December 1, 2014 - December 5, 2014 Weekly Agenda for American Literature

Monday, December 1st:
First Period:
Begin reading THE BLUEST EYE

Second Period:
Begin reading THE GREAT GATSBY

Tuesday, December 2nd:
First Period:
Short vocabulary test on Unit 4
Read THE BLUEST EYE

Second Period:
Short vocabulary test on Unit 4
Read THE GREAT GATSBY

Wednesday, December 3rd:
First Period:
Grammar handout on run-ons
Read THE BLUEST EYE

Second Period:
Grammar handout on run-ons
Read THE GREAT GATSBY

Thursday, December 4th:
First Period:
Read THE BLUEST EYE

2nd Period:
Read THE GREAT GATSBY

Friday, December 5th:
First Period:
Read THE BLUEST EYE

Second Period:
Read THE GREAT GATSBY

November 17, 2014 - November 21, 2014 American Literature Agenda

Monday, November 17^th:

First Period:

11^th Grade ELA Assessment

Work on the five graphic organizers

2^nd Period:

11^th Grade ELA Assessment

Wok on the five graphic organizers

Tuesday, November 18th:

1^st Period:

Continue working on the ELA Assessment: the four questions

2^nd Period:

Continue working on the ELA Assessment: the four questions

Wednesday, November 19^th:

1^ST Period:

Begin work on the fifty minute essay for the ELA Assessment.

2^nd Period:

Begin work on the fifty minute essay for the ELA Assessment.

Thursday, November 20^th:

Period 1

Check out THE BLUEST EYE

WRITER’S CHOICE

Pages 538 – 539

Exercise 4 and Exercise 5

Exercise 4:

Write out the sentences for exercise 4 and identify the sentences as either compound or simple.

Exercise 5:

On your own paper write original sentences about crocodiles, using the information and the structure (compound or simple) provided in exercise 4.

Example:

Laws protect crocodiles and ensure their survival.  (Simple sentence with compound predicate.)

Due Friday, November 21^st.

Tomorrow Vocabulary Unit 4 Test

Part of the test will include having to write five original, grammatically correct sentences using five words from the Unit 4 vocabulary.

2^nd Period:

Eddie Vargas gave his senior project presentation to my class with a short survey.

 Friday, November 21st: 

First Period:

No one here today!

Two people did the homework last night, so had the class do the homework for class work:

Writer’s Choice: pages 538 – 539; Simple and Compound Sentences; Exercises 4 and 5; due at end of period.

2^nd Period:

Had those who were absent finish the packet: the graphic organizers, the evidence based questions and the essay

For the rest assigned: Writer’s Choice; pages 538 – 539; Simple and Compound Sentences; exercises 4 and 5, collected at end of period.

November 10, 2014 - November 14, 2014

Monday, November 10^th:

Share with your partner what you know or think about emoticons.

Draw an emoticon to express what you are feeling right now.

Vocabulary:

Addled: mentally confused

To addle: to confuse

Share with your partner what the phrase “emoticon-addled” might mean.

Christian:

People put emoticons to express what they are feeling but they’re not really feeling that at all.

Kamron: When people put “LOL” when they don’t mean it at all. They’re actually being serious.

With your partner illustrate the phrase “emoticon-addled zombie”. Share with other students and discuss what each illustration shows.

Before reading the text, “Teenagers  and Social Networking – It Might Actually Be Good for Them”, number the paragraphs.  Then read the first four paragraphs.

Vocabulary:

Bemoan: to express sorry or discontent or sorrowful lament over a situation.

Empathy: the capacity to share or recognize emotions experienced by another sentient being or human.

Sympathy: feelings of compassion or sorrow for another person’s misfortune.

Hedonistic: following a life or philosophy devoted only to sensual or physical pleasure.

Titillating: Adjective. Describing something that emotionally or physically excites or that tempts or creates anticipation.

Apocalyptic: Adjective. End of times. Complete and utter destruction after which there is nothing that remains.

After reading the first four paragraphs, reread the fourth paragraph.  Now write a caption for your “emoticon-addled zombie”. Using words from the fourth paragraph, write a six to ten word caption for your illustration.

