English+122+(2010_Term1)

﻿**Week One: Wednesday, September 8- Friday, September 10** Wednesday: First day of classes. Course introduction, getting to know each other. Student information sheets & Humanities Assignment policy-- must be filled out,signed and returned. Please see me if you do not have any of these sheets. Thursday: Course Outline, How To Succeed, Plaigairism Policy, Silent Reading novels, Reader Response journals, $2.00 English fee. Friday: Semester Theme: Who Am I? What Do I Stand for? Webs, brainstorms, poems and discussions. Please return all sheets and fees for Monday. Have a silent reading novel and reader response journal for Monday. **Week Two: Monday, September 13- Friday, September 17** Monday: Setting up the driving questions for our semester theme: Who Am I? Why Am I the way I am today? What influences my identity? Begin silent reading and reader response journal. Look at the song, "Bob Dylan's Dream." Discuss the response to literature questions as a class. Read Janice Fein's essay, "A New Perspective" from //Imprints 12// textbook (p.289). Fein describes her life as a movie she has replayed, and sets up snapshots in her essay that are very descriptive. As a pre-writing strategy for our own creative piece, students use a Storyboard to "show" rather than "tell" about an event in their lives that they feel helped shaped them in to the person they are. Writing Prompt: After reading Fein's essay, think of an event or situation in your own life that you feel helped shape who you are. Use the storyboard template to map out the "shots" that make up this event. Add details about llighting, music, camera angles and dialogue to help draw out this event as well. Tuesday: SSR/ Reader Response. What shapes our lives? Today's hook: "The Logical Song" by Supertramp. See attached hand-out.  Writing time for Creative piece. Wednesday: SSR/ Reader Response. Today students will work on a Reading Comprehension and writing assignment to pass in. Read the short story, "Touching Bottom" (p.124) in our text independently. Complete the Reading Comprehension sheet. Do not do question #6 from the short answer questions. Complete all of the Figurative Language section as well.  Thursday: SSR/ Reader Response. Students will be given the period to complete the Reading Comprehension and Writing Assignment (Response to Literature) as assigned for the short story, "Touching Bottom." Comprehension to be handed in at the end of class. Writing due tomorrow. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR/ Reader Response. "How to Read Poetry" (Notes). "The Circle Game" by Joni Mitchell. Looking at how to respond to poetic pieces. Students return to their own Creative writing piece. Use a Writing Triangle Rubric to self-evaluate writing.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Week Three: Monday, September 20 -Friday, September 24** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR/ Reader Response. Review of our driving questions: Who AM I? What influences my identity? This week, we will also look at: How does my heritage/ environment affect identity? Mentor text: Short Story, "Red Bean Ice" (p.164). How could we create our own memoir? For your own creative piece, you could explore the idea of a memoir. A memoir portrays in writing a special memory from your own life, Use vivid, descriptive language to capture the details fo your experience, and include personal reflections that explain why it is significant to you. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR/ Reader Response. Review of the writing process. Tips on the personal narrative. How to get unstuck and really work on our creative piece. Return to your creative piece. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR/ Reader Response. Read the story, "The Spaces Between Stars" independently. Found in Imprints 12, page 100-110. Maya, the protagonist of this story has lost touch with the Indian and Hindu elements of her background. At the same time, she is uncomfortable in the American culture she has grown up in. As a result, she is uncertain in her relationship with both her white husband and her Indian-American aunt. Geeta Kothari develops these conflicts through metaphor and symbolism. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The class discussion centers around defining the term, "dominant culture." Is there an identifiable dominant culture in Canada, if so, how might it be described? Brainstorm examples of cultures that are distinct from the dominant culture. What are some challenges those cultures might face? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR/ Reader Response. Complete Response Questions from the text on page 110. Do #1 "a" and "e". develop full paragraph answers that thoughtfully respond to the literature. Also, in a piece of writing, explore the conflict between conformity and individuality in the story and in society. (please see the supply teacher,Mrs. Doran, she can give you the hand-out material.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR/ Reader Response. Writing period: work on your creative piece and/or finish your Response to "The Spaces Between Stars." Hand in response to the supply teacher, Mrs. Doran. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Week Four: Monday, September 27- Friday, October 1** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR/Reader Response. Finish draft of your Creative Piece. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: Our Canadian Identity. How does "place" affect our lives? Do you think you would be basically the same person if you grew up somewhere else? What elements of place have affected who you are? How strong are your connections to where you grew up? