American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
September 2010
Monday
6 Labor Day
No School
Tuesday
Wednesday
7 Discuss Cause & Effect Notes
8 Coyote DVD/Review Coyote notes
from 'Turtle' reading assignment
(QUIZ)
Intro Folk Tales/Trickster Tales
(Cause/Effect)
Begin Open Response
Lesson/Practice
Continue Open Response PracticeGraphic Organizer -Coyote Video
HW Assignment - Begin reading
'Coyote' stories' pg39-45
(Notes/Cause & Effect)
Figurative Language list #2
13 Return Literary/Rhetorical
14 SKY DRIVE TRAINING -Blazer
15 SCHOOL PICTURES
Term 2 worksheet to use as
study guide - correct and revise
Media Center w/ Sherry Payne
Vocabulary review
Name 4 Modern Tricksters - ex.Bugs/Road Runner/
Dr. Who /Nag Homura (MyHime)/The Joker
(Batman)/Light Yagami
(Deathnote)/Q (Star Trek)/Jack
Sparrow (Pirates of the
Caribbean)
Pre-read discussion Conflict &
Inference
Textbook- "The Man To Send
Rain Clouds" - audio
(Write reflective journal entry
on the story - Notebook Writing
section)
HW Assignment-study
Figurative Language list #2
20
Collect Open Responses
HW Assignment-study Figurative
Language list #2
Thursday
9 Turtle/Coyote Quiz
Open Response - River Music
Peer Conference - OR
Worksheet (front & back) - turn in
at the end of the period
Start homework assignment if
worksheet completed.
HW Assignment - Brainstorm a
list of 4 tricksters who are popular
today. Then compare them to
Coyote.
16 Literary/Rhetorical Term 2
17 Discuss Literary Structure/
Quiz
Setting- Personal Narrative
Finish - "The Man To Send Rain
Clouds" - audio (if necessary)
Read "The Way to Rainy
Mountain" p55-61
HW Assignment - finish reading
The Way to Rainy Mountain" p5561
Open Responses are DUE Monday
Assigned: Mon., 09/13/2010
Due Date: Thurs., 09/16/2010
Extra Credit Classroom
Read p. 48 - 52 in Lit book.
Look for internal/external conflict.
Watch for instances where
inferences are used to avoid
conflict or other interaction.
21
Intro Analogies - PowerPoint
(notes req'd)
22
Analogy Practice - in class worksheet
23
Intro/Review 5 paragraph essay PPT/notes
Groups Graphic Organizer-essay
Reading Quiz - "The Man To
Send Rain Clouds" & "The Way
to Rainy Mountain"
27
Conference & Peer Review "How
Music Affects My Life" Rough
10 Literary/Rhetorical Term 2
HW Assignment - Pg 46 Answers Questions 2 & 4 Coyote
Tales- Due Friday
Group - Chart Internal/External
Conflict in story
HW Assignment-study Figurative
Language list #2
Friday
24
Begin writing essays
using Graphic Organizer
Assignment - Rough draft
essays are DUE for class Monday
28
Essays are DUE today
29
Distracted Driver/DUI Video
Assembly in a.m.
30
Notebook Check
Oct 1
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
Draft Essays - Pass out 3.5
Rubrics
Intro Unit 1-Part 2 -Origins &
Encounters
Listen to audio CD - "La Relacion"
(p72-textbook)
Looking for text
features/organizers - Chart from
overhead on own paper.
Handout Analogy worksheet
Assignment - Write Final copy of
essay
Assignment - Read "Of Plymouth
Plantation" (p81)
Answer question - What beliefs
and values of Puritans were
shown?
D2 Simulator outside from 9:15-3:15
p.m.
Reading Quiz covering - "La
Relacion" & "Of Plymouth
Plantation" - you will be permitted to
use the summaries written in class
yesterday.
Write usable summaries of "La
Relacion" & "Of Plymouth Plantation"
as a review for the quiz tomorrow.
PD - No School
Review & Collect Analogy
Worksheets
Assignment Analogy worksheet - Due Thursday
Assignment - Read "Olaudah
Equiano" pg 93
NOTE - Extra Credit
Opportunity - see our American
Literature page
for details.
