Friday, December 16, 2011

Objective: The students will complete the 12 Angry Men unit.

1. Get folders and get all returned work from returned work folder. I want it empty by end of period.
2. Video completion.
3. Put folders away neatly. People are losing points daily when I clean up the mess.


Homework: Outside Book due on January 19th.

Have a safe Holiday Break.
Objective

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Objective: The students will continue watching the film version of Twelve Angry Men and straighten out their folders.

1. Get folders.
2. Pass back all returned work.
3. Continue VIDEO.

Tomorrow: We will only finish the film, so if you have to miss, there will be no make up work necessary.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Objective: The students will finish reading the climax and resolution of Twelve Angry Men. Then they will see the most recent film version.

1. Get folders
2. CST
3. Turn in CST Packet
4. Act III
5. Video

Homework: Christmas shop.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Objective: The students will read (PLEASE THIRD PERIOD!!!) the second act of Twelve Angry Men and then start some of the video.

1. Get folders.
2. CST
3. Read Act
4. Begin Video

Homework: That Outside Book!

Monday, December 12, 2011

Objective: The students will read the first act of Twelve Angry Men and know basic Drama terms.

EXTRA CREDIT!!! Sit in a JUROR'S CHAIR. Act (as best you can) for 10 points per day. If you are a really good actor... 15 points!!

1. Discuss Drama Terms (Drama, Stage Directions, Props).
2. Read Act I
3. Complete play vocabulary.

Homework Outside Book due on the 19th.

Friday, December 09, 2011

Objective: Today the students will work together to find the meanings of 25 important words that have to do with law and courts for our Twelve Angry Men unit.

1. Get folders and the two pages of the ass.
2. Complete in groups. You can use the computers here or in the "pod" area to define the words... or you can probably figure most of them out as a group.

Monday: Act I
Tues: Act II
Wed: Act III
Thur: Movie
Fri: Movie

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Objective: The students will pass the Chapter 3 Lit Book Test.

Bring up Review ass. and do the following:

1. Get answer sheet and test papers. DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST PACKET!
2. Complete the MC section on the back of the answer sheet.

Homework: Outside Book

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Objective: The students will review for tomorrow's test on Point of View from Chapter 3 of the lit book. We will also discuss McCourt's "voice" in "Typhoid Fever."

1. Ten minutes to complete "Typhoid Fever" handout.
2. Get Review handout and complete. This will look amazingly similar to tomorrow's test.

Homework: I would be about 100 pages into my last outside book of the semester!! Are you?

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Objective: The students will get a chance to see what the California High School Exit Exam is like by taking a practice test designed by the State.

1. Get materials
2. Listen carefully to instructions
3. Complete test.

Outside Reading Book is Homework.

Wed: Chapter 3 Review
Thurs: Chapter 3 Test
Friday: Begin "Twelve Angry Men"

Monday, December 05, 2011

Objective: The students will read a story that is nonfiction and analyze the use of faction by the author.

1. Get folders and lit books.
2. CST
3. Notes
4. Read the story
5. Begin assignment.

Friday, December 02, 2011

Objective: The students will read a great story and be able to identify the author's use of vernacular style.

1. CST
2. Correct yesterday's POV assignment
3. Notes
4. Read story "The Secret Lion"

Homework: You got that outside book yet? Well read it!

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Objective: The students will begin Chapter 3 of the Lit Book that covers the three types of Point of View and identify the point of view from various pieces we have read (and not read).

Get folders and lit books

1) CST
2) Chapter Notes
3) Point of View Identification
4) Projects due tomorrow. 400 points. They better show TWO months of planning and preparation. See Notes.