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Purple Class

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English I Honors (purple)- Mrs. Li

(The following schedule is subject to change in the course of the week.)

Schedule for the week of May25, 2020 

 

 

Monday - 

Holiday -      Sonnets are due tomorrow. Work begins on the three explanatory paragraphs.

 

 

Wednesday- 

 Three paragraphs are due.

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of May18, 2020 

Monday - 

     First quatrain should scan completely in iambic pentameter. Second quatrain is due. Besides the proper rhyme scheme and meter, you must demonstrate three other poetic devices.

 

 

Wednesday - 

  Second quatrain should scan completely in iambic pentameter. Third quatrain is due. Besides the proper rhyme scheme and meter, you must demonstrate three other poetic devices.

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of May11, 2020 

Monday - 

     We will review and discuss discuss more ekphrastic poems

 

 

Wednesday - 

     Final project with rubric and due dates will be distributed and discussed.

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of May 4, 2020

Monday - 

     We will discuss the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." We will also work on a Pronoun Case Exercise.

     Homework: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" will be distributed in the Kami App in a Google Classroom assignment, and students will be asked to highlight and comment on the devices Keats uses in his poem.

 

Wednesday- 

     Class discussion will be graded, grades based on student participation in exploring Keats's use of poetic devices. Any students who miss this session will be asked to write an essay on the poem.

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of March 9, 2020 

 

Monday –    

            Review Grammar Test

            Questions on Sonnet CTAs

            Go over Romeo and Juliet

            Homework:     Please study for a Vocab Test on Thursday

 

Tuesday –

            Course Selection Day

            Clauses Exercise

            Complete study guides and notes on what you need to know for Shakespeare Test, which will be given

               once we have finished going over the play.

            Homework:     Please study for a Vocab Test on Thursday

                                    Please continue to complete your study guide and notes

 

Wednesday –

            No class

 

Thursday –    

            Vocab Test

            R&J Vocab Completing the Sentence II handed out 

            Homework:     Please complete your R&J Vocab Completing the Sentence II

 

Friday –

            Hand in R&J Vocab II Completing the Sentence

            Go over Romeo and Juliet

            Homework:     Please study for a grammar test Tuesday or Wednesday next week

                                    Please continue to complete your study guide and notes

 

 

Schedule for the week of March 2, 2020 

 

Monday –    

            Compare self-graded paper with returned paper

            HO Vocabulary Completing the Sentence and go over words

            “Lunatic” performances

            Homework:     Please complete your vocabulary homework

                                   Finish reading Romeo and Juliet if you have not already done so

 

Tuesday –

            Hand in vocabulary homework

            Finish “Lunatic” performances

            Begin to go over Romeo and Juliet

            Homework:     Please make flashcards for vocabulary

                                    Please begin to study what we went over in your Shakespeare Packets

 

Wednesday –

            Assembly discussion

            Vocabulary returned

            HO Shakespeare + R&J Study Guide

            Continue to go over Romeo and Juliet

            Homework:     Please study for a test on vocabulary on Friday

                                    Please fill in your quotation identification for Acts I through III

 

 

Thursday –    

            No class 

 

Friday –

            R&J Vocab Test

            Return Grammar Tests and go over

            Continue to go over Romeo and Juliet

            Homework:     Please continue to study what we went over in your Shakespeare Packets

                                    Please fill in your quotation identification for Acts IV through V

 

 

Schedule for the week of February 24, 2020 

 

Monday –    

               No class

 

Tuesday –

            Review Sonnet Types and Purposes

            Mark up papers with checklist to try to improve your paper grade

            Homework:     Please read Act III of Romeo and Juliet

                                    Please prepare for Tomorrow’s Sonnet CTA by studying your past CTAs and

                                                sonnet form and function

 

Wednesday –

            Sonnet CTA

            Homework:     Please prepare for tomorrow’s Grammar Test                      

                                    Please read Act IV of Romeo and Juliet

 

 

Thursday –    

            Review Clauses

            Grammar Test 

            Homework:     Please read Act V of Romeo and Juliet

 

 

Friday –

            No class

 

 

Schedule for the week of February 10, 2020 

 

Monday –    

          Clauses Quiz Makeup – Return Clauses quizzes

          Long Way Down HO to take notes on in class

            Homework:     Practice “Lunatic”

                                    Please study for the Clauses Quiz  on Wednesday

 

Tuesday –

          No class 

 

Wednesday –

            Vote on Sonnets

            Clauses Quiz

            HO R&J and Shakespeare Packet – go over

            Read Act I

            Homework:     Practice “Lunatic”

                                    Please prepare for tomorrow’s graded discussion

 

 

Thursday –    

            Long Way Down graded discussion

            Homework:     Practice “Lunatic”

 

 

Friday –

            “Lunatic” memorization test

            Review Sonnet types

            Read Act II of R&J

            Homework:     Have a great vacation!

