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English I Black Hawk English 101/102-Distance Learning Journalism Speech
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01/07/08 Reread “If I Forget Thee, O Earth…” and go
over final exam
01/08/08 Capitalization rules and worksheet. Vocabulary lesson #11
01/09/08 More capitalization rules and worksheet.
01/10/08 Capitalization quiz. HW:
DOL #5.
01/11/08 Vocabulary quiz #11 and Vocabulary lesson #12.
01/14/08 New seating charts. Housekeeping Day! Hand back a bunch of papers and go over
them. Vocab #12 due. Quiz on Friday.
01/15/08 Begin Chapter 21 in Writing & Grammar
p450. Today we’ll look at adjective and
adverb phrases. HW: wkst Begin Dead Poets’ Society.
*List of prepositions on page
402 of Writing and Grammar text.
01/16/08 Appositive and appositive phrases p.454 in
W&G. HW: 2 wksts. More Dead Poets’ Society.
01/17/08 Turn in appositive and adj/adv phrase
homework. Watch more DPS.
01/18/08 Vocab quiz over lesson 11 & 12.
01/21/08 NO SCHOOL. Martin Luther King Day
01/22/08 Hand in vocab #13. Finish watching Dead Poets’ Society. HW: Write a thesis statement and 3 points
about one of the characters from DPS.
01/23/08 Check
thesis and points. Instead of an entire
5 paragraph essay, we’ll write ONE fully developed paragraph using the thesis
and three supporting details. Students
should elaborate using specific details from the movie to back up their
points. Paragraph should be ¾ to full
page in length and polished (without error).
01/24/08 Read paragraphs aloud in class. Peer edit.
Vocab quiz tomorrow.
01/25/08 Vocabulary quiz #13. HW:
Vocabulary lesson #14.
01/28/08 Substitute.
Next section in chapter 21 in Writing and Grammar text: Verbals-
Participial phrases, p456-459.
01/29/08 Substitute.
Early dismissal due to cold weather.
01/30/08 Substitute. Grade participial worksheets in class. Cover gerunds in text pages 460-461. HW: Gerund worksheet.
01/31/08 Grade gerund homework. Cover infinitives on pages 463-465. HW:
Infinitive wkst
02/01/08 Vocab quiz moved to Monday. HW: Wkst
covering all three verbals- participials, gerunds, and infinitives.
02/04/08 Vocabulary quiz
#14. HW: Vocabulary lesson
#15. Turn in verbal phrase wkst A&B
02/05/08 Poetry. Poetry term handout. Characteristics of poetry. “Lazy Jane,” “The Eagle,”
“As I Wandered as a Cloud.” HW: Those people who didn’t have a grade on
their book reports need to write a thesis and three points.
02/06/08 SNOW
DAY!!!!!!
02/07/08 Poe’s “The Raven,” and “Bells.”
Look at refrain, assonance, repetition, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme.
02/08/08 Midterm Third Quarter. Langston Hughes (Harlem Renaissance) “Dream
Deferred” p630 “Dreams” p631; Lewis Carroll “Jabborwocky”
p604; E.E.Cummings “maggie
and millie and molly and may” p653; handout for Emily
Dickinson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and Robert Frost “The Road Not
Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Next
book report will be an oral report on a book of your choice due the last week
of March.
02/11/08 Foot, meter, rhyme scheme, rhythm. Handout on poetry notes. Look at Prelutsky’s
poems illustrating iambic and trochaic rhythm and Frost’s rhyme schemes.
02/12/08 Shakespeare’s sonnets. HW:
Translating one of Shakepeare’s assigned
sonnets.
02/13/08 POETRY TERM QUIZ.
02/14/08 Poetry readings in front of the class.
Choose a poem to read in front of the class. Poem/lyric must be at least 8-10 lines long
and contain appropriate content for school.
You must turn in a copy of your poem/lyric when you are finished.
02/15/08 Early dismissal.
