Wed, Apr 21, 2010

Pd 1
1. STAR test
2. Show me thesis (4pts) & outline (8pts)
3. Write body ¶s
HW: Thesis & outline due Monday

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Start persuasive essay writing: Choose topic, make For and Against chart, write thesis, write outline

Pd 6
1. Socratic Seminar on "Modest Proposal"
2. STAR test
HW: Read “To a Mouse” p 613 and answer questions 1-6 on p 615

Tue, Apr 20, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Start persuasive essay writing: Choose topic, make For and Against chart, write thesis, write outline

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Show me your 600 words or 400+thesis & outline
3. Writing conferences: Afton, Monica, Ashley Randle
HW: Bring edited draft to share Thursday
HW: Finish Qstn 1

Mon, Apr 19,2010

Pds 1& 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review voc 11 & 13
3. Persuasive essay

Pd 2
1. Show me your 200 words
2. Page 3 Advice for AP essays
HW: JE/Pyg essay Write last 200 words or thesis and outline. You should have at least 600 words and thesis plus outline to show me tomorrow.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg.
2. Review voc 11, 13 & quiz
HW: Quiz 9-23 tomorrow

Fri, Apr 16, 2010

Pds 1,4
1. AR rdg
2. Vocabulary 11 & 13
3. Voc. Quiz 9-23

Pd 2
1. Hand in MC corrections
2. Show me thesis or 200 words of Pygmalion/J.E. essay.
3. Pg 2 of advice for AP essay
4. Discuss Qstn 1 essay: Searching, planning, outlining, order of ¶s
HW: 200 words for either the Qstn 1 essay or JE/Pyg

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Finish questions in groups
3. Vocabulary 11 & 13
HW: Have questions 1-11 p 524 for "A Modest Proposal"answered by Monday

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Pd 2
1. Check 200 word freewrite
2. Get back your MC 28-56 and answers to do corrections
3. Hand in quotation evidence for Qst 1: 3 terms. Read some aloud.
4. Get handout of advice for writing essays for AP exam. Read aloud and discuss page 1. Bring to class every day until finished rdg.
5. Together write introduction to Qstn 1, then first body ¶.
HW: MC corrections
HW: For J.E./ Pymalion essay, either write your thesis or freewrite 200 more words.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Art: Quotation from Macbeth, documented with page number
Include: Speaker, Occasion, Attitude
Use color, contrast b&w, fill page

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz on Modest Proposal
3. Groups to answer questions

Wed, Apr 14, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Art: Quotation from Macbeth, documented with page number
Include: Speaker, Occasion, Attitude
Use color, contrast b&w, fill page

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review Macbeth questions pp90-1
3. Test

Pd6
1. AR rdg
2. Read “A Modest Proposal” aloud p518

Tue, Apr 13, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Finish questions p91
3. Test on Macbeth
4. Art: Quotation, documented with page number
Pick a quotation from a character in Macbeth pp 73-88.
Illustrate the quotation using...
-color,
-contrast from black to white,
-objects suitable for the quotation,
-filling the page, but...
Also state the following on your paper:
• Speaker, person who says the lines.
• Occasion, what is happening,
• Attitude, feelings of the speaker

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Check similarities & differences for Jane Eyre and Pygmalion
3. Hand in 6 Traits quiz & your answers to the 2 questions about your writing
4. Continue essay Qst 1: Discuss syntax, handout: loose & periodic sentences, parallel structure
HW: For essay Qst 1, with
Main idea: How the speaker's attitude is revealed by
1] details,
2] diction,
3] syntax:
For each of the three terms above, find one quotation from the passage as an example that reveals the speaker's attitude toward Sir Walter Elliot. Possible attitudes discussed are formal, critical, objective. You may think of a different one.
HW: For any literary aspect that interests you in Jane Eyre or Pygmalion, i.e. characterization, setting, theme, symbol, style, etc.(see past handouts), freewrite 200 words exploring and comparing that aspect in both works.

