Monday, April 28th (B)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Literary terms vocabulary review
• Presentation of poems (done for homework 2 class periods ago!)
• Poetry Analysis 1: "The Fish" by Marianne Moore
• We practiced our analysis skills by reading and annotating "The Fish" by Marianne Moore together as a class. We will practice this kind of analysis several more times, both independently and as a group, before we right our 4th quarter analysis paper! 
• Progress Reports and graded work distributed; also a copy of "End of the Year Calendar" was handed out for students to know upcoming assignments! 
• HW: NONE!

Foundations

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 2 Notes
• Connection sentences
• Monster
• Continue on with the trial 
• Worksheet: Pages 201-205
• Writing Response 

Friday, April 25th (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Literary terms vocabulary review
• Presentation of poems (done for homework 2 class periods ago!)
• Poetry Analysis 1: "The Fish" by Marianne Moore
• We practiced our analysis skills by reading and annotating "The Fish" by Marianne Moore together as a class. We will practice this kind of analysis several more times, both independently and as a group, before we right our 4th quarter analysis paper! 
• Progress Reports and graded work distributed; also a copy of "End of the Year Calendar" was handed out for students to know upcoming assignments! 
• HW: NONE!

Foundations

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 1 Quiz 
• Continue group reading of Monster
• Project presentations of our "Monster Analysis Posters" that we worked on in class!

Thursday, April 24th (B)

Honors & Standard English I

• Poetry workshops with Ms. Kim! Rock on!

Foundations

• Warm-up
• WordSkills Review: Pepper!
• Continue with Monster (we're almost done!!!)
• Continue with Monster Analysis Project

Wednesday, April 23rd (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Poetry Workshop with Ms. Arrington! 
• HW: Write, edit, and polish 1 extended metaphor poem for next class! (Same homework from Monday!) 

Foundations

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Practice #1
• SSR (10 minutes! We didn't get to this last class!)
• Continuing with Monster (a more dramatic approach today!)
• Seminar 

Tuesday, April 22nd (B)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Update Literary Terms Dictionary: 8. metaphor & 9. simile
• Metaphor, Simile & Imagery Practice
• We did a series of creative writing activities to practice using creative and imaginative details! 
• HW: Honors: Write, edit, and polish ONE metaphor poem (see instructions handout given in class!)
  Std: You  may do this for 5 points extra credit & present in class on Wednesday or Friday!
• Reminder: We will have a guest teacher for next class--be sure to come prepared with pencils and paper for our activities! 

Foundations

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Concept Cards
• SSR (10 min)
• Monster: Pages 149-159)
• Seminar!

Monday, April 21st (A)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Update Literary Terms Dictionary: 8. metaphor & 9. simile
• Metaphor, Simile & Imagery Practice
• We did a series of creative writing activities to practice using creative and imaginative details! 
• HW: Honors: Write, edit, and polish ONE metaphor poem (see instructions handout given in class!)
  Std: You  may do this for 5 points extra credit & present in class on Wednesday or Friday!
• Reminder: We will have a guest teacher for next class--be sure to come prepared with pencils and paper for our activities! 

Foundations

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5
• Notes on the first 5 word parts
• Connection Sentences vocab practice (on back of notes sheet!)
• Monster--continuing on!
• HW: Bring SSR books to next class!

Thursday, April 10th (A) and Friday, April 11th (B)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-Up
• Poetry Day 1 Notes
• We added several new literary terms to our "Literary Terms Dictionary." If you missed this day, be sure to get notes from a classmate!
• Read, Discuss, & Annotate: Material Imagination Poems (Handout) 
• Begin writing "Fill-in-the-Blank Material Imagination Poem," based off TWO of your favorite poems from the handout!
• HW: Choose TWO of your favorite poems from the handout; write, edit, and polish YOUR versions of the poems and bring them to class on Monday/Tuesday! 

Foundations 

• Warm-up
• Grammar Review 
• On Friday we took a quiz on nouns and verbs! See me ASAP to make this up if you were absent!
• Hip-Hop: Stereotypes, history, and documentary 
• Music video analysis
• HW: none!

Wednesday, April 9th (B)

Honors & Standard English I

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 4: Final Practice
• We quizzed each other for 5 minutes then did a practice quiz without our packets!
• Finish Romeo & Juliet (2nd period only)
• Test: Romeo & Juliet
• See me ASAP before spring break to make this up if you were absent!
• SSR (1st period only)
• HW: Prepare for WordSkills 4 quiz on Thursday/Friday!
  2A Only: Prepare for Lord of the Flies Test on Thursday!

Foundations

• Warm-up
• Quiz: based on yesterday's warm-up!
• Hip hop
• We took a break from reading Monster to learn a bit more about the music genre of hip hop. We explored themes of masculinity and the music's impact on society. 
• HW: None

Tuesday, April 8th (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 4: Final Practice
• We quizzed each other for 5 minutes then did a practice quiz without our packets!
• Finish Romeo & Juliet (2nd period only)
• Test: Romeo & Juliet
• See me ASAP before spring break to make this up if you were absent!
• SSR (1st period only)
• HW: Prepare for WordSkills 4 quiz on Thursday/Friday!
  2A Only: Prepare for Lord of the Flies Test on Thursday!

