English II—Twelve Angry Men Syllabus
Mrs. Graham
January 8-March 21
The following dates are tentative and subject to change. You need to purchase 3 X 5
notecards (minimally 55) by Friday, January 18.
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1/8
Welcome!! Seating chart
Classroom rules & expectations
Syllabus
3rd Quarter Spelling Lists
12 Angry Men Vocabulary
Select reading parts
Begin reading play aloud
HMWK: Answer questions over reading
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1/10
Spelling Quiz #1
Continue reading play
HMWK: Answer questions over reading
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1/14
Collect questions
Continue reading play
HMWK: Answer questions over reading
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1/16
Collect questions
HMWK: Capitalization, pp. 133-140
Discuss paper and bibliography cards
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1/18
Collect grammar hmwk
Spelling Quiz #2
Library (minimum of 3 bibliography cares due at end of block)
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1/21
No School—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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1/23
Library (10 notecards due at beginning of block on Friday)
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1/25
Collect 10 notecards
Spelling Quiz #3
Grade capitalization hmwk.
HMWK: 30 notecards due at beginning of block on Tuesday
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1/29
Collect 30 notecards
Capitalization Test
12 Angry Men Test
HMWK: 50 notecards due at beginning of block on Thursday
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1/31
Collect 50 notecards
Spelling Quiz #4
Video: 12 Angry Men
HMWK: Thesis statement due on Monday
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2/4
Thesis statement due
Video: 12 Angry Men
HMWK: Outline due on Wednesday
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2/6
Outline due
Spelling Quiz #5
HMWK: End Marks & Commas, pp. 141-150
HMWK: Rough draft due on Thursday
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2/8
No School (for teachers too!!!!!)
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2/11
Collect and grade grammar hmwk.
HMWK: Rough draft due on Thursday
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2/13
Valentine’s Day!
Rough draft due
End Marks & Commas Test
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2/15
Spelling Quiz #6
HMWK: Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, & Parentheses,
pp. 151-160
HMWK: Oral and Final Reports/Papers
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2/18
No School—President’s Day
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2/20
Oral Reports due
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2/22
Collect and grade grammar hmwk
Spelling Quiz #7
Final Paper due w/ notecards and graded outline
Complete Oral Reports
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2/26
Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, & Parentheses Test
Begin Poetry Unit
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2/28
Leap Year Day!
Spelling Quiz #8
HMWK: Apostrophes & Quotation Marks, pp. 161-168
Continue Poetry
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3/03
Collect and grade grammar hmwk.
Continue poetry unit
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3/05
Apostrophes & Quotation Marks Test
Continue poetry unit
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3/7
Spelling Quiz #1
HMWK: Pronoun Cases and Who/Whom
Shared Poems due
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3/11
Collect and grade grammar hmwk.
HMWK: Pronouns w/ Appositives, Problems, & Antecedent
Agreement
Poetry Rendering due
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3/13
Spelling Quiz #2
Collect and grade grammar hmwk.
Pronoun Test
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3/17-21
SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!