Advanced 2nd Period
August 2014
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Teacher Work Day
17
Week 1
18
Teacher In-Service Day
24
Week 2
31
25 - 1, 2a
MP 1
Go Over Supplies
Summer Reading
Quiz
Monday Prompt
Workday
Give Out Numbers
Kid President
Notes:
19
Kid President
Syllabus Day
Seating Chart
26 – 3, 4a
Hole-Punch Cards
Pass Out Rings
VOC Pre-test Unit 1
Vocabulary Book
Explanation
Work on Monday
Prompt
20
Set Up Text Message
Introduce Close Reading
Read Monday Prompt 1
Together
Discussion
21
22
Close Reading Strategies
Notes
Individual Close Reading
MLA PowerPoint
MLA Handout
Guided Monday Prompt
Response
27 - 5, 6a
Website
Work on Monday
Prompt
28 7, 8a
29 9, 10a
Monday Prompt
Conferences
Picture Day
Continue to Work on
Monday Prompt
23
SLO Pretest
Pass Out Calendars
Monday Prompt
Conferences
HW: MP 1
30
Advanced 2nd Period
September 2014
Sunday
Monday
1
Week 3
Labor Day
NO SCHOOL!
Tuesday
2 – 11, 12, 13a
MP 2
Veritasium
Summer Reading Book
Chapter Assignments
Journal Month 1
7
Week 4
14
Week 5
21
Week 6
28
Week 7
8 - 21, 22a
MP 3
“Word Crimes”
Note Taking
Presentation
Progress Book
Grammar – 8 Parts of
Speech (2) Review
VOC Pre-test Unit 2
15 - 31, 32a
MP 4
Vsauce
Grammar – 8 Parts of
Speech Review
Monday Prompt
Conferences
“Fixing You”
22 - 41, 42a
VOC Pre-test Unit 3
Grammar – Commas
Quiz
Grammar – Plurals/
Possession/ Random
MP 5
Progress Book
C.G.P. Grey
29 – 51, 52a
Crash Course
Grammar – Plurals/
Possession/ Random
Quiz
MP 6
HW: Journal
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3 - 14, 15, 16a
4 - 17, 18a
5 - 19, 20a
SRB Chapter
Assignments
Break into Groups
SRB Quote Assignment
SRB Quote Assignment
VOC Post-test Unit 1
HW: VOC Unit 1
9 – 23, 24a
10 – 25. 27a
11 - 28 –30a
Grammar – 8 Parts of
Speech (2) Review
Grammar – 8 Parts of
Speech (2) Review
Grammar – 8 Parts of
Speech (2) Review
HW: MP 2
12
Saturday
6
13
Waiver Day
SRB DUE
HW: MP 3
HW: SRB Assignment
16 - 33, 34a
17 – 35, 36a
18 – 37, 38a
19 - 39, 40a
Grammar Quiz
Progress Book
Grammar - Commas
Grammar – Commas
Grammar – Commas
HW: VOC Unit 2
VOC Post-test Unit 2
HW: MP 4
23 – 43, 44a
24 – 45, 46a
25 – 47, 48a
Grammar – Plurals/
Possession/ Random
Grammar – Plurals/
Possession/ Random
Grammar – Plurals/
Possession/ Random
26 – 49, 50a
2 HOUR DELAY
Grammar – Plurals/
Possession/ Random
HW: MP 5
30 – 53, 54a
Grammar - Punctuation
Journal Due
Notes:
20
27
Advanced 2nd Period
October 2014
Sunday
5
Week 8
Monday
6
Grammar – Quoting
Sources
Progress Book
MP 7
Tuesday
7
Grammar – Quoting
Sources
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1 – 55, 56a
2 – 57, 58a
3 – 59. 60a
Grammar – Punctuation
Journal Month 2
Grammar – Punctuation
Quiz
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 3
Grammar – Quoting
Sources
HW: MP 6
8
Grammar – Quoting
Sources
HW: VOC Unit 3
9
Grammar – Quoting
Sources Quiz
10
Saturday
4
11
Vocabulary A Test
Checking Notecards
HW: Study
TED Talk
12
Week 9
19
Week 1
26
Week 2
14 – 3, 4b
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 4
Review
15 – 5, 6b
20 – 11, 12b
MP 9
Veritasium
Life in Elizabethan
England
Shakespeare YouTube
Speech Assignments
21 – 13, 14b
22 – 15, 16b
23 – 17, 18b
Globe Theatre Prezi
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare Infograph
Globe Theater Activity
Talk to Groups
HW: MP 12; Speeches;
Globe Theatre Project
Globe Theatre Due
Puns / Oxymorons /
Tone Powerpoint
Sonnets Prezi
Prologue Introduction
Speech 1 by Mrs.
