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Friday, 6/7 (Boas Graduates!)
Study Time
5th & 6th Period Finals
Last Few Days of High School
Monday, 6/11
Socratic Seminar Groups 3 & 4 (see email from last week)
3rd and 4th Period Finals (leave after 4th period)
Tuesday, 6/12 - You leave after 2nd period.
Last Mama Boas Moment
1st Period Final Snack Day
2nd Period .... - heard party, not sure...
Wednesday, 6/13
Senior Meeting 5th & 6th Periods
THURSDAY - YOU GRADUATE!!!!!!!
Congratulations Class of 2019!
Friday, 5/31 (IB Physics Field Trip/PM Assembly Schedule)
25 Minutes of Reading
Discuss Chapters 7-8
Absent today? We partnered up and typed up the answers to these discussion questions (one doc per pairing - READ DIRECTIONS). Submit answers to turnitin by 8AM on Monday, 6/3.
Week of June 3rd
Monday, 6/3 (SBA Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins @ 12:15 [after lunch])
Reading Day
Tuesday, 6/4 (Science Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins 11:05)
Reading Day
Wednesday, 6/5 (Last Snack Day!)
Discuss Chapters 10-12 (the end of the novel)
Soc Sem Prep (completed handout due on Tuesday, 6/11 to turnitin.com)
Thursday, 6/6
Socratic Seminar Groups 1 & 2
Week of May 20th
Monday, 5/20 & Tuesday, 5/21
Finish Films
Wednesday, 5/22
Introduce The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Absent today? Here is what we did.
Thursday, 5/23
Introduction Day 2
Reading Time
Friday, 5/24
Discuss Chapters 1-3
Week of May 27th
Monday, 5/27
No School - Memorial Day
Tuesday, 5/28 (SBA Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins @ 11:05)
Reading Day
Wednesday, 5/29
Discuss Chapters 4-6
Absent today? We had a reading quiz you need to make up & here are the discussion questions (make sure to follow the directions!)
Thursday, 5/30 (SBA Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins @ 11:05)
Reading Day
Week of April 29
Monday, 4/29
Review the Part 3 Works
Tuesday, 4/30
Sample paper review
Wednesday, 5/1
Review of Paper 1 text types
Thursday, 5/2
Transition Day - questions & answers
Mama Boas Moment
Friday, 5/3
GOOD LUCK!!!
Begin Film "Unit"
Monday, 5/6 - Friday, 5/17
Film "Unit"
Week of April 22
Monday, 4/22
Sorry folks, I'll be off campus today due to health issues. Here are the directions and links you will need to complete the practice detailed outline for a Paper 1 (comparative unseen text response):
Tuesday, 4/23
Another practice for Paper 1:
Individually, fill out the Big Five Table for your comparison of Text A & Text B OR Text C & Text D and Submit to www.turnitin.com.
Here are the texts.
Wednesday, 4/24
Thursday, 4/25 & Friday, 4/26
Paper 2 Exam Practice
Week of April 15 (Paper 2 Prep!)
Monday, 4/15
Explaining the demands of the exam...they're intense!
PowerPoint and Handouts (comparative approach, text-by-text approach, & criterion-by-criterion approach) from today's class
Tuesday, 4/16
Research time regarding our authors and context of works (PPT slide from today).
1st Period Research
2nd Period Research
Wednesday, 4/17
MAKE-UP FOR THE HANDMAID'S TALE DISCUSSION @ 9:30
Preparing to share out on specifics
Thursday, 4/18
Detailed Outlining (see the Paper 2 Web Page for today's assignment)
Friday, 4/19
Scoring Samples
Week of 3/25
Monday, 3/25
Best laid plans of Mice & Men ;)
HW: Please go through this PPT & read/annotate through chapter 30 by Wednesday, 3/27
Tuesday, 3/26 - Thursday, 3/28
FOAs
Friday, 3/29
Online Discussion (Links will be provided in time for class)
1st Period; 2nd Period
HW: Read and annotate chapters 31-35 for Monday
Week of April 1
Monday, 4/1
HMT Discussion
HW: Read and annotate chapters 36-40 for Wednesday
Tuesday, 4/2
Last Day of FOAs
HW: see yesterday
Wednesday, 4/3
HMT Discussion (Quote Analysis handout)
HW: Read and annotate chapters 41-45 for Thursday
Thursday, 4/4
Paper 2 prompt exploration w/a partner.
HW: Read "Historical Notes" for Friday.
Friday, 4/5
HMT Discussion + Historical Notes
HW: NONE!!!! Have a wonderful break!
SPIRIT WEEK! 3/18-3/22
Monday, 3/18 (Spirit Day - Neon Day)
Reading discussion of chapters 2-6
Tuesday, 3/19 (Spirit Day - Hat Day)
Reading discussion of chapters 7-11
HW For Thursday: Read & Annotate chapters 12-17; HW for Friday: Read & Annotate chapters 18-25
Wednesday, 3/20 (Spirit Day - Funky Sock Day)
Reading Day
Thursday, 3/21 (Spirit Day - Greaser Day - think 50s w/white t-shirt & jeans)
Discussion for Chapters 12-17
Here are the Paper 2 "Posters" finished today (the scans are a bit wonky, sorry about that).
Friday, 3/22 (Spirit Day - Skyline Gear Day)
1/2 Reading & 1/2 Discussion for Chapters 12, 13, and is the novel anti-Christian?
HW: Finish Reading & annotating for chapters 18-25 for Monday's class
Written Task 1 information found under 3/4
Written Task 2
Week of 3/11
Monday, 3/11
FOAs & Film
Tuesday, 3/12
Work day on Written Tasks
Wednesday, 3/13
Uploading Written Tasks or Work Day on Written Tasks
YOU MUST BE IN FIREFOX!
