May 31st

Today we took our pronoun quiz and all papers were returned. Block 1 started The Road Less Traveled by Frost (Lit book)

June 1st/2nd Block Day: The Road Less Traveled + 1 additional poem
The Tempest Essay and Short Answer section of final exam
Friday June 4th: Poetry Final
Tuesday June 7th: 8:30 Final Exam

Thursday May 26th

Today we reviewed pronouns (page 196 exercise A and page 623-624 exercise 7). Tuesday we'll have a pronoun quiz. Blocks 3 and 4 were given their vocabulary books to take home or recycle. Block 1 will get them on Tuesday.

We discussed The Tempest and the Theme/Motif review assignment.

Tuesday: Grammar Quiz and Poetry
Block Day: Poetry and Tempest Essay Test (part of final)
Friday: Poetry Final

Tuesday June 7th Final Exam at 8:30 (100 Scantron, 1 essay)
Block 1...room 316
Block 3...room 318
Block 4...with me in room 322

Wednesday 5-25-11

Today we continued to review pronouns. Today we discussed nominative and objective case as well as elliptical clauses. We discussed The Waking by Roethke and took The Tempest quiz on Acts 3-5.

Thursday the exam review editorial cartoon assignment is due. We'll discuss pronouns, poetry and the cartoons in class.

Tuesday 5-31-11: Pronoun Quiz, Tempest Talk and Poetry Discussion
Block Day: Poetry Discussion and Tempest Final Exam Essay/Short Answer
Friday June 4: Poetry Final in class (2 poems, 1 NEW ... 10 Questions)

Tuesday June 7: 8:30 AM Final Exam (100 Scantron, 1 cumulative essay ... Need PENCIL and PEN)

Monday 5-20-11

Pronoun Packet Review (Pages 9, 11)
The Tempest Discussion
Topics:
1. Literal and Figurative Meaning of Title
2. "Playing God"
3. Is the Tempest a blessing or a curse?
4. Miranda
5. Colonialism - Shakespeare's attitude about it
6. Restoration of Natural Order
7. Prospero's Fatal flaw that lead to his loss of his Dukedom

Final Exam Review...Introduced editorial Cartoom Assignment. Blocks 1, 4 had 10-15 minutes to work on it...block 3 will get assignment at the start of class tomorrow.

We did not get to TPCASTT...will do so tomorrow with Brother Barney visiting the class and continye on Wednesday and Thursday

The Tempest Quiz on Wednesday (Acts 3-5)

Friday 5-20-11

Today we discussed The Tempest, Pronouns (Packet page 8 exercise 2 #'s 10-20), and were given a poetry assignment for Monday/Tuesday.

For Monday TPCASTT:
The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Brooks (Lit book pages 584-585)
Harlem and The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes (Lit Book pages 592-593)
London by William Blake (Lit book page 422-423)

And Poem printed in packet: The Waking by Theodore Roethke

For Tuesday the following poems printed int the packet:
Anthem of a Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Suicide in the Trenches Siegfried Sassoon
Five Ways to Kill a Man by: Edwin Brock

Block Days May 18 and 19

Block Days we finished The Tempest Acts 1-2 Presentations, Reviewed Pronouns (Packet...Antecedents, Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns), and discussed poetry.

We reviewed Dule at Decorum Est on page 604 in our text and connected it with One by Metallica

Check out the Final Exam Review Information on the FINAL EXAM REVIEW page on the website.

Tomorrow...Friday 5-20-11
Pronoun Review, Tempest Talk and Poems

HOMEWORK for the weekend = TPCASTT worksheet

May 17th

In class papers were returned and the class presented portions of Acts 1 and 2 to their peers.

Block Day:
Acts 4 and 5 are due
BRING YOUR LITERATURE BOOKS - Poetry Discussion
Grammar Activity - Pronouns
Tempest Talk

Thursday: SPIRIT DRESS, Friday Tie Day

Friday...More of the Same

IMPORTANT SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pronoun quiz will now be May 31st
The Tempest Acts 3 -5 Quiz Block Days May 25/26

Monday May 16th

Today we took our quizzes on Punctuation and The Tempest Acts 1 and 2.

Tuesday Group Presentations of Acts 1 and 2, Pronoun review

Block Day The Tempest Act 3 Due
Bring Your LITERATURE BOOKS as well as The Tempest
The Tempest discussion and Pronoun review

I created a FINAL EXAM review page on the class website. It includes a class assignment that we will start in class on Monday 5-23-11. What is not completed in class is due Block Day 5-25/26.

Friday May 13th...

Friday the 13th was a LUCKY DAY for many! The Underclass Awards Assembly ran long...therefore we did not have our quizzes...they will be Monday.

Instead, Here's what we did if you were absent:
Block 1: Began group work on Acts 1 and 2 of The Tempest
Blocks 3 and 4: Finished Grammar Packet review

Monday:
The Tempest Acts 1 and 2 and Punctuation Quiz (Correct both AND Commonly Confused words)
The Tempest Act 3 WS due

Tuesday:
Pronouns and The Tempest

Block Day:
Pronouns, The Tempest Acts 4 and 5 Due

Friday 5-20-11
Senior Awards Assembly
Quiz: Pronouns, The Tempest Acts 3-5

Image: Miranda by John William Waterhouse 1916

Block Day and the rest of the week...

