Grammar Exercise Workbook will be used in class

InterActive Reader issued on January 25, 2011

This course focuses on vocabulary development, writing and grammar skills, reading and textual analysis, and critical thinking skills.

Sample MLA style guides available- see links below!!!

Weekly Classroom Agenda

Be sure to visit my www.Quia.com web site for the vocabulary practice activities!

Heads up! Research Paper Begins May 2!!! See below.

Final Paper DUE May 20.

Vocabulary #7 Test on May 6.

May 9 - 13: Vocabulary #8 (1-10) instruction, Macbeth Act Five (Monday); Macbeth Act 5 (Tuesday); Working Thesis Statement DUE (Wednesday); Macbeth Final TEST (Thursday); Research Begins, How-to-do research instruction (Friday)

May 2 - 6: Vocabulary #7 (11-20) instruction, Finish Macbeth Act Two, Introduction to Research Paper (Monday); Prevention Team Survey, Macbeth Act Three (Tuesday); Finish Macbeth Act Three (Wednesday); Research Paper Topic DUE, Writing a Thesis Statement instruction, Macbeth Act Four (Thursday); Vocabulary #7 TEST, Completion of Act Four (Friday)

April 25 - 29: Vocabulary #1-6 Cumulative TEST (Monday); Vocabulary #7 (1-10) instruction, Finish Act One of Macbeth

(Tuesday); Act One Macbeth TEST (Wednesday); Act Two Macbeth, Activities (Thursday and Friday)

April 18 - 21: Vocabulary #6 (11-20) instruction, Collect Sonnet 130 HW, Introduction to Macbeth, Elements of a play and a Shakespearean tragedy, Historical background on Renaissance England (Monday); Read and study Act One of Macbeth, Create a scene-by-scene summary log (Tuesday and Wednesday); Vocabulary TEST #6, Macbeth activities (Thursday); No School on Friday (Good Friday) Happy Easter!

April 11 - 15: FCAT Week. When class meets we will be working! Monday and Tuesday work on Comic Life Project. Thursday is the last day of class time to work on Comic Life Project. Put finished project in my dropbox or save if to my key. Friday Vocabulary #6 (1-10) instruction, Introduction to the SONNET, iambic pentameter activities, Read and analyze Sonnets 29 and 116. Handout on SONNETS. HOMEWORK - Read and use the handout to analyze Sonnet 130, then paraphrase each line of the sonnet. DUE Monday.

April 5 - 8: Daily Warm ups; Vocabulary #5 (11-20) instruction, Begin Sir Gawain Comic Life Project (see Project Guidelines handout below), Analyze text and determine 10 most important "moments", create a story board with basic illustration and dialogue/narration, finish for HOMEWORK (Tuesday); Upon approval of story board, begin shooting slides (Wednesday), Finish shooting and upload pictures to iPhoto, Begin creation of comic in Comic Life software (Thursday); Complete project and place in my drop box, Vocabulary #5 TEST (Friday).

END OF QUARTER 3

March 28 - April 1: Daily Warm ups; The commas just keep on coming :-), Vocabulary #5 (1-10), Finish "Sir Gawain..." (Monday); Exam review Part 1, Essay for the Exam (Tuesday); Exam Review Part 2, Introduce Comic Life Project (Wednesday); EXAMS (Thursday and Friday) See you next quarter!

March 21 - 25: Daily warm ups; Vocabulary #4 (1-10), Review Comma usage, "The Pardoner's Tale" Prologue (Monday); Review ACT practice test, More comma usage, "The Pardoner's Tale" (Tuesday); More comma usage (there are many uses for the comma!), "The Wife of Bath Tale" (Wednesday); TEST on "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath Tale", Begin "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (Thursday); And still more comma usage, Vocabulary #4 TEST, Continue "Sir Gawain..." (Friday)

March 14 - 18: SPRING BREAK!

March 7 - 11: Daily Warm ups; Vocabulary #1-3 Cumulative TEST, Read and analyze "The Prologue" character the Summoner (Monday); Vocabulary #4 (1-10) instruction, Read and analyze "The Prologue" character the Pardoner (Tuesday); SAT Reading Comprehension Practice and Strategy instruction, Finish "The Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales (Wednesday); Comma Usage, "The Prologue" TEST (Thursday); More Comma Usage, ACT practice English TEST (Friday).

February 28 - March 4: Daily Warm ups; Vocabulary #3 (11-20) instruction, Read and analyze "The Prologue" characters Friar and Merchant (Monday); SAT sentence completion type questions practice and strategy instruction, Read and analyze "The Prologue" characters the Oxford Cleric, and the Sgt at Arms (Tuesday); SAT sentence completion type questions practice and strategy instruction, Read and analyze "The Prologue" characters Franklin, Guild members, Cook, Skipper, Doctor (Wednesday); SAT Reading Comprehension Practice and Strategy Instruction, Read and analyze "The Prologue" characters the Wife of Bath, Parson, Plowman, Miller (Thursday); Vocabulary TEST #3, review of Vocabulary 1-3 for cumulative TEST on Monday  (Friday).

February 22 - 25: Daily Warm ups; Vocabulary #3 (1-10) instruction, Begin "The Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales(Tuesday); Parts of Speech Sentence Construction Exercise, read and analyze the Knight and the Squire in "The Prologue," Create the characterization chart that will be developed throughout the reading of "The Prologue"(Wednesday); Parts of Speech exercise, read and analyze the Yeoman, the Nun, and the Monk(Thursday); Finding Subjects and Verbs exercise, Using Pronouns and Antecedents correctly (Friday).