IB Consent Form (printed by Boas)
Written Tasks Cover Sheet (Text Type for Written Task 1 = novel, play, etc.)
Written Tasks Cover Sheet HL 2019 Example
Instructions
Thursday, 3/14
IB Candidates - please read my email from today!
Finish Film
Pre-reading/discussion for The Handmaid's Tale - here's today's packet
HW: Critically read chapter 1 (available in today's packet)
Friday, 3/15
Introduce The Handmaid's Tale (online text - not a great copy but it's here nonetheless, if you have KindleUnlimited it is available there as well)
Talking w/FOA Candidates
UPDATED FOA Schedule for Friday, 3/8 & Monday, 3/11
Monday, 3/4
Written Task 1: PowerPoint w/Instructions; WTI Example "Daisy's Lullaby" Video; "Daisy's Lullaby" Lyrics; FOA Reflection Link (to be completed after each day of FOAs)
HW: Complete Reflections on FOAs from Friday & Today (if applicable); Continue working on WT2; By Wednesday, 3/6 @ 10am, submit a WT1 Proposal (this will become the beginning of your Rationale) to turnitin.com:
Tuesday, 3/5 (see emails from this morning)
FOAs
HW: Continue working on your WT1 Topic Proposal (due tomorrow by 10am) and WT2 Revision 2 (due tonight by 11:59pm)
Wednesday, 3/6 (Make-Up Socratic Seminar @ 9:40AM - location will be posted on class door)
Topic Proposal Due @ 10am this morning to turnitin.com
FOAs
HW: Ten Quotes? Continue working on WT1
Thursday, 3/7 (Boas late to 1st period)
FOAs
HW: Ten Quotes & WT1
Friday, 3/8
FOAs
HW: Finish 10 Quotes & WT1
The Reader - online edition
Reading Schedule & Journal Assignment Document
Propaganda & Rhetorical Techniques
Thursday, 2/28
Written Task 2 - "Get 'er dun'!" - meeting in the upstairs computer lab
Questions to consider (from the rubric):
Friday, 2/15 - 2 Hour Late Start
More Paper 2 Compare/Contrast w/Woolf & Schlink
Here is the work from our day - use as needed.
(Please see my email from 8:10'ish this evening.)
Email sent @ 6pm on Saturday the 23rd re: Soc Sem Groups
Monday, 2/25
Group 1 Socratic Seminar
Begin Film Analysis
Tuesday, 2/26
Group 2 Socratic Seminar
Film Analysis
Wednesday, 2/27
Group 3 Socratic Seminar
Film Analysis
Thursday, 2/7
"One Generation After" by Wiesel, 1970 (looking for connections between Wiesel's writing and Michael's & Hanna's characterization; how similar is Schlink's purpose to Wiesel's?)
HW: finish the novel.
Friday, 2/8 (***2-Hour Early Release/Leaving @ 12:55***)
Paper 2 Pair Write (Prompts & Rubric)
Week of February 11th
Monday, 2/11
***SNOW DAY!***
Tuesday, 2/12
***SNOW DAY!***
(see emails from 2/12 @ 4:20pm & 7:30pm)
Wednesday, 2/13
***SNOW DAY!***
(see email from 2/13 @ 5:30pm)
Thursday, 2/14 - Happy Valentine's Day!
***SNOW DAY***
Friday, 2/15 - 2 Hour Late Start
More Paper 2 Compare/Contrast w/Woolf & Schlink
Here is the work from our day - use as needed.
(Please see my email from 8:10'ish this evening.)
Friday, 2/1
Journal Due
Discuss Part II chapters 1-5
HW: Read, annotate, & journal for Part II 6-10
Week of February 4th
Monday, 2/4
***SNOW DAY!***
HW: Continue to read, annotate, & journal!
We'll have small group discussion time w/Part II questions tomorrow.
Tuesday, 2/5
***SNOW DAY!***
HW: Finish reading, annotating, & completing a journal as necessary for Part II (check your email from 5:30pm today)
Wednesday, 2/6 (***ONE-Hour Delay***)
Debrief Part II
HW: Read, annotate, and journal for Part III chapters 1-6
Monday, 1/28
No School - Teacher In-Service Day
Tuesday, 1/29
Intro Information on The Reader
Discuss Chapters 1-7
Wednesday, 1/30
Chapters 8-11 Journal Due (see document on top of this page for due dates - you may type & submit your journal to turnitin.com OR hand write it in your English notebook).
Chapters 8-11 Table Discussion, Research, & Historical Context.
HW: Complete today's activities for tomorrow's table share as necessary; read & annotate chapters 12-17.
Thursday, 1/31
Chapters 8-11 Table Share-Out
Discuss chapters 12-17
HW: Read, annotate, & journal for Part II chapters 1-5
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, 1/16
Discussing Works in Translation (here is the PPT from today as well as Damrosch's article which we read in class.
HW: Critically read Allende's short story "Two Words"
Thursday, 1/17
Works in Translation Short Story Discussion
Friday, 1/18
Paper 1 Practice
Monday, 1/21
No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, 1/22
Nazis in Germany
HW: For TUESDAY, 1/29 - read chapters 1-7
Wednesday, 1/23 (Regular Wednesday Start & End Times)
5th & 6th Period Finals
Thursday, 1/24 (Dismiss @ 11:10am)
3rd & 4th Period Finals
Friday, 1/24 (Dismiss @ 11:10am)
1st & 2nd Period Finals
Wednesday, 1/2/2019
Review TTL w/Questions
Woolf PowerPoint; Soc Sem Prep; Info PPT from today; Paper 1/Semester 1 Final Example; FOA Rubric
Thursday, 1/3 & Friday, 1/4
TTL Socratic Seminars
Monday, 1/7 - Wednesday, 1/9
The Hours
Thursday, 1/10 - Tuesday, 1/15
FOAs
Friday, 12/14 (Winter Spirit Week - Snow Day - Wear Blue!)
