Monday May 19th (A) & Tuesday May 20th (B)

Honors and Standard English I

• Poetry Test 
• Review/Study/Memorize Poems for recitations beginning next class! 
• HW: Finish memorizing your poems!!

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 5
• Monday: Notes & Connection Sentences
• Tuesday: Concept Card
• NC Final Exam Review 

Thursday, May 15th - Friday, May 16th

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up: NCFE Practice 
• For a warm-up, we did a practice passage from the North Carolina final exam. 
• In-class work time to finish our ACES paragraph(s) outline
• Dell Lab: Typing of ACES Paragraphs
• Our ACES Packets and final drafts for our paragraph were due at the end of the hour!
• HW: Continue to memorize your poem (Due next Wednesday - Friday!); review literary terms for our Poetry "Quest" during next class! 

Foundations 

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 4
• Pepper Review (Thursday) & Quiz (Friday) 
• Poetry!
• Thursday: We read "metaphor poems" (organized around a central metaphor that extends throughout the whole poem) and wrote our own version of a Metaphor Poem in class. 
• Friday: We described images using material details & wrote more poems that we performed in class!

Wednesday, May 14th (B)

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up: NCFE Practice #1
• For a warm-up, we read and practice one passage from last year's North Carolina Final Exam. 
• Poem speed dating
• Memorization Practice for our poem recitations NEXT WEEK!
• ACES Review & Peer Editing 
• We reviewed the ACES format, edited each other's paragraphs from homework, and began working on our outlines for our own poems (due next class when we will go to the Dell Lab to write our paragraphs). 
• HW: Finish outlining your paragraph (1 for Standard, 2 for Honors), continue memorizing your poem, continue reviewing literary techniques for our upcoming exam

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 4 Practice 
• NCFE Review
• Poetry!
• HW: None

Tuesday, May 13th (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up: NCFE Practice #1
• For a warm-up, we read and practice one passage from last year's North Carolina Final Exam. 
• Poem speed dating
• Memorization Practice for our poem recitations NEXT WEEK!
• ACES Review & Peer Editing 
• We reviewed the ACES format, edited each other's paragraphs from homework, and began working on our outlines for our own poems (due next class when we will go to the Dell Lab to write our paragraphs). 
• HW: Finish outlining your paragraph (1 for Standard, 2 for Honors), continue memorizing your poem, continue reviewing literary techniques for our upcoming exam

Foundations 

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 4 Concept Card
• Review NCFE from yesterday 
• We viewed our scores on our recent Monster exam (well done, everyone!) 
• We began our final unit on Poetry with a "Poetry Quiz!" 
• HW: None!

Monday, May 12th (B)

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up
• in-class time to finish working on Poetry Packets! 
• "Be the Poem" Activities: Part 2
• We watched some examples of excellent poem recitations and discussed how these individuals made it work. 
• Literary Analysis "Boot Camp"
• We took notes on the ACES structure of analysis (see me if you were absent this day to get this packet!) and practiced applying this framework to a poem analysis together
• HW: Finish writing ACES paragraph about "The Snow Man" (if not finished in class); continue memorizing your poem; begin reviewing literary terms for our poetry exam

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 4 Notes & Connection Sentences 
• NCTE Practice #1
• We read and practiced a passage from last year's released final exam together in class. 

Friday, May 9th (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up
• in-class time to finish working on Poetry Packets! 
• "Be the Poem" Activities: Part 2
• We watched some examples of excellent poem recitations and discussed how these individuals made it work. 
• Literary Analysis "Boot Camp"
• We took notes on the ACES structure of analysis (see me if you were absent this day to get this packet!) and practiced applying this framework to a poem analysis together
• HW: Finish writing ACES paragraph about "The Snow Man" (if not finished in class); continue memorizing your poem; begin reviewing literary terms for our poetry exam  

Foundations 

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 3 Quiz
• ID Lesson 14 & Free Write 
• Finish documentary film!

Thursday, May 8th (B)

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up
• Individual Work Time: "Getting to Know Your Poem" Packets
• We had 30-40 minutes of in-class work time to progress with our analysis packets. These packets will be due IN CLASS on Friday, so what you don't finish today is homework!
• "Be the Poem" Activities 
• HW: "Getting to Know Your Poem" Packet due next class; begin memorizing your poem!

Foundations 

• warm-up
• Monster Exam 
• HW: None! 

Wednesday, May 7th (A)

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up
• Individual Work Time: "Getting to Know Your Poem" Packets
• We had 30-40 minutes of in-class work time to progress with our analysis packets. These packets will be due IN CLASS on Friday, so what you don't finish today is homework!
• "Be the Poem" Activities 
• HW: "Getting to Know Your Poem" Packet due next class; begin memorizing your poem!

