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**The last time you can take this exam is during tutoring time on Monday, April 15 (7:30-8:20 am**) || chapters 1-4 || ch 5: Character "Icebergs" For instructions about accessing the HOLT text online, see the link on the left! || "Icebergs" ch. 6 || (see info above) ch. 7 || The charts: The article & practice: In class we began working with our groups to brainstorm conflicts the characters have faced and to what degree, if any, they have found resolution. If you were not in class today, you missed participation points. You can get points for the second part of the assignment when we follow up on 4/30. **If you miss both days, download the charts and do this work on your own, filling in additional information as you read chapter 10. You'll miss the participation points for both days, but you can salvage the actual assignment points!** CLOSE READ: ch. 9 || essay due 5/14 || Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald Read-a-thon? //The Great Gatsby// 2013 movie premieres tonight! ||  || If you are absent because of the AP Government exam, you do not have make-up work! If you are absent for any other reason, be sure to get your absence excused ASAP and do the close reading on your own: ||  || || chs 1 & 2 due //D@tHR// essay due before FRIDAY 5/17 at 2:15 pm! || Gatsby "update" books ||  || Read-around (books) ||  || (no classes) ||  ||
 * || FOURTH QUARTER ||  ||
 * Date || Agenda & Assignments || Due Dates(due first of class) ||
 * 4/8 || Exam: chapters 1-4 //Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant//
 * MAKE-UP: If you missed this exam, first be sure your absence is excused w/in 5 days of the absence!**[[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911594.01._SX140_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg width="112" height="168" align="left"]]
 * I will be available for you to take this after school on Wednesday and Thursday (4/10, 4/11) **
 * 4/10 || Group discussions (chapters 1-4)
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 5** ||  ||
 * 4/12 || ** pm assembly schedule **
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 6** || ch. 5 ||
 * 4/16 || ch 6: poetry "pop-ups"
 * 4/18 || finish poetry "pop-ups"
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 7** ||  ||
 * 4/22 || ch 7: quiz
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 8** || "pop-ups"
 * 4/24 || ch 8: cause and effect
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 9** || ch. 8 ||
 * 4/26 || ch 9: You say you want a resolution? Well . ..
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 10** || cause & effect
 * 4/30 || ch 10: Resolution, Part II (group work)
 * See note under 4/26**
 * Essay assignment**
 * THREE BOOKS DUE IN THE LIBRARY (Douglass, Dinner, Piano Lesson)** || ch. 10
 * 5/2 || [[image:http://www.cbc.ca/books/greatgatsby-cover.jpg width="145" height="192"]]
 * MID-TERM MAY 3! ** ||  ||
 * 5/6 || Read-a-thon?
 * MEET IN ROOM 342 **
 * CRTs (blergh . . . )** ||  ||
 * 5/8 || Read-a-thon?
 * MEET IN ROOM 342 **
 * CRTs (again, blergh . . )** ||  ||
 * 5/10 || **EXAM: //The Great Gatsby//**
 * 5/14 || Literature Circles: ch 1& 2 (foreshadowing)
 * 5/16 || Literature Circles: chs 3 & 4 (figurative language)
 * 5/20 || Literature Circles: chs 5 -7 (colors & other symbols) || chs 3 & 4 due ||
 * 5/22 || Gatsby "update" books || chs 5-7 due ||
 * 5/24 || Gatsby "update" books ||  ||
 * 5/29 || **BENCHMARK ESSAY**
 * 5/31 || Gatsby "update" books || Update book due end of class ||
 * 6/4 || **HALL PASSES! REMEMBER YOU MUST BE IN CLASS AND ON TIME TO EARN EXTRA CREDIT FOR YOUR HALL PASSES!**
 * 6/6 || Graduation 10 am Huntsman Center

ARCHIVE THIRD QUARTER

WAR: in-class essay || essay due end of class || MEET IN THE MEDIA CENTER ||  || || WAR NOVEL PROJECTS DUE! Read chapter 19 of the Holt Language book (pp. 510-517) Do exercises 1-3 __**and**__ Reviews A & B While you work today, note the many TO BE casualties. So nice and clean! :) IF YOU MISSED CLASS: You can access the textbook online. Just click the link on the navigation menu (on the left) and read the chapter listed above. BOTH YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD ARE YOUR STUDENT NUMBER . || Album Homework due! Composition Practice due next class . . . || media type="file" key="Brian Turner on NPR for Here, Bullet 2008.mp3" width="240" height="20" Begin reading/reading logs ||  || Work on Reading Log ||   || Finish reading //Here, Bullet// ||   || "Five Poem Project" intro. work on project || Project Due 2/27 ||
 * DATE || Agenda & Assignments || Agenda & Assignments ||
 * **1/22** || [[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTo3ZPkNbd8-pv7sor2lw1ShJbPtOLVR9TOLHe_ZQV6B9PihSqwA width="129" height="188"]]
 * **1/24** || Acuity & SRI testing
 * **1/28** || Album Homework!
