Wed 11/26

Seniors
1. turn in speeches
2. vocab warm up
3. semi-pop quiz on TFA ch 1-4
4. two quickwrites: Okonkwo's character, Ibo culture
5. Freshmen proverb: 10 pts, due next Wednesday
6. HW: read ch 5-7 in TFA

Sophomores
1. grammar
2. review yesterday's reading with f12 questions in small groups
3. HW: grammar #7 and journal #5

Tue 11/25

I am out today, but here are the plans I left with Mr. McCarty.

Block 2: Senior English

1. Do a vocab warm up with the following words: feign, rebuke, uncanny. Students use the words correctly in sentences in their notebooks. I usually write model sentence on the board, then allow them to share a sentence aloud for participation. You can tell them I’ll mark participation tomorrow.

2. Students should review the first two chapters of Things Fall Apart. Put these names on the board: Okonkwo, Amalinze the Cat, Unoko, Ikemefuna, Umuofia, Mbiano. Students should begin a list called “Names to Remember” in their notebooks. For today they should write a few details about each of these names. Tell them I will check their work tomorrow.

3. The remainder of the period can be dedicated to two things: reading chapters 3-4 of Things Fall Apart or working on their rough drafts of their commencement speeches. Students may listen to music on headphones during this time and you can allow a limited number to sit in the hall to read quietly.

Blocks 3 and 4: Pre IB Sophomore English

1. Councilors will be coming in at the beginning of each period to share information with the class. This should take about 15 minutes.

2. Read aloud page 88 line 90 to page 106 line 476. Please allow students to sign up for these parts: Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Emilia. The parts of Othello and Iago are very large, so allow two to three students to sign up for each of these parts. They can decide together how to divide up the parts.

3. HW: Student should do grammar #6. Students should write Othello journal #4 in their notebooks. This is the topic: How does this first half of Act III embody Iago’s “divinity of hell” paradox?

Mon 11/24

Seniors
1. conventions and vocab warm up
2. brainstorm: advice to Freshmen
3. proverbs: what are they, examples, significance to novel
4. Things Fall Apart chapters 1 and 2
5. HW: work on RD of speech-- typed draft due on Wednesday

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. grammar #4
3. end of Act II: read, review, discuss
4. Picture This: Iago's plan of destruction
5. Othello journal #3
6. HW: grammar #5, read Act III to page 88 when Desdemona exits

Does Obama have a mullet in this picture?

Go Oden! Go Blazers!

Fri 11/21

Seniors
1. vocab warm up
2. Things Fall Apart anticipation questions: (1) When you think of Africa, what comes to mind? (2) Is it okay for one culture to share itself with another culture? To impose itself on another culture? What's the difference between share and impose? How are they different/ similar?
3. speech workshop
4. HW: work on speech, highlight first three pages of TFA background

Sophomores
1. vocab quiz
2. dashes
3. review journal topics
4. aloud: 2.2-2.3
5. HW: read Othello to page 80, grammar #4

Thur 11/20

Seniors
1. conventions warm up: run ons, parallel structure
2. finish sharing speech samples
3. speech writing workshop
4. get new books

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. colons
3. review Othello 1.3 and finish
4. Othello journal #2
5. HW: dashes and read Othello 2.1 (pages 52-60)

Wed 11/19

Seniors
1. The Stranger test
2. define your personal philosophy
3. intro to speech assignment (50 pts)
4. sample speeches
5. HW: typed RD of speech due next Wednesday

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. grammar time: semicolons
3. Othello let terms: dramatic irony, allusion, imagery, pun, double entendre
4. discuss journal #1
5. Othello choral reading, and read 1.3
6. HW: read Othello up to page 48 when Othello exits

Which Oden shows up tonight?

Tue 11/18

Seniors
1. quickwrite: Why do we fear death? Should we or shouldn't we?
2. small groups: complete The Stranger questions
3. Camus' afterword
4. define your personal philosophy
5. HW: review study questions to prepare for test

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. Act I scenes 2 and 3
3. HW: grammar #1 (semicolons) and Othello journal #1 in NB

Meh!

A new vocab word perfectly suited for The Stranger: Meh!

Mon 11/17

Seniors
1. The Stranger part 2 ch 3 questions
2. quickwrite: What makes life worth living?
3. Sisyphus
4. Absurdism
5. HW: finish reading The Stranger (we will do the questions for ch 4 and 5 in class tomorrow)

Sophomores
1. get books: Othello
2. vocab warm up
3. review: the lover, the girlfriend, the buddy
3. Act 1.1 slightly cut script
4. HW: Go Blazers!

Oden!

Fri 11/14

Seniors
1. Quickwrite: Are you free? How do you know if you are free/ not free?
2. Existentialsim: What is it?
3. film clip: free will
4. The Stranger discussion: part 2 chapters 1-2
5. HW: read part 2 ch 3 and do quesitions 1-15 in NB


Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. grammar scores
3. line-tossing improvs
4. the lover, the girlfriend, and the buddy
5. Othello background

Thur 111/13

Seniors
1. The Stranger part 1 quiz
2. discuss ch 5-6 of part 1
3. Are you an objectivist, subjectivist, relativist?
4. HW: read The Strnager part 2 ch 1-2 and do questions in NB

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. Bardology slideshow
3. line tossing
3. line tossing improvs-- perform tomorrow

Shakespeare authorship question

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Wed 11/12

Seniors
1. essays, grades
2. The Stranger ch 2-4 episodes
3. discussions questions for participation
4. Philosophy 101 continued
5. HW: read part 1 ch 5-6 and do questions in NB

Sophomores
1. grades
2. vocab warm up
3. grammar pre test
4. begin Bardology 101

Fri 11/7

Seniors
1. review ch 1 of The Stranger
2. philosophy comics
3. Philosophy 101; continued
4. HW: read The Stranger to page 39 and do #4-14 in NB

Sophomores
1. score NBs
2. Cry, The Beloved Country test

Thur 11/6

Seniors
1. collect essays
2. The Card Game: Which philosophy are you?
3. begin Philosophy 101
4. HW: read ch 1 of The Stranger and do questions in NB

Sophomores
1. finish film
2. last minutes tips for tomorrow's test
3. gather quotations

Wed 11/5

Seniors
1. conventions: prounoun/ antecedent agreement, the literary present tense
2. philosophy quickwrite discussion
3. HW: complete FD of All Quiet essay

Sophomores
1. discuss Book III questions 4,5
2. essay instructions for Friday's test
3. HW: finish reading book, do questions 6 in NB

Tue 11/4

Seniors
1. conventions warm up: apostrophes
2. continue to evaluate drafts: FD due Thursday
3. new book: The Stranger
4. philosophy quickwrite in NB

Sophomores
1. Book III: discuss first three questions
2. prep for on-demand essay
3. finish Book III by Thursday and complete questions 4 and 5 by tomorrow

Mon 11/3

Seniors
1. conventions warm up: capitalization
2. peer/ self evaluation of RD
3. HW: complete FD for Thursday, sign up for turnitin.com

Sophomores
1. discuss end of Book II
2. finish field trip to South Aftrica
3. HW: read to page 280 and do first three Book III questions in NB

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