• Last Day of School!

• Final exams - periods 4, 5, and 6

• Final exams - periods 1, 2, and 3

• Today's Objective:
• Students will wrap up and review for exam.
• Today's Agenda:
• Submit work
• Hand back work
• Exam review
• Curriculum questions
• Jeopardy review
• Submit case study
• This Weekend's HW:
• Study for final exam!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review for the exam and annalyze ballads of their choosing.
• Today's Agenda:
• Exam review
• Curriculum questions
• Jeopardy review
• Analyze ballad
• This Weekend's HW:
• Study for final exam!

• TAKE CLASSES DOWN TO HISTORY FAIR
• Excerpts from Catcher in the Rye (Phoebe scene)
• Finish and submit Holden case study
• Extra credit:  Submit a Holden playlist for Friday, 6/15
• All make-up work due Friday, 6/15

Honors:

• Ballad analysis
• "Long Black Veil"
• "All Along the Watchtower" or other Bob Dylan songs
• Student Choice

• Excerpts from Catcher in the Rye (museum scene)
• Work on Holden Case Study

• Reminder:  comedy essay due tomorrow (6/14)
• Ballad analysis
• "This is America"
• Analysis video

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read Catcher in the Rye and analyze Holden's character.
• Today's Agenda:
• Read ch. 3-6 on your own
• In small groups, work on Holden Case Study sheet
• Tonight's HW:
• Last day of quarter 4 is Friday, 6/15.  This is the last day to hand in make-up work.
• Final exam is Monday, 6/18.

• Today's Objective:
• students will analyze the theme, structure, and literary devices of three ballads.
• Today's Agenda:
• "Amazing Grace"
• "Same Drugs"
• "Piano Man"
• Tonight's HW:
• Due Thursday, 6/14 - comedy essay
• Tuesday, 6/18 - final exam

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read Catcher in the Rye and analyze Holden's character.
• Today's Agenda:
• Fells Day
• Assignments
• Read ch. 1 and 2 aloud
• Complete 1 and 2 handout for classwork

• Today's Objective:
• students will present their satire projects, learn about ballad poetry, and work on comedy essay.
• Today's Agenda:
• Present satirical videos
• Ballad basics notes

• Submit Othello essays
• Catcher in the Rye introduction
• social media article
• original book review
• psychological assessment

• Importance of Being Earnest test

• work on Othello essay with Ms. D

• Work on comedy essay or satirical propaganda video in groups

• work on Othello essay with Ms. D

• Introduction to Comedy lesson

• work on Othello essay with Ms. D

• Guided viewing of Importance of Being Earnest film 2

• wrap up Othello test
• work on Othello essay thesis and outline

• Guided viewing of Importance of Being Earnest film 1

• Othello Test

• work on Importance of Being Earnest questions with Mr. Heinegg

• Today's Objective:
• Students will explore the nature of evil by watching a documentary and discussing its themes.
• Today's Agenda:
• Final Othello test review - see board
• View How Evil Are You? documentary (42 minutes)
• Complete How Evil Are You? guided viewing sheet
• Discuss
• Ticket Out:  Submit guided viewing sheet
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Othello test

• Today's Objective:
• Students will finish reading The Importance of Being Earnest and discuss its themes.
• Today's Agenda:
• Finish reading Act 2
• Review Act 2 questions
• Share and submit Act 2 writing prompt
• Read Act 3
• Anwer and discuss Act 3 questions
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete Act 3 writing prompt

• Today's Objective:
• Students will present their Othello projects.
• Today's Agenda:
• Othello presentation
• Read and annotate O article
• Circle discussion on O article
• Ticket out:  Submit annotated article
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Othello test (Friday)

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read Act 2 of Earnest.
• Today's Agenda:
• Share Act 1 prompts and submit
• Read Act 2 of Earnest
• Tonight's HW:
• Answer Act 2 questions
• Complete Act 2 prompts

• Today's Objective:
• Students will work to complete their Othello project.
• Today's Agenda:
• Test Review
• Work on Othello project on computers
• Tonight's HW:
• Othello project - Wednesday, 5/30
• Othello test - Friday, 6/1

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read Act 1 of Earnest.
• Today's Agenda:
• Read Act 1 of Earnest.
• Tonight's HW:
• Earnest Writing prompt - due tomorrow
• Ongoing - satirical video project - due Monday, 6/4.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze and contrast two film adaptations of Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• Othello, Act 5 (1:33-1:59)
• O, Act 5 (1:15-1:29)
• Discuss:  How is O a dynamic character?  Whose fault is all this?  Compare and contrast films.
• Tonight's HW:
• Work on Othello director's promptbook project (due Wednesday, 5/30).

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to explain essential elements of Oscar Wilde's biography and life in the Victoria Age.
• Today's Agenda:

• Opener:  Read Literary 100 excerpt about Oscar Wilde.  Highlight and discuss main points.
• Life in the Victorian Age notes
• PowerPoint notes
• Guided note-taking sheet
• Small Groups:  confer on satirical propaganda video project
• Tonight's HW:

• Work on Satirical Propaganda Video project (due Monday, 6/4).

• Periods 3 and 5 - MCAS math testing
• Period 2 - Work on Othello group project

• Periods 3 and 5 - MCAS math testing
• Period 2 - Work on Othello group project

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will finish reading Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• MCAS Logistics
• Read 5.2
• 5.2 Paraphrase Sheet
• Discuss:  (1) How is Othello a dynamic character?  (2) Whose fault is it that everyone dies?
• Tonight's HW:
• MCAS tomorrow!
• Ongoing:  Work on Otehllo project

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will self assess their DBQ writing and review expectations for video project.
• Today's Agenda:
• MCAS Logistics
• DBQ - self asssess, peer assess, share, submit
• Video - sample video, brainstorm in groups.
• Tonight's HW:
• MCAS tomorrow!
• Ongoing:  Work on video project

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will stand up the action of 5.1 and review expectations for project.
• Today's Agenda:
• Read and stand up 5.1
• Review project rubric and samples
• Work in small group to brainstorm for project
• Tonight's HW:
• Othello project due Wednesday, 5/30

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will work on their DBQ-style essay.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review rubric for DBQ
• Work on computers on DBQ essay
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish DBQ

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze two film adaptations of Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• Share and submit found poems
• Othello clips - Act 4
• O clips - Act 4
• Complete and submit Act 4 guided viewing questions
• This Weekend's HW:
• No HW!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will work on their Animal Farm DBQ-style essay.
• Today's Agenda:
• Work on DBQ-style essay
• This Weekend's HW:
• Animal Farm DBQ-style essay (3 pages, 3 sources) due Tuesday, 5/22

• Today's Objective:
• Students will explore a double standard in Othello and analyze the tone of Emilia and Desdemona's dialogue.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Journal
• Is there a double standard in relationships?  How is that present in Othello?
• 4.2 and 4.3
• Review 4.1 and 4.2 on handout.  Submit for HW/CW grade.
• Listen to excerpt of Othello opera - "Willow Song"
• What is the tone of the song?
• Gender Roles
• Discuss Emilia's dialogue with Desdemona in 4.3
• Tonight's HW:
• Found poem
• Pick a line from Othello.
• Write a poem with that quote as the first line.
• It does not have to be about Othello.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will view Animal Farm on film and look for connections to the text.
• Today's Agenda:
• Animal Farm film
• Discussion on film
• Work on DBQ style essay
• Tonight's HW:
• Animal Farm DBQ style essay (3 pages, 3 sources) 
• Due:  Tuesday, 5/22/18

• Othello 4.2 and 4.3 handout with Ms. D

• Animal Farm Film Viewing Day 2

Day 155:  Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Standard:

Honors:

Day 154:  Monday, May 14, 2018

Standard:

• Study

Honors:

• Study

• Today's Objective:
• Students will compare two film versions of a Shakespeare play, focusing on OTHELLO AS A DYNAMIC CHARACTER and THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HANDKERCHIEF AS A PROP.
• Today's Agenda:
• Othello - Traditional Film Adaptation
• :46-1:07 on DVD
• Othello - Modernized Film Adaptation (O)
• :27-:41, :46-1:02 on DVD
• Ticket Out:  Submit last night's HW
• This Weekend's HW:
• No Homework!  Enjoy the weekend!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be assessed on their understanding of Animal Farm as an allegory for the Russian Revolution.
• Today's Agenda:
• Animal Farm Test
• This Weekend's HW:
• No Homework!  Enjoy the weekend!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read Othello 3.4 and follow the path of the handkerchief.
• Today's Agenda:
• Reread final dialogue between Othello and Iago to finish 3.3 (Acting company 12)
• Daily Paraphrase:  Quietly paraphrase this dialogue (use handout) and review
• Quietly add two quotes to HW (about Othello as a dynamic character)
• Share and submit HW
• Circle reading:  Read through Othello 3.4 in circle (use handout for summary)
• Tonight's HW:
• 1-2 paragraph open response - Write about why the handkerchief is so signfiicant to the plot of the play.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review for their Animal Farm test and work on organizing their Animal Farm DBQ.
• Today's Agenda:
• Animal Farm test review
• DBQ
• any other observations to share from yesterday
• quiet writing:  craft a question, craft a thesis, craft 3 things to say
• share out
• find quotes
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Animal Farm test.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will prepare to act out a scene from a Shakespeare play.
• Today's Agenda:
• Meet with your partner to practice scene.
• Present scene in relay.
• Discuss.
• Tonight's HW:
• 1-2 paragraph open response - How is Othello a dynamic character in Act 3, scene 3?

