1
Day 25:
Quiz
Pick banned book
discuss novel as a whole/ essential questions
HW: get Banned book and be ready to read it
UNIT TEST (in class essay) next class
Day 24:
Watch Pemberly scene
Discuss chapters
HW: finish P&P and pick banned book
Day 23:
Class led discussion
HW: Read through chapter 55
Day 22:
Discuss chapters 30-41
Analyze proposals
HW: Read through 47 and (complete project for 21-61 DUE 10/19/10 by 12:00 noon)
Day 21:
Quiz- Fun!!
Writing #2
Discuss book- Charlotte's marriage, Lady Catherine
HW: Read through chapter 41 (Work on project)
Day 20:
Pride and Prejudice quiz
Writing workshop #1
Discuss P&P
HW: Read through chapter 30
Day 19:
Quiz (Absent students please see me to make up)
Review chapters 1-11 and project
Writing workshop intro
HW: read through chapter 20
Day 17:
Finish My Fair Lady
15 minute Keynote challenge- Pride and Prejudice
HW: resume and cover letter (Due Tuesday, 9/28/10 at 8:00 am)
Day 16:
Watch My Fair Lady
HW: resume and cover letter (Due Tuesday, 9/28/10 at 8:00 am)
Day 15:
Finish play
Discuss "essay"
HW: read epilogue of Pygmalion and begin working on resume/ cover letter (Due September 28- 8:00 AM)
Day 14:
Watch My Fair Lady
HW: read outside reading book
Day 13:
Read play
HW: Get and begin reading outside reading book (Due at end of 1st quarter)
Day 12:
Read "Pygmalion" myth
Continue to read Pygmalion through act 2?
Cinderella
Discuss "middle class morality"
HW: continue to work on essay, due Thursday ATTENTION: THERE IS NO TURNITIN.COM NUMBER- we will upload it later!!!
Day 11:
Discuss big ideas and essential questions
DOWNLOAD Pygmalion
Read to line: MRS. PEARCE [to Pickering] Well, did you ever hear anything like that, sir?(Block B)
Read to line" HIGGINS: Wrap her up in paper... (Block D)
"Is there a fire in the kitchen" (Block F)
HW: work on essay- due THURSDAY/ Monday (F BLOCK)
Day 10:
Journal: who loved snow flower more, the sworn sisters or Lily? Who would you rather have had with you at the end?
or- have you ever said things that you later regret? What was the repercussions of those words?
Class discussion on book as a whole, big ideas/ essential questions
HW: begin working on "essay"- due THURSDAY
Day 9:
Quiz
Discuss "Sons"- "Winter"
HW: Finish novel
Day 8: (some classes on senior retreat but responsible for work anyway)
Discuss book so far, [[file/view/SFSF - pg 183.pages|SFSF - pg 183.pages]]
Review outlines
HW: Re-write outline and read to page 214
Day 7:
Quiz
Discussion
Essay discussion
HW: Read to 183 and outline essay
Day 6:
quiz on reading
student led class discussion
posters in groups
HW: to page 167
Day 5:
Discuss the book so far (to page 32)
NPR listening
HW: read to page 99
Day 3:
In class essay
HW: begin outside reading and research Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice- Which do you want to read for our third book? Why? Be able to justify your book choice and explain your research techniques.
Day 2:
Turn in Summer reading assignments
Go over syllabus and course
discuss summer reading in general
get into summer reading groups to begin project [[file/view/summer reading assignment 12(2).pages|summer reading assignment 12(2).pages]]
Final presentations
Day 91 & 92:
Work on project- Rubrics
Day 90:
Discuss whole book
HW: prepare a list of interpretive or applied questions that relate to the whole course in preparation for our Socratic Seminar next class. Use this worksheet if you so desire.