Analogy worksheet - Due
Thursday
October 2010
Monday
4 Progress Review Accountability
Class rules and procedures
- turning in work
- tardiness
- food and drink in class
- work format
- Daily Warmups
- Vocabulary Terms
- Literary Concepts
- Analogies
Native American Mythology - Turtle's Back / Coyote / Rain
- Clouds/ Rainy Mountain
Notetaking
Summarizing
Open-Response Questions
Explorers Reports La Relacion / Of Plymouth
Plantation
3.5 Essay format
Twelve Days to End of First
Quarter
HW Assignment - - Slave
Narrative -
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
5 Collect HW
6 [Extra Credit Posters Due]
7
8
Discuss Equiano's narrative.
Collect and discuss HW.
The Personal Narrative (a portion
of an autobiography)
Introduce the metaphor of the
JOURNEY.
The autobiography as literary
form.
Vocabulary Exercises from each
reading this week. IN CLASS.
- connotation/denotation
Review Unit 1.
Personal Narrative workshop
A Journey is analogous to a
substantial transformative event or
process in a writer's life.
HW Assignment - from Blue
Highways by Wm. Least-Heat
Moon. p. 101 - 106, p. 107 - Q. 3,
5, & 8.
HW Assignment - "My Sojourn in
the Lands of My Ancestors." by
Maya Angelou.
p. 109 - 115, p. 116 Comprehension Check, and #4.
Discuss #8.
HW Assignment - Review Unit
1/Part 2
TEST MONDAY - here is an online
practice test http://www.calaveras.k12.ca.us/0
7%20Schools/chs/english/ahampto
n/
onlinetests/newhonhistnarrtest.ht
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
"Interesting Life...Equiano"
p.93 -97, Q. 1 &
Comprehension Check.
ANSWER IN COMPLETE
SENTENCES.
11
Unit 1 Part 2 Test
Students are to make a list of
10 personal experiences that
have changed the way they
think, believe, act, or
understand something. Write
one sentence explaining briefly
what happened and one
sentence explaining how the
event changed them in some
way.
m
12
Personal Narrative PPT
Review lists / PN workshop
13
Read examples of personal
narratives (apprentice –
distinguished)
14
Writing Day / Building the
framework of an effective Personal
Narrative
Use GO to plan your narrative.
Revise/Edit PN graphic organizers
Peer Review PN draft
HW Assignment – Work on 1st
draft of Personal Narrative for
class.
HW Assignment – Work on
Personal Narratives
20 END of 1st Qtr
21
22
Review and collect Homophones
worksheet
Library Session -typing personal
narratives and complete reading
assessments, if necessary.
HW Assignment – Finish PN
graphic organizer for class
tomorrow
15
Reading Assessments - in the
Library
Library time for typing Personal
Narratives.
HW Assignment – Complete Final
copy - Personal Narratives (typed)
HW Assignment - Analogy
worksheet.
18
19
Intro From Colony to Country
Unit
Review Historical Timeline
Read Essay Between Heaven &
Hell
Power Point Intro to The
Examination of Sarah Good
(detecting bias, legal transcript,
loaded language, loaded questions)
Terms - meter, lyric poem,
iambic pentameter
HW Assignment Read poem "To My Dear and
Loving Husband" pg 139 and
"Upon the Burning of Our
House, July 10th 1666" pg 140141
Write a journal entry in your
English-only notebook about
the readings -Imagine that you
are a longtime friend/neighbor
of the Bradstreets.
Begin reading The Examination of
Sarah Good pg 145-147
Compare-Contrast the Summary
vs. Transcript (venn diagram)
HW Assignment - finish reading
The Examination of Sarah Good &
work on Compare-Contrast
diagram. pg145-147
Homophones worksheet
Class discussion - Compare Contrast of Sarah Good.
Discuss the art of persuasion-ask
students if they have ever been
persuaded
or have persuaded someone else.
What makes persuasion work? pg
152
Read Great Awakening Background
pg152
HW Assignment Homophones worksheet assigned
on Monday
Extra CreditBring in one example (any media
type) of persuasion. Identify what
method of persuasion is being
used. [Share and discuss] 20 pts
max.
Share and discuss any persuasion
examples students brought to
class.
Have students draw pictures of the
mental images created while
listening to the sermon, Sinners in
the Hands of an Angry God.
[Reinforce prior learning of
imagery]
Share and discuss
drawings/sketches.
HW Assignment If necessary, finish sermon and
sketches.
Examine imagery in literature and
share imagery sketches from
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God.
Discuss Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God and the method(s) of
persuasion used.