Journal Due for "The Lighthouse" chapters 4-6
Discuss "The Lighthouse" chapters 4-6
HW: Critically Read and Journal For "The Lighthouse" chapters 7-9 (Have you checked your email from Sunday evening?)
Week of December 17th
Monday, 12/17
Begin Checking Journals for chapter 1-9
Discuss "The Lighthouse" chapters 7-9
HW: Critically Read and Journal for "The Lighthouse" chapters 10-13
Tuesday, 12/18
Check journal/s
Discuss end of the novel
Wednesday, 12/19
Journals Due (I will take any journals you're ready to for me to check over break - if you keep them over break, I will grade a few an evening when we return)
Student Choice
Week of December 10th
💜💜Monday, December 10th, 2018💜💜
It's Purple Day :)
The Dinner Party Discussion
HW: Continue Critically Reading "Time Passes"
Tuesday, 12/11 (Winter Spirit Week - Candy Cane Day) - 10 tardies :(
Reading time and journal writing for "Time Passes"
Wednesday, 12/12 (Winter Spirit Week - Pajama Day)
Journal Due for Time Passes
Discuss "Time Passes"
HW: Critically Read and Journal for "The Lighthouse" chapters 1-3
Thursday, 12/13 (Winter Spirit Week - Ski Day) - Boas gone
Journal Due for "The Lighthouse" chapters 1-3
FOA Tentative Schedule & Proposal Plan Discussion
Discuss "The Lighthouse" chapters 1-3
HW: Critically Read and Journal for "The Lighthouse" chapters 4-6
Week of December 3rd
Monday, 12/3
FOA Take 2
Let's Catch Up!!!
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapters 7-11
Tuesday, 12/4
7-11 (20 min in-class reading time for tomorrow's due date)
Here's today PPT :)
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapters 12-16
Wednesday, 12/5
12-16 Due (in class reading time for tomorrow's due date)
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapter 17
Thursday, 12/6
Discuss the 1st half of the dinner party.
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapter 18
Friday, 12/7
Finish discussing "The Window" (15 minutes in-class time to read chapter 19) - link to allusions to poems
HW: Prepare for the Dinner Party on Monday (link to script forthcoming) & begin Critically Reading "Time Passes"
Week of Nov. 26th
Monday, 11/26
Meeting in the Library to research the Context Presentation (here are the groups)
"The Angel in the House"
Professions for Women excerpt
A Room of One's Own excerpt
Tuesday, 11/27
Begin Presentations
HW; Have you finished reading AND annotating chapters 1-3??
***Chapters 1-3 journal combined w/ chapters 4-6 journal***
Wednesday, 11/28
Finish Presentations
Debrief Presentations, Discuss Chapters 1-3: (Freud, Oedipus, timeline, novel of ideas, etc.)
HW: Read + Annotate Chapters 4-6
Monday, 11/19 - Wednesday, 11/21
Monday, 11/19
Social Justice Journal Prompt Due
Introduce Virginia Woolf, Modernist Prose
HW: Critically Read Woof's 1919 short story "Kew Gardens"
Tuesday, 11/20
"Kew Gardens"
HW: Write a full-page journal entry in response to Woof's "Kew Gardens" in your notebook. Here is our prompt for the journal.
Wednesday, 11/21
Check out To The Lighthouse; Woolf Era Context Jigsaw Assignment
HW: Woolf Era Context Jigsaw Assignment (due Tuesday, 11/27) & read/annotate chapters 1-3 of To The Lighthouse (We will have Monday to research after discussion of Chapters 1-3 of TTL)
Enjoy your 4-day Thanksgiving Weekend!!!!
Week of 11/12
Monday, 11/12
Veteran's Day - Show someone you're Grateful!
Tuesday, 11/13
Finish Social Justice Presentations
Wednesday, 11/14
Being Grateful MBM
HW: Please write a one page journal with this "prompt" - Due Monday, 11/19.
Thursday, 11/15
Adichie TED Talk "We Should All Be Feminists" w/this viewing guide
Friday, 11/16
Happy Post November 15th!
Today we are looking Roxanne Gay's text (unabridged or abridged) & discussing it through the Four As
Protocol. Also, BEFORE your discussion: as a group: become experts on three to five additional valid sources of your choice--research-based facts, statistics, expert opinions--To what extent is there equality between genders? How can equality be achieved?
HW: 1-page journal response to Social Justice Presentation (see 11/14 for prompt).
Week of 11/5
Monday, 11/5
Large Group Discussion
Tuesday, 11/6
Group Presentation Work Time w/laptops
Wednesday, 11/7 - Friday, 11/9
Presentations
Week of 10/29
Monday, 10/29
Outline Work Time & Article Analysis
Pittsburgh Articles
Sub-Topic "Handout"/aka PPT
Tuesday, 10/30
Introduce "Social Justice" Unit & Group Presentation Project
Wednesday, 10/31 - Happy Halloween!
Group Presentation Work Time w/laptops
Thursday, 11/1
Group Presentation Work Time IN LIBRARY
READ this POWERPOINT - You will now have a much better understanding of what we're doing...I hope!
Social Justice Topic Proposal Form (1 form per group to be submitted to turnitin.com)
HW: Finish Written Task 2: Submission to turnitin.com & Bring Hard Copy to LIBRARY
Friday, 11/2
OUTLINE DUE w/Peer Editing IN LIBRARY
HW: Finish Works Cited Page w/Source Evaluations (submit to turnitin.com under Revision 1 by Sunday evening @ 11:59pm)
Week of 10/22
Monday, 10/22
Written Task 2 Question Stems
HW: Please bring a hard copy of your Written Task 2 from last year if you have one.