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will read and dicuss three critical essays to plan a "DBQ" style essay.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Revisit and review readings
• Small groups:  Share ideas about essays
• Circle discussion on essays and DBQ ideas
• Tonight's HW:
• Continue to work on organizing DBQ ideas
• Animal Farm test Friday.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will prepare to act out a scene from a Shakespeare play.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review 3.1-3.3 sheet from yesterday and submit
• Review Acting Company Assignments
• Small groups:  write bullet point stage direction for your assigned scene and practice lines
• Tonight's Homework:
• Write out stage direction (one page of bullet points) for your assigned scene.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read and discuss three critical essays to plan a "DBQ" style essay.
• Today's Agenda:
• Turn and talk:  discuss HW reading
• Circle:  discuss reading
• Quiet reading:  annotate two other critical reading essays
• Tonight's Homework:
• Prepare "DBQ" style brainstorming of Animal Farm essays.
• Animal Farm test Friday.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review Acts 1 an 2 and begin Act 3, this week's focus.
• Today's Agenda:
• Quiz (Act 1 and 2)
• Review and submit Looking back at Act 2 questions
• 3.1-3.3 Reading in Small Groups
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish 3.1-3.3 handout if you did not finih in class.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze events and allegorical symbolism of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  "Animal in Man" - listen and discuss, make connections
• Review chapter 9 questions from Friday
• Small Groups
• ID passages to read
• discuss moral
• Circle discuss
• share passages
• discuss moral
• Ticket out the door:  Submit one paeg response on moral of Animal Farm

• Today's Objective:
• Students will view and analyze two versions of Othello on fim.
• Today's Agenda:
• Othello Act 2 film (traditional)
• Othello Act 1 and 2 film (modern)
• This Weekend's HW:
• Complete Looking Back at Act 2 (and Some of Act 1) handout
• Quiz on Othello Acts 1 and 2 on Monday

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze events and allegorical symbolism of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Return back to yesterday's ch. 8 questions; discuss
• Russian Revolution Allegory Notes, part 2
• Chapter 9 questions - small group (with HW check) then review in large group
• This Weekend's HW:
• Read chapter 10.
• Write a one page response on what you think the moral of the story is.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze the objectives of characters in Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• 2.1 reading and translation of Iago's soliloquy in groups
• 2.2 read quietly and then discuss two reasons for the celebration
• 2.3 read through up to Othello's entrance
• Tonight's HW:
• Due Monday, 5/7:  Looking back at Act 2 (and some of Act 1) handout
• Monday, 5/7:  Othello quiz

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze events and allegorical symbolism of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Students share and analyze propaganda videos of their choice
• Ch. 8 questions in small groups
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 9.  Write 5 quotes and respond to them.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze the objectives of characters in Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• 2.1 - read and discuss
• Tonight's HW:
• No HW

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze events and allegorical symbolism of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review ch. 6
• Anatomy of Your Enemy - read and discuss
• ID propaganda in text
• Ch. 7 questions and ch. 7 HW check
• Review ch. 5-7
• Email me a propaganda link from the internet
• Tonight's HW:
• Read ch. 8.  Write 5 quotes and notes.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze the objectives of charcters in Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• MCAS logistics
• Return to Iago's soliloquy
• Actors' Objectives
• Tonight's HW:
• No HW! MCAS Math practice

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze events and allegorical symbolism of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Stalin Propaganda video - what trends/techniques do we notice?
• Propaganda notes
• Propaganda videos - analyze
• Mother
• Seven 
• Celebrity
• Small group propaganda sheet
• Wrap up by reporting out on propaganda sheet
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 7.  Write and respond to 5 quotes.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze the objectives of charcters in Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• MCAS logistics
• Return to Iago's soliloquy
• Actors' Objectives
• Tonight's HW:  
• No HW! MCAS Math practice

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze events and allegorical symbolism of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Russian Revolution PPT notes 1
• Chapter 5 Discussion Questions
• Discuss Chapter 5
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 6. Write and respond to 5 quotes.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will make inferences about Othello and Iago through indirect characterization.
• Today's Agenda (period 2; period 3 involved in MCAS):
• Review sheet 1.2
• Read 1.3 in small groups
• Answer 1.3 questions
• Tonight's HW:
• No homework

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze propaganda in chapter 3 and write their own speech in the voice of a character.
• Today's Agenda:
• Chapter 3 questions and HW check
• Review questions
• Close reading - propaganda speech ch. 3
• Small groups - write an original speech from the perspective of a character
• Share out to wrap up
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 4.  Write and respond to 5 quotes (including some regarding propaganda).

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will make inferences about Othello and Iago through indirect characterization.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review 1.1 quotes
• Small group check
• Large group review
• Read Othello 1.2
• Complete Othello 1.2 review sheet
• Tonight's HW:
• No homework!
• Math MCAS practice tomorrow!

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will learn new vocabulary words and analyze characterization in chapter 2.
• Today's Agenda:
• MCAS Logistics
• Vocabulary - ch. 2
• Small Groups
• Ch. 2 questions
• Check quotes
• Review Ch. 2 questions and quotes
• Ch. 2 activities
• Wrap up
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 3 of Animal Farm.
• Write and respond to five quotes.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will be introduced to the themes of Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review and submit reputation journal HW
• Review Dramatis Personae
• Read and Act 1.1
• Complete Act 1.1 review sheet (fill-in-the-blank)
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete honors quote analysis sheet for 1.1
• Do at least 4 quotes.  Do all of them for extra credit.
• Use the No Fear Shakespeare site as a helpful resource.

• Today' Objectives:
• Students will compare (1) Old Major's rhetoric with Donald Trump's and (2) "Beasts of England" to "The Internationale."
• Today's Agenda:
• State of the Union videos - first 6 minutes of Trump's address
• Dicuss and check graphic organizer
• Small groups
• Chapter 1 discussion questions
• Internationale - Beasts of England - identify parallels
• Report out and wrap up
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 2 of Animal Farm.
• Write and respond to five quotes.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will be introduced to themes of Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review Report Cards
• Reputation Activity
• Report Out
• Distribute Othello Background Info
• Tonight's HW:
• Journal:  How important is reputation to you in today's society?  Why?  Use at least one quote from class.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will learn about the background of George Orwell and consider what makes a good leader.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review Math MCAS
• Review Report Cards
• Orwell Background
• Journal and Discussion
• Distribute Books
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 1 of Animal Farm.
• Complete graphic organizer for Old Major's speech.

• Touch baes on report card grades - check School Brains or printed out grading sheets available upon request
• Watch Gulliver's Travels clippage
• Lilliput:  10:51-31:00 (20 minutes)
• Brobdingnag:  1:11-1:18 (7 minutes)
• Compare passage to reading and review Gulliver's Travels questions
• Review "War Prayer" and "With God on our Side" similarities
• Ticket Out:  Submit (1) Gulliver's Travels questions and (2) War Prayer response

• Today's Objective:
• Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze satire.
• Today's Agenda:
• Satire Unit Test
• Tonight's HW:
• NO HOMEWORK!  ENJOY THE WEEKEND!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review satire.
• Today's Agenda:
• Talk about make-up work
• Review for test
• Review Harrison Bergeron questions
• When does satire go too far?  - clips and handout
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for satire test.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read and analyze a satire of an epic poem.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review for test
• Elicit prior knowledge - what are characteristics of the epic?
• Read Canto IV and V of Rape of the Lock
• Small group questions:
• What is happening in Cantos IV and V?
• How is it satire?
• How do the two girls demonstrate conflicting ideas regarding beauty?
• Discuss questions
• Complete and discuss multiple choice questions
• Preview open response qeustions re: Rape of the Lock for tomorrow's test
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for test.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will watch 2081 and connect film to techniques of satire.
• Today's Agenda:
• Miss D Handout
• 2081 Video
• Complete Harrison Bergeron worksheet
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete all make-up work for Q3.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will watch 2081 and connect film to techniques of satire.
• Today's Agenda:
• 2081 Video
• Small Group Questions
• Large Group Discussions
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete all make-up work for Q3.