2^nd Period:

Show the dvd of Joseph, Chuy, Pamela, Cat, Ivette, Davion, Maci

Assigned and went over grammar; “Main Clauses” and “Subordinate Clauses”; pages 535 – 537; exercises 1, 2, and 3.  This is due Wednesday, November 12^th.

Rest of kids did not present due to excessive absences.

Went over play format with Tyler.

Tuesday, November 11th: 

No school!

Wednesday, November 12th: 

Period 1: 

Unit Four Vocabulary is due today. 

WRITER'S CHOICE; pages 535 - 537; exercises 1, 2, and 3 will be due today.

Continue working on ELA Assessment.

Continue reading the article, “Teenagers and Social Networking – It Might Actually Be Good for Them.” Feel free to annotate your paper. Underline the sentence you think is the thesis statement and mark it with “t.s.”(thesis statement). Underline or highlight those sentences that are used as evidence to support the author’s thesis statement. Circle those words or concepts you don’t know or understand and put a question mark next to them.

Read aloud up to paragraph 9.

Vocabulary:

Cherry-picking: to select specific examples to prove one’s point, intentionally excluding much better and many more examples which disprove one’s point.

Ambivalent: to have conflicting contradictory feelings about something

Fretted: to be worried about something.

The first four paragraphs set up the central question: Do teenagers text so much that it will hurt their social development and society?

In the paragraphs following (the fifth paragraph on) the author, Clive Thompson, answers his thesis statement with evidence that social media do not adversely affect teenagers.

 Period 2: 

Unit Four Vocabulary is due today. 

WRITER'S CHOICE; pages 535 - 537; exercises 1, 2, and 3 will be due today. 

Show the culminating projects on THE THINGS THEY CARRIED 

Thursday, November 13th: 

Period 1: 

Continue working on the ELA Assessment. 

Period 2: 

Start working on the ELA Assessment. 

Friday, November 14th: 

Period 1: 

Continue working on the ELA Assessment

Period 2: 

Continue  working on the ELA Assessment. 

Subordinate Clause; Writer's Choice; pages 535 - 537

WRITER’S CHOICE

Pages 535 – 537

Exercises 1, 2, and 3

Main Clauses and Subordinate Clauses

MAIN CLAUSES

A main clause is comprised of a subject and a verb.

Example:

Manufacturers produce cars, and consumers buy.

The italicized manufacturers and consumers  are nouns/subjects and produce and buy are verbs.

Page 535, exercise 1, write the entire sentence and underline the subject and circle the verb.

SUBORDINATE CLAUSES

Pages 536 – 537

Exercises 2 and 3

The relative pronoun connects the subject with the predicate or the rest of the sentence.

The relative pronouns are: that, which, who, whom, whomever, whenever, whose, when, etc.

Example: The girl whom David likes is performing in the show tonight.

(Whom is the relative pronoun; “David likes” is a subordinate clause which acts like an adjective because it is describing the girl. Which girl? The girl David likes.)

Subordinating conjunctions are used to join independent clauses to make complex sentences. The subordinating conjunctions are as follows: after, although, as, as if, because, before, even if, even though, if, if only, rather than, since, that, though, unless, until, when, where, whereas, wherever, whether, which, and while.

When a clause begins with a subordinate conjunction (after, although, as, as if, because, before, even if, even though, if only, rather than, since, that, though, unless, until, when, where, whereas, wherever, whether, which, and while) it is a subordinate clause and cannot stand alone.

Although we invited Elizabeth to dinner after the show, she did not join us. 

The italicized clause Although we invited Elizabeth to dinner after the show begins with a subordinate conjunction (although), and does not express a complete thought; therefore, it is a subordinate clause. 

In exercise 2, on page 536 in THE WRITER’S CHOICE, write the sentences, underline the subordinate clause and circle the relative pronoun: that, which, who, whom, whomever, whenever, whose and when. Hint: the relative pronoun introduces the subordinate clause, which immediately follows the relative pronoun.

1.     The Model T Ford, which people loved, was discontinued as a model in 1928.

In exercise 3, on page 537,   write out the sentence and identify if the italicized part of the sentence is a main clause or a subordinate clause. 

