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Students received back writing assignments from the first week and the midterm to monitor growth

Study for finals

HW DUE TODAY: Act 4 Figurative Language Boxes

 Composition 2.80: "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, [but] this time more intelligently." --Henry Ford
Submit Act 4 Figurative Language Boxes HW

Read, analyze, and discuss Act 5 (Finish play)
Death Toll and Paramour Quiz

Composition 2.79: "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." --Tony Robbins

Read, analyze, and discuss Act 5

Paris

dramatic irony

paramour

Begin working on Act 4 Short Response Index Card Notes (three cards)

HW DUE TODAY: Act 3 Figurative Language Boxes Versions # 2 and # 3 (Reviewed and started in class on Tuesday)

HW DUE TODAY: Act 3, Scene 3 Friar Line Analysis

Composition 2.74: "Success is dependent on effort." --Sophocles

Act 3 Index Quiz (open notes/open book)

Start Act 3 Literary Analysis Pairs (Worked outside)

Composition 2.72: "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." --H.L. Mencken

Read and discuss Act 3, Scenes 1-4

Act 3, Scene 3 Friar Line Analysis

plot pyramid

perspective

Composition 2.71: "With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

Read, analyze, and discuss Act 3, Scene and 3 for Act 3, Scene 3 Friar Line Analysis

 

HW DUE TODAY: PATH Root Vocabulary Assignment

Composition 2.70: "He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." --Sun Tzu

Collect quotes from Act 1-Act 3 to construct an argument to prove that Prince Escalus's apathy contributed to Mercutio's death (1.1.90-92), (1.1.97-98), (1.2.3), (3.1.51-54), (3.1.188-199)

Literary Analysis Question 2 in Pairs

Composition 2.68: "Intense feeling too often obscures the truth." --Harry S. Truman

PATH Root Vocabulary Assignment (This was assigned yesterday, but it was not distributed): DUE Thursday

Romeo and Juliet Literary Analysis Questions--Week-long writing assignment in-class

Act 3 Figurative Language Boxes (Assigned in class on 5/2)

DUE TODAY: SIMIL Latin Root Vocabulary Assignment (30 minutes of class time)

Submit HW: SIMIL Vocabulary Assignment (yesterday's classwork)

Composition 2.63 (Select one): "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." --John Lubbock; "Happiness is a thing to be practiced. . . ." --John Lubbock

SIMIL Latin Root Vocabulary Assignment (Started in class and due tomorrow)

Act 3 Figurative Language Boxes (Due Thursday)

Computer Lab--SBIA

HW DUE TODAY: PED Root Vocabulary Assignment (Assigned on Monday); MAL Vocabulary Assignment (Assigned two weeks ago)

Composition 2.62: "The limits of [one's] language means the limits of [one's] world." --Ludwig Wittgenstein

View Act 2 of older version of film; View Act 1, Scenes 4-5 of 1990's version

Composition 2.60: "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." --Jean de la Fontaine

Introduce PED Root Vocabulary Assignment

Read Act 2, Scene 2 and Act 2, Scene 3 in pairs

HW DUE WEDNESDAY: PED Root Vocabulary and MAL Root Vocabulary

DUE TODAY: 1) VIG Root Vocabulary Assignment; 2) Act 2 Vocabulary Boxes (Students worked on these assignments in class on Thursday); 3) BEN Vocabulary Assignment (Assigned two weeks ago)

DUE TODAY: Act 2 Figurative Language Boxes (Assigned and started with 15 minutes left in class on Tuesday)

Composition 2.54 (Select one of the remaining two): "You cannot hold a man down without staying down with him." --Booker T. Washington; "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." --Booker T. Washington; "If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams." --Booker T. Washington

Juliet Act 1 Short Response 1-3 (Pairs)

 

Composition 2.53 (Select one you haven't done): "You cannot hold a man down without staying down with him." --Booker T. Washington; "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." --Booker T. Washington; "If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams." --Booker T. Washington

 

Read, discuss, and analyze Romeo and Benvolio's discussion in Act 1, Scene 2

Words and concepts discussed: anomaly; chastity; Romeo and romantic; perspective

 

Composition 2.51: "When someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time." --Maya Angelou

Discuss proper citation of quotations when writing about a play

Read, discuss, and act out Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2

Discuss end rhyme, couplets, iambic pentameter, and sight rhyme

Due Today: Verb Worksheet (Started in class on Tuesday, March 28th)

Composition 2.49: (Select a Cesar Chavez quotation)

Continue grammar lessons--subject and predicate; common sentences; complex sentences; compound sentences; coordinate conjunctions (FANBOYS)

DUE: Research Shakespeare's contributions to the English language (words he coined) and select five that surprise you and/or that you use in everyday conversation and write a sentence for each.  This assignment is due on Tuesday.

