ELA 2 Honors
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Week 12 - October 31 - November 4
Monday - Collection 3 Unit Test - Moodle, Trump Article (Handout)
Tuesday - ACT English test - need a pencil
Wednesday - Vocab/Roots 5 Quiz, Clinton Article (Handout), Ballotpedia - Website - See Google Classroom
Thursday - Argument Essay
Friday - Argument Essay
Week 11 - October 24 - October 28
Monday - Magic Island & Simplexity (quiz on moodle)
Tuesday - Life After People (Close reader workbook - Homework turn in); Rivers & Tides(done in class)
Wednesday - Red Ribbon Assembly - Collection 3 Unit Test will be Monday - Vocab/Roots will be Wednesday of next week. At this point you should be on your THIRD book in your MY 10!
Thursday - SLC - No School
Friday - No School
Week 10 - October 17 - October 21
Monday - Roots & Vocab has been sent through Google Classroom, Commas to Enclose ACT Review using NOREDINK class code md94x3mc
Tuesday - Commas to Enclose, Begin Collection 3 in online textbook - Metamorphosis - Academic Vocabulary on page 92 in Green section of Interactive Journal. In Blue section take notes of Gregor Samsa's physical description noting the line and page number.
Wednesday - Metamorphosis continued - Read a second time - In blue section note Gregor Samsa's views on work, his obligation for his job and his feelings toward it and his boss. Not the line and page numbers.
Thursday - Metamorphosis quiz - Podcasts groups and listen to 3, comment on them on my website Podcast Personal Narrative Feedback
Friday - Commas to Enclose worksheet; work in groups to comment on podcasts
Week 9 - October 10 - October 15
Monday - Work on Podcast
Tuesday - Work on Podcast
Wednesday - Work on Podcast
Thursday - Podcast complete, Roots 4 quiz
Friday - No School
Week 8 - October 3-October 7
Monday - Revise essays and read out loud to a peer - taking notes and offering suggestions
Tuesday - History Field Trip (for all sophomores)
Wednesday - Record essay, listen and revise
Thursday - Record essay.
Friday - Carnival
Week 7 - September 26 - September 30
Monday - Work through the items in your Collection online book. Each of the tutorials. Open up the Narrative 16 and start brainstorming ideas.
Tuesday - Begin Writing Essay
Wednesday - Continue to work on essay
Thursday - Continue to work on essay
Friday - VOCAB & ROOTS QUIZ - Essay due
Week 6 - September 19 - September 23
Monday - Roots Vocab Quiz, Connotation vs. Denotation (see Google Classroom), Academic Vocabulary: Connotation & Denotation - Write 4 denotative sentences about winter or summer in your BLUE section and then turn those 4 sentences into connotative sentences. Complete the worksheet in Google Classroom and submit through Google Classroom.
Tuesday - Academic Vocabulary - Structure, Juxtaposition, Inference, Purpose, and Point of View. LEVEL UP Tutorial in Collections Author's Purpose. Collections book - Video and Trailer for My So-Called Enemy. Roots and Vocab for the week - See your Google Classroom.
Wednesday - Moodle questions/quiz over Enemy & Author's Purpose, Comma Rules to Separate 4 & 5, Commas to Separate worksheet (due Friday) - Discuss Monster
Thursday - Field Trip
Friday - Monster Test - Assign and Discuss the Narrative Essay (due Sept. 30)
Week 5 - September 12 - September 16
Monday - Article of the Week - Kaepernick (1 & 2), Reading Circles of three separate articles: Collection page 15 - Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion, page 18 - American Flag Stands for Tolerance, Close Reader page 9 from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - Define the four words in groups and write a 21 word summary of your reading - present to class. Read selections for homework.
Tuesday - Finish Vocabulary Poster, Write summary and share - discuss as a class.
Wednesday - AOW (Answer following questions: What does he want? How does he show what he wanted? What does he say?), Academic Vocab - Tone & its impact on writing - look at examples from the readings we have read so far.
Thursday - Commas Review Rule 1, Discuss Rule 2 & 3 - Connotation of words
Friday - Roots & Vocab Quiz - Discuss Monster
Week 4 - September 6 - September 9
Monday - No School
Tuesday - Roots for Bellwork (Anthrop, frag/frac, man, brev, physi/physio, cline, omni, dec/deca, equi, hydr/hydro, logo, punctus). Article of the Week - About Don - Discussed article.
