English 12
Guidelines and Expectations, attached below
Interest Inventory, attached below
Both are due on Monday, August 12.
Started on resume and cover letter, currently in process
This work is according to Indiana Standard EL.12.5.5, and to prepare for the Mock Interview held in October.
Links to articles: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interview-mistakes/a/not-to-say-interview.htm?p=1
Due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 8-20:
Write a description of your "Paradise". Since we each have a very different idea of what would be Paradise, your descriptions are likely to be very different. I haven't given a length or much in the way of specifics, because I want to you be free to dream of the perfect world for yourself.
We started a study of Sacred and Related Writings, with the attached guided study. For next class, read Genesis 1-3 and takes notes by highlighting or underlining important information, making notes or writing questions in the margins, etc. Reading is attached below.
Do parallelism work as a large group, then independently. Start on Eve's Apology, finish for homework.
Test over Genesis, Eve's Apology, and parallelism.
Test in class, essay next time
Find out what you can about your own history. What happened in the past that has allowed you to be in this place, at this time? What events, people, and circumstances happened to permit you to exist, here and now? Who is your most interesting family member? Do you have a criminal, a philanthropist, or a rock star in your ancestry? This information will help you with our next class project!
On the paper head drawing in class, write your first name, going down. Add a word or phrase that accurately describes you, what you think, your moral code, or a belief, or a phrase to live by, to identify with, or family motto. This is who you think you are, right now.
On the back of the head, I invite you to add words or phrases that describe who you would like to become. This is not required, but it is who you think you want to become.
This not NOT need to be finished today in class, because I want you to put some thought into it. Feel free to bring in construction paper, scrap-booking paper, or old wallpaper to use as backing. I will have some available, but you might prefer your own.
We watched the Cindy Crawford episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?" Your work for tomorrow is to find out from the family historian, or someone in the family you can easily access, everything you can about family history, for the next step of the project on Friday.
Resumes and cover letters, and essays must be submitted immediately.
For Thursday, bring info on family history to write in class; find out if an object exists that tells a story.
Finish heads, staple them on backing and hang them up.
Following the instructions on the "Guidelines for Summary Writing"
Read p. 19-20 “The Anglo-Saxon Period” and complete Summary Activity,
Read p. 21, “Cultural Influences” and complete Summary Activity,
Read pgs. 22-23, “Literature of the Times” and complete Summary Activity. Due ABP 9-12
View "English Aloud and Alive" and write Film Response Sheet
State Standards:
12.5.1 Write fictional, autobiographical, or biographical narratives.
12.5 Combine rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce reflective compositions, historical investigations reports, job applications, and resumes.
Finish the "Who Do You Think You Are? essay in class. Due at the end of class.
Vocabulary work as supplied in class.
Literary Terms as follows:
1. Allusion
2. Anachronism
3. Antagonist
4. Archetype
5. Elegy
6. Epic
7. Epic Hero
8. Foreshadowing
Read pages 34-36 and complete a thoughtful Summary Activity. Be sure to follow all of the instructions; on the last ones, #3 and #4 were frequently missed.
9. Hyperbole
10. Imagery
11. Kenning
12. Metaphor
13. Personification
14. Protagonist
15. Simile
State Standards: 12.1 Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading and use those words accurately.
12.3 Students read and respond to grade-level appropriate historically or culturally significant works of literature...such as classic ...literature,..folklore...fantasy...poetry
12.3.5 Analyze and evaluate works of literary or cultural significance in American, English, or world history...
Vocabulary Work as supplied in class.
Literary Terms Organizers for next class over the following terms:
!. Allusion
2. Anachronism
3. Antagonist
4. Archetype
5. Elegy
6. Epic
7. Epic Hero
8. Foreshadowing
Read pages 34-36 and do a thoughtful Summary Activity, available above. Make sure to follow all of the instructions. For the previous Summary assignments, #3 and #4 were frequently missed.
Literary Terms Organizers and Summary Activities due ABP Wednesday.
9. Hyperbole
10. Imagery
11. Kenning
12. Metaphor
13. Personification
14. Protagonist
15. Simile
Vocabulary work as supplied in class
Read "Beowulf" pages 46-50 and do Guided Reading Questions
Collect Guided Reading worksheets.