Vocab quiz over lesson 14 & 15.
02/18/08 NO SCHOOL – PRESIDENTS’ DAY
02/19/08 Hand outs on Shakespeare’s life. HW: 3-page vocab
review
02/20/08 Shakespeare video from National Endowment for the Arts.
02/21/08 Retake poetry term quiz. A&E Shakespeare video
with worksheet.
02/22/08 BIG VOCABULARY REVIEW TEST OVER LESSONS
11-15. More A&E video and
worksheet.
*The page numbers are different in the
yellow texts than the green texts. Use
Act and scene numbers for reference. *
02/25/08 Substitute.
Finish watching A&E video.
Watch Shakespeare DVD. Hand in
A&E worksheet.
02/26/08 Romeo & Juliet overview handout.
Begin reading play. Read Prologue
and begin opening scene, Act I.
02/27/08 Handout project option sheet and Romeo &
Juliet studyguide.
Finish reading Act I scene 1.
**Bring study guide to class everyday.**
02/28/08 Read R&J Act 1 scenes 2 & 3.
Study guides through #10.
02/29/08 NO SCHOOL. TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.
03/03/08 Read Act 1 scenes 4 & 5.
Answer questions 15-26 on study guide.
03/04/08 Watch video of Act I.
03/05/08 Consolidation survey.
03/06/08 Read Act 2 scenes 1 & 2 (the balcony
scene). Watch this on video. Answer to question 32 on study guide.
03/07/08 Drama term quiz. Read Act 2 scene 3. HW: On Monday I’ll check the study guide for
questions 1-32.
03/10/08 Check study guides questions 1-32. Read Act 2 scenes 4 and 5. HW: Allusion wkst. Due Wednesday.
03/11/08 Romeo & Juliet
QUIZ. Finish reading Act 2 (only
one scene left Act 2 scene 6). Watch
video of the rest of Act 2. Make-up
quizzes today after
school.
03/12/08 Allusions wkst
due. Read Act 3 scenes 1 &
2. Answer through question 38 on
study guide. Thank you to everyone who stayed last night to make up
homework.
03/13/08 Read Act 3 scenes 3 & 4.
Watch video Act 3 scenes 1 & 2.
03/14/08 Read Act 3 scene 5.
Watch video Act 3 scenes 3,4,5. Should be on #42 on the
study guide.
We are over half
through Romeo & Juliet. You should
be working on your projects!!
03/17/08 Read all of Act 4 in Romeo &
Juliet. Answer through #47 on your study
guide.
03/18/08 Substitute P.M. Read Act 5 scenes 1 &
2. Watch video. Don’t finish study guide until you finish
reading play. The video is different
than book.
03/19/08 Substitute.
Finish reading Romeo & Juliet.
03/20/08 SPRING BREAK
03/21/08 SPRING BREAK
03/24/08 SPRING BREAK
03/25/08 Registration with Mrs. Hennenfent.
Registration folders are due back to Mrs. Hennenfent by Friday.
03/26/08 Watch
the newer version of Romeo & Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio
and Claire Danes. This movie uses the
same dialogue but a futuristic setting.
Watch for differences between the different versions.
03/27/08 More video.
03/28/08 Registration
packets due. More video.
03/31/08 Video.
04/01/08 Finish video.
Some quote review.
04/02/08 Review for tomorrow’s big test.
Remember study guides are due tomorrow also. Study guides must
use complete sentences!!
04/03/04 Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare Final
Test. Study guides due, also.
04/04/08 Romeo & Juliet in other sources.
04/07/08 Romeo & Juliet Projects due.
04/08/08 More projects.
04/09/08 11:30 dismissal. Inclass paragraphs about the trial of Friar Lawrence.
04/10/08 Sentence diagramming, including
complements.
04/11/08 Sentence diagramming, including
prepositional phrases.
04/14/08 More sentence diagramming.
04/15/08 Substitute. Sentence diagramming.