 * Album homework due Friday!** ||
 * **1/30** || COMPOSITION PRACTICE (while we wait for books to arrive . . . )
 * **2/1** || Delay Day 1 (literary terms: allusion v. illusion, satire s. parody) :) ||  ||
 * **2/5** || Delay Day 2 ||  ||
 * **2/7** || NPR story introduction: //Here, Bullet//
 * **2/11** || Read the book. Record your impressions, questions, thoughts . ..
 * **2/13** || National Geographic article by Brian Turner
 * **2/19** || Discussion: album homework
 * **2/21** || Project work day #2 ||  ||
 * **2/25** || Project work day #3
 * NOTE: if you miss one of the work days, you will also miss participation points. **
 * To be excused from those points, you must have your absence EXCUSED through the office within FIVE SCHOOL DAYS of the missed day. Please talk with me directly once your absence is excused. After I hear from you, I will change your "0" to an "X" (excused score). ** ||

Pick up THREE books in the library: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Piano Lesson, and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant These books are YOUR responsibility until AFTER the move to the new building. Keep them safe and bring the appropriate book to class when it is time to do so. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Work Day #1 YOUR ASSIGNMENT: 1. Read the whole book. 2. Participate in online discussions (Canvas) when you finish reading these sections: preface, ch. 1, ch. 2, ch. 3, ch. 4, ch. 8, ch. 10, ch. 11, appendix 3. Be in class to work on this (and for participation points) on the work days. 4. Finish before the due date (March 15, 2013) 5. Bring your books on Friday, March 15 as well for an in-class essay. || Project due (first of class) || Watch documentary: Slavery by Another Name 54321 sheet (no make-up available) ||  || Slavery by Another Name: finish documentary, questions (no make-up) HW: "The Meanings of a Word" by Gloria Naylor and 54321 sheet ARTICLE: 54321: || Article and 54321 due 3/19 (first of class) || bring your book if you'd like to use it! Read Act 1 The Piano Lesson pp. 1-40 HOMEWORK: The Piano Lesson: Act I Characters WORKSHEET: || CHOIR TOUR MAKE-UP: If you are gone on this day, please plan to meet me in room 115 on March 21 during period 3A to make up your in-class essay. You will also need to do the classwork and homework on The Piano Lesson for 3/15 and 3/19 and have all homework with you on Thursday, 3/21, at the beginning of your class period: 1. Article 54321 2. Act 1 character worksheet 3. Timeline and family tree || The Piano Lesson: Act I Doaker's Story Timeline and Family Tree: Events and Names: HINTS: on the family chart, the three boxes with stars by them are the people directly involved in the trade for the piano. Also, it will help to begin at the BOTTOM of the family tree (you know who is the youngest member of the family, then go up to her parents, then connect to her mother's brother, etc.) Remember, also that the play takes place in 1937 so the date-of-birth in each box can help too! On the timeline, the second timeline (the "Years Later" part) starts with "Boy Charles develops an obsession over the piano." Also, the heavy line on the second timeline is the chronological beginning of the play's story ("Robert Sutter's grandson dies"). || Article, 54321, and Act 1 character work due first of class! timeline and tree due 3/21 (f.o.c.) || The Piano Lesson: Watch Act I PARTICIPATION POINTS--no make-up :(  Want to know more about the musical tradition captured in this play? Start here . . .  []  and here  [] then research/search/listen to everything everything Alan Lomax.  What does it mean when they say "Doaker sing like Tangle Eye"?  []  HW: read Act 2 (pp. 55-end) Want in on the "Stagger Lee" reference? Learn about the original "gansta" here:  [] || Timeline and family tree due  Read Act 2 by 3/25 || Watch The Piano Lesson: Act II || Act 2 reading due, first of class || The Piano Lesson: final  HOMEWORK:  Read chapters 1 through 4 before you return from Spring Break (it's about 130 pages)  As you read, fill out the Reading Guide for these chapters (also due at the beginning of class the day you return!)   || Due after Spring Break (the day you return):  1. Chs 1-4 read (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant)  2. Reading Guide for chapters 1-4 ||  ||  || ARCHIVE: second quarter //The Scarlet Letter:// CONFESSIONS! __step__ one: step two: HW: ch. 15, __online journal__, work on confession poem ||< Confession Poem: rough draft due 11/8 __JOURNAL__ #5 (chs 13-15) due by midnight 11/11 || Check in on our CONFESSIONS! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: ch. 16, work on confession poem ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Confession Poem: final draft due 11/12 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(FIRST of __class__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, NOT online) || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Share. . . (sharing is optional, but if you do you may skip __journal__ 6 OR journal 7 without __losing__ points-- note that journal 8 is required of all!) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: ch 17 ||<  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**symbol info sheet &poem examples:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">At home: ch. 18, online journal ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Reading Journal #6 (ch. 16-18) by midnight 11/18 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Imitation poem due 11/27 || HW: chs. 19-21, reading log ||<  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: take home final //The Scarlet Letter// ||< Imitation Poem due || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">peer writing workshop <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: choose a war novel (read by January 2, 2013) ===**<span style="background-color: #ffc100; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participate in the online discussion for your novel (on Canvas) to help you read the book AND to earn points! Please participate DURING your reading (not all at once at the end). Discussions close January 11, 2013. **=== ||< //The Scarlet Letter// take home final due. ||
 * 2/27 || Four Poem Project due (first of class)
 * 3/1 || FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Work Day #2 (see above) ||  ||
 * 3/5 || FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Work Day #3 (see above) || Frederick Douglass: all Canvas Posts due (and, obviously, your reading!). All discussions closes March 15 ||
 * 3/7 || FREDERICK DOUGLASS:Work Day #4 (see above) ||  ||
 * 3/11 || [[image:http://www.yalerep.org/on_stage/2010-11/_images/pianobigimage.jpg width="516" height="110" align="left"]]
 * 3/13 || The Piano Lesson:
 * 3/15 || In-class Essay: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
 * 3/19 || Read pp. 40-54
 * 3/21 || QUIZ: Act 1
 * 3/25 || QUIZ: ACT 2
 * 3/27 || END OF 3rd QUARTER! Hall passes due for extra credit BEFORE the bell rings!
 * 3/29-4/5 || [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gAM4lfmh2qQ/SfnpTE07E-I/AAAAAAAAEEo/A5u9Wh3pY4U/s400/snoopy-happy.gif width="235" height="140" align="left"]]
 * < <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">DATE ||< <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Agenda & Assignments ||< <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">DUE DATES ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/6 ||< [[image:olympusbishop/scarlet A.png width="80" height="64"]]
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/8 ||< ==** MEET IN ROOM 115 (down by Chip's room) **==
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Acuity Testing (session 1) **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Acuity Testing (session 2) **
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/12 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">CONFESSIONS DUE!
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/14 ||< **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Symbols (imitation poems) **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">assignment: **
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/16 ||< Group Assignment: chs. 9-18
 * IF YOU ARE ABSENT FOR THIS GROUP ASSIGNMENT: **
 * Follow the instructions on the sheet but cut all of the smaller assignments in half (if it asks for 2 examples, you need 1; if it asks for a list of 10, you need 5).
 * You will also need to answer the discussion question in a paragraph.
 * You can just do these assignments on regular paper, not a group "tablecloth" :)
 * < 11/19 ||< Finish <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Group __Assignment__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">: chs 9-18, <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">work on reading // Were you absent on this day? See the instructions above. //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: chs. 21-24, reading log  ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">READING JOURNALS #7 (19-21) **__and__** #8 (22-24) by midnight 11/25 ||
 * <  ||< [[image:http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrLb0ndyJ4fLbeFbKOtPL9ynXT9txBGcYc8s3MCbOJexEez5Z7 width="133" height="139"]] ||< [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNoNDOP59fp9AK547xNEUzBVWhgnm4VrKgpc4qUkO4w8uBMjgPuA width="147" height="121"]] ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/27 ||< **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">SRI Testing **
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/29 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I**ntroduction to WAR novels**
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/3 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQoHMQSieyK9LUba2TD51b2YBWubEi0oNY_rsu9s744YgGGDzrU4A width="111" height="121"]]

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie// by Tennessee Williams
<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">What is a memory play? <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: set up an account at [|www.vocabulary.com] and confirm your email address when they send you a "welcome." ||<  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">VOCABULARY (know how to spell the words too!) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Study and find the list at [] ||<  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">INTRO & books <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Read Act 1: scenes 1 & 2 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Work on Memory Play assignment ||<  || VOCABULARY EXAM <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Work on Memory Play assignment ||< **VOCABULARY EXAM** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Read Act 1: scenes 3 -6 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Finish Memory Play assignment <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**SEE RUBRIC FOR STANDARDS**: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ||<  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Read Act 2: scenes 7 & 8 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Watch the play <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Study Guide questions ||< **Memory Play Assignment Due** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Watch the play <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Finish Study Guide questions ||< **Study Guide Questions** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: test question banks (in groups) ||< Finish reading your WAR novel before this day! Be sure you POST ON THE ONLINE DISCUSSIONS TOO! || ||< Written exam due by Friday, January 11, 2013! || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ||< Projects due 1/22 WAR novel discussions close 1/11 ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/5 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/7 ||< **MID-TERM** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/11 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/13 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/17 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/19 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * (END of class)** ||
 * <  ||< <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">WINTER RECESS! **If you haven't already done so, finish reading your WAR novel and post on the online discussions before the break is over.** ||< [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTYaQEROaPMkZLqnLaUOa8XwCmgKXwE93tZ_pt5SOwhC7n9BhS width="143" height="160"]] ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/2 ||< [[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTo3ZPkNbd8-pv7sor2lw1ShJbPtOLVR9TOLHe_ZQV6B9PihSqwA width="87" height="118"]]
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/4 ||< WAR NOVELS: 10 "tough" questions (in groups) ||<  ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/8 ||< WAR NOVELS: EXAMS!