• Harrison Bergeron questions

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read and analyze a short story.
• Today's Agenda:
• Debrief on MCAS - opener journal and share
• Vocabulary and Literary Terms for Harrison Bergeron - look them up and review
• Read Harrison Bergeron
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete back of Harrison Bergeron handout (section III).
• Satire Test on Friday.
• Quarter 3 closes this week.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read and analyze a short story.
• Today's Agenda:
• Vocabulary for Harrison Bergeron
• Literary Terms
• Elicit Prior Knowledge about Kurt Vonnegut
• Read Story
• Small Groups:  Answer Analysis Questions
• Tonight's HW:
• One page:  What is the satirical message of Harrison Bergeron and how is it conveyed?
• Satire Test on Friday.
• Quarter 3 closes this week.

• Standard:
• Today's Objective:
• Final preparation for MCAS.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review MCAS logistics
• Distribute personalized tips
• Long Comp review sheet - on your own
• Review Long Comp prompts
• Review Jaws
• Work on Baseball packet
• Homework:
• Go to sleep early!
• Honors:
• Today's Objective:
• Final preparation for MCAS.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review MCAS logistics
• Long Comp review sheet - in groups
• Long Comp prompts
• Review Jaws
• Distribute personalized tips
• Homework:
• Go to sleep early!

• Today's Objective: 
• Students will workshop long composition essays and work on reading comprehension.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener: Self-assess on long composition
• Jaws
• Watch video clip - how does it create suspense?
• Read silently
• Plan open response
• Write open response
• Tonight's HW:
• Watch a movie with your friends and family.  Talk to them in preparation for the MCAS.

• Agenda:
• Same as standard, PLUS
• Review multiple choice and open response in yesterday's baseball packet
• Tonight's HW:
• Watch a movie with your friends and family.  Talk to them in preparation for the MCAS.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will workshop long composition essays.
• Today's Agenda:
• Models of long composition body paragraphs
• Quiet writing
• Workshop writing
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish your MCAS long composition

• Today's Objective:
• Students will workshop long composition essays and work on reading comprehension.
• Today's Agenda:
• Models of long composition body paragraphs
• Quiet writing
• Workshop writing
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish your MCAS long composition

• Work on long composition, look at models, etc. - Ms. D facilitates
• HW:  long composition due on Friday

• Work on long composition, look at models, etc.
• HW:  long composition due on Friday

• Today's Objective:
• Students will share their Modest Proposal essays and brainstorm long composition ideas.
• Today's Agenda:
• Share essay with a partner
• Share essay with class and submit
• Large group:  Begin brainstorming ideas for long composition essays of the past years
• Small group or individual:  Finish brainstorming in packet
• Tonight's HW:
• Fill out graphic organizer for any one long composition prompt.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review MCAS logistic and share satirical essays.
• Today's Agenda:
• MCAS Assembly in Caron Theater
• Discuss long composition HW
• Share and submit satirical essays
• Tonight's HW:
• Write down a book for each prompt in packet.
• Complete graphic organizer for one.

• Final thoughts on progress reports
• Course recommendations
• MCAS poetry packet - Sonnet 91, Quilts, Frederick Douglass
• Outside reading
• Review poetry packet
• Share and discuss ideas for Modest Proposal essay
• Small groups - share and check graphic organizers
• HW:  Final draft of your own Modest Proposal due Tuesday, 3/20

Honors:

• Progress reports and course recommendations
• MCAS poetry packet - Sonnet 91, Quilts, Frederick Douglass
• Outside reading
• Review poetry packet
• Writing workshop for your own Modest Proposal
• HW:  Final draft of your own Modest Proposal due Tuesday, 3/20.  Don't forget to write the metacognitive process reflection paragraph.  Include Modest Proposal vocabulary words for extra credit.

• Hand back work
• Grade conferences - distribute grading sheets
• Small groups - finish sections C and D on Modest Proposal group activity sheet
• Complete comprehension questions at end of Modest Proposal packet
• Review and submit questions from small groups
• HW:  Continue work on Modest Proposal essay assigment

Honors:

• Course recommendation conferences
• Small groups - finish sections C and D on Modest Proposal group activity sheet
• Review group activity sheet; submit
• Small groups - share and check graphic organizer for Modest Proposal essay assignment
• HW:  Continue work on Modest Proposal essay assignment

• Standard:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze main ideas and satirical techniques.
• Today's Agenda:
• Submit open response from Friday
• Read through SLOWLY the rest of A Modest Proposal
• Groups - complete A Modest Proposal handout with graphic organizer
• Annotation HW check
• Review sections A and B of graphic organizer sheet
• Your Own Modest Proposal assignment
• Brainstorm
• Monday's HW:
• Complete Your Own Modest Proposal graphic organizer sheet.
• Honors:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze a famous satirical essay.
• Today's Agenda:
• Submit open response from Friday
• Review Modest Proposal analysis questions (from Wednesday's HW); submit
• Small Groups - complete A Modest Proposal handout with graphic organizer
• Your Own Modest Proposal assignments
• Student Samples - Nicole Avella
• Monday's HW:
• Start work on your own Modest Proposal essay.

• Standard:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will practice for MCAS by answering some questions about a satirical work.
• Today's Agenda:
• On your own
• Modest Proposal on MCAS 
• Multiple Choice
• Open Response
• Outside Reading
• Review Multiple Choice
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish open response on A Modest Proposal if you don't finish in class.
• Honors:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will practice AP and MCAS style questions.
• Today's Agenda:
• We will review Modest Proposal analysis questions on Monday, 3.12.18.
• Review AP terms
• pragmatic
• blustery
• polemic
• anecdote
• brazen
• Complete AP questions on A Modest Proposal
• Complete MCAS questions on A Modest Proposal
• Complete Open Response
• Outside Reading Time
• Review Multiple Choice
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish open response on A Modest Proposal if you don't finish in class.

• Standard:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will define vocabulary words in context and read and analyze a challenging work of literature.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Vocabulary
• Try it on your own!
• Look up the words!
• Review words in the group
• Last Night's Reading
• Identify question you have 
• Identify main ideas
• Check annotation HW
• Circle Discussion
• Read excerpts and review first page (front and page)
• Tonight's HW:
• Read and annotate final two pages of "A Modest Proposal."
• Honors:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will define vocabulary words in context and read and analyze a challenging work of literature.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Vocabulary
• Try it on your own
• Look it up!
• Review definitions
• Check annotations
• Large Circle
• Go through excerpts, page by paeg
• Theme and tone
• Tonight's HW:
• Answer analysis questions in Modest Proposal packet.

• Standard:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze political cartoons.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review yesterday's cartoons
• 2 new political cartoons - in groups and then review
• Share your own political cartoons (from HW) for extra credit
• Submit HW and classwork
• Distribute and begin reading A Modest Proposal
• Tonight's HW:
• Read and anotate first two pages of A Modest Proposal.
• Honors:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze political cartoons and brainstorm a satire project.
• Today's Agenda:
• Share student HW cartoons
• Submit cartoon analysis
• Small groups:  Brainstorm for projects
• Distribute A Modest Proposal
• Tonight's HW:
• Read and annotate A Modest Proposal.

• Standard:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will score an open response and analyze three political cartoons.
• Today's Agenda:
• Is Google Making Us Stupid
• Review Multiple Choice
• Examine Sample Open Responses
• Score and Submit
• Satire Videos
• Key and Peele Videos from Last Week - What satirical techniques are being employed?
• Political Cartoons
• Review 3 Political Cartoons from Satire Unit in Small Groups
• Tonight's HW:
• Find a political cartoon. 
• Write a 1-2 paragraph analysis.
• Honors:
• Today's Objective:
• Students will score an open response, analyze five political cartoons, and brainstorm a satire project.
• Today's Agenda:
• Is Google Making Us Stupid?
• Review Multiple Choice
• Examine Sample Open Responses
• Score and Submit
• Political Cartoons
• Analyze 5 Political Cartoons from Satire Unit in Small Groups
• Review with Large Group
• Small Group:  Brainstorm Ideas for Satire Project
• Tonight's HW:
• Email me 2 political cartoons.
• Write and analysis on each (techniques, commentary).

• Is Google Making Us Stupid?
• Outside Reading
• HW:  Finish Is Google Making Us Stupid? Packet

• standard - Othello
• honors - Animal Farm, ballads

• Animal Farm test
• NO HOMEWORK FOR FEBRUARY VACATION!

