ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP 9

1. New vocabulary....study your new homonyms for the test next week
2. Romeo and Juliet
-background info and begin reading together...be sure to take notes!

HONORS

1. Please see the black day plan from yesterday....you have the same plan as them!!!!! See me with any questions if you are confused!

COLLEGE PREP 12

1. I gave new vocab words today...your quiz will be next FRIDAY
2. "Beowulf" continuation
-read section 2 together in class
-continue taking notes

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP 12

1. Vocabulary: I gave you new words today for a quiz next THURSDAY
2. "Beowulf"
-reading aloud in class
-finish the 3 questions on the handout and be prepared to hand them in next time

ENGLISH 12

1. "Beowulf"
-finish notes TAKE THEM DOWN!
-begin reading section 1 and discuss as a class
2. Your cultural literacy vocab quiz will be next class...study!!

HONORS

1. "In the Twilight"
-more 2 truths and a lie....
-distribute study guide 'points to ponder' about the story....work on them...
-go over sheet and notes...take good notes in preparation for test

2. "The End of Something" by Hemingway
-begin reading as class
-answer the two questions I posed to you....write this out for next time....one was WHAT IS NICK'S PROBLEM, and the other was a list of words and phrases you should try to dissect as far as symbolism goes...

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP

1. BEOWULF with Ms Wadsworth....read your section for next time
2. OWL vocab test....

HONORS

1. "The Bet"
-discuss story...notes on lit devices....moral continuum
2. "In the Twilight"
-2 truths and lie, framed by HOW we make inferences about characters
-distribute stories...read the story for next time

ENGLISH 12

1. Cultural Literacy Vocab...put words in sentences....prepare for quiz on WEDNESDAY
2. "Beowulf"
-begin historical background notes!

ORANGE DAY

College Prep 9:

Today we...

1. Took a vocab quiz.

2. Passed in short stories.

3. Looked up 3 poems and the lyrics to 3 songs that describe you.

Homework: Write 3 paragraphs explaining why you picked the 3 poems and 3 songs, and what literary devices you see in them.

Honors 12:

**Please see the 'Honors 12' plan from yesterday's BLACK DAY blog entry (scroll down, even). You 'orange day' folks are one class behind the black day folks....follow the directions for "The Bet" and the moral continuum you need to pass in for next time!

College Prep 12:

Today we...

1. Reviewed Ongoing Writing List

2. Took notes on timeline leading to Beowulf.

3. Read first two pages of Beowulf, and filled out two worksheets.

4. REMEMBER TO STUDY for the OWL/homonym test on Tuesday!!!!

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP 12

1. O.W.L. review
-practice farther/further affect/effect for test
-this test will be on MONDAY
2. College essays
-work on conclusions and body writing
-your printed essays are due on Monday
-PRINT IT BEFORE YOU COME TO CLASS

ENGLISH 12
1. Vocab
-cultural literacy/idiomatic expressions
-scavenger hunt interviewing people on words....

HONORS
1. "Rose for Emily"
-go over all notes and discuss symbolism and other literary devices
2. "The Bet"
-discussion about "millions of dollars" and solitary confinement
-begin reading story....finish for next time
-make a 'moral continuum' for the lawyer:

Create a continuum/time line that shows the transformation of the lawyer during the story....Use quotes and specific examples to hilight the 'main events' of the man's imprisonment that changed him--the lawyer, remember was very arrogant and cocky at the beginning of the story and, as we see, changed VERY MUCH towards the end. What types of things TELL US that?

ORANGE DAY

College Prep 9:

Today we...

1. Revised each other's short stories 

2. Had some time to work on our own. 

3. Reviewed some of the vocab words.

Homework: Study vocab. There is atest. Finish second draft of short stories.

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HONORS ENGLISH 12

Please follow Black Day plan from yesterday.....

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College Prep 12:

Today we...

1. Took a few minutes to print finaldrafts of college essays and passed them in.

2. Talked about things we should andshouldn't do at interviews.

3. Practiced interviews.

Homework: If you did not complete theinterview questions in class, questions YOU WOULD ASK IF YOU WERE THEINTERVIEWER, finish ten of them and pass them in next class.

BLACK DAY

COLLEGE PREP 12

• Vocab: Ongoing Writing List--This test will be NEXT MONDAY!!!
• Essay examples
• Wrote bodies of essays
• Homework: some people are writing resumes (you know who you are), and everyone else is finishing the body of their essay for next time.  In class we will worry about the conclusion so don't worry now.

ENGLISH 12

1. HEROES

- work on finishing the entire book....do the 'in class test' for credit for today.....

-go over those questions together

2. On THURSDAY, we will do a vocab list and write to finish up everything with HEROES...yay!

HONORS

1. "A Rose for Emily"

-'whats going on' article...

-puppet man story....frame inferences and how we use them

-read entire story in class and respond to the following in note format:

   A. WHAT ARE THE 'CLUES' ALONG THE WAY THAT 'HINT' AT THE ENDING?

   B. SPOTLIGHT ON LITERARY TERMS, PICKING OUT THE SYMBOLISM, FORESHADOW, 3 TYPES OF CONFLICT, AND ANY OTHER LITERARY

       DEVICES YOU CAN PICK OUT