 * Here are the WRITTEN EXAM instructions in case Canvas backfires on you!**
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/10 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: project introduction
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/14 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: project Day 2 ||  ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/16 ||< **END OF** QUARTER 2 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: project Day 3 ||<  ||

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #9b1313; display: block; font-size: 230%; text-align: center;">ARCHIVE FIRST QUARTER Intro & Disclosure || Summer Reading Essay Due! || Read interviews || Disclosure Statement must be signed (online) || Finish groups from Friday (6 questions) ||  || || See schedule for this in-__class__ assignment. **Due date for your final product is 9/19 at the end of __class__.** You will receive __participation__ as you work and discuss in __class__ so be productive and on-task! || 1. Get back your benchmark and summer essays 2. Choose ONE you'd like to revise. 3. Mark your essay for TO BE verbs (see the OHS Writer's Guide) 4. Identify which ones are LINKING VERBS (draw an "equals" sign above each one) and which ones are AUXILIARY VERBS (underline the TO BE verb and the main verb it works with). Again, there is more guidance in the writer's guide. TURN IN FINAL POISONWOOD PROJECT || Finish finding, marking, and labelling your TO BE verbs in the essay you're revising before class on 9/21 || ESSAY REVISION: __progressive__ and passive voice 1. read article 2. Passive voice revision practice 3. Eliminate all TO BE verbs working as auxiliary verbs in your essay (see the OHS Writer's Guide) || ESSAY REVISION: Revise out all TO BE verbs working as auxilary verbs by 9/25 || phrasal verbs, clichés, and IT || Revise for remaining TO BE verbs, phrasal verbs/clichés, and IT errors by 9/27 Bring a clean, typed copy of your revision on 9/27 || Go through the "Style Revision Checklist" Read the Rubric for final draft to be sure you understand the grading criteria || Follow the checklist and rubric to revise, edit, and format your final draft by 10/2 || Sentence Combining Read chapter 18 (pp. 498-508) of the Holt Language book Do exercises 1-5. IF YOU MISSED CLASS: You can use the Holt Language book online. Click on the Holt Textbook link on the navigation bar. Go to ch. 18 and do the work listed above. || Revised essay due first of class! || Group Posters & Presentations || || HW: read chapter 1 ||  || Read/work on online journals HW: chapter 3, Journal #1 (chs1-3) || Journal #1 Post by midnight 10/16 || HW: finish reading, Journal #2 (chs 4-6) || Journal #2 Post by midnight 10/22 || HW: Read ch. 8, work on Journal #3 ||  || HW: finish ch. 9?, finish Journal #3 || Journal #3 Post by midnight 10/30 || //Scarlet Letter:// in-class discussion, ch. 10 HW: chs 11 & 12, Journal #4 (chs. 7-9) || **Hall passes due** Journal #4 Post by midnight 11/4 || <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">
 * <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">DATE || <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Agenda & Assignments || <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">DUE DATES ||
 * 8/27 || 8-period schedule
 * 8/29 || //Poisonwood Bible// exam ||  ||
 * 8/31 || //Poisonwood Bible//
 * 9/5 || SRI Testing
 * 9/7 || Benchmark Essay || Interview ?s due ||
 * 9/11 || Acuity Testing (last testing day!!) ||  ||
 * 9/13 || __Begin__ final project
 * 9/17 || Work on final project || see note above ||
 * 9/19 || ESSAY REVISION
 * 9/21 || **MIDTERM**
 * 9/25 || ESSAY REVISION: other passive verbs
 * 9/27 || ESSAY REVISION:
 * 10/2 || GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION CHECK:
 * 10/4 || Background Articles: Puritan New England
 * 10/8 || Finish Group Posters and Presentations ||  ||
 * 10/10 || Quiz on background information (you may use any notes you take!) Intro to TONE & //The Scarlet Letter//
 * 10/12 || Go over //Scarlet Letter// online journals (Canvas)
 * 10/16 || //Scarlet Letter:// chapters 4-6
 * 10/22 || //Scarlet Letter//: ch. 7
 * 10/24 || //Scarlet Letter:// group chapter analysis ||  ||
 * 10/26 || //Scarlet Letter:// finish analysis? ch. 9?
 * 10/30 || END OF QUARTER 1
 * (before the tardy bell!)**