Thursday Nov 27

Updated three week schedule for 2D1

Friday - Intro to Macbeth - it's a power point presentation, if you are absent be sure to get the notes
Monday - Macbeth Act I
Tuesday - final day to work on body biographies
Wednesday - Presentations
Thursday - Presentations
Friday - Comparison peer editing (rough copy due) and continue with  Macbeth 

Monday Dec 9 - Friday Dec 14 - Macbeth all day, every day (Essays due Monday and Tuesday)

Monday Dec 16- Wednesday Dec 18 - Culminating Activities 

3C1
Thursday - finish the play
Friday - watch Romeo and Juliet
Monday - review the play
Tuesday - more review/trip to see Romeo and Juliet
Wednesday - Romeo and Juliet test
Thursday and Friday - media assignment

Tuesday Nov 26

2D1
Here's what's in store the next two weeks:
-Wednesday - work on body biographies
-Thursday - Essay outline
-Friday - Intro to Macbeth power point
-Monday - Presentations
-Tuesday - Presentations
-Wednesday - peer edit essays, begin movie (TKAM)
-Thursday - movie
-Friday - finish movie, Macbeth vocabulary (essays due)

3C1
-Wednesday - Act IV, scene 1
-Thursday - the rest of Act IV
-Friday - watch Act 3 and 4, review of Act 4

Wed Nov 20

2D1
-tie up overhead note on Mockingbird
-introduction to group work - assignment explained 

Tomorrow, Friday and Monday 
-work on the assignment
-bring materials that you need to class

3C1
-read Act 3, scene 2 together
-students read Act 3, scene 3 on their own
-complete questions for the two scenes for homework

Tomorrow and Friday
-finish Act 3 

Tuesday Nov. 19

2D1

-corrected chapter 30 questions
-read chapter 31
-3 questions were assigned for homework
-assigned groups and group topics for body biography group work

Tomorrow
-tie up note on Mockingbird
-intro to the body biography

3C1

-how to add student information and works cited page
-peer edited essay
-read Act 3, scenes 2

Tomorrow
-continue with the play

Friday Nov. 15

2D1 
-read ch. 28, note on suspense

Weekend Homework
-nothing formal, review Mockingbird

Monday and Tuesday
-finish the novel 

Wednesday - Friday
-introduce comparison and essay and group work

3C1
-buyout period, note on transitions
-work on your essay

Weekend Homework
-work on your essay, rough copy due Thursday

Next Week
-continue with Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet

Thursday Nov 14

I finally figured out the problem with the blog posts, I wasn't on Google Chrome, now look how pretty they are!

2D1 
- took up the reactions to the trial handout, began the study of hypocrisy in chs. 24, 26 and 28 

HOMEWORK - read ch 26 and write out how the character of Miss Gates develops the theme of hypocrisy, then write out the last line of ch 27 and explain what is being referred to (foreshadowed) 

FRIDAY - finish hypocrisy and analysis of ch 28  

3C1
- finished essay instructions, due dates assigned then reviewed Act 3, scene 1

HOMEWORK - begin working on your essay, rough copy is due Monday 

FRIDAY - Act 3, scene 2

Monday November 11

2D1 - overhead note on the aftermath of the trial; analysed the rhetorical devices used in Atticus' summation to the jury - TOMORROW - aftermath of the trial; WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY - final 4 chapters of the novel - NEXT WEEK - Intro to the Comparison Essay and Major Group Work - 3C1 - continued with essay outline - TOMORROW - Act 3, scene 1 - WEDNESDAY TO THURSDAY - Act 3 (students should be working on their essay this weeek; the rough copy is due next Monday, the good copy on Wednesday of Thursday

Wednesday November 6

2D1 - finished lesson(s) on homophones (you should have an awesome list of them by the end of today), read Heck Tate's testimony in the trial - homework - read rest of chapter 17 (Bob Ewell's testimony) and fill in the worksheet (so the first two witnesses should be done on the worksheet) - tomorrow and Friday - continue with the trial - for 2D1 we are working toward the end of the novel and will finish with a comparison essay and a major group work - - 3C1 - watched the rest of Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet, worked on review of Act 2, gave quiz outline (for Friday) - tomorrow - essay outline - Friday - quiz on Romeo and Juliet, so you should be studying for it this week (see your notes for the quiz outlinw)

Monday November 4

2D1 - reviewed chapters 11-13; tomorrow - chs 3-16 and intro to the trial - 3C1 - reviewed Act 2, scenes 1-4; began scenes 5-6; tomorrow - review act 2, essay outline