Fall+2013+Calendar


 * **September 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 8/26-8/30

Essential Question || -Hand in Summer Reading

-Introductions

-Go over Syllabus and Computer Compliance Sheet

-Discuss Frankenstein

-Join Wiki by Friday -HW: Get CCS and Syllabus Signed by Friday || "Getting to Know Zoo" || *Students Receive Laptops

-Essential Question and Discussion

-Go over Graduation Project Handbook and Calendar

-Review Letter of Intent for Grad. project || -Essential Question and Discussion

-Political Cartoon activity

- Read: "A Frankenstein Monster..." || *Class Meetings on Campus

-Essential Question and Discussion

-Audacity Exploration Activity

-Letter of Intent editing

-HW: Do research on M. Shelley and why she wrote Frankenstein; bring your findings to class tomorrow ||
 * Week 2: 9/2-9/6

Essential Question || No School: Labor Day || -Essential Question and Discussion

-Discuss Mary Shelley

-Audacity Exploration Activity

-CCS and Syllabus are due; Letter of Intent Due; Wiki member due || -Essential Question and Discussion

-Audacity Presentations Due Monday: upload onto the Wiki || -Audacity Presentations Due Monday: begin recording today || -Summer Product Hours Due

-Audacity Presentations Due Monday: edit final recording

-Pep Rally ||
 * Week 3: 9/9-9/13

Essential Question || -Audacity Presentations Due Today

-Hero PowerPoint

-Epic Hero Activity || Beowulf/Anglo SaxonWebQuest

-Create Poster based on WebQuest || -Essential Question

-Finish Posters

-Present to the class

-Epic Hero Activity

-Go over vocab: Quiz on Monday; read/review caesuras, kennings, assonance, and alliteration || -Essential Question

-English IV Benchmark

-Read "The Seafarer"

-Complete "The Seafarer" packet

-Free time? Create a sentence using the vocab words for 2pts extra credit on Monday's quiz

-No free time? Do it for homework and hand it in tomorrow in class for the same extra credit || -Fall Mentor and Volunteer Registration Forms Due; hand in extra credit sentences

-Read "The Wanderer" while finding examples of caesuras, kennings, assonance, and alliteration.

-Finish worksheet packet

-Study for vocab: Quiz on Monday ||
 * Week 4: 9/16-9/20

Essential Question || -Essential Question

-p.38-39 in book; take notes

HW: create sentences for words; Roadmap due next Tuesday || Vocab Quiz Today

-Go over vocab sentences

-Continue Reading Beowulf || Essential Question

- Lineage discussion

-Begin Beowulf

-Fill out maps and study guides

HW: create sentences for words; Roadmap due next Tuesday || Essential Question

-Go over "The Wrath of Grendel" study guide and notes

-Continue reading "The Coming of Beowulf"

-Using your notes and guides, create a Hero's Journey timeline

HW: Finish "The Coming of Beowulf" study guide; study Vocab || - Essential Question

-Begin Boast Poems

-Example

-Present Boast Poems

HW: Vocab quiz Wednesday; Roadmap due Tuesday ||
 * Week 5: 9/23-9/27

Essential Question || -Essential Question

-Continue reading Beowulf

-caesuras, kennings, alliteration, assonance

-HW: Roadmap Due Tomorrow; Commitment Poster Due Friday; find 2 kennings, 2 assonance, and 2 alliteration examples from the last paragraph of reading; plot hero's journey || - Product Check: Roadmap Due

-Essential Question

-Finish Reading; complete study guides

- HW: Study for Vocab Quiz tomorrow || -Vocab Quiz Today

-Essential Question

-Finish Reading; complete study guides

-Commitment Poster Due Friday; Essay Due Monday || -Essential Question

-Anglo-Saxon Riddles

-Present Riddles

-Go over Beowulf/Beowulf Essay

-Commitment Poster Due Tomorrow; Essay Due Monday || -Commitment Poster Due

-Essential

Question

-Begin viewing Beowulf; taking notes for essay -Finish viewing Beowulf; taking notes for essay

-Work on Essay || 10/4 Essential Question || Finish viewing Beowulf || -Work on Essay
 * **October2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 9/29-

-Final Beowulf Essay Due Tomorrow || Beowulf Essay Due Today

-Essential Question

-Anticipation Guide and discussion || Whole School Assembly: Texting and Driving || 1st Six Weeks Ends

-Hand in Journals

-Canterbury Tales WebQuest and prepare Presentation for Wednesday || Essential Question || No School: Teacher Work Day || No School: Professional Development Day || Essential Question
 * Week 2: 10/07-10/11

-WebQuest Presentations

-[|Bring Out Your Dead]

-Begin the General Prologue

- Guided Questions, Pilgrim Chart, Study Guide || Read Canterbury Tales and work on worksheets || -Assembly

-Product Check: Journal #1 Due || 10/18 Essential Question || -Read/Discuss Prologue of Canterbury Tales
 * Week 3: 10/14-

-Use Historic relevance to ensure understanding || -Read/Discuss Prologue of Canterbury Tales

-Use Historic relevance to ensure understanding

-HW: Find Vocab words in reading thus far || -Senior Picture

-HW: Find Vocab definitions and create sentences || -Go over last night's homework (vocab)

