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Click on links to see/print copies of assignments and handouts. **The last time you can take this exam is during tutoring time on Monday, April 15 (7:30-8:20 am**) || chs 1-4 || Group Discussions: chapters 1-4 If you need to access the HOLT books online, click the link on the left for instructions. || "icebergs" ch. 6 || (see above) The charts: The article and 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 5/1. **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!** ch. 9 || Essay due 5/15 || Introduction to Fitzgerald Read-a-thon ||  || If you are absent due to the AP US History exam (1B), you do not have make-up work! If you are absent for any other reason, get your absence excused ASAP and do the close reading on your own: ||  || || chs 1 & 2 //D@tHR// essay due **__before 2:15 pm__**! || || chs 3 & 4 || || chs 5-7 || Finish Gatsby "update" books? || Update books due **__end__** of class || Read-around (books) ||  || Have a fun summer! || ARCHIVE THIRD QUARTER MEET IN THE MEDIA CENTER ||  ||   || Album homework due Monday 2/4 || 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. YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD ARE YOUR STUDENT NUMBER (BOTH!). || next class || Introduction: NPR story and interview (listen) 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 2/28 ||
 * || FOURTH QUARTER ||  ||
 * Date || Agenda & Assignments || <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Due Dates (due first of class) ||
 * 4/9 || [[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911594.01._SX140_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg width="131" height="174" align="left"]]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!**
 * I will be available for you to take this after school on Wednesday and Thursday (4/10, 4/11) **
 * 4/11 || ** am assembly schedule (elections) **
 * Homework: read chapter 5** ||  ||
 * 4/15 || chapter 5: character "icebergs"
 * Homework: read chapter 6** || ch. 5 ||
 * 4/17 || chapter 6: poetry "pop-ups"
 * 4/19 || finish ch. 6 "pop-ups"
 * Homework: read chapter 7** ||  ||
 * 4/23 || chapter 7: quiz
 * Homework: read chapter 8** || ch. 7 ||
 * 4/25 || chapter 8: cause and effect
 * Homework: read chapter 9** || ch. 8 ||
 * 4/29 || chapter 9: You say you wanna resolution, well . ..
 * HOMEWORK: read chapter 10** || cause and effect
 * 5/1 || chapter 10: Resolution, Part II (group work)
 * Final Essay assignment**
 * THREE BOOKS DUE IN THE LIBRARY (Douglass, Dinner, Piano Lesson)** || ch. 10
 * 5/3 || ** MID-TERM **
 * 5/7 || Read-a-thon
 * ALL CLASSES MEET IN ROOM 342 **
 * CRTs (blergh . . .)** ||  ||
 * 5/9 || **Exam: //The Great Gatsby//**
 * May 10-- movie premiere!** ||  ||
 * 5/13 || ** 1B MEET IN ROOM 342 **
 * 4B MEET IN THE MEDIA CENTER LAB **
 * CRTs (again, blergh . . .)** ||  ||
 * 5/15 || Literature Circles: ch 1 & 2 FORESHADOWING
 * 5/17 || Literature Circles: chapters 3 & 4 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
 * 5/21 || Literature Circles: chapters 5-end COLORS & OTHER SYMBOLS
 * 5/23 || Gatsby "update" books
 * 5/28 || Gatsby "update" books ||  ||
 * 5/30 || ** pm activity schedule (Historian's assembly) **
 * BENCHMARK ESSAY**
 * 6/3 || **HALL PASSES DUE: YOU MUST BE __IN CLASS AND ON TIME__ THIS DAY TO EARN EXTRA CREDIT FOR HALL PASSES!!**
 * 6/5 || ** YEARBOOK DAY! **
 * <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;">Agenda & Assignments ||
 * **1<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">/23 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTo3ZPkNbd8-pv7sor2lw1ShJbPtOLVR9TOLHe_ZQV6B9PihSqwA]]WAR: in-class essay || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">essay due end of class ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1/25 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Acuity Testing
 * || WAR NOVEL PROJECTS DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 28! (all classes) ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1/29 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Album Homework!
 * **1/31** || COMPOSITION PRACTICE (while we wait for books to arrive . . . )
 * **2/4** || Delay Day: important literary terms study (allusion v. illusion, satire v. parody) || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Album Homework due! ||
 * **2/6** || Delay Day 2 ||  ||
 * **2/8** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[[image:http://media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/Jan/herebullet_200-590a93be35bfb9f333df7f7b9604deb8412b6927-s2.jpg width="192" height="215"]]
 * **2/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Read the book. Record your impressions, questions, thoughts . ..