• Finish Othello Test OR Outside Reading
• Othello Project Presentations
• NO HOMEWORK FOR FEBRUARY VACATION!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will consider and write about the moral of Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Test review
• Read chapter 10 quietly
• Quiet journal on moral of Animal Farm
• Discuss moral
• Hand back work for study guide
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Animal Farm test

• Today's Objective:
• Assess our understanding of Othello unit.
• Today's Agenda:
• Othello Test
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish Othello project.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will learn to analyze propaganda and find examples in the book.
• Today's Agenda:
• Propaganda Techniques (slides)
• Video clips
• John McCain - Seven
• Ben Carson - These Hands
• Stalin Propaganda
• Small groups - find examples
• Report out on examples
• Tonight's HW:
• Read ch. 9 of Animal Farm.  Write down and analyze five quotes.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will discuss major themes in Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Article about black cast of Othello, Patrick Stewart
• Discussion circle (based on response paper, submit)
• Work on group project
• Bonus:  Othello rap for test review
• Tonight's HW:
• Othello test tomorrow
• Othello project due Friday

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will read and analyze two chapters in Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Review chapter 7 questions with your classmates.
• Discuss chapters 6 and 7
• PPT notes 2
• Tonight's HW:
• Read chapter 8.
• Write 5 quotes from chapter.
• Write analysis of each quote.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze and discuss important events in Acts 4 and 5.
• Today's Agenda:
• Any outstanding observations in Acts 4 and 5?
• Act 5 on video
• Discuss and submit Act 4 and Act 5 work
• Work on project or thesis
• Tonight's HW:
• Othello response paper (test grade)
• Thursday - Othello test
• Friday - Othello project due

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read and analyze two chapters in Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Submit reading logs
• Opener:  Chapter 5 Discussion Questions
• Read Chapter 6 and Answer Questions
• Tonight's HW:
• Read Chapter 7
• Complete handout

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze and discuss important elements of Acts 4 and 5.
• Today's Agenda:
• Distribute and review thesis statements for paper due Wednesday
• 4.3 on video, discuss Willow scene, review Act 4 guided viewing questions
• Discuss reader's log (HW) and submit
• Tonight's HW:
• Due:  Wednesday, 2.14.18
• Othello response paper.
• Test grade
• On Thursday, 2.15.18
• Othello Test
• Due:  Friday, 2.16.18
• Othello Director's Promptbook Assignment
• Test grade
• Present to class on this date

• Students will analyze persuasive techniques in speech.

• Opener:  Brainstorm persuasive techniques
• Read Confederate Flag passage from 2017 MCAS
• ID persuasive techniques, discuss
• Answer multiple choice and open response
• Outside reading

• Read your outside reading book for 20 minutes.
• GET CAUGHT READING!  (Have your parent/guardian sign your reading log for extra credit.)
• Complete reading log for Monday.

• Students will compare themes in two works of literature (as they will do on MCAS) and confer on a group project.

• Fault in Our Stars
• Trailer
• Read
• Brainstorm Open Response on Board, discuss
• Write open response
• Othello Project
• Confer with group members

• Due:  Monday, 2.12.18
• Read Othello 5.1. and 5.2.  
• Write a reading log for each scene.
• Quiz grade
• Due:  Wednesday, 2.14.18
• Othello response paper.
• Test grade
• On Thursday, 2.15.18
• Othello Test
• Due:  Friday, 2.16.18
• Othello Director's Promptbook Assignment
• Test grade
• Present to class on this date

• Students will be able to explain basic elements of the allegory to the revolution and discuss ch. 6.

• Opener:  Turn and Talk to complete ch. 4 questions
• Review ch. 4 questions
• Discuss ch. 5 (with active reading notes) and guided questions
• Begin reading ch. 6
• Ticket Out:  Submit ch. 5 notes

Homework:

• Read your outside reading book for 20 minutes.
• GET CAUGHT READING! (extra credit)
• Complete reader's log.
• Bring in outside reading book.
• Animal Farm Test - Friday, 2.16.18

• Students will review expectations for a project, analyze an interpretation of Shakespeare's Othello, and discuss gender roles.

• Review Othello Director's Promptbook Assignment
• Discuss expectations, share student examples
• Review HW (4.1 and 4.2 questions), discuss scenes, and submit HW
• Watch Act 3 and 4 on video
• Discuss scenes, particularly gender roles (Desdemona's subservience to Othello, Emilia's commentary on men)

• Due:  Monday, 2.12.18
• Read Othello 5.1. and 5.2.  
• Write a reading log for each scene.
• Quiz grade
• Due:  Wednesday, 2.14.18
• Othello response paper.
• Test grade
• On Thursday, 2.15.18
• Othello Test
• Due:  Friday, 2.16.18
• Othello Director's Promptbook Assignment
• Test grade
• Present to class on this date

• Students will be able to explain basic elements of the allegory to the revolution and discuss chapter 4.

• Russian Revolution crash course video - view and discuss main ideas
• Russian Revolution notes - PowerPoint and guided note-taking sheet
• Discuss ch. 4 notes from last night's HW
• Distribute ch. 4 discussion questions handout
• Ticket Out:  Submit ch. 4 graphic organizer and HW

• Read chapter 5 of Animal Farm.
• Take 12 bullet point notes according to the "read like a writer" format.

• Students will perform a scene from Othello and analzye Othello as a dynamic character.

• Review and submit HW (Othello as a dynamic character response paper)
• Act out 3.4
• Complete question sheet for 3.4

• Read Othello 4.1 and 4.2.  
• Complete qeustions on sheet.

• Today's Objective:
• Student will read chapter 3 and write a speech from one character's perspective.
• Today's Agenda:
• Talk about grades
• Discuss chapter 2 mini-project rules and regulations
• Read chapter 3 aloud
• Small group questions for chapter 3
• Begin speech
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete mini-project speech from the perspective of one of the characters in Animal Farm.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will read and understand two brief scenes in Othello and then plan out their own interpretation.
• Today's Agenda:
• Small groups:  Read 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 and answer questions 
• Review questions about 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
• Assign acting companies for 3.3
• Meet in acting companies
• Tonight's HW:
• Rehearse and plan your part in Othello 3.3.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will asess their knowledge of vocabulary and aalyze events and rhetoric in chapter 2.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener
• Vocabulary Rating Sheet - Chapter 2
• Turn and Talk
• Share Quotes and ID passages
• Circle Reading
• Discuss and Think Aloud
• Small Groups
• Ch. 2 Mini Project
• Ticket Out
• Submit ch. 2 classwork and homework
• Tonight's HW:
• Enjoy the Super Bowl!

• Today's Objective:
• Students will compare two interpretations of the same scene.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review Act 2 questions
• Othello clippage - Act 2
• O clippage - Act 2
• Compare two interpretations
• Tonight's HW:
• Enjoy the Super Bowl!

• Classes with Mr. X.
• College Prep:  Complete chapter 2 discussion notes for Animal Farm.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze the State of the Union address and compare it to Old Major's speech in Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• Hand back work
• Opener:  Define allegory, satire, fable. Write about how Animal Farm functions as each.
• State of the Union
• Initial Impressions
• Clippage 1 - 2-minute overview
• Clippaeg 2 - first 6 minutes
• Discuss
• Small groups:  Complete graphic organizer for Old Major vs. Donald Trump
• Ticket Out:  Submit organizer
• HW:  Read chapter 2.  Write down 5 quotes and analyze them.

Honors:

• Today's Objective:
• Students will act out a scene from Othello.
• Today's Agenda:
• Hand back work
• Confer with groups
• Act out 2.3 in relay
• Discuss
• Tonight's HW:
• Complete Act 2 question sheet

• Today's Objective:
• Students will analyze Old Major's speech and compare "Beasts of England" to "The Internationale."
• Today's Agenda:
• Chapter 1 Quetions
• Compare "Beasts of England" and "Internationale"
• Begin Graphic Organizer
• Tonight's HW:
• Watch the State of the Union address.
• Complete the Donald Trump side of the graphic organizer.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to define the characters' objectives within the play.
• Today's Agenda:
• Finish reading 2.1
• Share HW
• Daily Paraphrase
• Othello's Shortest Scene
• Blocking and Stage Direction
• Small Groups
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish writing your stage direction.  Practice your lines.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to evaluate their performance on an open response.
• Students will be able to understand the ideas that inspired Animal Farm.
• Today's Agenda:
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Review Multiple Choice Questions
• Examine Sample Open Responses
• Correct Your Open Response According to Sample
• Animal Farm 
• Introductory Notes
• Journal:  What makes a good leader?
• Discussion
• Begin Reading Chapter 1
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish reading chapter 1.
• Select 5 quotes from Old Major's speech and comment on them in an analysis.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to define characters' objectives within the play.
• Today's Agenda:
• Hand back work
• Check PSAT HW and follow up questions on PSAT
• Monologue practice for 3 entrants
• Act 2.1
• Acting 2.1.1-181
• Defining Actors' Objectives
• Read-Through and Role Play
• Instant Performance
• Spotlighting Lines
• Small Group:  Paraphrase Iago's second soliloquy
• Tonight's HW:
• Pick any short scene in the play so far and imagine you are playing one of the roles.  Figure out your character's objective for that scene, and for the play as a whole.  Note the scene, write down the objective(s), and note concrete quotes that tip off that objective.

