2. Model Annotations

3. Vocabulary and overview of the unit (Word of the day: Simpatico)

4. Life is a Story- In an interview, Yann Martel said that the theme of the book could be summed up with a few lines. He said, "Life is a story. You can choose your story. And the story with an imaginative overlay is the better story." What does he mean by this quote?

5. Review summer writing assignment

2. Bring annotations for Life of Pi and summer writing sample to our next class session

2. Vocabulary word: incredulous (p.92)

3. Article on faith in modern society (conceptions of faith)

4. Journal entry: What is faith? (read pg. 297) How do you see its importance in your life and the life of others? Introduce cluster writing

5. Essay prompt choices and begin work on a thesis statement

6. Review annotations for Life of Pi with partners

1. Finish "What is Faith?" handout in your packet (page 5).

2. Study vocabulary terms for the unit

1. Vocabulary word: dyspeptic (101)

2. Work on outline for essay prompt

Work on rough draft of essay due Monday, Sept. 8

Study vocabulary terms for the unit

1. Vocabulary word: remonstrations (120)

2. "Life in the Zoo" mini documentaries with notetaking.

3. Introduce flow writing

4. Practice flow writing with journal entry: Does Pi's family resemble yours in any way? Who is your source for guidance and enlightenment in life? What is your equivalent to Pi's zoo, where he discovers so much about the ways of the world?

5. Building effective evidence for the essay

Work on rough draft of essay due Monday, Sept. 8

Study vocabulary terms for the unit

2. Compare/Contrast William Blake’s "The Tyger" along with Martel’s description of Richard Parker on page 151. The paragraph that begins, “I wish …” presents an incredibly fearful scene. Pi, afraid for his life, describes the elegance of the tiger. Discuss the author’s ability to create this unusual scene. How does he do it and yet keep the tension?

3.Teach levels of questions with the poem. Groups choose their favorites to discuss (posters).

4. Id, Ego, and Superego with powerpoint and activity

5. Journal entry: How might you have coped with Pi's situation? What are your personal strategies for facing fear? Cluster on the word fear.

Copy/change activity with chapter 56 due Sept. 5

Work on rough draft of essay due Monday, Sept. 8

Continue to study vocabulary terms for unit

2.Copy change assignment

3.Freud's "Id, Ego, and Superego" with activity for Pi

4. Introduce essay topic for Life of Pi, Oedipus, and Antigone

Prepare socratic questions (2 level two questions and one level three)

Vocabulary quiz next period

Work on rough draft of essay due Monday, Sept. 8

1. Vocabulary Quiz for Life of Pi

2. Journal entry: Which story do you believe (reading pgs. 316-317)? Have students write which version they prefer and why. Use this as starting point for the Socratic.

3.Socratic from selected teacher questions and student questions derived from annotations

Finish rough draft of essay due Monday, Sept. 8

1. Journal for fate

2. Peer edit Life of Pi essays

3. Begin Episode one of Oedipus

Finish final draft of essay by Sept. 11/12

Read and annotate episode one of Oedipus

1. Vocab: brood (Collect Life of Pi essay)

2. Review vocabulary quiz for Life of Pi

4. Powerpoint on Greek Drama background

5. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony

6. Annotations sheet for Episode one

Read and annotate episode two and three

Finish final draft of essay by Sept. 11/12

1. Vocab: Pestilence

2. Journal scenario for episode 2/3

3. Review choral ode and model annotations for this section

4. Reading reflections sheet for episode 2 and 3

1. Vocab: guerdon

2. Reading reflections sheet for the remainder of the play

3. Choral ode 4/5 storyboard activity

Begin working on notecards for Oedipus/Antigone vocabulary

Socratic Seminar for Oedipus on Friday

Begin reading and annotating Antigone prologue and Parados (up to line 184)

I will be giving you a copy of Antigone in class on Friday, Sept. 21

Continue working on notecards for Oedipus/Antigone vocabulary

1. vocab:smote

2. journal for opening themes of Antigone

3. Review copy/change assignment

1. Vocab: sovereign

2. journal scenario for Antigone

3. Review annotations for Prologue and Parados with reflection sheet

4.Class discussion for Parados

5. Dionysus party assignment

Read and annotate episode 1 and 2 of Antigone (up to line 710)

Work on your notecards for Oedipus/Antigone unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 5

1. Vocab: intransigence

2. journal scenario for episode one of Antigone

3. Review annotations for Episode 1/2

4. Work in groups on Dionysus party assignment

Read and annotate episode 3 and 4 of Antigone (up to line 1097)