Discuss some of the Application of Literary Terms in class.
Finish Section 1 of Beowulf, if you have not already done so. Due at beginning of class, 9-24.
Discuss kennings briefly and view video, try a few as a class.
Do Section 2, due at beginning of class on 9-26.
Submit Section 2 Guided Reading Questions; discuss Section One, along with literary terms.
For extra credit, submit a boast similar to the one Beowulf made to K.ng Hrothgar. Start with something you have accomplished--can be something small, not necessarily on the scale of achieving world peace or ending hunger--and use hyperbole to stretch it into a boast, aka a brag.
Opportunity to earn a bonus point in discussion of Section 2
Kennings assignment, due 10-2
Section 3 of Beowulf, 1-13, due 10-2
Enjoy and collect kennings; video of Beowulf, return and finish Section 3-The Last Battle- and do Application of Literary Terms work. No line number is necessary on questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 14. Both due at beginning of class on Monday.
Presentation Response Sheet due at end of class for Block 2, at beginning of class next time for Block 2, due to Senior Meeting
Beowulf's Last Battle and Application of Literary Terms due at the beginning of class today; I will accept as a late grade next class only.
TEST on Friday over Beowulf. You may use your notes, Guided Reading questions, and Application of Literary Terms pages for the essay section of the test.
Choices of several creative projects offered in class. Monday, October 21 will be a work-in-class day, so bring all materials necessary. I can supply markers, colored pencils, scissors, but anything else, you will need to bring. We will be in the library all block, so you will be able to work at tables, spread out your books and other materials as needed, and use computers as you need to.
October 17 and 18: Enjoy Fall Break!
Today and Wednesday is work time on the project, with the opportunity to use tables, school resources, and computers. Feel free to bring in anything you need to work with; I will keep it locked in my classroom so it is safe and available to you. Below find attached the list of choices, and the Project Planning Sheet.
The expectations for the project are that you will accomplish a creative project that is a stretch for you, and that you will justify it by means of the literature. You may choose whether to do your project for Genesis, Eve's Apology, or Beowulf. Do NOT summarize, and do not attempt to cover the whole piece of literature; limit yourself to an episode, a scene, or an event. Every student will present his or her project, and will justify where the ideas came from in the literature. This project has a wide range of possibility, limited only by your imagination.
The assignment for Thursday is pages 92-95 Do a Summary Activity over page 92, posted below. Do Active Reading Notes over the story, "A History of the English Church and People", posted below. Then, complete the Guided Reading Questions over the story, posted below.
Presentations, prepare work for showcase and display it.
Review presentations on video for evaluation; think and write about what inspires you or a family member; a traveling story, and a historical artifact or heirloom. No homework for the weekend.
Complete a Summary Activity, 3 total, over:
p. 24-25, The Medieval Period: Historical Context
p. 25-26, Cultural Influences
p. 27-29, Literature of the Times
Create of Literary Terms Organizer for the following terms:
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
Characterization
Satire
Frame Story
Exemplum
All of the above due BOC on 11-6-13
State Standards:
12.3 Students read and respond to grade level-appropriate historically or culturally significant works…classic literature, historical fiction, short stories, poetry…
12.7.20 Recite poems, selections from speeches, or dramatic soliloquies with attention to performance details to achieve clarity, force, and aesthetic effect and to demonstrate an understanding of meaning.
Return Summaries and Questions over “A History”. Make sure students record grades on record-keeping sheet, bonus credit for giving us the answer to questions from the story.
Start “Canterbury Tales”: to do together, with students reading after the first one:
The Prologue
The Knight
The Prioress
The Friar
The Pardoner
These are choices: Squire, Yeoman, Oxford Cleric, Sergeant at the Law, Skipper, Doctor, Wife of Bath, Parson, Miller, Reeve, Summoner Every student must work on one of them, probably with a fellow student, and all must be done.
For Friday, write Active Reading Notes for pages 136 and 138; one page of notes for both pages of text.
Today, we are going on a Webquest!
The links in the attachment below are for your convenience. They match to the pages you received in class.
Enjoy your pilgrimage, fellow travelers!
Go through the Prologue Packet; we finished with the Skipper.
We will continue with the work at the next class meeting and complete a quiz.
