MONDAY 

• Improve your writing: Ten writing Tips (handout) (Period 1)

• Class synonym challenge (Period 1)

• Work on your Macbeth projects (Due this week) 

TUESDAY

• Improve your writing: Ten writing Tips (handout) (Period 2)

• Editing practice:  Find the Mistakes "The Edmund Fitzgerald"

• Go over the Editing Quiz

• Why people fall for "fake news" (Slide show)

• When Misinformation Becomes Dangerous (slide show)

WEDNESDAY

• Grad Mass

THURSDAY

• Editing Practice:  Find 10 Mistakes

• Puzzle: how word choice can affect your opinion on war

• History of war Reporting: How Media can be used to sell a war to the public

• Article: How Media Generated Support for the Gulf War (Period 2)

FRIDAY 

Period 1

• Editing Practice:  Find the Mistakes

• Article: How PR Generated support for the Gulf War 

• Slide Show: How Media Persuaded people's views of the Gulf War

• Finish yesterday's slideshow on the history of war media

Period 2

• Work on your Macbeth Project

MONDAY 

• What is synaesthesia (3 min)

• Complete a brief poetry exercise using synesthesia

• Puzzle review of Act 5, Scene 3

• Read Act 5, Scenes 4 and 5

• Finish the Act 1, Scene 3 Infographic handout

TUESDAY

• What makes a peom a poem? (5 min)

• Complete a poetry exercise: Using description to establish mood

• Read the poem, "April 30, 2014" by Louise Bernice Halfe

• Watch a summary of Act 5, scene 4 and scene 5 (3 min)

• Macbeth animation or read and go over the rest of the play (class can choose)

WEDNESDAY

• Finish the  infographic for Act 5, Scene 3

• Work on your Macbeth Projects

THURSDAY

• Brief editing exercise: "Using the positive form"

• Review questions for Act 5, Scene 5

• Finish reading Macbeth

• Watch the ending of Macbeth (start at 1:39:48)

FRIDAY

• Kahoot: Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers and Random Trivia 

• Watch the ending of Macbeth 

• Macbeth Shows a Glimpse of Humanity review exercise

• Simpson's Macbeth (5 min)

• How to maintain focus in your writing  (Period 2)

MONDAY 

• Mining Literature for Deeper Meaning (4 min.)

• Macbeth Short Answer Quiz

• Poetry exercise (If there's time)

TUESDAY

• Macbeth in-class paragraphs

WEDNESDAY

• Editing: Is Where, Is When... (Period 2)

• King Tutankhamen Editing challenge

• Kahoot: Shakespeare's time

• Read and go over Act 4, Scene 1 (Animaniacs)

• Take some notes on Act 4, Scene 1

THURSDAY

• Review: Active vs Passive voice

• Read and go over the poem "Words"

• Act 4, Scene 1 Summary (3 min)

• Read and go over Act 4, Scene 2 and record notes on the bird imagery used in the scene

FRIDAY

Period 1

• Avoiding Redundant words and phrases

• Is it a real word or a Pokemon?

• Act 4, Scene 2 Summary (1 min)

• Read the modern translation of Act 4, Scene 3

• Puzzle exercise of Act 4, Scene 3

Period 2

• Avoiding Redundant words and phrases

• Is it a real word or a Pokemon?

