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Extra Exam Help
Punctuation Review in class
3/27/2015
Study Guide Self - Check
Of Mice and Men - Chapter 6 Review
Allegory Handout - discussion & worked on in class during movie
Exam Reminder
- make 4X6 note card (use both sides)
- complete study guide for extra credit
- OMAM study guide assigned pages due exam day
3/26/2015
Colon Review
Chapter 4 & 5 Review
Read Chapter 6
Packet Work: Character Traits and Dreams pages (Wednesday 3/25)
Chapter 4 Loneliness section and Chapter 6 Symbolism page (Thursday 3/26)
Packet Due on Tuesday 3/31 - Exam Day
3/24/2015
Reviewed Semicolons and chapter 3
Began reading chapter 4
Homework: Finish chapter 4 & read chapter 5 - due Thursday 3/26
Remember to continue to take book notes ( 1 note/2 page)
Missing Work due Thursday!!!
3/23/2015
Reviewed Commas (Punctuation Crash Course!)
Reviewed Chapter 2 Questions
Began reading chapter 3
Homework: Finish Reading Chapter 3
- Continue working on Study Packet to review for exam
3rd Quarter Exam News!!
A 4X6 Notecard may be used on the exam again!
We will discuss grammar more next week.
3/20/2015
Began reading Of Mice and Men - read chapter 1 and answered the reading questions
Study Guide (also to be used for quarterly exam studying)
Homework: Read Chapter 2 (due Monday 3/23) & take 1 note for every 2 pages
Images from the Great Depression
3/19/2015
What do you know about the Great Depression?
Gatsby Essays Due today!
3/18/2015
Work day
Final Draft due Thursday!
3/17/2015
Work Day
Draft 1 check-in
Things to remember
1. MLA Format
2. In-text citations
3. Works Cited page
Last Work Day Wednesday 3/18!!
Come after school to get extra help or type in Mrs. Clark's room.
Final draft due Thursday 3/19
3/16/2015
Work Day!
Sentence Outline checked in for points.
Work on Draft 1 - emailed to Mrs. Clark by end of day
Grading Rubric handed out
Extra help is available after school all week! Please let me know. I'll be staying after school until 4:30 Monday - Thursday.
3/13/2015
On 3/12 students continued to watch the Great Gatsby movie while I was at a professional development training.
Today, students had the entire hour to work on their quotes and sentence outline.
Due date modification: Sentence outline due Monday 3/16 at the beginning of class.
(Most everyone worked very hard in class, but most students needed more time to complete their outline.)
3/11/15
Reviewed personal Writing History and create a successful writers classroom list.
Introduced Gatsby Essay
Sentence Outline due Friday 3/13
Draft 1 (2 paragraphs) Monday 3/16
3/10/2015
Test!
After test....
Students turned in Gatsby Study Guide & Wrote their Writing History.
Extra Credit "I Am" poem due Wednesday.
Test Review
Test Tuesday 3/10
- 3x5 notecard will be allowed on the test
- Quizlet Review
- Crash Course Part 1 & Part 2 Review
- Test will cover the entire book and be 45 multiple choice questions (no essay or short answer)
- Study question Packet due on Tuesday 3/10
Extra Credit Opportunity: I Am poem (Due Wednesday 3/11)
3/5-3/6/2015
Students read independently today to catch-up. Students should have the book completely read by Friday 3/6.
3/6: Discussed the rest of the book and continued to watch the movie. Continue finishing study guide packet. Study Guide due Tuesday 3/10.
Test: Tuesday, March 10th
- 3x5 notecard will be allowed on the test
- Quizlet Review
- Test will cover the entire book and be 50 multiple choice questions (no essay or short answer)
- Study question Packet due on test day
Extra Credit Opportunity
Brighton High School’s spring musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It, fits perfectly into our reading of The Great Gatsby this quarter.
“Set in the 1920s Nice Work If You Can Get It is the story of charming and wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter, who meets rough female bootlegger Billie Bendix the weekend of his wedding. Jimmy, who has been married three (or is it four?) times before, is preparing to marry Eileen Evergreen, a self-obsessed modern dancer. Thinking Jimmy and Eileen will be out of town, Billie and her gang hide cases of alcohol the basement of Jimmy’s Long Island mansion. But when Jimmy, his wife-to-be and her prohibitionist family show up at the mansion for the wedding, Billie and her cohorts pose as servants, causing hijinks galore.” (http://www.broadway.com/shows/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/story/).
For 10 points extra credit, students need to go to the musical and write a ½ to 1 page review (typed, single space, 12 point font) from the point of view of Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby. The review should include 2 references to any of the characters from the novel. Students may also compare and contrast the novel to the play.
