Week of December 7

It's our crazy schedule week this week. And it's also pretty much THE END. :)

Monday, 12/7
2 hour class period
Finish Frankenstein
Frankenparty

Tuesday, 12/8
Condensed Shakespeare

Wednesday, 12/9
Mercy Day

Thursday, 12/10
"Sense and Sensibility"

Friday, 12/11
Poetry
WWI Poetry
Frank project due

Week of November 30

3 weeks until the first semester of your senior year is OVER. You are halfway through your last year of high school, friends!!! This week after break is one of my very favorites because we get to read FRANKENSTEIN!!!! I hope you love it as much as I do. :)

*Make sure ALL senior memory book chapters are done and turned in or you will hate yourself later...

Monday, 11/30
Novel
Mini-research

Tuesday, 12/1
Frank

Wednesday, 12/2
Frank

Thursday, 12/3
Frank

Friday, 12,4
Frank

Week of November 16

FINALLY we are almost finished with our research! :) Then it's on to Frankenstein!

Monday, 11/16
Senior Memory Book 10 due
Type Paper (In-text citations, works cited)

Tuesday, 11/17
Type paper

Wednesday, 11/18
Type paper

Thursday, 11/19
Frank Research
Type abstracts

Friday, 11/20
Research Presentations

Week of November 9

We are just two weeks away from the end of research! Keep pushing!!!

Monday, 11/9
Sr Mem Bk 9 due
Satire
(Not in lab)
Research

Tuesday, 11/10
Satire
(Not in lab)
Research
Outlines

Wednesday, 11/11
Research
(not in lab)
Donne

Thursday, 11/12
Research

Friday, 11/13
Works Cited

Week of November 2

Research! Research! Research! :)

Monday, 11/2
Research
Senior Memory Book 8 due

Tuesday, 11/3
Research

Wednesday, 11/4
Research

Thursday, 11/5
Research

Friday, 11/5
Research

Week of October 26

It's time! Research days are here. It's going to hurt, it's going to overwhelm, it's going to intimidate.... BUT IT IS NOT GOING TO WIN! YOU WILL BE VICTORIOUS! AND IT'S GOING TO FEEL SO GOOD WHEN YOU FINISH!

Monday, 10/26
SUB
Senior Mem Book 7 due
Mini-research lessons with Ms. Smartt

Tuesday, 10/27
Begin Research Project

Wednesday, 10/28
Research

Thursday, 10/29
Research

Friday, 10/30
Research

Week of October 19

Time is FLYING BY!

Monday, 10/19
Sr Mem Bk Chpt 6 due
Sonnets
Donne(?)

Tuesday, 10/20
Outside Reading Activity

Wednesday, 10/21
Carpe Diem Poetry

Thursday, 10/22
"Dead Poet's Society"

Friday, 10/23
Finish DPS

(Late) Week of October 12

Short week! (I am really late posting but wanted it to be up for people who were absent any days this week...)

Monday, 10/12
Staff Development-- OFF

Tuesday, 10/13
Sr Mem Bk Chpt 5 due
Watch IV, V

Wednesday, 10/14
Finished Act V

Thursday, 10/15
Word Web
Macbeth Essay started

Friday, 10/16
Finish Essay

Week of September 28-- ALMOST FALL BREAK, Y'ALL!

Good week last week, people! I love your response to Macbeth. :)

Monday, 9/28
Act IV
Senior Memory Book 4 due

Tuesday, 9/29
Act V

Wednesday, 9/30
Word Web/Seminar

Thursday, 10/1
Mac Essay
(Lab booked)

Friday, 10/2
Mac Character Activity
SUB

Week of September 19

Even though we are now DAYS behind, I am really enjoying Macbeth as much as I always do. :) Thanks again for your efforts in the senior interviews. You are good people.

Monday, 9/21
Act II
Voc Quiz 1

Tuesday, 9/22
Act II

Wednesday, 9/23
Act III

Thursday, 9/24
Act III

Friday, 9/25
Outside Reading Day
Sub
Journals due

Week of September 14

It's MACBETH TIME!!!!! I will try to curb my excitement a little just so you don't think me crazy but... I CAN'T WAIT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MACBETH! You guys are so much fun to read and discuss literature with and this is going to be the BEST. :)

Monday, 9/14
Sr Memory Book Chpt 3 due
Macbeth Act I

Tuesday, 9/15
Finish Act I, Act II

Wednesday, 9/16
Act II

Thursday, 9/17
Senior Interviews

Friday, 9/18
At II
Vocab Quiz 1

Week of September 7

We start Unit 3 today! It's MY FAVORITE!!! :)

