Week of 11/11

I know that you have worked hard on the research. I know that it's a little bit outside of the comfort zone for many of you. But I also know that it will benefit you to know how to go about this, especially those of you who are going on to college. Thank you for your efforts and attention.

Monday, 11/11
Research paper assessment
Debate lesson
Mini debate planning
Lab to work

Tuesday, 11/12
Lab to work on paper
Possible debate planning

Wednesday, 11/13
Lab to finish
Debate planning

Thursday, 11/14
Debate

Friday, 11/15
Debate

Week of November 4

Research, research, and MORE research!!!

Monday, 11/4
Research

Tuesday, 11/5
Research
Note Cards


Wednesday, 11/6
Research
Works Cited, Outline due

Thursday, 11/7
Research

Friday, 11/8
Research
Rough Draft Due

Week of 10/28

Research Week!!! I know that it can be tedious and sometimes confusing and overwhelming, but I also know you can do it. And so can I. ;) Just keep plugging away and you will come out with a fabulous product that will get you a wonderful grade.

Monday, 10/28
Research
Sr Mem Book Chpt 7/8 due

Tuesday, 10/29
Research

Wednesday, 10/30
Research
10 source cards due at beginning of period

Thursday, 10/31
Research

Friday, 11/1
Research

Week of 10/21

I think I accidentally skipped last week on the blog... sorry. Well, this week we are starting our research paper/debate unit. (Since you all did indicate that you wanted to DO a debate unit....) We will test over the last unit, then start our research.

Monday, 10.21
Test

Tuesday, 10.22
Research

Wednesday, 10.23
Research

Thursday, 10.24
Research

Friday, 10.25
Debate planning
Journals Due
Outside reading assigned

Vocabulary for the Week of 10/14

Vocabulary

abet gregarious

coerce insipid

divulge jaundiced

dogmatic meticulous

extraneous temerity

Week of 9/30

Coming to the end of this unit! And guess what else? Halfway through the first semester of your SENIOR YEAR!!!

Monday, 9/30
Word Web
Seminar
Define Unit 4

Tuesday, 10/1
Mac Works
Mac Character

Wednesday, 10/2
Mac Essay
Sonnet

Thursday, 10/3
Swift

Friday, 10/4
Satire
Define Unit 4

Week of 9/23

We are finally back to some "school as usual". :) I'm so enjoying Macbeth with you! I hope you guys are liking it as well.

Monday, 9/23
Mac Act IV
Sr Mem 5 due

Tuesday, 9/24
Mac Act IV, V

Wednesday, 9/25
Mac Act V

Thursday, 9/26
Word Web
Seminar

Friday, 9/27
Mac Work
Journals Due

Week of 9/16

Macbeth, Macbeth, Beware Macduff!

Monday, 9/16
Define Unit 3
Finish Act I, watch it, Act II

Tuesday, 9/17
Act II

Wednesday, 9/18
Act III

Thursday, 9/19
Act IV

Friday, 9/20
Activity
Vocab Quiz

Week of 9/9

I really can't tell you how excited I am to be starting MACBETH this week!!! I LOVE MACBETH. :) I hope you do too.

Monday, 9/9
Sr Mem 3/4 due
Mac intro, notes

Tuesday, 9/10
Mac Act I

Wednesday, 9/11
Mac I, II
Activity

Thursday, 9/12
Mac Act II

Friday, 9/13
Journals Due
Mac Assignment

Week of 9/2

September is already here! This year is going to fly by for you, I promise.

Monday, 9/2
HAVE FUN!

Tuesday, 9/3
Final Activity

Wednesday, 9/4
Final Activity

Thursday, 9/5
Test

Friday, 9/6
Intro to Renaissance

Vocabulary Unit 2

Discreet
Situational irony
Prudent
Concede
Estimable
Solicitous
Vernacular
Arrogance
Adversary
Pilgrimage
Irony
Prevarication
Disperse
Suffice
Deftly
Gratify
Parable

Week of 8/26

I want to say that you guys are stinking amazing. I honestly have had so much fun talking to you about the Prologue and you are so attentive and kind. I really am loving this semester.  This week we will finish Chaucer and then do what I think is a really cool activity I came up with last year. :) I hope you LOVE it.

