Objective: The students will complete the project.
1. The newspaper is due when you walk into class on Monday. There will be NO TIME for last minute printing and gluing it together.
2. Get busy. If you need to print, share it with me, then go to the computer and print it from my email.
3. Test on Monday. You can use any hand-written notes. No reviews.
Objective: The students will work on making their newspapers actually look like a newspaper.
1. How to use Docs to make your newspaper actually look like a newspaper.
2. Do it.
Objective: The students will complete an amazing project.
Note: I have decided that the Newspaper Projects are due on Monday. And the test will be Monday too.
Note 2: We start Lord of the Flies next week. If you want to buy it and close read it for extra credit, get this copy: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Flies-William-Golding/dp/0399501487/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T09ZRVQJYYUR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.04mhtwbMVuKPN-7Cga4c1X3WRP0cFV5l1HwuBd52dVKOQFxQ_Qi0pPzDuZBAV5dYClEHM9JwBdvmcwkiBpHX3xHJIWdCzXMM0zxNZL562lcrZkvUf51_luKWSxRkLNmTJDcEYPQLZMts5u9Pd_8fXrbeYreUcS14c8OnXpVH0GmgC-i49JmyhO4S36kI_z7Hp6b3nVUXTKi8LIGAY49mRb-QrK8yR4wnXzkOIu6fwjU.fRgApQ-m5_wtW0ObeYc_7ppHwfxXOdQBKejsnQoUHnY&dib_tag=se&keywords=lord+of+the+flies+paperback&qid=1743516119&sprefix=lord+of+the+flies+paper%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1
The students will review all parts of Julius Caesar by completing a group project.
1. Get the handout.
2. Discuss requirements. This is due on Friday. This is all that we will work on this week.
3. Friday is the 300 point JC Final. You can use any handwritten notes. There are 25 quotes that you need to identify who said them.
Objective: The students will complete an overall play review of JC.
1. Finish the poetic devices worksheet.
2. Complete the final overall play review.
3. Pass back all work.
Have a great week off. Read your book while you relax.
Objective: The students will know how to identify poetic devices in Shakespeare.
Get a lit book.
1. Turn in JC Note Packet to red basket.
2. Turn in JC Act V Review/Trans to white basket.
3. Poetic Devices Handout
Objective: The students will read the final scene of JC.
Note: Thank you for being a great class while reading JC. You made it fun instead of a painstaking bore! All the reader volunteers... Well done!
1. WP Number 14
2. Notes
3. Read
4. Complete Act V Review and Trans
5. Put together your JC Note Packet: In order. All 18 Scenes. And highlight the individual scenes so that I (actually, my TAs) can count them quickly. If I (they) miss one, it's your fault. :)
Objective: The students will read more of JC.
1. Get the lit book and the handout.
2. WP Number 13
3. Notes Act V Scene 3-4
4. Read Act V Scene 3-4
5. Answer parts of the review that we read.
Objective: The students will read more of JC.
Note: Correction on Outside Reading Due Date: May 19. No late papers!
1. WP Number 12
2. Notes Act V: 1-2
3. Read Act V: 1-2
Objective: The students will complete all Act IV Activities.
Happy Ides of March Eve!
1. Complete all Act IV Activities. On the Act II Storyboard, on the bottom section, you need 3 events from Act IV. If you did it wrong, just get another paper for Act IV and staple it to the other.
2. Put the Review/Trans in the Red Basket. Put the Storyboard in the White Basket.
3. Outside Book: Reports are due: May 10, 2025. No late work will be accepted.
Objective: The students will finish Act IV Activities.
Note: Tomorrow, if you plan on dressing up, and if it's raining, feel free to wear a coat over your Roman clothing (or a hoodie under). I don't want anyone to get sick.
1. WP Number 11 (start a new packet).
2. Notes (have we all completed the character page?)
3. Read
4. Act IV Review and Trans
Objective: The students will complete a District Test.
Turn in Act III Review
1. No reading today. We have to take the district test for second semester. It's linked in your GC. Also you can try this: https://testing.illuminateed.com/auth/quick?access_code=F5DNZCY
2. Will this affect your grade? It depends. If you fail it, I may put it in the computer, so try hard and take your time. It's only 12 questions.
3. Outside Book and Plan Your JC Dress Up Outfit. I want to see a bunch of Romans walking around!
Here is the link to my slideshow of what you can do: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HJ9rrCW23NnyzUyyEWmuv6XY62_vbKgR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true
Objective: The students will finish presentations.
