Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Homework for Friday

As I said on Monday, please finish the book by Friday and be prepared for a quiz.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Homework for Tonight...

Just to reiterate...

Your vocabulary test is tomorrow. This has been posted for the past two and a half weeks and also mentioned in class a myriad of times.

You must also finish the grammar packet for simple sentences. This will be checked as homework.

Have a good night. :)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

 

Monday 

Tuesday 

Wednesday 

Thursday 

Friday 

Weekend 

In Class 

FOCUS: Review of 10 Words


 

  1. Vocabulary Activity

OFF

  1. Test on To Kill a Mockingbird: Chapters 15-22

FOCUS: Sentence Patterns


 

1. NOUN +VERB Pattern

FOCUS: Sentence Patterns


 

  1. PowerPoint on the 8 Sentence Patterns
 

HW 

Study for Test

 

Finish to Chapter 25 by Monday

Finish to Chapter 25 by Monday

Finish to Chapter 25 by Monday

 

Long-term

Assessment 

  • Vocabulary Test on all 30 Words on Tuesday, November 10th (Words Associated with Scout, Words Associated with the Boo Radley Incident, and Words Associated with the Trial)


     

  • Essay on To Kill a Mockingbird due on Monday, November 16th


 

 

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Class Work and Homework for 10/26-10/30

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Weekend

Vocabulary

abet (v.)

abhor (v.)

beseech(v.)

benign (adj.)

concoct (v.)

apocryphal (adj.)

denounce (v.)

disheartened (adj.)

cogent (adj.)

behemoth (adj.)

N/A

In Class

FOCUS: Emerging Themes and Characterization


 

  1. Notes on Characterization
  2. Activity about Dolphus Raymond in Chapter 16

FOCUS: Characterization


 

  1. Character analysis activity about Bob Ewell (trial scene)
  2. What does his character teach us about life in general?

FOCUS: Emerging Theme and Characterization


 

  1. Character analysis about Mayella Ewell
  2. What does her character teach us about life in general?

READER'S THEATRE OF TOM ROBINSON'S TESTIMONY

FOCUS: Characterization and Theme


 

  1. Return to Dolphus Raymond's Character
  2. What does his character teach us about life in general?
  3. How does his character teach us about Maycomb?
 

HW

Read Chapter 17

Read Chapter 18

Read Chapter 19 (up to p.___: line "….")

Read Chapter 20

Read 21 and 22 by Wednesday –We have off on Tuesday, November 3rd.

 

Long-term

Assessment

  • Test on To Kill a Mockingbird: Chapters 15-22
    on Wednesday, November 4th


     

  • Vocabulary Test on all 30 Words on Tuesday, November 10th (Words Associated with Scout, Words Associated with the Boo Radley Incident, and Words Associated with the Trial)


     

  • Essay on To Kill a Mockingbird due on Monday, November 16th


 

 

Words Associated with the Tom Robinson Trial


 

Noun

Adjective

Adverb

Verb

Person Quality

Describes a Noun

Describes a Verb

Action

 

apocryphalness

apocryphal

apocryphally

 

abhorrer

abhorrence

  

abhor

abetter/abettor

abetment

  

abet

 

behemoth

   
 

benignity

benign

benignly

 
   

beseechingly

beseech

  

cogent

cogently

 
 

disheartenment

disheartening

dishearteningly

dishearten

denouncer

denouncement

  

denounce

concocter

concoction

concoctive

 

concoct

Monday, October 19, 2009

Homework for the Week - 10/19 to 10/23

By Wednesday, please read Chapter 12 & finish the vocabulary worksheet if you didn't already.

We will read 13 in class tomorrow.

By Friday, please read Chapters 14 & 15.

Use the study guide to help you focus your reading.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Beauty

Saw this and thought I'd share...

Monday, October 12, 2009

Vocabulary for the Week

Topic: Words Associated with the Incidents with Boo’s

distress (n.)
covert (adj.)
stealth (n.)
admonish (v.)
apprehensive (adj.)
trepidation (n.)
puckish (adj.)
capricious (adj.)
baffle (v,)
rebuff (v.)

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Homework for the Week:

Tuesday (10/13) Night's Homework: Read Chapter 9 and review the study guide questions.

Wednesday (10/14) Night's Homework: Read Chapter 11 (stop at page 103) and review the study guide questions.

Thursday (10/15) Night's Homework: Study for a TEST on Part I on Friday. It will include the first unit of vocabulary as well. The format is as follows: 5 Short Answer Questions. You will have to choose three and write full paragraph responses for each.