January 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Nancy to Make Workshop on logical arguments Melissa to make handouts for jigsaw activity 1 6 7 13 20 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 2 3 Day One Semester Two: Review exam 111; Reading-set goal for book club this Friday Critical Reading and Portfolio Focus Practice a critical reading PORTFOLIO ORGANIZATION 8 9 112/111 Power point Presentation on Public Speaking Give out assignment Speech Writing Handouts Reading Model Speech and activity Reading Model Speech #2 and activity Introduce Improv speeches for next week Book Club 14 15 Reading Improv Speeches Round 1 21 28 SATURDAY 4 PERMISSION SLIP and MONEY DUE For PLAY Reading Portfolio Reflection Piece and Goal Setting; Choose something to improve 5 10 *Speech Assignment Due MOBILE LAB D112 to Share with Jigsaw Group your Speech Assignment 11 12 16 17 19 Mobile Lab D112 to finish Group sharing of speech activity: submit activity Reading Improv Speeches Round 2 Reading Improv Speeches Round 3 Book Club 18 Critical Reading Portfolio Focus: Speech Writing Chosen Improvement Piece due 22 23 24 25 26 FORMAL SPEECHES 27 FRIDAY The Dreaming at the Playhouse $6.00 March 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 1 WEDNESDAY 2 THURSDAY 3 FRIDAY SATURDAY 4 5 11 12 18 19 25 26 Book Club Projects and Presentations 6 7 8 9 10 March Break 13 14 15 16 17 Begin Problem Based Learning Unit: Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil? Centrepiece: Golding’s Lord of the Flies, independent reading, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Hobbes, Locke, Freud, Skinner, Maslow, and more. . . 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 31 Fridays are Workshop Days: reading strategy practice, mini-lessons in writing, and portfolio writing. Many process pieces will be drafted in this time. ALL SEMESTER April 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Parent-Teacher Interviews 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 21 22 23 Finish Human Nature Unit Good Friday 28 29 Continue Human nature unit . . .(fiction/nonfiction) 17 24 18 25 Easter Monday 19 26 20 27 Formal Literary Research Essay Writing 30 May 2011 SUNDAY 1 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 4 THURSDAY 5 FRIDAY 6 SATURDAY 2 3 PEER EDITING AND TEACHER CONFERENCING PEER EDITING AND TEACHER CONFERENCING 8 9 No School for Students 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Begin Poetry FORMAL ESSAY DUE (EXAM PIECE) 7 No School for Students POETRY and The Taming of the Shrew the month of May up to exams 22 23 No School for Students 24 29 30 31 Poetry Presentations Poetry Presentations 25 26 27 28 June 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 1 THURSDAY 2 FRIDAY SATURDAY 3 FINAL TEST on The Taming of the Shrew 4 11 POETRY PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS 5 12 6 7 8 9 10 Viewing Viewing BOOKTALK SPEED DATING EXEMPTION DAY EXAM REVIEW 13 14 15 16 17 18 24 25 EXAMINATION WEEK 19 20 21 22 Grade 12’s return Gr. 9, 10, 11 return GRAD REHEARSAL 23 GRADUATION SAFE GRAD PROM 26 27 28 29 30 July 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 September 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 October 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 November 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 December 2011 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31