Fri 3/31 Reading Immersion

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts for personal enjoyment, interest, and academic tasks.
Read widely to understand multiple perspectives and pluralistic viewpoints.

Daily Activity:

Fri:Reading immersion.
Log for the time: make brief comments on your reading today.
Last five minutes in journal: brief overview of your reading today, why you chose this genre, describe benefit, something you learned, how it changed your views; maybe the reading entertained you or changed your mood; share a joke or an incident--something concrete about the benefit.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thu 3/30 "Time of Revolution"

Learning Target

Understand the Tudor Age intrigue and political climate of Shakespeare

Daily Activity:

Compete documentary "Time of Revolution" (complete SG)
Mini-Lecture: Wives of Henry VIII and flip-flops between Catholic and Protestant churches
On my own: write down six essential "learnings" from the documentary. This may have to do with Shakespeare's early life and family, daily life, intrigues, etc. Try to synthesize important elements with related details.
(Students did two on their own and then discussed in small groups. All materials should be submitted.)

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring a book for tomorrow upon completion of Vocabulary Unit 15

Wed 3/29 Dagger Scene

Learning Target

Analyze multiple interpretations of a text

Daily Activity:

Paraphrase: Dagger scene Macbeth (Act 2 scene 1) : handout of text
View: 3 versions of the dagger scene. Fill in chart comparing the versions according to sound, language, physical elements, camera elements, big questions (handout)

Wednesday: complete viewing and discuss
One-Minute Essay

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tues 3/28: Time of Revolution

Learning Target

Create context knowledge for Shakespeare's political environment

Daily Activity:

View: In Search of Shakespeare, episode 1 "Time of Revolution"
Study Guide: evens or odds (we viewed about 45 minutes in most hours

Reminders/Due Dates:

Mon 3/27 Dagger Scene

Learning Target

Reading Shakespeare

Analyze multiple interpretations of a text evaluating how each interprets the source text.

Daily Activity:

Paraphrase: Dagger scene Macbeth (Act 2 scene 1) : handout of text
View: 3 versions of the dagger scene. Fill in chart comparing the versions according to sound, language, physical elements, camera elements, big questions (handout)

Wednesday: complete viewing and discuss

Reminders/Due Dates:

Mon 3/6 Act 2 Macbeth

Learning Target

Reading Shakespeare

Daily Activity:

Journal: Respond to this quote: Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves (William Hazlitt)
Do you see this playing out in Macbeth?

Notes: motifs in Macbeth
Complete Act 2 scenes 1, 2, 3

Complete study questions on this segment

Reminders/Due Dates:

End of tri on Friday

Tues 2/28 Act I scene 3

Learning Target

Reading Shakespeare
Analyze paradox and central metaphors: foul is fair and fair is foul
"Reason" and the Renaissance

Daily Activity:

Correct sonnet quiz
Complete Act I through scene 3

Complete study questions
Hand in sonnet with the Sonnet 18 practice and the pre-writing packet

Reminders/Due Dates:

Sonnet:
Format the same as the Shakespearean sonnets in the text

Mon 2/27 Macbeth Act I scenes 1.2.3

Learning Target

Reading Shakespeare
Analyze paradox and central metaphors

Daily Activity:

Journal: (two options)
Do you believe it is possible to prophecy the future? Why/why not
How do you judge whether something is good or evil? Explain/illustrate
Begin Macbeth to the bottom of p. 347
Complete study questions

Reminders/Due Dates:

Sonnet due: Tues 2/28
with the pre-writing activities.
Format the same as the Shakespearean sonnets in the text

Fri 2/24 Sonnet Quiz

Learning Target

Gain context information for Macbeth

Daily Activity:

Sonnet quiz
Read/work on sonnet due Tues

Reminders/Due Dates:

Sonnet due: Tues 2/28

Thurs 2/23

Learning Target

Gain context information for Macbeth

Daily Activity:

Read: 332-339 Lit text
Create: 10 question quiz (with answers) for another student
Powerpoint: Intro: Macbeth
Act I scene i (time alowing)
*Pick up the Act I study guide

Reminders/Due Dates:

Sonnet due: Tues 2/28

Wed 2/22 Intro: Macbeth

Learning Target

Develop a significant idea (sonnet) through writing process:

Daily Activity:

Journal: Ambition (see me for specifics
Intro: Macbeth

Draft: sonnet
Due one week typed with all prewriting materials completed

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring text tomorrow
Sonnet due: Tues 2/28

Tues 2/21 Sonnets

Learning Target

Develop a significant idea (sonnet) through writing process:

Daily Activity:

Journal: "I'd Like to Meet"
Choose a figure of the past, some influential person that you admire--someone no longer living, someone famous .Explain why you would like to spend time with, meet that person. (If still struggling for a sonnet topic, you might want to sonnet about that person.)

Draft: sonnet
Due one week typed with all prewriting materials completed

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring text tomorrow
Sonnet due: Tues 2/28

Fri 2/17 Write a Sonnet

Learning Target

Develop a significant idea (sonnet) through writing process:

Daily Activity:

Today:

Guided practice with iambic pentameter (fill out the meter sheet on Sonnet 18)

Assignment sheet and guided assignment: Write a sonnet

Guided practice and final typed sonnet due 2/27

Reminders/Due Dates:

Prewiting time on Tues

Thurs 2/16: Sonnets 29, 116

Learning Target

Sonnet: form, features and content

Daily Activity:
Sonnets 29 and 116 p. 322-323
Quatrain 1: identify the subject
Quatrain 2: Explain the development, the specific details added
Quatrain 3: Explain the change in thought, attitude or tone at the turn (volte)
Rhymed couplet: explain the resolution and the point Shakespeare is making in the poem
Identify a central metaphor or simile