Anticipation Guide - The Crucible
HW Assignment - if necessary
finish the Anticipation guide as
homework for class Monday.
Homophones worksheet - Due
Thursday
25
Personal Narratives Due today
(typed)
[PN pkt must include writing
drafts, peer review sheet and
self-assessment sheet]
26
Intro PPT on The Crucible (the
author, conventions of drama,
heaven/hell, Puritan Mindset,
Salem)
Distribute Act One sheet -
27 Report Cards Issued
Begin watching the movie -The
Crucible (portion of Act One)
Read/discuss Act One
28
29
Continue watching the movie -The
Crucible (Act One)
Library Session vocabulary/reading exercises
Read The Crucible pages 178-182
to the point it says, "Mr. Hale is
nearing forty,..."
If no Library Session held Finish watching Act One, if
necessary.
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
Reading Quiz - [To My Dear and
Loving Husband/Upon the
Burning of Our House, July
10th 1666" /The Examination
of Sarah Good/Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God]
(character chart, stage directions,
Words to Know & selection
questions)
Discuss/Collect The Crucible
Anticipation Guides
Read the Overture - Act One
pg166-172
HW Assignment – Read The
Crucible pages 172-178 to the
point it says, "And while they are
so absorbed, we may put a word to
Rebecca."
HW Assignment –Finish reading
The Crucible pages 178-182 to the
point it says, "Mr. Hale is nearing
forty,..."
HW Assignment – Finish reading
the Overture -Act One pgs 166172 to the point it says, "A word
about Thomas Putnam..."
As you read and watch the movie
you should be completing the Act
One sheet - due at the end of Act
One (11/3).
As you read and watch the movie
you should be completing the Act
One sheet - due at the end of Act
One (11/3).
Read/Discuss the play.
HW Assignment – Finish reading
Act One- pages 182-189.
As you read and watch the movie
you should be completing the Act
One sheet - due at the end of Act
One (11/3).
As you read and watch the movie
you should be completing the Act
One sheet - due at the end of Act
One (11/3).
November 2010
Monday
1 No School
Tuesday
2 No School - Election Day
Wednesday
5
Finish watching/reading The Crucible
Read/Discuss the play.
Drama/Words to Know &
Crucible Test (pre-made
homework study sheet
permitted during testing)
Discuss Personal Narratives
-will return for in-class review.
Ultimate opportunity - one final
revision for possible letter
grade increase.
8
9
10
Intro Power Point The Puritans & The Scarlet
Letter
lecture/discussion
/assignment
--time period
--values, beliefs
--themes/symbols
-- Read Chapter 1 - 4 (pg 4980)
--Together, we read aloud The
Prison Door, the first chapter
of the novel. (pg 49-50)
Imagery of the jail door foreshadowing novel.
Quiz Chapter 1-4
Discuss foreshadowing and making
predictions
HW Assignment – Finish
Begin reading/listening to The Scarlet
Letter - Chapters 5 & 6 (pgs 81-102)
Inform students of SL blog. Resond to
prompt by Friday.
HW Assignment – continue reading
The Scarlet Letter Chapters 5 & 6 (pgs
81-102).
Review options for Final Project
Friday
4
HW Assignment –
Prepare a Crucible/drama conventions
/Words to Know study
sheet for a test on Thursday,
November 4th. You will be permitted
to use the study sheet during testing.
Complete the Words to Know sheet due tomorrow.
Discuss the First Scaffold Scene and
its significance.
Thursday
3
Begin reading Chapter 7-8 (pg 103120)
HW Assignment – continue reading
The Scarlet Letter -Chapters 7-8 (pgs
103-120).
Respond to blog prompt.
** Your homework study sheet,
and the Words To Know
Skillbuilder worksheet are
due today.**
Assign novels to students - The
Scarlet Letter
HW Assignment – Optional
Narrative revision (possible 1
letter grade increase).
11
12
Quiz Chapter 5-8
In Library - Timed Reading
Tests
Discuss the direct vs. indirect
characterization of character
specifically Hester and Pearl.
Begin reading Chapter 9-10 (pg
121-143)
Respond to blog prompt.
HW Assignment – continue
reading The Scarlet Letter Chapters 9-10 (pgs 121-143).
Respond to blog prompt.
Review options for Final Project
Blog response due today (loss
of pts for late responses)
HW Assignment– continue
reading The Scarlet Letter Chapters 11-12 (pages 144164).
Choose which Final Project you
want to do.
