August 2013
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  Back to School Day with parents and students in 2 shortened schedules
Info. Sheet		 Library-get Voc D and AR book. Take STAR Reading assessment  Start with 5 poetry terms and review them well; Hand out email info sheets Start vocabulary lesson and my explanations and hints
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Actual vocab. work day DOL 1-1 & 1-2; Poetry quiz over metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, and alliteration; study imagery, onomatopoeia, symbol and imagery for Thursday's quiz DOL 1-3; examples of all 9 terms on SmartBoard for practice; tomorrow-quiz over the four terms we started yesterday   Poetry Packet of Terms DOL 1-4; Poetry quiz #2; review the poetry terms; quiz 3 on Tuesday over allusion, apostrophe, connotation, couplet, denotation, diction, and end rhyme; work on vocabulary DOL 1-5; Review the poetry terms for Tuesday's quiz; Work on vocab. Must be done today.
 

 

September 2013
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Labor Day		 DOL 2-1 & 2-2; Review a LOT for today's quiz. Quiz #3 DOL 2-3; Disc. the poetry terms and how they apply to "The Secret Heart,"  cut apart the voc. flashcards and study Review poetry terms: Review the voc. words with flashcards. Review the voc. terms; Vocabulary Unit 1 Test
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Vocabulary Unit 2, due this Friday, Sept. 14 DOL 3-1 and 3-2; Discuss poetry terms for quiz #4 tomorrow; Finish the period working on vocabulary Review poetry terms with Flash Cards; Poetry quiz #4  Discuss the following poetry terms: internal rhyme, lyric poetry, masculine rhyme, meter, mood, narrative poetry, quatrain, refrain; work on voc. maybe no time Friday to work on voc.

*Identify every term possible in "Sound of Silence"
 *Poetry Quiz 5 on Monday;
*Vocab. due today!
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Poetry quiz #5; Cut apart voc. 2 flashcards DOL 4-1,2; Rev. poetry flashcards 1-5; Discuss poetry 6 for Quiz on Thursday; "The Sound of Silence" Analyze "The Sound of Silence"
Review for poetry quiz 6;
Review for voc. 2 test on Friday		 Poetry quiz 6; review vocab. Vocabulary Unit 2 Test
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 October 2013
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Review poetry terms Review poetry and voc. 3 PLAN demographics by Mr. Mork Poetry test (multiple choice) Voc. 3 test
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Vocabulary Unit 4, due this Friday, Oct. 11; backside compound sentences again A Midsummer Night's Dream; start Shakespeare notes Work on vocabulary unit 4 Shakespeare notes finish Shakespeare notes; work on vocabulary; voc. 4 due today!
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Native American Day-
NO SCHOOL		 Get Greek Myths books and read "Pyramus and Thisbe"
Hand out roles sheets; review voc. for this Friday's test		 October AR due no later than today;
Review "Pyramus and Thisbe"
Discuss plot a bit; Sound activity		 Shakespeare quiz
I Will Hear That Play activity		 Voc. 4 Test; start reading AMND
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 November 2013
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    Happy Thanksgiving  vacation! 
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December 2013
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    1st day of Holiday Vacation through January 2nd
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 January 2014
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  Semester Tests Periods 1-4 Semester Tests Periods 5-7
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NO SCHOOL- Martin Luther King Jr. Day Welcome, students, to my English II class!  Discuss the Back-to-School info. sheet and check out AMND from the lib. GET AN AR BOOK AND TAKE A TEST IN MY ROOM BY FEB. 22. Shakespeare lives! Start discussing William Shakespeare's life. (handout) Finish discussing the handout about William Shakespeare. Plot activity to understand characters. Choose roles. Review Shakespeare info. Read A Midsummer Night's Dream. (We will read this entirely in class. If you are absent, you must read on your own to catch up.)
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DOL 1-1. Review Shakespeare info. Vocabulary Unit 8 words together...and then do book pages on own. DOL 1-2. Review Shakespeare info. after finishing Act I.
S.T.A.R. reading test on computers.		 DOL 1-3. Continue reading AMND Act I in Period 1 (no class last Friday-assembly) & one more page for Period 3; Work on vocab.  Watch AMND Act I. Act I Study Guide? This is moved to Monday due to today's Severe Weather Cancellation of School.  

 

 February 2014
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DOL 1-5. Journal-bullying--last Friday's assembly and meaning of bullying, how much can be tolerated, how much can one say/do to another...

 
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DOL 1-4, 1-5, 2-1; watch Act I and do the Act I study guide.
 DOL 2-2. Act I and Shakespeare quiz.

 

 DOL 2-3. Read Act 2 DOL 2-4. Disc. Act 2 SG. Watch Act 2? DOL 2-5. Voc. 8 Test. Discuss possible sentences for the backside of 8 that we never did.
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Vocabulary Unit 9. Introductory clauses, one voc. word per sentence. Follow directions on backside. LEAVE IN THE CLASSROOM!
Voc. Backside

 

 Act 2 quiz
      
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 March 2014
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      NO SCHOOL
Comp Day		 NO SCHOOL Spring Break

 

April 2014
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      Last Day of School- End of Fourth Quarter NO SCHOOL- Inclement Weather Make-up Day
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