Day 122

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

Day 121

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

Day 120

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

Day 119

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)

Day 118

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!

 

Day 117

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!

Day 116

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

Day 115

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

Day 114

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!

Day 113

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.

Day 112

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).

Day 111

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.

Day 110

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.

Day 109

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.

 

Day 108

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. 

Day 107

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.

Day 106

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.  

To vote please put this information on your board or google classroom.  They will need to login to mlk/voting4schools.com

Their ID is their login and their birthday is their password.  Their birthday will not have any zero in the password.

Day 105

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.

Day 104

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.

Day 103

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.

Day 102

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.

Day 101

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.

Day 100

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.

Day 99

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.

Day 98

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.

Day 97

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.

Day 96

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.

Day 95

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.

Day 94

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.

Day 93

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.

Day 92

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

 

Day 91

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.

Day 90

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!

Day 89

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:

Day 88

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:

1. flailing (v)

2. abiding (adj)

3. pitted (v)

4. implacable (adj)

5. extravagant (adj)

6. synthesize (v)

7. analyze (v)

8. gist (n)

9. integrate (v)

10. citation (n)