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
reading Chapters 1-4 (pages
49-80)
15
Vocabulary Quiz
Quiz Chapters 9-12
Begin reading/listening to The
Scarlet Letter - Chapters 13-16
(pg 165-196)
16
Begin reading/listening to The
Scarlet Letter -Chapters 17-18 (pg
197-214)
Literal/Inferential/Opinion Worksheet
HW Assignment –continue
reading The Scarlet Letter 1316(pg 165-196).
Work on Final Project
HW Assignment – continue reading
The Scarlet Letter Chapters 17-18 (pg
197-214).
Work on Final Project
22
Vocab and Quiz Prep
Were you satisfied with the
end of the novel? Why or why
not?
23
Vocabulary Quiz
Quiz Chapters 19-24
All SL worksheets - DUE
TODAY!
ABC's of the SL
Character & Active Reading
Guides
Begin Notebook checks
HW Assignment – continue
English Only Notebook Check
tomorrow
Prep Final Project
17
Quiz Chapters 13-18
Discussion - What the letter "A"
symbolizes at the beginning and what
it means now
Begin reading/listening to
The Scarlet Letter -Chapters 19-20
(pg 215-235)
HW Assignment – continue reading
The Scarlet Letter Chapters 19-20 (pg
215-235).
Finish Literal/Inferential/Opinion
Worksheet
Work on Final Project
24 Thanksgiving Break - No School
18
Symbolism - Group Lesson
Begin reading/listening to The
Scarlet Letter -Chapters 21-22
(pg 236-257)
HW Assignment – continue
reading The Scarlet Letter
Chapters 21-22 (pg 236-257).
Finish all SL worksheets for
Monday
Work on Final Project
25 Thanksgiving Break - No
School
19
Begin reading/listening to
The Scarlet Letter -Chapters
23-24 (pg 258-274) -Third
Scaffold Scene
HW Assignment – continue
reading The Scarlet Letter
Chapters 23-24 (pg 258-274) Third Scaffold Scene.
Finish all SL worksheets - Due
Monday
Work on Final Project
26 Thanksgiving Break - No
School
Happy Thanksgiving
to All!
English Only Notebook Check
HW Assignment – Prep Final Project
REMINDER - Bring your SL books in
for collection on Monday 11/29.
29
30
Final projects DUE today presentations begin.
Scarlet Letter project presentations
Collect Scarlet Letter Books
December 2010
Monday
6 Intro Unit 2-Part 2 "The
Right To Be Free" pgs - 260-
Tuesday
7 Discuss Henry's speech - After
hearing Henry's speech would you
Wednesday
Thursday
1 In Library - Juniors will review and
update their ILP for the 2010-11 school
year. Counselors will discuss college
application process, etc.
2 In Library - Juniors will review
and update their ILP for the 201011 school year. Counselors will
discuss college application process,
etc.
9
Vocabulary Quiz
8 Review the literary examples of
parallelism, cause & effect,
Friday
3 In Library - Juniors will
review and update their ILP for
the 2010-11 school year.
Counselors will discuss college
application process, etc.
10
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262
Begin discussion Persuasive
Rhetoric
Assign vocabulary words
Listen to the Speech in the
Virginia Convention - Patrick
Henry pgs 263-266
[worksheet- allusions and
rhetorical questions.]
HW Assignment – finish
reading Speech in the Virginia
Convention, if necessary and
finish worksheet.
-Work on vocabulary
definitions
13
DRAFTING
-Working on graphic
organizers and persuasive
drafts
-Peer Reviews
HW Assignment – Begin
revisions based on peer
reviews
20
CHRISTMAS BREAK
12/20-12/31
27
CHRISTMAS BREAK
have voted for war? What
did/didn't he say to convince you?
Intro Declaration of Independence
(overview & background) pg 270
Begin reading The Declaration of
Independence -pgs 271-276
compare/contrast and repetition
used in the Declaration of Ind.
-Practice paraphrasing when
discussing the document.
-Review vocabulary words
Begin ppt on Persuasive Writing.
[notes]
HW Assignment – finish reading
The Declaration of Independence,
if necessary.
-Work on vocabulary definitions
HW Assignment – Study vocabulary quiz tomorrow
14
REVISING-- editing for effective
persuasive argumentation,
reasonable claims and sufficient
evidence.
Conferences w/Stepp
15
EDITING/REVIEWING- check spelling,
grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
and subject/ verb agreement.
