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=Honor's English 11 Lesson Plans= (Subject to change)

Week Seven

 * Monday** (9/15): [|SAT Vocabulary 5]. Work on Great Gatsby Poster Project. Great Gatsby Literary Discussion & Handout.


 * Tuesday** (9/16): Great Gatsby Test. Read "Soldiers of the Republic." Do Setting 1-2 and Vocabulary 1-4.


 * Wednesday** (9/17): Read "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Do Questions 1-8 and Reading Strategy 1-2. Work on poster project. Complete/Turn in Literary discussion handout.


 * Thursday** (9/18): Essay Revision.


 * Friday** (9/19): Vocabulary 5 Test. Unit 5: Modern Ficition Short Story Test. Notebook Due. Essay Revision Due.

Week Six
 * Monday** (9/08): SAT Vocabulary 4. Great Gatsby Quiz Chapters 3 & 4. Watch Great Gatsby Chapters 3 & 4.


 * Tuesday** (9/09): Read Great Gatsby Ch 6. Journal: Chapter 4


 * Wednesday** (9/10): Great Gatsby Quiz Chapters 5-6. Watch Chapters 5-6. Journal: Chapter 7 Prediction Word Scramble. Read Chapter 7.


 * Thursday** (9/11): Great Gatsby Quiz Chapter 7. Watch Chapter 7. Read Ch 8 & 9.


 * Friday** (9/12): Vocabulary 4 Test. Great Gatsby Quiz Ch 8-9. Watch Ch. 8-9.

Week Five

 * Monday** (9/01): **Out of School**. No Vocabulary this week.


 * Tuesday** (9/02): Hemingway's "In Another Country." 1-8. Continue Great Gatsby Chapter 2. Begin Realizations Chart, Colors in the GG Chart, Images in the GG Chart. Handout: [|Revision Lesson 9] Varying Sentence Openers 1-10.


 * Wednesday** (9/03): Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams." Continue Great Gatsby.


 * Thursday** (9/04): Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and biographical respective "The Perfect Hour." Continue Great Gatsby.


 * Friday** (9/05): Dorthy Parker's "Soldiers of the Republic." Continue Great Gatsby.

Week Four

 * Monday** (8/25): [|SAT Vocabulary 3] Poetry: Stevens, Cummings, & Sandburg. Do pg 693 1-8 & Author's Purpose 1-2. Do pg 698 1-9. Do pg 703 1-8 & Apostrophe 1-2. HW: Read 677-688. Do pg 688 1-3.


 * Tuesday** (8/26): Read all Robert Frost poems. Do study guide 1-88. Work on notebook. Both due Thursday.


 * Wednesday** (8/27): Study Guide. Poetry Review.


 * Thursday** (8/28): Poetry Test. [|Notebook Due]. Study Guide 1-88 Due. Begin the novel The Great Gatsby. 20-Line Poem Due


 * Friday** (8/29): Vocabulary Test. Great Gatsby.

Week Three

 * Monday** (8/18): [|SAT Vocabulary 2]: Journals Due. Begin //Of Mice & Men// essay (literary analysis).


 * Tuesday** (8/19): //Of Mice & Men// Test. Rough draft due.


 * Wednesday** (8/20): computer lab: Create your [|voki] which will include your banned book discussion of Of Mice & Men. Place it on the Of Mice & Men voki page.


 * Thursday** (8/21): Complete Vokis. Unit 5 Intro. Pound & Eliot poems. Make a list of modern images as we read "Love Song." Write an imitation poem of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." HW: Complete 20-line imitation poem of "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."


 * Friday** (8/22): SAT Vocabulary 2 Test. Watch Lit. Launcher intro to Unit 5. Read Wiliams & Lowell poetry. Revision handout: Lesson 1. HW: pg 655 Questions 1-8, Imagery 1-2, pg 663 1-9, Visual Literacy #2, pg 664 Allusion 1-3, pg 670 1-8, Author's Purpose 1-2, pg 676 1-8.

Week Two

 * Monday** (8/11): [|SAT Vocabulary 1]: Record terms and definitions. //Of Mice & Men// Ch 2. Define __Foreshadowing__ and record 2 examples from chapter 2. Write 2 one-page [|reading responses for Chapter 2.] Write a response for # 7 and # 8.


 * Tuesday** (8/12): //Of Mice & Men// Ch 3. Define __Climax__ and list/discuss the climax for ch. 3. No Journal assignment today.


 * Wednesday** (8/13): //Of Mice & Men// ch. 4. Define __Idiom__ and list 5 examples from ch 3 and/or 4 (record the quote, the chap/page, and explanation). Write 2 one-page reading [|responses for chapter 4]. For your first response choose from # 3 or # 4, and for your second response choose from # 5 or # 11.


 * Thursday** (8/14): Of Mice & Men ch. 5/6. Journal: Should //Of Mice & Men// be a banned book, or should people be allowed to read it? Register on [|www.voki.com].


 * Friday** (8/15): SAT Vocabulary 1 Test. Write one paragraph in your journal explaining the connection between the book //Of Mice & Men// by John Steinbeck and the poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns. All Literary Element assignments will be turned in today (animal imagery, foreshadowing, etc.) Journal (Reading Responses) due Monday (8/18).

Week One


 * Thursday** (8/7): Write a personal essay with the body paragraphs to include basic info, your goals and your plans to achieve those goals, and something suprising about yourself.


 * Friday** (8/8): Begin //Of Mice & Men//. Write a 4 minute topic blast of the Great Depression. Read Chapter One. Record 5 examples of __Animal__ __Imagery__ as we read the text (record the quote, the chap/page #, and an explanation of the example). In your journal record a one page [|ch 1 reading resonse] to # 2 and a one page reading response to # 4.