Wednesday - Bellwork: Vocab (allocate, bemused, benign, brevity, concurrent, docile), Blue section: Google Classroom assignment (Dumbing Down an Article). Academic Vocabulary in Green section of Interactive Journal.
Thursday - Bellwork: Vocab (existential, irrevocable, manifesto, poignant, reiterate, steadfast), Handed back ACT test from last week along with shared answers/test breakdown in Google Classroom, Commas to Separate. Discussed Truth and Justice and Undisclosed. Read "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" pages 3- 8 in Collections(homework)
Friday - Bellwork: Commas to separate (red section), Discussion of "Goldfish" story. Academic Vocab Tone and Motivation. Blue Writing Section: What motivated Sergei? What examples from the story showed this? Cite your responses use the author's last name and the page number of the detail in parentheses. "A Wife's Story" Collections workbook.
Week 3 - August 29-September 1
Monday - ACT English Test - This week be listening to the podcasts from last week that I left for you to listen to - we will be discussing them on Thursday after the quiz.
Tuesday - Essay Breakdown
Wednesday - Essay Breakdown
Thursday - Vocab & Roots Quiz, Serial Discussion
Friday - Off School
WEEK 2 - August 22-August 26
Monday - Present Where I've Been, Interactive notebook, Moodle check, Vocab
Tuesday - Benchmark Test on Moodle
Wednesday - Vocab and Roots in Google Classroom, Library Book Tasting
Thursday - Article discussion
Friday - Argumentative Benchmark Essay
Serial items to follow up on: Read this article: http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-10-12/serial-update-we-need-to-talk-about-haes-boyfriend-don/
Check out Truth and Justice/Serial Dynasty: Episode 110 (5:00-10:00), 116 (2:45-11:50) (14:20-29:40), 114 (interesting to hear him "disclaim" other theories), 121 (45:00-end)
Check out Undisclosed: Episode 3, Episode 5, Episode 9
WEEK 1 - August 17-August 19
Wednesday 8/17 - Who am I, What to expect, Writing Activity - Where have I been?
Thursday 8/18 - Syllabus, IT information for Honors English 2
Friday 8/19 - Podcast - Truth and Justice/Undisclosed & Discussion over Serial
Summer Work
JUNE/JULY Blogging - Serial Podcast
August 5th - ESSAY DUE
Monday - Collection 3 Unit Test - Moodle, Trump Article (Handout)
Tuesday - ACT English test - need a pencil
Wednesday - Vocab/Roots 5 Quiz, Clinton Article (Handout), Ballotpedia - Website - See Google Classroom
Thursday - Argument Essay
Friday - Argument Essay
Week 11 - October 24 - October 28
Monday - Magic Island & Simplexity (quiz on moodle)
Tuesday - Life After People (Close reader workbook - Homework turn in); Rivers & Tides(done in class)
Wednesday - Red Ribbon Assembly - Collection 3 Unit Test will be Monday - Vocab/Roots will be Wednesday of next week. At this point you should be on your THIRD book in your MY 10!
Thursday - SLC - No School
Friday - No School
Week 10 - October 17 - October 21
Monday - Roots & Vocab has been sent through Google Classroom, Commas to Enclose ACT Review using NOREDINK class code md94x3mc
Tuesday - Commas to Enclose, Begin Collection 3 in online textbook - Metamorphosis - Academic Vocabulary on page 92 in Green section of Interactive Journal. In Blue section take notes of Gregor Samsa's physical description noting the line and page number.
Wednesday - Metamorphosis continued - Read a second time - In blue section note Gregor Samsa's views on work, his obligation for his job and his feelings toward it and his boss. Not the line and page numbers.
Thursday - Metamorphosis quiz - Podcasts groups and listen to 3, comment on them on my website Podcast Personal Narrative Feedback
Friday - Commas to Enclose worksheet; work in groups to comment on podcasts
Week 9 - October 10 - October 15
Monday - Work on Podcast
Tuesday - Work on Podcast
Wednesday - Work on Podcast
Thursday - Podcast complete, Roots 4 quiz
Friday - No School
Week 8 - October 3-October 7
Monday - Revise essays and read out loud to a peer - taking notes and offering suggestions
Tuesday - History Field Trip (for all sophomores)
Wednesday - Record essay, listen and revise
Thursday - Record essay.
Friday - Carnival
Week 7 - September 26 - September 30
Monday - Work through the items in your Collection online book. Each of the tutorials. Open up the Narrative 16 and start brainstorming ideas.