Myser
HW: VOC Unit 4
HW: MP 8
24 – 19, 20b
2 HOUR DELAY
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 4
Speech 2
Read 1.1 together
Watch 1.1/ Discuss
1.1 Study Guide
HW: MP 9
28 – 23, 24b
Speech 4
Quizzer 2
1.1 – 1.3 Answers
Watch 1.4 / Discuss
Queen Mab Assignment
HW: Queen Mab
29 – 25, 26b
30 – 27, 28b
31 – 29, 30b
Speech 5
Watch 1.5 / Discuss
1.4 – 1.5 Study Guide
Queen Mab Due
Speech 6 / Speech 7/
Speech 8
1.4 – 1.5 Answers
Act 2 Prologue Activity
Journal Due
Speech 9
Watch 2.1 – 2.2 /
Discuss
2.1 – 2.2 Study Guide
27 – 21, 22b
Progress Book
Voc Pre-test Unit 5
MP 10; Book
Speech 3; Quizzer 1
1.1 Answers
Insults / Flattery Contest
Watch 1.2 – 1.3/ Dis
1.2 – 1.3 Study Guide
1st Nine Weeks
Quarterly
Assessment
16 – 7, 8b
HW: MP 7
17 – 9, 10b
13 – 1, 2b
MP 8
Monday Prompt
Conferences
Fix What is Mixed
Activity
Kid President
Literary Terms
HW: Speeches
18
.End of 1st Nine Weeks
Literary Terms
HW: Journal
HW: MP 10
25
Notes:
Advanced 2nd Period
November 2014
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
Week 3
9
Week 4
16
Week 5
23
Week 6
30
3 – 31, 32b
Speech 10
Quizzer 3
2.1 – 2.2 Answers
Watch 2.3 – 2.4
2.3 – 2.4 Study Guide
Vsauce
MP 11
Journal Month 3
10 – 41, 42b
MP 12
Monday Prompt
Conferences
C.G.P. Grey
Progress Book
4 – 33, 34b
11 – 43. 44b
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 6
Speech 15
Watch 3.5 – 4.3 /
Discuss
3.5 – 4.3 Study Guide
12 – 45- 47b
Speech 16 / 17
Quizzer 8
3.5-4.3 Answers
Watch 4.4 – 5.1 / Discuss
4.4 – 5.1 Study Guide
17 – 51, 52b
18 – 53, 54b
19 – 55, 56b
MP 13
Watch 5.2 – 5./ Discuss
5.2 – 5.3 Study Guide
Crash Course
Grid Review
Timeline Review
Quote Game
24
Boy in the Striped PJs
Introduction
Ch 1/2
TED Talk
HW: Journal; Study
Progress Book
Notes:
Speech 11
Quizzer 4
2.3 – 2.4 Answers
Watch 2.5 – 2.6 Discuss
2.5– 2.6 Study Guide
HW: Study
25
Vocabulary Test B
Checking Notecards
Journal Due
HW: Ch 3/4
5 – 35, 36b
Speech 12
Quizzer 5
2.5 – 2.6 Answers
Watch 3.1
3.1 Study Guide
Romeo and Juliet
Test
26
Thanksgiving Break
6 – 37, 38b
8
HW: VOC Unit 5
7 – 39, 40b
Voc Post-test Unit 5
Speech 14
Quizzer 7
3.2 – 3.4 Answers
Watch 3.5 – 4.3 /
Discuss
3.5 – 4.3 Study Guide
HW: MP 11
13 – 48- 50b
14
15
Speech 13
Quizzer 6
3.1 Answers
Watch 3.2- 3.4 / Discuss
3.2 – 3.4 Study Guide
Speech 18
Quizzer 9
4.4 – 5.1 Answers
Catch Up Day
HW: MP 12
20 – 57, 58b
Waiver Day
21 – 59, 60b
Vocabulary Post-test Unit 6
Gnomeo and Juliet
2 HOUR DELAY
Gnomeo and Juliet
HW: VOC Unit 6
HW: MP 13; Read Ch
1/2
27
28
Thanksgiving Day
22
29
Thanksgiving Break
Advanced 2nd Period
December 2014
Sunday
Week 7
7
Week 8
14
15 -21, 22c
Week 9
21
Monday
1 – 1, 2c
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 7
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch ¾
Start Double Entry
Journal
Journal Month 4
MP 14
Kid President
HW: Ch 5/6
8 – 11, 12c
MP 15
Progress Book
Veritasium
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 13/14
HW: Ch 15/16
Tuesday
2 – 3, 4c
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 5/6
HW: Ch 7/8
9 – 13, 14c
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 15/16
Friday