Kahoot.it quiz (review)

Reminders/Due Dates:

Next week: sonnet quiz, composing your own sonnet

Wed. 2/15 Sonnet 18

Learning Target

Sonnet: form, features and content

Daily Activity:
Choice journal
Complete Sonnet 18
Fill out paraphrase sheet

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tues 2/14

Learning Target

Journal topic: p. 316 in text, Quickwrite on "Love is Blind"
Build contextual background

Daily Activity: Read: 302-303 and 316-317: Intro to the sonnets: recommended to take notes. You will be able to use these on the sonnet quiz.
Sonnet 18: close reading

Reminders/Due Dates:

2/13 RI and Summative Muse of Fire

Learning Target

Build contextual background

Daily Activity:
Complete the summative assessment from Friday on Muse of Fire (you may use internet source material to augment the content). Turn in.
Reading: time remaining

Reminders/Due Dates:

Textbook tomorrow

Mon 2/6 Intro: Renaissance

Learning Target

Build contextual background

Daily Activity:
Daily Write: Respond to one of the following quotes:
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not happiness." (Euripiedes)
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." (Mark Twain)
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincloln

Read in Lit Text: p. 286-299
Take two pages of Cornell notes on this material; include items you believe a well-rounded person should know about this time period. 
As an alternative: make a 20 question quiz/study guide on this material for another student. Include the answers. 
On p. 299, respond to the bullet point questions as well.
Due Thursday.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Fri 2/3 Reading Immersion

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Reading immersion.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thurs 2/2 Unit 9 Quiz

Learning Target

Vocabulary Development

Daily Activity:

Vocab Unit 9 test

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring your independent reading tomorrow

Tues/Wed 1/31, 2/1: Big Ideas

Learning Target

Democratic and civil discussions

Daily Activity:

Tues: Get the "Big Ideas" handout and respond to all 15 items
Wed: Discuss in small group (two rotations). Before discussing, google 3 quotes that pertain to three different topics on your sheet.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Fri 1/27 Reading Immersion

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Fri:Reading immersion.
Log: at the end of reading, make brief comments on your reading today.
Last five minutes in journal: brief overview of your reading today, why you chose this genre, describe benefit: something you learned, how it changed your views, maybe it entertained you or changed your mood, share a joke or an incident--something concrete about the benefit.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thur 1/26 Summative Assessment & Vocab 9

Learning Target

Vocab development

Daily Activity:

Handout: pick up the ballad "Edmund Fitzgerald" and annotate the text; in the margin point out 20 facts, details, or things you can understand about this event. Hand in: 20 points, summative assessment.

Vocab Unit 9: Complete the work except for parts 1 and 4. Due Fri at the start of the hour.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Wed 1/25 Sunny Came Home

Learning Target

Explore and analyze the characteristics of the ballad

Daily Activity:
Journal: 

1. Mini-lesson: creating effective, catchy beginnings (Corbin's writing prompts): No rhetorical questions!
If you missed, you may just write on any topic for a page.
2. "Sunny Came Home": complete text-based discussion

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tues 1/24 Edmund and Sunny (Ballads)

Learning Target

Explore and analyze the characteristics of the ballad

Daily Activity:
Journal: 

1. Handout: pick up the ballad "Edmund Fitzgerald" and annotate the text; in the margin point out 20 facts, details, or things you can understand about this event. 
2. "Sunny Came Home"

Reminders/Due Dates:

Mon 1/23 Summative Assessment: Ballads

Learning Target

Developing a position/making a claim
Supporting a position
Identifying specific evidence to support ideas
Making inferences from text

Daily Activity:

Journal: What were the consequences? Write a true story about a time that you were late for something.
1. Test: Ballads (1-20)
Extended response: put your answer on separate notebook paper. Remember to provide explanations for how the evidence makes your point (warrants) and to structure the response with a complete sentence defining the argument, specific references to the text, and a closing insight.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Thursday, Friday 1/19, 20 Reading Immersion

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Thurs 1/18: Choice Journal
Complete discussion questions on the ballads and hand in (p. 222)
Pay special attention to #9--several examples with an explanation will be expected 
Fri:Reading immersion.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thursday 1/12 Barbara Allen

Learning Target

Explore and analyze the characteristics of the ballad

Daily Activity:

Journal: Why Tell Stories in Song?
(See the literature text p. 213. Follow the prompt for "Quickwrite"

Read: Intro to ballads" 212-213: Take notes on "characteristics of the ballad." Make sure you know what "dialect" and "quatrain" are as well.

Read: 214-215: "Barbara Allen" 

1. Paraphrase the story

2. Identify the "features" of the ballad as it specifically applies to "Barbara Allen"

3. Identify the conflicts: think of person versus person, person versus him/herself, person versus society, person versus nature

4. Infer themes or "lessons" one may take from this ballad

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring independent reading tomorrow

Wed 1/11 POL

Learning Target

Small group discussion 

Daily Activity:

POL (viewing Poetry Out Loud assembly) or reading time

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tues 1/10: Small Group Discussion

Learning Target

Small group discussion 

Daily Activity:

Journal: Favorite Song:
Think of a song you really, really like! Write down some of the lyrics, explain what they meant to you and why you think it's such a great song. . . .  Does it tell any kind of story? (If absent, write on this topic for 5-7 minutes and check in with me.)
Discussion: small groups (teacher selected groups)
Document your understanding by completing the "in depth" questions at the end fo each article.
If absent: write these out in long hand and submit

Reminders/Due Dates:

Poetry Out Loud tomorrow

Mon 1/9 Up Front Magazine

Learning Target

Reading for main ideas, evidence and inference

Daily Activity:

Read three articles from Up Front and complete the open book test (Jan issue)
Hand in

Reminders/Due Dates: