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English I

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__**FINAL**__
 * THE ELIZABETHAN PROJECT AND ESSAY IS DUE NO LATER THAN THE DAY OF THE FINAL.**
 * STUDY THE ROMEO AND JULIET STUDY GUIDE FOR THE TEST QUESTIONS**



__**Week of 5/19**__ R & J. THE ELIZABETHAN PROJECT AND ESSAY ARE DUE FRIDAY, 5/23

__**Week of 5/12**__ Continue working on Elizabethan project and essay Continue reading R & J in class FOR THE ESSAY - be sure to RESEARCH your topic and explain it. Example: if you are cooking a food from Shakespeare times, you need to understand why they used the ingredients they did, who ate it, at what meal was it served, etc. If you draw the Globe Theater, be sure to research what the theater looked like, how it relates to SHakespear and his plays, when & how it burned down, etc. __**Week of 5/5**__ Elizabethean project assigned.... __**Week of 4/28**__ Reading through Act I Poetry presentations continue __**Week of 4/21**__ Poetry Assignment/presentation due Thursday (per. 3) & Friday (per. 6) Be ready to present, the reflection peice will be done after the presentation
 * PROJECT & ESSAY ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 5/23**

__**Week of 4/7**__ Poetry Assignment due after Spring Break

__**Week of 3/31**__ Poetry PP and worksheet YPP & grammar Words of the Day: ignorant/ignorance, ambiguity/ambiguous Start Poetry Assignment (due after Spring Break) See handout (on the weebly)( ...

__**Week of 3/24**__ Poetry PP and worksheet

__**Week of 3/17**__ Begin Poetry Unit

Classtime for writing the essay. See Mr. K's weebly for the assignment details and song suggestions.
 * Week** __**of 3/3 & 3/10**__
 * First They Killed my Father/Song essay is due 3/14.** THIS IS A FINAL DEADLINE SINCE ITS THE LAST DAY OF THE QUARTER!

Turn in vocab HW and take vocab quiz HW for Thursday... "Eyewitness to History" article and questions Start essay (see weebly for handout) Over the break, you should be annotating your song lyrics for the essay (connecting it to thebook)
 * __Week of 2/17__**

Ung family tree Chapter summaries handout - read for next week!
 * __Week of 2/9__**
 * Vocab Quiz rescheduled for this thursday (per. 3) or Friday (per. 6)**

Quiz on pre-reading Continue reading "First They Killed MyFather" Word of the day: atrocity Begin reading "First They Killed My Father" Personal narrative 5 paragraph essay... begin to brainstorm topics. Narrative needs to be about: a time you gave back to the community, a time when you achieved something or did something you didn't think was possible; a time you felt that you had to grow up in an instant and become the responsible person in the group; the worst pain you ever felt (physical or emotional); a time you couldn't tolerate soebody or something and ahd to speak up (or wish you had spoken up) Review vocabulary word wall for test next week Finish watching Hotel Rwanda and turn in notecatcher Finish watching Hotel Rwanda
 * __Week of 2/3__**
 * QUIZ MONDAY ON BOOK VOCAB (see list from 1/13)**
 * __Week of 1/27__**
 * __Week of 1/20__**
 * COMING NEXT WEEK (Thurs. for per. 3, Friday per 6) - quiz on genocide worksheet & vocabulary (see below). Also Hotel Rwanda questions.**
 * __Week of 1/13__**
 * VOCAB definitions and paragraph will be collected Wed. 1/15**
 * NWEA**

Welcome Back! Word of the week: genocide. Intro PP & notes for //FirstThey Killed My Father//, but Loung Ung Vocab worksheet and paragraph **(DUE MONDAY, 1/13): Write a short narrative using at least 10 vocab words...** swelter, gawk, juxtapose, dissuade, riddle (verb), silhouette, sneer, ragtag, trite, clamber, contempt, cower, skittsh, yearn, raze, convulse, retch, gaunt, supplement, heinous. Watching parts of Hotel Rwanda