Saturday
5 – 9, 10c
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 11/12
HW: Ch 11/12
HW: MP 14; Ch 13/14
11 – 17, 18c
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 19/20
12 - 19, 20c
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 7
Boy in the Striped
PJs Test
HW: MP 15
13
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 17/18
19 -29, 30c
20
HW: VOC Unit 7 ; Study
HW: Ch 19/20
HW: Ch 17/18
16 – 23, 24c
Narrative Writing
22
23
17 – 25, 26c
Narrative Writing
18 – 27, 28c
Narrative Writing
Journal Due
HW: Journal Due
HW: Narrative
24
____________
30
____________
10 – 15, 16c
Book Cover Activity
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 8
Narrative Introduction /
Brainstorming
Book
29
Thursday
4 -7, 8c
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 9/10
6
HW: Ch 9/10
Christmas Break
28
Wednesday
3 – 5, 6c
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 7/8
25
31
____________
Notes:
____________
26
Christmas
_____________
End of 2nd Nine Weeks
Narrative Due
Presentation of Book
Covers
_____________
27
Advanced 2nd Period
January 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
1
Friday
2
____________
4
Week 1
11
Week 2
18
Week 3
25
Week 4
5 - 31, 32c
6 – 33, 34c
7 – 35, 36c
8 – 37, 38c
Journal Month 5
MP 16
Short Story: Review
Literary Terms
Vsauce
HW; Read “Most
Dangerous Game”
12 – 41, 42c
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 9
C.G.P. Grey
MP 17
Progress Book
“Harrison Bergeron”
Readers Theater 1
“The Most Dangerous
Game”
Discussion
“The Most Dangerous
Game”
Journal Entry
“A Christmas Memory”
Discussion
19
20 – 51, 52, 53c
MP 18
Crash Course
“Helen on Eighty –
Sixth Street”
Double Entry Journal
HW: Read “Initiation”
Martin Luther King Day
NO SCHOOL
26
MP 19
TED Talk
Progress Book
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Discussion
HW: VOC Unit 8
HW: Read “A Christmas
Memory”
13 – 43, 44c
14 – 45 – 47c
15 – 48 – 50c
“Harrison Bergeron”
Readers Theater 1
Read
“Thank You, M’am”
Discussion
“Helen on Eighty –
Sixth Street” Discussion
27
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Writing Prompt
MP 24
Journal Month 7
C.G.P. Grey
HW: Read “A Sound of
Thunder”
HW: Helen on EightySixth Street”
21 – 54, 55, 56c
Saturday
3
____________
9 - 39, 40c
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 8
Read “Harrison
Bergeron”
10
HW: MP 16
16
17
Waiver Day
HW: MP 17
22 – 57, 58c
23 – 59, 60c
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 9
Read “The Sniper”
Discussion
“Initiation” Discussion
“The Necklace”
Discussion
HW: Read “The
Necklace”
HW: VOC Unit 9
28
29
“A Sound of Thunder”
Discussion
“A Sound of Thunder”
Journal Entry
HW: MP 18; Read “The
Scarlet Ibis”
30
2 HOUR DELAY
Vocabulary C Test
Journal Due
Review Sheet
HW: Study; Journal
HW: MP 19
24
31
Advanced 2nd Period
February 2015
Sunday
1
Week 5
8
Week 6
Monday
2 – 1, 2d
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 10
Short Story Essay
Brainstorming
Journal Month 6
Kid President
MP 20
9 – 11, 12d
MP 21
Short Story Essay
Tuesday
3 – 3, 4d
Wednesday
4 – 5, 6d
Short Story Test
Thursday
Friday
5 – 7, 8d
