Sophomores - Article about Farmers

Here is the link to the article I mentioned in class:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-24-black-farmers-usda-settlement_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Tell me something interesting about it for a participation point!

Fri 2/26

Sophomores
1. review journal #2
2. read act 2 scene 1 (56-65)
3. peer review
Final draft is due on WED. 3/3/10.

Seniors
1. vocab/ conventions warm up
2. peer review for essays/ story-- FD due next Wednesday
3. jigsaw Hamlet's first soliloquy
4. read/ listen: 1.4-1.5
5. HW: read act 1 FYI and highlight key details

Thur 2/25

Sophomores
1. Watch "Berta, Berta" clip from The Piano Lesson (lyrics on p. 39-40): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WzZqlN1h4
2. Review reading
3. Story of the Piano
4. Review journal #1
5. Read p. 46-54 (finish Act One)
6. Journal #2: What does the piano symbolize?
HW: Rough draft due tomorrow! We will be doing peer editing -- make it useful for yourself by bringing your best quality work.

Seniors
1. Vocab
2. Conventions
3. Hamlet - finish 1.1, read 1.2, first soliloquy
4. HW: complete rough draft of essay/story
5. HW: read 1.3

Wed, 2/24

Seniors
1. more essay/story instructions
2. Hamlet vocab-- look up 10 words
3. Hamlet story circle: Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark
4. cold reading of first four pages-- words, phrases, questions
5. HW: work on RD of essay/story

Sophomores
1. Ghosts
2. Lit terms - symbol, motif, foreshadowing
3. Read TPL p. 12-28 aloud
4. Journal #1: What haunts the Charles family literally? What haunts them metaphorically?
HW: Read p. 28-40 and work on essay

Tue 2/22

Sophomores
1. Listen to "Illinois Blues" (here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67_CPSB4d4)
2. Discuss The Piano Lesson epigraph
3. TPL background information
4. Check out TPL books - make sure you get a book from the library!
5. Begin reading - pg's 1-12.
HW: Work on your essay. Rough draft due Fri, 2/26.

Seniors
1. Canterbury Tales test
2. essay/story instructions
3. student samples
4. begin pre-writing, drafting
5. HW: complete rough draft of essay/story by Friday

Mon 2/22

Sophomores
1. Unity & Coherence
2. Textbook tools
3. Notebook and Homework check
4. Workshop& appointment time.
Rough draft due Friday! Remember, you can start over at any point in Mr. Wilson's "writing cycle" if you get stuck. If you can't find evidence to support your thesis or if you find evidence that contradicts your thesis, chances are you need to rewrite your thesis.

Seniors
1. The Wife of Bath's Tale
2. Test review

Fri 2/19

Sophomores
1. essay topics
2. free write on one topic: ten minutes
3. essay process, expectations
4. tools: graphic organizer and and outline
5. HW: complete either a graphic organizer or outline for Monday

Seniors
1. "The Pardoner's Tale"-- complete study questions
2. be sure to have all study guides completed before the Canterbury Tales test on Tuesday.

Thur, 2/18

Sophomores
1. Key Passages (140, 143, 155)
2. Survivor Film Clip
3. Key Passages (178 & 200)
Notebook check on Monday!

Seniors
1. Last characters
2. Last graphics
3. Wrap up prologue
4. Tomorrow: The Pardoner's Tale, Begin writing assignment
Test on Tuesday!

Wed, 2/17

Sophomores
1. Debate
2. Notebook Questions:
View #3 - What is your own view?
View #4 - What is Golding's view?

Seniors
1. Joe Sixpack
2. Last graphics
3. Review all part 4 characters (highlight doctor, parson, and plowmen)
4. Complete part 5

Tue 2/16

Sophomores
1. Finish Symbolism presentations
2. Review key passages
3. Debate intro & prep
HW: Read key passages on pgs 140, 143, 155. Choose one: "What makes this passage key?"

Seniors
1. complete character graphics: 3 key sentences/ phrases, 3 perfect adjectives, one symbol
2. review all parts 2/3 characters
3. complete all of part 4 study questions

Fri 2/12

Sophomores
1. HW check/signatures
2. Review key passages (62 & 63)
3. Symbolism
4. Symbolism presentations (to be continued...)
HW: Read the next three passages, choose one and write: "Why is this passage key?"

Seniors
1. Pilgrimage slideshow
2. Complete parts 2 & 3 of study guide

Thur 2/11

Sophomores
1. Collect signatures/check homework
2. Review
3. New lit terms: allegory, symbol, microcosm
4. Key Passage on p. 60
HW: Read the next two key passages (62, 63). Choose one and answer the question, "What makes this passage key?"

Seniors
1. Satire clips
2. Review opening paragraph of prologue
3. Read part 2 in study guide

Wed 2/10

Sophomores
1. Learn names
2. Sentence workshop (3&4)
3. Key passages intro
4. Key passage #1 (p. 31)
HW: Notebook questions (1 page total) -- What is causing the pause? How does this inform an important theme in the novel?


Seniors
1. Collect social conventions
2. Read background
3. Notes on key topics
4. Chaucer and the story (p. 137-140 in textbook)
5. Begin prologue

Tues 2/9

Sophomores
1. Collect signatures
2. Grammar Pre-test
3. Sentence Workshop (review HW)
4. Book Talk
5. LOF "gut reaction" discussion
HW: 3&4 in the sentence packet

Seniors
1. Seating chart
2. Freewrites: Part C
3. Defining satire
4. Seven deadly sins
5. Brainstorm satire topics
HW: Background reading - highlight 10 sentences

Mon 2/8

Sophomores
1. Seating Assignments
2. Lord of the Flies test
3. Go over the syllabus
4. Introduce Sentence Workshop

HW:
- Signatures/information on syllabus and parent letter
- Grammar worksheets 1 & 2 (large number in the corner)

Seniors
1. course description
2. intro to Canterbury Tales: satire, pilgrimage, art of description
3. brainstorm list of people you would like to describe
4. free write on a real or imagined person: A: physical appearance, actions and routines
5. HW: B: three perfect adjectives

Thur 2/4

Sophomores
Othello presentations

Juniors
TBL gallery walk
share and turn in memoirs

Wed 2/3

Sophomores
work on Othello projects

Juniors
work on TBL final, complete FD of memoir

Mon 2/1

Sophomores
Work on Othello projects

Juniors
begin TBL final project