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OLDER PLANS

4th quarter

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Week 19

Monday, 5-18 Brief discussion of red-green game; examine LS cumulative review; continue movie - See another example HP essay on the screen, peer edit, and then turn (or resubmit) in HP essays

Wednesday, 5-20 Language skills cumulative test; Finish HP movie

Friday, 5-22 Noon dismissal; review cumulative LS test; relax

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Wednesday 4-20

Friday, 4-22 NO SCHOOL

Week 18

Monday, 5-11 Quiz HP 7-12 and HP multiple choice quiz 13-15. Begin LS 28. HP test review with buzzers; discuss all worksheets, especially quotations

HW: Review for test. See both Powerpoints. (We viewed just one.) See the test review here. Do LS 28.

Wednesday, 5-13 The Hiding Place test; red-green game; begin movie; assign take-home HP essays.

Friday, 5-15 LS 28 quiz; continue movie

Week 17

Monday, 5-4 and Tuesday, 5-5 State ELA testing - Library (first two tests will take most of the block). Turn in The Hiding Place Webquest.

HW: Read Hiding Place ch. 7-9 and complete worksheet for Wednesday. Continue reading ahead in The Hiding Place.

Wednesday, 5-6 State ELA testing final two tests - Library (25 and 25)

Check Hiding Place worksheet 4-6 worksheet. Quiz 1-6. Check 7-9 worksheet.

HW: Read HP ch. 10-12 and complete worksheet.

Friday, 5-8 Quiz HP 1-6. Check worksheet 7-9. History of the Holocaust PowerPoint 1. The Hiding Place Holocaust PPT 2

HW: Read HP to end of book.

Week 16

Monday, 4-27 Math testing. See homework and get it done. MSND essay extended to Friday. Hiding Place ch. 1-3 due Wednesday/Thursday beginning of class. Take LS 26 quiz; Do LS 27; intro The Hiding Place. Show Hitler's Hidden Archives 60-minutes documentary.

HW: Read ch. 1-3 of The Hiding Place. Complete the chapters 1-3 worksheet.

Wednesday, 4-29 Check HP worksheet 1-3 front. Hand in worksheet so I can check the back.

Do Hiding Place Webquest. Due end of block.

Friday, 5-1 LS 27 MSND essays due on EdModo. quiz LS 27; Discuss 1-3; quiz?.

HW: Read ch. 4-6. Complete chapters 4-6 worksheet.

Week 15

Monday, 4-20 LS 26; Discuss Act 5. Mention reading the Sparknotes info, including quotations, and attempting the Sparknotes test. Finish MSND movie.

Wednesday, 4-22 Practice ELA assessments (laptops) username = practice.high.demo password = sake2

Continue MSND review, including quotations, and reveal essay question options. Essays due Monday/Tuesday.

HW: Extra credit opportunity at KW tonight - selfie and a sentence due Friday about Holocaust survivor at Kansas Wesleyan; Sams Chapel @ 7 p.m.

Friday, 4-24 MSND objective test on computers. Hand out Hiding Place books.

MSND essays are due at the beginning of class Wednesday/Thursday.

Week 14

Monday, 4-13 LS 25; MSND See beginning of MSND movie. Discuss MSND Act 2. Draw, by act and scene, who is in love with whom.

HW: Read act 3 MSND; finish LS 25

Wednesday, 4-15; Check LS 25; Discuss MSND act 3. Continue MSND movie. Listen in class to Act 4.

HW: Finish reading act 4 MSND

Friday, 4-17 LS 25 quiz; discuss act 4

HW: Finish reading AMSND; do quote sheet (p. 4 of handout)

Week 13

Monday, 4-6 LS 24. Test poetry and short story. Begin LS 24. Begin A Midsummer Night's Dream.

HW: Read Shakespeare handouts and do page 3 of Shakespeare handout. Read Act 1 of AMSND at No Fear Shakespeare.

Wednesday, 4-8 Check LS 24. Check p. 3 of MSND worksheet. Explore introductory materials in MSND book. Read selections of MSND Act 1, beginning of scene 1.