Tuesday, 10/23
Reviewing, reflecting, and goal setting
Wednesday, 10/24
Topic/Question Selection + Outline Work Day
Week of 10/15
Monday, 10/15 - Homecoming Spirit "Black Hole Day" = wear all black
Act 4 - let's finish up!
Tuesday, 10/16 - Homecoming Spirit "Going to the Sun Day" = wear hats & sunglasses
Begin Act 5
Wednesday, 10/17 - Homecoming Spirit "Alien Day" = wear neon
Finish the play
Thursday, 10/18 - Homecoming Spirit "Space Jam Day" = wear pjs
Film
Friday, 10/19 - Homecoming Spirit "Astronaut Day" = wear white
Film & talk Written Task
Week of Oct. 8th
Monday, 10/8
No School - Teacher In-Service Day
Tuesday, 10/9
Small Group Discussion of Acts 1-3
Wednesday, 10/10
PSAT (Meet only w/1st Period @ 2:55 - Healthy Youth Survey)
Thursday, 10/11
Act 4, scenes 1 & 2 + in-class journal
Friday, 10/12
Act 4, scenes 3 & 4 + in-class journal
Week of 10/1
Monday, 10/1
Read Act 3, scene 1; in-class journal
Tuesday, 10/2
Begin reading Act 3, scene 2 (finish?)
Wednesday, 10/3
Finish Act One One-Pager & submit by 10:10AM this morning.
Boas out sick - Finish Reading Act 3
Thursday, 10/4
Act 3 Film
Friday, 10/5
Acts 2 & 3 Socratic Seminar - IN THE LIBRARY!
Please check your email - sent by me @ 5:45pm Thursday evening.
WEEK OF 9/24 (UPDATED 9/28!)
Monday, 9/24
Finish Film Analysis
Tuesday, 9/25
1st Period: Reading part way through Act 2, scene 2
2nd Period: Club Rush & because of so many involved, work period
Wednesday, 9/26
Literary Device Quiz
National Boards Release Form Due
Soc Sem Postponed until after Act 3
Continue with reading of Act 2, scene 2 (small and large group discussion time permitting)
Thursday, 9/27
One-Pager Work Day in Computer Lab 2207
Friday, 9/28 (Senior Class Picture 6th Period)
Tie up Act 2
Film Analysis
HW: Finish One-Pager by WEDNESDAY, 10/3 by 10:10AM
WEEK OF 9/17
Monday, 9/17
Counselor Visits
Tuesday, 9/18
Complete Visual Analysis of Hamlet Playbills
Hamlet I, ii-iii: casting, cold reading, and discussion
Wednesday, 9/19
Hamlet I, iv & v
Thursday, 9/20
Hamlet One Pager Assignment and Work Time in the Library
Friday, 9/21
Act One Film
Back to school shopping? You will need a notebook of some kind (spiral or composition) designated specifically for this class. Post-it notes would be helpful as well. We begin reading Hamlet on Tuesday, 9/11.
This is the letter that Mrs. Matheny and I sent out to our students this past summer.
Week of 9/10
Monday, 9/10
Analyze Shakespeare's Sonnets & Language
Tuesday, 9/11
Prep for Discussion, Stress Journal, & the gift of time ;)
Wednesday, 9/12 (Drill Extravaganza - wear appropriate clothing to go out on the field)
IN THE LIBRARY!!! The Sonnet & Shakespeare - large group discussion about Sonnets 116 & 130
Thursday, 9/13
Introduction to Hamlet Lecture
Elizabethan Revenge Tragedies
Friday, 9/14 (Senior Sunrise @ 7am at the football field)
Hamlet I, I: casting & cold reading
Compare and contrast two film versions of I, i
Week of 9/5
Wednesday, 9/5
Day 1 Mayhem!!!! We meet in room 1402 :)
Thursday, 9/6
Picture Day
Friday, 9/7
Project Spartan (dress appropriately & comfortably).
Homework: 1st Period - please annotate this sonnet; 2nd Period - please annotate this sonnet
Friday, 6/7 (Boas Graduates!)
Study Time
5th & 6th Period Finals
Last Few Days of High School
Monday, 6/11
Socratic Seminar Groups 3 & 4 (see email from last week)
3rd and 4th Period Finals (leave after 4th period)
Tuesday, 6/12 - You leave after 2nd period.
Last Mama Boas Moment
1st Period Final Snack Day
2nd Period .... - heard party, not sure...
Wednesday, 6/13
Senior Meeting 5th & 6th Periods
THURSDAY - YOU GRADUATE!!!!!!!
Congratulations Class of 2019!
Friday, 5/31 (IB Physics Field Trip/PM Assembly Schedule)
25 Minutes of Reading
Discuss Chapters 7-8
Absent today? We partnered up and typed up the answers to these discussion questions (one doc per pairing - READ DIRECTIONS). Submit answers to turnitin by 8AM on Monday, 6/3.
Week of June 3rd
Monday, 6/3 (SBA Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins @ 12:15 [after lunch])
Reading Day
Tuesday, 6/4 (Science Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins 11:05)
Reading Day
Wednesday, 6/5 (Last Snack Day!)
Discuss Chapters 10-12 (the end of the novel)
Soc Sem Prep (completed handout due on Tuesday, 6/11 to turnitin.com)
Thursday, 6/6
Socratic Seminar Groups 1 & 2
Week of May 20th
Monday, 5/20 & Tuesday, 5/21
Finish Films
Wednesday, 5/22
Introduce The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Absent today? Here is what we did.