 

 

Schedule for the week of February 3, 2020 

 

Monday –    

            Work on third quatrain and heroic couplet

            Clauses Exercise

            Homework:     Please work at revising your paper – Get more peer feedback if needed

 

Tuesday –

            Clauses Questions

          Please complete third quatrain and heroic couplet

            Homework:     Please complete your paper by midnight and submit it both on Google Classroom and on

                                    Turnitin.com

             

Wednesday –

            No class

 

Thursday –    

            Clauses Quiz

            HO Long Way Down

            Homework:     Please read at least half of Long Way Down and take notes

 

Friday –

            Quiet reading

            Homework:     Please finish reading Long Way Down and take notes

 

Schedule for the week of January 27, 2020 

 

Monday –    

            Sonnet Form

            Clauses exercise

            Homework:     Please work on drafting your ATL papers

 

Tuesday –

            Sonnet Form

            Clauses exercise

            Homework:     Please work on your first draft of the ATL paper – due tomorrow by end of school day

             

Wednesday –

            Sonnet Form

            Clauses exercise

            Homework:     Please work on revising your paper – review Writing Tallies to focus on weak areas

                                    Study for clauses quiz

 

Thursday –    

            No class

 

Friday –

            Clauses Quiz

            Homework:     Please finish revising your paper – review Writing Tallies to focus on weak areas

                                    Paper is due on Monday

 

 

Schedule for the week of January 13, 2020 

 

Monday –    

            No class

 

Tuesday –

            Outlines Due by end of class

            Grammar Test for those who have not yet taken it

            Literary Terms retake

            Collect Writing Tally, copy and return

            Homework:     Please review what is on the Midyear Exam Study Guide

             

Wednesday –

            Questions on anything on the Midyear Exam Study Guide

            Homework:     Review all of your notes and papers, your writing tally, grammar and vocab tests and

                                   quizzes and bring questions to class.

                                   It might help to reread the Seminal Stories

 

Thursday –    

            All grammar tests and literary terms tests returned

            Review

            Homework:     Remember that you can only do the best that you can do, and the greater part of wisdom

                                   is to not beat yourself up for not doing what you are not yet able to do.

 

Friday –

            No class

 

 

 

 

Schedule for the weeks of December 30, 2019 and January 6, 2020 

Thursday –    

            Hand out Weekly Schedules for this week and next

            Announce Grammar Test on Friday, 1/10

            Announce Grammar Club tomorrow @ 7:10

            Please bring all of your marked up CTAs and your “Marigolds” paper to class on Fri. 1/10

            Hand out and discuss All the Light paper assignment

            HO Midyear Exam Study Guide

            Homework:     Please begin to brainstorm for your paper    

Friday –

            Grammar Review

            Work on your brainstorming

            Homework:     Please work on your brainstorming

______________________

Monday –    

            Phrases Exercise

            Please work on your brainstorming

            Homework:     Please complete your brainstorming

 

Tuesday –

            No class

                                     

Wednesday –

            1/2 Day – No class

Thursday –    

            Please work on your outline

            Homework:     Please work on your outline

                                    Please study for Friday’s Grammar Test

                                    *PLEASE BE SURE TO BRING ALL OF YOUR PAPERS (CTAs +

 “MARIGOLDS TO CLASS ON FRIDAY!!!!!      