04/16/08 Go over sentences. Quiz tomorrow!!
04/17/08 Sentence diagramming quiz!!
04/18/08 Shortened schedule for Operation Prom
04/21/08 “That” Demonstrative pronoun p350; Relative
pronoun p351; Demonstrative Adjective p387; Worksheet in class
04/22/08 “That”
practice. Quiz tomorrow. Outline for book reports next week. Reports must include title/author, setting,
main characters, theme, and plot summary.
Oral reports must be 2-3 minutes long.
Written outlines must be turned in also.
04/23/08 “That” QUIZ.
Next: Subordinating conjunctions,
p409.
04/24/08 Begin Odyssey. Two handouts-one is summary of Odyssey. The other is some background on Greek mythology. Bring these to class everyday.
04/25/08 Subordinating conjunctions notes and wkst. Odyssey summary.
04/28/08 Odyssey. Subordinating conjunctions wkst.
04/29/08 11:30 dismissal
04/30/08 Operation Prom rescheduled. Written outlines
for book report due.
05/01/08 FINAL BOOK REPORT.
An oral report on a book of your choice.
05/02/08 Finish book reports.
05/05/08 Substitute.
Begin The Odyssey in textbook.
Yellow-p681.
Green-p981
05/06/08 More The
Odyssey, reading The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis.
05/07/08 Comma rules #1-6 handout and wkst. Begin Odyssey movie (1997).
Odyssey quiz tomorrow.
05/08/08 Odyssey quiz. Go over comma wkst. Watch more movie. HW:
More comma practice on rules 1-6.
05/09/08 Jazz Band Tour. Comma rules #6-12 handout and
worksheet. More Odyssey movie. HW: comma wkst and
wellness survey, both due Monday.
05/12/08 Handout of Poseidon sources for paper. Read and highlight information that we can
use in a paper relating Poseidon to The Odyssey.
05/13/08 Make a general outline in class. HW: Finish outline for 5 paragraph paper.
05/14/08 Write a rough draft of Poseidon/Odyssey
paper.
05/15/08 In class essay writing.
05/16/08 Review and finals begin.
HAND IN BOTH TEXTS
THE DAY OF SCHEDULED FINAL EXAM.
05/19/08 FINAL EXAMS. Hand
in texts.
05/20/08 FINAL EXAMS. Hand
in texts.
Voc #11 –
exhilaration, expedient, explicit, extricate, fabricate, facetious, farcical,
fastidious, fiasco, figurative
Voc #12- flagrant,
fraudulent, furbish, galvanize, garb, garrulous, genealogy, gird, glib,
gregarious
Voc #13-
hackneyed, harbinger, heresy, hoax, holocaust, humanitarian, hypercritical,
idyll, illicit, imbue
Voc #14-
impassive, impeccable, imperceptible, impetuous, imposition, inadvertent,
inalienable, inarticulate, inclement, incognito
Voc #15-
incoherent, incongruous, indigent, indomitable, inertia, infallible, innate,
innovation, inscrutable, instigate
Voc #16-
interloper, intrepid, intrinsic, introvert, irksome, itinerary, jargon,
lampoon, lassitude, latitude
Voc#17- lexicon,
loathe, longitude, loquacious, ludicrous, luxuriant, magnanimous, maladroit,
mandatory, maudlin
Voc #18-
mendicant, mentor, mettle, mien, militant, misanthrope, miscreant, mollify,
mosque, mull
Voc #19- mutable,
mystic, negligible, nondescript, notoriety, obese, oblivious, odious,
omniscient, ornate
Black Hawk English 102
Instructor: Ms. Sharon K. Smith Email: fleurbc@yahoo.com Fax #: 309 792-5421
Class times: 8:00-8:50 Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays Textbook: Everything’s an Argument, Everyday
Writer
Syllabus Test
01/18/08 Emotional
argument paper due 03/07/08
No class on
01/21/08
Documentation test
02/08/08
Journalism 1st semester only
Speech
01/07/08 Hand out texts and do introductions. Must find out 5 new things about all of your
classmates.