Tuesday - Begin Writing Essay
Wednesday - Continue to work on essay
Thursday - Continue to work on essay
Friday - VOCAB & ROOTS QUIZ - Essay due
Week 6 - September 19 - September 23
Monday - Roots Vocab Quiz, Connotation vs. Denotation (see Google Classroom), Academic Vocabulary: Connotation & Denotation - Write 4 denotative sentences about winter or summer in your BLUE section and then turn those 4 sentences into connotative sentences. Complete the worksheet in Google Classroom and submit through Google Classroom.
Tuesday - Academic Vocabulary - Structure, Juxtaposition, Inference, Purpose, and Point of View. LEVEL UP Tutorial in Collections Author's Purpose. Collections book - Video and Trailer for My So-Called Enemy. Roots and Vocab for the week - See your Google Classroom.
Wednesday - Moodle questions/quiz over Enemy & Author's Purpose, Comma Rules to Separate 4 & 5, Commas to Separate worksheet (due Friday) - Discuss Monster
Thursday - Field Trip
Friday - Monster Test - Assign and Discuss the Narrative Essay (due Sept. 30)
Week 5 - September 12 - September 16
Monday - Article of the Week - Kaepernick (1 & 2), Reading Circles of three separate articles: Collection page 15 - Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion, page 18 - American Flag Stands for Tolerance, Close Reader page 9 from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - Define the four words in groups and write a 21 word summary of your reading - present to class. Read selections for homework.
Tuesday - Finish Vocabulary Poster, Write summary and share - discuss as a class.
Wednesday - AOW (Answer following questions: What does he want? How does he show what he wanted? What does he say?), Academic Vocab - Tone & its impact on writing - look at examples from the readings we have read so far.
Thursday - Commas Review Rule 1, Discuss Rule 2 & 3 - Connotation of words
Friday - Roots & Vocab Quiz - Discuss Monster
Week 4 - September 6 - September 9
Monday - No School
Tuesday - Roots for Bellwork (Anthrop, frag/frac, man, brev, physi/physio, cline, omni, dec/deca, equi, hydr/hydro, logo, punctus). Article of the Week - About Don - Discussed article.
Wednesday - Bellwork: Vocab (allocate, bemused, benign, brevity, concurrent, docile), Blue section: Google Classroom assignment (Dumbing Down an Article). Academic Vocabulary in Green section of Interactive Journal.
Thursday - Bellwork: Vocab (existential, irrevocable, manifesto, poignant, reiterate, steadfast), Handed back ACT test from last week along with shared answers/test breakdown in Google Classroom, Commas to Separate. Discussed Truth and Justice and Undisclosed. Read "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" pages 3- 8 in Collections(homework)
Friday - Bellwork: Commas to separate (red section), Discussion of "Goldfish" story. Academic Vocab Tone and Motivation. Blue Writing Section: What motivated Sergei? What examples from the story showed this? Cite your responses use the author's last name and the page number of the detail in parentheses. "A Wife's Story" Collections workbook.
Week 3 - August 29-September 1
Monday - ACT English Test - This week be listening to the podcasts from last week that I left for you to listen to - we will be discussing them on Thursday after the quiz.
Tuesday - Essay Breakdown
Wednesday - Essay Breakdown
Thursday - Vocab & Roots Quiz, Serial Discussion
Friday - Off School
WEEK 2 - August 22-August 26
Monday - Present Where I've Been, Interactive notebook, Moodle check, Vocab
Tuesday - Benchmark Test on Moodle
Wednesday - Vocab and Roots in Google Classroom, Library Book Tasting
Thursday - Article discussion
Friday - Argumentative Benchmark Essay
Serial items to follow up on: Read this article: http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-10-12/serial-update-we-need-to-talk-about-haes-boyfriend-don/
Check out Truth and Justice/Serial Dynasty: Episode 110 (5:00-10:00), 116 (2:45-11:50) (14:20-29:40), 114 (interesting to hear him "disclaim" other theories), 121 (45:00-end)
Check out Undisclosed: Episode 3, Episode 5, Episode 9
WEEK 1 - August 17-August 19
Wednesday 8/17 - Who am I, What to expect, Writing Activity - Where have I been?
Thursday 8/18 - Syllabus, IT information for Honors English 2
Friday 8/19 - Podcast - Truth and Justice/Undisclosed & Discussion over Serial
Summer Work
JUNE/JULY Blogging - Serial Podcast
August 5th - ESSAY DUE