Thursday, 5/23
Introduction Day 2
Reading Time
Friday, 5/24
Discuss Chapters 1-3
Week of May 27th
Monday, 5/27
No School - Memorial Day
Tuesday, 5/28 (SBA Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins @ 11:05)
Reading Day
Wednesday, 5/29
Discuss Chapters 4-6
Absent today? We had a reading quiz you need to make up & here are the discussion questions (make sure to follow the directions!)
Thursday, 5/30 (SBA Testing Schedule - 1st Period Begins @ 11:05)
Reading Day
Week of April 29
Monday, 4/29
Review the Part 3 Works
Tuesday, 4/30
Sample paper review
Wednesday, 5/1
Review of Paper 1 text types
Thursday, 5/2
Transition Day - questions & answers
Mama Boas Moment
Friday, 5/3
GOOD LUCK!!!
Begin Film "Unit"
Monday, 5/6 - Friday, 5/17
Film "Unit"
Week of April 22
Monday, 4/22
Sorry folks, I'll be off campus today due to health issues. Here are the directions and links you will need to complete the practice detailed outline for a Paper 1 (comparative unseen text response):
- With a partner, choose to compare texts 1 & 2 or texts 3 & 4.
- Look at this handout for the "BIG FIVE" things you should consider as you write your response.
- Here are the texts.
Tuesday, 4/23
Another practice for Paper 1:
Individually, fill out the Big Five Table for your comparison of Text A & Text B OR Text C & Text D and Submit to www.turnitin.com.
Here are the texts.
Wednesday, 4/24
- Time to look at commonalities - here are the Venn Diagrams you created.
- Temperature check for 1st Period; Temperature check for 2nd Period
- Time to outline Paper 2 Practice Exam
Thursday, 4/25 & Friday, 4/26
Paper 2 Exam Practice
Week of April 15 (Paper 2 Prep!)
Monday, 4/15
Explaining the demands of the exam...they're intense!
PowerPoint and Handouts (comparative approach, text-by-text approach, & criterion-by-criterion approach) from today's class
Tuesday, 4/16
Research time regarding our authors and context of works (PPT slide from today).
1st Period Research
2nd Period Research
Wednesday, 4/17
MAKE-UP FOR THE HANDMAID'S TALE DISCUSSION @ 9:30
Preparing to share out on specifics
Thursday, 4/18
Detailed Outlining (see the Paper 2 Web Page for today's assignment)
Friday, 4/19
Scoring Samples
Week of 3/25
Monday, 3/25
Best laid plans of Mice & Men ;)
HW: Please go through this PPT & read/annotate through chapter 30 by Wednesday, 3/27
Tuesday, 3/26 - Thursday, 3/28
FOAs
Friday, 3/29
Online Discussion (Links will be provided in time for class)
1st Period; 2nd Period
HW: Read and annotate chapters 31-35 for Monday
Week of April 1
Monday, 4/1
HMT Discussion
HW: Read and annotate chapters 36-40 for Wednesday
Tuesday, 4/2
Last Day of FOAs
HW: see yesterday
Wednesday, 4/3
HMT Discussion (Quote Analysis handout)
HW: Read and annotate chapters 41-45 for Thursday
Thursday, 4/4
Paper 2 prompt exploration w/a partner.
HW: Read "Historical Notes" for Friday.
Friday, 4/5
HMT Discussion + Historical Notes
HW: NONE!!!! Have a wonderful break!
SPIRIT WEEK! 3/18-3/22
Monday, 3/18 (Spirit Day - Neon Day)
Reading discussion of chapters 2-6
- ***FOA Students - the presentation schedule is located under the FOA tab @ the top of the page; Proposal Forms are due Wednesday, 3/20)***
Tuesday, 3/19 (Spirit Day - Hat Day)
Reading discussion of chapters 7-11
HW For Thursday: Read & Annotate chapters 12-17; HW for Friday: Read & Annotate chapters 18-25
Wednesday, 3/20 (Spirit Day - Funky Sock Day)
Reading Day
Thursday, 3/21 (Spirit Day - Greaser Day - think 50s w/white t-shirt & jeans)
Discussion for Chapters 12-17
Here are the Paper 2 "Posters" finished today (the scans are a bit wonky, sorry about that).
Friday, 3/22 (Spirit Day - Skyline Gear Day)
1/2 Reading & 1/2 Discussion for Chapters 12, 13, and is the novel anti-Christian?
HW: Finish Reading & annotating for chapters 18-25 for Monday's class
Written Task 1 information found under 3/4
Written Task 2
Week of 3/11
Monday, 3/11
FOAs & Film
Tuesday, 3/12
Work day on Written Tasks
Wednesday, 3/13
Uploading Written Tasks or Work Day on Written Tasks
YOU MUST BE IN FIREFOX!
IB Consent Form (printed by Boas)
Written Tasks Cover Sheet (Text Type for Written Task 1 = novel, play, etc.)
Written Tasks Cover Sheet HL 2019 Example
Instructions
Thursday, 3/14
IB Candidates - please read my email from today!
Finish Film
Pre-reading/discussion for The Handmaid's Tale - here's today's packet
HW: Critically read chapter 1 (available in today's packet)
Friday, 3/15
Introduce The Handmaid's Tale (online text - not a great copy but it's here nonetheless, if you have KindleUnlimited it is available there as well)
Talking w/FOA Candidates
UPDATED FOA Schedule for Friday, 3/8 & Monday, 3/11
Monday, 3/4
Written Task 1: PowerPoint w/Instructions; WTI Example "Daisy's Lullaby" Video; "Daisy's Lullaby" Lyrics; FOA Reflection Link (to be completed after each day of FOAs)
HW: Complete Reflections on FOAs from Friday & Today (if applicable); Continue working on WT2; By Wednesday, 3/6 @ 10am, submit a WT1 Proposal (this will become the beginning of your Rationale) to turnitin.com:
- What type of Written Task One do you plan to write? Explain your WT1 plan in several sentences.