Submit Noun Worksheet

Submit Shakespeare Five (5) Vocabulary Sentences

Verb Mini-Lesson (1183-1184)

Begin working on Verb Worksheet (Front and Back): Due Thursday

Do Grammar Practice (1185) 1-5 in Composition Book

Composition 2.46: "What we live by we die by." --Robert Frost

Textbook Grammar (1180): A, B, and C

Noun worksheet: front and back

Finish reading "The Necklace" (27-30)

Read and take notes: Shakespeare's World (982-989)

HW: Shakespeare word invention sentences; Noun Worksheet

Composition 2.45: "There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect." --G.K. Chesterton

Review the grammar lesson from yesterday

Do Exercises A, B, and C on (1180)

Finish reading "The Necklace" (27-30)

Read and take notes on Shakespeare's World (982-989)

HW: Research Shakespeare's contributions to the English language (words he coined) and select five that surprise you and/or that you use in everyday conversation and write a sentence for each.  This assignment is due on Tuesday.

Composition 2.44: "The fate of love is that it always seems too little or [it seems] too much." --Amelia Barr

Grammar mini-lesson and review

Composition 2.43: "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but [it is] in ourselves." --William Shakespeare

Sonnet Quiz 1-10

Read "The Necklace" independently

Composition 2.42: "The most luxurious possessions, the richest treasure anybody has, is his dignity."

Translate the Prologue in pairs

DUE TODAY: Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Vocabulary and Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Figurative Language Boxes

Poetry Notes

Read and discuss Sonnet 130

Composition 2.37: "Accomplish something every day of your life." --William Annenberg

Start Shakespeare Notes: sonnet, quatrain, couplet, iambic pentameter, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, act, scene, line number

Discuss the first quatrain of the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet

Discuss HW (DUE WEDNESDAY): Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Vocabulary and Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Figurative Language Boxes

Composition 2.36: "Friendship is always a...responsibility, [and] never an opportunity." --Khalil Gibran

"Cinderella" Short Response

The House on Mango Street Figurative Language Boxes (90-110)

Composition 2.32: "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." --Alexander Graham Bell

"The Monkey Garden" Writing Quiz

Composition 2.31: "Only you can control your future." --Dr. Seuss

Read and discuss "Red Clowns" and "Linoleum Roses"

Partner up and develop allusion notes for "The Monkey Garden"

Composition 2.30: "He has the most who is most content with the least." --John Locke

Listen to "Jane Says" and analyze lyrics.  Look for connections to The House on Mango Street.  Characters; Theme

Jane Short Response--Independent writing assignment

Read summary of the story of the Garden of Eden and compile notes on the vignette that alludes to it in Cisneros's book

Composition 2.29: "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." --Ernest Hemingway

Read and discuss "What Sally Said" and "The Monkey Garden"

Discuss parallels between "The Monkey Garden" and the Garden of Eden--allusions

Composition 2.28: "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.  It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"Born Bad" Summary

Make-up Work

Substitute

Composition 2.26: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." --Mother Teresa

Read and discuss The House on Mango Street

Composition 2.25: "It is far better to be alone, than [it is] to be in bad company." --George Washington

"Four Skinny Trees" Symbol Short Response--Group

Composition 2.24: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." --Abraham Lincoln

"Four Skinny Trees" Symbol Short Response--Prewriting

DUE TODAY:

Composition 2.18: "The only way to have a friend is to be one." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comma Worksheets

Continue to read The House on Mango Street

Composition 2.17: "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." --George Washington Carver

Comma Mini-Lesson

Figurative Language Boxes (49-89) Finish for HW

HW: Use of the Comma 1-24

Composition 2.15: "You just can't beat the person who never gives up." --Babe Ruth

Independent Reading of The House on Mango Street (49-89)--Maintain Character Chart

Figurative Language Boxes (49-89)

Composition 2.14: "Beauty is temporary, but your mind lasts a lifetime." --Alicia Machado

Read and Discuss "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do" and "The Family of Little Feet"

Discuss allusions--Pandora's Box and "Cinderella"

Composition 2.13: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." --Wayne Gretzky

Write Circle Body Paragraph # 1

Composition 2.12: "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." --William Shakespeare

Review "Hips" (49)

Continue to Gather Information for Poster Board Graphic Organizer

Begin Organizing and Grouping Information

Composition 2.11: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana

Choral Reading of "Hips" (49)

Continue to work on Poster board

Composition 2.10: "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." --Sir Francis Bacon

Read Cisneros's vignette "Hips" (49) and record all circular/round objects in your notes

Pair up and draw, color, and label all of the objects you found on a poster board

Composition 2.9: "No man is an island...everyman is a piece of the continent." --John Donne

Discuss and Revise Alicia and Marin Short Response

Composition 2.8: "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." --Desmond Tutu

Discuss topic sentences

Collect Mango Figurative Language Boxes (12-48)

Alicia and Marin Short Response (Pairs)

Composition 2.7 (Choose the remaining option from 2.6): "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mango Independent Reading Figurative Language Boxes (12-48)

Begin Alicia and Marin Short Response

DUE TODAY: "Boys & Girls" Combo Assignment (Started in class)

HW: "Boys & Girls" Combo Assignment (Started in class)

Due today: "Hairs" Figurative Language Boxes--Started in class on 1/10

Composition 2.2: "Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend." --Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Discuss the dedication page and the elements of the Works Cited page

"Hairs" Figurative Language Boxes--Finish for HW, if needed

Composition 2.1: "Home is where the heart is." --proverb

Pre-Reading Journal Responses--writing body paragraphs (age, race, gender).