The musical runs March 20-22 & March 26-29. Reviews are due by Friday, April 3. Reviews must be emailed if they are submitted March 30-April 3 due to third quarter exams.
Audio Book
Notes Check Thursday
Please make sure that you have read chapter 7 & 8 by Thursday! We will have a notes check Thursday 3/5.
3/2-3/6 Plan
Finished discussing chapter 4 & 5 questions.
Reviewed the "American Dream" & T. J Eckleburg Billboard in Movie Folder
Began reading Chapter 6
Homework due Tuesday 3/3: Finish chapter 6 and read chapter 7. Answer chapter questions in study guide. We''ll discuss questions on Wednesday.
With ACT testing and a shortened schedule on Wednesday, students will have more homework than usual.
Wednesday 3/4 Homework: Read chapter 8 and complete questions.
Thursday 3/6: We'll review chapter 8 questions and read chapter 9 in class (finish the book). Final Notes Check
Friday 3/7: Finish the movie and movie folder
Book Test Tuesday 3/10 (Study Guide & Movie Folder Due)
2/27/2015
Reviewed and updated Movie Folder.
Began reading Chapter 5.
Homework: Finish reading last half of chapter 5 and answer study guide questions.
2/25-2/26
Tuesday 2/25: Read Chapter 4 & answer study guide questions.
Wednesday 2/26: Watch first half of movie and fill in notes in Movie Folder. Completed Movie Folders will be due at the end of the novel.
2/24/15
Finished Chapter 3 and chapter 3 questions. Discussed main character traits.
Notes check given today - partial credit will be given on Friday for students who didn't have notes ready today.
Movie Folder - will be used on Thursday when students begin watching the movie. Students will compare and contrast the movie with the novel. This is due at the end of the novel. Folders were given to students in class.
2/23/2015
Reviewed Chapters 1-2
Read 1/2 of chapter 3 and answered questions.
Homework: Make sure you have 1 note per page for your note check tomorrow.
2/18-Ice Day Work
Complete Chapter 1 study questions from Wednesday.
Read Chapter 2 and complete chapter 2 questions by Monday.
Remember to take notes (1 note per page)! Notes check next week!
If you forgot your book at school, here is a link to the Audio Book. It is sectioned by chapter so it'll be easier to follow.
Have a great weekend!
2/17/2015
Reviewed Fitzgerald Bio questions
Passed out The Great Gatsby novel and reviews Study Guide . This study guide is for the entire book. I will collected it after we take our novel test!
Began reading first 2 pages. We'll complete chapter 1 Wednesday.
2/13/2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography and Questions
Due 2/13
2/12/2015
The Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt & Handout
The link for number 10 is not working on the treasure hunt website. Use this link instead (The Great Gatsby: Hit Songs from the 1920s).
Due 2/12 in class
2/11/2015
Did not begin Webquest today. Moved to Thursday 2/12.
Completed Vocabulary Log packet and discussed examples (more examples). Also reviewed questions 1-6 from Dickinson's poem "Tell the Truth but tell it in Slant."
2/12: Turn in completed Vocabulary Log
2/10/2015
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" Emily Dickinson (in class)
Due 2/11: Questions 1-6 in packet & completed vocabulary log (whatever is not completed in class is homework)
2/12 will be a work day in class. Students will be assigned a short webquest to prepare for reading The Great Gatsby.
2/9/2010
"Because I could not stop for Death" - Emily Dickinson
Homework - (due 2/10)finish questions 1-4 & Vocabulary words (apostrophe-diction)
2/6/2015
Discussed Question 1 (pg 352)
Emily Dickinson Biography (page 1 of packet only)
Continue Vocabulary words log - complete words up to tone
2/5/2015
"I Hear America Singing" - Whitman
Question 1 - page 352 Due Friday
Vocab words to work on - Meter, Rhyme, & Tone
2/4/2015
Song of Myself # 10 Questions 1, 3, 4 on page 355
Whitman and Dickinson Vocabulary Log ( Today -Free verse - Cadence - most words can be found on page 355. Otherwise, other words can be found in the text book.)
Both due on Thursday!
1/30/2015
Song of Myself #10 Audio
1/29/2015
Walt Whitman BIO Notes (pg 348-350)
Modern Realism Example - IPad Air Commercial & Whitman poem "Oh Me! Oh Life!"
1/28/2015
A New American Poetry: Whitman and Dickinson (pg 342-346) Notes
1/27/2015
3rd Quarter Goals
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