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English III

//**CHECK OUT MS. GACNIK'S BLOG FOR THE LASTEST CLASS ACTIVITIES, DUE DATES, ETC. INCLUDING PRESENTATION MATERIALS USED IN CLASS!!!**//

Week of 5/19
Final project assigned. This is a 3 part assignment covering the American Dream. On Tues. 5/27 (day of the final) You will be responsible for turning in the final paper, oral presentation and a visual. See attached.....



Week of 4/21 - 5/19
RESEARCH PAPER... The research paper will be our focus until the end of the quarter. The paper is due 5/19 NO EXCEPTIONS/EXCUSES. See the research paper packet. PACING GOALS - week of 4/21 - topic proposal submitted and approved by Mrs. Gacnik week of 4/29 - have your 5 sources for works cited page week of 5/5 - begin writing first draft. OULTINE OR 1ST DRAFT DUE 5/8

Week of 3/31
Transcendentalism & Thoreau. Chapter Presentations for chap. 8-12 READ up to p. 126 by 4/3

Week of 3/24 **QUIZ THURSDAY ON CHAPTERS 1-7 (Into the Wild)**

 * Begin presentations for chapters 3-7**

Week of 3/17
Dead Poet's Society/modern transcendentalism Begin INTO THE WILD... Read through Chapter 1 for next Monday.

Week of 3/3
Presentations of poetry video. Begin Transcendentalism... Classwork, 3/5. & 3/7... Answer 5 questions related to transcendentalist themes with detailed responses of at least 5 sentences (25 points)

Week of 2/17
Poetry video interpretation and presentation... **DUE MONDAY AFTER WINTER BREAK** See blog for assignment details

Week of 2/9
Continue poetry... EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!!! Write your own poem based on how you are feeling (today), OR a Valentine's Day Love poem. Analyze your poem, identifying the tone & what elements of Romanticism are found in it? Extra credit of 10 pts. for 10 lines, 15 points for 20 lines of poetry

2/12 Classwork - "The Ropewalk" poem and Questions (turned in) 2/13 Classwork (turn in today) - "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" and "Life" poems analysis (see handout on the blog)

Week of 2/2
All assessments up to this point are returned and in the gradebook. Poetry powerpoint notes & pre-assess (see blog for the PP) Annotating poetry: figurative lang., rhyme scheme, slant/perfect rhyme

Week of 1/27
Rip Van Winkle critical response (see blog for form). Answer 6 questions in well-written paragraphs.
 * DUE NO LATER THAN THIS FRIDAY 1/31 - NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED.** Wednesday will be a workday in class. (This assignment is worth 75 points)

Week of 1/21
Romanticism power point and note-taking activities (see blog for the PP) Read "Rip Van WInkle"

Week of 1/13
Rhetorical Devices worksheet **DUE WED. 11/15 (see Ms. Gacnik's blog for the handout)** Identify a rhetoical device used for each quote and explain your choice

See attached. Leave 1-3 minute voicemail message explaining a speech you read and the rhetorical devices used in it. See binder for some possible speeches, or try americanrhetoric.com
 * Rhetorical Devices ASSIGNMENT DUE TUES. 11/21 (by midnight)**



THE AGE OF REASON
Ben Franklin Autobiography & Poor Richard's Almanack (aphorisms) - about his travels and arrival in Philadelphia - emphasis on self-reliance

Stylistic devices used to make speeches effective:
- figurative language - decriptive lang. like imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia - hyperbole - exaggeration - rhetorical questions - no answer is expected, used to appeal to reason and make an impression - parallelism - repeated words or phrases "I have a dream" - connotative language - words or phrases with secondary/hidden meaning

Patrick Henry speech against the Stamp Act "give me liberty or give me death"

FINALS WEEK
Tuesday 12/17 is the FINAL. Bring your McCarthyism paragraphs. Check out Mrs. Gacnik's blog for the jeopardy game review. To Know: - Puritan LIt. stories/handouts - Crucible Study guides for Acts 1-4 - Characters - 5 themes and be able to match each theme to an event from the play - Purtican history paragraph (exact question from study guide 1) How do PUritan beliefs and values lead to the witchcraft scare?

