May 2008

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29 April – 1 May

1. RESEARCH! Photocopy important passages from books; be sure to also photocopy the title page, so you have all the information you need for the Works Cited

2. Work on highlighting articles

3. Talk to me regarding thesis statements and preliminary outlines

Homework:  Highlight articles by Friday, 5/2

 

THE ASSIGNMENT!

2 Highlighted Articles Due

1. Vocabulary Quiz

2. Read Compound Subjects and Compound Predicates pgs. 35 – 36

3. Complete Diagramming with Conjunctions pg. 37 – 38

4. Introduce preliminary outline / thesis

Homework: Preliminary Outline w/ valid thesis due Monday, 5 May

5

Preliminary Outline & Thesis Due

1. Grammar Do Now: Direct and Indirect Objects pgs. 39 - 43

2. Review all  grammar

Homework:  Complete Outline due Friday, 5/9

Quiz Tomorrow – Introduction to Diagramming

 

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1. Quiz: Introduction to Diagramming

2. Introduction of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homework:  Complete Outline due Friday, 5/9

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1. Grammar Do Now: Sentence Diagramming: Adjectives p. 44             2. Finish introduction of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3. Read summary of Act I

Homework:  Complete Outline due Friday, 5/9

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Field Trip:

Romeo and Juliet

Homework: Complete Outline due Friday, 5/9

9 Complete Outline Due

1. Introduce paper              2. Begin viewing A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homework:  Rough Draft due Tuesday, 5/13

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1. Grammar Do Now: Sentence Diagramming: Adverbs p. 45            2. Viewing A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homework:  Rough Draft due Tomorrow

13  Rough Draft Due

1. Grammar Do Now: Sentence Diagramming: Complements of Linking Verbs p. 46

2. Peer Edit

Homework:  Green Sheet / final essay due (in class and on turnitin) on Friday, 5/16

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1. Grammar Do Now: Sentence Diagramming: Compound Subjects and Predicates p. 47              2. View A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homework:  Green Sheet / final essay due (in class and on turnitin) on Friday, 5/16

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1. Grammar Do Now: Diagramming Complements p. 48            2. View A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homework:  Green Sheet / final essay due (in class and on turnitin) TOMORROW

16 Final Paper Due in class and on turnitin

1. Grammar Do Now: Diagramming Complements p. 49              2. Finish viewing A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homework:  Midsummer Test on Monday, 5/19

19 – 20

Grammar Assignments:  Diagramming Complements p. 49

Read info on Prepositional Phrases p. 50 – 51 and complete exercises p. 52

Diagramming with Prepositional Phrases p. 53

Poetry Assignments:

Lesson 1: Speakers in Poetry

Begin Lesson 2: Imagery, Concrete Language, and Mood

Homework: Test Friday: Diagramming and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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1. Review HW

1. Finish Lesson 2: Imagery, Concrete Language, and Mood

2. Begin Lesson 3: Sounds

Homework: Finish Lesson 3:  Sounds; Test Friday: Diagramming and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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1. Review HW

2. Finish Lesson 3: Sounds

3. Lesson 4: Figurative Language

Homework: Test Tomorrow: Diagramming and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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1. Diagramming Test

Homework: Read – analysis, “Janet Waking,” and model analysis

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No School

27 May – 5 June                               In LIBRARY

1.Choose poem, short story, and magazine article on current issue

2. Write Works Cited entries

3. Photocopy poem, short story, and magazine article on current issue

4. Read and annotate selected texts

5. Begin writing assignments

The ASSIGNMENT

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

“You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement:
make sure when your shift is over you go home alive.
 Here endeth the lesson.”