Daily Schedule

Tuesday, Jan. 7

• Introduction to course; syllabus
• Activity: Six-word memoirs (video / instructions)
• Homework: Introduction Letter

Wednesday, Jan. 8

• Preview Vocab List 1 & begin mastery practice on vocabulary.com
• Writing Lesson: Simple Sentence Patterns 1-3 (fill-in-the-blank notes)
• Practice identifying subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects on noredink.com (due by end of period)

DUE TONIGHT: Introduction Letter

Thursday, Jan. 9

• Warm up: Identifying Sentence Parts (Patterns 1-3)
• Writing Lesson: Sentence Patterns 4 & 5 (notes continued on same Google Slideshow from yesterday)
  • Practice
• Writing Lesson: Identifying Sentence Parts in Tricky Situations
  • New practice on noredink & complete yesterday's practice

Friday, Jan. 10

• Warm up writing
• Lesson: Enlightenment vs. Romanticism
  • Notes
  • Activity: Analyzing Period Artwork

PERIOD ART & ARCHITECTURE

Enlightenment:

• Paul Revere (1768)
• The Rotunda, University of Virginia
• US Supreme Court building (scroll down a little)

Romanticism:

• Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
• House at Strawberry Hill
• Holy Name Cathedral (pic 1) (pic 2) (pic 3)

Monday, Jan. 13

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #2
• Contextualizing Frankenstein, Part Two: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

This poem is a quintessential work of Romantic literature and it was a key influence on Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein. She even mentions it in the first chapter of the book. You're going to hear an abridged version of this poem today, and we will look for evidence in the poem of its connection to Romantic themes.

Tuesday, Jan. 14

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #3
• Vocab List 2 Preview (Kahoot) & 10 minutes to practice on vocab.com
• Video introductions to Frankenstein
  • Everything You Need to Know to Read Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley: A Biography
• Begin reading & annotating Letter 1

HOMEWORK:

1. Finish Letter 1 and read Letter 2
2. Annotate: Find at least three more pieces of evidence from pages 12-17 that proves that Robert Walton is a Romantic.

I will come around and check your annotations during the warm up and vocab practice tommorrow!

Wednesday, Jan. 15

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #4 & Vocab practice
• Go over annotations & discuss Letter 2
• Lesson: The Byronic Hero

HOMEWORK:

• Read Letters 3 & 4
• Annotate: In Letter 4, Walton explains that while stuck in the ice, his crew finds a man stranded and they take him on board. Based on Walton's descriptions, what makes this stranger a Byronic hero? Mark at least three passages that correspond to three different traits of the Byronic hero, one passage per trait at least. Use your notes on the Byronic hero.

Thursday, Jan. 16

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #5
• Evaluating evidence from Letter 4
• Vocab Jam

HOMEWORK:

1. Read & annotate Chapter 1
   • How does Victor Frankenstein (the new narrator of the story) portray women? Pay close attention to how he describes his mother, Caroline, and his "more than sister," Elizabeth.
2. Complete / master Vocab List 2
3. Study for Tuesday's vocab quiz (lists 1 & 2)

Tuesday, Jan. 21

• Vocab Quiz (lists 1 & 2)
• Writing lesson: Sentence Types (fill-in-the-blank notes / practice)
• Analyze/discuss Ch. 1 (we'll use the questions on your bookmark to guide our analysis)

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 2 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Wednesday, Jan. 22

• Warm up: Sentence Types Practice #2
• Analysis/annotation of Ch. 2

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 3 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Thursday, Jan. 23

• Writing Lesson: Punctuating Complex & Compound Sentences
• Begin practice on noredink.com (due next Wed. 1/29 by 8:25 AM)
• Open-book quiz
• Discuss Ch. 3

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 4 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Friday, Jan. 24

• Warm up: Sentence Types Practice #3
• Discuss Ch. 4

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 5 using the questions on your bookmark

Monday, Jan. 27

• Warm up
• Preview Vocab list 3
• Discuss Ch. 5
  • Lesson & discussion: Physiognomy & Characterization in Frankenstein

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 6

Tuesday, Jan. 28

• Warm up: Practice test questions
• Discuss Ch. 5
• "It's Alive!"
• Begin homework reading

HW: Read & annotate Chs. 6 & 7

Wednesday, Jan. 29

DUE by start of class: practice on noredink (all three assignments)

• Warm up: Practice test questions
• Discuss Chs. 6 & 7

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 8

Thursday, Jan. 30

TBD

Friday, Jan. 31

• Writing Test

Monday, Feb. 3

• Return Writing Tests & discuss corrections (due Friday, 2/7)
• work time

HW: finish Frankenstein Mini-Essay (due by start of class tomorrow)

Tuesday, Feb. 4

Mini-essay due: submit a shareable link to your Google doc here

1. In-class mini-workshop: You're going to exchange your essay with two different people today and help each other with the following:
   • Did the writer choose the BEST evidence from the novel? (If so, why is it the best? If not, what might be a better piece of evidence?)
   • Scrutinize the type of evidence: quotation or summary? Could the writer have summarized instead of quoting? Or vice versa?
   • Did the writer set up the evidence in the most effective way? Explain why or offer a suggestion.
2. You'll then spend the remainder of the period fixing up your essay before submitting your final revisions on Google classroom.

