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?