Advanced 1st 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 1st 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 1st 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
21 – 13, 14b
22 – 15, 16b
23 – 17, 18b
MP 9
Boy in the Striped PJs
Introduction
Veritasium
HW: Ch 1/2
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 1/2
Start Double Entry
Journal
HW: Ch 3/4
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch ¾
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 5/6
HW: Ch 5/6
HW: VOC Unit 4
Ch 7/8
27 – 21, 22b
Progress Book
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 5
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 9/10
MP 10
Book
HW: Ch 11/12
28 – 23, 24b
29 – 25, 26b
30 – 27, 28b
HW: MP 8
24 – 19, 20b
2 HOUR DELAY
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 4
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 7/8
HW: MP 9
Ch 9/10
31 – 29, 30b
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 11/12
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 13/14
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 15 / 17
Boy in the Striped PJs
Ch 18 /20
Book Cover Activity
Journal Due
HW: Journal ; Ch 18 /20
HW: MP 10; Study
HW: Ch 13/ 14
1st Nine Weeks
Quarterly
Assessment
HW: Ch 15 /17
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
18
.End of 1st Nine Weeks
Literary Terms
25
Notes:
Advanced 1st 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
Vsauce
MP 11
Boy in the Striped
PJs Test
Journal Month 3
10 – 41, 42b
MP 12
Monday Prompt
Conferences
Narrative Writing
C.G.P. Grey
Progress Book
4 – 33, 34b
5 – 35, 36b
Narrative Introduction
Narrative Brainstorming
6 – 37, 38b
8
HW: VOC Unit 5
7 – 39, 40b
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 5
Narrative Writing
HW: MP 11
14
15
Narrative Writing
11 – 43. 44b
12 – 45- 47b
13 – 48- 50b
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 6
Narrative
Revision/Editing
Life in Elizabethan
England
Shakespeare YouTube
Speech Assignments
17 – 51, 52b
18 – 53, 54b
19 – 55, 56b
MP 13
Globe Theatre Due
Puns / Oxymorons /
Tone Powerpoint
Crash Course
HW: Speeches
Sonnets Prezi
Prologue Introduction
Speech 1 by Mrs.
Myser
Speech 2
Read 1.1 together
Watch 1.1/ Discuss
1.1 Study Guide
24
Speech 5
Watch 1.5 / Discuss
1.4 – 1.5 Study Guide
Queen Mab Due
TED Talk
HW: Journal; Study
Progress Book
Notes:
25
Speech 6 / Speech 7
Vocabulary Test B
Checking Notecards
26
Globe Theatre Prezi
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare Infograph
Globe Theater Activity
Talk to Groups
HW: MP 12; Speeches;
Globe Theatre Project
20 – 57, 58b
Speech 3
Quizzer 1
1.1 Answers
Insults / Flattery Contest
Watch 1.2 – 1.3/ Dis
1.2 – 1.3 Study Guide
HW: VOC Unit 6;
Narrative
27
Journal Due
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Day
Waiver Day
21 – 59, 60b
2 HOUR DELAY
22
Vocabulary Post-test Unit 6
Speech 4; Quizzer 2
1.1 – 1.3 Answers
Watch 1.4 / Discuss
Queen Mab Assignment
