Part One of movie

Part Three of movie

Part 4 of movie

Part 5 of movie

Part 6 of movie

Monday, Oct 19  and Tuesday, Oct 20

1. Journal

2. Do we want to finish One Act Plays? If yes, we will. If no, we won’t! 🙂

3. Begin new short story assignment:

Story ideas – three elements

Choose a set of three elements and write a story that contains all three of them!

1. A stolen ring, fear of spiders, and a sinister stranger.
2. A taxi, an old enemy, and Valentine’s Day.
3. Identical twins, a party invitation, and a locked closet.
4. A broken wristwatch, peppermints, and a hug that goes too far.
5. Aerobics, a secret diary, and something unpleasant under the bed.
6. An ex-boyfriend, a pair of binoculars, and a good-luck charm.
7. An annoying boss, a bikini, and a fake illness.
8. The first day of school, a love note, and a recipe with a significant mistake.
9. A campfire, a scream, and a small lie that gets bigger and bigger.
10. Abandoned underground hideout, ceramic frog, a headache

OR pick one of these:

11. A babysitter is snooping around her employer’s house and finds something disturbing.
12. At a Chinese restaurant, your character opens his fortune cookie and reads a strange message. What is it and what happens next?
13. Your character’s boss invites her and her husband to dinner. Your character wants to make a good impression, but her husband has a tendency to drink too much and say exactly what’s on his mind…
14. It’s your character’s first day at a new school. He or she wants to get a fresh start, develop a new identity. But in his or her homeroom, your character encounters a kid he or she knows from summer camp…
15. Your character has to tell his parents that he’s getting a divorce. He knows his parents will take his wife’s side, and he is right…
16. You are a coal miner in 1914. You have a family to feed and a physical problem. You encounter something odd down in the mine one day…
17. Your character suspects her husband is having an affair and decides to spy on him. What she discovers is not what she was expecting…
18. Your character has a secret. What it is?
19. After your character loses his job, he is home during the day. That’s how he discovers that his teenage son …
20. At a garage sale, your character buys an antique urn which she thinks will look nice decorating her bookcase. But when she gets home, she realizes there are someone’s ashes in it…

Wednesday, October 21

1. Journal

2. Writing with Art Wednesday:

3. Poetry assignment

Thursday, October 22

1. Journal

2. Continue working on short story

Friday, October 23

1. Journal

2. Can use as a free reading day or work on your short story

Monday: Inservice

Tuesday: Superhero Day

1. Bellringer 10, turn in 10 bellringers. This will be your first bronze grade of the new 9 weeks.

2. In pairs, complete the vocabulary assignment based on words from chapters 1-4 of Eyes.

3. Reading Eyes, chapter 5

CREATIVE WRITING

1. Journal 31: It’s superhero day. What would your superpower be if you had one? (Listen to this as you write!)

2. Superhero Poem

3. Superhero Poems examples

4. Your Turn!

Wednesday: Tacky Tourist Day

1. Bellringer 1, Week 1 of 2nd 9 weeks

2. Finish chapter 5, do a summary square, discuss allusions in chapter 5 and what they are in general

3. Begin reading chapter 6

Creative Writing

1. Journal 32. Speaking of “tacky tourists”, where is the most interesting place you’ve ever traveled and why?

2. Writing with Art Wednesday:

(Photo by Joe Alcala)

3. Super Hero Poem Share

4. Read One Acts we haven’t read yet.

Thursday: Throwback Thursday

1. No bellringer today.

2. Reading chapter 6

Friday: Homecoming Day

Pep rally/Class Olympics.

Phoeby said it will “kill hongry.”

All students have been assigned textbooks. If they don’t bring them home, the textbooks are in their locker or they have left them in the classroom. I have told them many times that if someone steals their textbook and does something to it, they (the student the book is assigned to) are responsible for paying damages or for replacement costs. Please discuss this issue with your child.

Thanks so much.

• MLK/JFK pages 1102-1112
• antithesis
• parallelism
• allusion
• know how to find the main idea
• personification
• imagery
• context clues
• conflict
• connotation
• denotation
• frame story

Friday, October 2, 2015

English 11: (FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FIFTH, EIGHTH)

No bellringers today.  Go ahead and read chapter 2 of Their Eyes Were Watching God.  If the substitute is able, she/he will play the audio version. If they cannot do that, you can put in your earbuds and play it for yourself. Download here. Please read while you listen. You are twice as likely to remember and understand the text if you listen while you read.

If you do not finish in class, it’s homework. Quiz on Monday.

Here is the information you need to get ready for the benchmark:

• MLK/JFK pages 1102-1112
• antithesis
• parallelism
• allusion
• know how to find the main idea
• personification
• imagery
• context clues
• conflict
• connotation
• denotation
• frame story
• bellringer type of questions

As you can see, most of these questions will be skills based and not content based.

Creative Writing: FOURTH PERIOD

Meet in the library computer lab on second floor.  Type and then send via gmail your one act play/rough draft.  Please please please edit it for spelling and grammar before you send it. Thank you!

Monday, September 28, 2015:

1. Bellringer 1

2. Finish “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. Find answer to number five on  your worksheet (which is number 6 in your table of contents)

Tuesday, September 29, 2015:

1. Bellringer 2

TAKE UP GATSBY POEMS

2. Need textbook, page 1113. Do all questions on this page. Write question and answer if you cannot answer question in a complete sentence using the question as part of your answer. Put in notebook as page 7.

3. Foldable will be given out. Please complete for homework

Wednesday, September 30, 2015:

1. Bellringer 3

2. Help with foldable

3. Anticipation Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God

4. Bio of Zora Neale Hurston

5. Shmoop Video

NO HW

Thursday, October 1, 2015:

1. Bellringer 4

Quiz on MLK/JFK selections.

2. Shmoop Video, then read chapter 1

Dialect/Frame Story

Friday, October 2, 2015:

1. Bellringer 5

2. Discussion of Chapter 1

3. Make summary square for chapter 1

4. Review for Benchmark (On Tuesday)

5. Chapter 2-3

Finish for hw if not done in class. 🙂