Outside Reading: We have our first book report turned in! Great job Alia D.
1. Finish Presentations.
2. Update Character List
3. Notes Act IV Scene 1-3
4. Read a bit.
Objective: The students will review Act III.
1. WP Number 10.
2. Turn in WP Packet 1-10
3. Act III Review
4. Act III Story Board (top three boxes). Picture, Word Bubble, Setting, Mood, Description.
Objective: The students will complete reading of Act III.
1. Turn in Act III Translation
2. Notes Act III-2 and 3
3. Read Act III 2-3
4. Enjoy your weekend. Read some.
Objective: The students will read the turning point of the play.
1. Finish Act III Presentations
2. Notes: Act III Scene 1
3. Read Act III Scene 1
4. Outside Book
Objective: The students will know important stuff for Act III
1. Period 5: WP from yesterday that you didn't remind me to do.
2. Turn in Storyboard.
3. Presentations (Let's do four). Including Roman Clothing.
4. Act III Vocabulary
Activity 1: Act III Vocabulary Exercise
1. reek (verb)
2. cumbersome (adj.)
3. enfranchisement (noun)
4. oration (noun)
5. couch (verb)
6. compel (verb)
7. leaden (adj.)
8. abridge (verb)
9. fond (adj.)
10. apprehensive (adj.)
Note: 6 on synonyms: make leaden. Leaden means dull, not sharp.
Objective: The students will finish Act I and II Storyboards.
1. All Research Papers are graded!!
2. WP Number _____
3. Complete the Act II Review and turn it in to the white basket.
4. Finish the Act I-II Storyboard. This will be turned in tomorrow.
Objective: The students will complete the Act Review and a Story Board.
1. Get both handouts.
2. Complete the Act II Review
3. Make an Act I - II Story Board for the three scenes from each act that are the most important to you.
Must have 5 things in each box: Drawing, Dialogue Bubble, Setting, Mood and Sentence Explanation.
Objective: The students will finish reading Act II.
1. Notes
2. Reading: Lots of extra credit for readers today!!! Some easy points.
3. Pass back work in the folder. It's full!
4. Outside Book
Objective: The students will read the rest of Act II Scene 1.
1. Get the lit books.
2. Notes
3. Read
4. Soliloquy Translation Number 2
Objective: The students will read and understand more of JC.
1. Presentations: The last three of Act II.
2. Go over vocabulary meanings for reading.
3. Notes: Act II Scene 1
4. Read: Act II Scene 1
5. Period 5, make the character list. Period 0, add to it.
6. Outside Reading
Objective: The students will know important vocabulary to read Act II.
1. Presentations: Three today, three tomorrow.
2. Finish Act I Review and turn in for points.
3. Act II Vocabulary.
Activity 1: Act II Vocabulary Exercise
1. interpose (v)
2. spurn (v)
3. disperse (v)
4. insurrection (n)
5. hideous (adj)
6. semblance (n)
7. cognizance (n)
8. redress (v)
9. construe (v)
10. carrion (n)
Objective: The students will finish JC Act I reading and complete a review.
Note: The District Superintendent is walking into classes today. If I see ANYONE on their phone playing a game or watching a video or doing anything other than Julius Caesar, I will not be happy...
1. Review orally what we have read so far.
2. Notes
3. Read Act I Scene 3
4. Act I Review Handout
5. Homework: Read Outside Book and have a great weekend!
Objective: The students will read more of the play and complete a translation.
1. Notes
2. Read Act I Scene 2 and finish it.
3. Soliloquy Translation Number 1 for points.
4. Outside Book. Are you reading at home? You should be!
Objective: The students will read and understand JC Act I Scene 2.
1. Get the lit books.
2. WP Number 7.
3. Notes
4. Read
5. Outside Book
Objective: The students will begin reading the play.
Grab a lit book from the back.
1. WP Number 6: Act I
2. Last presentations from Act I.
3. Act I Scene 1 Notes. Get new sheet of paper and put proper heading on it. Title it JC Note Packet.
4. Read Act I Scene 1
5. Turn in and share our Shakespearean Scene
6. Outside Book
Objective: The students will know all of the information needed to begin the play on Tuesday.
If I haven't introduced our CBU Guests yet... Mr. Posey and Ms.
Heavenlee will be here for about 50 hours observing and working with
you. Make them happy that they are going into teaching!
1. Presentations: All from Act I and before.
2. Finish your Shakespearean Scene and have it printed and ready to share on Tuesday.
3. Outside Book: What perfect weather to sit in your jammies and cozy up to your book! Have a greaf four days off!
Objective: The students will know how to use some Shakespearean language.
