WEEK |
MONDAY |
TUESDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
THURSDAY |
FRIDAY |
8/22-8/26 |
*First day of school
*SAT warm-up
*Review Code of Conduct
*Review course syllabus
*Copy Unit 1 vocabulary
*Pre-reading for unit on Native American Mythology
(pgs. 18-24)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Grammar diagnostic
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Diagnostic review
*Begin unit on Native American Mythology
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Continue unit on Native American Mythology
*Read "The World on the Turtle's Back" (pgs. 24-30)
*Complete questions #1-6 (pg. 31)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Begin reading Coyote Stories (pg. 39)
*Read "Coyote and the Buffalo" (pgs. 40-42)
*Complete questions #1-3 (pg. 42)
*Daily allusion |
8/29-9/2 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 1 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 2 vocabulary
*Read "Fox and Coyote and Whale" (pgs. 43-45)
*Complete questions
#2-7 (pg. 46)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Grammar assignment (pgs. 3-4)
*Timed writing
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review basic grammar rules
*Read and discuss pgs. 66-71
*Read and discuss pg. 81
*Discuss SOAPSTone
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Read pgs. 82-87
*Complete questions #1, 3-5, and 7 (pg. 88)
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Read pgs. 132-136
*Read pgs. 144-147
*Discuss questions
*Daily allusion |
9/5-9/9 |
*No School |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 2 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 3 vocabulary
*Read pgs. 150-151
*Complete discussion questions #1-3
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Read pgs. 152-156 and 160
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Discuss questions
*Review vocab. quiz #2
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Writing assignment (pg. 159)
*Grammar assignment (pg. 15)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*WebQuest activity
*Daily allusion |
9/12-9/16 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 3 vocab. quiz
*Review "prefixes"
*Grammar assignment (pg. 16)
*Begin reading The Crucible (Act I)
*Study for cumulative test
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review "prefixes"
*Continue reading The Crucible
(Act I)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review "prefixes"
*Grammar assignment (pg. 17)
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act I)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review "prefixes"
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act I)
*Bingo boards for Friday
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Vocabulary Bingo
*Daily allusion |
9/19/9/23 |
*SAT warm-up
*Cumulative test #1
*Copy Unit 4 vocabulary
*Review "suffixes"
*Review grammar (pgs. 17-18)
*Review questions
(Act I)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*Create Pinwheels for Peace
*Begin reading Act II
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Allusions quiz #1
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*Plant Pinwheels for Peace
*Continue reading Act II
*Daily allusion |
*EARLY RELEASE
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*Continue reading Act II
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*Continue reading Act II
*Characterization in
The Crucible
*Daily allusion |
9/26-9/30 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 4 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 5 vocabulary
*Review "suffixes"
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act II)
*Irony activity
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act II)
*Act II review questions (pg. 206)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*Review quiz
*Irony review
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act III)
*Daily allusion |
*No School |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review "suffixes"
*"Essay ID"
*Daily allusion |
10/3-10/7 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 5 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 6 vocabulary
*Review Greek root words
*"Opening Statements"
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act III)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review Greek root words
*"Opening Statements"
*Continue reading The Crucible (Act III)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review Greek root words
*"Conflict" in The Crucible
*Act III review questions
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review Greek root words
*McCarthy Hearings (group assignment)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review Greek root words
*Irony in The Crucible
*Begin reading Act IV
*Daily allusion |
10/10-10/14 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 6 vocab. quiz
*Greek roots
*Study for cumulative test
*Review Greek root words
*Continue reading Act IV
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Greek roots
*Finish reading Act IV
*Act IV review questions
*Review Irony (The Crucible)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Greek roots
*Character analysis (The Crucible)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Greek roots
*Allusions quiz #2
*Finish the character analysis
*Bingo boards
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Greek roots
*Vocabulary Bingo
*Daily allusion |
10/17-10/21 |
*SAT warm-up
*Compare/contrast essay (The McCarthy Hearings vs. The Salem witch trials in The Crucible)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Read pgs. 256-261 (take notes on the information)
*Read pgs. 262-266 and pg. 269
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Cumulative vocabulary test #2
*Review for test on The Crucible
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Read pgs. 270-276 and pg. 281
*Complete a SOAPSTone analysis of the information from the document