7 Deadly Sins Power Point Lesson and notes, see attached.
For Wednesday, complete the work attached below, 7 Deadly Sins. Choose ONE of the two writings to do; don't do both!
Due BOC
Finish and review The Pardoner's Tale.
Pardoner's Tale Powerpoint Lesson, focus on literary techniques, attached below
Guided Reading/Comparative Analysis due Tuesday, BOC, parts 1 and 2 only, attached below.
Finish Comparative Analysis, with Modern Version, attached above.
Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVLLQna1-c
Take notes on the attached sheet of the definition, then fill in the top cell in the third column for The Pardoner's Tale.
Read "The Wife's Story", also attached, and fill in the bottom cell of each row, and complete the back.
Standards for this unit are attached.
The Story of an Hour, linked here:
http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin,%20The%20Story%20of%20an%20Hour.pdf
The Interlopers, linked here
http://www.edco.ie/_fileupload/The%20Interlopers%20-%20A%20short%20story%20by%20Saki.pdf
Federigo's Falcon, in the textbook, page 204
Define Archetype
Select story to read: Choices include:
1. The Story of an Hour
2. The Interlopers
3. Federigo's Falcon, p. 204
Complete the "Analyze Sins and Irony" worksheet by writing the definitions of the 3 types of irony and each oft he sins, then given an example of each for which there is evidence in The Pardoner's Tale.
Then, give examples for the story of your choice.
Complete the "Analyze A Story" worksheet, giving the elements of story for your selection.
Read "The Wife of Bath's Tale", p. 182
If you were absent on December 11, read "The Wife of Bath's Tale", page 182 and know it well enough to write about it.
Skits as introduction to Sir Gawain
For Tuesday, do a Summary Assignment over pages 224-225 over The Gawain Poet, attached.
Sir Gawain Powerpoint, attached below
Inferences through Line 79
Read the entire poem
Complete the Alliteration; use V for Vendetta to illustrate. Complete Bob and Wheel Lesson. Complete Guided Reading and "The Beheading Game"
Link here for video to illustrate alliteration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACUpr5GvVsE
http://www.attitude.org.nz/home/swf/personality_test.swf
Follow this link, or copy and paste it into a search:
http://www.attitude.org.nz/home/swf/personality_test.swf
Constructed Response study, powerpoint lesson below.
Constructed Responses due next class, below.
Go to computer lab to continue researching the personality assignment.
Discuss parents' personality assessments. View and take notes on plagiarism videos, as much as time for in class.
Prepare to Sir Gawain test next class...whenever that is!
Music: Is it plagiarism, or it coincidence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nHrGO6g_n8
A Quick Guide to Plagiarism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTPv9PtOoo
Grammar Bytes--do a search for grammar bytes presents: plagiarism. The video is 14.24 long
See attached research assignment: Six paragraphs
The link for the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ33aci39Zk
For next time, the attached assignment is below. It is the next step of the research assignment, so part of it should be done already.
For full credit plus bonus credit, have it ready at the beginning of class for next time, For full credit but no bonus credit, complete and submit during class next time. We will also be going on with King Arthur, so only part of class time will be spent on the assignment.
Checkpoint # 1 due in class today. You may submit before next class for late grade.
Do King Arthur, using the link above. All reading and Guided Reading work is to be done and submitted by the end of class today.
Write answers for Guided Reading as Constructed Responses. One point for correct answer, one for “A”, one for “C”, and a bonus point for “E”. Also do Post Reading the same way. In “Understanding Literature” Section, skip “Courtly Love”, do “Folk Tale and Motif”, skip the 3 questions under “Writer’s Journal”, and do all the “Integrating Language Arts”. Print to submit—turning it in by email didn’t work very well, unfortunately.
Write the 6 paragraph paper, due Wednesday during class OR at the beginning of class on Friday. It will be counted as late if not ready to submit by the bell.
Also on Friday, binders are due. They were originally due on Monday, but…weather intervened!
Six paragraph rough draft due today, in class, by email, or by Google Docs.
IF finished with all of the above, go on with editing, introducing, and citing research paper, and writing Works Cited page.
Link for the video discussing how a research paper is written and punctuated is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPAUxpyzE44
Copy and paste into a search bar.
It is your responsibility to follow the directions in the video. You are probably going to have to watch it, several times.
