65-69%     =            D               

               <65%          =                F

Class Schedule

 

Week of 8/10- 8/14

Mon.

Intro to class and policies

Pet peeve speech assigned

HW: signed letters home- and speech

 

 

 

Block 1.

Grammar Diagnostic

Vocab list 1 packet assigned- due Aug. 14th/15th

Pet Peeve Speech presentations

 

 

Block 2.

American Culture Game

 

 

 

 Week of 8/17-8/21

Mon.

Group work review

Meeting_Agenda~Minutes_Template.dotx

Native American project assigned

Native American Research Project.docx

Outside reading book selection due 8/24 

outside reading.doc

500 pages and synopsis by 10/09

 

 

 

Block 1

Lab time for Native American research

HW: Vocab #1 due block 2

 

 

 

Block 2

Grade vocab #1 packet

Read and discuss "The Man to Send Rainclouds" from anthology

Lab research time for Native American project

Presentations due 27th

HW: OSR book selections and Vocab quiz #1 Mon.

 

 

Week of  8/24-8/28

 

Mon.

Outside Reading selection due (must have actual book in class!)

Vocab Quiz #1

Monday Mandatory #1

 

Block 1

Vocabulary list #2 assigned/ due 9/3

Cornell notes on initial Puritan settlements in America from anthology

Video Salem Witch Trials

HW: Finish Native American Research PowerPoints to present

 

Block 2

Present PowerPoints 

Checkout and begin act one of The Crucible

 

Week of 8/31-9/4

 

Mon

Parts of the sentence review

Monday Mandatory

Vocabulary work time

 

Block 1

Kinds of sentences review

Read the Crucible- Act 1

Work on Act 1 study guide

Article on congressional hearing and Arthur Miller

HW: vocab list #2

 

Block 2

Grade vocab list #2

Simple and Compound sentences

Finish Act 1 

HW: Vocab quiz over list #2 Tues.

 

Week of 9/7-9/11

No school Mon.

 

 

 Block 1

Vocab Quiz #2

Vocab #3 assigned- due 9/17

Clauses

Finish Act 1 study guide- due by end of period

Begin Reading Act II

 

Block 2

Clauses

Read Act 2

Work on Vocab #3

no HW

 

Week of 9/14-9/18

 

Mon

Act 2 studyguide

Monday Mandatory-

write the absent scene between Proctor and Abigail

 

Block1

Clauses and phrases

Quiz on Act 1 and 2 of Crucible

Begin Act 3

HW: vocab packet #3 due Block 2

 

Block 2

Essential and nonessential phrases and clauses

Grade vocab #3

pictionary

Start Crucible Act 3

HW: vocab Quiz #3 Mon.

 

 

 

Week of 9/21-9/25

 

Mon

Vocab Quiz #3

Finish Study guide Act 3

Mon. Mandatory

 

 

Block 1

Essential and nonessential clauses with comma usage

 

Read the Crucible Act 4 and finish study guide

 

 

 

Block 2

Essential and nonessential clauses with comma usage

review vocabulary lists 1-3

Watch The Crucible

HW: study for vocab test 1-3

 

Week of 9/28-10/2

 

Mon.

Monday Mandatory #4

Test over lists 1-3

 

Block 1

Vocab list #4 assigned

Finish The Crucible movie

Crucible essay assigned

 

 

Block 2

Commas

Work on rough draft for Crucible essay

HW: Finish rough draft

 

Week of 10/5-10/9

Mon.

Monday Mandatory

vocab work time

hw: Crucible rough draft

 

Block 1

Vocab #4 flashcards

commas

peer edit Crucible essay

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" from anthology

HW: vocab packet #4 and flashcards, outside reading due 10/8

Final draft of Crucible essay due- 10/13

 

Block 2

check outside reading

grade vocab #4

Visit advanced drama short scenes of American playwrights

hw: final draft Crucible essay due 10/13

 

Week of 10/12-10/16

 

Mon.

Vocab Quiz #4

Mon. Mandatory

HW: Final draft Crucible Essay due 10/13

 

Block 1

Commas

Vocab #5

Power outage- lesson not completed

 

Block 2

Commas

Read "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"

Persuasive Language

Intro to Romanticism and Transcendentalism w/ cornell notes

Transcendentalism and Romanticism.pptx

 

 

Mon.

Commas

Monday Mandatory

Vocab #5 flashcards

HW: outside reading selection

 

Block 1

Check 2nd quarter outside reading book selection

Commas review

"The Devil and Tom Walker" 

Questions pg. 360 3-7

HW: study for comma quiz and vocab packet #5 due

 

Block 2

Grade vocab packet #5

Read "Self Reliance"

Aphorism/inspiration posters

HW: vocab quiz #5 Mon.

 

Week of 10/26-10/30

Mon.

Essay rewrites in lab

HW: finish rewrites - Due Thurs. -10/29

 

Block 1

Vocab Quiz #5

Comma review

Vocab #6 Assigned- due 11/5

"Civil Disobedience"

HW: study for comma quiz and essay rewrites

 

Block 2

essay rewrites due

Comma Quiz

"Civil Disobedience"

 

 

Week of 11/2-11/6

 

Mon.

Monday Mandatory

Flashcards for packet #6

 

Block 1

passive voice

"Walden"

HW: vocab #6 due block 2

 

 

Block 2

 

Passive voice

Grade vocab #6

Transcendentalist essay assigned

Persuasive Essay on Transcendentalism.docx

Reiew for vocab 4-6

HW: vocab test 4-6 on Mon.

 

Week of 11/9-11/13

Mon.

Work on Rough draft for essay

Vocab Quiz 4-6

HW: finish rough draft

 

Tues. (all classes Veterans Day Schedule)

Peer Edit Rough Draft

Vocab #7 assigned

 

Thurs.

Type essays in lab

if not finished in class- due Mon. 11/16

 

Week of 11/16-11/20

Mon.

Transcendentalism essays due

Semester writing final

 

Block 1

Vocab 7 flashcards

Poe and American Gothic

"Masque of the Red Death"

HW: Vocab 7 packets and flashcards

 

Block 2

Grade Vocab 7

Vocab 7 Quiz

Intro to The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby Reading Schedule.docx

The Great Gatsby study guide.docx

HW: Chapter 1 and study guide due 11/30

 

Week of 11/30-12/4

Mon.

Monday Mandatory

Vocab 8 assigned- due 12/10

HW: Gatsby Chapter 1

 

Block 1

Rewrite Transcendentalism essays

Discuss Chapter 1

Read Chapter 2

HW: Chapter 3

 

Block 2

Discuss chapter 3

finish essays rewrites

Read  chapter 4

HW: chapter 5

 

Week of 12/7-12/11

no school Mon. or Tues.

 

Thurs.

Grade vocab 8

review study guide questions for Gatsby through chapter 7

Found Poem

Gatsby Found Poem.doc 

HW: outside reading

 

 

Fri. (modified schedule)

outside reading due

Final review jeopardy

study guide for final distributed

English 3 semester one final studyguide.docx

HW: finish Gatsby and all study questions for Mon,

Vocab Quiz 8 Mon.