Mon, Apr 12, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Discuss questions p 91

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Discuss questions p 90 -1

Pd 2
1. Quiz Epilogue to Pygmalion
2. Quiz Six Traits Plus 1 of writing
3. Hand in HW on MC Test 2: 28-56 to explain the ones you missed
4. Hand in HW questions 1-7 p1209 The Play as a Whole
HW: On your Six Traits Quiz, answer these questions:
1] What do you want to know about your writing?
2] What do you want to improve?
HW: Begin major essay : Comparison of Jane Eyre and Pygmalion.
List similarities and differences

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz on p555 Introduction to Dictionary of the English Language and check
3. Give examples of funny definitions.
4. Hand in 3 words and definitions.

Fri, Apr 9, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Finish film
3. Questions, all

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Finish film
3. Questions 1-3

Pd 2
1. Quiz Act 5
2. Hand in MC 29-56
Get back 1-28 & answers
Hand in questions 9, 10, 11 p1209
3. Practice Essay Qstn #1 discussed in class: Sir Walter Kellynch
HW: MC 1-28 Write about questions missed, show you understood answer.
HW: Read Epilogue p1201-1208, Answer 1-7, p 1209 on “The Play as a Whole”

Pd 6
1. AR rdg in library
HW: Read “Dictionary of the English Language” pp 555-8.
• Quiz Monday on p 555.
• From dictionary, find & write:
-1 word & definition the same as today
-1 word & definition differ- en t from today
-1 word & definition you think is funny
2. Restoration & 18th Century:
From ornate language of the past to plainer language of science and logic;
Focus on nonfiction: Journal & Dictionary
3. Romantic Period:
30 years long;
Turn to intuition and idealism rather than logic & reality.
4. Read “To a Mouse”p613.
HW: Read again for quiz.

Thu, Apr 8, 2010

Pd 2
1. Quiz Acts 3 & 4
2. Hand in MC Practice Test 2: #1-28
3. Read Act 5 aloud
HW: Finish reading Act 5 and answer questions 9,10,11 on p 1209
HW: MC Practice Test 2: #29-55

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review
3. Watch film

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Quiz “Journal of the Plague Year”
3. Discuss questions at end.
HW: Write: How are the themes of Milton’s two sonnets similar? How are they different? What can you infer about what Milton is saying in the two poems?
.

Wed, Apr 7, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review
3. Watch film

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Check HW
3. Discuss 5 styles
HW: Read "A Journal of the Plague Year" p497-503

Tue, Apr 6, 2010

Tue, Apr 6

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Review
3. Watch film

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz on Act 2
3. Discussion
HW: Read Acts 3 & 4
HW: Do Mult Choice 1-28 Practice Test 2

Mon, Apr 5, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & Quizzes
2. Read Macbeth

Pd 2
1. Quiz on Pygmalion readings
2. AR quizzes
3. Discuss Pygmalion questions
HW: Read Act 2

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & quizzes
2. Quiz Robinson Crusoe
3. Review sonnets for test. Pass back work on sonnets.
HW: Read pp438-443.
1]Write the most important idea from each of the first three sections, The First…, The Battle…, and What is Style?
2]For the five styles in the last section on Style, write your own 2 examples showing the difference in each of the five. For example, if the style consists of beginning sentences 1) with the subject or 2) not with the subject, you could use these examples:
With subject: John saw a deer.
Not With subject: In the forest John has seen many deer.

Thu, Apr 1, 2010

Pd 2
1. Hand in essay on one poem from the Victorian period.
2. Write in-class AP exam essay Open Question on Macbeth
3. Read Act 1 of Pygmalion aloud.
HW: Read for quiz:
p 1148 Introduction ¶ to Preface
p 1151, column 2, ¶s 2 & 3, beginning “I wish…” and ending “…ridiculous.”
pp 1152-1158 Act 1
AR QUIZ DEADLINE MONDAY, APRIL 5

Pd 4
1. AR rdg AR QUIZ DEADLINE MONDAY, APRIL 5
2. Write response to film so far
3. Read to page 83.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg AR QUIZ DEADLINE MONDAY, APRIL 5
2. Hand in paraphrase of sestet (solution) for “Blindness.”
3. Work on chart comparing the two sonnets with respect to their problems and solutions, giving textual evidence for each part.
HW: Read From Robinson Crusoe
p 483-495 for quiz Mon.

