Fri 1/29

Sophomores
1. finish state writing test
2. plan Othello project

Juniors
1. vocab warm up-- quiz Monday
2. TBL twiz
3. NB check for all TBL work
4. memoir peer review: FD due on Thursday

Thur 1/28

Sophomores
complete state writing test

Juniors
1. vocab warm up
2. "The Amen Corner" question review
3. complete DER #5
4. HW: complete RD of memoir
5. HW: finish reading TBL

Wed 1/27

Sophomores
1. pick teams and topics for Othello projects
2. begin state writing test

Juniors
1. share key sentences from key passages
2. complete four questions on last night's reading and turn ini
3. read TBL to page 268

Tue 1/26

Sophomores
1. Othello
2. finish film

Juniors
1. vocab quiz
2. two key passages: answer three questions and turn in
3. workshop: draft memoirs, read to page 252

Mon 1/26

Sophomores
continue Othello film

Juniors
1. vocab warm up
2. discuss last night's passages
3. workshop in library: draft memoirs or read books
4. HW: no new pages to read-- catch up!

Fri 1/22

Sophomores
1. notebook check
2. test study guide
3. Othello project topics
4. film

Juniors
1. vocab warm up
2. TBL: episodes as models
3. Citizenship in the School-- look for passages
4. memoir instructions: drafting
5. workshop in library
HW: read to page 228

Thur 1/21

Sophomores
1. Othello act 5
2. Othello slideshow
3. intro searchable Shakespeare
4. clip of Othello monologue

Juniors
1. vocab warm up
2. reminder on powerpoints
3. DER #3 on Citizenship in the Home, and share
4. HW: pick one memoir topic, to a pre write on sensory details
5. HW: read to page 191

Wed 1/20

Sophomores
1. finish act 4
2. paraphrase Emelia's speech
3. Othello journal #7
4. cast act 5

Juniors
1. vocab quiz
2. warm up new vocab words
3. review last night's reading, key passages
4. memoir instructions
5. HW: read TBL to page 168, complete list of 10 possible memoirs topics

Tue 1/19

Sophomores
1. journal #5 review
2. magic in the web
3. act 4
4. HW: read to page 149, do journal #6

Juniors
1. vocab warm up
2. check DER #2
3. read aloud "A Whole New Deal"
4. intro to memoir writing
5. HW: list three possible topics for your memoir, read pages 95-144

Thur 1/14

Sophomores
1. review Othello journal #3
2. Picture this: "divinity of hell"
3. lit term: comic relief
4. Acting: act 3 scenes 1-3

Juniors
1. complete powerpoints in computer lab
2. Journal: cool, uncool
3. get to page 56 in This Boy's Life by Friday

Wed 1/13

Sophomores
1. cast act 2
2. Acting! Perform rest of Act 2
3. HW: journal #3

Juniors
1. vocab warm up
2. names
3. notes on last night's reading
4. read pages 22-33
5. DER #1
6. HW: read 37-56

Tue 1/12

Sophomores
1. finish state reading test
2. review end of act 2 scene 2

Juniors
1. TBL vocab warm up
2. epigraph predictions
3. Journal: transformation
4. HW: read to page 22 of This Boy's Life

Mon 1/11

Sophomores
State reading test

Juniors
Workshop time for powerpoints

Fri 1/8

Sophomores
1. vocab quiz
2. review journal #2
3. review last night's reading
4. HW: read to page 65 end of scene
5. Monday meet in Libaray lab for reading test

Juniors
1. poem, eulogy peer review-typed final draft due Monday
2. choice book assignment- 50 pts
3. workshop
4. Monday meet in Libaray lab to design webpage/ powerpoint

Thur 1/7

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. lit terms: aside, soliloquy
3. act 1 scene 3-- complete
4. HW: Othello journal #2
5. HW: read pp 52-60 (trumpets)

Juniors
1. grade update
2. workshop: RD of eulogy or poem due tomorrow

Wed 1/6

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. review Othello journal #1
3. more lit terms: imagery, pun, double entendre
4. choral reading: Othello love story
5. HW: read pages 35-48

Juniors
1. finish Raisin film
2. Act III discussion
3. more instructions on poem, eulogy
4. HW: complete poem, eulogy by Friday

Tue 1/5

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. Othello scenes 1 and 2
3. begin Othello lit terms: paradox, dramatic irony
4. HW: Othello journal #1

Juniors
finish A Raisin in the Sun film

Monday 1/4

Sophomores
1. January letter
2. vocab warm up
3. review Othello details, Act one slightly cut script
4. begin Othello scene 1
5. HW: look up first four vocab words

Juniors
1. January letter
2. return essays: extra credit draft due next Monday
3. introduce Raisin final assessment
4. continue Raisin film

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