If I haven't introduced our CBU Guests yet... Mr. Posey and Ms. Heavenlee will be here for about 50 hours observing and working with you. Make them happy that they are going into teaching!
1. Period 0: Go over vocab word meanings and turn in.
2. Presentations: Let's do about five.
3. Shakespearean Language: Write your own scene between two or more characters using Shakespearean Language from the handout. Must be twenty lines long.
Objective: The students will share more presentations and know the history of JC.
Introduction: Our second visitor from CBU is here today to start her 30 hours of observation. Her name is Ms. Heavenlee and she is here to see my special class in action.
1. WP Number I don't know.
2. Go over the correct meanings of Act I Vocab.
3. Presentations: Let's do four.
4. JC Timeline Discussion Handout and Notes
5. Outside Book (are you started? I finished my book last night. The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was pretty good except for one horribly boring chapter).
Objective: The students will complete Act I Vocabulary.
1. Turn in your presentation.
2. Let's present three. You will want to take some notes that you can use on the test.
3. Act I Vocabulary.
Objective: The students will complete their schedules for next year with counselors.
1. Start working on your presentations.
2. Fifteen minutes into class, head up to A310 with your peach paper.
3. Return and finish presentations.
4. Read your Outside Book during 1/2 time of the Super Bowl.
Objective: The students will complete their 1 minute presentation.
Tomorrow: You all will head up to A310 to see your counselor to set your classes for next year. Bring that peachy orange paper with you.
1. Research Notes Handwritten
2. Make the Slideshow
3. Know what you are talking about when you present.
4. You should be reading your outside book as homework. Get it done while we do the JC Unit.
Objective: The students will begin their one minute-one slide presentation.
Julius Caesar Unit: Has one presentation, Five Acts worth of assignments, Extra Credit Reading, Ides of March Dress-Up Day, and one Final: Worth 300 points to grade and has 100 questions.
1. Get out the Julius Caesar Intro Notes Sheet: Let's go over it. Turn in for points.
2. Introduce the One Minute Presentation
3. Sign up for your topic.
4. Begin your research.
5. We will start presentations on Friday.
Objective: The students will begin their Julius Caesar Unit.
1. Julius Caesar information handout. Use the lit books or your phone and the internet to answer all of the questions. Due tomorrow.
2. Now is the time to be doing reading in your outside books. We have about a month of Shakespeare, then we will read our class novel. Lord of the Flies. Buy it if you want to close read it for 100 EC.
Objective: The students will spend one last day getting the entire paper ready for handing in and my intense grading.
1. Look over the three parts of your paper. Make sure that there and no errors in citing, grammar, formatting, etc. Remember 5 points per error.
2. Go to the library to print it out.
3. JC Starts Tomorrow.
Today is ASB Election Day, I would appreciate it if you would help me with letting the students vote during second period this morning.
Objective: The students will edit Part 3 and write Part 4.
1. Complete both parts of Part 4
2. Give Part 4 to your editor.
3. Put all parts together as one nice flowing document. The Works Cited page is a separate doc.
Objective: The students will edit Part 3 and write Part 4.
1. Exchange and Edit Part 3. Show me for 50 points.
2. Go over example of Part 4.
3. You have today and tomorrow to complete Part 4 and put the entire paper together as one document. It will be turned in to your GC for the plagiarism check.
Objective: The students will finish writing Part 3.
1. Finish Part 3.
2. Print it for tomorrow's editing.
3. I will teach the last part tomorrow and then we will make all parts into one perfect paper.
Objective: The students will complete the writing of Part 3.
1. Finish Part 3. I will walk around and see your progress and effort. If I see that you are working hard, but need more time, I might extend it until Thursday being due.
Objective: The students will edit Part 2 and start Part 3.
1. Exchange Part 2 with your partner. Edit using the checklist.
2. Start writing Part 3. This will be due on Wednesday.
Objective: The students will finish writing Part 2.
Day 100 (by my count): While other teachers sometimes complain about their students when we go out and socialize, I just smile because I am lucky to have all of you great kids in my class.
1. Write Part 2.
2. I will look at a few on the big screen to share errors and such.
3. Have a great weekend. Part 2 is due on Monday.
Objective: The students will write Part 2 of the paper.
1. Get out your printed sources that you have read and color coded.
2. Part 2 Notes (listen carefully and process what I am saying! This will make or break your paper!)
3. Write Part 2. This will be two days. Due printed on Monday.
Objective: The students will find their newspaper or magazine source and read all sources to write tomorrow.
