Monday, August 30
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Course Outline and Expectations
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Independent Reading Expectations
 Begin “Relationships” Unit – “My Song” p238 Viewpoints - read together and answer questions from board
Tuesday, August 31
 “Mother” p288 Viewpoints – read, go over ‘paradox’ and ‘allusion’, students complete a response (on handout – uploaded to the English 20 Homework and Assignments)
Wednesday, September 1
 “1958” – Echoes 11, p 6 – read and discuss the poem, students answer questions p16
#1
– 5 (do 2 – 5 together, have students hand in #1)
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Practice Reading Comp – “Equal Opportunity”
Thursday, September 2
 Review for tomorrow’s quiz
 “The Glass Roses” – on handout – as a class, complete a web on society’s perception of the ‘ideal man’, read story and begin to work on vocabulary – choose 5 words from the story that were unfamiliar, define them and either illustrate them or use them in a sentence.
Friday, September 3
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Quiz on Relationships poetry
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Independent reading time – remember to record on the log and respond in journal form
Tuesday, September 7
 “The Glass Roses” – finish vocabulary from Thursday, small groups of students complete questions and hand in

 “Boys and Girls” – read story together p44 Viewpoints
Wednesday, September 8
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Assign and submit vocabulary from handout
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Students, in pairs or small groups, focus on one of the elements from the story. These were shared with the class and notes were taken on the smartboard.
Thursday, September 9
 Finished reading “The Lamp at Noon” together and completed the questions as a class
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I also provided instructions for the script assignment
Friday, September 10
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Independent Reading – don’t forget to log your minutes and complete the journals and activities – these are due September 24 th
Monday, September 13
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Time to work on script assignment – drafts are due tomorrow
Tuesday, September 14
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Type script assignment in computer lab
 “Saturday Climbing” – personal response journal – describe typical sources of parent/teen conflict
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Read story and discuss as a class
 Students filled out a graphic organizer on the theme entitled “Narrative Frame for
Discovering Theme”, and notes on the extended metaphor
Wednesday, September 15
 Mass at St. Mary’s
Thursday, September 16
 We watched the film version of “Boys and Girls” and discussed the differences between the written text and the visual text

Friday, September 17
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Independent Reading – these are due one week from today
Monday, September 20
 View film “Finding Forrester” and fill out viewing chart as a class
Tuesday, September 21
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Finish watching the film from yesterday, finish chart
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Distribute questions and complete #1
– 6 as a class
Wednesday, September 22
 Finish discussion questions for “Finding Forrester” and hand in
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Major assignment number 1 – I went over the expectations for the essay assignment for the Relationships unit for both -1 and -2. We will be working on these on Monday and
Tuesday, and a draft will be due next week
Friday, September 24
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Independent Reading – due today
Monday, September 27
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Relationships exam review as a class
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Work on Relationships essay
Tuesday, September 28
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Relationships unit exam and essay work. Essays due Thursday
Wednesday, September 29
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We worked on the Relationship essays in the computer lab. The drafts are due tomorrow.
Thursday, September 30
 We began a unit on “Human Conflict and Struggle” – we discussed a painting called ‘The
Colossus’ and Ferlinghetti’s poem entitled ‘In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See’ and related them to the main theme. These are in the Echoes textbook starting on page
55. I assigned students to choose 5 vocabulary words that were unfamiliar from the text, define them and either illustrate or use in a sentence. These are due tomorrow.

Friday, October 1
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Independent Reading
Monday, October 4
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Small group work on human conflict and struggle – each group was assigned a piece of literature. They were to read the piece, answer the questions following, and write up a summary linking it to the theme. These will be shared with the class tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 5
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Presentation of human conflict and struggle literature
– “The Baker”, “Hiroshima Exit”,
“The War and Beyond”, and “The Sound of a Gun” – I distributed the notes to the class to study for the quiz on Friday
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Assignment – Echoes p 66 – Reflecting on the Echo – students are to choose one of the three options to respond to for this assignment – they will submit tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 6
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Rewrite reading comprehension for relationships exam
Thursday, October 7
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Introdu ction to “The Shawshank Redemption” – I distributed the Language of Film
Assignment in which each student is to choose a different film technique to bring an example for the class and explain – each student signed up for a day to present in the next week.
 We also discussed as a class associations/meanings of the word ‘redemption’ and what prison life would be like
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We began watching the film (the first 37 minutes)
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I also distributed the study questions for the film to the class
Friday, October 8
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Quiz on human conflict and struggle
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Independent reading time
Tuesday. October 12
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Revisions on Relationships essay – due tomorrow
 Continued viewing “The Shawshank Redemption”
Wednesday, October 13
 Finished viewing “The Shawshank Redemption

Thursday, October 14
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Class discussion and questions for the film
Friday, October 15
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Independent Reading – second submission is due November 1 st
Monday, October 18
 “Shawshank Redemption” close viewing questions – we took a close look at a few scenes and discussed them, and I assigned #5 from the handout for evaluation
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I also assigned the chart on the back of the handout – Power Struggles
Tuesday, October 19
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20-1 Personal Response to Texts assignment
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20-2 Visual Reflection assignment
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Draft is due Friday
Wednesday, October 20
 Begin unit on Macbeth by discussing Shakespeare’s life and time and language development from old English to middle English to modern English
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Worksheet on Shakespeare and London – we will correct next class