Conferences w/Stepp
HW Assignment – continue work
on persuasive essay
21
28
CHRISTMAS BREAK
CHRISTMAS BREAK
HW Assignment – type final copy of
persuasive essay.
22
29
CHRISTMAS BREAK
CHRISTMAS BREAK
Language Network - pg 424 Analyze a model persuasive Essay
using rubric (pg139).
Choose persuasive essay topic.
Prewriting - Start essay using
graphic organizer
HW Assignment – Find an
example of persuasive writing
(newspaper, magazine, etc) now
find each claim and the evidence
offered. Bring to class tomorrow for
discussion.
HW Assignment – Using G.O.
write 1st draft of persuasive
essay for peer review Monday.
16
Quiz - re: Persuasive writing
PUBLISHING - final copy of
persuasive essay is due today.
17
Actors Gone Yuletide
HW Assignment –further work on
essays, if necessary
23
30
CHRISTMAS BREAK
CHRISTMAS BREAK
24
31
CHRISTMAS BREAK
CHRISTMAS BREAK
12/20-12/
January 2011
Monday
3 Persuasive Paper
Due Today Assign
Vocabulary /
Literary Review List
10 Review game 2nd and 6th periods
Begin reading
'Celebrations of the
Self'- Romanticism
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
4 Persuasive Paper /10% late
Literature Books Reading for
Assessment
5 Persuasive Paper/ -20% late
Literature Books - How to
Answer Multiple Choice
Questions
6 Persuasive Paper/ -30% late
MAKE UP DAY - any missing/ late/incomplete work may be
addressed today.
11 Exams - 2ND &
6TH PERIODS
Review game - 3rd
period
12 Exams - 3RD period
Review game -1st, 4th and 7th
periods
13 Exams - 1ST, 4TH & 7TH PERIODS
Non-testing periods -
Non-testing periods - Romantic
and Transcendentalist Lecture -
Non-testing periods - Romantic and Transcendentalist Lecture -take
notes
Friday
7 Persuasive Paper/ 40% late
How to Respond in
Writing - Short Answer
/ Essay
How To Revise and Edit
a Test Selection
14 Exams - 3rd & 5TH
PERIODS
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
and
Transcendentalism note taking practice
17 NO SCHOOL - Dr.
Martin Luther King,
Jr. Day
Romantic and
Transcendentalist
Lecture -take notes
18 Exams - 1st, 4th &
7th PERIODS
Non-testing periods Romantic and
Transcendentalist
Lecture -take notes
24 Reminders Work Format (incl
class period)
Lecture highlights (pg 369)
transcendental,
historical content,
essay, main ideas &
supporting details.
Intro Thoreau
(pg380) -read Civil
Disobedience (note
3 ways Thoreau says
a citizen can serve
the state).
Homework - finish
reading Civil
Disobedience
(pgs370-376).
25 Discussion Thoreau's views on
Government, Taxes,
Slavery, War w/Mexico
& Civil Disobedience
Intro Nature Writing(pg
381 & 392), and
Walden. Read Walden
(pgs 382-391) As you
read chart the image of
nature and its meaning
to Thoreau.
Homework - Finish
the class assignment
above.
take notes
19 Start 3rd Quarter
20 ALL ENGLISH TEACHERS WILL BE AT AISD Central Office
The Devil and Tom Walker - p.
349.
Guiding Question - What is the
Romantic notion of material
wealth?
26 Discuss the paradoxes in
Thoreau (pg392) Extended
Interpretations.
IN-Class Assignment -Emerson - Read "from Self-Reliance"
Summarizing / Aphorism worksheets.
27 Vocabulary Quiz - Synonyms
21 Report cards go home!
ALL CLASSES MEET IN
LIBRARY
for ACT Prep with Angela
Hilterbrand
28 In Library
Quiz - Romantic/Transcendentalist notes and readings (Poe, The
Devil & Tom Walker, Self-Reliance, Civil Disobedience, Walden, &
Whitman poems)
Intro Poetry(pg394-5), Walt
Whitman(pg405), Free
Verse(pg404),
Distribute list of research terms.
Read 3 Whitman poems -'I Hear
America Singing' (pg397),'I Sit &
Look Out' from 'Song of Myself'
(pg399-403)
Homework - Finish the class
assignment above, if necessary.