- What literary text will be your focus? Explain why the type of presentation you're using is the best creative approach for your chosen literary text.
- How can you show your understanding of the author's style in a creative way? What approach will you take?
- How do you think your written task will show the examiner that you understand the text?
Tuesday, 3/5 (see emails from this morning)
FOAs
HW: Continue working on your WT1 Topic Proposal (due tomorrow by 10am) and WT2 Revision 2 (due tonight by 11:59pm)
Wednesday, 3/6 (Make-Up Socratic Seminar @ 9:40AM - location will be posted on class door)
Topic Proposal Due @ 10am this morning to turnitin.com
FOAs
HW: Ten Quotes? Continue working on WT1
Thursday, 3/7 (Boas late to 1st period)
FOAs
HW: Ten Quotes & WT1
Friday, 3/8
FOAs
HW: Finish 10 Quotes & WT1
The Reader - online edition
Reading Schedule & Journal Assignment Document
Propaganda & Rhetorical Techniques
Thursday, 2/28
Written Task 2 - "Get 'er dun'!" - meeting in the upstairs computer lab
Questions to consider (from the rubric):
- Does the outline of the written task clearly highlight the particular focus of the task? (2pts)
- To what extent is an understanding of the expectations of the question shown? How relevant and focused is the response to these expectations? Is the response supported by well-chosen references to the text? (8pts)
- How well organized is the task? How coherent is the structure? How well developed is the argument of the Written Task? Note: The word length for the Written Task is 800-1,000 words. If the word limit is exceeded, 2 marks will be deducted. (5pts)
- How effective is the use of language & style? How appropriate is the task for the choice of register and style? (Register, in this context, refers to the student’s use of elements such as vocabulary, tone, sentence structure, and idiom appropriate to the task; registered is assessed on the task itself.) (5pts)
Friday, 2/15 - 2 Hour Late Start
More Paper 2 Compare/Contrast w/Woolf & Schlink
Here is the work from our day - use as needed.
(Please see my email from 8:10'ish this evening.)
Email sent @ 6pm on Saturday the 23rd re: Soc Sem Groups
Monday, 2/25
Group 1 Socratic Seminar
Begin Film Analysis
Tuesday, 2/26
Group 2 Socratic Seminar
Film Analysis
Wednesday, 2/27
Group 3 Socratic Seminar
Film Analysis
Thursday, 2/7
"One Generation After" by Wiesel, 1970 (looking for connections between Wiesel's writing and Michael's & Hanna's characterization; how similar is Schlink's purpose to Wiesel's?)
HW: finish the novel.
Friday, 2/8 (***2-Hour Early Release/Leaving @ 12:55***)
Paper 2 Pair Write (Prompts & Rubric)
Week of February 11th
Monday, 2/11
***SNOW DAY!***
Tuesday, 2/12
***SNOW DAY!***
(see emails from 2/12 @ 4:20pm & 7:30pm)
Wednesday, 2/13
***SNOW DAY!***
(see email from 2/13 @ 5:30pm)
Thursday, 2/14 - Happy Valentine's Day!
***SNOW DAY***
Friday, 2/15 - 2 Hour Late Start
More Paper 2 Compare/Contrast w/Woolf & Schlink
Here is the work from our day - use as needed.
(Please see my email from 8:10'ish this evening.)
Friday, 2/1
Journal Due
Discuss Part II chapters 1-5
HW: Read, annotate, & journal for Part II 6-10
Week of February 4th
Monday, 2/4
***SNOW DAY!***
HW: Continue to read, annotate, & journal!
We'll have small group discussion time w/Part II questions tomorrow.
Tuesday, 2/5
***SNOW DAY!***
HW: Finish reading, annotating, & completing a journal as necessary for Part II (check your email from 5:30pm today)
Wednesday, 2/6 (***ONE-Hour Delay***)
Debrief Part II
HW: Read, annotate, and journal for Part III chapters 1-6
Monday, 1/28
No School - Teacher In-Service Day
Tuesday, 1/29
Intro Information on The Reader
Discuss Chapters 1-7
Wednesday, 1/30
Chapters 8-11 Journal Due (see document on top of this page for due dates - you may type & submit your journal to turnitin.com OR hand write it in your English notebook).
Chapters 8-11 Table Discussion, Research, & Historical Context.
HW: Complete today's activities for tomorrow's table share as necessary; read & annotate chapters 12-17.
Thursday, 1/31
Chapters 8-11 Table Share-Out
Discuss chapters 12-17
HW: Read, annotate, & journal for Part II chapters 1-5
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, 1/16
Discussing Works in Translation (here is the PPT from today as well as Damrosch's article which we read in class.
HW: Critically read Allende's short story "Two Words"
Thursday, 1/17
Works in Translation Short Story Discussion
Friday, 1/18
Paper 1 Practice
Monday, 1/21
No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, 1/22
Nazis in Germany
HW: For TUESDAY, 1/29 - read chapters 1-7
Wednesday, 1/23 (Regular Wednesday Start & End Times)
5th & 6th Period Finals
Thursday, 1/24 (Dismiss @ 11:10am)
3rd & 4th Period Finals
Friday, 1/24 (Dismiss @ 11:10am)
1st & 2nd Period Finals
Wednesday, 1/2/2019
Review TTL w/Questions
Woolf PowerPoint; Soc Sem Prep; Info PPT from today; Paper 1/Semester 1 Final Example; FOA Rubric
Thursday, 1/3 & Friday, 1/4
TTL Socratic Seminars
Monday, 1/7 - Wednesday, 1/9
The Hours
Thursday, 1/10 - Tuesday, 1/15
FOAs
Friday, 12/14 (Winter Spirit Week - Snow Day - Wear Blue!)