Foundations

• Warm-up
• Grammar Practice: verbs
• Monster: Quiz 3
• Monster: Read to page 136 & handout
• HW: none!

Monday, April 7th (B)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Word Skills Practice #2
• Romeo & Juliet
• We completed our imagery analysis paragraphs of Act V scene i and continued reading scene 3 in 2nd period. 2nd period will finish the final scene before taking the test on Wednesday! 
• SSR (1st period only)
• HW: Review Act V for test on Tuesday/Wednesday 

Foundations

• Warm-up
• Grammar review: nouns
• SSR
• We read for 10 minutes and completed our first in-class reflection!
• Monster: Pages 117-136
• HW: None!

Friday, April 4th (A)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Word Skills Practice #2
• Romeo & Juliet 
• SSR 
• HW: Review Act V for test on Tuesday/Wednesday 

Foundations

• Warm-up
• Monster: We read up to page 115! 
• Quiz! Come see me to make this up!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Ms. W 

Thursday, April 3rd (B)

Honors & Standard English I

• Warm-up: Diction
• WordSkills 4: Practice 2
• Romeo & Juliet: Act V, scene i
• We read scene i of Act V together in class. We also began working on a worksheet looking at imagery in this act and how it contributes to a theme we identified in the scene. We will finish working with this sheet during next class--be prepared to turn your ideas into a full analysis paragraph! 
• Library -- SSR
• Everyone went to the library to check out their own SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) book. We completed our first SSR reflection before the end of class!
• Be sure to start bringing your SSR book everyday. For fourth quarter, we will begin to have SSR AT LEAST once per week to help strengthen our reading endurance for our End of Course exam coming up soon!
• HW: Deliver parent letter to your parent or guardian!

Foundations

• Warm up: Diction
• Monster: pages 80-98 with accompanying worksheet
• Library -- SSR
• Everyone went to the library to check out their own SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) book. We completed our first SSR reflection before the end of class!
• Be sure to start bringing your SSR book everyday. For fourth quarter, we will begin to have SSR AT LEAST once per week to help strengthen our reading endurance for our End of Course exam coming up soon!
• HW: None!

Wednesday, April 2nd (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• Warm-up: Diction
• Concept Card: Wordskills 4
• Today we created our first concept card. On the front of a notecard, we wrote 1 word part and drew a picture to represent it. On the back, we wrote the definition, related words (words that contain that word part, and a sentence using one of those related words). We made sure that our card contained color!
• Romeo & Juliet: Act V, scene i
• We read scene i of Act V together in class. We also began working on a worksheet looking at imagery in this act and how it contributes to a theme we identified in the scene. We will finish working with this sheet during next class--be prepared to turn your ideas into a full analysis paragraph! 
• Library -- SSR
• Everyone went to the library to check out their own SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) book. We completed our first SSR reflection before the end of class!
• Be sure to start bringing your SSR book everyday. For fourth quarter, we will begin to have SSR AT LEAST once per week to help strengthen our reading endurance for our End of Course exam coming up soon!
• HW: Complete WordSkills 4 practice; deliver parent letter to your parent or guardian! Remember: All homework is due before 7:30 am to my box! 

Foundations

• Warm-up: Diction
• Debate: Does racism still exist in America? 
• We finished preparing our evidence for the debate and then had our first class seminar on the topic! Everyone spoke at least once to share their opinion. If you missed this, see me before or after school/class for a make-up assignment. 
• Monster: Pages 64-80
• We read the next 15 or so pages of Monster and answered a few guided questions along the way. See me to get this worksheet!

Tuesday, April 1st (B)

Honors/Standard English I

• Warm-up 1: Diction 
• Curriculum Survey
• WordSkills 4: Word Parts
• WordSkills 4: concept card
• I also talked with each class about "where we are" in our Romeo and Juliet and Lord of the Flies units. I appreciate your patience as I organize the next two weeks for us!  

Foundations

• Warm-up 2: Diction
• Monster: Read pages 46-64; complete discussion questions
• Racism debate
• In-class debate centered on the question: Does racism still exist in America? We found evidence to support our claims and backed it up with explanations on our debate handout! 
• SSR 1 (sustained silent reading--we all chose a book and read for 10 minutes silently at the end of class! Each time we do this we will also complete a short reading response. See me to get this handout!). 

Monday, March 31st (A)

Honors/Standard English I

• Warm-up 1: Diction 
• Curriculum Survey
• WordSkills 4: Word Parts
• I also talked with each class about "where we are" in our Romeo and Juliet and Lord of the Flies units. I appreciate your patience as I organize the next two weeks for us!  

Foundations

• Warm-up 1: Diction
• Curriculum Survey
• ID Lesson 13: Human Nature
• We did a raw write in our ID journals about the following prompt: What of the four forces--love, hate, compassion or indifference--is strongest and why? 
• Continued with Monster to page 40
• HW: None!