Monday, 9/7
LABOR DAY

Tuesday, 9/8
Intro to Renaissance

Wednesday, 9/9
College Fair

Thursday, 9/10
Macbeth Intro (notes)

Friday, 9/11
9/11 Documentary
Voc Quiz 1

Week of August 31

This week we are going to take a pilgrimage, kiss Unit 2 goodbye, and take some time to work on some real life skills like interviewing, writing resumes, and cover letters. :)

Can I also say to the approximately two of you who look at this page that I seriously love you? I have done that pilgrimage project for five years and I was just now SHOCKED when I went to the back of the room to check the state of the table where you left your projects. They are so neat and perfect!!! Y'all are so good to me and I really appreciate it!

Monday, 8/31
Sr Mem Bk 2 due
Voc 1 Quiz
Finish project, presentations

Tuesday, 9/1
Arthurian Legend, Sir Gawaine, Norms

Wednesday, 9/2
Unit 2 Test
SUB

Thursday, 9/3
Interview skills, etc

Friday, 9/4
Write resumes, practice interviews
SUB

Week of August 24

This week will round out Unit 2. Although some of us have a few issues we need to work on (focus and phones being at the forefront), I really do enjoy this class. You all had so many great things to say during your small group Canterbury Tales Prologue discussion and I especially like your constant references to textual evidence!

Monday, 8/24
Finish "Knight's Tale"

Tuesday, 8/25
Read "Pardoner's Tale"

Wednesday, 8/26
"Wife of Bath's Tale"

Thursday, 8/27
Final Activity in groups

Friday, 8/28
Final Activity in groups
JOURNALS DUE

August Vocabulary

Here are your words for the end of August. The test is 8/28.

divulge

abet

dogmatic

insipid

extraneous

coerce

jaundiced

meticulous

temerity

gregarious

Week of August 17

Happy THIRD WEEK of school! Remember what I said about how fast it's going to all fly by? It has already started. Unit 1 is over, moving on to the Canterbury Tales this week!

Monday, 8/17
Unit 1 Test
SENIOR MEMORY BOOK CHAPTER 1 DUE

Tuesday, 8/18
Intro to Middle Ages

Wednesday, 8/19
Canterbury Tales Prologue

Thursday, 8/20
Canterbury Tales Prologue

Friday, 8/21
"A Knight's Tale"

Week of August 10

Welcome to English IV! Seniors, seniors, seniors! :)

Monday, 8/10
A-S Notes
Beowulf and Grendel

Tuesday, 8/11
Beowulf and Grendel's Mother

Wednesday, 8/12
Beowulf and the Dragon

Thursday, 8/13
Exeter Book

Friday, 8/14
Hero Final Activity

Week of 4/13

We are getting soooo close to the end, people. Push through. You've got this.

Monday, 4/13
Research
Sr Mem 9/10 due
Work on outlines

Tuesday, 4/14
Research
Outlines due
Teach Works Cited
Work on Works Cited and outlines

Wednesday, 4/15
Research
Works Cited due
Teach Parenthetical Citations and Paper format
Work on paper

Thursday, 4/16
Research
Work on paper

Friday, 4/17
Research
Work on paper

Argumentative Research Paper Topics

Your task today is to select a topic for your argumentative research paper. Your topic should be worded in the form of a researchable question. You are going to be spending a LOT of time with this topic and so it's important that you pick one that interests you. I give you a TON of space to come up with something you can really delve into, so don't pick a topic that bores you.

Below are four sites with lists of topics. On a sheet of notebook paper, keep a running brainstorming list of the ones that interest you. Look thoroughly through all four sites. Once you have searched them all, take the topics on your list and scan around on the databases linked to our school library website. The link is http://chslibrarymedia.com/chslibrary/resources-2/databases/
See which topics seem to have a lot of viable information and which ones don't. Slowly start to narrow down by marking through any that don't have much information. Leave at least three topics open, then pick the one that you feel best about. IF that topic isn't in the form of a researchable question, use your time with the research to come up with a good question format.

