BLACK DAY

HONORS ENGLISH
1. Present Monte Cristo projects
2. Vocabulary: New words for test Friday
3. Hamlet: We will start Wednesday. Get your books if you are going to buy them!

CREATIVE WRITING
1. Conferencing on "literary device" story
2. While I conference, the rest of class have "inspiration time!"

ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Grammar
-go over exercise 1 on pg 164 of Warriner's....discuss differences and when to use adverb and adjective
-Test on Adverbs, Adjectives, Linking Verbs, etc
-Begin notes on subject and verb agreement...we will continue this on Tuesday
2. Vocabulary Test will be on TUESDAY

HONORS ENGLISH
1. Monte Cristo project presentations (yay "The Office!"
2. Hamlet
-background information on Shakespeare's England

**If you are purchasing your own book for HAMLET (and I suggest you do) please do so by Tuesday when we start working from the book Thanks**

ENGLISH 12
1. Vocabulary Test
2. Grammar
-page 164 exercise 1 review of adj and adverbs
-begin worksheet (ex 45) on subject and verb agreement

BLACK DAY

HONORS ENGLISH
1. Finish film for "Monte Cristo"
2. Present projects on MONDAY

CREATIVE WRITING
1. Fun with paradoxes
2. "Who do you think you are?": Write to this theme for five minutes...discuss diversity of responses
3. Songwriting workshop!!

ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP

1. Vocabulary
-review sentences with ten using adverbs
2. Grammar
-go over exercises on adverbs and adjectives
-discuss notes on linking vs action verbs and how to use adverbs and adjectives correctly
-exercise 1 on p 164 in grammar books
**the class overwhelmingly elected to put off vocab test until Tuesday of next week...we will have a grammar test on Friday featuring stuff on adverbs, adjectives, linking verbs, etc. STUDY!

HONORS

1. Watch rest of film
2. We WILL present on Friday

ENGLISH 12

1. Vocab-put words in sentences using adverbs
2. Grammar
-notes on linking verbs vs action verbs and how to create correct sentences.
-Start exercise 1 on page 164...we will finish Friday
3. Vocab test is on Friday.
4. Bring the rest of exercise 1 that we did not finish going over today!

BLACK DAY

Okay......the blog is back!!! Start checking this!!!

HONORS ENGLISH

1. We watched the film THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
2. Projects due Wednesday

CREATIVE WRITING

1. Read beginning of "Cathedral" by Ray Carver and discuss
2. Literary terms discussion
3. For Thursday: Write something rich in one or more of the literary terms we've discussed

Orange Day

COLLEGE PREP
1. Vocabulary Test
2. Present Hamlet projects
3. View: "The Reduced Shakespeare Company" (perhaps we will continue on Thursday)

HONORS ENGLISH
1. Collect papers
2. Briefly go over ending of book
3. Go to library for research on "Monte Cristo" project. This project will be due the WEDNESDAY you come back from D.C. trip

ENGLISH 12
1. Present "Hamlet" diagnosis projects
2. Reminder on independent reading project...we will be working on this next week when you have a sub....BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS EACH DAY. IT IS A PARTICIPATION GRADE
3. Grammar
*Review notes on Adjectives and Adverbs
*Exercise 1 on Adjectives-identify modifiers
*Bring this sheet to class on Thursday!

Black Day

Honors English
1. Monte Cristo
*quickly go over the book ending
*introduce philosophy project, and then go to library to begin project. Please note that if you were absent, you need to get the assignment from me and then do research on your own to show to me (worth 25 points!)
2. Music Wednesday??? I dont know.......
3. I collected your papers today!

Creative Writing
1. PQC to "The Little Prince"
2. Literary Terms as they relate to creative writing
3. For next class, please complete a blog entry, and bring something to conference with me about!