HW: Read MSND Act 1

Friday, 4-10 Quiz LS 24; citizenship vote; hand back writing assessments; Discuss Act 1, scene 1. Act out Act 1, scene 2. Movie?

HW: Read (and listen) to Act 2.

Week 12

Monday, 3-30 LS 22 quiz; Do LS 23 and check. Continue discussion of poems.

HW: Finish LS 23; Study this page for Monday's short story and poetry test.

Mrs. White (enrollment - 20 minutes) Tuesday and Wednesday

Wednesday, 4-1 LS 23 quiz. Review day for short story/poetry. Buzzers and Kahoots.

Friday, 4-3 No school for studentsWeek 11

Monday, 3-23 Introduce LS 22 concepts. Examine resumes on screen and choose which resumes would warrant an interview. Complete a practice online application. Assign poetry groups for Wednesday/Thursday. Examine figures of speech in the "reading assessment" link in the left sidebar.

Discuss:

"One Perfect Rose (371)

"The Base Stealer" (388)

"Dreams" (388)

"A Red, Red Rose" (462)

Wednesday, 3-25 Mr. Mac gone.

Activity 1: LS 22. Allow 20 minutes. Students, find a partner and compare, noting questions you desire to ask Mr. M. on Friday before the test.

Activity 2: Poetry interpretation: In your assigned groups, read the first poem, discuss what you don't understand and try to understand it. Then discuss and write as instructed below about the first poem. Then move on to the next poem.

Do the following:

1. Read the poems listed below out loud in your groups.

2. For each poem, first look up words you don't understand. Then discuss the meaning of the poem.

3. Find something in the poem you don't understand completely. Write a question about the part you don't understand. If there is more than one thing you don't understand, write more than one question.

4. Using just one sentence, write what you think the poem is about (the meaning/point of the poem).

5. Copy at least two examples of figurative language from each poem and label the type of figurative language (simile, metaphor, symbolism, analogy, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idiom, imagery)

6. Put group members' names (both first and last) and your block on your group's paper, check to make sure you have written complete sentences and that writing is neat. Turn in your paper.

"Mirror" (365)

"Recuerdo" (382)

"First Lesson" (397)

"A Black Man Speaks of Reaping" (398)

"Women" (368);

"Miss Rosie" (403);

"Tableu at Twilight" (406)

"Oranges" (453)

"She Sweeps" (392)

"Ornamental Sketch" (373)

Friday, 3-27 Take LS 22 quiz. Discuss questions and figurative language listed on papers from Wednesday.

Week 10

Monday, 3-9 Present "My Career in 3 Minutes" movies. Submit resumes. Discuss and quiz "The Rockpile."

HW: Read "Marigolds" (75-82)

Wednesday, 3-11 and Thursday, 3-12

Mr. M. will be scoring writing assessments.

1. Quiz "Marigolds" and "The Rockpile." Use desktops and laptops to take the quiz.

2. Many students have 2-3 minute Career movies to present. Student assistant Jenni Lyne will help students turn on the projector and present during second block. Mr. Daub will direct in fourth block.

3. Students who present today must also submit presentations to EdModo if they have not already done so.

4. When all students have had the opportunity to present, Jenni will direct students in short story review practice using Kahoot during second block. Mr. Daub will direct the Kahoots in fourth block.

(We save online job applications and cover letters for next quarter; poetry and short story tests will be taken concurrently after we finish poetry the week following spring break.) Kahoots for short stories.

See notes for Wednesday. Jenni will be in charge of Kahoots in block 2. Then our sub will know what to do for block 4.

Friday, 3-13 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

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Week 9

Monday, 3-2 Begin LS 21 Read and discuss 146-152 (Blues Ain’t No Mocking Bird); quiz? Work on biteslide, resume, and presentation portions of careers projects.

HW: Read 153-158 (A Pair of Silk Stockings)

Wednesday, 3-4 Check LS 21; Discuss "Stockings" and quiz. Work on biteslide, resume, and presentation portions of careers projects. Begin a list of figures of speech and poetic devices in "The Blues...": alliteration, dialect, idiom, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, irony, and more.

HW: Read 75-82 (Marigolds); finish list of figurative language in "The Blues..."