Wed, Mar 31, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Write response to film so far
3. Read to page 81.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Watch film to dagger scene
3. Quiz 1 Macbeth

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Hand in paraphrase for octave of “On His Blindness.” Listen to all read aloud.
3. Define words and discuss sestet of “Blindness.”
HW: Paraphrase the sestet of Blindness.

Tue, Mar 30, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Watch film to dagger scene
3. Quiz 1 Macbeth

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz Charles Dickens p 845 and David Copperfield p 846
3. Discuss Title, Paraphrasing, Connotations for TP-CASTT
HW: Practice for AP exam by writing a 5¶-style essay analyzing one of the 3 poems used with TP-CASTT. Your thesis or main idea should be what you think the poem is saying. Your subtopics will be the literary techniques the author uses that support your idea about his theme. Use literary terms and quotations, as always.
Possible poetry terms:
• Denotation and connotation
• Figurative language:
-Simile
-Metaphor,
-Personification,
-Apostrophe,
-Symbol
-Paradox
-Overstatement
-Understatement
-Irony
-Allusion
• Meaning and idea
• Tone
• Musical devices
-alliteration
-assonance
-consonance
-rhyme
-rhythm
-onomatopoeia

Mon, Mar 29, 2010

Pds 1&4
1. AR rdg
2. Review Macbeth so far
3. Watch beginning of film

Pd 2
1. Hand in TPCASTTof Duchess, Spring & Fall, & Darkling Thrush
2. Discuss tpcastt analyses for the 3 poems
HW: Read pp 845-857: Charles Dickens & From David Copperfield for quiz

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in paraphrase if separate from poem
3. Define words and discuss “On His Blindness”
HW: On a separate sheet paraphrase the first 8 lines of "On His Blindness."

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Read Macbeth through the dagger speech

Pd 2
1. Qz on Victorian Era #1,2,4,6 & p771 #s 1-3
2. Discuss for pts TPCASTT ideas for Tennyson's “Break, Break, Break”
3. Read around class “Spring and Fall” p828 and “The Darkling Thrush” p834
4. Read aloud “My Last Duchess” p800 and discuss what you understood.
HW: TPCASTT all 3 poems:
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning p800,
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manly Hopkins p828 ,
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy p834

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Quiz on sonnets
3. Take notes on Milton’s “On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three”
HW: Paraphrase Milton’s “On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three” (Say in your own words what you think Milton is saying)

Wed, Mar 24, 2010

Wed, Mar 24, 2010

1. AR rdg
2. Read Macbeth through the dagger speech on p 79.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Get back Qtr 3 Exam & essays
3. Grade reports
4. Begin Macbeth p73-74.

Pd 6
1. Hand in Macbeth essay homework
2. Cornell notes on sonnets
3. Milton sonnets
4. Grade reports

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Essays returned
3. Grade reports
4. Begin Macbeth p73-74 to Witches

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in essays, revision of up to 1 paragraph, and explanation.
3. Quiz on "Frankenstein”
4. The Victorian Pd handout. Discuss for quiz Thur
6. Tennyson’s “Break, Break, Break” p781, Read and discuss using TPCASTT
HW: Do TP-CASTT for “Break, Break, Break” p781 (See below for explanation. Also search TPCASTT online.)
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/things/PDF/TP-CASTT.pdf

TP-CASTT

Title: What predictions can you make from the title? What are your initial thoughts about the poem? What might be the theme of the poem?

Paraphrase: Summarize the poem in your own words.

Connotation: What is the connotative meaning of the poem? Find examples of imagery, metaphors, similes, etc. and elaborate on their connotative meanings.

Attitude: What attitude does the poet have toward the subject of the poem? Find and list examples that illustrate the tone and mood of the poem.

Shift: Is there a shift in the tone/attitude of the poem? Where is the shift? What does the tone shift to?

Title: Revisit the title and explain any new insights it provides to the meaning of the poem.

Theme: What is the overall theme of the poem?