Journal Due for "The Lighthouse" chapters 4-6
Discuss "The Lighthouse" chapters 4-6
HW: Critically Read and Journal For "The Lighthouse" chapters 7-9 (Have you checked your email from Sunday evening?)
Week of December 17th
Monday, 12/17
Begin Checking Journals for chapter 1-9
Discuss "The Lighthouse" chapters 7-9
HW: Critically Read and Journal for "The Lighthouse" chapters 10-13
Tuesday, 12/18
Check journal/s
Discuss end of the novel
Wednesday, 12/19
Journals Due (I will take any journals you're ready to for me to check over break - if you keep them over break, I will grade a few an evening when we return)
Student Choice
Week of December 10th
💜💜Monday, December 10th, 2018💜💜
It's Purple Day :)
The Dinner Party Discussion
HW: Continue Critically Reading "Time Passes"
Tuesday, 12/11 (Winter Spirit Week - Candy Cane Day) - 10 tardies :(
Reading time and journal writing for "Time Passes"
Wednesday, 12/12 (Winter Spirit Week - Pajama Day)
Journal Due for Time Passes
Discuss "Time Passes"
HW: Critically Read and Journal for "The Lighthouse" chapters 1-3
Thursday, 12/13 (Winter Spirit Week - Ski Day) - Boas gone
Journal Due for "The Lighthouse" chapters 1-3
FOA Tentative Schedule & Proposal Plan Discussion
Discuss "The Lighthouse" chapters 1-3
HW: Critically Read and Journal for "The Lighthouse" chapters 4-6
Week of December 3rd
Monday, 12/3
FOA Take 2
Let's Catch Up!!!
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapters 7-11
Tuesday, 12/4
7-11 (20 min in-class reading time for tomorrow's due date)
Here's today PPT :)
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapters 12-16
Wednesday, 12/5
12-16 Due (in class reading time for tomorrow's due date)
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapter 17
Thursday, 12/6
Discuss the 1st half of the dinner party.
HW: Critically Read "The Window" chapter 18
Friday, 12/7
Finish discussing "The Window" (15 minutes in-class time to read chapter 19) - link to allusions to poems
HW: Prepare for the Dinner Party on Monday (link to script forthcoming) & begin Critically Reading "Time Passes"
Week of Nov. 26th
Monday, 11/26
Meeting in the Library to research the Context Presentation (here are the groups)
"The Angel in the House"
Professions for Women excerpt
A Room of One's Own excerpt
Tuesday, 11/27
Begin Presentations
HW; Have you finished reading AND annotating chapters 1-3??
***Chapters 1-3 journal combined w/ chapters 4-6 journal***
Wednesday, 11/28
Finish Presentations
Debrief Presentations, Discuss Chapters 1-3: (Freud, Oedipus, timeline, novel of ideas, etc.)
HW: Read + Annotate Chapters 4-6
Monday, 11/19 - Wednesday, 11/21
Monday, 11/19
Social Justice Journal Prompt Due
Introduce Virginia Woolf, Modernist Prose
HW: Critically Read Woof's 1919 short story "Kew Gardens"
Tuesday, 11/20
"Kew Gardens"
HW: Write a full-page journal entry in response to Woof's "Kew Gardens" in your notebook. Here is our prompt for the journal.
Wednesday, 11/21
Check out To The Lighthouse; Woolf Era Context Jigsaw Assignment
HW: Woolf Era Context Jigsaw Assignment (due Tuesday, 11/27) & read/annotate chapters 1-3 of To The Lighthouse (We will have Monday to research after discussion of Chapters 1-3 of TTL)
Enjoy your 4-day Thanksgiving Weekend!!!!
Week of 11/12
Monday, 11/12
Veteran's Day - Show someone you're Grateful!
Tuesday, 11/13
Finish Social Justice Presentations
Wednesday, 11/14
Being Grateful MBM
HW: Please write a one page journal with this "prompt" - Due Monday, 11/19.
Thursday, 11/15
Adichie TED Talk "We Should All Be Feminists" w/this viewing guide
Friday, 11/16
Happy Post November 15th!
Today we are looking Roxanne Gay's text (unabridged or abridged) & discussing it through the Four As
Protocol. Also, BEFORE your discussion: as a group: become experts on three to five additional valid sources of your choice--research-based facts, statistics, expert opinions--To what extent is there equality between genders? How can equality be achieved?
HW: 1-page journal response to Social Justice Presentation (see 11/14 for prompt).
Week of 11/5
Monday, 11/5
Large Group Discussion
Tuesday, 11/6
Group Presentation Work Time w/laptops
Wednesday, 11/7 - Friday, 11/9
Presentations
Week of 10/29
Monday, 10/29
Outline Work Time & Article Analysis
Pittsburgh Articles
Sub-Topic "Handout"/aka PPT
Tuesday, 10/30
Introduce "Social Justice" Unit & Group Presentation Project
Wednesday, 10/31 - Happy Halloween!
Group Presentation Work Time w/laptops
Thursday, 11/1
Group Presentation Work Time IN LIBRARY
READ this POWERPOINT - You will now have a much better understanding of what we're doing...I hope!