Day 89:
Discuss book (October/ November)
HW: finish book
Day 88:
July & August
Poetry work
pablo neruda poems
Write your own ode to a food product from the country of your passport (kimbab, apple pie, scones, etc)
finals discussion
HW: September & October
Day 87:
discuss May & June- Roberto, John, doves, Mama Elena,
student led discussion
Finals talk
HW: July & August and finals proposal
Day 86:
Discuss March and April
homework survey
HW: May and June & write 5 questions
Day 85:
Discuss January & February
Mexican revolution as a part of the novel
Magic realism
HW: March and April
Try to locate your grill/ burners for our cooking class Tuesday (D and F)
tortillaDay 84:
Cook tortillas
Get new books & read January and February
HW: finish January and February
Day 83:
Present Mexican history assignment
Magic Realism
HW: work on Curious Incident project
Day 82:
Create rubric
Mexican History assignment
HW: work on Curious Incident project
Day 81:
Discuss novel
Discuss assessment
DUE APRIL 29 @ end of class
Discuss Final
DUE on your finals day- or the day before if you choose
Day 80:
scavenger hunt
HW: finish book
Day 79:
Senior wiki:College lifestyle wiki
Quiz
character analysis
HW: Read through page 178
Day 78:
Discuss reading
PBJ
small group discussion
HW: read through chapter 179 (pg 140)
Day 77:
Discuss reading
read chapter 73 & activity
HW: read through chapter 149
Day 76:
Get book
research Autism/ Asperger's
Interview w/ author
autism test
Begin reading book-
HW: read through chapter 71
Day 75:
Digital Storytelling on message of story (due at end of class)
Watch movie
Day 74:
Discuss whole book
Review goals for unit
Watch movie
HW: bring digital camera to class next time
Day 73:
Discuss book 3 to this point- what is being planned?
Announce new book for unit
Begin movie
HW: Finish book (pg 265) & 10 post-it annotations
Day 72:
Discuss Book 2
Group project to determine next book
Vote Text Types survey
HW: Read to pg 224
Day 71:
Questions answered
Small group discussions
reading time- finish book 2
HW: if you do not finish Book 2, it becomes HW
Day 70:
Questions answered
Allusions work
Reading time in groups
HW: Read to page 155
Day 69:
Discuss reading/ big questions
1980's England history satirical map of the World
videos
HW: Read through page 108
Day 68:
Review reading- difficulties?
Character organizer- discuss facts
Symbolism
HW: read to page 71
Day 67:
Finish speeches
Discuss unit/ journal
Keynote on images
Read article Graphic novels for beginners
Check out books
HW: Read through chapter 3
Day 65 & 66:
Speech presentations
Day 64:
Peer review of speeches w/ feedback
HW: be ready to present speeches tomorrow
Day 63:
I have a dream
"I have a dream" analysis
Speech work time
HW: keep working on speech- peer editing & work time tomorrow
Day 62:
Holocaust poetry
Civil Rights songs
HW: Begin to write speeches
Day 61:
Discuss dreams
Finish books- discuss fathers/ sons
Schindler's List
HW: dreams work on sticky
Day 60:
Timeline activity
Discuss chapter 4
Mauthausen camp
Auschwitz camp
HW: read chapter 5-6 (pg 96)
Day 59:
Present poetry in groups
Discuss chapters 1-3
- what is Elie's dream?
- How has he begun to change?
Chapter 3 analysis work (see Dreams page)Day 58:
Holocaust/ Judaism background
Get books
HW: read chapters 1-3
Day 57:
More Harlem Renaissance poetry
Group work on last 5 poems- present next class
HW: write a "dream poem" for your people (upload to turnitin OR bring hard copy to class)
Day 56:
Finish Justice Unit- big ideas? Essential questions?
Begin Dreams/ Persecution unit
Harlem Renaissance- Langston Hughes (on Dreams and persecution page)
HW: bring to class/ or have on a "sticky" on your computer the beginning of a list of "big dreams" you have for the world- not just for yourself
Day 55:
Write an essay comparing your newspaper article/ current event to one or more of the novels in the unit. How is the issue of justice still relevant today? Is it? Which is more important: Mercy or Justice? How can this be shown in your article? This should be well written, complete and uploaded to turnitin.com at the end of class. Turn in the article to the "in box".
