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
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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
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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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