Work on Dionysus party assignment

Work on your notecards for Oedipus/Antigone unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 5

1. Vocab: pithy

2. Review episode 3 and 4 of Antigone

3. Essay Prompt for Antigone with journal

Finish reading and annotating the play

Work on Dionysus party assignment

Work on your notecards for Oedipus/Antigone unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 5

*Make sure that you have ordered your Dover Thrift edition of Julius Caesar. We will begin reading this play on Monday, Oct. 8

1. Vocab: perjure

2. Review annotations for the remainder of the play.

3. Group time for Dionysus party assignment. Don't forget to make your Greek dish.

Complete your notecards for Oedipus/Antigone unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 5

Work on your Antigone essay (first draft due Monday, Oct. 8)

*Make sure that you have ordered your Dover Thrift edition of Julius Caesar. We will begin reading this play on Monday, Oct. 8

1. Quiz for the unit and collect notecards

2. Dionysus party!!

*Make sure that you have ordered your Dover Thrift edition of Julius Caesar. We will begin reading this play on Monday, Oct. 8

Work on your Antigone essay (first draft due Monday, Oct. 8)

1. Vocab for Caesar: cogitations

2. Read around with Antigone essay prompt

3. Quickwrite on politics and patriotism

4. Historical background for Caesar handout

Complete your final draft of your Antigone essay

Read and annotate act one of Caesar. See study guide for overview questions and vocabulary

Begin making notecards for the Caesar unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 19

1. Vocab: faction

2. Review Act I and annotations with historical handout

3. Discussion of Shakespeare's use of appeals, detail, and understanding of the audience

4. Handout for Act II, scene ii

5. Sample paragraph for "observations" section of Antigone essay

Finish handout for Act II, scene ii

Complete annotations for Act II and III. See study guide for overview questions and vocabulary

Continue making notecards for the Caesar unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 19

Don't forget to bring your annotations for Oedipus and Antigone to class on Monday

If you took the option of rewriting your Antigone essay, you need to complete your corrections by Monday, Oct. 15

1. Vocab: censure

2. Review Act II and III annotations

3.Watch Act III, scene i and ii with discussion for persuasive techniques of Brutus and Mark Antony

4. Rhetorical devices handout

Read and annotate Act IV of Caesar. See study guide for overview questions and vocabulary

Continue making notecards for the Caesar unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 19

1. Vocab:ensign

2. Review act IV annotations

3. Finish reading the play in class

4. Finish watching Act III, scene ii

Timed essay prompt for Friday, Oct. 19

Continue making notecards for the Caesar unit. Quiz on Friday, Oct. 19. See study guide for overview questions and vocabulary

1. Timed essay prompt for Casear

2. Debate on politics and patriotism questionnaire

1. vocabulary: capricious

2. Review Antigone essays

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:brusque

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:feign

2. Review chaps. 1-4

3. Essay prompt with journal

Read and annotate chaps. 5 and 6

1. Vocabulary:harbingers

2. Socratic for chaps. 5-6 of TFA

3. Quiz for chaps. 1-4

Read and annotate chaps. 7 and 8

1. Vocabulary: malevolence

2. Review chaps. 7-8 of TFA with discussion of Ikemefuna

3.Music in Ibo culture with imagery handout

4. Ibo proverbs assignment

Read and annotate chaps. 9-10

Complete Ibo proverbs inductive writing and illustration

1. Vocabulary:pandemonium

2. Fear and okonkwo assignment

3. Review chaps. 9/10

4. "Why Do Mosquitoes Buzz In Our Ears" children's story

5. Quickwrite on importance of storytelling in Igbo culture with Ibo storytelling assignment

6. Finish Ibo proverbs poster

Read and annotate chaps. 11-13

Begin working on Ibo storytelling assignment. Due November 20

1. Vocabulary: esoteric

2. Review chaps. 11/13 of TFA

3. Positive and negative aspects of Igbo culture activity with connection to essay prompt

4. Nacirema handout

Read and annotate chap. 14-16

Continue working on Ibo storytelling assignment. Due November 20

1. Vocabulary:cunning

2. Read and collect Ibo storytelling assignment

3. Ibo strengths and weakness group activity

4. Journal on quotes related to missionaries

1. Vocabulary:requisite

2. Time for Vocabulary cards

3. Review part 2 annotations for TFA

Read and annotate chaps. 20-22

Vocabulary cards due on Wednesday, Nov. 28

1. Journal for changes that have occurred in the tribe

2. "The Second Coming"