• Review The Fault in Our Stars MCAS
• Introduce and Begin Reading Animal Farm
• HW:  Chapter 1 Animal Farm and Questions

• Submit signed PSAT booklet
• Othello Act 2
• HW:  Focus on Iago's 2nd soiloquy

• Today's Objective:
• Students will identify common themes in works of literature.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Score and comment on long composition; submit
• Trailer for The Fault in Our Stars.  Discuss prior knowledge.
• Circle:  Read and discuss The Fault in Our Stars and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
• Discuss and brainstorm for open response
• On your own:  multiple choice and open response
• Outside reading
• Tonight's HW:
• Finish up multiple choice and open response questions for Monday.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review their performance on the PSAT.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Score and comment on long composition; submit.
• Monologues
• Discuss how to read PSAT score report.
• Small groups:  decide questions you'd like to review
• Circle:  review difficult English PSAT questions
• Bonus time:  Math PSAT questions
• This weekend's HW:
• Review your PSAT scores and question booklet with a parent/guardian at home.  Have them sign a note on your PSAT booklet to indicate that you did this.

• Unpack long comp rubric
• Examine model essays from recent years
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• Identify what makes a 5 or 6 essay
• Peer revision for essays

• Revise essays

• Review how to approach a long composition prompt
• Write a 5-paragraph essay on ONE of these prompts

• Finish long composition essay

• Midterm Exam

• Be ready to write a long composition practice about your outside reading book tomorrow.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to identify songs as ballads, review for the midterm exam, and practice for the MCAS.
• Today's Agenda:
• Kahoot Review
• Review Bob Dylan Questions
• Small Groups:  Plan Open Response
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Midterm Exam

• Today's Objective:
• Students wil review for the midterm exam.
• Today's Agenda:
• Kahoot Review
• Review Iago's Soliloquy
• Small Groups:  Plan Open Response
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Midterm Exam

• Objective:
• Students will be able to prepare for the MCAS and prepare for the midterm exam.
• Agenda:
• Any other student presentations?
• Period 3 - Soli, Nico, Jared
• Return to "All Along the Watchtower"
• Period 2 - Adam Reed
• Period 3 - Mr. Ambrose
• Bob Dylan MCAS packet - complete and review
• Outside Reading - log check and read
• Midterm Exam - work together to create review
• HW:  
• Study for midterm exam (Tuesday, 1/23).
• Finish outside reading book (for Wednesday, 1/24 in-class essay).

• 1.3 on video 
• Review 1.3 questions
• Paraphrase and analyze Iago's first soliloquy.
• Type midterm exam review sheet.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify what makes a poem a ballad (and analyze multiple ballads from Bob Dylan).
• Agenda:
• Opener:  Lord Randal
• Hard Rain
• All Along the Watchtower
• HW:
• Complete up to 8 log entries for your outside reading book.  Will be checked tomorrow for a quiz grade.
• Bring in your outside reading book.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to act out and analyze the characterization of Othello and Iago.
• Agenda:
• Finish acting 1.1.
• Review quote sheet for 1.1.
• Act 1.2
• Complete quote sheet for 1.2
• Question and Answer
• HW:
• Read 1.3.
• Select 5 relevant quotes and write a brief response/explanation for each.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to explain an analysis of the ballad of their choice.
• Agenda:
• Student presentations with feedback from Ms. D.
• HW:
• Read your outside reading book.  Write in your journal.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to explain the significance of the theme of reputation in Shakespeare's Othello.
• Agenda:
• Discuss and submit Shakespeare essay
• Othello Fast Facts
• Read and act out 1.1
• HW:  
• Finish reading 1.1.  Complete quote sheet.

• College Prep:  Work on song analysis
• Honors:  Review PSAT booklet

• College Prep:  Work on song analysis
• Honors:  Work on Shakespeare essay

• College Prep:  Work on song analysis
• Honors:  Work on Shakespeare essay

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to identify songs as ballads.
• Today's Agenda:
• Working with your song and ballads
• Laptop cart
• Project prompt
• Ballad handout
• Work on analysis on laptops
• Tonight's HW:
• Read your outside reading book.
• Write a quick journal:
• Time you read.
• Pages you read.
• Favorite quote.
• Brief response/summary.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to express an understanding of what life was like in Shakespeare's time.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review prompts for essay
• Check Shakespeare in Love guided viewing classwork
• Work on essay on laptops
• Tonight's HW:
• Shakespeare in Love essay due Tuesday, 1/16
• Bring in PSAT scorebook Friday, 1/12

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to identify songs as ballads.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Review "Scarborough Fair" from yesterday
• Stan - video
• Same Drugs - video and lyrics
• Long Black Veil - video
• Tonight's HW:
• Read your outside reading book
• Write a quick journal:
• Time you read.
• Pages you read.
• Favorite quote.
• Brief response/summary.
• Log check Friday, 1.12.18.
• Quarterly Exam, 1.23.18

Honors:

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to express an understanding of what life was like in Shakespeare's time.
• Today's Agenda:
• Complete guided viewing questions
• Review questions
• Discussion of movie in circle
• Review prompts for essay
• Small group brainstorming for essay
• Tonight's HW:
• Shakespeare in Love essay due Tuesday, 1.16.18
• Bring in PSAT scorebook Friday, 1.12.18
• Shakespeare monologue contest for extra credit - 1.19.18

Day 80:  Monday, January 8, 2018

• College Prep
• Amazing Grace
• Piano Man
• Scarborough Fair
• Tonight's HW:
• Outside Reading and Reading Log
• Honors
• Second Half of Shakespeare in Love
• Tonight's HW:
• Brainstorming for Essay Prompt

• College Prep:
• More ballads from Ballad Binder
• HW:  Outside reading and reading logs
• Honors: 
• Finish film
• Discuss
• HW:  Brainstorming ideas for topics
• After this:  Writing Workshop, Reviewing PSAT

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to identify songs as ballads.
• Today's Agenda:
• Ballad Introduction
• "All Star" Video
• Silent Writing
• Sharing Aloud
• Brainstorming
• Tonight's HW:
• Read your outside reading book for 25 minutes. Write in a writer's log for 5 minutes, recordinng (1) time you read, (2) what pages you read, (3) favorite quote, and (4) brief response/summary.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to express an understanding of what life was like in Shakespeare's time.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review and submit HW
• Opener Readings
• Marlowe and Shakespeare article
• Rose Theatre
• Watch 45 minutes of Shakespeare in Love film.
• Tonight's HW:
• Examine essay prompts.
• Select 1 or 2 prompts you understand.
• Begin to brainstorm on these topics.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to tell what makes a poem a ballad.
• Today's Agenda:
• Ballad Basics Notes
• Ballad of Gilligan's Isle
• Lyrics
• Video
• Small Groups
• Mark up with scansion marks
• List all of the ways that this constitutes the ballad form
• Explain the story that the ballad tells.
• Tonight's HW:
• Read your outside reading book for 25 minutes. 
• Write in a writer's log for 5 minutes, recordinng (1) time you read, (2) what pages you read, (3) favorite quote, and (4) brief response/summary.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to express an understanding of what life was like in Shakespeare's time.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:
• Fact, Fiction, and Fun (page 1)
• Shakespeare's London (page 2)
• Review Essay Prompts
• Watch first 30 minutes of Shakespeare in Love
• Complete guided viewing questions
• Today's HW:
• Complete tasks 1 and 2 on Shakespeare's London sheet.

• Honors:  Shakespeare in Love, Shakespeare's Sister, Essays on Feminism, Essays on Shakespeare in Love, Esner's Shakespeare Book, Othello
• College Prep:  Ballads, Song Analysis, Othello

• Knight's Tale guided viewing
• Review dicusssion questions of Knight's Tale
• Distribute progress reports and make up work

Honors:

• Wrap up sonnet unit
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Browning's Sonnets
• Sidney's Sonnets
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Sonnet Test

• Friday:  Rap Battle with Mr. Heinegg's class

• Today's Objective:
• Students will review their work and analyze a film starring five characters from The Canterbury Tales.
• Today's Agenda:
• School Brains update
• Hand back work
• Knight's Tale movie
• Tonight's HW:
• Review the work I handed back.
• Progress reports are in for 8 AM tomorrow, so today is final chance to make up items.
• Corrections to revisions and HW.