Narrative Due
HW: MP 13; Queen Mab
28
Thanksgiving Break
29
Advanced 1st Period
December 2014
Sunday
Week 7
7
Week 8
14
Week 9
Monday
1 – 1, 2c
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 7
Journal Month 4
Speech 8
MP 14
1.4 – 1.5 Answers
Act 2 Prologue Activity
Kid President
8 – 11, 12c
MP 15
Speech 13
Quizzer 6
3.1 Answers
Watch 3.2- 3.4 / Discuss
3.2 – 3.4 Study Guide
Progress Book
Veritasium
9 – 13, 14c
Speech 14
Quizzer 7
3.2 – 3.4 Answers
Watch 3.5 – 4.3 /
Discuss
3.5 – 4.3 Study Guide
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 8
Watch 5.2 – 5./ Discuss
5.2 – 5.3 Study Guide
Grid Review
Timeline Review
Quote Game
23
29
10 – 15, 16c
Speech 15
Watch 3.5 – 4.3 /
Discuss
3.5 – 4.3 Study Guide
17 – 25, 26c
Quarterly
Assessment
Saturday
6
11 – 17, 18c
Speech 16 / 17
Quizzer 8
3.5-4.3 Answers
Watch 4.4 – 5.1 / Discuss
4.4 – 5.1 Study Guide
12 - 19, 20c
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 7
Speech 18
Quizzer 9
4.4 – 5.1 Answers
Catch Up Day
13
18 – 27, 28c
Gnomeo and Juliet
Journal Due
HW: MP 15
19 -29, 30c
20
End of 2nd Nine Weeks
Gnomeo and Juliet
HW: Journal Due
24
____________
30
____________
Friday
5 – 9, 10c
Speech 12
Quizzer 5
2.5 – 2.6 Answers
Watch 3.1
3.1 Study Guide
HW: Study
Christmas Break
28
Thursday
4 -7, 8c
Speech 11
Quizzer 4
2.3 – 2.4 Answers
Watch 2.5 – 2.6 Discuss
2.5– 2.6 Study Guide
HW: VOC Unit 7
16 – 23, 24c
22
Wednesday
3 – 5, 6c
Speech 10
Quizzer 3
2.1 – 2.2 Answers
Watch 2.3 – 2.4
2.3 – 2.4 Study Guide
HW: MP 14
15 -21, 22c
Book
21
Tuesday
2 – 3, 4c
Speech 9
Watch 2.1 – 2.2 /
Discuss
2.1 – 2.2 Study Guide
25
____________
Christmas
_____________
31
Notes:
____________
26
_____________
27
Advanced 1st Period
January 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
1
Friday
2
____________
4
Week 1
5 - 31, 32c
Journal Month 5
MP 16
Poe Introduction
Poe Video on Youtube
6 – 33, 34c
7 – 35, 36c
8 – 37, 38c
10 Facts about Ravens
Death and Beyond Video
“The Raven”
Watch “The Raven” from
the Simpsons
“PG. 227”
Read “Romance,”
“The Bells” and “The
City in the Sea”
“PG. 221”
Read “Annabel Lee” and
“Ulalume”
“PG. 225”
“PG. 228”
HW: VOC Unit 8
12 – 41, 42c
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 9
C.G.P. Grey
MP 17
“Tell Tale Heart”
Discussion
Progress Book
13 – 43, 44c
14 – 45 – 47c
15 – 48 – 50c
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” Discussion
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” Discussion
Carnival Presentation
19
20 – 51, 52, 53c
MP 18
“Cask of Amontillado”
Discussion
Crash Course
Vsauce
11
Week 2
18
Week 3
25
Week 4
Martin Luther King Day
NO SCHOOL
26
MP 19
Poe
“The Masque of the Red
Death”
TED Talk
Progress Book
“The Fall of the House of
Usher”
HW: Finish “The Fall of
the House of Usher”
____________
9 - 39, 40c
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 8
Watch “Tell tale Heart”
10
HW: MP 16
16
17
Waiver Day
HW: MP 17; “Cask of
Amontillado”
21 – 54, 55, 56c