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2/14 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//National Geographic// article by Brian Turner
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2/20 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Discussion: album homework
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2/22 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Project work day #2 ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2/26 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">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). ** ||

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 Watch documentary: //Slavery by Another Name// 54321 sheet (no make-up available) || **Frederick Douglass: all Canvas Posts due (and, obviously, your reading!)** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**//Slavery by Another Name//** finish documentary-- questions (no make-up) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HW: "The Meanings of a Word" by Gloria Naylor and 54321 sheet <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ARTICLE: <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">54321: <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Article and 54321 due 3/20 (first of class) || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">WORKSHEET: <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> || ** 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. Be sure you also have all of the paperwork you miss ready to turn in at the beginning of class when you return. Act 1 character work AND 54321 due 3/20 first of class. || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> //Piano Lesson:// Act I Doaker's Story <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Timeline and Family Tree: <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Events and Names: <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**HINTS:** on the **family char**t, 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! <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">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").** || Act 1 character work AND 54321 due 3/20 first of class. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Timeline and tree due 3/22 (f.o.c.) || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> //Piano Lesson:// Watch Act I <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">PARTICIPATION POINTS--no make-up :( <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">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"? [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**HW: read Act 2 (pp. 55-end)** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**Want in on the "Stagger Lee" reference? Learn about the original "gansta" here:** [] || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Timeline and tree due 3/22 (f.o.c.) || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Watch //The// //Piano Lesson:// Act II ||  || || **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 || ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2/28 ** || **POETRY Project due (first of class)**
 * Pick up THREE books in the library: //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Piano Lesson,// and //Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant//**
 * 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 Monday, March 18 as well for an in-class essay.**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[[image:http://images.betterworldbooks.com/045/Narrative-of-the-Life-of-Frederick-Douglass-9780451161888.jpg width="101" height="149" align="left"]] || **ALL FREDERICK DOUGLASS POSTS ARE DUE BY 11:59 pm MARCH 15!** ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/4 ** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">FREDERICK DOUGLASS: workday #2 (see above) ||  ||
 * **3/6** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">FREDERICK DOUGLASS: workday #3 (see above) ||  ||
 * **3/8** || FREDERICK DOUGLASS: workday #4 (see above) ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/12 ** || [[image:http://www.yalerep.org/on_stage/2010-11/_images/pianobigimage.jpg width="341" height="86" align="left"]]
 * ALL DISCUSSIONS CLOSE 3/15** ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/14 ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> //Piano Lesson://
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/18 ** || **In-class Essay:** //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass//
 * bring your book if you'd like to use it!**
 * Read //The Piano Lesson// pp. 1-40**
 * HOMEWORK:** //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> //Piano Lesson:// Act I Characters
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/20 ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Read //The Piano Lesson// pp. 40-54 **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/22 ** || Short Classes (new school party!)
 * QUIZ: Act 1 **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/26 ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">QUIZ: ACT 2
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/28 ** || **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">END OF 3rd QUARTER! **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hall passes due for extra credit BEFORE the bell rings! **
 * The Piano Lesson: final essay **
 * [[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911594.01._SX140_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg width="126" height="189" align="left"]]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!)**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3/29-4/5 || [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gAM4lfmh2qQ/SfnpTE07E-I/AAAAAAAAEEo/A5u9Wh3pY4U/s400/snoopy-happy.gif width="165" height="105" align="left"]]

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Scarlet Letter chs. 13 & 14 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: finish reading || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">READING __JOURNAL__ #5 (chs 13-15) by midnight 11/11 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1. If you missed class, follow the instructions to create your rough draft: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">2. __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Then __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> follow the revision guidelines on the HANDOUT to finish your final draft: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: ch. 15, online journal, work on confession poem || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Confession Poem: rough draft due 11/9 || <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 11/13 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(FIRST of __class__, NOT online) || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: ch 17 & 18 ||  || <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;">**assignment:** <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 11/28 || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Group __As__signment__:__ chs 9-18HW: 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 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">introduction to **WAR novels** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> || Imitation Poem due! || =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HW: Choose a war novel **= =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(read by January 3, 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. **= ||  || <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: #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 I, scenes 1 & 2 <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;">Read Act 1, scenes 3-5 VOCABULARY Study and find the list at [] ||  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Read Act 1 scene 6 & Act 2 scene 7 work on Memory Play assignment ||  || <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;"> || **Vocabulary exam** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Read Act 2, scene 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****(END of class)** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: test question bank ||  || || written exam due by Friday, January 11 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> || War discussions (on Canvas) close today, Jan 11, 2013 || NOTE: THIS MAY BE MASS CHANGE DAY FOR SEMESTER 2. IF SO, WE WILL HAVE ONLY A SHORT CLASS ON THIS DAY!** ||  ||
 * <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;">11/5 || [[image:olympusbishop/scarlet A.png width="80" height="64"]]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/7 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">CONFESSIONS!