Friday –

            Grammar Questions

            Grammar Test

            Writing Tallies of comments on papers to see what we should deal with 

            Homework:     Please complete your outlines for Monday

 

 

Schedule for the week of December16, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No class

 

Tuesday –

            Literary Terms Quiz

            Reread, taking notes

            Homework:     Please make sure that you are on track to finish your rereading by Thursday

 

Wednesday –

            Reread, taking notes

            Homework:     Please make sure that you are on track to finish your rereading by Thursday

 

 

Thursday –    

            Reread, taking notes

 

                                             HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY!e

 

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of December 9, 2019

             

Monday –    

            Final Grammar Quiz on Parts of Speech and Parts of a Sentence

            Return Graded CTAs with information on highlighted comments

            Homework:     Please continue to reread, taking notes

 

Tuesday –

            No class

 

 

Wednesday –

            Phrases exercise

            New CTAs group work

            Homework:     Please continue to reread, taking notes

 

Thursday –    

            Phrases exercise

            New CTAs group work         

            Homework:     Please continue to reread, taking notes

                                    Please study for RQ on rereading

 

 

Friday –

            RQ on rereading

            Phrases exercise

            New CTAs group work finish up

             Homework:     Please continue to reread, taking notes H

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of December 2, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No school

 

Tuesday –

            Review Grammar quizzes and do exercise

            Two Poems by Dickinson

            HO grade reports

            Homework:     Please study for a grammar quiz on Thursday

                                   Please study for a vocab quiz based on the last Completing the Sentence on Friday

                                   Please continue to reread and take notes – Possible RQ on Thursday

 

Wednesday –

            No class

 

 

Thursday –    

            Grammar Quiz

            Possible RQ on All the Light second reading

            Homework:     Please study for the vocabulary quiz

                                   Please continue to reread and take notes       

 

Friday –

            Vocab Quiz

            “The Second Coming” by Yeats

          Homework:     Please continue to reread and take notes 

 

 

Schedule for the week of November 25, 2019

 

Reading and Discussion

 

Schedule for the week of November 18, 2019

             

Monday –    

            Graded Speak essays collected

            Big Reveal

            Michael/Jacob

            Theseus

          Homework:     Please study for a quiz on the Parts of a Sentence on Thursday

                        Please finish All the Light by Wednesday

 

Tuesday –

            No class

 

Wednesday –

            Possible RQ

            The Labyrinth

            The Nautilus shell

            Copy, DON’T CUT, and paste your ATL notes from first reading into second reading assignment

            Graded Speak essays returned and reviewed

            Homework:     Please study for a quiz on the parts of a sentence

Please review all of your essays to prepare for a CTA

Please review your list of literary terms, especially the finer points, such as types of irony

and types of imagery, figurative language and how a character is characterized, etc.

 

Thursday –    

            Parts of a sentence quiz

            Questions on writing CTAs

            Read if time

            Homework:     Please finish All the Light by Tomorrow

                                    Please review all of your essays to prepare for a CTA

 

Friday –

            CTA

          Homework:     Please begin to re-read All the Light We Cannot See, adding new notes in 2d reading doc.

                                  Pace should be around 36-40 pages per night (much faster since re-reading)

 

 

Schedule for the week of November 11, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No school

                         

Tuesday –

            CTA Group work

            Vocab Test Make-ups

            Homework:     Please read to page 500 in All the Light We Cannot See by Monday, 11/18

                                    Please be up to at least page 400 in your notes by Thurs. and ready for a quiz

 

Wednesday –

            No class

 

 

Thursday –    

            Reading Quiz

            Return all quizzes and tests   

           Homework:     Please read to page 500 in All the Light We Cannot See by Monday, 11/18

 

Friday –

            Two poems by Emily Dickinson

            Homework:     Please read to page 500 in All the Light We Cannot See by Monday, 11/18

 

 

Schedule for the week of November 4, 2019

             

Monday –    

            New Seating

            Return papers and quizzes

            Homework:     Please study for 2nd Parts of Speech/Parts of a Sentence test tomorrow

                                    Please read to page 400 of All the Light We Cannot See by Monday

 

Tuesday –

            Second Parts of Speech/Parts of a Sentence Test

            Questions on All the Light - Discussion

            Homework:     Please study for a vocab quiz on All the Light Vocab II

                                    Please read to page 400 of All the Light We Cannot See by Monday

Wednesday –

            No class

 

 

Thursday –    

            All the Light Vocab II quiz

            Questions on All the Light - Discussion

          Homework:     Please read to page 400 of All the Light We Cannot See by Monday

 

Friday –

            Discuss All the Light We Cannot See

            Read

            Homework:     Please read to page 400 of All the Light We Cannot See by Monday

 

 

Schedule for the week of October 28, 2019

             

Monday –    

            All the Light first vocab quiz

            Return 2d CTAs with comments

            Take out the prompt and Look at Final “Marigolds” papers in Google Classroom

            Read sample essay

            Make comments on papers and write a grade at the top based mainly on the quality of your analysis

            Homework:     Please read to page 300 by a week from today

            `                       Please study for Wednesday’s quiz on the parts of speech and the parts of a sentence

             

Tuesday –

            HO second All the Light completing the sentence

            Who is Juno?

