November 5-9, 2012

Greetings Students!
I hope you have had a restful weekend. As you all know, I have a dental appointment Monday and will not be at school, but I've left the things we discussed in class with the substitute.

Plans for the week:

Pre-APEnglish 10

This week we will continue with our study of Julius Caesar. Monday you will take the check tests on your Pearson Successnet page. There are two tests listed in your "to do" items. Complete those tests and the discussion questions I will leave with the sub.

Tuesday and Wednesday, we will read Act III in class. We've already "killed" Caesar, which is the resolution of the initial conflict. But there are great scenes in this Act that we need to spend some time paraphrasing. We will compare and contrast the funeral speeches of Antony and Brutus and judge which is a more effective speaker and why? What techniques and qualities work best in speeches?

We will also make inferences about Shakespeare's depiction of the Plebeians. What is he saying about the place of monarchy? Why say what he says through this group of people instead of the aristocratic characters?

Thursday we will do reading warm-ups from your Pearson Successnet. I will print out the reading samples, and you will read and use context clues to answer the questions.

Friday you will have a quiz on lesson SIX of your SAT vocabulary. We will review the first three acts of Julius Caesar and start Act IV if time permits.

See you in class!

English 12

Monday you will complete the two sets of reading warm-ups from your Pearson Successnet site. I have printed out the sheets for you. You will also take your quiz on Vocabulary Lesson 5. Your Lesson SIX quiz will be on Friday.

Tuesday and Wednesday we will read the PROLOGUE from the Canterbury Tales. You will examine the different characters and make judgements about them based on the characterization Chaucer uses.
You will also discuss his use of SATIRE. What precisely is Chaucer critical of, and how do you know?

Thursday you will be given time to work on your Canterbury Tales project.  Your group will turn in the required booklet to me, prepare a visual aid to assist in your teaching of your tale, and present your "pilgrim" and his or her tale to the class. These projects will be due on Tuesday of next week, November 13.

To help you in understanding the Canterbury Tales, we will review the following information of occupations of the period and beliefs about "humor."

Physiognomy and Body Humours
Body Humours Table
Personality Traits Table
Medieval Jobs 

See you in class!

APEnglish Literature and Composition

This week will be BUSY. On Monday you will do practice MC from Othello. Do the first three passages (questions 1-23). You will find the questions on Edmodo. Upload your answers.
Tuesday you will work in groups to come to a consensus on your MC answers, and we will see which group did best. You will get a quiz grade based upon your groups rank.
Wednesday we will read from Act I of Othello, and Thursday, you will have a scored discussion on Atonement Pt. ONE. Remember the scored discussion counts as a test grade, so use the questions I posted on Edmodo to prepare and PARTICIPATE. You can only earn a B- for answering the questions and uploading your answer. Participation is a must if you want an A.
Friday you will have a quiz on your SAT vocabulary from the LTF web site: Lesson 60.  You will use the remainder of the time to answer MC questions for the fourth passage (questions 24-30).

Since I will be attending a training session for the first part of Thursday, third period will do Friday's lesson on Thursday, and Thursday's lesson (the scored discussion) on Friday when I can facilitate.

See you in class!