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 3, Practice #1
• Finish Monster Review Packet in class
• Our text is tomorrow! Your homework is to study and prepare for this exam! 

Tuesday, May 6th (B)

Today I was gone--so here's what you did below with the sub!

Honors & Standard English I

• warm-up
• review: HW 
• Literary Terms Quiz 2
• "Getting to Know Your Poem" Packets!
• For the second part of class, we went to the Dell Lab to choose our poems for our literary analysis essays that we will work on in the next few weeks. This poem will also be the poem that you memorize and recite for our poem recitations at the end of the quarter! To see the websites we accessed in class, check out the "Poetry Project" tab above! 
• HW: None!

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 3 Concept Card 
• Documentary Film: "If You Build It"
• We started watching the film "If You Build It" and worked on a companion film guide! We will finish this film up on Friday. 
• Tomorrow we will finish our review packets for Monster -- the test will be on Thursday!!
• HW: Prepare for Monster Test!

Monday, May 5th (A)

Honors and Standard English I

• warm-up
• review: HW 
• Literary Terms Quiz 2
• "Getting to Know Your Poem" Packets!
• For the second part of class, we went to the Dell Lab to choose our poems for our literary analysis essays that we will work on in the next few weeks. This poem will also be the poem that you memorize and recite for our poem recitations at the end of the quarter! To see the websites we accessed in class, check out the "Poetry Project" tab above! 
• HW: None!

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 3 Notes and Connection Sentences 
• Monster Review and essay writing 
• We started working on our final review packet for Monster; we'll use this to review and work on a persuasive writing assignment over the next few days 
• Our Monster exam will be THIS THURSDAY! 
• HW: Review for Monster Exam!

Friday, May 2nd (B)

Honors and Standard English I 

• warm-up
• Share "Found" poems
• Vocab review
• A friendly competition in preparation for our ***second Literary Terms Quiz*** on Monday!
• We added the following terms to our Literary Terms dictionaries: 
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• Sonnets & Sonnet handout 
• HW: Finish sonnet handout if not completed in class; study the most recent vocabulary (recorded in our sonnet packets and today in our literary terms dictionaries) for the quiz on Monday! :)  

Foundations

• warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 2 Quiz
• FINISH Monster!!!
• Exceleration & Progress reports
• At the end of class, we had time to work on our make-up work and talk about plans grade improvement if necessary.

Thursday, May 1st (A)

Honors and Standard English I 

• warm-up
• Share "Found" poems
• Vocab review
• A friendly competition in preparation for our ***second Literary Terms Quiz*** on Monday!
• We added the following terms to our Literary Terms dictionaries: 
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• Sonnets & Sonnet handout 
• HW: Finish sonnet handout if not completed in class; study the most recent vocabulary (recorded in our sonnet packets and today in our literary terms dictionaries) for the quiz on Monday! :)  

Foundations

• warm-up
• vocabulary review: pepper (and chocolate!) 
• We read pages 244-264 in Monster and completed our packets with a writing practice

Wednesday, April 30th (B)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Literary Terms Quiz 1
• Notes: Structure, Shape, and Enjambment
• Check online under the "vocabulary" tab to add these notes to your sheets if you were absent this day. 
• Enjambment practice: computer lab
• For this activity, see the "Enjambment Practice" tab on this website! All directions included. 
• HW: Found poem. The directions for this activity are as follows:

Homework: Found poem

• Pick a paragraph from anywhere -- a book, magazine, newspaper, website, textbook,
  short story. You may not use song lyrics or poems. You may not use something you
  have written. Turn that paragraph into a poem using enjambment. Cite the author
  and the source of the paragraph. You may handwrite or type this. Due Thursday (A-day) or Friday (B-day)
  
  

Foundations 

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 2 Practice 1
• Continuing with Monster & Monster Packets!

Tuesday, April 29th (A)

Honors and Standard English I

• Warm-up
• Literary Terms Quiz 1
• Notes: Structure, Shape, and Enjambment
• Check online under the "vocabulary" tab to add these notes to your sheets if you were absent this day. 
• Enjambment practice: computer lab
• For this activity, see the "Enjambment Practice" tab on this website! All directions included. 
• HW: Found poem. The directions for this activity are as follows:

Homework: Found poem

• Pick a paragraph from anywhere -- a book, magazine, newspaper, website, textbook,
  short story. You may not use song lyrics or poems. You may not use something you
  have written. Turn that paragraph into a poem using enjambment. Cite the author
  and the source of the paragraph. You may handwrite or type this. Due Thursday (A-day) or Friday (B-day)
  
  

Foundations 

• Warm-up
• WordSkills 5: Part 2 Concept Card
• Continuing with Monster & Monster Packets!