Monday, 8/26
Voc 2 Words
Senior Mem Bk 2 DUE
Finish "A Knight's Tale"

Tuesday, 8/27
"Pardoner's Tale"

Wednesday, 8/28
"Wife of Bath's Tale"

Thursday, 8/29
Final Activity

Friday, 8/30
Final Activity

Week of 8/19

I can't believe we are already testing over Unit 1! I have been really impressed with your level of interest and participation thus far. You guys are a really good class. :)

Monday, 8/19
Sr Mem Bk Chpt 1 Due
Unit 1 Test

Tuesday, 8/20
Intro to Middle Ages

Wednesday, 8/21
Canterbury Tales Prologue

Thursday, 8/21
Canterbury Tales Prologue

Friday, 8/22
Pardoner's Tale
Journals Due

Unit 1 Vocab

Unit 1 Vocab (Literary)

lament

forge

shroud

infamous

writhing

reparation

kenning

epic

admonish

rancor

flourish

blanch

expound

diligently

aspire

frivilous

wyrd

alliteration

allusion

symbolism

Welcome in, CLASS OF 2014!!!

I hope you take a giant breath because the rest of this year is going to go by so quickly that it blows your mind. Before you can take time to blink, you will be putting that cap and gown on and walking across the stage. Trust me. So in the interim, I hope we have a great semester together doing English IV!

Here is our schedule for our first full week:

Monday, 8/12
A-S Intro
Notes
Beowulf

Tuesday, 8/13
Beowulf

Wednesday, 8/14
Voc pres
Beowulf

Thursday, 8/15
Exeter Book

Friday, 8/16
Voc Quiz 1
Hero Final Activity

Week of 3/11

We are almost finished with Unit 4! This week moves us into the very last section of this unit.

(I did change a few things from the original schedule... sorry)
Monday, 3/11
Define Unit 5
jest
refined
contemplation
carpe diem
prevail
chaste
inconstancy
hue
strife
transgress
deluge
discern
myriad
subterranean
deference
digress
conjecture
magnitude
negligence
prodigious
Present projects

Tuesday, 3/12
Sonnets

Wednesday, 3/13
Satire

Thursday, 3/14
Swift

Friday, 3/15
Donne
Vocab quiz

Week of 3/4

I have really been so proud of you guys during our Macbeth unit. You paid attention in class (with only a couple of exceptions), you worked hard at comprehension, and you thought critically. You are the perfect classes!

Monday, 3/4
Macbeth word web, seminar

Tuesday, 3/5
Independent Reading Assessment

Wednesday, 3/6
Macbeth Character Activity

Thursday, 3/7
Macbeth Essay assignment

Friday, 3/8
Condensed Shakespeare

Week of 2/25

Monday, 2/25
Define Unit 4
pernicious
exploit
redress
avarice
pertain
purge
antidote
siege
prowess
usurper
allusion
bodements
confound
guise
taint
bane
wrack
apparition
rancor
jocund
Sr Mem 6 due
Mac Act IV

Tuesday, 2/26
Mac Act IV/V

Wednesday, 2/27
Act V

Thursday, 2/28
Act V

Friday, 2/29
Activity

Week of 2/19

Macbeth is in my top two favorites from English IV. I hope so much that all of you love it as much (ok, maybe not AS MUCH, but at least SOME) as I do! This is a short week, so enjoy your day off!

Tuesday, 2/19
Mac Act II
Senior Memory Book 5 due

Wednesday, 2/20
Mac Act II, maybe III

Thursday, 2/21
Mac Act III

Friday, 2/22
Mac Act IV
JOURNALS DUE

Week of 2/11

I can't express to you how much I am enjoying this semester with you all so far. I am so excited to start Macbeth this week!!! You are going to love it!!!