            Discussion and in-class reading

            Homework:     Please read to page 300 by a week from today

                                    Please do Completing the Sentence to hand in tomorrow

 

Wednesday –

            Quiz on parts of speech and parts of a sentence

            Hand in Completing the Sentence

          Homework:     Please read All the Light to page 300 by Monday, taking notes

                                  Please study for an All the Light vocab 2 quiz on Tuesday

Thursday –    

            No class

 

 

Friday –

            New Seating

            Return All the Light Completing the Sentence

            Discuss All the Light

            Read

          Homework:     Please read All the Light to page 300 by Monday, taking notes

                                  Please study for an All the Light vocab quiz on Tuesday

 

 

Schedule for the week of October 21, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No class

 

Tuesday –

            Completing the Sentence returned – Quiz this coming Monday

            Review questions on Parts of the Sentence

            Some discussion of All the Light and read

          Homework:     Please bring your first CTAs to class on Thursday

                                Please read to page 200 of All the Light by a week from today

 

Wednesday –

            ½ day - No class

 

Thursday –    

            Reread 2nd CTA prompt and passage

            Read and discuss sample essay

            Open your 2nd CTA response in Google Classroom

            Using comments on your first CTA as a guide, open your second CTA, write comments on it

                        and grade it. You will be graded on your comments and grading. Please note: do not write

                        unnecessary comments.

              Homework:     Please read All the Light to page 200 by Monday, taking notes

                                      Please study for an All the Light vocab quiz on Monday

                                      Please review the parts of a sentence

Friday –

            No class

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of October 14, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No school

             

Tuesday –

            No class

 

Wednesday –

            Papers due in Google Classroom

            Go over Turnitin.com, sign in and upload papers

            Parts of sentence exercise

            HO All the Light as well as the first All the Light Completing the Sentence

            Show a sample of my notes

            Homework:     Your first reading of All the Light should be completed by Thanksgiving break

                                    Please read to page 100 of All the Light by Monday – sit at a table and take notes

                                    Please do your vocabulary homework for class on Friday

Thursday –    

            Hand in Completing the Sentence

            Parts of a sentence exercise

            Read All the Light in class

           Homework:     Please read All the Light

                        Please review the parts of a sentence

 

Friday –

            Parts of a sentence exercise

            Read All the Light in class

           Homework:     Please read All the Light

                        Please review the parts of a sentence

 

 

Schedule for the week of October 7, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No class

             

Tuesday –

            First Draft due in 12 pt. Times New Roman Double-spaced – s/b 4 ½ pages at least

            CTA Questions

            Copy and paste first draft into Final Paper assignment in Google Classroom and begin to revise.

          Homework:     No homework

 

Wednesday –

            No school

 

Thursday –    

            Parts of a sentence exercise

            Work on revision in class

          Homework:     Please continue to work on your revisions

                        Please review your first CTAs to make sure you avoid making the same mistakes

 

Friday –

            Second Close Textual Analysis (CTA)

          Homework:     Continue to work on your papers, which are due before school on Wednesday, 10/16.

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of September 30, 2019

             

Monday –    

            No school

             

Tuesday –

            No class

 

Wednesday –

            Parts of a sentence exercise

            Work on Outline in class

          Homework:     Please continue to work on your outlines

 

Thursday –    

            Work on Outlines

            Individual conferences on grades

          Homework:     Please continue to work on your outlines

 

 

Friday –

            Outlines are due to be submitted by the opening bell

            Parts of the Sentence Exercise.