Review sheet for the Odyssey. Have your essay outline for the final to use to write the essay (or you can complete the essay ahead of time and turn it in on the day of the fnial)\
 * __FINALS WEEK__**

__Week of Dec. 9__ Odyssey sequence of events Read Part 3 (in the textbook) p. 995
 * FINAL ESSAY TOPIC ASSIGNED (CAN TURN IN THE ESSAY ON FINALS DAY, OR WRITE IT ON FINALS DAY)**

__Week of Dec. 2__ Begin reading the Odyssey - up to pg. 16 Word of the day: incredulous Roots of the day: lingua-, -ist __Week of Nov. 25__ __Week of Nov. 18__ Vocabulary: misogyny, Greek Gods worksheet Trojan War Review Questions and worksheet.
 * TEST MONDAY or TUESDAY (per 6), ON Greek Gods/Beg. of the World story/Trojan War story**
 * HOMEWORK DUE WEDNESDAY... Complete the Trojan War short story and worksheet**
 * TEST MONDAY, NOV. 25 ON Greek Gods/Beg. of the World story/Trojan War story**

__Week of Nov. 11__ Oddysey PP notecatcher Wordsof the day: UBIQUITOUS, DEITY ROOTS: audi, graph Read :The Beginning of the World"

__Week of Nov. 4__ intro to the Odyssey.... sequencing & venn diagram activity/worksheet __Week of Oct. 28__ __Week of Oct. 21__ Word of the day: STOIC
 * REMINDER: Compare/Contrast FINAL Essays are due THURSDAY 10/31 (Per. 3) OF FRIDAY 11/1 (Per. 6)**
 * VOCAB TEST ON** **THURSDAY 10/31 (Per. 3) OF FRIDAY 11/1 (Per. 6)**
 * LATIN ROOT WORDS FOR TEST THIS WEEK:** (see handout): **uni, dict, sub, fer, clude, ject**
 * VOCAB FOR TEST THIS WEEK: stoic, meticuluous, pervasive, multitude, redundant, insolent, tangible**

__Week of Oct. 14__ Continue working of compare/contrast essay (see below) Word of the Day: METICULOUS

__Week of Oct. 7__ The Cask of Amontillado The Most Dangerous Game The Necklace The Gift of the Magi (you can also use "the Sniper" if you read it outside of class)
 * Compare/contrast paragraph using the worksheet - collected for a grade
 * Begin compare/contrast essay using 2 of the 3 stories we read in class:

//**Stay posted here for story summaries from the Sequencing Acitivity we did in class!**//

Word of the Day: PERVASIVE


 * __Week of Sept. 30__**
 * Read "The Necklace" LIt Circle activity**
 * Problem/Solution worksheet for "The Necklace"**
 * WORD OF THE DAY: aghast**


 * __Week of Sept. 23__**
 * Per. 3 NWEA**


 * __Week of Sept. 16__**
 * NWEA (Per. 6)**
 * Most Dangerous Game vocab and reading activities.**
 * Vocab - affable, aristocrat, barbarous, chateau, condone, cosmopolitan, discern, dread, fascinate, grotesque, imperative, indolently, opaque, palpable, refectory, quizzically, righteous, sperstitious, tangivle, zealous**


 * __Week of Sept. 9__**
 * Post reading activity for Cask of Amontillado... LAST WORKDAY.** ALL PROJECTS SHOULD BE TURNED IN BY 9/16 OR 9/17
 * Vocab worksheets - definitions and word search - for "The Most Dangerous Game"** DUE on MONDAY 9/16 (Per. 3) or TUES 9/17 (Per. 6)**

__Week of Sept. 3__ Poe KWL chart Post-reading activity for Cask of Amontillado (see handout) is a GRADED ASSIGNMENT DUE FRIDAY, 9/6.



__August__ Pre-assessment and ice-breaking activities Begin short story unit. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe & pre-reading activities for "The Cask of Amontillado" (see handout): vocab & predicting 8/30 Read Cask of Amontillado story. and completed handouts.