Today's+Agenda

Day 43: Final scenes Class review media type="custom" key="6209411"
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Day 42: work on scenes all day

Day 41 (5/18-19): Merchant test/ if time work on scenes

Day 40 (5/17): Work on scenes in class Go over rubric for final Wordle

Day 39: Finish Play!!! Watch Anthony Heald discuss his role as Shylock in OSF's Merchant of Venice [|Merchant of Venice interview] Work on projects, review play for test next class HW: prepare for final presentation/ essay/ test

Day 38: Finish Act 3, read act 4 until "Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself" **HW: worksheet act 4

redo act 1 worksheet in class Read to Act 3
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Day 36: Collect HW Read and analyze Act 2 Begin Act 3 complete a "gossip report" for HW complete a "gossip report" for the play so far (tabloid magazine cover)

Day 35: (all work is on the Merchant of Venice page) Merchant of Venice background/ cast of characters Read & Analyze Act 1 HW: analysis sheet

Day 34: Test (50 minutes) Newsweek article **__Soccer students make up test Tuesday__

Discuss end of novel HW: Test tomorrow! (Thursday or Friday) **
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TFA: Colonialism Connections, "[|The Second Coming]," and "[|The White Man's Burden]" ** HW: Finish the Book and annotate
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Day 31: TFA: Justice system, Okonkwo has a heart, Foil characters of Ok and Obi, Exile, a Plot!! HW: Read Chapters 15-19 and annotate

TFA: Ibo culture **, Does TFA have a plot?? HW: Read Ch 10-14 and annotate; Obierika and Okonkwo as foils
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Discuss first 5 chapters in TFA (Things Fall Apart) HW: Read Chapters 6-9; make an average of 4 annotations per chapter or 16 total for today's reading assignment **
 * Day 29:

Discuss article (HW) in groups HW: read through chapter 5- (pg 2879) and annotate at least 4 times per chapter; make a chart to organize the characters; you may choose to find an organizational chart on the internet or to come up with your own format. 2 sample character charts are on the Things Fall Apart page.
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Day 27: Finish //Lost in Austen [|How to Write about Africa] HW: Read this article://

Day 25 & 26: // Lost in Austen // Hand out //Things Fall Apart HW: read intro until page 2858 line "One of these villages, Iguedo, is the home of the protagonist Okonkwo, an ambitious and powerful man who is driven by the memory of his father's failure and weakness." //

Day 24: End of unit Assessment // Lost in Austen //

Day 23: Discuss end of novel Jeopardy review Begin //Lost in Austen// Day 22: Quiz Discuss/ review reading of chapter 33-49 class discussion HW: Finish novel Day 21: Quiz 33-49 Discuss implications of Lydia's choice, Wickam, Darcy's change HW: read through 55 Day 20: (1st day back from break for D & F) Discuss Chapters 33-44 watch Pemberly scenes HW: read => chapter 49- quiz tomorrow Day 19: Diigo presentation Theme work Movies compare and contrast **HW: Read through 36 (B block) 44 (D and F) Remember you need to read through 49 by March 30-31

Extra Credit Opportunity!! DUE 3/15- If you follow these directions EXPLICITLY you will have the opportunity to get Extra Credit:
Day 18: Discuss chapter 18-23 as a seminar HW: read through chapter 33 and **you will need to read through 49 (block B) and 45 (block D&F) by end of break!!!**
 * See Alice In Wonderland
 * Save the ticket stub
 * Write a 1 page, single spaced paper (12 pt font, Times New Roman) discussing the feminism in the movie and the application to our current unit of study

Day 17: Discuss Chapters 1-18 HW: read => chapter 23

Day 16: Watch Pride and Prejudice Day 15: [|music widget] Quiz chapter 8-13 Discuss book Discuss project HW: read through chapter 18

Day 14: [|Context for Pride and Prejudice] Quiz on chapters 1-7 Discuss femininity Watch A&E version HW: read though chapter 13 Day 13: Keynote challenge Read chapters 1-2 in class HW: read through chapter 7- possible quiz next class Day 12: Poetry test Day 11: Guest speaker- poetry people Day 10: Lucille Clifton poem & "...The Other Woman" HW: review for test on Thursday/ Friday Day 9: "Teenage Sky" and "They Locked me up in Prose" HW- Review all poems studied so far Day 8: Guest teacher Day 7: "Woman" discussion Read and discuss "Girl" HW: Write your own version of "Girl" for today