__Week of Dec. 9__ Crucible movie. ALL STUDY GUIDES (ACTS 1-4) NEED TO BE TURNED IN THIS WEEK (late).
 * MCCARTHYISM PARAGRAPHS ARE DUE ON TUESDAY, 12/17 (DAY OF THE FINAL)**
 * Note: You can anser the 2nd prompt with bullets instead of a complete paragraph. 1st paragraph needs to be detailed and include citation of source/s used**

__Week of Dec. 2__ Finish reading the Crucible. Study Guide for Act 4 __Nov. 11__ Class reading of //The Crucible// //Completed Act I Study Guide & vocabulary (due MONDAY)// __Nov.4__ Finished Puritan literature from book/Intro to the Crucible For final, be familiar with the storise & poem we read from the book: - Of Plymouth Plantation - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Upon the Burning of our House

__Oct. 28__ __Oct. 21__ Monday - finish test. IF YOU DID NOT FINISH YOUR TEST TODAY IN CLASS, SET AN APPPOINTMENT WITH MRS. GACNIK TO FINISH IT SOMETIME THIS WEEK (during Reach, after school, etc.) Wednesday - begin essay outline & rough dratft Friday - typed rough draft due NEXT MONDAY< 10/28 - FINAL ESSAY DUE
 * TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ESSAY TURNED IN TODAY - FINAL DEADLINE WED., 10/30**
 * BEGIN CRUCIBLE UNIT (see powerpoint from today on Mrs. Gacnik's blog)**

__Oct. 14__ Essay packets handed out. Rough draft will be due 10/23. To study - review all the characters/descriptions (use sparknotes or shmoop.com and look under the "characters" tab) Quote analysis will refer to character or major events of the story (review the "quotes" tab on sparknotes or shmoop for examples of quote analysis) Characters to Know somethin about: Atticus, Jem, Scout, Dill, Calpurnia, Bob Ewell, Tom Robinson, Mrs. Dubois, Walter Cunningham, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, Arthur "Boo" Radley
 * THIS WEDNESDAY... TKM Test.** Character description/matching, quote analysis, poetry annotation.

__Oct. 10__ Finished the movie and turned in all study guides. Next Monday - all vocab is due. Be ready to begin the essay....

__Oct. 7__ ALL study sheets are due on thursday for a End of Quarter GRADE - study sheets include independent responses in paragraph form, so spend time on your study sheets!!! //See Mrs. Gacnik's blog for copies of the study guides//

__Oct.5__ MONDAY - Vocab and study sheets will be due 10/7. Have the Whole Book read for Monday! __Oct. 2__ DUE THURSDAY - Be finished with the book! STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - including the paragraph about Atticus at the end of the guide - ARE DUE MONDAY, OCT. 7

__Sept. 30__ This week we will finish TKM. Be sure to be caught up with the reading!!! Read to the end of the book.

__Sept. 24__ Character analysis paragraphs were returned. Paragraphs need to be added to and edited for Thursday. The paragraph sequence needs to have each of the following elements:


 * TS RDF E E E RDF E E E CS**

(See below PDF "Writing an Organized Essay or Paragraph")

__Sept. 23__ New reading guide & vocab for Part II. //NOTE: Mrs. Gacnik is monitoring your reading according to how well you are able to complete the reading guide questions in class. Don't exapect to write the paper without having done the reading.... she will know!//
 * Read up to Chap. 17 for Wed. (p. 155)**

Worked on character anaylsis paragraphs.

__Sept. 19__ Turned in reading guiding questions packet (up to #18 needed to be completed)
 * HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY: Read up to Chap. 14 (p. 144)**

__Sept. 18__ In-class paragraph assignment was written and turned in. Paragraph: Choose a character and write a complete paragraph about the character using the notes from Monday (see attached) Paragraph should include: 1. Thesis statement (an opinion/statement about the character). 2. RDF 3. E3 4. RDF 5. concluding statement. Also be sure to include at least quote to defend your statement.



__Sept. 16__ Vocab due on thursday: assuage, dictum, chattel, tactiturn, synonymous, tyrannical, repertoire, vapid, illicitly, entailment, sojourn, monosyllabic, judiciously, auspicious, perpetual, unfathomable, perpetrated, analogous, mortify, ruination, contemporary, inconspicuous, melancholy, apoplectic, umbrage, propensity, devoid. Reading for thursday: up to chp. 11 (p. 99)

__Sept. 11__ Quiz on Chap. 1-5 and discussed reading questions handout up to #13. ** HOMEWORK, Read Chapters 5-8. **

__Sept. 9__ Vocab and context handouts - see binder. **QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY - CHAPTERS 1-5**

__Sept. 5__ PP on Harper Lee, 1930s background info & main themes of the novel (see blogspot for the PP) Jim Crow article.

__Sept. 3__ Begin To Kill a Mockingbird. **//AUDIOBOOK is available for check out to your Ipod from the library!!! Students are responsible for independent reading/listening.//** Pre-reading worksheet (see handout)

Research mini-project **(turned in 9/3) -** Research the 1930s. List 5 main ideas from the 30s and include a bibleography listing your sources in MLA format..

__August__ Begin American Dream unit. Songs, Time news article and poem on the American Dream...

ASSIGNMENT: On Wednesday, students will create a "metaphorm" representing what the American Dream means to them. Bring in materials to create your metaphorm, or use Ms. Gacnik's materials on Wed. to create a visual. Students will explain their metaphorm to the class (Speaking grade).

Next week: start reading TO Kill a Mockingbird