If you found an article on a source like Time.com, you can't be sure that it actually appeared in the magazine, so today you will look in a database that has those articles.
1. Get out your printed web page sources so that I can see them.
2. Use the following to find your magazine/newspaper article. Print it out and read it.
From Clever, find the Destiny icon and log in with your Google account (destiny.riversideunified.org)
ProQuest Database Platform - access research from 7 full databases.
Objective: The students will research their topic.
Today you will use your computer and internet to find at least two good sources of information for your paper.
1. Research: You will want to find two good sources that have information on your subject's past (Part 2 of the paper) and information from 2024 (Part 3).
2. You can copy them into a document, then print them so that you can read them and highlight.
3. Tomorrow I will show you how to find your magazine or newspaper article.
Objective: The students will print, share, edit and revise Part 1.
1. Print your Part 1. Make sure that you submit it through GC.
2. Let's share a few on the big screen.
3. Use the checklist to edit for your partner. Mark it up. Be critical. Be mean if you have to. Help your partner get an A.
4. Use their comments to make changes and corrections.
5. Start finding sources for Part 2 and 3. If you find something good, copy and paste to a doc so that it can be printed out.
Objective: The students will write part 1 of the research paper.
Turn in The Parable of the Good Samaritan and The Research Paper Brainstorming stapled together for 100 points.
1. Notes on how the paper will be set up: All parts.
2. Notes on Part 1
3. Part 1 Example
4. Write Part 1: Due tomorrow. 50 points or No Points.
Objective: The students will research possible subjects for the paper that they will write.
Since counselors were here yesterday and I didn't know... We will do this today.
1. Today you will use your phones or devices to look into possible subjects for your paper.
2. Read the entire prompt. This paper is worth a total of 400 points to your grade, so you will want to pick a subject that has enough info to cover 5-10 pages.
3. Look for interesting people, groups or events from 2024 and fill out the handout of FIVE possible topics. Write a sentence or three about why you think they would be good topics.
4. Outside Book.Objective: The students will research possible subjects for the paper that they will write.
1. Today you will use your phones or devices to look into possible subjects for your paper.
2. Read the entire prompt. This paper is worth a total of 400 points to your grade, so you will want to pick a subject that has enough info to cover 5-10 pages.
3. Look for interesting people, groups or events from 2024 and fill out the handout of FIVE possible topics. Write a sentence or three about why you think they would be good topics.
4. Outside Book.
Objective: The students will read and analyze a parable.
1. WP Number _____
2. Go over The Man in the Water Questions and turn in for points.
3. The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Note: Teaching this as literature... Yes, I am allowed to.
4. Complete the assignment.
5. Outside Reading Book ids Homework
Objective: The students will analyze "The Man in the Water."
1. WP Number 3: The Crash of Flight 90.
2. Complete close reading and questions for "The Man in the Water." Staple "Man in the Water," the Questions, and the News Article together for 100 points.
3. Outside Reading Book: Buy it by Monday. I want to know what you are reading on Monday.
Objective: The students will practice AP writing.
1. WP Number 2: Get out yesterday's news article and use it to write an AP quality paragraph that uses details and at least three quotes.
Title: The Air Florida Crash of Flight 90
Author: Justin Time
2. Close read "Man in the Water." Next to each section, write a "gist" statement that summarizes that section.
3. Complete the questions. This is NOT homework if not finished. Get an outside book!
Objective: The students will see an example of a person who would have been my "Person of the Year" if I was writing this research paper when I was a sophomore.
1. Go over vocabulary definitions. Turn in vocab.
2. WP Number 1 (yes we start over).
3. Discuss what you are going to be doing for the next three weeks.
4. Handout: Close read and answer questions.
5. Videos:
Objective: The students will begin the Research Paper Unit: 2024 Person of the Year.
Welcome Back! Not going to lie... I missed your smiling faces!
Today we start a new unit that is pretty huge: The Research Paper. We will do several activities that will culminate in the writing of a five to ten page paper. It will be fun! :)
1. Sit anywhere. It is your chance this week to move seats from last semester. I will make a new seating chart on Friday after we get all of the class changes (new students here, old students gone).
2. "Man in the Water" Vocabulary.
List for the Vocab. Exercise:
flailing (v)
abiding (adj)
pitted (v)
implacable (adj)
extravagant (adj)
synthesize (v)
analyze (v)
gist (n)
integrate (v)
citation (n)
