| Syllabus
| Third Quarter's Assignments |
Revised:
Mar. 15, 2007 |
|
[First
Quarter's Assignments]
[Second Quarter's Assignments] |
| Week
of January 22 to 26 (Beginning of Second Semester and Third Quarter) |
| Mon |
Journal
#33 (Halfway: the good, the bad, the ugly). American regional speech
patterns. Begin viewing Do You Speak American? (Up North).
No hmwk. |
| Tues |
Journal
#34 (Accents: what do you think?) continue viewing Do You Speak
American? (Up North). No hmwk. |
| Wed |
Finish
viewing Do You Speak American? (Up North), and begin viewing
Out West section. No hmwk. |
| Thurs |
[Music
Festival: Seven students gone] Finish viewing Do You Speak American?
(Out West). Discuss implications of ideas presented in program.
No hmwk. |
| Week
of January 29 to February 2 |
| Mon |
Journal
#35 (The most romantic story I know is . . . . What makes a story
"romantic" or "Romantic"?). Intro Evangeline.
Distribute copies of Evangeline.
Vocab for first section of Evangeline
(bolded in text).
Hmwk: complete vocab definitions. |
| Tues |
Due:
vocab definitions for first section of Evangeline.
Begin reading (along with Hal Holbrook recording) --to end of Section
1. Work on vocab for Sections 2 & 3.
Hmwk: Do some background reading about the historical event
upon which Evangeline
is based. Write out notes (in your own words, in your own handwriting,
with complete source/s) to bring to class. Be prepared to
share what you discover. |
| Wed |
Class
Cancelled: Trebuchet Launching Assembly |
| Thurs |
Journal
#36 (What if you were evicted from your home? What if you were forcibly
taken to another country?). Share results of research into historical
background of Evangeline.
Continue reading Evangeline.
Continue work on vocab words. No hmwk. |
| Week
of February 5 to 9 |
| Mon |
Complete
vocab definitions for sections 4 & 5 (Part the First). Continue
reading Evangeline.
Hmwk: Define vocab words in sections 1 & 2, Part the
Second (through p. 21). |
| Tues |
Check off
vocab words in sections 1 & 2, Part the Second. Continue reading
Evangeline. Continue
work on vocab words (sections 3 & 4, Part the Second).
Hmwk: work on vocab definitions for the rest of the poem
(at least through p. 29). |
| Wed |
Finish
reading Evangeline.
No hmwk--unless you still have vocab words to complete. |
| Thurs |
Due:
vocab for rest of poem. Journal #37 (Imagine you evaded/avoided
eviction from Grand Pre. What is life like? Do you know anyone who
had the presence of mind to get out of a bad situation before it
became really bad?) Begin Literary
Terms and Figurative Language worksheet. Work on meter,
scansion, metaphor, and simile. No hmwk. |
| Week
of February 12 to 16 |
| Mon |
No
School |
| Tues |
Journal
#38 (Reflections on Evangeline: What did you like? Dislike?
What worked for you? What didn't? What struck you as unusual?).
Literary Terms and Figurative
Language worksheet. Continue working on definitions for terms.
(Classroom lit text has a "Handbook of Literary Terms"
in the back, the raspberry-edged pages.)
Hmwk: Complete definitions through #14. |
| Wed |
Continue
with Literary Terms and
Figurative Language worksheet. Begin locating examples of the
literary terms and figurative language in Evangeline.
Hmwk: Complete definitions to end of worksheet (#23). |
| Thurs |
Continue
with Literary Terms and
Figurative Language worksheet. Work on finding examples in Evangeline
for each term.) No hmwk. |
| Week
of February 19 to 23 |
| Mon |
No
School |
| Tues |
Continue
with Literary Terms and
Figurative Language worksheet. Continue finding examples in
Evangeline for each term. Make sure vocab definitions and
poetry terms worksheet are complete.
Hmwk: complete any vocab words and Literary
Terms and Figurative Language worksheet. |
| Wed |
[PUC Basketball Tournament]
Review for Evangeline Unit Test.
Hmwk: study
for test.
|
| Thurs |
[PUC
Basketball Tournament] Test: Evangeline Unit. No hmwk. |
| Week
of February 26 to March 2 |
| Mon |
Intro Huckleberry
Finn, by Mark Twain. Read aloud Steve Turney's speech in The
Day They Came to Arrest the Book (pp. 161-164). Distribute
texts, and begin reading.
Hmwk: read through Chpt. 6 (to p. 22).
|
| Tues |
Watch video:
Mark Twain's America (available at PUC library: VTR PS1331
.M374 1990).
Hmwk: Read through p. 47 |
| Wed |
Snow
Day: No School
Hmwk: Read through p. 65. |
| Thurs |
Journal
#39 (How do you determine the value/worth of a person? How do others
determine your value/worth?). Reading quiz: through p. 47. Continue
reading.
Hmwk: Read through p. 88. |
| Week
of March 5 to 9 |
| Mon |
Begin viewing
Mark Twain by Ken Burns (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331
.M37 2001).
Hmwk: Read through p. 109. |
| Tues |
View
Mark Twain by Ken Burns (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331
.M37 2001).
Hmwk: Read through p. 128. [Enrichment:
"A
True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" (discussed
in today's section of documentary)]. |
| Wed |
View Mark Twain
by Ken Burns (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331 .M37 2001).
Hmwk: Read through p. 147.
|
| Thurs |
View
Mark Twain by Ken Burns (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331
.M37 2001).
Hmwk: Read through p. 169. |
| Week
of March 12 to 16 |
| Mon |
Journal
#40 (Huck's moral dilemma: How can he be so wrong about being so
right?).
Hmwk: Read through p. 189. |
| Tues |
Reading
quiz (through p. 189). Continue with Huck Finn.
Hmwk: Read to end of Huck Finn. |
| Wed |
Reading
quiz (through end of Huck Finn). Group discussion of setting
in Huck Finn (land vs. water). Study
and Discussion Questions (#1, 7, 16).
Hwmk: Study and Discussion
Questions. |
| Thurs |
Journal
#41 (The ending of Huck Finn. What do you think about it?).
Continue working on Study and
Discussion Questions. Classroom discussion. No hmwk. |
| Week
of March 19 to 20 (End of Third Quarter) |
| Mon |
Review for test. Study
and Discussion Questions.
Hmwk: Prepare for test.
|
| Tues |
Test:
Huck Finn. |
| March
21 to April 1: Spring Break |