Day 6: Discuss "The Last Duchess" Analyze "Women" HW: Determine the main idea for each stanza and determine reasons for rhyme scheme

Day 5: In class essay on "The Story of an Hour" HW: Read and annotate "The Last Duchess" by next class Day 4: Outline discussion on "The Story of an Hour" "Stupid Girls" "Unpretty" Write your own "unpretty" HW: read and annotate "The Last Duchess" by Day 6

Day 3: Peer edit research paper outlines "This is Why I'm Hot" rewrite "The Story of an Hour" essay HW: Outline for "Story of an Hour" theme essay

Backwards outline research paper Look at feminism posts "story of an hour" continued HW: New outline for research paper- What SHOULD you have written??
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Day 1: Backwards outline //Three Days// essays "story of an hour" **HW: Fix backwards outline and improve
 * Discussion Post: What is feminism??

day 51: prepare for final Day 50: Peer edit fairy tales and fables Go over presentation expectations and formatting for final draft of all assignments

Day 49: Work on fables and fairy tales on your own. Due BEGINNING of next class. Day 48: Work on writing the fairy tale. See attached sub plans for additional help. Day 47: Please bring a HARD COPY of your paper to class for peer editing Day 46 (all except Block B): Work on Bibliography and rough draft. Bibliography due at end of class Day 46: Block B: Rough Draft due Peer Edit Bibliography work- Bibliography due at end of class Day 45: Work on Bibliography talk about book report due at end of semester (250 pages) Day 44: Review essay skills and last essay work on thesis- due at end of class Day 43:**======

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Download this program onto one of your computers and organize a screen cast- what reasons do you have for making the choices that you made on your script. Work on this for the rest of class- Screencast must be completed by end of class.======

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Using your knowledge of Kim Yu-Jeong, come up with a thesis statement about his writing, for example: "Kim Yu-Jeong's writing can be described as..." or "Kim Yu-Jeong's writing allows readers to..." and, using at least 3 quotes with appropriate lead-in's and analysis, write a 500-600 word "essay". This will need to be emailed to me by Thursday afternoon at 3:00pm. It will not be going into the essay category in the gradebook, but instead is a homework assignment to practice writing.======

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Scripts will be due on the day that we come back, NOT on the 28th. You may continue to collaborate on the script via wikispaces or another interactive site- DO NOT GET TOGETHER in a group as you are quarantined.======

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For F block, go to "The Camellias" page on the right and complete the worksheet. For the last row, choose a significant quote from any story and come up with a lead in and analysis for that quote. After completing, Facebook a friend and determine which lead-in and analysis is better for each quote. If yours are bad, fix them and improve them.======

In what way is a daughter the “American Translation” of her mother? Choose a mother/ daughter pair and discuss Pick at least one mother-daughter pair, and examine to what degree each has fulfilled the American Dream. How does the importance and/or definition of the American Dream change between generations?

HW:

 * ======Read "Without Wood"======
 * ======write a story/ chapter/ episode about yourself. No page limit specified- DUE NEXT CLASS======

**Day 6:**

 * ======Discuss HW======
 * ======Class work: in groups work on why 4 stories link to "Feathers From a Thousand li Away (pg 41, 42, 64 will help as they are talking to their daughters on these pages)======
 * ======As a group write a 1 page reflection on the 4 stories and their possible link.======
 * ======Chinatown tour [] Answer questions on a separate piece of paper except for #1======
 * 1) ======Which picture is your favorite? Why? Place answer under "Discussion" here: F Block B block D Block======
 * 2) ======Is there a Joy Luck Club element to any of these pictures? (Look at slide 14 and then at the list of characters)======
 * 3) ======Look at the map of Chinatown (slide #24) What areas border Chinatown?======
 * 4) ======Research these three areas. Who lives there? What types of buildings are there? Why might these districts be by Chinatown?======
 * ======Read "The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates" THINK: What does it say about the mother that she sees the bad things that can happen? What does it say about the daughter that she ignores her mother and proves her mother correct? What does the word "Malignant" mean?======
 * ======Read "Rules of the Game" and "The Voice From the Wall". As you read, make connections between the mother and her daughter.======

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10-15 minute presentation teaching your book to the class focusing on themes, characters, historical time period, implications on the rest of the school year, general overview of the plot. Present next class.======