Friday, 3-6 Quiz 21; Discuss "Marigolds." Take breakfast survey.

HW: Read 112-119 (The Rockpile) Work on biteslide, resume, and presentation portions of careers projects. Presentation due Monday/Tuesday.

Week 8

Monday, 2-23 No school

Tuesday, 2-24 and Wednesday, 2-25 Discuss "Grief." Begin reading "Neighbor Rosicky" (pp. 48-74). Do worksheet as your read. Find worksheet on this page if you are absent. Reminder: March 9 is coming soon.

Thursday, 2-26 (Friday schedule) Finish reading "Neighbor Rosicky" (pp. 48-74). Do FIB portion of worksheet as you read. Find worksheet on this page if you are absent. If you finish the fill-in-the-blank portion, you may work on your Kansas Careers "stuff" for the March 9 deadline. Note: Thursday, 2-26 Mr. M. gone (journalism contest). 2nd block, Kendall Schlesener and others who are finished with their "Rosicky" work will fold Trojournals, and at lunch time Kendall and Jackson Montgomery will come to my room and take them to the lunchroom.

HW: Finish "Neighbor Rosicky" worksheet (including the short answer questions) It will be due Monday/Tuesday next week.

Week 7

Monday, 2-16 Review requirements and deadlines for Kansas Career Pipeline. Begin LS 20. (15 minutes) Writing assessment: 30 minutes. Work on biteslides, resume, and Career "movie" if you finish the writing assessment. Turn in paper copies of your writing assessments. Read and listen to "The Masque of the Red Death." (20 minutes) If we don't finish, listen online. If you desire to see a screen adaptation, click here.

HW: Complete "understanding the selection" worksheet (handout p. 137 - 8). Feel free to work in online groups.

Wednesday, 2-18 Discuss LS 20. Continue short story unit. Discuss "Masque," then quiz. Begin reading "The Bet." Click here for an audio version. If time allows, work on Kansas Career Pipeline tasks.

HW: Read "The Bet" (160-165) Answer the following "for study and discussion" questions on 165 -66: 3; 5a,b; 6a,b; 7.

Friday, 2-20 LS quiz 20. Discuss "The Bet" at end of block (see items above).

HW: Read "The Beginning of Grief."(83-90) Answer the "reading check questions on p. 89.

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AA 159-166 (The Bet)

25 AA 120-127 (The Masque of the Red Death)

24 AA 83-90 (The Beginning of Grief)

AA 153-158 (A Pair of Silk Stockings)

26 AA 146-152 (Blues Ain’t No Mocking Bird)

AA 75-82 (Marigolds)

27 AA 112-119 (The Rockpile)

23 AA 48-74 (Neighbor Rosicky)

Wednesday, 2-18

Discuss and quiz "Blues" and "Stockings." Do the interpretive question worksheets.

HW: Finish reading 112-119 (The Rockpile)

Week 6

Monday, 2-9 Begin LS 19. Finish drafting writing assessment. Continue working on Career materials. (Explore the resume writing component of the Kansas Career Pipeline.)

Wednesday, 2-11 Peer edit and revise writing assessment. Print it and turn it in.

Friday, 2-13 Quiz LS 19. Remainder of time open to work on resume and to research for careers project. (March 9 is rapidly approaching.)

Week 5

Monday, 2-2 Begin LS 18.

*In groups, review the "Demon Lover" story to write summaries (5-7 sentences) of "The Demon Lover." (15 minutes)

Make sure none of those summaries indicate

- that one of Mrs. Drover's children has died

- that Mrs. Drover's husband has died

- that she doesn't know which war is going on.

- that the man in the garden is the man Mrs. Drover married.

*Revisit literary essay outlines. Discuss parallel thoughts.

*Revisit topic sentence requirements.

*Revisit supporting topic sentences with quotations from the text.

*Write a "Demon Lover" essay together.

HW: Finish LS 18 worksheet; rewrite essays for Thursday.

Wednesday, 2-4 Discuss adding quoted support to an essay. Add it. Submit revised essays on EdModo when finished but not later than Friday. How are your career unit assignments coming along? Review LS 18. Introduce writing assessment and begin prewriting and drafting.