Day 54:
Discuss chapters
Listen to podcast of chapter 29 & discuss
Read chapters 30/31 in groups and answer questions
HW: Handout on "Sympathy" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar & find current event article
Day 53:
Discuss chapters
HW: Read through page 225
Find an article about justice or injustice and bring it to class (Hard copy) by FRIDAY (B&D) or MONDAY (F)
Day 52:
Song lyrics" 'Termination Sunday"
Discuss Jefferson
Journal
HW: read through chapter 24
Day 51:
Student led class discussion
clarification
HW: read through chapter 17
DAY 50:
Discuss chapters 1-6 and the injustices present
Discuss characters and determine main facts
HW: read through chapter 12
Semester 2
Day 49:
Get A Lesson Before Dying
Background info in Jigsaw/ listen to NEA's radio show
Read and discuss Chapter 1 &2 and their relationship to the sonnet "If We Must Die"
HW: Read through Chapter 6 (pg 50)
Day 48:
Finish Shawshank Redemption
HW: Journal: Discuss, in 500 words, the justice present in the movie. Is there any? Turn in to TURNITIN.com
Bring Cry, the Beloved Country to class tomorrow to return it to Textbook room
Day 47:
Watch Shawshank Redemption
HW: Read "If We Must Die"
Post to the "discussion tab" on the "JUSTICE" page
Day 46:
Finals
Day 45:
Discuss Book 2
Read chapter 30
Finish movie
HW: finish novel
Day 44:
Project presentations
discuss chapters 18-23
Read 24-25
HW: read 26- 30 (finish book 2)
Day 43:
Survey
Assignment
Watch youtube clip Johannesburg townships
Watch Cry the Beloved Country
HW: read chapter 18- 23
Day 42:
Discuss Research papers
Discuss Chapters 5-9
discuss choice for next book
read chapter 10-11
HW: 12-17 (Finish book 1)
day 41:
Collect HW
Discuss South Africa History
Get novels
Read Chapters 1-4 in class
HW: Read chapters 5-9
Day 40:
Collect Rough drafts from those who didn't bring them on Monday/ Tuesday
Watch and discuss end of MOV movie
Begin watching Cry, the Beloved Country
HW: Apartheid worksheet
Justice sentences
Day 39:
Finish play
Writing assignment:
Journal- which character was most just? Which character least just? Was justice carried out?
Day 38:
Read into 4.1
HW: Worksheet
Day 37:
Peer edit research papers
Read through 3.2
HW: revise paper
TURNITIN.COM info: login: 3638572
password: graduation
Day 36:
Read through 2.8
HW: worksheet-
Act 2 sc 3-5 #'s3 & 4
Act 2 sc 6-7 #'s 2 & 4
Day 35:
Read through 2.2 MOV
HW: worksheet
Day 34:
What is Justice?
Bible verses
Begin Merchant of Venice- 1.1
HW: Worksheet
Day 33:
End of unit discussion/ book discussion
Research paper dates
HW: Outside reading books, research paper RD due November 16, FD Due November 22 8:00 am
Day 32:
Oral assessment
HW: 1 paragraph reflecting on assessment- how did it go, how did you do?
1 paragraph- should your book be censored? How do you feel about censorship/ book banning in general?
