2. Vocab. word: convictions

3. Introduce neighborhood story that details a time when convictions were tested

4. Share neighborhood stories (Mr. Dinkler's sample)

2. Neighborhood stories due Monday, August 27

3. Bring Parent Email

1. Quickwrite on themes from Antigone

2. Background powerpoint notes for Greek Drama

3. Reading and annotating the prologue for Antigone

1.Vocab: contempt

2. Writing a scenario for Antigone

3. Small group discussion for the prologue

4. Review the choral ode for prologue

4. Reading and annotating for Episode one

1. Vocab: ominous

2. Journal on a scenario from episode one

3. Choral ode from episode one with annotations

4. Reading reflection for episode one

5. Annotations and reading for episode two

Wednesday, Sept. 19 and Thursday, Sept. 20

1. Vocab: obdurate

2. Reading reflections sheet for episode 2

3. Choral Ode 2 storyboard activity

Finish reading and annotating episode 3 (line 909)

Begin making note cards for all of the words from your test of convictions vocabulary list that we have not covered in class already

1. Vocab: sovereign

2. Reading reflection sheet and discussion for Episode 3

Finish reading and annotating episode 4 (line 1097)

Continue making note cards for all of the words from your test of convictions vocabulary list that we have not covered in class already

1. Vocab: Intransigence

2. Review episode 3 and 4 in class

Continue making note cards for all of the words from your test of convictions vocabulary list that we have not covered in class already

Finish reading and annotating episode 5 from Antigone (up to line 1247)

1. Vocab: Pithy

2. Essay topic and journal for Antigone

3. Review Paean from Episode 5 as a class and annotate

4. Finish reading the play as a class

1. Vocab: perjure

2. Review essay topic with handout for the impact of conflict on a character from Antigone

3. Review MLA and work on skeletal outline of your essay

sub plan for Tuesday. I will be at an AVID conference

Wednesday you will be working with your skeletal outlines on commentary

1. work with sample body paragraph for Antigone essay

2. practice analysis for Antigone essay

3. Antigone video with time available

1.Vocab: Compromise

2.Review sample Antigone essay

3.Gandhi journal on picture

4. Gandhi's philosophy with quotes

5. Video with time

1. Vocab:exploit

2. Review annotations for Gandhi's Accomplishments

3. Gandhi video with questions

Read and annotate "Gandhi's Historical and Political Context" from handout in class

1. Vocab:brusque

2. Review annotations for Gandhi's historical and political context

3. Continue with video and questions

Read and annotate "Gandhi's lifestyle" from handout in class

Post blog #1 for Gandhi unit by Friday, Oct. 19 @ 8:00 AM

1. Vocab:feign

2. Review annotations for Gandhi's lifestyle

3. Sample piece from Gandhi's autobiography

4. Continue with video and questions

1. Vocab:harbingers

2. Connection to history class for writers

1. vocabulary: malevolence

2. Review Gandhi video questions

3. Background for Things Fall Apart with simulation and powerpoint

4. annotations for the novel with handout and reading calendar

5. chapter one reading in class

1. Vocabulary:pandemonium

2. Review chaps. 1-2 of TFA

3. Powerpoint on significant traditions in the Igbo tribe

4. T-chart on status in the Igbo tribe

5. Reading chapter 3 in class

1. Vocabulary:esoteric

2. Review reading reflections for chaps 3-4

3. Journal for essay prompt on change

Read and annotate chaps. 5 and 6 with reading reflection sheet

1. Vocabulary:cunning

2. quiz for chaps. 1-4

3. Igbo proverbs assignment

Read and annotate chaps. 7 and 8 with reading reflection sheet

Complete Igbo proverbs poster for our next class

1. Vocabulary: requisite

2. Review chaps. 5-8 of TFA with Socratic

3. Discuss Ikemefuna with quickwrite

4. Music in Ibo culture with imagery handout

5. Present Ibo proverbs and go over quiz for chaps. 1-4

Read and annotate chaps. 9-10 with reading reflection sheet

1. Vocabulary:mirthless

2. Review chaps.9-10 with discussion of Ezinma and Ekwefi's relationship

3. Fear and its impact upon Okonkwo activity

4. "Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears" children's story with quickwrite on importance of storytelling in Igbo culture

1. Vocabulary: callow

2. Review chaps. 11/13 of TFA

3. Nacirema activity

4. Positive and negative aspects of Igbo culture activity with connection to essay topic

5. Read part of chap. 14

1. Vocabulary:perturbed

2. Review chaps. 14-16

3. Group activity with Ibo strengths and weaknesses

4. Journal on missionary perspective

1. Vocabulary:vile

2. Time for vocabulary cards

Read and annotate chaps. 20-22 with reading reflection sheet

Complete your vocabulary cards and study for our vocabulary quiz on Nov. 29/30

1. Vocabulary: resilient

2. Review annotations for chaps. 17-22

3. "The Second Coming"