Google Classroom Class Code: js6z57n

HW: Read & annotate Frankenstein Ch. 9

Wednesday, Feb. 5

• Vocab List 4 preview & practice
• Discuss Frankenstein Ch. 9
• Notes on Gothic Motifs (video; notes worksheet)
  • We will pause the video periodically to discuss evidence of these motifs in Frankenstein

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 10

1. Look for more evidence of the SUBLIME
2. Pay close attention to the conversation between Victor and the Creature
   • parallels between the end of this conversation and the end of Letter 4
   • the creature's use of language

Thursday, Feb. 6

• Discuss Ch. 10
• Work time: finish test corrections

Friday, Feb. 7

Snow day

Monday, Feb. 10

• DUE: Writing Test Corrections
• Lesson: Run-ons (comma splices & fused sentences)
• Read & annotate Frankenstein Ch. 11 together in class
• Vocab Jam (if time)

HW: Read & annotate Frankenstein Ch. 12

Tuesday, Feb. 11

• Warm up: practice correcting comma splices and fused sentences
• Make your voices heard survey
• Discuss Frankenstein, Ch. 12
• Vocab Jam

HW: Read & annotate Frankenstein Ch.13

Wednesday, Feb. 12

• In-class writing
• Discuss Ch. 13
• Vocab jam

HW:

• Read & annotate Frankenstein, Ch. 15 (you can skip 14) -- BE READY FOR A READING QUIZ!!!
• Study for tomorrow's vocab quiz

Thursday, Feb. 13

• Vocab Quiz (on vocab.com)
• Reading Quiz (Frankenstein, Chs. 13 & 15)
• Go over quiz & discuss chapters 13 & 15
• Practice with fixing comma splices & fused sentences

Friday, Feb. 14

• Practice with fixing comma splices & fused sentences
• SAT Prep Tips & Resources
  • khanacademy.org/sat
  • longform.org/random (use this to read one random article per day, or more!)
  • Recommended SAT study guides
    • College Panda SAT Writing
    • College Panda SAT Math
    • Critical Reader SAT Reading

HW:

1. Read & annotate Ch. 16
2. Answer questions (handout)

Tuesday, Feb. 18

DUE: Ch. 16 questions

• Discuss Ch. 16
  • Philosophy & Frankenstein
• Lesson: Combining Sentences with Verbal & Prepositional Phrases

HW: Read Ch. 17

Wednesday, Feb. 19

• Practice with Verbal & Prepositional Phrases
• Discuss Ch. 17
• Begin homework

HW: Read Ch. 18 and answer questions on handout

Thursday, Feb. 20

• Lesson: Combining sentences with absolute phrases
• Go over homework & discuss Ch. 18
• Read Ch. 19 in class

HW (due Monday, 2/24): Read & annotate Chs. 20 & 21

Friday, Feb. 21

Post-secondary with Ms. McKinney

Monday, Feb. 24

• Practice combining sentences with absolutes, verbals, and prepositional phrases
• Lesson: Combining Sentences with Appositives & Relative Clauses
• Preview Vocab List 5
• Discuss Chs. 20 & 21

HW: Read & annotate "Prometheus" & "Pandora"

Tuesday, Feb. 25

• Warm up/Phrases practice
• Discuss homework reading
• Compare Prometheus & Pandora to book of Genesis
• In-class writing

HW: Read & annotate Frankenstein, Ch. 22

Wednesday, Feb. 26

• Warm up
• Discuss Ch. 22

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 23 (we will read together in class tomorrow)

Thursday, Feb. 27

• Lesson: Punctuating Phrases & Clauses
  • Begin practice on noredink.com (due Friday at 9:55A AM)
• Read & discuss Frankenstein, Ch. 23
• Take-home quiz (due tomorrow)

HW:

• Finish take-home quiz
• Work on noredink.com & vocab.com

Friday, Feb. 28

• DUE: Take-home quiz
• Begin reading & annotating Ch. 24
• Work time: finish noredink.com & work on vocab.com

HW: read & annotate Ch. 24 to end of book (ends on page 241)

Monday, March 2

• Warm up
• Practice punctuating phrases & clauses
• Discuss Ch. 24 to end of book

Tuesday, March 3

• Lesson: Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers
• In-class practice
• In-class assignment: The Two-Sentence Essay (due by end of class or tomorrow morning at the latest)

Wednesday, March 4

• Practice with dangling/misplaced modifiers & phrases
• Discuss second mini-essay assignment & schedule
• Work time:
  • Choose your topic for mini-essay 2 & begin finding & analyzing passages
  • Practice on vocab.com

Thursday, March 5

• Practice for tomorrow's test
• Preview vocab list 6 & practice
• 550 Alternative Words for "Says"
• Work time
• Due by end of class: thesis statement & list of evidence/passages

Friday, March 6

WRITING TEST: Phrases & sentence combining; fixing dangling/misplaced modifiers; avoiding comma splices and misplaced commas; subordinate clauses

Work time

Monday, March 7

DUE by end of period: Second Frankenstein Mini-Essay

Tuesday, March 8

Depart at 9 for college visits

Wednesday, March 9

• Return & go over Writing Tests; discuss corrections options
• NEW UNIT! Rhetorical Analysis
• Introductory activity (comparing car commercials)
• Notes on Analyzing Rhetoric & the Rhetorical Situation
• Group CAP analysis

HW: Read an article (handout) & analyze the rhetorical situation; fill out the CAP form

Thursday, March 10

DUE: CAP form for homework reading

• Go over homework
• Lesson: Rhetorical Appeals
  • Ethos in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  • Ethos in "Bag Ban Bad for Freedom and the Environment" (homework handout)

HW: Work on your test corrections or grammar paper

Wednesday, March 18

DUE TODAY:

• 1984 Introductory Webquest (9:00 AM)
• Attendance tracker: see Google Classroom

DUE TOMORROW by 9:00 AM:

• Read & annotate 1984, Part One, Chapter I (pages 1-20): Your attendance tracker assignment for tomorrow will be based on Chapter I, so be ready.