Make these GOOD length paragraphs!!!! (1+-2 pages)
Day 31:
Censorship Keynote
Discuss assessment & research paper
novel discussions/ large group discussions in class
HW: finish novels
Day 30:
Pleasantville clips
Group dicussions
HW: decided by groups
Day 29:
Discuss novels in class
HW: decided by groups
Day 28:
Watch PSA's
Discuss books in lit circles
HW: decided by groups
Day 27:
Discuss Censorship
Get into groups- create a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for your assigned side of the censorship argument
HW: decided by groups
Day 26:
In class essay
check off P&P project
Meet in groups to determine banned book HW #1
Day 25:
Quiz
Pick banned book
discuss novel as a whole/ essential questions
HW: get Banned book and be ready to read it
UNIT TEST (in class essay) next class
Day 24:
Watch Pemberly scene
Discuss chapters
HW: finish P&P and pick banned book
Day 23:
Class led discussion
HW: Read through chapter 55
Day 22:
Discuss chapters 30-41
Analyze proposals
HW: Read through 47 and (complete project for 21-61 DUE 10/19/10 by 12:00 noon)
Day 21:
Quiz- Fun!!
Writing #2
Discuss book- Charlotte's marriage, Lady Catherine
HW: Read through chapter 41 (Work on project)
Day 20:
Pride and Prejudice quiz
Writing workshop #1
Discuss P&P
HW: Read through chapter 30
Day 19:
Quiz (Absent students please see me to make up)
Review chapters 1-11 and project
Writing workshop intro
HW: read through chapter 20
Day 18:
Begin //Pride and Prejudice//
Discuss project:
- 3 songs,
- 1 article
- 1 picture
- Chapters 1-20 Due October 5
music widgetHW: read through chapter 11
Day 17:
Finish My Fair Lady
15 minute Keynote challenge- Pride and Prejudice
HW: resume and cover letter (Due Tuesday, 9/28/10 at 8:00 am)
Day 16:
Watch My Fair Lady
HW: resume and cover letter (Due Tuesday, 9/28/10 at 8:00 am)
Day 15:
Finish play
Discuss "essay"
HW: read epilogue of Pygmalion and begin working on resume/ cover letter (Due September 28- 8:00 AM)
Day 14:
Watch My Fair Lady
HW: read outside reading book
Day 13:
Read play
HW: Get and begin reading outside reading book (Due at end of 1st quarter)
Day 12:
Read "Pygmalion" myth
Continue to read Pygmalion through act 2?
Cinderella
Discuss "middle class morality"
HW: continue to work on essay, due Thursday ATTENTION: THERE IS NO TURNITIN.COM NUMBER- we will upload it later!!!
Day 11:
Discuss big ideas and essential questions
DOWNLOAD Pygmalion
Read to line: MRS. PEARCE [to Pickering] Well, did you ever hear anything like that, sir?(Block B)
Read to line" HIGGINS: Wrap her up in paper... (Block D)
"Is there a fire in the kitchen" (Block F)
HW: work on essay- due THURSDAY/ Monday (F BLOCK)
Day 10:
Journal: who loved snow flower more, the sworn sisters or Lily? Who would you rather have had with you at the end?
or- have you ever said things that you later regret? What was the repercussions of those words?
Class discussion on book as a whole, big ideas/ essential questions
HW: begin working on "essay"- due THURSDAY
Day 9:
Quiz
Discuss "Sons"- "Winter"
HW: Finish novel
Day 8: (some classes on senior retreat but responsible for work anyway)
Discuss book so far,
Review outlines
HW: Re-write outline and read to page 214
Day 7:
Quiz
Discussion
Essay discussion
HW: Read to 183 and outline essay
Day 6:
quiz on reading
student led class discussion
posters in groups
HW: to page 167
Day 5:
Discuss the book so far (to page 32)
NPR listening
HW: read to page 99
Day 4:
Present summer reading
Take Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PY377ST
Read: http://www.lisasee.com/onwriting.htm
HW: read to page 34 in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Day 3:
In class essay
HW: begin outside reading and research Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice- Which do you want to read for our third book? Why? Be able to justify your book choice and explain your research techniques.
Day 2:
Turn in Summer reading assignments
Go over syllabus and course
discuss summer reading in general
get into summer reading groups to begin project
Day 1:
Introductions
poetry work
HW: Notecard with picture & information