4. Journal on changes that have occurred in the tribe

Finish the novel and reading reflection sheet

Complete your vocabulary cards and study for our vocabulary quiz on Nov. 29/30

1. Vocabulary quiz

2. Finish discussion for the end of the book

3. Rubric for the essay

4. Research time in the media center with research worksheet

Continue with your research for the essay

Complete your outline for the essay

1. Review MLA and internet sources

2. Sample introductory paragraph

1. Peer edit sample introductory paragraphs

2. Commentary practice with counterargument

1. Pass around for Rough drafts

2. Pass out copies of All Quiet on the Western Front

3. Introduction to the new novel with powerpoint on Remarque

Complete your final draft of the essay (due Monday December 10)

Read chapter one of AQWF by Tuesday/Wednesday, December 11/12

1. Collect TFA essays

2. Background for AQWF with vocabulary and reading calendar

3. Trench art quickwrite

2. "In Flander's Fields"

1. Discuss annotations from chapter 2-3 with quiz

2. Watch video clip from chapter 2 and 3

3. Journal from chap. 3

1. Discuss annoations from chapter four with imagery worksheet

2. Begin watching Joyeux Noel with background handout

3. Review changes to the reading calendar and homework schedule

4. Introduce soldier project

1. Work on Soldier Project and letter writing

2. Read chap. 6

Finish reading chapter six of AQWF by January 8/9

Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

1. Dulce et Decorum with connections to chapter six

2. Soldier project letter writing

Read chapter 7 by January 10/11 *This is a long chapter. Make sure you break the reading up into two different days.

Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

1. "Lines Before Going"

2. American soldier in Iraq article

3. Annotations for chapter 7 review

4. Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

Read Chapters 8-9 by January 14

Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

1. Show clip from All Quiet on the Western Front regarding Gerard Duval

2. Quiz for chaps. 8-9

3. Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

Read chapter 10 of AQWF Work on Soldier Project

Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

1.Quiz for chapter ten with reading reflections

2. "Hospital Ship"

3. Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

Finish the novel

Complete one of your letters from the Soldier Project for peer editing on Thurs/Fri

Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

1. Final discussion for the novel

2. Peer edit soldier project

3. Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

Finish soldier project

1. Study guide and review for final exam

2. Collect Soldier Project

2. Study for VOCAB. SEMESTER FINAL

1. Review finals

2. Background for Animal Farm with Russian Revolution handout and overview of Orwell

3. Review terms: Allegory, Fable

4. Create a sample allegory in groups

Read chaps. 1-2 of Animal Farm

1. Vocab. handout

2. Review Soldier Project

3. Review chaps. 1 and 2 of Animal Farm with overview of journal

4. Elements of satire with a connection to terms: wit, irony, sarcasm, allusion, understatement, hyperbole, reduction to absurdity, caricature, burlesque

5. Clip from the Simpsons

Read chaps. 3-4 of Animal and add entries into your journal

Blog response for your sample allegory due Monday @ 8:00 AM

1. Quiz for chaps. 1-4

Read chaps. 5 of Animal Farm with journal response

Work on your vocabulary cards due Feb. 19/20

1. Vocab.

2. Discussion for chapter five with journal

3. Compare Old Major's speech to MLK's Address at the March on Washington

Read chaps. 6-7 of Animal Farm with journal response

Complete your speech comparison worksheet

Work on your vocabulary cards for the unit due Feb. 19/20

1. Vocabulary

2. Discussion for chaps. 6-7 with journal

3. Revolutionary wheel through chapters 6-7

4. Journal for speech comparison sheet and collect

Read chaps. 8-9 of Animal Farm with journal response

Work on your vocabulary cards for the unit due Feb. 19/20

Feb. 11/12

1. Vocabulary

2. Discussion for chaps. 8-9 with journal

3. Revolutionary wheel for chaps. 8-9

4. Character symbolism poster

5. Quiz for chaps. 5-9

Finish Animal Farm and journal for the book (you may continue to add historical information to the journal until our Socratic on Feb. 19/20)

Work on your vocabulary cards for the unit due Feb. 19/20

1. Vocabulary

2. Discussion for the end of the book with journal response about the last paragraph

3. Present character symbolism poster

4. Revolution by the Beatles

5. Overview of socratic for Tuesday/Wednesday next week

Complete your Animal Farm journal for our socratic next period. Be sure to add in all of the appropriate historical information.

