English 11

1. Turn in 3 pages of State of the Union stapled to the work from yesterday. (This should include your notes on rhetoric.)
2. Login on your computer, go to www.missedtheb.us and click –> here <– Read this page.
3. Click next on the website above, read about the military history of the Revolutionary War.
4. Tomorrow we will be looking at the information above and the Declaration of Independence.

Short Stories

1. Finish up “The Shot” work and turn it in — remember to do it on another page.

Novels

1. Book cover day!  On the unlined side draw a cover that includes the title, the author’s name, and your name.

AP Literature

1. Poetry Test We only have one more   Don’t worry though; vocabulary and vocabulary tests are forth coming.  I just need to find the most difficult vocab that I can find
2. Poetry Response #7 is due today. — We will make this one our last for this nine weeks so we have time to write another essay!
3. AP Test $$$ is due NEXT TUESDAY!
4. How is work on those journals going?  Don’t forget to work on these.  I am going to make it the first big grade of the last nine weeks.

English 11

1. Bring your literature book!
2. Copy vocabulary on page 107 (word, part of speech, and definition).
3. We’ll listen to the speech on pages 108-110.
4. Answer questions 5-7, Literary Element questions 1-2, Vocabulary 1-5, and Writing About Literature 1 paragraph (not essay).
5. This work + your 3 pages from the State of the Union are DUE TOMORROW.
   

Short Stories

1. Finish reading “The Shot”
2. Work for story handed out today; it is due tomorrow.
   

Novels

1. Novel reading day. — I am starting a new set of reading points that will cover from now until the end of the nine weeks.
   
2. Reminder: talking, sleeping, or working on other class work = no points.
   

AP Literature

1. Poetry test tomorrow.
2. Answers for last week’s test:
3. Today is a reading day.  You have until 3/2 to get your reading points finished.
4. AP Test money is due NEXT TUESDAY!

ENGLISH 11

1. Finish up your 3 pages on the State of the Union address. (Each group member is turning in 3 pages NOT one person doing all the work for the group.)
2. Read Novel!

SHORT STORIES

1. Turn in the work for “The Jockey” if you have not. (It is late after today!)
2. Read “The Shot” after it we will read Stephen King’s “1408″ together.

NOVELS

1. Reading day or if you want to revise your book report letter for up to a 90% you can do that.
2. Note: Only students who turned their book reports in on time can revise for up to a 90%

AP LITERATURE

1. Team building exercise day.

ENGLISH 11

State of the Union — analyze for persuasion; use the following key or create your own.

• AL = Appeal to logic (evidence)
• AE = Appeal to emotion
• ETH = Ethical Appeal (mass opinion)
• P = Parallelism
• H = Hyperbole
• FL = Figurative Language
• R? = Rhetorical Question
• CL = Connotative Language

SHORT STORIES

1. Finish and turn in “The Jockey”
2. Start reading “The Shot”

NOVELS

1. Book report letters are graded and in the out box.
2. You may revise one time for up to a 90%.
3. Reading novels — Book presentations in less than 2 weeks.

AP LITERATURE

1. Reading day — yes, finally some book talks
2. Tomorrow — team building exercise day….

ENGLISH 11

1. Bring your literature book (and take it with you when you leave).
2. Page 104-105 — taking notes on rhetoric/persuasion
3. State of the Union — what it is, and the point of education k-12 and being a citizen of the US.

SHORT STORIES

1. “The Jockey” — work assigned.
2. Next story will be “The Shot”

NOVELS

1. Reading your choice of novel — you have 2 weeks of class reading to finish it.
2. If you are finished, the next genre is either horror or action/adventure.
3. I am upping the participation point value, because there is too much talking.  If I have to ask you more than once to be on task, then you’re gone.

AP LITERATURE

1. Grimm analysis — turned in.
2. Finish Poetry Test.
3. Grimm project — due today.
4. Check Harmony because some of you are failing pretty well.  It should not be a surprise that you have a poetry response every Tuesday and poetry test corrections need to get done before the next test…. We’ve been doing this for a while now.

