Friday’s plans

Posted on September 28, 2015 by jculver

Are not accurate two posts down. Sorry for the confusion! We are running a bit behind! 🙂

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail Videos

Posted on September 24, 2015 by jculver

What we are watching in class

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Lessonplans for Monday, September 21, 2015 to Friday, September 25, 2015

Posted on September 22, 2015 by jculver

Monday, September 21:

See post before this one.

Tuesday, September 22:

1. Bellringer

2. Finish 2 worksheets from Friday. Tone in Gatsby

3. Crashcourse Gatsby videos (see Friday links)

4. If time, finish video of movie

Wednesday, September 23:

1. Bellringer

QUICK REVIEW ABOUT NO RED INK RESULTS

2. Textbook: Turn to page 1102, Read and write down rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, and the blue vocabulary

3. Read page 1103 together–About JFK Bio

4. Read “Inaugural Address” on pages 1104-1107

5. Discuss

6. Video of the speech

7. Questions 1 and 2 page 1107

Thursday, September 24, 2015:

1. Bellringer

2. Test on chapters 6-9 The Great Gatsby

3. Review questions on 1107 from JFK speech yesterday.

Video related to “Letter from Bham Jail”

4. MLK, JR: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

5. Read silently and make notes

6. Discuss

7. If time, begin foldable.

Friday, September 25, 2015

1. Bellringer and turn in.

2. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and “Inaugural Address”

3. Foldable–due on Monday. use it to review for quiz.

Quiz on Monday on the two. Be ready.

 

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I’ll be out on Monday. Lesson Here.

Posted on September 20, 2015 by jculver

Monday, September 21,2015

ENGLISH 11:

Periods 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

Test that was to be Tuesday has been pushed back until Thursday on Gatsby chapters 6-9

1. No bellringer

2. You will need your literature book.

3. You will be reading Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in the next few weeks. To get you ready for that, read the short text in your lit book on pages 928 to 936 (“from Dust Tracks on a Road”) and answer questions on page 936 QUESTION AND ANSWER or restated as a complete sentence. TURN IN BEFORE YOU LEAVE.

4. When done, review Gatsby if you are behind.

CREATIVE WRITING 4th Period:

Meet on the top floor computer lab above library and type short story (no errors!!) and submit either electronically or plan to hand it to me Tuesday.

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Sign up on No Red Ink!

Posted on September 17, 2015 by jculver

 

Please go to www.noredink.com and sign up. The class code is classcode

 

Then go ahead and do the two quizzes online: Active and Passive Voice and Commonly Confused Words 1

Thank you. If you are having problems getting online, you can do this in the school library or public library or even use another student’s phone with their permission as long as you have your own student login. Thank you! This is a new thing I’m trying and I’m curious to see if it helps.

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The Car Situation

Posted on September 15, 2015 by jculver

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ON WAY THERE                                                                                   On way back.

 

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Plans for English: Monday, September 14 to Friday, September 18

Posted on September 14, 2015 by jculver

THE GREAT GATSBYMonday, September 14

1. Week 5: Bellringer 1

2. Discussion of Chapter 6 Gatsby and timeline so far

3. Read first half of chapter 7 in class.

NO HOMEWORK

the-great-gatsby-carey-mulligan-daisyTuesday, September 15

1. Bellringer 2

2. Finish chapter 7

3. Summary Squares for 6 and 7/Discussion

4. View scenes in 1999 version of Gatsby of what we have read

HW Read chapter 8

Wednesday, September 16

1. Bellringer 3

2. Summary square for chapter 8/Discuss

3. Begin reading the last chapter. Finish if not done in class

Thursday, September 17

1. No bellringer.

Mr. Howard, counselor, visits

Finish the novel for hw if you didn’t yesterday.

Friday, September 18

1. Bellringer 4

Hold onto bellringers until next Friday

2. Crash Course and Crash Course Notes on Gatsby:

“Like Pale Gold” Part One      12 minutes

“Was Gatsby Great?” Part Two  9 minutes

3. Symbols/Motifs/Colors

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Creative Writing Plan for week of September 7-11

Posted on September 4, 2015 by jculver

Monday: Labor Day. No School

Tuesday: 9/11 poetry :

20 minute Fox News Recap of 9/11 as it happened

Five minute PBS Video

“The Jumpers” audio and poem

“Five Years Later” poem

“When the Towers Fell” by Galway Kinnell

“The Names” by Billy Collins video

The-Names-Billy-Collins

Give you rubric for the short story.

Wednesday: Writing with Art Wednesday and writing question poetry

Thursday: Typing poems/short stories/print out for tomorrow’s share circle

Friday: Share circle/constructive criticism/

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English 11 Plans for the Week of Tuesday, September 8 to Friday, September 11, 2015

Posted on September 4, 2015 by jculver

Monday, September 7:Great-Gatsby-Memes

Labor Day. No school.

Tuesday, September 8:

1. Bellringer 6 ACT PREP

2. Turn in chapters 3-4 reading guide

3. Review/discuss what’s happened so far/summary squares

4. Reading chapter 5

While you are doing that, I’m handing back your folders and graded work.

Wednesday, September 9:

1. Bellringer 7: ACT PREP/ Reading: Making Inferences worksheet instead of Writer’s Choice book “A Backwoods Boy” and 4 questions

2. No quiz on chapter 5. Test is tomorrow, so let’s focus on reviewing and checking out clips from the 1999 A and E movie.

 

Thursday, September 10:

1. Bellringer 8: ACT PREP

2. Test on Chapters 1-5 of The Great Gatsby  GOLD GRADE!!!!!

3. View what we’ve read so far in 1999 version of Gatsby (A&E) (What we didn’t watch yesterday)

4. While viewing, prepare your table of contents for the test tomorrow on the notebook.

Read chapter 6 before Monday.

Friday, September 11:

1. Bellringer 9: ACT PREP

2. Turn in 9 bellringers for bronze grade

3.  Take notebook test. Gold Grade #2

4. Read chapter 6 in Gatsby. DO NOT READ AHEAD. I want to be there when you read chapter 7. 🙂 Ha.

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Ch. 3-4 Questions

Posted on September 4, 2015 by jculver

Chapters 3 and 4 Reading Guide questions for The Great Gatsby

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