6 – 9, 10d
Short Story Essay
Short Story Essay
Saturday
7
Short Story Essay
HW: MP 20
10 – 13, 14d
11 – 15-17d
12 – 18 – 20d
Poe Introduction
Poe Video on Youtube
10 Facts about Ravens
Death and Beyond Video
“The Raven”
Watch “The Raven” from
the Simpsons
“PG. 227”
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 10
Read “Romance,”
“The Bells” and “The
City in the Sea”
“PG. 221”
Progress Book
Veritasium
13
14
Waiver Day
HW: MP 21
15
16
Week 7
22
Week 8
President’s Day
NO SCHOOL
23 – 31, 32d
MP 23
Progress Book
Vsauce
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” Discussion
17 – 21, 22, 23d
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 11
MP 22
Book
Read “Annabel Lee” and
“Ulalume”
“PG. 225”
“PG. 228”
HW: Short Story Essay
24 – 33, 34d
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” Discussion
Carnival Presentation
HW: MP 17; “Cask of
Amontillado”
HW: VOC Unit 10
18 – 24, 25, 26d
Watch “Tell tale Heart”
Short Story Essay
Due
19 – 27, 28d
20 -29, 30d
“Tell Tale Heart”
Discussion
“The Fall of the House of
Usher”
21
HW: Finish “The Fall of
the House of Usher”
25 – 35, 36d
“Cask of Amontillado”
Discussion
26 – 37, 38d
“Black Cat”
YouTube: “Finding
Stories in Ordinary
Places”
Choose an image for
assigned section
HW: VOC Unit 11;
Journal
HW: MP 22
27 – 39, 40d
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 11
“Black Cat Discussion”
HW: Read “The
Premature Burial” ; MP
23
Journal Due
28
Advanced 2nd Period
March 2015
Sunday
1
Week 9
8
Week 10
15
Week 1
22
Week 2
29
Monday
2 – 41, 42d
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 12
MP 24
Journal Month 7
“The Premature Burial”
Discussion
HW: Read “the Masque
of the Red Death”
C.G.P. Grey
9 – 51, 52d
MP 25
Progress Book
Poe
“The Masque of the Red
Death”
Crash Course
16
MP 26
OGT
TED Talk
23 – 1, 2e
MP 27
Discuss Miniver Cheevy
Close reading of Seven
Ages of Man
View Video
Begin Questions Pt 2
PARCC PBA
VOC Pre-test Unit 13
Kid President
Progress Book
30
Spring Break
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3 – 43, 44d
4 – 45, 46d
5 – 47, 48d
6 – 49, 50d
PBA
PBA
PBA
PBA
Saturday
7
HW: MP 24
10 – 53, 54d
“The Masque of the Red
Death”
11 – 55, 56d
The Raven Movie
Begin “The Raven
Movie”
17
OGT
Pop Music & Classic
Poetry Activity
HW: VOC Unit 12;
18
OGT
Review Yesterday’s
Worksheet
Pop Music & Classic
Poetry Activity 2
24 – 3, 4e
PARCC PBA
Discuss Seven Ages of
Man
Shakespeare Sonnet
25 – 5, 6e
PARCC PBA
Assign Shakespeare
Sonnet Topics
Write your own Sonnet
31
Notes:
_____________
12 – 57, 58d
The Raven Movie
19
OGT
Review Yesterday’s
Worksheet
Miniver Cheevy
Pt 1
HW: Study; Poe Essay
26 – 7, 8e
PARCC PBA
Poetry Circle
Gather Ye Rosebuds
13 – 59, 60d
End of 3rd Nine Weeks
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 12
How to Read a Poem
Poetry Terms Handout
HW: MP 25
14
20
Vocabulary D test
POE ESSAY DUE
OGT
21
HW: MP 26
27 – 9, 10e
PARCC PBA
O Me! O Life! Questions
Journal Due
HW: MP 27
28
Advanced 2nd Period
April 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
____________
5
Week 3
12
Week 4
19
Week 5
6 – 11, 12e
MP 28
O Me! O Life!
