1. BRING YOUR NOVEL — Reading Day Points!
2. Fill out your reading log and set in in the basket on my desk at the end of class.
3. Periods 3 & 7 finish Quiz on grievances against the king.

Short Stories

1. “1408″ <– Log in and open it
2. Visit the library?

Novels

1. Visit the library to renew and check out the book fair
2. Reading Day when we get back
3. Prosser people make sure you have the pink form from guidance and your schedule ready — Anyone can use the computers to work on scheduling if you need to do that.

AP Literature

1. Reading or Group Work Day — to get to the assignments go to the top of this page and click “The Random Page” and there is a link to it there.
2. Not many people turned in Poetry Response #7….

1. Know 5-8 grievances against the King of England — Quiz (page 114-6 in lit. book)
2. Reading The Declaration of Independence.
3. Writing assignment:

Short Stories

1. Log in on the computers — Someone other than Seth try computer #25.
2. Make sure you have a folder on your desktop called “LanSchool Files” (no quotes, capitalization and spacing has to be exact).  I’ll send you a copy of the story.
3. “1408″ by Stephen King — graphic, scary, etc. if you would like an alternative reading see me — note it will be longer than “1408″ and more complicated work.

Novels

1. Reading Day — Almost everyone did well last reading day.
2. Next week, I will have a sign-up sheet for presentations.  Start looking for items you can use for the brown bag report or start collecting “good” images you can use with Prezi.
3. It is a lot easier to get images at home. (Thanks, Internet filter.)

AP Literature

1. Working in groups can stink.  However, it is a growing trend in college curriculum — I have told you some of my horror stories.  So to practice, you will be assigned RANDOM groups for the following project: CLICK HERE <– You can get to this link in “Random” page. 
2. The website tells you everything to do.  I am hands off on this one.  I will be watching how your group works together, how you deal with problem solving, and who is doing what — and will adjust group grades accordingly.
3. Presentations begin 3/12.  Be prepared.
   

The FIRST 5 to Email me the answer before 12:00 PM tonight receive a random amount of extra credit

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.

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!

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….

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

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.