-Finish Reading/Discussing Prologue of Canterbury Tales and accompanying worksheets

-Use Historic relevance to ensure understanding || -Finish General Prologue and accompanying worksheets

-Begin Canterbury Letter Activity || 10/25 Essential Question || Vocab Quiz Today
 * Week 4: 10/21-

-Finish Letter Activity

-Canterbury Tales [|Rap]

-Begin Pardoner's Tale || -Product Check: Journal #2 Due

-Continue Pardoner's Tale

-Fill out Study Guide || Zoo Poetry Activity || -Discuss yesterday's activity

-Continue Pardoner's Tale

HW: Find 3 words for next vocab list || -Finish Discussing Pardoner's Tale

-Pardoner's Tale Cartoon Strip

HW: Do vocab worksheet || 11/1 Essential Question || Big Sweep || -Essential Question
 * Week 5: 10/28-

-Go over vocab worksheet

-Work on Pardoner's Tale Cartoon Strip || -Essential Question

-Finish Pardoner's Cartoon

-Go over WofB study guides/expectations

-Begin Wife of Bath's Tale || -Review WofB study guide, continue reading WofB

-Present Pardoner's Tale Cartoons || -Watch [|Murder at Canterbury]

-Fill out Documentary Worksheet || 11/8 Essential Question || Vocab Quiz
 * **November 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 11/4-

-Go over notes on Documentary

-Continue reading WofB || -Product Check: Journal #3 and Questionnaire Due

-Finish WofB

-WofB Activity || -Finish WofB letters

-Present

-Choose your last tale [|(click here)] || -Read your prologue and tale

-Prepare Presentation of last tale || -Last tale presentations; 7 Pictures Due Today

-Go over project requirements

-Choose project || 11/15 Essential Question || No School || -Share 7 Pics from Friday
 * Week 2: 11/11-

-Share Last tale presentations

-Go over project requirements

-Choose project || -Product Check: Pictures

-Share Last tale presentations

-Go over project requirements

-Choose project || -Finish Last Tale Presentations

-Thank you Notes

-Project requirements || -Hand in Thank You notes

-Review project expectations

-Begin working on Canterbury Projects || 11/22 Essential Question || -The effects of [|The Canterbury Tales] (16:13)
 * Week 3: 11/18-

-Work on Canterbury Tales Projects

-HW: Find a 2" 3-ring binder in either white or black. Due Wednesday || -Canterbury Tales Project due today

-Present Projects || 2nd Six Weeks Ends

-Present Projects

-Begin assembling Portfolio: what's still needed? || -Mrs. Webster to talk about presentation ideas

-Start putting together presentations || -Organization of Portfolio

-Revision of necessary elements of portfolio ||
 * Week 4: 11/25-11/29 || -Finish organization of portfolio

-leave space for missing elements and account for them. || -Speech/presentation powerpoint

-Begin working on speeches || No School || No School || No School || 12/6 Essential Question || -Review Speech and Presentation requirements
 * **December 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 12/2-

-Work on PowerPoints/Speeches

-HW: Rough draft of speech/visual due tomorrow || -Product Log and Product Evaluation Due

-Practice speech/presentation

-Critique || -Finish Practicing Speeches/presentation

-Critique || -Work on fixing speech/presentation based on yesterday's critiques

-Finish putting together portfolio || Pep Rally

-Letter to Judges Due

-Complete speeches || 12/13 Essential Question || -Self-Evaluation Due
 * Week 2: 12/9-

-Finish presentations

-Last day to edit or work on your portfolio || -Present Senior Projects in front of class || -Finish presentations

[|Shakespeare WebQuest] || -Visual Presentation and Speech Due; Portfolio Due

-Shakespeare presenations

- Shakespeare one-liners

-15 minute Hamlet || -Present Senior Projects in front of class || 12/20 Essential Question || -Shakespeare Recollection
 * Week 3: 12/16-

-One Liners

-15-minute Hamlet

-Say What? || -What do you remember?

-Continue Act 1 Scene 1

-Act 1 Scene 2 || -Presentations || -Presentations ||  || Winter Break || No School || No School || No School || No School || 1/3 Essential Question || No School || No School || No School || Whole Class Presentations || CLASS IN MEDIA CENTER
 * Week 4: 12/23-12/27 || No School:
 * **January 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 12/30-

-Turn in Presentations to Mrs. Webster

-Practice Presentations || 1/10 Essential Question || -Discuss requirements for Wednesday
 * Week 2: 1/6-

-Practice Presentations || -Practice Presentations

-Dress rehearsal tomorrow || -Dress Rehearsals

Essential Question || Reviewing for the Exam: Inferences, Main Ideas, and Figurative Language
 * Senior Board Night ** || Hamlet || Hamlet ||
 * Week 3: 1/13-1/17

HW: Finish Packets || Reviewing for the Exam: Reading and Understanding Informational Texts HW: Finish Packet || Reviewing for the Exam: Reading and Understanding Literature HW: Finish Packet || ** Finals ** || ** Finals ** ||
 * Week 4: 1/20-1/24 || No School || No School || No School || 2nd Semester Begins ||  ||