Class Notes: October 19, 2010

B-block (9)

AGENDA :
1. Discuss end of Part I
2. What are conflicts in the novel so far? What has the focus been? How is it changing?
3. Silent reading

HOMEWORK: Read through the end of Part I

Vocab quiz = Thursday

C-block (9H)

AGENDA :
1. Research for Injustice Project

HOMEWORK: 1. Read chs. 6&7
2. Complete responses for "Richard's 1st story"

Vocab quiz = Friday, Oct.22

D-block (9)

AGENDA :
1. Discussion of end of Part I
2. 5 words exercise for Atticus, Scout, Jem

HOMEWORK: Read chapter 12

Vocab quiz = Monday, Oct. 25

E-block (9H)

AGENDA :
1. Journal: "Always the exception, I see everything as exceptional."
2. Discuss Richard and his feelings: loneliness, guilt, hunger, etc.
3. Ligon image and analysis

HOMEWORK: 1. Read chs. 6 & 7
2. Complete "Richard's 1st story" responses to hand in

Vocab quiz = Monday, Oct. 25

Class Notes: October 18, 2010

B-block (9)

AGENDA :
1. 5 words exercise
2. Read and study vocab

HOMEWORK: Read ch.12 and study vocab

VOCAB QUIZ on TKMB chs.1-6: Thurs., October 21!!

C-block (9H)

AGENDA :
1. Journal re-write to hand in for grade
2. Think-pair-share with examples of hunger, loneliness, guilt, etc. from Black Boy

HOMEWORK: Read chs. 6 & 7 and complete Richard's 1st story handout

2nd vocab quiz: Friday, October 22

G-block (Writing Lab)

AGENDA :
1. Finish watching "Crazy Heart"
2. Work on outlines for character analysis of Bad Blake or Jean

HOMEWORK: Write complete brainstorm and character outline for Bad Blake or Jean

Vocab quiz: Friday, October 22 on Units 1 & 2

Class Notes: Thursday, Sept. 9

B-block (9)

AGENDA :
1. Notecards: tell me about yourself
2. School photos
3. Class policies and expectations

HOMEWORK: Review summer reading

SUMMER READING TESTS: Monday, Sept. 13th & Wed., Sept. 15th

C-block (9H)

AGENDA :
1. Notecards: tell me about yourself
2. School photos
3. Class policies and expectations

HOMEWORK: Review summer reading

SUMMER READING TESTS: Tuesday, Sept. 14th & Thurs., Sept. 16th

D-block (9)

AGENDA :
1. Notecards: tell me about yourself
2. School photos
3. Class policies and expectations

HOMEWORK: Review summer reading

SUMMER READING TESTS: Tues., Sept. 14th & Wed., Sept. 15th

E-block (9H)

AGENDA :
1. Notecards: tell me about yourself
2. School photos
3. Class policies and expectations

HOMEWORK: Review summer reading

SUMMER READING TESTS: Tuesday, Sept. 14th & Wed., Sept. 15th

G-block (Writing Lab)

AGENDA :
1. Class policies and expectations
2. School photos
3. Begin to discuss summer reading

HOMEWORK: Review summer reading

SUMMER READING TESTS: Monday, Sept. 13th & Wed., Sept. 15th

Summer Reading

10th grade C1

CHOOSE TWO :
Paper Towns, John Green
Looking for Alaska, John Green
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson

Focus Questions: What techniques does an author use to develop character and reveal traits? How do people develop individually within a conformist society?

10th grade Honors

REQUIRED :
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

AND CHOOSE ONE OF THESE:
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl

Focus Questions: How do these books demonstrate the influence of the environment on the development of character? Each of these books uses a metaphor in the title. Explain each metaphor and how it contributes to your understanding of the text.

A few of my recommendations:

FICTION
White Noise, Don DeLillo
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer

POETRY
Odes to Common Things, Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda
Wild Iris, Louise Gluck

NON-FICTION
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner
The Survival of the Bark Canoe, John McPhee
Collected Essays, James Baldwin

Class Notes: June 11, 2010

EXAM REVIEW TIME

B-block

AGENDA :
1. Review for final exam in groups

HOMEWORK: Prepare review handout for Tuesday.

C-block (Honors)

AGENDA :
1. Wrap-up discussion of The Glass Menagerie

HOMEWORK: Prepare for final. Handouts by Wednesday.

D-block

AGENDA :
1. Final exam review

HOMEWORK: Prepare review handouts by Monday.

Class Notes: June 4, 2010

B-block

HOMEWORK: 1. Finish Lord of the Flies
2. Work on Devolution Timeline project (DUE: Friday, June 11)

D-block

HOMEWORK: 1. Finish Lord of the Flies
2. Work on Devolution Timeline project (DUE: Friday, June 11)

Class Notes: June 3, 2010

C-block (Honors)

AGENDA :
1. Discussion of production notes and scene 1.
2. Read scene 2.

HOMEWORK: 1. Read scenes 2 and 3.
2. Choose an image from the menagerie below and write a journal entry about how a particular staging of the play (or playbill cover) relates to the production notes that we discussed Thursday in class.