Continue working on your vocabulary cards. I will collect these before our quiz on Feb. 21/22

1. Socratic for the unit question "Why do revolutions fail?" using your Animal Farm journal

Finish your vocabulary cards. I will collect these before our quiz on Feb. 21/22

1. Animal Farm video

2. Vocabulary quiz for the unit and collect cards

2. "Thinking about values"

3. Introduce Vocabulary

4. Check out books

2.Quiz on Chapter 1

3. Grade/Discuss Quiz as a Class

4. Poem, "The Little Boy with His Hands Up"

5. Imagery of Empathy Journal

6. Share Imagery of Empathy Journals

2. Describe the concept of a memoir

3. Write your own Memoir using language such as "It's important to remember…" or "I saw it with my own eyes." Choose an incident as immediate as walking by a homeless person sleeping in a doorway or catching another student cheating on a test. You may also describe how you experienced the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

4. Discussion of "Memoirs" and what is effective about Wiesel's use of language to make people feel as though it is important to remember.

5. Begin watching, "Life is Beautiful"

2. Quiz on Chapters 2,3, and 4

3. Discussion/Grade Quiz in Class

2. Discussion on Rosh Hashana and Elie losing faith

3. .Journal on Questioning Faith: Wiesel's admits that his faith was "wounded" by the Holocaust, but that, in spite of everything, he maintained his faith in God's existence. He tells us that he talks to God, arguing with him at times, freely expressing his anger, dismay and disappointment. What does this reveal about Wiesel as a man? Do you think they would have (or could have) continued to have faith, if they had experienced what Wiesel did? Why or why not?

4. Mini Socratic on the importance of faith

5. Continue watching "Life is Beautiful"

2. Quiz on Chapters 5-9

3. Discussion on the end of the novel and quiz

3. Introduce "Who is Responsible?" Project and Choose Groups

4. Continue wathcing "Life is Beautiful"

2. Continue watching "Life is Beautiful"

March 11/12

CAHSEE

March 12- Period 2,4 are dedicated to the CAHSEE

2. Continue/Finish "Life is Beautiful"

1. Read "Inside the Heart of Darkness" and Develop Questions

2. Work on "Who is Responsible?"

1. Vocabulary Quiz

2. Finish "Who is Responsible?" in class

Read up to page 28 in Fahrenheit 451 with a focus on Bradbury's description of happiness

Blog assignment due Monday, April 14 @8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

Continue reading "Hearth and the Salamander".

Blog assignment due Monday, April 14 @8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

Finish reading "Hearth and the Salamander".

Blog assignment due Monday, April 14 @8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

1. Vocab. focus: cower

2. Quiz for “Hearth and the Salamander”

Begin reading "The Sieve and the Sand"

Blog assignment #2 due Monday, April 21 @ 8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

1. Censorship powerpoint and discussion including letter from Vonnegut

2. "Burning a Book" poem

Continue reading "The Sieve and the Sand"

Blog assignment #2 due Monday, April 21 @ 8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

1. Vocab.
2. Blog of the week
3. Review “Hearth and the Salamander” quiz and journal/annotations
4. Quotes from “The Sieve and the Sand” and blog work (pg. 79 for Denham’s Dentrifice, pg. 83 for quality of books and the three things they provide, pg 89 Beatty understanding about books, pg. 101 quotes about power of poetry and sadness)

5.Introduce Fahrenheit project

Finish reading "The Sieve and the Sand"

Blog assignment #2 due Monday, April 21 @ 8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

1. Vocab.

2. Quiz for Sieve and the Sand

Finish the novel by Monday, April 28

Blog assignment #3 due Monday, April 28 @ 8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

Begin working on your Fahrenheit project

1. Vocab.

2. "The Tyger" with art assignment

3. Review "Sieve and the Sand" quiz

4. Blog work for "Burning Bright"

Finish the novel by Monday, April 28

Blog assignment #3 due Monday, April 28 @ 8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

Continue working on your Fahrenheit project

1. Vocab.

2. Blog of the week

3. Presentations of "The Tyger" assignment

4. Finish blog work for "Burning Bright"

Finish the novel by Monday, April 28

Blog assignment #3 due Monday, April 28 @ 8:00 AM

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

Continue working on your Fahrenheit project

1. Vocab.

2. Review for timed essay next period

*** Period 2 will take their timed essay today because of the Star Testing schedule this week***

Timed essay next period! You may use the novel and all of your notes from our discussions in class

Work on vocabulary cards (due April 29/30)

Continue working on your Fahrenheit project

Periods 1,3, and 5 only

1. Vocabulary quiz

2. Timed essay