February 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1/31 - Assign Research vocab
1 Research powerpoint (Note
2 Organizing Research//Presenting
3 Vocab Quiz
4 Research Proposals are
words
"Writing the MLA Research
Paper"
Intro Am Lit. Research
Project/Timeline
cards/Outline)
Your Research(DVD) Notes in Eng.
Only Notebook(EON) req'd.
Avoiding Plagiarism (DVD) &
Handout (Notes req'd in EON).
due.
Establishing a research
plan/review time line.
Library preview
Homework - Review topic list
and choose research topic. Start
writing research proposal.
7 IN LIBRARY - Library Training
Homework - Research proposals
are due Friday.
Homework - Study for term quiz on
Thursday.
Research proposals are due Friday.
Homework - Research proposals
are due Friday.
8 IN LIBRARY - Research
9 ACT Prep - Hilterbrand
10 IN LIBRARY - Research
11 In Library - Research
Homework - 6 source sheets due
today
17 IN LIBRARY - Research
Homework -
14 Thesis Statement Lesson &
MLA format
15 IN LIBRARY - Research
16 IN LIBRARY - Source Sheet
Check - 6 sheets Due
18 IN LIBRARY - Research
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
Homework - Research project
21 IN LIBRARY - Research
Assign Peer Review
Homework - Research project
22 IN LIBRARY - Research
Note Cards Due (50 minimum)
Homework - Research project
Homework - Research project
23 IN LIBRARY - Research
Homework - Research project
24 IN LIBRARY - Ultmate Speed
Reader
Homework - Research project
Homework - Research project
Homework - Research project
Homework - Research project
25 In Library -Speed
Reader
Rough drafts Due
Peer Review Sheets are DUE
Homework - Research project
28 Millennium Center - Typing
Research Paper
Assign Vocab
Homework - Research project
March 2011
Monday
2/28 Peer Review Sheets are
DUE
Millennium Center -Typing
Research Paper
Homework - Research project
Tuesday
Wednesday
1 Millennium Center -Typing
Research Paper
2 Millennium Center -Typing
Research Paper
Homework - Research project
Homework - Research project
Thursday
3 Research Project Reflection
ICEBREAKER w/ST
Friday
4 Research Projects DUE
USR (in Library Media
Center)
Homework - Research project
March 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7 ACT Prep - Hilterbrand
8 ACT Prep - Commas/Semicolons/Apostrophe
9 Vocabulary Review
ACT Prep - Pronoun Agreement
10 In Library - Ultimate Speed
Reader
11 Vocabulary Quiz
ACT Prep
14 In Library - Ultimate Speed
Reader
15 ACT Test - All Juniors
16 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
17 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
18 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
19 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
22 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
23 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
24 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
'Create A Poem' Lab
'Create A Poem' Lab
25 Modern Poetry Unit [Brown]
'Share A Poem' Day
30 Vocab Review
American Essayists - Intro Unit 7/Pt
2-Integration &
Disintegration:Postwar Society
Begin reading Sandra Cisneros Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis
of the Everyday
Literary focus - Voice
31 Vocabulary Quiz
End of 3rd Quarter
28 Assign vocab list
29 ACT Makeup Test
American Essayists
Intro the Modern Age/Unit 6
(Hughes/Harlem Renaissance)
Begin reading "When the Negro
Was in Vogue" p 932-937
Literary focus - tone/mood
American Essayists - Intro Unit 7 War Abroad & Conflict at Home
Begin reading Steinbeck - "Why
Soldiers Won't Talk" pg 10881094
Literary focus-POV 3rd person/2nd
person
HOMEWORK - finish reading
Review for American Essayist
Assessment tomorrow
Friday, April 1
American Essayists Reading
Assessment
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
assignment p932-937
HOMEWORK - finish reading
assignment p1088-1094
HOMEWORK - finish reading assignment
1228-1233
April 2011
Monday
4
Tuesday
5
*******
11 The Great Gatsby
Intro Power Point
Anticipation Guide
Assign Books
Reading Schedule & Notebook
assignment
Wednesday
6
18
The American Dream - "Where
I'm From" project
Friday
1 American Essayists Reading
Assessment
8
7
*******
SPRING
BREAK
WEEK
12 Watch Gatsby Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=rTQvDCYY5E8&feature=related
13 Watch Gatsby Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=E_jacXNWZc8&feature=related
14 Watch Gatsby Part IIIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=mACB1vdP5k0&feature=related
15 Watch Gatsby Part IV & V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=rGIh6jSCGfw&NR=1
Symbolism - Color Posters (small
group)
The Great Gatsby continue
reading Chapter 2
Vocabulary Quiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=rGIh6jSCGfw&NR=1
The Great Gatsby continue
reading Chapter 1
HOMEWORK-Begin reading
Chptr 1
Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Thursday
HOMEWORK-Begin reading Chptr
2
Ongoing Journal work/Vocabulary
19
The Great Gatsby finish reading
Chapter 4
The Great Gatsby - begin
reading Chapter 4
HOMEWORK-Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary/"Where I'm
From" project
25 The Great Gatsby
begin reading Chptr 7
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary/"Where I'm
From" project
26 The Great Gatsby
continue reading Chptr 7
Assign vocabulary
words/worksheet
Scavenger Hunt (colors/symbolism)
Assign New Vocabulary list
Notebook Check
HOMEWORK - Read Chptr 3
Ongoing Journal work/Vocabulary
HOMEWORK - Read Chptr 4
Ongoing Journal work
HOMEWORK - Make sure you
have read Chapters 1-4.