Monday, 2/11
Sr Mem Bk Chpt 4 due
Unit 2 Test
Define Unit 3
blank verse
iambic pentameter
tragedy
soliloquy
aside
direful
prophetic
repentance
plenteous
peerless
stealthily
surfeited
provoke
scruple
predominance
indissoluble
incense
jovial
appall
amends

Tuesday, 2/12
Intro to Ren

Wednesday, 2/13
Mac Intro
(notes)

Thursday, 2/14
Mac Act I

Friday, 2/15
Act II
Voc Quiz
Mac Activity

Week of February 4

I can't tell you how cool I think your projects are!!! I am anxious to see the final presentations. :)

Monday, 2/4
Sr Mem Bk Chpt 3 due
Finish group presentations while watching "AKT"

Tuesday, 2/5
REMEMBER: Seniors do not have to report until 9:15! Sleep in and enjoy your morning. Classes are abbreviated.
Finalize group presentations while finishing "AKT"

Wednesday, 2/6
Final Activity (Group pres)

Thursday, 2/7
Arthurian Legends

Friday, 2/8
Sir Gawaine
JOURNALS DUE

Week of 1/28

AND Friday #2 off! :) We'll take it. I can double-time it to catch us up. No problem! ;)

Monday, 1/28
Define Unit 2
solicitous
estimable
discreet
disdainful
prevarication
vernacular
pilgrimage
adversary
prudent
gratify
deftly
parable
dramatic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
reprove
concede
disperse
arrogance
suffice
Read Canterbury Tales Prologue, part 1
SR MEM BK CHPT 2 DUE

Tuesday, 1/29
Canterbury Tales Prologue part 2

Wednesday, 1/30
Pardoner's Tale

Thursday, 1/31
Wife of Bath's Tale

Friday, 2/1
Voc 2 quiz
Arthurian legends

Week of 1/21

I told yall on the first day that I am a schedule person and I hate having to revise the calendar BUT I wouldn't mind doing it for snow days. Wellllll..... we got lucky! :) So we are a little off but no big deal. This week we will finish 1 and start 2.

Monday, 1/21
OFF

Tuesday, 1/22
SR MEM BK CHPT 1 DUE
Catch up to keep classes together-- 1st finish Grendels, study notes, 2nd TIME article, Grendels

Wednesday, 1/23
Vocab quiz, Unit 1 Test from Friday

Thursday, 1/24
Intro to Middle Ages

Friday, 1/25
Canterbury Tales Prologue
JOURNALS DUE!

Week of 1.14

I know we have barely gotten started, but we are finishing Unit 1 this week! It's a short one. The others are not as short. I feel like we have done really well here in the beginning of the semester and I am looking forward to several more months with you guys! :)

Monday, 1/14
Vocab words:
lament
forge
shroud
infamous
writhing
reparation
kenning
epic
admonish
rancor
flourish
blanch
expound
diligently
aspire
frivilous
wyrd
alliteration
allusion
symbolism
Beowulf Part 2

Tuesday, 1/15
Vocab presentations
Beowulf Part 3

Wednesday, 1/16
Exeter book

Thursday, 1/17
Hero final activity
TIME magazine article

Friday, 1/18
Vocab Quiz 1
Unit 1 Test

Welcome, Spring Semester Scholars!

Well, we are ready to kick off not only a new semester, but your LAST semester of high school!!! That has to feel really good. :) Be sure and notice the countdown clock on the main page of the blog... it won't be long now!  This first week we will do housekeeping type stuff then ease into Unit 1, The Hero. It's one of my favorite units (I love the discussions in this unit!) and I expect you to like Beowulf.

Tuesday, 1/8
Intro to Class

Wednesday, 1/9
Letter to Future Child
Personality Test

Thursday, 1/10
The Hero Introduction activities

Friday, 1/11
A-S notes
Beowulf