Friday, 2-6 Quiz LS 18. Finish drafting writing assessment.

Monday, 2-9 Intro LS 19. Peer edit writing assessments, revise and submit.

HW: Finish LS 19

Week 4

Monday, 1-26 Mrs. White: Intro to Careers. See the Careers link in the left sidebar for a preview of our classroom portion of this unit.

Wednesday, 1-28 Mrs. White - Continue career exploration.

Friday, 1-31 Guest speaker

Week 3

Monday, 1-19 NO SCHOOL - Teacher In-Service

Tuesday, 1-20 and Wednesday 1-21

Complete LS 17. See model literary essays. Discuss MLA style, modify roughs to include it, and refine external transitions. Then peer edit. Submit literary essay by end of block.

Thursday, 1-22 and Friday, 1-23 LS 17 quiz. Revise and resubmit "Demon Lover" essay. Introduce business writing/career unit: scholarship resume, job resume, online app, cover letter?, business email.

Week 2

Monday, 1-12 Begin LS 16. Then discuss allegorical (war) and feminist (stressed housewife) approaches to "The Demon Lover."

You should now have a list of passages supporting an archetypal approach and a psychological approach to the story. Today, create a list of 5 passages that support the feminist approach. Then list events/characters from the story and show what they might represent an allegorical approach to the story. Example - The cracks in the foundation of Kathleen's house represent cracks in her psyche; the taxi driver represents war taking control of individuals in war-torn areas; etc.

Form groups: Using this discussion guide, discuss the evidence you have found for the four approaches to "The Demon Lover." [literal/archetypal (just a ghost tale like "The House Carpenter"), psychological (she's paranoid/schizophrenic), allegorical (War does this to people.), and feminist (Mrs. Drover is the victim of her culture's expectations for women.) If you miss class, form your own groups, or do the discussion guide on your own.

Wednesday, 1-14 Check LS 16. Choose the approach to "The Demon Lover" that you find most suitable. Find others who hold your view, get in a group and discuss the problems with the view you have chosen. "Explain away" the problems with your chosen view. Each group will choose a spokesperson to represent their view and the class will "grill" the spokesperson. (40 minutes total) After discussion, form an outline for your view.

HW: Finish the outline.

Friday, 1-16 LS 16 quiz. Take counseling office survey. Compare outlines. The begin writing rough drafts of your literary essays.

HW: Finish rough lit essays. Be sure to cite passages that support your views.

Week 1

Monday, 1-5

Begin LS 15. Choose short stories to add to our readings. Pass out lit books and read aloud together "The Demon Lover" beginning on p. 41.

HW: Finish LS 15. Reread "The Demon Lover." Be ready to explain it in class discussion. (Note: you will be writing a literary essay explaining your interpretation of this story after we finish discussion Monday next week.)

Wednesday, 1-7 Check LS 15. Discuss "The Demon Lover." Examine the archetypal approach (the archetype being the James Harris or House Carpenter ballad) to "Demon Lover."

If you miss class, you are to do the following:

1. Find a partner and compare answers for LS 15.

2. Click the following to hear the audio of the lecture about the archetypal approach to the story: Audio of lecture - Archetypal approach to Demon Lover.

3. Listen to and/or read the two links above: James Harris and "The House Carpenter."

4. Make a list (on paper) of at least five passages (page numbers and quotations) to support the following thesis: “The Demon Lover” is a simple ghost story whose archetype (pattern) is the ballad of James Harris, also known as “The House Carpenter.”

Example: Page 43 – in the flashback – “I shall be with you, sooner or later…” (This indicates that a demon wrote the letter and is stalking Kathleen.)

Have your list completed when you come to class Friday.

Friday, 1-9 Quiz LS 15. Discuss psychological approach to "Demon Lover." (Lecture -Psychological approach to Demon Lover)

HW: Create a list of passages that support the psychological approach to "The Demon Lover."

2014 Semester 1 Homework (partial)

Daily Plans and Homework Fall 2014

Friday, 10-10 Lang. skill 6 quiz. Revamp vacation speech intros.

HW: Continue work on PPT or prezi.