Discussion
Apple Ad
Worksheet 2
Veritasium
Journal Month 8
13 – 21, 22e
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 14
Poetry Art
Book
MP 29
Progress Book
20 – 31, 32e
MP 30
SLO Post Test
VSauce
HW: Read Introduction
26
Week 6
27 – 41, 42e
VOC Pre-test Unit 15
Progress Book
Ethan Frome Ch3
Discussion
HW: Ch 4/5/6
MP 31
C.G.P. Grey
7 – 13, 14e
Spoken Word
Assignments
Video Samples
O Captain! My Captain!
Worksheet
8 – 15, 16e
Discuss O Captain! My
Captain questions
Strange but True
PowerPoint
How to Haiku
Thursday
Friday
2
3
____________
____________
9 – 17, 18e
Helen of Troy
Worksheets
10 – 19, 20e
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 13
Blackout Poetry
Saturday
4
11
HW: MP 28
HW: VOC Unit 13
14 – 23, 24e
Acrostic Poetry
Assign Acrostic Poetry
Write Poem
15 – 25, 26e
Finish Acrostic Poem
16 – 27, 28e
17 – 29, 30e
Poetry Cafe
Poetry Cafe
Review
18
HW: MP 29
21 – 33, 34e
Poetry Exam
Ethan Frome
Introduction
PowerPoint
28 – 43, 44e
EOY
22 – 35, 36e
Discussion Introduction
Show how to take notes
and choose quotes.
Begin Reading Ethan
Frome Ch 1
HW: Ch 1, 2
29 – 45, 46e
EOY
23 – 37, 38e
Ethan Frome Ch 1/2
Discussion
24 – 39, 40e
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 14
Ethan Frome Ch2
Discussion
HW: VOC Unit 14
30 – 47, 48e
Journal Due
Ethan Frome Ch 4,5,6
Discussion
HW: Journal
HW: Ch 7
HW: Ch 3
HW: MP 30
Notes:
25
Advanced 2nd Period
May 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1 - 49, 50e
Ethan Frome Ch 7
Discussion
3
Week 7
10
Week 8
17
4 – 51, 52e
MP 32
Ethan Frome Ch 8
Discussion
HW: Ch 9
Crash Course
5 – 53, 54e
Ethan Frome Ch 9
Discussion
11 EOY
TED Talk
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Progress Book
12
13
HW: VOC Unit 15
14
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
18
Kid President
19
20
Dead Poets’ Society
Movie
HW: Journal ; Essay
Dead Poets’ Society
Movie
Literary Analysis Due
Journal Due
26
27
Week 9
Dead Poets’ Society
Movie
24
25
Memorial Day
31
Notes:
6 – 55, 56e
Ethan Frome Ch 10
Discussion
HW: Ch 10
Teacher In-Service Day
Teacher Work Day
7 – 57, 58e
Ethan Frome Overall
Discussion
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 15
HW: MP 31; Ch 8
Journal Month 9
8 – 59, 60e
EOY
HW: MP 32
Saturday
2
9
15
Vocabulary E Test
Collect Vocabulary Rings
16
21
22
End of 4th 9 Weeks
LAST DAY
23
28
29
30