• Today's Objectives:
• Students will analyze the modern relevance of sonnets.
• Today's Agenda:
• Opener:  Review sonnet 116 open response
• "This is the end" - journal and response
• View Dove Campaign videos and discuss
• Evolution
• Self-Esteem
• Portraits
• PowerPoint with beauty standards throughout the years
• Read Sonnet 130 - ID 8 ways that Shakespeare's lover differed from teh standards of beauty in his time
• Tonight's HW:
• Due tomorrow:  How are Shakespeare's ideas still relevant?  (one page response)
• Due Thursday:  Prepare for sonnet test.

• Outside Reading
• 2 Comparison MCAS Poems
• HW:  Polish MCAS comparison open response

Honors:

• Submit story
• 116 MCAS
• 130 Lesson
• Rubric for teaching sonet
• HW:  Prepare to teach sonnet

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will consider how erlevant Shakespeare is to modern songs by watching a video, discussing, and writing their own poem and open response.
• Agenda:
• Touch base on Globe awards
• Share sonnets

• Small Group
• Large Group
• Vox Video about Evoluation of Rhyme in Rap
• Discuss
• 3 things you learned
• 2 things you found interesting
• 1 thing you have a question about
• Open response paragraph for ticket out:  Summarize video
• HW:  
• Bring in outside reading book
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze sonnets.
• Agenda:
• Touch base on Globe contest
• Shakespeare Sonnet Notes
• Romeo and Juliet 
• Video 1
• Video 2
• Review Poem and Questions
• Sonnet Scramble - Sonnet 18
• Sonnet 116 - Intro Video - One Tree Hill
• HW:
• Story-telling contest story for tomorrow

• Objective:
• Students will consider how relevant Shakespeare is to modern songs by writing their own sonnet.
• Agenda:
• Review Mr. Ambrose's Model
• Quiet Writing Time
• Peer Revision
• HW:
• Finish your final draft of your sonnet
• Globe contest deadline tomorrow

• Objective:
• Agenda:
• John Green sonnet video
• Sonnet notes
• HW:
• Story-telling contest due Friday, 12/15
• Globe contest deadline tomorrow

• Objective:
• Students will consider how relevant Shakespeare is to modern songs by watching a video, discussing the topic, and writing their own modern sonnet.
• Agenda:
• View and discuss Akala Ted Talk - Hip Hop and Shakespeare (20 minutes)
• Examine sonnets based on modern songs
• Identify a song you would like to parody in sonnet form
• Begin writing your parody
• HW:
• Draft of  modern song sonnet parody

• Objective:
• Students will share some original writing based on The Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Present out Cook's Tale Stories
• Return to Original Canterbury Tales character descriptions
• Assign Creative Story-Telling Creative Writing Project
• Small Groups:  Brainstorming and Writing on (1) Canterbury Tales creative project and (2) Art and Writing contest entries
• HW:
• Work on Creative Writing for Canterbury Tales (due next week)
• Work on Globe contest entry (deadline Thursday 12/14)

• Objective:
• Students will demonstrate their skills of sonnet analysis.
• Agenda:
• Sonnet Unit Test
• HW:
• No HW.
• Globe contest deadline Thursday 12/14.

Honors:

• Objective:
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of The Cantebury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Canterbury Tales Test
• HW:
• Polish Cook's Tale (written in groups on Friday) to share with class tomorrow.
• Globe contest deadline Thursday 12/14.

Day 66:  Friday, December 8, 2017

College Prep

• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify imagery in a sonnet and explain how the imagery could be considered allegorical.
• Agenda:
• Review:  Sidney and Browning sonnets
• Small Groups:  Identify imagery in Spenserian sonnets
• Review Imagery of Sonnets
• Spenserian Sonnets on MCAS
• Ticket Out:  Open Response for Spenser's Sonnets
• HW:  
• Study for Sonnet Test
• All Quarter 2 Make-Up Work submitted by Monday
• Globe contest deadline Thursday, 12/14

Honors:

• Objective:
• Students will review for a test, discuss an essay they wrote, and write a prediction for a story.
• Agenda:
• Discuss submitted essay
• Test review
• Hand back esays
• Cook's Tale
• Outside Reading
• HW:
• Study for Canterbury Tales Test
• All Quarter 2 Make-Up Work submitted by Monday
• Globe contest deadline Thursday, 12/14

Day 65: Thursday, December 7, 2017

• College Prep:  Ms. D teaches the class about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets - DOWNLOAD THE HANDOUT HERE.
• Honors:  Study

Day 64: Wednesday, December 6, 2017

• College Prep:  Sidney sonnets
• Honors:  Study

Day 63:  Tuesday, December 5, 2017

• Study in Lecture Hall 2

Day 62:  Monday, December 4, 2017

• College Prep: Sonnets
• Honors: Pardoner's Tale

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze a sonnet and explain a suitable title (as you'll need to do on MCAS).
• Agenda:
• Scholastic Art and Writing Contest Information
• Share and submit HW (reflection on the relevance of sonnet 130)
• Opener:  Revisit John Green sonnet Crash Course video (8:44-10:12 - sonnet 116)
• One Tree Hill Wedding Toast Video
• Read poem, dissect (small or large group)
• Optional - Brainstorming ideas
• Quiet Multiple Choice and Title Brainstorming
• Share Brainstorming Ideas with Group
• Complete Open Response, Outside Reading
• Ticket Out:  Submit 116 open response
• HW:
• No homework for weekend of 12.2 and 12.3 for periods 2 and 3!
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to compare a work back to its source material and evaluate improvements and revisions.
• Agenda:
• Turn and Talk:  Review Reeve's Tale questions from HW
• Review questions from HW, reread passages, discuss how it compares to Miller's Tale
• Distribute Miller and Two Clerks, explain how Chaucer used source material like Shakespeare did, read quietly
• Small Groups:  Identify 5 particular improvements Chaucer makes to the tale
• Share out and discuss
• HW:
• 5 paragraph essay on Knight's Tale and Miller's Tale due Tuesday, 12/5

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to comment on society's beauty standards and explain how Shakespeare wrote about the standards of his time.
• Agenda:
• Download the presentation for today's class here.
• Opener:  Beauty video clips and journal
• Dicussion on video and journal
• Images of beauty throughout history
• Read Sonnet 130; questions about what you don't understand
• Small groups:
• Identify 8 particular ways that Shakespeare's lover differs from the Elizabethan standards of beauty.
• Explain the ironic twist in the final two lines of the poem.
• What do you think Shakespeare's message was about beauty standards in his time?
• How is this message still relevant today?
• Large group discussion and wrap up
• HW:
• 1-2 paragraph reflection:  How are Shakespeare's ideas about society's beauty standards still relevant today?
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to compare/contrast tales in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Essay extended!  New Deadline:  Tuesday, 12/5!
• Review T-Chart
• Critique past year's student work samples for essay assignment
• Sample Thesis
• Sample Topic Sentence and Paragraph
• Workshop current year's student essay drafts - thesis, talking points, etc.
• Small groups:  Reeve's Tale Pre-Reading handout; review with class
• Read and discuss Reeve's Prologue
• Ticket Out:  Make a prediction
• HW:
• Read and annotate Reeve's Tale.  As you annotate, note how it compares to Miller's Tale.
• 5 paragraph essay on Knight's Tale vs. Miller's Tale now due Tuesday.
• Bring in outside reading book.

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify the basics of the sonnet form and explain how the form brings meaning to the words in the poem.
• Agenda:
• Sonnet Scramble - Sonnet 18
• Reread Sonnet 18
• Revisit Crash Course Video (6:49-8:44)
• Small groups:  Review HW questions (and HW check), come up with a 140 character Tweet summary of poem
• Discuss and review Sonnet 18
• HW:  1-2 paragraph open response analysis of Sonnet 18.  What is the THEME, and how do LITERARY DEVICES and THE SONNET FORM convey that theme?
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to predict what kind of tale a narrator may tell, review vocab words, and draw inferences regarding characters.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  How close did your prediction come?
• Questions you have about what happened in the tale (from last night's reading)?
• Reread passages from text
• Review two questions from HW
• Miller's Tale vs. Knight's Tale T-Chart in small groups (and HW check)
• Review T-Chart on overhead
• HW:  5-paragraph essay - How does the Miller's Tale satirize the Knight's Tale?  (compare/contrast - use T-chart for reference) - Due MONDAY, 12/4!