22 – 57, 58c
“Black Cat”
YouTube: “Finding
Stories in Ordinary
Places”
Choose an image for
assigned section
“Black Cat Discussion”
27
28
29
“The Masque of the Red
Death”
The Raven Movie
The Raven Movie
Begin “The Raven
Movie”
Saturday
3
HW: VOC Ch 9; Read
“The Premature Burial”
HW: Study; Journal
23 – 59, 60c
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 9
“The Premature Burial”
Discussion
HW: MP 18; Read “the
Masque of the Red
Death”
30
2 HOUR DELAY
Vocabulary C Test
Journal Due
HW: MP 19
24
31
Advanced 1st Period
February 2015
Sunday
1
Week 5
8
Week 6
15
Monday
22
Week 8
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3 – 3, 4d
4 – 5, 6d
5 – 7, 8d
6 – 9, 10d
Poe
Essay
Poe
Essay
Poe Essay
Short Story: Review
Literary Terms
9 – 11, 12d
MP 21
“The Most Dangerous
Game”
Discussion
Progress Book
Veritasium
10 – 13, 14d
11 – 15-17d
12 – 18 – 20d
“The Most Dangerous
Game”
Journal Entry
“A Christmas Memory”
Discussion
HW: Read “A Christmas
Memory”
17 – 21, 22, 23d
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 11
“Harrison Bergeron”
Readers Theater 1
MP 22
Book
HW: VOC Unit 10; Poe
Essay
18 – 24, 25, 26d
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 10
Read “Harrison
Bergeron”
Poe Essay DUE
HW: MP 21
24 – 33, 34d
25 – 35, 36d
“Initiation” Discussion
“The Necklace”
Discussion
16
Week 7
Tuesday
2 – 1, 2d
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 10
Journal Month 6
Poe Essay Brainstorming
Kid President
MP 20
President’s Day
NO SCHOOL
23 – 31, 32d
MP 23
“Helen on Eighty – Sixth
Street”
Double Entry Journal
Progress Book
Vsauce
HW: Read “Initiation”
Saturday
7
HW: Study
HW: Read “The
Necklace”
“Harrison Bergeron”
Readers Theater 1
HW: MP 20; Read “The
Most Dangerous Game”
13
Waiver Day
19 – 27, 28d
20 -29, 30d
Read
“Thank You, M’am”
Discussion
“Helen on Eighty – Sixth
Street” Discussion
HW: Helen on EightySixth Street”
26 – 37, 38d
Read
“The Sniper”
Discussion
HW: MP 22
HW: VOC Unit 11;
Journal; Read “The
Scarlet Ibis”
14
27 – 39, 40d
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 11
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Discussion
Journal Due
HW: MP 23
21
28
Advanced 1st Period
March 2015
Sunday
1
Week 9
8
Week 10
Monday
2 – 41, 42d
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 12
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Writing Prompt
MP 24
Journal Month 7
C.G.P. Grey
HW: Look Over Study
Guide
9 – 51, 52d
MP 25
Progress Book
Quarterly Assessment
Tuesday
Wednesday
Week 1
16 OGT
MP 26
Ethan Frome
Introduction
PowerPoint
5 – 47, 48d
6 – 49, 50d
PBA
PBA
PBA
PBA
Week 2
29
23 – 1, 2e
MP 27
PARCC PBA
VOC Pre-test Unit 13
Ethan Frome Ch3
Discussion
HW: Ch 4
Kid President
Progress Book
30
Spring Break
Saturday
7
HW: MP 24
10 – 53, 54d
11 – 55, 56d
12 – 57, 58d
Short Story Essay
Brainstorming
Short Story Essay
Short Story Essay
HW: VOC Unit 12
17 OGT
Discussion Introduction
Show how to take notes
and choose quotes.