          Homework:     Copy your outlines and paste in First Draft assignment in Google Classroom

                        Please work on your first drafts

                        Please review your CTAs to come up with Questions in our next class

 

 

Schedule for the week of September 23, 2019

             

Monday –    

            Short Story Vocab quiz

            Discuss what is an allusion and what is merely a connection

            Discuss “Marigolds”

            Pts. Sentence Exercise

          Homework:     Please reread “Marigolds,” after reviewing today’s class notes

                                    Remember that you must have completed A Separate Peace by this Friday

             

Tuesday –

            No class

 

Wednesday –

            Parts of the Sentence Exercise

            Paper Assignment

            “The Process of Writing a Paper”

          Homework:     Begin your brainstorming – due Friday

 

Thursday –    

            Parts of Sentence Exercise

            In-class reading or working on your brainstorming, which is due Friday

          Homework:     Continue to brainstorm – due Friday

                        Remember that you must have completed A Separate Peace by tomorrow

 

Friday –

            Brainstorming due – show what you have

            A Separate Peace lecture – save notes to review

            CTA reread and then sample essay

            CTA’s returned and editing marks reviewed

            Begin Outline in Google Classroom

          Homework:     Work on your outlines – due a week from today

                        All work on your outline, from beginning to end, must be done in the Google

                                    Classroom folder.

 

 

Schedule for the week of September 16, 2019

             

Monday –    

            Return Compl. Sent.

            Parts of Sentence Exercise

            Discuss Parental/Tutorial Help

          Homework:     Continue to read A Separate Peace

 

             

Tuesday –

            Seminal Stories retake

            The importance of pronouns.

            What are Conventions?

          Homework:     Please reread “Marigolds,” thinking of the importance of pronouns and the conventions of writing.

 

Wednesday –

            No class

 

Thursday –    

            Socratic seminar on “Marigolds”

          Homework:     Please study for a vocab quiz on the Short Story vocabulary on Monday

                                   You must have read A Separate Peace by 9/27

 

Friday –

            In-class reading of A Separate Peace

          Homework:     Continue to read A Separate Peace

                                  Please study for a vocab quiz on the Short Story vocabulary on Monday

 

 

 

Schedule for the week of September 9, 2019

             

Monday –    

            Short story vocab—completing the sentence--due

            Seminal Stories Quiz

            Parts of the sentence exercise

            Quote integration practice using “The Trout” and “A White Heron”

           Homework:     Please read “Found Boat”

                         

Tuesday –

            Discuss “Found Boat”

            If time, Parts of Sentence exercise

          Homework:     Please read “Marigolds”

            Please review how we built our argument with evidence for “A White Heron”

            Please review the Literary Terms that are checked in your packet for the CTA tomorrow.

 

Wednesday –

            CTA

          Homework:     Please reread “Marigolds” and look for anything that sticks out as odd

 

Thursday –    

            No class

 

Friday –

            Parts of the Sentence exercise

            Finish discussion of “Found Boat”

            Discuss “Marigolds”

          Homework:     You must have read A Separate Peace by 9/27

 

 

Schedule for the weeks of August 26 and September 2, 2019

Wednesday –

            Course Intro – almost everything is graded

            Extra Help if you email with specifics on what you need help on

            HO Summer Reading info

            Dates: R+J 1968 + 1998 Films by end Winter Break – Museum Visit by end Spring Break

          Homework:     Please prepare points for Graded Discussion tomorrow + Accept Google Class 

Thursday –    

            HO Grammar Packet and A Separate Peace Completing Sentence and Seminal Stories

            Grammar Diagnostic

            Graded Discussion

          Homework:     Please read Seminal Stories due Sept. 9th

                        Please finish ASP Completing Sentence for our first class next week

Friday –

            No class

_______________________ 

Tuesday –

            Hand out Short Story Packet

            Hand in Completing the Sentence

            Hand out Lit Terms and go over ones to know

            Parts of Speech Exercise

          Homework:     Please read “A White Heron” and “Trout”

                        Please Study for Parts of Speech quiz

Wednesday –

            Possible RQ

            Parts of Speech Quiz

            Discuss “A White Heron’ and “Trout”

          Homework:     Please study vocab for a quiz

Thursday –    

            Quiz on vocabulary

            HO “The Process of Writing a Paper “ and review How to quote text

            HO short story completing the sentence and A Separate Peace

          Homework:     Please do “Completing the Sentence” for first class next week

                        Please read A Separate Peace by 9/27

Friday –

            No class

 

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