• Go over the Macbeth Project

MONDAY 

1.  Proofreading warm-up: How many mistakes can you find?

2. Go over Act 1, Quotation Review  (Period 2)

3. Take some Act 1 notes on this handout

4. Act 2 scene 1 Summary (2 min)

5. Read and go over Act 2, Scene 2

6. Act 2, scene 2 puzzle review

7. Complete the Act 2, scene 2 questions on this handout

TUESDAY

1. Award for Youth Writers

2. Act 2, scene 2 Summary (2 min)

3. Puzzle review of Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2

4. Go over yesterday's chart (Period 2)

5. Read and go over Act 2, Scene 3

6. Complete these questions

WEDNESDAY

1. Go over Monday's chart (Period 1)

2.  Act 2 scene 3 Summary (3 min)

3. Read and go over Act 2, Scene 4

4. Make notes of the new information that was provided in Act 2, Scene 

5. Act 2 quotation review

6. Watch Acts 1 and 2 of the Polanski version

THURSDAY

Period 1

1. Learn when to spell out numbers

2. Exercise: when to spell out numbers

3. Act 2, scene 4 Summary (2 min)

4. Read and go over Act 3, Scene 1

5. Act 3, Scene 1 exercise: How to Convince an Assassin to Kill a Decent Guy 

Period 2

1. Learn when to spell out numbers

2. Exercise: when to spell out numbers

3. Hand back seminar quizzes

4. Take-up the Act 2 quotation review 

5. Act 2, scene 4 Summary 

6. Read and go over some of Act 3, Scene 1

FRIDAY

Period 1

1. Why we should avoid wordy sentences

2. Act 3 scene 1, Summary (3 min)

3. Go over yesterday's Worksheet on Act 3, Scene 1

4. Act 1, Scene 3: Review puzzle 

5. Read Act 3, Scene 2 or watch the video (you choose)

6. Complete these Act 3, Scene 2 Questions

Period 2

1. Why we should avoid wordy sentences

2. Go over this exercise: Exercise: From Wordy to Concise

3. Watch an animation review of what we've seen in Macbeth so far

MONDAY 

1. Presentations

TUESDAY

1. Presentations

WEDNESDAY

1. Hand back Seminar evaluations and Joker paragraphs

2. Read and go over Macbeth, Act 1, Scenes 1, 2 and 3

3. Act 1, Scene 3 and 4 Questions (Compare Banquo to Macbeth) (Period 2)

THURSDAY

1. 1. Presentation Quiz

FRIDAY

Period 1

1. Read Act 1, Scene 3 (Compare Banquo to Macbeth)

2. Act 1, scene 1, scene 2, and scene 3 Summary (6 min)

Period 2

1. Editing Practice

2. Act 1, scene 1, scene 2, and scene 3 Summary (6 min)

3. Finish reading Act 1, Scene 3 (Compare Banquo to Macbeth)

Monday

• Easter Monday

Tuesday

Period 1

1. 1. Comparative Block paragraph writing tips (slide show)

   2. Comparative writing: Joker (Part 2: putting it together)

   3. Periods of literature timeline (9 min)

Period 2

1. Presentation work period

Wednesday

Period 1

1. Review: Modifiers

2. Editing practice: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

3. Work on your Joker paragraph

4. Tips on how to format your slide show

Period 2

1. 1. 1. Review: Modifiers

      2. Editing practice: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

      3. Comparative writing: Joker
         ✔️ CHART: Make a chart with a couple simple points on the two Jokers
         ✔️ EXAMPLES:  As you watch the video clips, record as many examples as you can to support  your points
         ✔️ DOWN DRAFT: Write a really rough, rushed, badly written paragraph using the points and examples from your chart

Thursday

Period 1

1. Finish your Joker paragraph and hand it in

2. When you are done, you can finish-up your presentation

Period 2

1. Editing: Parallel structure: Avoiding shifts

2. Block paragraph writing tips (slide show)

3. Comparative writing: Joker
   ✔️ DOWN DRAFT: Write a really rough, rushed, badly written paragraph using the points and examples from your chart
   ✔️ ORGANIZE: Format your two paragraphs in the block format of comparison. Make sure your topic and concluding sentences open and close BOTH sides of the comparison.
   ✔️ POLISH: Make sure your examples are effectively introduced and precede a clear point. Add another example if you have a point that's not supported.

 Friday

Period 1

• • • Presentations 

Period 2

1. Tips on how to format your slide show

2. Comparative writing: Joker
   ✔️ POLISH: Make sure your examples are effectively introduced and precede a clear point. Add another example if you have a point that's not supported.

✔️ FINE-TUNE: Edit out redundant phrases, strengthen your vocabulary and proofread.

3.  If you have completed your paragraph, use this time to put the final touches on your slideshow.

MONDAY

1. Seating plan

2. Course Overview

3. Showing vs. Telling: Learn how to add concrete nouns to your writing 

4. Quick in-class exercise changing vague sentences to more specific sentences with concrete nouns (first 4 slides)

5. Read the first couple pages of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie

6. Learn how to gather evidence in order to write a character analysis 

7. Read up to page 10 of the novel.

TUESDAY

1. Finish yesterday's in-class exercise on using concrete nouns (last 2 slides plus one last exercise.)

2. Learn a bit about Mao and the Chinese Cultural Revolution  (slide show)

3. Learn various ways you can integrate a quotation into your sentence

4. Complete a short exercise on Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (based on pages 3–10) (Practice integrating quotations into your writing.)

WEDNESDAY

1. Complete a second draft of your "Elaborate" paragraph

2. Group activity: Showing Emotions

3. Complete a short exercise on Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (based on pages 3–10) (Practice integrating quotations into your writing.)
   HOMEWORK: Finish your questions if you didn't have enough time in class. Complete the chart comparing Luo to the Narrator (based on pages 4-6)

THURSDAY

1. Learn how to use the rhetorical device: Antithesis

2. The art of the Metaphor (3 min) 

3. Complete a third draft of your "Elaborate" paragraph: clean up your sentences and see if there is a place for a simile or metaphor. Hand this in with your concrete word sentences

4. Go over the chart you completed for homework

5. Read to page 20 of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and add to your chart (Luo vs. the narrator)

6. Editing Challenge (period 2)

FRIDAY

1. Learn how to use the rhetorical devices: anaphora, epistrophe, asyndeton and polysyndeton

2. Look at how these rhetorical devices are used in Walk to Morning, by Joseph Boyden

3. Go over the homework reading (up to page 20) and the chart you were asked to complete (Luo vs. the narrator)

4. Complete a simile-writing exercise