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Monday: No class
Tuesday: OMAM anticipation guide and journal (don't forget to post comments below); OMAM scavenger hunt; OMAM book
Wednesday: Vocab practice (review for social studies grad test); work on your own
Thursday: TESTING
Friday: subject/verb agreement; work on your own; OMAM journal posting due TODAY; final draft of career project due Monday
Monday: read magazine articles and discuss; What do YOU think worksheet and discuss; read summary and discuss
Tuesday: Journal--song response; Romeo and Juliet test; Romeo and Juliet rewrites
Wednesday: Timed name essay; Skills Tutor; My Big Fat Greek Wedding \
Thursday: no class
Friday: finish My Big Fat Greek Wedding; complete 1 page response to movie; work on Skills Tutor; complete subject/verb agreement quiz
Monday: Read ch. 7-9 (Desert Ordeal) and write 3 discussion questions; Complete "What do YOU think" and discuss; read summary and discuss
Tuesday: (meet in rm 711) My Big Fat Greek Wedding; film response writing; work on Odyssey project; (if time) grammar worksheets
Wednesday: No class
Thursday: Journal--art response; Discuss Big Fat Greek Wedding; listening comprehension (cloze activity); Odyssey project samples; idioms review baseball game Download baseball_game_blank_template2.ppt
Friday: finish Desert Ordeal book; write book review for Desert Ordeal; idioms practice game; short story pre-test; begin short story terms
Monday: share notes from Thursday; Homework: work on career project
Tuesday: writing practice (observe in gym); work on your own
Wednesday: turn in project parts 2 and 3; read "The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock"; literary elements handout--identify rhyme and repetition Homework: read interpretation handout (Prufrock), complete section 4 of project
Thursday: GHSGT review: go over review sheets from homeroom; work on your own
Friday: Finish discussing J Alfred; turn in pt. 4 of project; imagist poetry and worksheets
Monday: Read--15 minutes; finish reading Romeo and Juliet; watch Romeo and Juliet movie; extra credit book project
Tuesday: Listening journal--"Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd; vocab review: story (finish the ending) and acting; reading practice: Name game
Wednesday: Read 15 minutes (Desert Ordeal ch 1-3); reading log: what is interesting in the story? what is confusing in the story? what do you think is going to happen?; finish Romeo and Juliet; Romeo and Juliet review--terms, etc.
Thursday: Name-game: 1. Research the meaning of your name (3 sources) 2. Interview your parents about the meaning of your name
Friday: Read Desert Ordeal 4-6; R & J review; finish movie Homework: R&J plot and irony ws; prepare for r&j test (Tues)
Monday: turn in characteristics of Odysseus worksheet; Read 15 minutes (ch. 1 of Desert Ordeal); Watch Odyssey movie (finish); Epic terms review Homework: Prepare for Thursday's test
Tuesday: listening journal; idioms 7--go over; Odyssey review Homework: Finish idioms 7 worksheet; Prepare for Thursday's test (see Ms. Foster's webpage for several review games)
Wednesday: turn in idioms 7 hw; read ch 2-3 Desert Ordeal; Complete reading log (what is interesting in the story? what is confusing? what do you think is going to happen next?); Odyssey crossword review; epic simile handout; review terms Homework: prepare for tomorrow's test
Thursday: idioms review, Odyssey project Download odyssey project assignment; Odyssey test
Friday: read Desert Ordeal ch 4-6 and discuss; work on project; idioms practice
Monday: vocabulary practice--prefixes and sentences; work on your own/study for tomorrow's test
Tuesday: turn in poetry hw; Realism test; begin career project
Wednesday: Grammar practice: prepositions; work on your own
Thursday: Pretest; background assignment; Read pg. 714 (“Slang as it is Slung”) and complete the activity.
Friday: reading practice (Signature reading); work on your own
Monday: read 15 minutes; vocabulary review; vocabulary bingo; Butterfly project reading and cloze; vocab. game
Tuesday: journal--song/video response; Romeo and Juliet open-book quiz; R and J act 2 film; Homework: read Romeo and Juliet Act 3 pgs. 21-24
Wednesday: Read--15 minutes; vocab review/stories; Skills tutor
Thursday: Journal: Romeo and Juliet have known each other for about 12 hours and now they are married. Do you think they are really in love? Why/why not? How long do you think people should know each other before they get married? Why do you think that? ¾ page; Finish reading Act 3 and Act 4 pgs. 25—39 and complete study questions; Grammar: Breakthroughs in Literature books, pg. 171-176, ex. 3, 4, 5
Friday: Read--15 minutes; share vocab stories; vocab review; Skills tutor
Monday: Read--15 minutes; Odyssey--read Land of the Dead and Sirens; Odyssey open-book quiz; Idioms 6 vocabulary squares Homework: finish vocabulary squares
Tuesday: Journal--song/video response; Odyssey--read Scylla and Charybdis, Helios; watch Odyssey movie
Wednesday: Read--15 minutes; finish Odyssey movie part 1; part 1 revew; Homework study for tomorrow's vocabulary (idioms 6) quiz
Thursday: Journal--Imagine your loved one was gone for 20 years and no one had heard from him/her the entire time. Would you wait for him/her to come back or would you move on with your life? Explain your answer. ½ page; idiom 6 quiz; read Odyssey pt. 2 packet and answer questions
Friday: Read 15 minutes; finish pt. 2 questions/work on characteristics of Odysseus worksheet Homework: Finish characteristics of Odysseus worksheet
Monday: Review realism and naturalism; watch "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" discuss story, stream-of-consciousness; Intro. to Mark Twain Homework: final draft of narrative essay due Wednesday
Tuesday: (early release) Work on your own; Narrative essay final draft due tomorrow
Wednesday: Turn in final draft of narrative essay; read Jumping Frog of Calavares County w/ questions; Read Story of an Hour w/ questions Homework: finish questions
Thursday: Journal--respond to picture; registration questions/GHSGT; work on your own
Friday: Turn in hw/discuss "Story of an Hour"; read "Richard Corey" and "Lucinda Matlock" and do 4-step poetry guide; Test review--test Tuesday Homework: finish poetry guide, study for Tuesday's test
