Term 4 Schedule
Ever start to feel like this at the end of the year?
Begin Term 4
Term 4 Begins
3/16/2020 - 3/17/2020 (Minimal Day)
Journal: None
Comma Rule #5
Read Twelfth Night Act 4
Due: None
Homework: Daily 20 minutes of Reading
Soundtrack of the Day: Silverado
3/18/2020- 3/19/2020
Journal: What do you think about luck, fate, destiny, horoscopes, etc.? Why do people believe in them? Why don't people believe in them?
Comma Rule #6
Watch 12th Night Finale
Comma Rule Practice Exam
Homework: Daily 20 minutes of reading, Act 4/5 reading guide, & Comma Rule Practice Exam
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Bloodborne
3/20/2020 - 3/23/2020
Journal: None
Library to check out final book for reading
Finish 12th Night (if needed)
Comma Rule Test
Homework: None
Due: Act 4/5 Reading Guide & Comma Rule Practice Exam
Soundtrack of the Day: The Da Vinci Code
3/24/3020
Aspire Testing
Homework: Daily 20 minutes of reading
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: None
3/25/2020
Reading Day (B-Day)
Homework: Daily 20 min of reading
Due: Bring a reading book
Soundtrack of the Day: Pandora
3/26/2020 - 3/27/2020
No Journal
12th Night Test
Homework: Daily Reading
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: The Holiday
3/30/2020 - 3/31/2020
Journal: What skills or abilities would you develop if you had the time to? Why don't you make the time to do so? Why are you interested in them? How would you use those skills if you had them?
Creative Project Demonstration and Explanation Day
Homework: Daily Reading & Start Work on Creative Project
Due: Act 4/5 of Twelfth Night
Soundtrack of the Day: Boxtrolls
4/1/2020 - 4/2/2020
Journal: What is something you know and understand that others don't? What misconceptions about that thing are there that you find yourself having to correct for others? Why do you think so many people are ignorant about it?
There's a Hair in My Dirt
Seven Ways to Be More Curious
Work Time
Homework: Daily Reading & Hair in Dirt Worksheet
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Inception
4/3/2020 - 4/13/2020
Journal: How has your view and understanding of Shakespeare changed over the course of our time reading him?
Shakespeare Uncovered
Due: There's a Hair in My Dirt
Homework: Daily Reading & Shakespeare Uncovered
Soundtrack of the Day: Fable
SPRING BREAK! WOOHOO! Please go out and enjoy yourselves! I know I'm going to. Also, don't forget to put in some work on your creative project!
4/14/2020 - 4/15/2020
Journal: How was your spring break? What did you do? Have you started working on your creative project yet? What are you going to do?
Creative Project Examples
Watch As You Like It Day 1
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Star Trek
4/15/2020 - 4/16/2020
Journal: Why do you think Shakespeare wrote so many clever/witty/tricky characters? Why do you think the trickster is such a popular character type with audiences? (Think Loki & the Joker)
Watch As You Like It Day 2
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Star Trek
4/17/2020 - 4/20/2020
Journal: Take out your As You Like viewing guide paper. Summarize what you remember about As You Like It so far for your journal. After that, please perform a free write.
Finish watching As You Like It
Mid-Term Book Report
Mid-Term Portfolio Check
The Seven Ages of Man
Start Reading William Shakespeare Star Wars
Homework: Read, work on creative project, book report, & portfolio check
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Tron
4/18/2020 - 4/19/2020
Journal: Write about something that you consider to be unjust. It can be something you have experienced in your own life, or something you have observed happening in the world. Why is it unfair? Who benefits? Who is at a disadvantage? In your opinion, what should be done about it?
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Book Report & Portfolio Check
Soundtrack of the Day: Tron
4/22/2019 (A Day)
Journal: Anticipation Guide Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Book Report, Portfolio Check & As You Like It
Soundtrack of the Day: The Hunt for Red October
4/23/2019 ([Testing B1 & B3] B2)
Journal: Anticipation Guide Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Make-up Time/Silent Sustained Reading
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: The Hunt for Red October
4/24/2019 ([Test A1] A2 & A4)
Journal: Respond to the following quote. Please keep in mind that “vice” = weakness, and “tyranny” = government oppression.