We worked on IMPROVING PARAGRAPHS in our vocabulary book (44-45, 86-87)
We completed the commas worksheet packet
We revised our resume and cover letter

Thursday:
Grammar WS Packet #2
Tempest

Friday:
Grammar Quiz and Tempest Quiz

Bonus Due tomorrow

those of you that are doing the bonus that is due tomorrow...

email me a copy of the document AND print out a hard copy. Due by 2:15 PM.

Monday 5-9-11

Blocks 3 and 4 have a bit of classwork to complete:
Block 3...Grammar WS page 165 (EX 1) 1-5, Page 167 (EX 1) 1-5, (EX 2) 1-3
Block 4...Grammar WS page 165 (EX 1) evens, Page 167 (EX 1) evens, (EX 2) odds

All classes completed Vocabulary Book pages 129-131 and 215-216

Due Block Day: Resume, Cover Letter and Rubric
Due Thursday: Tempest Act 2

Friday: Tempest Quiz, Grammar Quiz (Punctuation)

This week in class: Tempest and Grammar (Punctuation)

Friday 5-6-11

Block 1: Completed Improving Paragraphs (Vocabulary Book pages 129-134)

Blocks 3 and 4: Completed Tempest Video

ALL Blocks:
Discussed Resume and cover letter completion tips.

Items to include on your resume that you may not have considered adding:
Are you CPR Certified? Any other certifications...SCUBA?
Are you an Eagle Scout?
Have you been accepted into any workshops for this summer?
Have you taken summer courses (not for remediation) at another school? (either for advancement or enrichment?)

Remember Schedule Change for NEXT Week:
Tuesday Mass Day - BLOCK schedule
Wednesday - Homeroom - BLOCK schedule

DUE DATES:
Monday 5-8-11 Tempest Act 1
Thursday 5-12-11 Tempest Act 2
** Friday 5-13-11 Tempest Quiz and Grammar Quiz (Punctuation)
Resume BLOCK Day

REMINDER:
Two students need to complete the ESLR ... come in before school Tuesday 5-10 or Wednesday 5-11

Block Day...Resume Work

In the library today you will work on your resume.

First, look at the rubric on the PAPERS page of the website.

Then go to NAVIANCE on the school website.

Enter Naviance and start to build your resume with key information about your current and past accomplishments. Remember...DO NOT PROJECT into the future.

DRAFT DUE...with rubric...IN CLASS Tuesday May 10th

Final Due ...with rough draft and rubric as well...IN CLASS Tuesday May 24th

BONUS OPPORTUNITY

I was sent information about a writing contest...DEADLINE MAY 10TH. If you complete the writing contest and have all appropriate forms filled out and given to me to mail on May 10th, you will earn up to 25 BONUS points in the PAPERS Category! See me for topic information and entry details.

May 3, 2011

Block 1: Death Penalty Debate based on Upfront Magazine 4-18-11

Blocks 3 and 4: Lou Dunst (Holocaust Survivor) as guest speaker. Read a story about him in the LA Times (March 6, 2006)

Sign on San Diego story about Lou.

Lou Dunst's Story: When Lou Dunst was a teenager, imprisoned in a series of Nazi concentration camps, he begged God: “Please let me live – if for nothing else than to tell my story.” Dunst did survive the war. His is a gripping tale, full of heartache and suspense.

Born in 1926, Lou was only fourteen years old when all Jewish males in Jasina, Czechoslovakia 14 years and older were taken as slave labor. He was transported in boxcars to various concentration camps over time.

On the morning of May 6, 1945, Dunst was literally at death's door. A 19-year-old Ukrainian Jew in a Nazi concentration camp in Austria, he had crawled onto a pile of corpses outside the crematorium to perish. But that afternoon, General Patton's Third Army drove liberated Dunst and the rest of Ebensee's 18,000 prisoners. (Courtesy of Chabad of Downtown)

BLOCK DAY: Meet in the library to work on your RESUME

May 2, 2011

Welcome back from break! Today I passed back some papers and we got organized for the last 5 weeks of school. We started to watch a TEMPEST video (on The Tempest page on the class website)

A few things to remember:

1. If there is NO ARS grade in SOTW, bring a printed copy to class tomorrow. That means I could not read what you submitted or the formatting was changed so much in the upload that I need a printed copy.

2. Make-Up Frankenstein tests: Before or After School Wednesday (5-4-11)

3. Make-up ESLR completion for the TWO that need to finish due to absences before break. Wednesday this week before or after school or Tuesday and Wednesday next week (5/10 or 5/11 before school)

4. Paper regrades, if desired, due NO LATER THAN JUNE 1, 2011. Print the regrade and turn in with original rubric and original assignment if it is not on turnitin.com for me to access.

5. Naviance passwords...you need to know for BLOCK day this week.