3. Vocabulary quiz

4. Review chaps 20-22

Finish the novel and annotations

1. Finish discussion for the end of the book

2. Rubric for the essay

3. Research time in the media center for the essay

1. Review MLA and internet sources

2. Sample introductory paragraph

1. Peer edit sample introductory paragraphs

2. Commentary practice with counterargument

3. Return TFA creative writing piece

1. Pass around for Rough drafts

2. Introduction to the new novel with powerpoint on Remarque

3. Collect TFA annotations

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

Read chapter one and Two of AQWF by Wednesday, Dec. 12

1. Collect Essays and TFA annotations

2. Review chapter one

1. Rhetoric project overview

2. Trench art quickwrite

3. annotations for chaps. 1-3

1. Vocabulary

2. "Flanders' Fields"

3. Discuss annotations for chap. 4 with imagery practice

4. Rhetoric webquest

1. Discussion on chap 6 with imagery handout

2. Dulce et Decorum

3. Christmas truce article and begin Joyeux Noel

Finish novel over the break

Bring your copy of The Waste Land to class on Wednesday, Jan. 9

Continue making your vocabulary cards over the break. We will not have a vocabulary quiz for the words from All Quiet on the Western Front. However, these words will be part of the semseter vocabulary exam for semseter one.

Finish discussion for novel and annotations

Clip for All Quiet on the Western Front

Research background for The Wasteland

Study for semester vocab. final

1. Intro. to The Wasteland with powerpoint and handout

2. Begin The Wasteland with section one "The Burial of the Dead"

3. Journal and annotations for section one

Finish annotations for "The Burial of the Dead"

Study for semester vocab. final

1. annotations for "A Game of Chess"

Finish annotations for "A Game of Chess"

Study for semester vocab. final

1. Start annotations for "The Fire Sermon"

1. Finish "The Fire Sermon"

Finish annotations for "The Fire Sermon"

Study for semester vocab. final

1. Finish the poem and annotations

2. SEMESTER VOCABULARY FINAL

3. Collect vocab. cards for AQWF

Finish annotations for the poem

No School

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

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 Wednesday

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

Continue with your vocabulary cards. I will collect these before our quiz on Feb. 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. 22

1. Animal Farm video

2. Vocabulary quiz and collect cards

2. Thinking about Values

3. Introduce Lit Groups and and Annotations

4. Introduce Vocabulary

2. The Little Boy with His Hands Up

3.Quiz on Chapter 1

4. A and B Lit Groups with annotations (Socratic)

5. Imagery of Empathy

Finish "Imagery of Empathy" Blog DUE March 3 at 8 am

2. Quiz on Chapters 2 and 3

3. Bearing Witness Journal: 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. Use language such as "It's important to remember…" or "I saw it with my own eyes."

4. Group Discussion of details.

2. Quiz on Chapter 4 (Lit Groups will be on Tuesday)

3. Discussion/Grade Quiz in Class

2. Quiz on Chapter 5

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. A and B Lit Groups with Annotations

2. Final Group Discussion on chapters 6-9

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

4. Begin Research for "Who is Responsible?"

Research "Who is Responsible?"

Begin working on your memoir due Wednesday, March 26

Research "Who is Responsible?"

Continue working on your memoir due March 26

Continue working on vocabulary cards due Wednesday, March 26

March 11/12

CAHSEE

March 12- Period 2,4 are dedicated to the CAHSEE; You will spend Period 6 with your regularly scheduled class.

Research "Who is Responsible?"

Continue working on your memoir due March 26

Continue working on vocabulary cards due Wednesday, March 26

Reasearch "Who is Responsible?"

Continue working on your memoir due March 26

Continue working on vocabulary cards due Wednesday, March 26

2. Work on "Who is Responsible?"

3. Read "Heart of Darkness"

Research "Who is Responsible?"

Continue working on your memoir due March 26

Continue working on vocabulary cards due Wednesday, March 26. We will have a quiz for your vocabulary terms on Wednesday, March 26

Research "Who is Responsible?"

Finish your memoir due March 26

Finish working on vocabulary cards due Wednesday, March 26. We will have a quiz for your vocabulary terms on Wednesday, March 26

2. Work on "Who is Responsible Socratic"

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)

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)

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)

1. Vocab.

2. Blog of the week

3. Present "Tyger" assignments

4. Timed essay prep. for Monday with article on Joshua Bell

Finish the novel by Monday, April 28

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

Work on vocabulary cards (due May 2)

1. Timed essay

Bring your copy of Candide to class next period

Work on your Fahrenheit project

1. Candide Introduction

2. Fahrenheit project rubric

3. Finish "Tyger" presentations

4. Um, Er, Like game