Fall+2013+Calendar

Standards: Essential Question || Introductions
 * **September 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 8/26-8/30

-Go over Syllabus and Computer Compliance Sheet

-Hand in Summer Reading and discuss

-HW: Get CCS and Syllabus Signed by Friday; Join Wiki by Friday || "Getting to Know Zoo" || -Essential Question

-Finish Discussion on Summer Reading

[|-Dust Bowl Video]

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-HW: Finish Migrant Mother narrative || *Students Receive Laptops

-Essential Question and Discussion

-Finish [|Dust Bowl Video]

-Present creative writing

-Great Depression Webquest || -Essential Question

-Discuss/Present WebQuest

[|-"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt" letters] and Activity

-HW: Finish Letters Activity || Standards: Essential Question || No School: Labor Day || *Class Meetings on Campus
 * Week 2: 9/2-9/6

-Essential Question and Discussion

-Finish Dear Mrs. Roosevelt Letters

-Advertisement Activity

- HW: Finish Advertisement Activity || -Essential Question and Discussion -Go over Advertisement Activity -Go over Final Project and Essay || -Work on Essay and Final Project || -Work on Essay and Final Project || Standards: Essential Question || -Essay Due Today and Final Project Due
 * Week 3: 9/9-9/13

-Present Projects

-Finish discussions on "Of Mice and Men"

-Topic Exploration for Research paper || -Essential Question

-The Beginnings of The American Dream Activity: Winthrop, Paine, Dec. of Ind, and Bill of Rights

-American DreamPowerPoint

-HW: Interview 2 people on their "definition" of The American Dream || -Essential Question

-Go over interviews from last night

-Finish Beginning of The American Dream Activity

-Lit. Circle Roles 101

-Pass out Gatsby books

-Gatsby PowerPoint

HW: Read to the end of chapter 2 (page 42); find 4 words for vocabulary list || -Essential Question

-Complete first Lit. Circle Role; motifs

-Settings Map

-Present

-Connections to the "Dream"

HW: Read to the end of chapter 3 (page 64); sentences for vocabulary list || -Essential Question

[|-Gatsby Party] comparison

-Complete second Lit. Circle Role; motifs

-"Dream" update

HW: Read to the end of chapter 4 (page 85) || Standards: Essential Question || -Essential Question
 * Week 4: 9/16-9/20

-Complete third Lit. Circle Role; motifs

-Essential Question

-HW: Read to end of chapter 6 (page 118); find 4 words for vocabulary list || -Vocab Quiz Today

-Dream Update

-Discuss motifs/symbolism

-HW: Read to the end of chapter 7 (page 153); sentences for vocab list || -Essential Question

-Discussing Daisy

-Complete fifth Lit. Circle Role; motifs

-HW: Read to the end of chapter 8 (page 170); settings map || -Essential Question

-Complete sixth Lit. Circle Role; motifs

-Discussing Daisy

-HW: Read to end of chapter 9 (page 189); settings map || - Project Topic Proposals Due

Gatsby Party!! (don't forget to dress up and bring  your food/beverage)

-Discussing Daisy || Standards: Essential Question || -Vocab quiz today
 * Week 5: 9/23-9/27

[|Harlem Renaissance WebQuest] || - Graduation Committee Meets

-Essential Question

[|Harlem Renaissance WebQuest] || -Essential Question

[|Harlem Renaissance WebQuest]

-Presentations || -Project Proposals Returned

-Essential Question

-Begin "A Raisin In the Sun"

-Act 1 Study Guide || -Parent Consent Form Due

-Essential Question

-"A Raisin In the Sun"

-Act 2 Study Guide || Essential Question || -"A Raisin in the Sun"
 * **October 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 9/30-10/4

-Act 2 Study Guide

-Go over Compare and Contrast Exam for tomorrow

-HW: Study for Wednesday's Exam || -Watch "The Great Gatsby"; take DETAILED notes on motifs, symbols, etc. || -Finish "The Great Gatsby"; begin writing outline for essay || -Mrs. Shinn and Mrs. Holland present on online research || 1st six weeks ends

-American Dream Final Essay Due Today

-Begin researching your topic; focus on books and decide what you want to keep

-Click on this link and click on "References" document under "Examples" to see an annotated bibliography example || Essential Question || No School || No School || Research paper: Find sources for Annotated Bibliography || -Summary, Paraphrase, Quote Activity and PowerPoint
 * Week 2: 10/7-10/11

-HW: 5 Annotated Sources due tomorrow; Finish quote/paraphrase/ summary activity || -10 Annotated Sources due Monday || Essential Question || -Question to Thesis Activity
 * Week 3: 10/14-10/18

-15 Annotated Sources due tomorrow || -Finalizing Thesis

-20 Annotated Sources due Tomorrow || Juniors take PSAT || -Work on paper order/research relevance