Example:

Shirley Chisholm was a congresswoman from New York, who sought the presidential nomination in 1972.  (Subordinate clause)

November 3, 2014 - November 7, 2014 Weekly Agenda for American Literature

Monday, November 3rd:

1st Period:
Work on the culminating essay for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
The list for essay topics is on the link: essays on the right.
This essay will be due on Wednesday, November 5th.


2nd Period:
Break into groups and work on culminating project for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED:
Digital recording of a scene from a chapter from the book
1. Script
2. Story board
Adaptation of a scene
1. Script
2. Performance on stage

This will be due on Wednesday, November 5th

Tuesday, November 4th:

1st Period:
Work on the culminating essay for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
Due on Wednesday, November 5th.

2nd Period:
Break into groups and work on culminating project for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
This will be due on Wednesday, November 5th

Wednesday, November 5th:

First Period:

 Your essay, the final culminating essay for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED will be due at midnight tonight. You may e-mail it to me at jkatbridge@aol.com.

Unit 4 Vocabulary will be assigned today. It will be due on Wednesday, November 12^th. Please follow the same format for the other three units you have done. If you are unclear how to do it, then go to the link marked “Vocabulary” and it will show you how to do the format.

Today pages 535 – 537, “Main Clauses”, exercise 1, and “Subordinate Clauses”, exercises 2 and 3, from your grammar book, WRITER’S CHOICE, will be assigned. This will be due on Friday, November 7^th.

Tomorrow, Thursday, November 6^th, we will begin the 11^th grade ELA Assessment. It must be finished by November 21^st.

You should be either working on your essay

or

working on the grammar

or

working on your Unit 4 Vocabulary.

Period 2:

Unit Four Vocabulary is assigned today.  This will be due on Wednesday, November 12^th.

Today pages 535 – 537, “Main Clauses”, exercise 1, and “Subordinate Clauses”, exercises 2 and 3, from your grammar book, WRITER’S CHOICE, will be assigned.

This will be due on Wednesday, November 12th. 

As soon as we are finished with the final culminating project for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED,  we will begin the 11th grade ELA Assessment, which will be due no later than November 21st. 

Finish working on the final culminating project for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. The projects will be presented tomorrow, Thursday, November 6th. 

If your group is doing a digital recording, your script and storyboard are due.
If your group is doing an adaptation, your script and a run through of your performance are due.

Thursday, November 6th:

1st Period:

Went over WRITER'S CHOICE; pages 535 - 537; exercises 1, 2, and 3 on "Main Clauses" and "Subordinate Classes". Please check the link "Grammar: Subordinate Clauses" for additional information on how to do the exercises.
Did exercise1 orally on page 535 in class.
Assigned exercise 2 to do in class and turn in when finished.
Assigned exercise 3 tomorrow for classwork during my absence due to field trip.

2nd Period:
Continue working on  your digital recording of  your culminating THE THINGS THEY CARRIED project or
continue rehearsing for your performance of your culminating THE THINGS THEY CARRIED  project in class.

If your group is doing a digital recording, your script and storyboard will be due on Monday. No exception!

If your group is doing an adaptation, your script and a run through of your performance will be due on Monday. No exception!

Your scripts must be correctly formatted and typed! 

Friday, November 7th:

1st Period:
Your grammar assignment is due today: WRITER'S CHOICE; pages 536 - 537; "Subordinate Clauses", exercises 2 and 3.
We will start working on the ELA 11th Grade Interim Assessment on Monday, November 10th.

2nd Period:
Finish working on  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED project.
If you are finished with your project, then begin working  on the grammar and/or vocabulary homework, which will be due on Wednesday, November 12th.
For additional information about how to do the grammar homework, WRITER'S CHOICE, pages 535 - 537; exercises 1, 2, and 3, please go to the link "Grammar: subordinate clauses" on this blog.

Looking ahead:
This week we will begin working on the 11th grade ELA assessment, which will be due no later than November 21st

Grammar assignment:  WRITER'S CHOICE; pages 535 - 537; "Main Clauses", exercise 1 and "Subordinate Clauses", exercises 2 and 3. Due on Wednesday, November 12th.

Vocabulary assignment: Vocabulary Unit 4. Due on Wednesday, November 12th.