Monday, October 26, 2015

Monday Oct 26 - Friday Oct 30

ENG 3C1

Monday
-act 1, scenes 2 - 3
-complete questions for homework

Tuesday
-act 1, scene 4
-complete questions
-1/2 period to work on assignment

Wednesday
-act 1, scene 5
-complete questions

Thursday
-act review (chart)
**assignment due

Friday
-watch act 1
**assignment due

4U1

Monday
-amfas quiz returned
-finish up To His Coy Mistress
-check editorial chart (conference with each student)

Tuesday
-Psychoanalytical Approach
-return essay test and AMFAS quiz

Wednesday
-My Last Duchess

Thursday
-My Last Duchess

Friday 
-intro to poetry eras seminar

Monday
-Library research on poetry eras

Tuesday
-AMFAS final quiz
-peer editing of editorial

Wednesday
-Porphyria' Lover

Thursday
-Porphyria's Lover

Friday
--group work on poetry eras

Monday
-library research poetry eras

Tuesday
-poetry quiz
-AMFAS begin Act 1

Wednesday - Friday
-poetry eras seminars

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Tuesday - Friday

3C1
-ppt on Intro to Romeo and Juliet (take notes on worksheet)
-hand back memos
-sign up for verbal visual assignment

Wednesday
-finish ppt
-hand back media assignment
-correct Monday's work

Thursday
-Act 1, scene 1 Romeo and Juliet

Friday
-work period on Verbal Visual Assignment

Weekend Homework
1.  Work on verbal visual assignment - it is due on Thursday and Friday
2.  Make sure Act 1, scene 1 questions are all complete for Romeo and Juliet

4U1
-quiz on Act I of  AMFAS
-what is a dramatic monologue?
-Act II questions for AMFAS
-poetic terms review

Homework
-read "To His Coy Mistress"

Wednesday
-"To His Coy Mistress"

Thursday 
-intro to editorial assignment

Friday
-library research on editorial

Weekend Homework
1.  Continue reading AMFAS
2.  Work on editorial
3.  Make sure 3 question for "To His Coy Mistress" are completed

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Thursday Oct 15 - Friday Oct 16

3C1
-day 2 of in class media assignment
-major assignment handout and explanation of the assignment

Tomorrow
-finish media assignment and hand in
-topics chosen for major assignment
-progress reports handed out

Weekend Homework
-brainstorm and start to work on verbal visual assignment

4U1
-essays test
-narrative essays returned
-progress reports handed out

Tomorrow
-introduction to poetry (dramatic monologue)
-critical approaches: archetypes

Weekend Homework
-read A Man For All Seasons

Monday
-read and work on A Man For All Seasons questions

**Act One Test on A Man For All Seasons on Tuesday - be sure to do your vocabulary work

Friday, October 9, 2015

3C1

-finished unit and started review for test

Homework
-study for test by reviewing questions from last 3 stories 

Stories you should know:
Interlopers
DB Cooper
Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Paid Up Member
One of these Days
Barney

Review elements of fiction 1-11 with special focus on irony

Test on Tuesday

4U1
-checked and corrected "Forget Prince Charming"

Homework
Period 3 -read "Medical Care..." on page 198 of Reading and Writing Strategies (if you were in class today, complete the worksheet)
-look to the right of the blog for the worksheet if you were absent
Period 5 - no class (at least no teaching!) due to buyout

-review for test

***DUE TO THE BUYOUT THE TEST WILL BE THURSDAY!

Test Outline

4 questions

2 questions will be a passage where you have to identify the title, thesis and then find, define and explain one rhetorical device and how it helps develop the thesis

2 questions will be homework type questions asking you to identify the thesis and then some specifics details about the essay

Essays you need to know:
The Skier
Growing Up Native
Snapshots: Lost Lives of Women
The Death Penalty: Justice For None
Forget Prince Charming
Medical Care That's Not Fit for a Horse

Review your rhetorical devices and definitions as well

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Wednesday Oct 7-Friday Oct 9

3C1
-finished analysis of "One of These Days"
-element of fiction #10 - symbolism
-looked at symbolism of the spider web in the story

Tomorrow
-suspense
-"Barney"
-test outline 
**test is on Tuesday after Thanksgiving

Friday
-short story review 

4U1
-read Act 1, scenes 1 and 2 of A Man for All Seasons
-now your job is to read and answer the assigned questions

-first test (Act 1) will be announced tomorrow 

Thursday
-persuasion techniques
-"Forget Prince Charming"
-bring Echoes

Friday and Monday
-"Medical Care"
-test outline

**Essay test on Wednesday

A Man for All Seasons - Vocabulary Work

Look up the following words and give a brief, few word definition for each.

It's hard to understand the story if you don''t understand the vocabulary!

Act One
Prologue
Affable
Shilling
Sardonic
Tactful
Contrite
Disconsolate
Bilked
Repute
Dispatch

Act Two
Allegiance
Convocation
Chamber Pot
Obscure
Impeccable
Incognito
Treason
Indignation
Rebuke
Canonized


Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Tuesday Oct 6

3C1

-review element of fiction #9 - plot
-read "One of These Days" on page 13 of Between the Lines and answered questions 1-5 on worksheet

Wednesday
-memos due(or Thursday)
-finish up "One of These Days"

Thursday
-suspense 
-"Barney"

Friday 
-review and test outline

Tuesday
-short stories test

4U1

-finish ppt 
-listening quiz
-pre-reading for A Man for All Seasons

Wednesday
-read Act I, scene 1 together (then you read the rest)

Thursday and Friday
-continue with persuasive essays

Friday, October 2, 2015

Friday Oct 2

3C1

-finished "Paid Up Member," focused on irony, flashback and foreshadowing
-watched redo of "Monsters"

Homework
-finish rough copy of memo, due on Monday

Monday
-peer editing of memo
-read "One of These Days"

4U1

-critical approach focus - feminism 
-continue ppt on historical/biographical approach to "A Man for All Seasons"

Homework
-review essays and devices 
-review critical approaches we have read over

Monday
-finish ppt and listening quiz

Tuesday- Friday
-last 2 persuasive essays