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
What do you think Miller is saying? How can you relate this quote to the Seven Commandments? Miller claims that this is the “American vice”—what are your thoughts on this? Do you agree or disagree? How can you support your thinking with examples?
Animal Farm
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Russian Revolution Jigsaw
Soundtrack of the Day: Enemy at the Gates
4/25/2019 ([Testing B2] B1 & B3)
Journal: Anticipation Guide Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Make-up Time/Silent Sustained Reading
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: The Hunt for Red October
4/26/2019 ([Testing A2 & A4] A1)
Journal: Respond to the following quote. Please keep in mind that “vice” = weakness, and “tyranny” = government oppression.
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
What do you think Miller is saying? How can you relate this quote to the Seven Commandments and our discussion from last time? Miller claims that this is the “American vice”—what are your thoughts on this? Do you agree or disagree? How can you support your thinking with examples?
Animal Farm
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Russian Revolution Jigsaw
Soundtrack of the Day: Enemy at the Gates
4/29/2019 - 4/30/2019
Testing
Propaganda Strategies in Animal Farm
Silent Sustained Reading/Make-up Time
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: The Thing
5/1/2019 (B Day)
Journal: What characteristics do you feel a person in a leadership position should have and why? Who in your mind is a great example of a outstanding, and not currently living, leader? Why?
Animal Farm
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Russian Revolution Jigsaw
Soundtrack of the Day: Crimson Tide
5/2/2019 - 5/3/2019
Journal: Read the following quotes and then respond. What are your thoughts about the issue being presented? What are the dangers you sense? What connections can you make to Animal Farm? to the world?
"How fortunate for governments that people do not think." - Adolph Hitler
“Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.” - Bertrand Russell
Animal Farm
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Soundtrack of the Day: Tooth and Tail
5/6/2019 - 5/7/2019
Journal: George Orwell once wrote: “Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.”
Using support from the text, explain what you think Orwell’s “political purpose” or philosophy is. In other words, what can you infer about Orwell’s views on government and politics? How can you tell?
Animal Farm
Propaganda Assignment
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: The Hunt for Red October
5/8/2019 - 5/9/2019
Journal: Read the following quotes and respond with at least one well-developed paragraph of 8 sentences. With what do you agree? With what do you disagree? How can you support your response with examples from Animal Farm and/or the world today?
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.”—Thomas Jefferson
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." – Lord Acton
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins." – William Pitt
Russian Revolution Video - Extra Credit to watch and write 2-3 paragraphs comparing it to Animal Farm and telling me about what you learned
Reading Animal Farm
Propaganda in Animal Farm
Watch Animal Farm
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Red Army Chorus Medley
5/10/2019 & 5/13/2019
Journal: None
Animal Farm Watch
Elizabeth Speech
Make-up/Silent and Sustained Reading
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Red Army Chorus Medley
5/14/2019 & 5/15/2019
Journal: None
Animal Farm Finish Watching
Year in Review/Popcorn Party
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: The Mummy
5/16/2019 & 5/17/2019
Journal: None
Presentation Day 1
Work Period
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Creative project & all make-up work!
Soundtrack of the Day: Myst
5/20/2019 & 5/21/2019
Journal: None
Presentation Day 2
Book Report
Portfolio Check
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Skyrim
5/22/2019 A Day
Journal: None
Presentation Day 3 (if needed)
There is a Hair in My Dirt
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: Hair in My Dirt Reading Guide
Soundtrack of the Day: Skyrim
5/23/2019 & 5/24/2019
Finals
Homework: None
Due: None
Soundtrack of the Day: Skyrim
5/28/2019 & 5/29/2019
Homework: Read & work on creative project
Due: None
5/30/2019
Journal: None
Graduation
Homework: None
Due: None