Pre AP 9 English

Monday, Aug. 23

• Review Cornell Notetaking–lecture

Handout Tony Wagner article, Rigor Redefined; chunk article and assign groups to 2 chunks of info.

Be prepared to share a quick summary of chunks of reading material from this article.  Each person in the group–2 or 4 need to orally present quick summary on Wed.

• Wed, Aug 25
• 1st 10 min of class, meet w/ partner(s) to organize the presentation
• Everyone needs to take CNotes on the presentation; presentations will NOT be done in chronological order
• Intro The Odyssey begin the film; take CNotes over the film w/ the film prompt sheet

Friday, Aug. 27

• Continue film–take notes

Monday, April 18

• Meet at the Kansas History Museum @ 12:15.  Be dressed up!
• The program starts @ 1:30 pm and should be finished around 3+ pm.  Everyone needs to be standing by their murals.  People will be arriving prior to 1:30.
• Roll will be taken.

Tuesday, April 19–Field Trip to National Archives in KC

• Meet by Rm. 103 at 7:30 a.m.  All permission slips must be in prior to departure!
• Bring umbrella–there maybe rain.
• You will need $ for lunch–we plan to go to the Plaza if it is not raining.  We should be back no later than 3:30 pm.

Wednesday, April 20–Holocaust Evening of Presentations–7 pm

• Please be certain you have invited as many people as you want.  This will be a night to show your business!
• You need to be at T-High by 6:15 pm in the Student Cafeteria.  Dress Up.
• You need to decide on a spokesperson for each presentation to introduce your theme for research,
• We should be finished by 8:00 pm

All of you need to go to the site  Midwest Holocaust Center, Overland Park, KS.  The website is awesome and has many sources for your papers!  HH

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday–March 15-17–Rm. 103 will be open and available for groups to meet on Holocaust Project.  The rm is open from 9-noon.  Come in the Western door by my room!

This is the last week for the trunk.  All materials are being shipped on the 24th.  Please return all books checked out!

Thurs., Feb. 18

• Work on murals–after school work session from 3-7 pm.  Make arrangements w/groups.  Pizza will be served @ 5 pm approximately
• Manage time–Monday is enrollment and I will be in Chicago. Mr. Titus will be my sub.  You will go to class first and meet w/counselors.  Then prelim enrollment will take place.  Whatever time is left must be spent in the gallery!

The goal is to be on the wall by Friday in the Gallery.  All pictures/etc need to be printed out before class on Wed., Feb. 10.  Lots to do!!!!!  HH

Monday, Jan 25

• Meet in groups–everyone should bring 5-10 articles over their topic to class.  Work on brainstorming ideas for a thesis statement; set your calendar
• Check notebooks–Journal 1-2 entries
• If you were absent on Thurs., turn in your reading log (typed)
• Downslips are due on Wed.!!!!!

Tues., Jan 19

• You should have finished Night.  Outside writing prompt will be given in class.  For those of you who were not there when the book was passed out, you need to pick it up from me and have it read before Thurs.  **Everyone:  You need to do your 10 favorite quotations in a Reading Log (typed–12 pt Times New Roman) to be turned in on Thurs.
• Groups will be given at the beginning of class along w/the hand out for “You Are There” Project.  Each group will need to make some decisions on topic for the paper and multi media presentation.
• If you missed last week when Theresa Rush, IT, was here to discuss the project, you are responsible for getting your CNotes from someone in your assigned group.

Thurs., Jan 21

• Reading Logs are due over Night
• Journal 2 writing prompts–over Night–4 prompts–in your notebook
• I’m missing Group 5’s emails/topics/phone #s?????
• Come to class w/ some prelim research done on your own for your topic choice
• View 2009 “You Are There” multi media –Tulsa Race Riots
• Turn in Night at the beginning of class
• Ms. Rush will be here to talk to groups too.

Thursday, Jan. 14

• Theresa Rush, IT, will come and discuss the multi media project for the class
• Handout Night–start reading; I’ll give specific chapters by class time.

Monday, 12/14

• Bring your last draft of Tragic Heroes to class/in class discussion of next revision
• Review for final
• In class writing workshop on Tragic Heroes after revision discussion

Tuesday, Dec, 8

• Final draft of Magic:  Good/Evil Essay due
• 2nd draft of Tragic Heroes/unless you’ve not had your paper edited, then it will be due on Thurs.
• 10 questions typed/double spaced for Socratic Seminar for Faustus test on Thurs

Monday, Nov. 30

• Happy Thanksgiving and vacation is OVER–back to WORK~!
• Vocab Test–Dr. Faustus–Scenes–VI-XVI–begotten, churl, covetousness, disdain, famine, gluttony, pension, progeny, renounce, salvation, sloth, suppositions, learned, discerned, entrenched, equivalents, perceive, purgatory, sumptuous, brimstone, dismembered, intolerable, impeach, presumption, scour, vexed, bachelor, bounteous, entreaty, injurious, mirth, paramour, penance, renown, subdued, condemned, purgation, venturous, carouse, commiseration, dissuade, extinguish, heinous, loathsome, paragon, peerless, prevail, unfeigned, ambitious, fiends, repulse, tribunal, engendered, entrails, felicity, gape, incessant, perish, plagued, reigned
• Those of you who did NOT turn in your rough draft–it is due today–typed, double spaced, 12 pt font, Times New Roman–this is the last chance before final drafts are due.
• Those of you who turned in your 1st draft, bring your 2nd draft to class corrected for review.  For those of you who did not pick up your rough draft before break–bring your 1st draft on a USB to be able to make corrections
• Discuss Scenes VI-XVI–be ready for a review sheet for this play and have final drafts due on Friday, Dec. 4
• Be brainstorming the following:  How are Odyssesus, Dorian, and Dr. Faustus examples of a “tragic hero”?  Be prepared to do so preliminary writing

Wednesday, Dec. 2

• Bell Ringer–Vocab test over the above list
• Bring your 2nd/3rd draft typed and ready to hand in–this will be considered your FINAL draft
• Test for Dr. Faustus Tuesday, Dec. 8
• Begin brainstorming exercise for next prompt–the tragic hero using O, Dorian, and Faustus.  Bring to class quotations from these sources you believe exemplify the tragic hero! 
• Study Guide for test will be handed to you on Friday

Monday, Nov. 23

• Have rough draft over good v evil writing prompt ready for class–the essay needs to be typed and double spaced/12 pt/Times New Roman 
• Bring Faustus to class
• Peer editing of essays–pts for peer editing/pts for rough draft–don’t lose out!

Tues, Nov. 17

• Pop quiz–characters and vocab Scenes I-V
• Vocab words–audacious, cunning, dalliance, pomp, ambiguities, blasphemy, doctrine, maladies, omnipotence, rudiments, solitary, lechery, fortitude, humility, incantations, infamous, laureate, resolute, voluptuousness, vengeance, vermin, bequeath, chaste, contrition, courtesans, inviolate, lascivious, repentance, vain, and wanton
• Discussion of plot/theme/mood of Scenes I-V 

Wed., Nov. 11

• Test over Picture of Dorian Gray
• Bring Dr. Faustus to class to read

Fri, Nov. 13

• Counselors are presenting in class
• Bring Faustus–you should be @ chpt. 8