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify the basics of the sonnet form and explain how the form brings meaning to the words in the poem.
• Agenda:
• Review Romeo and Juliet questions and paragraph from HW; submit paragraph
• John Green video - write down 3 things you learn
• Shakespeare Sonnet Notes
• HW:
• Annotate Sonnet 18.
• Complete BOTH SIDES of sonnet analysis sheet.
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to predict what kind of tale a narrator may tell, review vocabulary words, and draw inferences regarding characters.
• Agenda:
• Small groups:  share and discuss drawings and GET QUOTES, identify questions that you have, cast the characters
• Review drawings WITH QUOTES, answer questions, share casting
• Read aloud - through page 2
• Quiet writing - predictions
• Share predictions
• HW:  
• Finish reading, answer two questions at the end of the tale.

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify the basics of the sonnet form and explain how the form brings meaning to the words in the poem.
• Agenda:
• Shmoop Sonnet Video
• Sonnet notes
• Fresh Prince as a sonnet
• original theme song
• as a sonnet
• Romeo and Juliet Clips
• Clip 1
• Clip 2
• Describe the circumstances surrounding their meeting.
• Romeo and Juliet Questions
• Answer in small group
• Review in large group
• Homework:
• 1-2 paragraph open response:  How does the sonnet form bring meaning to the poem?
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to predict what kind of tale a narrator may tell, review in-context vocabulary words, and draw inferences about characterization.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  What kind of man is the Miller?  What kind of story do you think he will tell?
• Read Miller's Prologue.  Review 5 questions in boxes.
• Turn and Talk with a classmate:  Share your prediction.
• Predictions:  Share out and discuss.
• Build the Word Wall:  Small groups to look up definitions for Miller's Tale vocabulary
• Read first 1-2 pages of Miller's Tale
• Small groups:  Draw characters and notes
• HW:  
• Character Illustration Sheet for Miller's Tale

• College Prep:  Hand Back Work, Organize Binder, Gratefulness Journal (Period 2)
• Honors: Thanksgiving Rap Battle in Mr. Heinegg's Room
• HW:  NO HOMEWORK!  ENJOY THE THANKSGIVING BREAK!

• College Prep:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to how what they know about The Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Canterbury Tales Test
• Extra Credit:  Define 7 more words from Word Wall.
• Extra Credit:  Write a rap about Thanksgiving.
• HW:
• No Homework!
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Honors:  
• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify how the Knight's Tale is a quintessential chivalric romance and decide whether the outcome of the story is fair.
• Agenda:
• Reread and discuss tale.  Make sure everyone understands what is the outcome.
• Turn and talk:  Discuss whether the outcome is fair.  Share with large group.  Submit HW.
• Small groups:  Identify 13 ways that the tale is an example of the chilvalric romance.  Share and discuss with class.
• Extra credit:  Rap battle preparation.
• HW:  
• For extra credit, write a rap about Thanksgiving.

• College Prep
• Objective:
• Students will be able to act out a story with a moral and explain why that moral is ironic.
• Agenda:
• Submit Essays
• Test Review
• Pardoner's Description - Make a Prediction
• Act Out Pardoner's Tale
• Answer Pardoner's Tale Questions
• HW:
• Study for tomorrow's test on The Canterbury Tales
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will be able to state the primary characteristics of a chivalric romance and explain how the Knight's Tale is a perfect example.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  Report Card Reflection
• Review and submit Canterbury Tales MCAS
• Knight's Tale notes
• Read summary of parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Knight's Tale
• HW:
• Finish reading the Knight's Tale (part 4)
• Write 1 paragraph - Is the outcome of the Knight's Tale fair?  Why or why not?

• College Prep:  
• Objective:
• Students will be able to write a coherent essay contrasting two works of literature (as they will have to do on the MCAS).
• Agenda:
• Return Back to Thesis and Topic Sentence Ideas
• Essay Workshopping
• Student examples from last year
• Read 2.  Discuss.  What's good about these?  How can we emulate this in our own writing?
• Students examples from this year
• Anyone like to share?
• Focus on Quotes 
• goal: 6 quotes (2 per paragraph for a balanced essays
• Bonus Time:  Outside Reading, Hand Back Work
• HW:  Final draft of essay due Monday
• Honors:  
• Objective:
• Students will be able to answer questions about indirect and direct characterization (as they will have to do on the MCAS).
• Agenda:
• Review pp. 79-80 ?s and submit
• Share Poems
• MCAS Caterbury Tales packet 1
• Bonus Time:  Outside Reading, Hand Back Work
• HW:  Finish Canterbury Tales packet 1

• College Prep:  
• Objective:
• students will be able to contrast two works of literature.
• Agenda:
• Ms. D lesson on thesis statements and topic sentences
• Examples
• Textual Evidence
• Work on Laptops
• HW:  Work on Canterbury Tales essay
• Honors:  
• Objective:
• Students will be able to explain a character's direct and indirect characterization.
• Agenda:
• Take quiz
• Read pp. 76-79
• Answer For Study and Discussion Questions
• Questiosn on p. 79
• HW:  Complete p. 80 "Comparing Characters"

• Objective:
• Students will be able to contrast two works of literature.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  Turn and talk to share HW
• Review T-Chart.  Pick three topics.
• Thesis Workshop
• Work on Laptops to Type Draft
• HW:
• Essay due Monday, 11/20
• Test on Tuesday, 11/21

• DOWNLOAD NOTES FROM TODAY HERE!
• Objective:
• Students will be able to explain a character's direct and indirect characterization.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  Share and submit paragraph HW
• Read and Analyze
• Plowman
• Miller
• Reeve
• Manciple
• Pardoner
• Summoner
• Small groups:
• 6 groups, each writes a poem about a different character
• HW:
• Canterbury Tales Quiz

• Objective:
• Students will be able to contrast two works of literature.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  Prediction HW
• Read End of Miller's Tale
• Turn and Talk:  Discuss Two Guiding Questions
• Graphic Organizer T-Chart
• Submit Prologue and Illustration HW/Classwork
• Print and distribute grade reports
• Ticket Out:  How accurate was your prediction?
• HW:
• Complete T-Chart Graphic Organizer for Knight's Tale vs. Miller's Tale.  Canterbury Tales Test on Tuesday.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to explain a character's direct and indirect characterization.
• Agenda:
• Opener: Consult with your partner
• Present poem and notes (partners)
• Continue with characters' descriptions
• Ticket Out:  Something you learned about another character.
• DOWNLOAD NOTES FROM TODAY HERE!
• HW:
• 1-2 paragraphs on the indirect characterization of your assigned character.

• Objective:  
• Students will be able to predict what kind of tale a narrator may tell, review in-context vocabulary words, and draw inferences about characterization.
• Agenda:
• Word Wall Vocab
• Small Groups:  Read, Illustrate, Cast
• Review Work, Read Page 2 of Tale
• Outline Paragraph for HW
• HW:
• Write a 1-2 paragraph prediction using 3 quotes from today's reading.  How will the Miller's Tale end?

• Objective
• Students will be able to define different archetypes and apply them to The Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Review HW (paragraphabout the Knight)
• Read and take notes on Squire, Yeoman, Nun
• Small Group Character Poem Assignment with Partner
• HW:  Polish Your Poem from Today

• Objective:
• Students will be able to predict what kind of tale a narrator may tell, review in-context vocabulary words, and draw inferences about characterization.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  What kind of man is the Miller?  What kind of story do you think he will tell?
• Reread Miller's Prologue.  Review 5 questions in boxes.
• Turn and Talk with a classmate:  Share your prediction.
• Predictions:  Share out and discuss.
• Build the Word Wall:  Small groups to look up definitions for Miller's Tale vocabulary
• Read first 1-2 pages of Miller's Tale
• Small groups:  Draw characters and notes 
• Ticket Out:  Submit last night's HW
• HW:  
• HW Holiday!  Have a great weekend!

• Objective:
• Students will be able to define various modern archetypes and link them to the frame story for The Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Outside Reading
• List Archetype Brainstorming from Yesterday
• Turn and Talk - Share HW (poems)
• Share Out and Submit Description
• Canterbury Tales Rap
• Read opening two pages of Canterbury Tales
• HW:
• Write 1-2 paragraph description of the Knight

• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze how fair the outcome of the tale is and how the tale reflects the teller.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  How is the Knight' Tale a chivalric romance?
• Knight' Tale
• Reread part 4
• Is the outcome fair?
• How does the story reflect the teller?
• Miller's Tale description
• HW:
• Miller's Tale prediction packet

• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify modern archetypes in the American high school.
• Agenda:
• Turn and talk - share HW
• Share and submit HW
• Canterbury Tales intro
• Mr. Ambrose's sample assignment - Basic Girl, Try Hard
• journal
• terms
• archetype brainstorming - small groups
• HW:
• 20-30 line archetype poem baed on your archetype from today

• Objective:
• Students will be able to identify the defning elements of the chivalric romance.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  What do you predict the Knight's Tale will be about?
• Chivalric Romance notes
• Read Knight's Tale

• Write 1-2 paragraphs - Is the outcome of the Knight's Tale fair?  Why or why not?

