Monday/Tuesday

-Figurative Langage

-RMS Titanic-pg. 390-401

-Situational Irony

-Dramatic Irony

-Persuasive Essay

-Prewriting Guide must be complete by Nov. 24th

-Rough Draft Essay is due Nov. 25th

Reminder

-Work on Bloom’s Book Report Project (due Dec. 11th)

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Monday

-review Typhoid Fever for test

-Prewriting Guide-pg. 1

-Background “The Unsinkable Titanic”

Tuesday

-Typhoid Fever test

-Prewriting Guide (persuasive essay)

-Titanic PPT

-Blooms Book Report due 12/11

Wednesday

-Research for Persuasive Essay (media center)

Thursday

-finish Prewriting Guide

-writing complete sentences

-RMS Titanic (dramatic irony & situational irony)

Friday

-start persuasive essay (rough draft)

- writing complex sentences

Monday

-”Hair” test

Tuesday

-review nonfiction

-read “Typhoid Fever”

Wednesday

-”Typhoid Fever”-subtle conflict

-Blooms Ball Book Report

Thursday

-”Typhoid Fever”-words to own

-character analysis

-MLA format PPT

Friday

-Persuasive Essay outline

English II CP/Essentials

Monday

-”Animal Farm” test

-Persuasive Essay-parts

Tuesday

NO SCHOOL

Wednesday

-read “Hair” in textbook

-Persuasive Writing

-Persuasive Essay Topic Sheet

-Review/Analysis of Newspaper

-Nonfiction Literature

Thursday

-Book Talk (1st Period)

-Persuasive Essay

-Analogies

Friday

-”Hair” test

-Persuasive Essay (brainstorming is due)

English II CP

-Animal Farm (Chapters 1-5)

-Author’s bias

-Satire

-Characterization

-Wanted Posters

English II (Essentials)

-Vocabaulary “Animal Farm”

-Identifying main idea

-Identifying supporting details

Writing

“Two Kinds” letter-final draft is due this week

Parts of the persuasive essay

Monday & Tuesday

English II (CP)

• Verbs, Adjectives (Essentials)/Adjectives, Adverbs (College Prep.)
• “The Cold Equations”-internal/external conflict
• TCE-Vocabulary
• Constructed Responses

English II Essentials

• Multiple Meaning Words
• Context Clues
• Be A Better Reader-Fact & Opinion

Wednesday

English II (CP)

•  Adjectives (Essentials)/Adverbs (CP)
• “The Cold Equations”-Suspense/Graphic Organizer
• TCE-Vocabulary Word Map
• Notes-Persuasive Essay

English II Essentials

• Stated or Unstated Main Idea
• Identifying Supporting Details

Thursday

• Remembering 9/11 Tragedy
• Compare/Contrast Web

Friday

English II (CP)

• Diagnostic Reading Comprehension Assessment
•  ”The Cold Equations” video & web

English II Essentials

• Stated or Unstated Main Idea
• Identifying Supporting Details

hsap-workshop-2009-1.ppt

class-procedures-2008-2009.ppt

Monday

• Complete assessments
• Textbook distribution
• Review of rules & procedures
• (English II Essentials) Diagnostic HSAP

Tuesday

• Finish assessments
• Textbook distribution
• Return signed syllabus (parent/guardian & student)
• Organize notebooks
• Review Types of Sentences (grammar)
• Parts of Speech
• Reading Strategies
• HSAP PPT

Wednesday-Thursday

• Parts of Speech
• Diagramming Sentences
• Review literary elements
• Elements-”The Cold Equations”
• Suspense
• Science Fiction
• Vocabulary
• Study for Types of Sentences

Friday

• Quiz on Types of Sentences
• Diagramming sentences
• Review literary elements
• Finish reading “The Cold Equations”
• Vocabulary

Monday-No School

Tuesday-No School

Wednesday-No School

Thursday-School Begins

Friday-Regular School Day

August 21, 2008

• Class Orientation
• PowerPoint of Classroom Procedures & Rules
• Icebreaker Activity
• Interest Inventory & Learning Styles Inventory
• Textbook Pick-Up
• Pre-tests
• Exit Ticket

August 22, 2008

• Review of Classroom Procedures & Rules
• Anticipation Guide
• Textbook Pick-Up
• Icebreaker Activity
• HSAP PowerPoint
• Writing Sample (assessment)