March 17-22
There is a revision in the work for the week below; see # 4.
Also, please check your grades on STI. All grades should be visible. If you have a graded assignment and it does not appear on STI, please email me, with the name and number of the assignment, and what the grade is on the assignment. Give it to the sub to give to me.
Have a great Spring Break!
Powerpoint Lesson, Psychoactive Drugs
Study on 8 Drugs
Chapter 22 Review, 1-23
April 18 Day 28
Posters? Collect Scavenger hunt and Asides and Soliloquies, finish Act 1 quizzes
Watch these videos
3 Scene 1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clG8ha2D26g
Royal Shakespeare Company
1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMNoHD_uyg 4 minutes
1.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfzRo9HG70 maybe not necessary 4 minutes
1.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vwWeXoW4Zw 8 minutes Roman Polanski https://www.schooltube.com/video/de7c6ab04b875a33ea5c 3 minutes
1.4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpxVm5k2hX4 4.22 minutes
1.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU3U012X61E 5.52 minutes Plainer version, very clear speech 4.22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft2Lthl9q5Y
1.6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py2t0pzWrDo 2 minutes
1.7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAAnAB3A3PQ 5.22 minutes
April 21, 2014 Day 29
Collect Asides and Soliloquies from absent students. Show Ban Bossy from You Tube, bell assignment: React to that. What do you think about bossy/leadership/bullying? Is it women, men, or gender doesn’t matter? How does this relate to Macbeth?
Supreme Court case in early 1970s to treat genders equally—the closest way you relate here and now is girl’s sports, and that coaches must get equal pay. Sports can be off by one sport—football, volleyball
Show Act 1 of This is Macbeth and talk throughout. Read as much of Act 2 as possible, the rest for homework. Tapestries—How long did it take for news to travel? That’s how history was kept.
Read as much of Act 2 as possible, finish for homework.
Talk about Act, point out what Banquo wanted of Macbeth (talk about witches) and what Macbeth wanted of Banquo (NOT to talk now, but later-time), that Macbeth is hallucinating—is dagger really there maybe by witches or is it all in his head?-that Lady Macbeth put the daggers where he couldn’t miss ‘em, that she had to go smear the guards with blood, and that suddenly Macbeth went from killing the king (regicide, worst possible crime-killing God) to having to kill Malcolm, and pinning on guards which would surely bring about their deaths. Why didn’t Lady Macbeth just kill him when she had the chance? Looked like her father. Really? Or to avoid a murder charge?
Porter is just like a jester-provides comic relief, but also tells serious truth
Watch This is Macbeth, Act 2, fill out Q and A and scorecard, then go on with revising first paragraph of essay.
Due at the beginning of class on Friday
April 25, 2014 Day 30 Quiz over Act 2
Collect first paragraphs, give quiz, go on with reading Act 3.
Due for Wednesday: Revision of paragraphs 4, 5, and 6.
Test over Macbeth on Tuesday.
Final day to earn credit for revisions--they must be turned in during class.
Monday, May 19/Purple
10:07-11:41 Period 1 FINAL EXAM
11:48-1:53 Period 3 meets
(Take normal lunch)
2:00-3:30 Period 3 FINAL EXAM
10:07-11:41 Period 5 FINAL EXAM
11:48-1:53 Period 7 meets
(Take normal lunch)
2:00-3:30 Period 7 FINAL EXAM
Wednesday, May 23/Purple
10:07-11:41 Period 2 FINAL EXAM
11:48-1:53 Period 4 meets
(Take lunch when teacher has Period 3 lunch)
2:00-3:30 Period 4 FINAL EXAM
Thursday, May 24/White
10:07-11:41 Period 6 FINAL EXAM
11:48-1:53 Period 8 meets
(Take lunch when teacher has Period 7 lunch)
2:00-3:30 Period 8 FINAL EXAM
· Finals will take place during the 2nd and 4th block each day.
· Finals will NOT take place during the first block or during lunch.
· C4 students will NOT be affected.
· Early release seniors will be allowed to leave campus during period 4 and 8 of the last two days of finals, but must return to take their period 3 and 7 finals.
· Failure to take final in period 3 and 7 will result in an “Incomplete” grade in the course and possibly jeopardize graduation.
Early release seniors may elect to stay on campus, take first lunch, and report to the media center