Once you feel like you have a researchable question, write it on the index card and bring it to me to approve. It is possible that your question will evolve a little as you start to dig into the research. You may find that it is either too narrow or too broad. It is also possible that your question might change completely, but that can only happen within the first day or two of research. After that, you're stuck with it. :)

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/?p=OVIC&u=tel_s_tsla

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/200-prompts-for-argumentative-writing/?_r=0

http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/files/handouts/research_paper_and_argument_topics.pdf

http://virginialynne.hubpages.com/hub/100-Easy-Argumentative-Essay-Topic-Ideas

Week of 3/30

It's time for research!!! Y'all are ready for this.

Monday, 3/30
Begin research (watch debate)

Tuesday, 3/31
Research

Wednesday, 4/1
Research

Thursday, 4/2
Research
Journals Due

Friday, 4/3
OFF

Week of 3/16 (LAST WEEK BEFORE YOUR LAST SPRING BREAK!!!)

I hope you guys have an awesome and restful spring break. It is DOWNHILL FAST from the time we return. Get ready!

Monday, 3/16
Sr Mem 6 Due
Watch Concise Shakespeare

Tuesday, 3/17
Carpe Diem poetry and sonnets

Wednesday, 3/18
"DPS"
SUB

Thursday, 3/19
"DPS"
SUB

Friday, 3/20
Test
Outside Reading Assessment
SUB

Week of 3/9

Thanks for your great attention to and support of Macbeth. You guys are wonderful.

Monday, 3/9
Word Web/Seminar

Tuesday, 3/10
In-Class Essay

Wednesday, 3/11
Satire

Thursday, 3/12
Swift

Friday, 3/13
Donne

***Chapters 1-6 of Senior Memory Book are due by Spring Break...

Week of 2/16

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!

Thanks so much for all of your attention to our Macbeth reading/discussion. You guys are soooooo great!!!

Monday, 2/16
Off

Tuesday, 2/17
Act III
Senior Memory 3 due

Wednesday, 2/18
Act IV

Thursday, 2/19
Act IV

Friday, 2/20
Act V

Week of 2/9

IT'S TIME FOR MACBETH!!!!! :) I'm excited.

Monday, 2/9
Intro to Unit 3

Tuesday, 2/10
Macbeth intro, notes
Act I

Wednesday, 2/11
Finish I, start II

Thursday, 2/12
Finish II

Friday, 2/13
Act III
Informational Text activity

Week of 1/26

January is SPENT!!! Crazy, I tell you. This week is alllll Canterbury Tales. I appreciate your attentiveness last week and I know it's going to be a great week this week. :)

Monday, 1/26
Watch "A Knight's Tale"

Tuesday, 1/27
Finish "A Knight's Tale"

Wednesday, 1/28
Pardoner's Tale

Thursday, 1/29
Wife of Bath's Tale

Friday, 1/30
Final Activity
JOURNALS DUE

Week of 1/19

In honor of this Martin Luther King, Jr. day/week, I want to give you a quote that is a perfect fit for you at this point in your lives. It's not actually my favorite of his (although I love it), not even necessarily in my top three, but it is very appropriate for you at this upcoming critical juncture.

"Whatever career you may choose for yourself-- doctor, lawyer, teacher-- let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring form love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Make a career of humanity. I love that so much.

Now, the schedule for the week!

Monday, 1/19

OFF

Tuesday, 1/20

Unit 1 test from Friday

Sr Mem Chpt 1 due

Wednesday, 1/21

Intro to Middle Ages

Thursday, 1/22

C-T Prologue

Friday, 1/23

C-T Prologue

January Vocab words

Here are your words for January. The test is 1/23.

divulge

abet

dogmatic

insipid

extraneous

coerce

jaundiced

meticulous

temerity

gregarious

Week of 1/12

I have to tell you, the first few days have me awfully excited about the coming semester. You are great in discussion, great when working on things, and for the brief bit of Beowulf we have done, you are great. :) Looking forward to a semester with you!

Monday, 1/12
January vocabulary (quiz is 1/23)
Beowulf

Tuesday, 1/13
Beowulf

Wednesday, 1/14
Exeter Book

Thursday, 1/15
Hero Final activity

Friday, 1/16
Unit 1 Test

Week of January 5

Welcome! I am excited about a semester with you and most excited that I get to be part of your FINAL semester in high school! I can't wait to get to see you cross the stage in that cap and gown in May. We are going to be hitting the ground running this week, so buckle up!

Monday, 1/5
OFF!

Tuesday, 1/6
Intro to class

Wednesday, 1/7
Letter
Pics
Personality test
Assemble Sr Mem Bk folder

Thursday, 1/8
TWO HOUR DELAY!
Anglo-Saxons intro

Friday, 1/9
A-S notes
Beowulf