Ongoing Journal work/Vocabulary
20 The Great Gatsby Chapter
QUIZ Chapters 1-4
21 Vocabulary Quiz
22 Notebook Check
Assign New Vocabulary list
The Great Gatsby - begin reading
Chapter 5
The Great Gatsby continue
reading Chapter 5
Watch excerpts from the Gatsby
movie
HOMEWORK -Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary/"Where I'm
From" project
27 The Great Gatsby
begin reading Chapter 8
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/"Where I'm From" project
28 Ghost Out
Presentation/Assembly
Share "Where I'm From" poems
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary study
29
Actors Gone Wild Fundraiser
The Great Gatsby - continue
reading chapter 8
Intro Gatsby final project
options
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
HOMEWORK - Ongoing
Journal work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
American English Lesson Plans 2010-2011 (E3)
Gatsby final project
May 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
2 The Great Gatsby
-Finish Gatsby-Chptr 8
3 The Great Gatsby - read
4 Wrap-up The Great Gatsby
Chapter 9
Part II - Anticipation Guide
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
10 Core Content Testing
Read author biography:
Steinbeck and answer reading
questions
Assign Of Mice & Men vocabulary
list/idioms
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
9
Intro Of Mice & Men PPT
Anticipation Guide
HOMEWORK - n/a
HOMEWORK - study vocabulary
words/idioms
11 Core Content Testing (11th)
Friendship & Isolation – read “Us
Two” by A.A. Milne & “I Am A Rock”
by Paul Simon
Discuss the concept of friendship
Talk about Lennie & George’s
friendship
Begin reading Chapter 1
HOMEWORK – Finish reading
chapter 1 and study vocabulary
words/idioms
16 Talent Show
Continue reading Of Mice and
Men
23 Distribute Final Exam Study
Sheet
30 FINAL EXAMS/ Make-up
work
17 No School
18 Continue reading Of Mice and Men
24 Final Exam Review Game
25 FINAL EXAMS
Surveys and make-up work
(ppt)
31 FINAL EXAMS /Make-up
work
Have a great summer! I look
forward to seeing each of you again
this fall!
Thursday
5 Vocabulary Quiz
Notebook check #3
HOMEWORK - Ongoing Journal
work/Vocabulary
Gatsby final project
12 Core Content
Testing(11th)Begin reading
Chapter 2
While reading Chapter 2 answer the
following questions:
1. Predict what could be George's
and Lennie's tragic flaws.
2. Find examples of foreshadowing in
this chapter.3. What is Candy's role
in the novel?4. Describe the
following characters: a. Curley b.
Curley's wife . c. Slim .5. Why
doesn't society respect people who
do humble jobs, such as migrant
farm work, and janitorial work?
6. Find examples of themes in the
book so far.7. Find examples of
motifs in the book so far.8. Why
can't people understand the
relationship between George and
Lennie?
HOMEWORK – Finish reading
chapter 2 and study vocabulary
words/idioms
19 Finish reading Of Mice and Men
26 FINAL EXAMS
Surveys and make-up work
Friday
6 The Gatsby Final Projects
are Due
13
K-W-L The Great Depression
(historical context of the
novel)
Play Pastures of Plenty –
Guthrie
HOMEWORK - Begin
reading Chapter 3 & study
vocabulary words/idioms
20
27 FINAL EXAMS