-Begin filling in lacking information || -Transitions

-Intro/Conclusion

HW: Revise paper; prepare for Peer/Teacher editing || Essential Question || -Peer Editing/Teacher Editing
 * Week 4: 10/21-25

-Review || -Peer Editing/Teacher Editing

-Review || -Peer Editing/Teacher Editing

-Review || -Peer Editing/Teacher Editing

-Review || -Peer Editing/Teacher Editing

-Review || Essential Question || Big Sweep || -Peer Editing/Revision || -Final Day of Editing with peers
 * Week 5: 10/28-11/1

-Title || Final Paper Due Today || Begin this [|WEBQUEST] INDIVIDUALLY (I know it says to group up, but dont) Be sure to complete all 4 roles while beginning your presentation. Your presentation will be how we begin our own Dead Poet's Society, after having watched the movie. Remember: detail, detail, detail. || Essential Question || -Dead Poet's Society viewing expectations; handout
 * **November 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 11/4-11/8

-View Dead Poet's Society || -Continue viewing Dead Poet's Society

-Complete Handout

-Discuss "O Captain..." and "To the Virgins" || -Discuss "The Road Not Taken" by R. Frost

-Finish viewing DPS; discuss

-Work on Presentations || -Literary Terms

-Work on Presentations || -Literary Terms

-"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron

-Finish Presentations

-Present

-Discuss favorite/least favorite poems || Essential Question || No School || -Go through project expectations
 * Week 2: 11/11-11/15

-[|Lyrics as Poetr] [|y]

-First, exemplify project through an already existing song

-Start on #2 of the process || -Lyrics as Poetry Presentations

-Examples/work on ideas || -Lyrics as Poetry Presentations

-Begin writing lyrics (thinking of literary terms) || Literary Terms Quiz Today

-Brainstorm ideas for lyrics: word association and free write

-Compose Lyrics || Essential Question || -Free write/note ideas due
 * Week 3: 11/18-11/22

-Review lyrical expectations

-Work on song lyrics (due tomorrow) || -Song Lyrics Due

-Presentation of Song Lyrics

[|-Anthology of Rap: Lyrics as Poetry]

[|-History of Rap] || 2nd six weeks ends -What do you remember about Shakespeare?

-Shakespearean Reminders/ Review || -Finish Othello background

-Othello background || -Othello background conversation || Essential Question || -Essential Question
 * Week 4: 11/25-11/29

-Finish Othello backgound

-One Liners || -Prepare for School-wide Socratic Seminar

-One liners || No School || No School || No School || Essential Question || -Essential Question
 * **December 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 12/2-12/6

-"15 minute" Othello || -Essential Question

-Discuss yesterday's 15 minute Othello (use map)

-Reputation activity

-Assign Roles

-Begin Reading Othello?

-HW: Find 4 confusing words from today's reading || -Essential Question

-Go over Vocab words; quiz Monday

- Finish Act 1 of Othello || -Counselors discuss future planning and college || Essential Question

-Act 1 discussion

-Begin Act 2 || Essential Question || Vocab Quiz Today
 * Week 2: 12/9-12/13

Essential Question

Read Act 2, scene 2, 3

Scene 3 Activity || -Free write in their journals, from the point of view of Michael Cassio, for 15 to  20 minutes. -Look through yesterday’s reading and come up with, as a group, 10 vocabulary words they want to know for the next quiz. -Continue reading Act 2. || -Read parts of Act 3; discuss

HW: Complete vocab sheets for tomorrow || -Go over character journal entries

-Go over vocabulary words

-Continue read Act 3 || -Choose 2 Othello activities and complete

-HW: Study for Vocab Quiz || Essential Question || Vocab Quiz
 * Week 3: 12/16-12/20

-Finish Othello

-Begin Shakespeare Final Project || -Othello Final Project

-Story boarding

-Script writing || -Othello Final Project || -Othello Final Project || -Othello Final Project || Essential Question || No School || No School || No School || -Othello Final Project || -Othello Final Project || Essential Question || Paper/Project Due Today
 * Week 4: 12/23-12/27 || No School || No School || No School || No School || No School ||
 * **January 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 12/30-1/3
 * Week 2: 1/6-1/10

-To understand Post-Modernism, you must first understand

-Begin Post-Modernism with Characteristics presentations || No Class: Delay and No Bus || -Post-Modernism Characteristics and examples

-Begin reading Short Stories || -Foster the People

-Finish Reading short stories; prepare presentations || Review

Presentations || Essential Question || Reviewing for the Exam: Inferences, Main Ideas, and Figurative Language
 * Week 3: 1/13-1/17

HW: Finish Packets || Reviewing for the Exam: Reading and Understanding Informational Texts

HW: Finish Packets || Reviewing for the Exam: Reading and Understanding Literature

HW: Finish Packets || ** Finals ** || ** Finals ** || Essential Question || No School || No School || No School || 2nd Semester Begins ||  ||
 * Week 4: 1/20-1/24