February 14 - 18: Daily Warm ups; Beowulf TEST (Monday) open text and notes; Vocabulary #2 (11-20);  Beowulf Rap Presentation (Tuesday/Wednesday); In class essay on Beowulf (Thursday); Vocabulary #2 TEST (Friday)

February 7 - 11: Daily Warm ups; Correcting Comma Splices; Vocabulary #2 (1-10) instruction; HW - IAR p. 32; Beowulf continued "Grendal's Mother" "The Battle with Grendal's Mother" "Beowulf's Last Battle" "The Death of Beowulf" "Mourning of Beowulf", HW - IAR, p. 34; Kenning Activity; Assignment: Beowulf Rap PROJECT (link to requirements in "The Literary Connection" section below); Exploration of the text of Beowulf in connection with the Rap Project.

January 31 - February 4: Daily Warm ups; Vocabulary #1 (11-20) instruction; Power Point/instruction "Traits of an Epic Hero" and "Characteristics of an Epic"; Review Pronoun HW; Reading and Study of Beowulf "Grendal" "Beowulf" "The Battle with Grendal"

January 25 - 28: Introduction to Class/paperwork; Vocabulary #1(1-10) instruction; Grammar and Writing Diagnostic TEST/scoring; What is a Hero? HW - Noun Worksheet, Pronoun Worksheet

Web sites for grammar!!! General help with Parts of Speech - click here      Punctuation, Grammar, and Spelling - click here     Using Sentence Patterns - click here      Interactive Help sites - click here  or  click here

Web site for definitions of literary terms - click here

MLA Style Help -  OWL from Purdue     StudyGuide.org

The Literary Connection

Quarter 1

Beowulf - Read and analyze text; create a Beowulf RAP!!! click here for instructions and rubric

The Canterbury Tales - Read and analyze text; complete the first section of the Prologue in your InterActive Reader; Keep up with your Characterization Chart! TEST on "The Prologue" Thursday March 10.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Read and analyze text; create a Classic Comic project! Click here for Project Guidelines

Quarter 2

Complete the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Classic Comic Project. See Guidelines above.

Renaissance Poetry - The Sonnets

William Shakespeare's Macbeth - Research paper (see below)

20th Century Literature - "Words and Behavior," "A Hanging," "Six Feet of Country," "Writing as an Act of Hope"

click here

Thesis Statement DUE May 11

Documented Critical Analysis Paper

on Macbeth

Final Paper DUE May 20

List of Topics       Paper Timeline               Research Paper Rubric

Thesis Help: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html

Thesis Help: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/

and http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/01/

Thesis Help: http://www.tommarch.com/electraguide/

MLA Style Help: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

MLA Style Help: http://www.studyguide.org/MLAdocumentation.htm

MLA Style Help: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Citation Machine: see link below

Sample MLA Paper: click here

Thompson/Gale Home Access: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/browardcpsit

Password: see Media Specialist for more information

not used in this class this term

Literary Scrapbook Research Project Click Here

Click on a Title below to view that link

List of Topics      Project Rubrics      Web Site Evaluation Form

Directions for Creating Electronic Scrapbooks      Citation Machine

Power point Design Tips      Self-Check on Progress Form

Sample Scrapbook       Approved Websites

Thompson/Gale Home Access: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/browardcpsit

Password: see Media Specialist for more information

Vocabulary

Be sure to visit my QUIA site for activities. You can also review your tests on file there for additional study.

All words are fair game on EXAMs.

Lesson 1 - acquisitive, arrogate, banal, belabor, carping, coherent, congeal, emulate, encomium, eschew, germane, insatiable, intransigent, invidious, largesse, reconnaissance, substantiate, taciturn, temporize, tenable

        TEST on Friday, February 4

Lesson 2 - accost, animadversion, avid, brackish, celerity, devious, gambit, halcyon, histrionic, incendiary, maelstrom, myopic, overt, pejorative, propriety, sacrilege, summarily, suppliant, talisman, undulate

        TEST on Friday, February 18

Lesson 3 - articulate, cavort, credence, decry, dissemble, distraught, eulogy, evince, exhume, feckless, murky, nefarious, piquant, primordial, propinquity, unwonted, utopian, verbiage, verdant, viscous

        TEST on Friday, March 4

Unit 1 - 3 Review - Cumulative TEST, Monday, March 7

Lesson 4 - atrophy, bastion, concord, consummate, disarray, exigency, flotsam, frenetic, glean, grouse, incarcerate, incumbent, jocular, ludicrous, mordant, nettle, pecuniary, pusillanimous, recumbent, stratagem

        TEST on Friday, March 25

MID-TERM EXAM - week of March 28 ----- Study ALL of the words for the Mid-term

Lesson 5 - acuity, delineate, depraved, enervate, esoteric, fecund, fiat, figment, garner, hallow, idiosyncrasy, ignominy, mundane

        TEST on Friday, April 8

Lesson 6 - abject, agnostic, complicity, derelict, diatribe, effigy, equity, inane, indictment, indubitable, intermittent, moot, motif, neophyte, perspicacity, plenary, surveillance, sylvan, testy, travesty

        TEST on Thursday, April 21

Unit 1 - 6 Review - Cumulative TEST, Monday April 25

Lesson 7 - allay, bestial, convivial, coterie, counterpart, demur, effrontery, embellish, ephemeral, felicitous, furtive, garish, illusory, indigent, inordinate, jettison, misanthrope, pertinacious, picayune, raiment

         TEST on Friday, May 6

Lesson 8 - allege, arrant, badinage, conciliate, countermand, echelon, exacerbate, fatuous, irrefutable, juggernaut, lackadaisical, litany, macabre, paucity, portend, raze, recant, saturate, saturnine, slough

        TEST on Friday, May 20