*Complete the "Parallelism" assignment
(pg. 279)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Read pgs. 338-342 and take notes
*Read pgs. 349-359 ("The Devil and Tom Walker")
*Complete questions #1-8, including the Comprehension Check questions (pg. 360)
*Daily allusion |
10/24-10/28 |
*SAT warm-up
*The Crucible Cumulative Test
*Review for mid-term exam
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review for mid-term exam
*Begin unit on Individualism
*Daily allusion |
*Mid-term Exams |
*Mid-term Exams |
*Planning Day (No School) |
10/31-11/4 |
*SAT warm-up
*Copy Unit 7 vocabulary
*Latin roots
*Short story group assignment ("The Lottery")
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Discuss literature ("The Devil and Tom Walker" and "The Lottery")
*Read "Civil Disobedience" (Thoreau) (pg. 369)
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Review "Civil Disobedience"
*Read On Civil Disobedience (Gandhi) (pg. 377)
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Read from Walden (Thoreau) (pg. 381)
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Read Walt Whitman poetry (pg. 396)
*TPCASSTT assignment
*Daily allusion |
11/7-11/11 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 7 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 8 vocabulary
*Latin roots
*Edgar Allan Poe background
*Read "The Masque of the Red Death" (pgs. 454-461) (homework)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Review story and questions
*View film
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Read from Danse Macabre (pgs. 464-465)
*Grammar assignment
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Latin roots
*Read "The Raven" (pgs. 466-470) (TPCASSTT)
*Read "Fall of the House of Usher" (pgs. 473-494) (homework)
*Daily allusion |
*No School |
11/14-11/18 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 8 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 9 vocabulary
*View film (Poe's poetry)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Review grammar
*Discuss "Fall of the House of Usher"
*View film version
*Read "A Rose for Emily" (pg. 516) (homework)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Allusions Quiz #3
*Discuss "A Rose for Emily"
*View literature on film
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (pg. 500)
*Complete questions #1-6 and #8 on pg. 514
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Huckleberry Finn Quiz #1 (Ch. 1-10)
*"Gothic" drawing
*Daily allusion |
11/21-11/25 |
*No School |
*No School |
*No School |
*No School |
*No School |
11/28-12/2 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 9 vocab. quiz
*Read narrative (Frederick Douglass) (pg. 562)
*Complete questions #1-6 (pg. 571)
*Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (pg. 580) (homework)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Discuss story
*View film
*Grammar assignment (pgs. 23-24)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Read "The Gettysburg Address" (pg. 605)
*View speech on film
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Huckleberry Finn Quiz #2 (Ch. 11-18)
*Novel worksheet ("Family Feuds")
*Bingo boards
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Vocabulary Bingo
*Daily allusion |
12/5-12/9 |
*SAT warm-up
*Cumulative vocabulary test #3
*Copy Unit 10 vocabulary
*Novel worksheet (on "Censorship")
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Huckleberry Finn Quiz #3 (Ch. 19-29)
*Novel worksheet ("The Grangerfords")
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Assign topics for critical analysis assignment
*Begin writing thesis statements
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Work on critical analysis
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Work on critical analysis
*Daily allusion |
12/12-12/16 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 10 vocab. quiz
*Novel worksheet ("Taking Aim")
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Novel worksheet ("The River/The Shore")
*Review film
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Huckleberry Finn final test
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*View film
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*View film
*Daily allusion |
12/19-12/30 |
WINTER BREAK |
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1/2-1/6 |
*SAT warm-up
*Copy Unit 11 vocabulary
*Poetry Unit (Emily Dickinson)
*TPCASSTT assignment
(pgs. 750-754)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Critical analysis papers due
*Review vocab.
*Review and continue poetry
(pg. 759)
*Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" for homework (pgs. 765-778)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*"The Yellow Wallpaper" quiz
*Read "The Story of an Hour" (pgs. 783-785)
*Complete questions #1 and 3-9, including the Comprehension Check questions (pg. 786)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Begin Harlem Renaissance Unit
*Poetry Unit (Langston Hughes)
*Read background (pgs. 916-923)
*TPCASSTT poetry (pgs. 924-927)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Finish TPCASSTT
*Read essay (pgs. 932-936)
*SOAPSTone assignment
*Daily allusion |
1/9-1/13 |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 11 vocab. quiz
*Copy Unit 12 vocabulary
*Finish SOAPSTone from Friday
*Read King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (pgs. 1136-1145)
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Allusions quiz #4
*Begin SOAPSTone analysis of King's "Letter"
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Writing assignment
*Finish SOAPSTone analysis of King's "Letter"
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Read King's "I Have a Dream" speech
*Begin SOAPSTone
*Daily allusion |
*SAT warm-up
*Review vocab.
*Finish SOAPSTone
*View King's speeches on film
*Daily allusion |
1/16-1/20 |
*No School |
*SAT warm-up
*Unit 12 vocab. quiz
*Review for final exam
*Daily allusion |
*Final Exams |
*Final Exams |
*Planning Day (No School) |