BLACK DAY

CREATIVE WRITING
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CP ENGLISH
1. Film...continue viewing and taking notes...focus your attention on material you can use to make a DIAGNOSIS of Hamlet (this is the project we will be working on in the library on Tues)
2. Even.

ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Same as black day plan, but we watched the film!

HONORS ENGLISH
1. Monte Cristo
-field questions on reading....keep reading on your own to finish the book!
-discuss and generate thesis ideas....this thesis paper will be due NEXT FRIDAY

ENGLISH 12
1. Test-subject/verb agreement AND prep phrases
2. "Aluminum" sentence combining exercises!
3. "Cards" writing with the following rules: must contain appositive, must start with a question, must end with one of the five endings I put on the board....

BLACK DAY

CP ENGLISH
1. Hamlet
-take quiz on Act II--use notes
-we held off on the film for today, since we were missing so many students
-we will continue with the film next time....
-if you missed class today, be sure to make up the quiz...you have until Friday

ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Same as Black day from yesterday....be prepared for a quiz next time!

HONORS
1. Monte Cristo
-character list
-fun jokes
-field questions
**PLEASE NOTE** at this point, you should finish the book at yoru own convenience (as quickly as you can, for your sake). There will be no more 'formal' reading assignments, quizzes, etc. Your remaining assignment is your thesis paper for the novel. Next class we will talk more about this...you will have your thesis paper due probably at the end of next week, so we can begin our term paper. Read on your own. Enjoy. Begin to formulate ideas, even

ENGLISH 12
1. Daily Spark warmup
2. Prep Phrases
-review and writing prompt, using at least 4 prep. phrases in your writing
3. Sentence Enrichment
-teach semicolons and do practice exercises
4. TEST ON THURSDAY on subject/verb agreement AND prep phrases

BLACK DAY

CP ENGLISH
1. Hamlet
-read and discuss soliloquy that ends Act 2
-remind about opportunity to memorize 20 lines of soliloquy for a bonus 100 test grade
-film of Act 2 and take notes at stopping points

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Hamlet
-collect essays
-view/read rest of film Act I
-Read Act 2 (act out Opelia and Hamlet scene)
-introduce the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
-Read tonight from where Polonius says "well be with you gentlemen" to where Polonius enters again....
-there is a matching quiz on Thursday....bring your notes....it will cover what we have done thus far (including the film)

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Hamlet

-assign paper, which is due Tuesday: "With MONTE CRISTO and HAMLET, we have seen the influence of the Machiavelli claim "the end justifies the means" manifested many times already. For this assignment, examine a more 'recent' example of this philosophy being 'enacted' or practiced by someone (celebrity/politician/etc). Show, clearly, a more modern and 'pop cultureish' example of "the end justifies the means" apparent in our society today

-go over scene 5 of act I....do all notes

-begin viewing the film for Act I (take notes!)

ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP

You folks had the same plan as the Black Day class



HONORS

We took the vocab test....we went over the character of Peppino, chapter 23, and chapter 24....we completed a study guide for this....your assignment for Monday is to read through chapter 29....remember, I will not be here on Monday


ENGLISH 12

We did a "daily spark" exercise involving 'contronyms'....we continued our grammar study by taking a mock test of s/v agreement....these were tough!....we then took notes on prepositions, and we brainstormed a list of them and how to use them....

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP 1. Hamlet -quiz on notes thus far through 1.2 -class discussion and notes on what was to be read for today: 1.2 -read aloud and discuss 1.3 -read scene 5 (and thus the end of the act) for homework **always expect a quiz**

ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Same as Black day....black day class is ahead of you now
2. You DID have your vocab test today, however

HONORS
1. Monte Cristo
-test through ch 21
-discuss end of 19, suicide, credit, emergence of M.C. in chapt 20 and 21, etc
-your assignment for next time is to read THROUGH 24
2. DONT FORGET VOCAB THURSDAY!

ENGLISH 12
1. Vocab words for test next Wednesday
2. Grammar
-#68 writing prompt....do with sentences no longer than 5 words! -oral exercise with s/v agreement
-exercise to do independently "United States agriculture" sentences...

BLACK DAY (and note to ORANGE DAY!)

ORANGE DAY CLASSES:

CP-Dont forget your vocab quiz which is tomorrow

HON-Dont forget your Monte Cristo test through chapter 21

ENG 12-Your IATC responses are due!

**BLACK DAY**

COLLEGE PREP
1. Hamlet
-we took all notes on the beginning of the story....themes and ideas....theories...etc
-we read 1.1 and I summed up the parts we could skip
-we started 1.2, and your job is to finish reading this scene for next time
-could there be a quiz????