Honors:

• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze Grendel as a parallel novel.
• Agenda:
• Opener:  Word Search (Grendel, chapter 10)
• Small Groups:  Ch. 10 questions, Ch. 12 crossword
• HW check - ch. 9-12 notes
• Discussion Circle - ch. 9-12
• HW:
• Creative Writing:  Write your own parallel scene to a movie/novel of your choice.

• College Prep:  Knight's Tale Lesson
• Honors:  Opener - Grendel ch. 10 and 12 word search and crossword, Canterbury Tales Introductory Lesson

• Objective:
• Students will be able to reflect on progress towards their goals and prepare for MCAS.
• Agenda:
• Kylie Truong CCSR Survey
• Goals Reflection
• MCAS Prep - Canterbury Tales 2
• Outside Reading
• HW: 
• No HW!  You worked hard this week!

• Objective:
• Students will be able to reflect on progress twoards their goals.
• Agenda:
• Kylie Truong CCSR Survey (link above)
• Goals Reflection and Sharing (link above)
• Outside Reading 
• HW:
• No HW!  You worked hard this week!

• Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills from quarter 1.

• Quarter 1 Exam

• No HW
• All Q1 make-up work due tomorrow!

• Objective:
• Students will be able to review for the quarterly exam.
• Agenda:
• Download STANDARD review SHEET here.
• Download STANDARD review JEOPARDY GAME here.
• Download HONORS review SHEET here.
• Download HONORS review JEOPARDY GAME here.

• Study for quarterly exam.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to show what they know about characterization in The Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Take quiz
• Correct quiz
• Review exam topics
• Small groups:  create review sheet for quarterly exam
• HW:
• Study for quarterly exam (Thursday, 11/2).
• Last day to hand in make-up work for quarter is Friday, 11/3.

• Objective:
• Students will be able to discuss the themes of Grendel as a parallel text to Beowulf and how it relates to Gardner's influence.
• Agenda:
• Read our letters to Gardner
• Read Gardner's letters to students
• Circle Discussion
• Ticket Out:  Submit letter to Gardner
• HW:
• Prepare for quarterly exam (Thursday)

• Objective:
• Students will be able to understand the character descriptions in the Canterbury Tales.
• Agenda:
• Period 3 - Weeko presents project
• Review MCAS 1-13 Canterbury Tales packet
• Notes on final five characters 
• HW:
• Study for Canterbury Tales quiz (Tuesday 10/31)
• Study for Quarterly Exam (Thursday 11/2)
• All make-up work due Friday, 11/3

• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze Grendel as a parallel novel.
• Agenda:
• Circle discussion on chapters 5-8 of Grendel
• HW:
• Write a letter to John Gardner (due tomorrow)
• Study for Quarterly Exam (Thursday 11/2)

• College Prep - Outside reading, MCAS Prep Who murdered Chaucer, Collect and review MCAS, Collect all make-up work, Q1 reflection activities, no HW
• Honors - Outside Reading, Q1 reflection activities, SAT Prep, no HW

Thursday, 11/2

• Q1 Exam, HW: all make-up work

Wednesday, 11/1

• Q1 Exam review

Tuesday, 10/31

• College Prep - Canterbury Tales Quiz, Correct Quiz, How to review for exam, HW: study for exam
• Honors:  Finish circle discussion of chapters, Share HW, Read Gardner letter to students, Discuss letters, Other activity, HW: Study for exam

Monday, 10/30

• College Prep - Review CT MCAS 1-13, Notes on those 3 characters, Notes on Pardoner and Summoner, Finish prologue, Weeko and others present, HW: study for quiz
• Honors:  Check 5 and 7 classwork, circle discussion 5 and 7, go back into other chapters to prep in small groups, ID talking points quotes passages, circle discussion, HW: letter to Gardner

• Objective:
• Students will be able to understand character decriptions in "The Canterbury Tales."
• Agenda:
• Review upcoming assignments and hand back Beowulf test

• Share and submit original poems
• Canterbury Tales MCAS prep, #1-13
• Outside Reading
• HW: 
• Finish open response #13 from today's packet if you did not finish in class.
• Do Beowulf test corrections if you need to.

• Canterbury Tales quiz Tuesday
• Quarterly Exam Thursday

• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze Grendel as a parallel novel.
• Agenda:
• Outside Reading
• Beowulf Test
• Small group discussion prep
• Discuss chapter 5 questions in large circle
• HW: 
• Finish reading Grendel.
• Take notes on ch. 11 and 12 in prescribed format.

• College Prep
• Objective:
• Students will be able to understand character descriptions in "The Canterbury Tales."
• Agenda:
• Debrief on College Fair
• Share and Submit HW
• Small Groups:  With a partner, do the following:
• Read the assigned character desription
• Take five bullet point notes
• Write your own original 6-10 line poem about the character in modern language
• HW:
• Finish and polish your poem.
• Bring in your outside reading book.
• Honors:

• Objective:
• Students will be able to analyze Grendel as a parallel novel.
• Agenda:
• Debrief on College Fair
• Finish presenting ch. 4 (Nick's group)
• Ch. 5 and 7 questions - find quotes to support
• HW questions
• HW:
• Read chapters 9 and 10.
• Take notes in the prescribed format.
• Bring in your outside reading book.

• College Prep
• Objective:
• Students will be able to understand character description in "The Canterbury Tales."
• Agenda:
• Share and submit HW
• Review concepts of direct and indirect characterization
• General Prologue characters
• Knight
• Squire
• Yeoman
• Nun
• HW:  Write a 1-2 paragraph description of any character using at least five details.
• Honors:
• Objective:
• Students will analyze Grendel as a parallel text.
• Agenda:
• Groups present on chapters 1-4.
• HW:  Read ch. 7 and 8 of Grendel.  Take notes in the presribed format.

• College Prep
• Objective:  
• Students will be able to understand character description in "The Canterbury Tales."
• Agenda:
• Literary Terms
• Pilgrimmage Journal
• Archetype Brainstorm
• Baba Brinkman Rap
• Read pp. 59-60
• HW:
• Write 1-2 paragraph description of the Knight, using at least 5 details.
• Honors:
• Objective:  
• Students will be able to analyze Grendel as a parallel novel.
• Agenda:
• View and discuss Wicked trailer
• Grendel Intro PPT
• Grendel Astrology 
• Small Groups:  ch. 1-4
• HW:
• Read Grendel ch. 5-6.
• Take notes in prescribed format.

• College Prep:  
• Read and take notes on General Prologue of Canterbury Tales
• Honors:
• Read and take notes on Grendel ch. 3-4

• College Prep:
• Victoria DiPrizio lesson on characterization
• Honors:
• Read and take notes on Grendel ch. 1-2

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of Beowulf.
• Today's Agenda:
• Beowulf Test
• 35 multiple choice
• 3 open response
• Do extra credit on a separate sheet.
• Hand in yesterday's HW (standard only).
• Tonight's HW:
• Standard:  Don't forget school photo payment tomorrow.
• Honors:  Translation essay due tomorrow.  Alo, don't forget school photo payment tomorrow.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to read about Beowulf's final battle.
• Today's Agenda:
• Standard:  Review HW (hold on to it; submit tomorrow)
• Distribute test review
• Read battle with the dragon
• College Pride Day presentation and Q & A
• Tonight's HW:
• Study for Beowulf Test tomorrow.

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to compare/contrast two scenes.
• Today's Agenda:
• Return to questions from last week (p. 30, 1-5) in small groups, review and submit
• Battle with Grendel's mom - read and discuss
• Small groups - create T-chart to contrast two battles
• Tonight's HW:
• Write 1-2 paragraphs contrasting the two battles.
• Beowulf test - Wednesday, 10/18

• Today's Objective:
• Students will be able to compare/contrast two scenes.
• Today's Agenda:
• Review questions from last week (p. 30, 1-5)
• Battle with Grendel's mom - read and discuss
• Small groups - create T-chart to contrast two battles 
• Ticket Out:  Write oen paragraph constrasting the two battles.
• Tonight's HW:
• Beowulf test - Wednesday, 10/18
• Essay due Thursday, 10/19

• Outside Reading
• Battle with Grendel
• P. 30, 1-5 in groups
• Work on Translation Essay (Honors)
• Share Taunts/Boasts (Honors)
• HW:  
• Standard - No HW
• Honors - work on translation essay