01/08/08 Chapter 1 notes. Handout for object speech on Friday.
01/09/08 Impromptu speeches.
01/10/08 1 minute news stories- 5Ws
01/11/08 Object Speech.
01/14/08 HW: Read Chapter 2. Test over chapters 1 & 2 next week. Begin notes on chapter 2.
01/15/08 Nonverbal Communication Day. You can do whatever, but no talking all
class.
01/16/08 Discussion of nonverbal day yesterday. More chapter 2 notes.
01/17/08 Blood Drive.
01/18/08 Chapter 2 notes. Chapter test over 1 & 2 next week.
01/21/08 NO SCHOOL.
Martin Luther King Day
01/22/08 Watch “I have a dream” speech.
01/23/08 Chapter TEST 1
& 2.
01/24/08 Guesstures.
2 assignments- Demonstration speeches handout. Demonstrations on Tuesday. Nonverbal storybooks-8 pages-due next
Thursday.
01/25/08 Catchphrase. HW:
Tell a joke (school appropriate!) on Monday.
01/28/08 Substitute. Play Guesstures or Catchphrase.
HW: Watch the State of the Union speech.
01/29/08 Substitute.
Library to work on speech or storybook or look up commentary on last
night’s speech.
01/30/08 Substitute.
Demonstration speeches. 4-5 minutes.
Must turn in a list of steps.
01/31/08 Examples of nonverbal communication – a
picture says a thousand words.
02/01/08 Nonverbal storybooks presented to class.
02/04/08 Memorization material. HW:
Short joke, memorize The Preamble to the Constitution
02/05/08 Chapter 3 notes. Jokes, Preamble. HW: Longer joke.
02/06/08 SNOW DAY!!!!
02/07/08 Chapter 3 notes. Jokes. HW: Anecdote.
02/08/08 Midterm Third Quarter
02/11/08 Anecdotes.
Chapter 3 notes.
02/12/08 Mad Gabs.
02/13/08 Finish chapter 3 notes. Assign biography speech.
02/14/08
02/15/08 Early dismissal
02/18/08 NO SCHOOL – PRESIDENTS’ DAY
02/19/08
02/20/08
02/21/08 Biography speeches.
02/22/08
02/25/08 Substitute.
02/26/08
02/27/08 Eulogy speech handout. Due next Wednesday. Following directions exercise on board.
02/28/08
02/29/08 NO SCHOOL. TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.
03/03/08 Survival at sea group exercise. HW: Read chapter 7.
03/04/08 Chapter test over 3 & 4.
03/05/08
03/06/08 Eulogy speech
03/07/08 Chapter 7 notes.
03/10/08 Advertising assignment. Begin Bobby.
03/11/08 Bobby
03/12/08 Bobby
03/13/08 Bobby
03/14/08 Bobby extras
03/17/08 Finish chapter 7 notes
03/18/08 Lab for Bobby research
03/19/08 Substitute. Lab
03/20/08 SPRING BREAK
03/21/08 SPRING BREAK
03/24/08 SPRING BREAK
03/25/08
03/26/08
03/27/08
03/28/08
03/31/08 Lab for product presentation.
04/01/08 Lab for product presentation.
04/02/08 Classroom practice for product presentation.
04/03/08
04/04/08 Nuclear Survival Group
04/07/08
04/08/08
04/09/08 11:30 dismissal
04/10/08 Watch presentations on advertising
products.
04/11/08 Zobmondo!!
04/14/08 John Stossell DVD
04/15/08 Substitute.
Finish Stossell DVD
04/16/08 Student poll handout.
Work on pros and cons.
04/17/08
04/18/08
05/02/08 Mock trial of James Earl Ray
05/05/08 Mock trial of James Earl Ray