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/9 || MEET IN ROOM 115 ( down by Chip's room)  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Check in on CONFESSIONS!
 * <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;">11/13 || CONFESSIONS DUE! <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;">11/15 || **<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;">11/19 || <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Group Assignment: chs. 9-18 [[file:chapter groups 9-18.pdf]] <span style="color: #9b1313; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; text-align: left;">IF YOU ARE ABSENT FOR THIS GROUP ASSIGNMENT: * <span style="color: #9b1313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">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).
 * <span style="color: #9b1313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">You will also need to answer the discussion question in a paragraph.
 * <span style="color: #9b1313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">You can just do these assignments on regular paper, not a group "tablecloth" :)
 * || [[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;">11/26 || **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Scarlet Letter FINAL ** ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11/28 || **<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;">11/30 || <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;">12/4 || <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;">12/6 || 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;">12/10 || <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;">12/12 || <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;">12/14 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * VOCABULARY EXAM **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">12/18 || <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;">12/20 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">//The Glass Menagerie//
 * || <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 Canvas 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;">1/3 || [[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;">1/7 || **WAR NOVELS: TEST**
 * 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;">1/9 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: "ten tough questions" groups ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/11 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: project intro & Day 1
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/15 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">WAR NOVELS: project Day 2 || War novels project due Friday, January 25 ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1/17 || **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 230%;">ARCHIVE FIRST QUARTER

Intro & Disclosure || Summer Reading essay due today! Sign disclosure (online) by Aug. 31. || group discussions ||  || Finish group __work from__ Monday (6 questions) ||   || Begin final project || See schedule for this in-__class assignment__. Due date for your final product is 9/20 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 9/24 final project due (end of class) || 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 9/26 || phrasal verbs, clichés, and IT || Revise for remaining TO BE verbs, phrasal verbs/clichés, and IT errors by 10/1 Bring a clean, typed copy of your revision on 10/1 || 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 10/3 || Read chapter 18 (pp. 498-508) of the Holt Language book Do exercises 1-5. IF YOU MISSED CLASS: You can access the textbook online. Just click the link on the navigation menu and read the chapter listed above. || FINAL DRAFT due, first of class! || ARTICLES: ||  || 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 || Journal #3 Post by midnight 10/30 || HW: finish ch. 9?, finish Journal #3 || **Hall passes due****(before the tardy bell!)** Journal #3 Post by midnight 10/30 || END OF QUARTER 1 //Scarlet Letter:// in-class discussion, ch. 10 HW: chs 11 & 12, Journal #4 (chs. 7-9) || Journal #4 Post by midnight 11/4 ||
 * <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
 * 8/28 ||  ||   ||
 * 8/30 || //Poisonwood Bible// exam || Disclosure Statement must be signed (online) by Aug. 31 ||
 * 9/4 || //Poisonwood Bible//
 * 9/6 || SRI Testing
 * 9/10 || Benchmark Essay || Interview ?s due ||
 * 9/12 || Acuity Testing (last testing day!!) ||  ||
 * 9/14 || am assembly schedule
 * 9/18 || Work on final project || see note on 9/14 ||
 * 9/20 || ESSAY REVISION
 * 9/24 || ESSAY REVISION: __progressive__ and passive voice
 * 9/26 || ESSAY REVISION: other passive verbs
 * 10/1 || ESSAY REVISION:
 * 10/3 || GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION CHECK: Sentence Combining
 * 10/5 || Background Articles: Puritan New England Group Posters & Presentations || [[image:olympusbishop/scarlet A.png width="80" height="64"]] ||
 * 10/9 || Finish Group Posters and Presentations
 * 10/11 || Quiz on background information (you may use any notes you take!) Intro to TONE & //The Scarlet Letter//
 * 10/15 || Go over //Scarlet Letter// online journals (Canvas)
 * 10/17 || //Scarlet Letter:// chapters 4-6
 * 10/23 || //Scarlet Letter//: ch. 7
 * 10/25 || //Scarlet Letter:// group chapter analysis ||  ||
 * 10/29 || //Scarlet Letter:// finish analysis? ch. 9?
 * EXTRA CREDIT**
 * 10/31 || ASVAB TESTING FOR ALL JUNIORS