Reading Day for all classes except AP, who has a poetry test

Period 1 – 10:10 – 10:43
Period 2 – 10:48 – 11:21
Period 3 –
(Teachers last name A to Hennette)
Lunch 1 – 11:21 – 11:52
Class – 11:57 – 12:28

(Teachers last name Hickerson to Temple)
Class – 11:26 – 11:57
Lunch 2 – 11:57 – 12:28

Period 4 – 12:33 – 1:06
Period 5 – 1:11 – 1:44
Period 6 – 1:49 – 2:22
Period 7 – 2:27 – 3:00

Periods 1-6

1. A representative from Sullivan University is scheduled for a presentation — anyone being inappropriate will be removed from class.
2. Computers need to be off.
3. Bring your novel just in case.

Period 7

1. College / Career planning activity.
2. Bring your novel.

ENGLISH 11

1. Today is a work day.  I will be passing out assignment summaries and graded work from the box.  Work on any late/missing assignments and make sure your letter is turned in

SHORT STORIES

1. Reading “The Jockey” — the amount of “work” will depend on the amount of “reading” in class today
2. Purpose of a short story — what is it?

NOVELS

1. Today is a work day.  I will be passing out assignment summaries and graded work from from the box.  Work on any late/missing assignments and make sure your letter is turned in

AP LITERATURE

1. Quiz:

• Quiz question #1 — What is due in 18 days?
• Quiz question #2 — Without looking, how many keys are on your key ring?
• Quiz question #3 — What is the best Pixar movie?
• Quiz question #4 — Write a haiku honoring the person on your right (5-7-5).

1. I need your individual Grimm analysis today
2. Group work is due Tuesday (after the poetry test and poem response).

ENGLISH 11

1. Book Report Letter is DUE TODAY.
2. To Print, choose HSLibrary as your printer and see me for a pass to the library.
3. Staple the letter on top of your planning sheet and turn in to the box.

SHORT STORIES

1. Finish video.
2. Begin reading next story in your book, “The Jockey” by Carson McCullers.

NOVELS

1. Book Report Letter is DUE TODAY.
2. To Print, choose HSLibrary as your printer and see me for a pass to the library.
3. Staple the letter on top of your planning sheet and turn in to the box.

AP LITERATURE

1. I need to give you the answers to poetry test #5 — corrections are due on Tuesday or Wordle.net of your creative story PDF emailed to me <- Either way get you your points.
2. Individual Grimm analysis — 1 page — is DUE TOMORROW.
3. Group project is DUE TUESDAY.  If group members don’t seem to be putting forth equal work, or if your group members complain to me, don’t expect equal grades.
4. Remember that late work is 50% then I grade it.  Several people have been getting breaks because of the Internet/e-mail filtering, but that is finished — use Gmail.

ENGLISH 11

1. Don’t move computers! and make sure your computer is plugged in.
2. Book Report Letter is DUE TOMORROW! (100pts about 1/3 of the available points)
3. Review the grading rubric and example letter.  No planning sheet = at best D (65%)
4. Yesterday’s work: read page 102, answer ?’s 1-7, answer 1-2 under Literary Analysis, and 1-2 under Academic Vocabulary. — Make sure to put yesterday’s date 2/7 and write SUB WORK on the top next to your name.

SHORT  STORIES

1. Don’t move computers! and make sure your computer is plugged in.
2. Finishing? Movie.

NOVELS

1. Don’t move computers! and make sure your computer is plugged in.
2. Book Report Letter is DUE TOMORROW! (100pts about 1/3 of the available points)
3. Review the grading rubric and example letter.  No planning sheet = at best D (65%)

AP LITERATURE

1. Don’t move computers! and make sure your computer is plugged in.
2. Grimm assignments! Individual and group.
3. Poetry Response #5 — several people didn’t turn it in
4. MLA Citation for psychopath article — several people didn’t turn it in
5. Alexis S — I need to you to take the super easy poetry test