English 11, American Literature, Period 6
Ms. Lockwood
Course Calendar - Sept. 10 - 28, 2012
Date
In-class activities
Homework
Mon., 9/10
SSR; journal: time of shame
5-week grades;
QQR Reading Log
“Shame” by Dick Gregory - read & discuss
Read your book and finish your QQR #2
(due Tuesday)
Tues., 9/11
Short day
Hand in QQR #2 (peer check)
“Shame” practice analysis
Read your book
Write in your journal (choice of topic)
Wed., 9/12
SSR; journal: 10 worst moments
Setting of book - instructions & example
Read memoir; discuss
Personal dictionary #2 is due Thursday –
20 words total; 2 vocab cards
Thurs., 9/13
✔ PD #2 - 20 words, 2 cards
Vocab “quiz”
Journal outside of class, select one topic for
your memoir and write details (below)
Fri., 9/14
SSR; journal: details of second topic
Beginning a memoir; plan out memoir
Describe the setting of your book (due
Wednesday)
Mon, 9/17
School Holiday
Tues., 9/18
SSR; Class secretary
Work on memoir in class
Setting description is due Weds.
Write two entries in your journal this week
(one related to course)
Wed., 9/19
SSR: Secretary:
Hand in Setting description
Work on memoir in class
Personal dictionary #3 is due Thursday –
30 words total, 2 new vocab cards
Thurs., 9/20
Secretary:
✔ PD #3 - 30 words, 2 cards; vocab “quiz”
Finish first draft of memoir by Friday (type)
SSR; Secretary:
✔ memoir; edit memoir
Edit your memoir; revise typed version
Read your book (no writing assignments)
Back-to-Sch
ool; College
Fair
Fri., 9/21
Class website: www.mslockwood.com
Ms. Lockwood’s e-mail address: courtney.mo3@verizon.net
Personal dictionary is due each Thursday. Put 10 words in your dictionary and make 2 vocab cards.
Journal: Bring your journal to class each day and answer the prompt in class. Outside of class, write
two journals each week, one on your choice of topic, one on some aspect of the class. A list of journal
topic ideas is available on the class website. http://www.mslockwood.com See “Grade 11 English” or
“Resources” page.
Independent reading book: Bring your book to class each day. Most days (not Thursday) we will read
for the first 10 minutes of class. It is expected that you read at least 1/5 of your book per week.
Independent reading book, Describe the setting (place and time) and explain why it is important to this
story. Could this story happen anywhere else? Where? Why/why not? How would it change the
story if the setting were changed? (2 paragraphs typed)
Journal: Detail one experience: Take one experience from your list and write all of the details that you
can remember about that moment. Write with the senses in mind: sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch.
Think of a time you were embarrassed or
ashamed about your actions. Describe that
experience. What led to your shame? What
did you feel like? What did you do? Did it
change how you acted later?
Think of a time you were frustrated or
angry with yourself. Describe that
experience. What led to your frustration?
What did you feel like? What did you do?
Did it change how you acted later?
What Is a memoir? Write everything you
know (or think you know) about memoirs.
1.
Think of something you have learned to
do over a period of time and describe
the process of learning that and what it
felt like at different stages until you
mastered it.
2.
Focus on your relationship with one
family member or long-term friend...and
make a list of stories connected to that
person (the trip you took together to...;
the argument ovre....; the time when...;
etc.). Draw a line like a graph showing
the “ups and downs” of the relationship
over time, with notes on the peaks and
valleys denoting times of closeness,
fun, difficulties, etc.
3.
Think of an event in your life when you
were less than 12 years old. Pick a
summer from your early life and write
an account of it all in summary.
Describe two scenes from that
summer.
4.
Think of a place where you lived as a
child. Draw your neighborhood with
street names, geographical features,
stores, businesses, etc. Write about
living in that neighborhood or about
walking home from school through the
neighborhood.
5.
.Pick an age between eight and 15.
Focus on being that age and list the
names of ten people who were part of
your life, excluding parents,
grandparents, and siblings. Close
your eyes and point to the list,
selecting one name at random.
Generate as much detail as you can
about that person in the form of notes;
then select from your notes to create
a portrait not more than two pages
long.