Begin Reading Ethan
Frome Ch 1
TED Talk
HW: Read Introduction
22
Friday
4 – 45, 46d
Crash Course
15
Thursday
3 – 43, 44d
13 – 59, 60d
End of 3rd Nine Weeks
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 12
Short Story Essay
HW: MP 25
14
20 OGT
Vocabulary D test
SHORT STORY
ESSAY DUE
Read Ch 3
21
18 OGT
19 OGT
Ethan Frome Ch1
Discussion
Ethan Frome Ch2
Discussion
HW: Ch 2
HW: Ch 3: Study; Short
Story Essay
HW: MP 26
HW: Ch 1
24 – 3, 4e
PARCC PBA
25 – 5, 6e
PARCC PBA
26 – 7, 8e
PARCC PBA
27 – 9, 10e
PARCC PBA
Ethan Frome Ch4
Discussion
Ethan Frome Ch 5
Discussion
Ethan Frome Ch6
Discussion
Ethan Frome Ch 7
Discussion
Journal Due
HW: MP 27
HW: Ch 5
HW: Ch 6
HW: Journal ; Ch 7
31
Notes:
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28
Advanced 1st Period
April 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
____________
5
Week 3
12
Week 4
19
Week 5
6 – 11, 12e
MP 28
Read Ethan Frome Ch 8
In Class
Veritasium
Journal Month 8
13 – 21, 22e
Vocabulary Pre-test
Unit 14
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Book
MP 29
Progress Book
20 – 31, 32e
MP 30
SLO Post Test
Thursday
3
____________
____________
10 – 19, 20e
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 13
Ethan Frome Overall
Discussion
7 – 13, 14e
8 – 15, 16e
9 – 17, 18e
Ethan Frome Ch 8
Discussion
Ethan Frome Ch 9
Discussion
Ethan Frome Ch 10
Discussion
HW: VOC Unit 13
16 – 27, 28e
HW: MP 28
14 – 23, 24e
HW: Ch 10
15 – 25, 26e
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Ethan Frome Literary
Analysis
Week 6
11
17 – 29, 30e
18
HW: MP 29
21 – 33, 34e
22 – 35, 36e
23 – 37, 38e
How to Read a Poem
Poetry Terms Handout
Pop Music & Classic
Poetry Activity
Review Yesterday’s
Worksheet
Pop Music & Classic
Poetry Activity 2
HW: VOC Unit 14;
Literary Analysis
27 – 41, 42e
VOC Pre-test Unit 15
Progress Book
Discuss Miniver Cheevy
Close reading of Seven
Ages of Man
View Video
Begin Questions
Pt 2
MP 31
C.G.P. Grey
Saturday
4
HW: Ch 9
VSauce
26
Friday
2
28 – 43, 44e
29 – 45, 46e
30 – 47, 48e
EOY
EOY
Poetry Circle
Gather Ye Rosebuds
Journal Due
HW: Journal
24 – 39, 40e
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 14
Literary Analysis Due
Review Yesterday’s
Worksheet
Miniver Cheevy
Pt 1
HW: MP 30
Notes:
25
Advanced 1st Period
May 2015
Sunday
3
Week 7
Monday
4 – 51, 52e
MP 32
O Me! O Life!
Discussion
Apple Ad
Worksheet 2
Tuesday
5 – 53, 54e
Spoken Word
Assignments
Video Samples
O Captain! My Captain!
Worksheet
Wednesday
6 – 55, 56e
Discuss O Captain! My
Captain questions
Strange but True
PowerPoint
How to Haiku
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1 - 49, 50e
O Me! O Life! Questions
HW: MP 31
Journal Month 9
2
8 – 59, 60e
EOY
HW: MP 32
9
15
Vocabulary E Test
Poetry Cafe
Collect Vocabulary Rings
16
21
22
End of 4th 9 Weeks
LAST DAY
23
28
29
30
7 – 57, 58e
Blackout Poetry / Poetry
Art
Vocabulary Post-test
Unit 15
HW: VOC Unit 15
10
Week 8
17
Week 9
Crash Course
11
EOY
TED Talk
Progress Book
18
Kid President
Quarterly Assessment
Dead Poets’ Society
Movie
24
25
Memorial Day
31
Notes:
12
Acrostic Poetry
Assign Acrostic Poetry
Write Poem
13
14
Finish Acrostic Poem
19
20
Dead Poets’ Society
Movie
HW: Journal
Dead Poets’ Society
Movie
Journal Due
26
27
Teacher In-Service Day
Teacher Work Day
Poetry Cafe