January – 2013

Recent Assignments:

Book Clubs Book Review/Essay – (Due January 18th or day of Midterm)

Grammar Midterm-Review Worksheet – (Due January 7th or 8th)

Mega-Vocabulary-Midterm Review Worksheet – (Due January 7th or 8th)

Book Clubs Peer-to-Peer Interview Worksheet – (Due January 2nd/3rd)

Poetry Comparison-Contrast Essay – (Due December 21st)

Poetry Devices Worksheets – (Due December 16th/17th)

 

December – 2012

Beginning after Thanksgiving we will be starting our book clubs unit (see blog entry for entire list of books) along with a brief poetry unit in anticipation of reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

November – 2012

By Thanksgiving, students will have completed the second half of To Kill a Mockingbird (chapters 16-31) and will have taken the second unit exam and completed the TKAM essay on topics A,B or C.

October – 2012

As of October 24, students should have read the first half of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (chapters 1 -15) in anticipation of the upcoming unit exam next week.

Note: TKAM Vocabulary lists #1 and #2 are available (with definitions) on this teacher web page. SEe vocabulary.

September – 2012

Week 1: Complete Personal Inventory + Writing Sample – Due Monday/Tuesday

Week 2: Read the following short stories for this week: “Father and I,” “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, “The Beginning of Grief” by L. Woiwode, “The Storyteller” by Saki, “The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut

Week 3: Add  “The Doll’s House” and “The Secret Lion” to the list of short stories you have read. After we finish “Gryphon” this week – our final and longest short story – you should all be getting ready to take the big unit exam. See my most recent blog post for the study guide.