Social Justice Topic Proposal Form (1 form per group to be submitted to turnitin.com)
HW: Finish Written Task 2: Submission to turnitin.com & Bring Hard Copy to LIBRARY
Friday, 11/2
OUTLINE DUE w/Peer Editing IN LIBRARY
HW: Finish Works Cited Page w/Source Evaluations (submit to turnitin.com under Revision 1 by Sunday evening @ 11:59pm)
Week of 10/22
Monday, 10/22
Written Task 2 Question Stems
HW: Please bring a hard copy of your Written Task 2 from last year if you have one.
Tuesday, 10/23
Reviewing, reflecting, and goal setting
Wednesday, 10/24
Topic/Question Selection + Outline Work Day
Week of 10/15
Monday, 10/15 - Homecoming Spirit "Black Hole Day" = wear all black
Act 4 - let's finish up!
Tuesday, 10/16 - Homecoming Spirit "Going to the Sun Day" = wear hats & sunglasses
Begin Act 5
Wednesday, 10/17 - Homecoming Spirit "Alien Day" = wear neon
Finish the play
Thursday, 10/18 - Homecoming Spirit "Space Jam Day" = wear pjs
Film
Friday, 10/19 - Homecoming Spirit "Astronaut Day" = wear white
Film & talk Written Task
Week of Oct. 8th
Monday, 10/8
No School - Teacher In-Service Day
Tuesday, 10/9
Small Group Discussion of Acts 1-3
Wednesday, 10/10
PSAT (Meet only w/1st Period @ 2:55 - Healthy Youth Survey)
Thursday, 10/11
Act 4, scenes 1 & 2 + in-class journal
Friday, 10/12
Act 4, scenes 3 & 4 + in-class journal
Week of 10/1
Monday, 10/1
Read Act 3, scene 1; in-class journal
Tuesday, 10/2
Begin reading Act 3, scene 2 (finish?)
Wednesday, 10/3
Finish Act One One-Pager & submit by 10:10AM this morning.
Boas out sick - Finish Reading Act 3
Thursday, 10/4
Act 3 Film
Friday, 10/5
Acts 2 & 3 Socratic Seminar - IN THE LIBRARY!
Please check your email - sent by me @ 5:45pm Thursday evening.
WEEK OF 9/24 (UPDATED 9/28!)
Monday, 9/24
Finish Film Analysis
Tuesday, 9/25
1st Period: Reading part way through Act 2, scene 2
2nd Period: Club Rush & because of so many involved, work period
Wednesday, 9/26
Literary Device Quiz
National Boards Release Form Due
Soc Sem Postponed until after Act 3
Continue with reading of Act 2, scene 2 (small and large group discussion time permitting)
Thursday, 9/27
One-Pager Work Day in Computer Lab 2207
Friday, 9/28 (Senior Class Picture 6th Period)
Tie up Act 2
Film Analysis
HW: Finish One-Pager by WEDNESDAY, 10/3 by 10:10AM
WEEK OF 9/17
Monday, 9/17
Counselor Visits
Tuesday, 9/18
Complete Visual Analysis of Hamlet Playbills
Hamlet I, ii-iii: casting, cold reading, and discussion
- HW: In your notebook, write a full page journal entry where you analyze quotes evidence from Hamlet for its significance: Analyze Hamlet's fist soliloquy (1.2 129-59), exploring how Shakespeare uses language to characterize the titular character in the play's exposition.
Wednesday, 9/19
Hamlet I, iv & v
- HW: In a full-page journal entry, answer the following question: In Act I, how does Shakespeare establish what is "rotten in the state of Denmark" using language, technique, style, and/or structure?
Thursday, 9/20
Hamlet One Pager Assignment and Work Time in the Library
Friday, 9/21
Act One Film
Back to school shopping? You will need a notebook of some kind (spiral or composition) designated specifically for this class. Post-it notes would be helpful as well. We begin reading Hamlet on Tuesday, 9/11.
This is the letter that Mrs. Matheny and I sent out to our students this past summer.
Week of 9/10
Monday, 9/10
Analyze Shakespeare's Sonnets & Language
- HW: In your notebook, write a full-page journal entry about the sonnet you DID NOT analyze today.
- "Its Lit" half page - What poetic techniques and uses of language did you find significant in Shakespeare's sonnet?
- "Your Lit" half page - To what extent can you personally relate to the themes in the poem or the way the poem is written? Does this poem remind you of any other works you've read or any life experiences you have had.
Tuesday, 9/11
Prep for Discussion, Stress Journal, & the gift of time ;)
Wednesday, 9/12 (Drill Extravaganza - wear appropriate clothing to go out on the field)
IN THE LIBRARY!!! The Sonnet & Shakespeare - large group discussion about Sonnets 116 & 130
- HW: Bring your copy of Hamlet to class tomorrow.
Thursday, 9/13
Introduction to Hamlet Lecture
Elizabethan Revenge Tragedies
- HW: In your notebook, select one or more of the linked topics and write a full-page journal entry to consider themes, making use of your past Shakespeare experiences with Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth--in advance of our reading of Hamlet.
Friday, 9/14 (Senior Sunrise @ 7am at the football field)
Hamlet I, I: casting & cold reading
Compare and contrast two film versions of I, i
- HW: In your notebook, write a full page journal entry where you analyze quoted evidence from Shakespeare's play for its significance: What does Shakespeare do with scene structure and language to set up characters and conflicts in the first scene? How does Shakespeare's first line, "Who's there?", establish an interrogative mood for the play? What questions have evolved for audiences after the first scene?
Week of 9/5
Wednesday, 9/5
Day 1 Mayhem!!!! We meet in room 1402 :)
Thursday, 9/6
Picture Day
Friday, 9/7
Project Spartan (dress appropriately & comfortably).
Homework: 1st Period - please annotate this sonnet; 2nd Period - please annotate this sonnet