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read the short essay in Imprints 12 by Canadian author, David Adams Richards, entitled, "My Old Newcastle." (pages 296-297). <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The class will engage in a discussion on the response questions (p.297) and #3- Film Study. Writing prompt: Think of a place from your childhood that left a strong impression on you. Write a descriptive paragraph about the most vivid aspects of this place. Use strong sensory images and figurative speech, as modeled in Adams Richards' essay. media type="youtube" key="mWQf13B8epw?fs=1" height="385" width="640" media type="youtube" key="pXtVrDPhHBg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR/ Reader Response Journals. Discussions: What is unique about Canada? What is unique about our region of Canada? Where have you travelled in Canada? Where would you like to travel? Why? Biography of Alden Nowlan. Read the story, "The Glass Roses" by Alden Nowlan. (copies in class). <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR/ Reader Response journals. Work on discussion questions for "The Glass Roses." Present answers to the class. Questions: What are the conflicts in the story? What is the significance of the glass roses? Describe the relationship between Stephen and his father. How does this relationship force him to act a certain way? Describe the relationship between Stephen and Leka. What are the words that are used to describe Stephen? Leka? Stephen's father? How is the sense of "place" (Canada) important to the character development in the story? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wrap up discussion: What woudl you miss if Canada changed? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR/ Reader Response journal. Pre-writing/ Brainstorm activity: If Canada were a character, what four adjectives would you use to describe him/her? Explore the choice of him/her for Canada. How are female qulaities demonstrated? Male qualities? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Worksheet of Canadian quotes. Write a response: Explore ideas you have about Canada. Pick one of the quotes fromt he Quotes Sheet. Develop a short piece of writing that explores the quote and your own thoughts about Canada. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Week Five: Monday, October 4- Wednesday, October 6** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR/ Reader Response journal (journals will be collected Wednesday for evaluation). Read the article by Lynn Coady, "Hockey Night in Port Hawkesbury." Listen to "The Hockey Song." by Stompin' Tom Connors. media type="youtube" key="uZWxErEbQkY?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR/ Reader Response journal. Review of September portfolio contents. Receive and review September checklist/ individual conferencing. Writing warm-up: "25 Random Things." Complete a monthly reflection for your portfolio. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR/ Reader Response journal. Hand in response journal for evaluation. Continue with student conferences regarding portfolios. Ensure you have completed: "25 Random Things" and Monthly Reflection and place in your portfolio. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Visual Assignment: "I AM" Collage. Instructions and evaluation criteria attached. Due on Tuesday, October 12 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: NO SCHOOL Professional Development Day <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: NO SCHOOL Professional Development Day <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Week Six: Tuesday, October 12- Friday, October 15** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR/ Returned marked response journals & completed new response. All students presented their collages to the class. Submit new work to Portfolio writing folder (25 random things/ monthly reflection). <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR/ response journals. (Continued with portfolio conferencing.) Opening activities for //Hamlet!// Made a list f 9 reasons to read; we will revisit these throughout our literature lessons. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Opening clip: <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="wE5jB2tl70M?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Beginning assignment: 4 Themes- concept webs <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Please ensure that you have completed a concept web for tomorrow's class discussion. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The List... class activity; can we sympathize with Hamlet? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Handed out copies of //Hamlet.// <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="SCVc5TaPpe8?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="RUqx_HKUOh4?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR/ Response journals (continued through portfolio checks; almost done!) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Class discussion centered on completing four concept webs for the 4 main themes from Hamlet: fate, ambition, guilt and revenge. See a classmate for these important notes. We also drew out a character map that explains the main characters and important details about their relationships with each other. See me or a classmate for this "who's who" in Hamlet. Attached is the hand-out for the Double-Entry journal which I explained today. We will do the Act One Double Entry journal together, as a model; you will submit independent double-entry journals for Acts 2, 3, 4 and 5 to monitor your comprehension and reflections on the play. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR/ Response journals (Completed September portfolio checks. Ensure you are staying current with work as we go through October... we are adding a play to your list of demands!) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="Wzz5j8pfddg?fs=1" height="385" width="640" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today's class activity had us looking very closely at the First 11 Lines of the play. Students were given a pair's acting challenge. We will present our short skits on Monday. Hand-outs: Act One Quotes for the Double Entry Journal, Hamlet Pre-Writing assignment and a copy of the Graphic Novel Shakespeare Hamlet for Act One, Scene One. (This cannot be ebedded, see me.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Homework: Read Act One, Scene One independently for Monday, use the Graphic Novel sheets to assist your undersatnding. Complete the Pre-Writing assignment: due Monday, October 18. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Week Seven: Monday, October 18- Friday, October 22** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Please make entries in your Reader Response Journal from home now. Collected the Hamlet Pre-writing assignments. Discussed your independent //Hamlet// reading (1.1) to check for understanding. Took volunteers to read 1.2. 1- 128. Discussed new theme: "appearance versus reality." Started our Double Entry Journal for Act One. There were two quotes from our reading today. Please read to end of Act One, Scene 2 for tomorrow. We will focus on Hamlet's first soliloquy from this scene tomorrow. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Please ensure you are making entries in your Reader Response journal at home. Review our reading from last night-- what happens in 1.2? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Review of soliloquy. Focus: Hamlet's first soliloquy (1.2), "O that this too, too solid flesh would melt..." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Review definition and purpose of solilioquy. Discussed and made notes on what we find out about Hamlet's thoughts and feelings through this soliloquy. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students were given Act One questions. I will model good answers for Act One. You will be expected to complete questions independently for all other acts. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Second Family: What's the best advice you ever got? What's the worst advice?-- quick write set-up for tomorrow's focus: 1.3. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. The Second Family: Polonius (advisor to the King, Claudius); Laertes (brother/son); Ophelia (Hamlet's girlfriend). Read 1.3. together with volunteers. looked closely at Laerte's advice to Ophelia and Polonius' advice to Laertes. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For homework: READ 1.4 and 1.5 for tomorrow. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR. Students were asked to do a Reading Assignment Response to their reading. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reading Assignment: 1.4 & 1.5 (last night's homework). <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What did you learn from these scenes? (new characters, plot events, etc.); What did you like from this reading assignment?; What did you dislike?' What was confusing to you?; What do you still not understand? Make one personal connection to a character from this act. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reviewed answers to Act One questions. Continued through quotes in the Act One Double-Entry Journal. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Writing portfolio day. Today we worked out our editing plan: Step One will be to complete either a peer or self evaluation checklist for your creative piece. After looking through the checklist, identify one or more things you can do to your first draft to make it better and incorporate these changes. Prepare a second draft. Write a short reflection that explains how you used editing feedback to better your second draft. This second draft, along with the completed checklist and reflection must be completed and placed in your portfolio by the end of the month: Friday, October 29th. You have next week at home to work through this step. You will need more time than can be provided in class. Today we did a writing exercise in class that stretched our writing muscle. This exercise was called Photographs and Secrets.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Eight: Monday, October 25- Friday, October 29 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Received a Checklist for October's portfolio submissions. Please ensure you have everything completed. See me at lunch hour for assitance if necessary. Act 1, Scene 3 writing assignment. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Hamlet's Facebook profile (based on what you know from Act One). Finish Double-entry journal for Act One. Begin watching Act One on film. Ensure you have all writing in your portfolio for this Friday. Also, your Reader Respose journal will also be collected on Friday. Stay up-to-date! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. Finished up Act One double entry journal. Watched all of Act One on film. This Friday: ﻿ensure all work is submitted to your portfolio. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reading Response journals will be collected for your month's reading as well. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR. Reading is hard... <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Act 2 Pre-Act sheet (see me for this handout). Read 2.1.1-83. Find words that reveal Polonius' values. What can we conclude about Polonius' character? List character traits inferred from his words and behaviour. How would you feel if he was your dad? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Homework; all itmes from the October Check-list should be in your portfolio tomorrow, as it is the end of October. I will also be collecting your reader response journals. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Portfolio day: polishing pieces. Students fill out a Writing Self-Reflection rubric and place in their portfolio. Using a model I gave students of how to craft a response to literature and the work they did on theor 1.3. writing assignment, re-work the piece to get at the essence of what's happening in 1.3 and support your ideas about its significance.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Playing the newly mad Hamlet: student volunteers mime out the actions of 2.1. 76-101. Watch the scene on film to see how it is interpreted on film. Receive Act Two questions and Act 2 quotes for the Double Entry Journal. The Allusion Mission begins! Instructions and essay attached.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Nine: Monday, November 1- Friday, November 5 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">You have three weeks to complete the Allusion Mission: that means by MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd!!! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Read 2.2 1-168. Students take on reaidng parts. Begin Act 2 writing assignment. Work on double-entry quotes from today's reading (2.2.57; 2.2. 118; 2.2.160). Complete Act 2 questions that can be answered after today's reading. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. Will's Wall of Fame- Allusions. Watch 2.2.169-220 (polonius tries to draw out Hamlet about Ophelia) on film. Students will read 2.2. 221-377 where Hamlet talks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and exposes them. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR. Read the poem, "The Senioritis of a Modern Hamlet." Using this poem as a model, students will write theor own complaint poem for Monday. Finish Act 2 work-- Double entry journal, questions, writing assignment. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Will's Wall. Portfolio Day. Students will read the short story by Sherman Alexie: "My Indian Education." This mentor text models many features of good writing: voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and description. Using this piece to inspire you: write about One Moment in Your Education. Consider a moment from your schooling and write with all the details and description you can. Write in first person, present tense.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Ten: Monday, November 8- Friday, November 12 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Today students were given an opportunity to have a speaking moment in class. Students shared their lament poems (or another piece of writing) with the class. Students are responsible for assigning themselves a speaking and listening mark using the rubric and reflection sheet given in class. These assessments are due completed tomorrow. Ensure you have read __up to 2.2. 377__ for tomorrow's work. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Will's Wall. Collected Speaking & Listening assessments. Read and reviewed 2.2. 169-220: Polonius draws Hamlet out; 2.2. 221-377: Hamlet talks to Rosencrantz and Guldenstern. Completed activity: "Words, words, words." Looked at the speeches for pun, double entendre, metaphor, simile and alliteration. Read 2.2.377-524 for tomorrow. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. Organize October's portfolio work to be submitted for marking. Working with a partner, students must "Tweet" a speech from Hamlet's advice to the actors (2.2. 418-494). Discuss the meaning of the speech and re-work it in to modern language/ text speak to get in to 140 characters or less. The back side of the sheet has a reflection. Please complete the tweet and reflection and keep in your portfolio for November's work. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students were given the non-fiction article, "Chuck Bass: Modern day Hamlet." This reading assessment requires that the accompanying sheet be submitted for Monday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today is the end of the marking period for Report Cards. Report Cards will be issued next Friday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: NO SCHOOL: Remembrance Day <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Will's Wall. Finished up Act Two, with emphasis on Hamlet's second soliloquy, "O What A Rogue..." (in-class activity/ see a peer for notes on this.) Act Two Questions & Act Two Double Entry Journal are due on Monday. Also, the close reading non-fiction sheet (reading assessment) for the article, "Chuck Bass: A Modern Day Hamlet" is due on Monday.Please note as well that Will's Wall closes on Monday, November 22nd.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Will's Wall. Collected Act 2 work (Double entry journal & questions.) Questions were reviewed and discussed in class. Watched all of Act 2 on film. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Will's Wall (last day is next Monday!) Introduction to Act 3 work: Movies! Received Act 3 questions and quotes. Reviewed the most famous soliloquy of the play, "To Be or Not to Be." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. Will's Wall. Got together with Movie Scene Film Crew. Read through scene. Discussed a concept for the film. Worked through the script to cut/ apply new concept. Working toward first draft of group script. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR. Will's Wall. Groups finish draft of their script. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Will's Wall. Computer lab is available for groups to type up and pass in a script. Next step: storyboards and planning sheets. Ensure you have read all of Act Three for Monday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Eleven: Monday, November 15- Friday, November 19 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Last day to post to Will's Wall! Did you complete the Allusion Mission? Groups work on Hamlet movies today: scripts, storyboards, video planning sheets, rehearsals. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Filming begins for groups who have submitted scripts and video planning sheets. If not filming, groups will be: completing individual character sketches, completing a group scene summary, working on questions and quotes that apply to their scene from Act Three Questions and Double Entry Journal sheets. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. Filming continues. As above. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: Last day for class time to work on movie project. Films to be presented to the class on Tuesday, Nov. 30. On Tuesday, please prepared to: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: NO School for Students: Parent Teacher Interviews.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Twelve: Monday, November 22- Friday, November 26 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Show your film (on disk or jump drive)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Share your scene summary
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Share the answers to the Act Three Questions that apply to your scene
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Share the responses to the Act Three Quotes that appply to your scene
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Scripts and character sketches will go in your portfolio


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Thirteen: Monday, November 29 - Friday, December 3 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Reader Response Journals (due tomorrow: circle one or two entries you want me to focus in on; show me the entries that really demonstrate your work in responding to your book.) Independent reading: //Hamlet-- 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today I was able to do some conferencing with students for their Creative Piece. Please take another look at the Portfolio handout and see what needs to be in your portfolio by end of term. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tomorrow: //Hamlet// movies for Act Three!!! Groups will show their films in order through the act, while also sharing witht he class the answers to questions that pertain to their scene and reviewing quotes from the Double Entry Journal that pertain to the scene as well. They will also share their scene summary.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">November Portfolio:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student Writing Self Reflection Rubric
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">School moment writing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lament poem
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Hamlet Tweet/ reflection
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Act 3 Script & Character Sketch

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: Groups presented their Act Three Movies, scene summaries, answered questions and explained quotes. It is up to each student to listen as groups present and collect answers to the Questions for Act Three as well as to record the explanations of the Act Three quotes. This information will be helpful for your formal essay writing whcih will be starting next week as we finish up the play. Put your script and character sketch in your portfolio. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: SSR. Clearing up a few more Hamlet movies. Moving on in to Act 4, Scene 5: The tragedy of Ophelia. Review 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4. Ensure you are caught up on Act 4 Questions and Double Entry Quotes. We will be correcting/discussing these in class on Friday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR. Finished work on 4.5-- the tragedy of Ophelia. Students must read 4.6 and 4.7 independently and complete all questions and double entry journals for evaluation in class tomorrow. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Finished work with Act 4/ evaluation complete. Film review. Back to Act 3 scenes, ending at 3.4 in Gertrude's bedroom.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Fourteen: Monday, December 6- Friday, December 10 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: Snow Day <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: Introduced Book Clubs. Talked about fiction and non-fiction novels around the theme of Identity. Please select a novel and work on forming a group of people to read the same novel as you. Visit the LHHS Book Club wiki: http://lhhsbookclub.wikispaces.com <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today we read through Act 5, Scene 1. Students should read the first half of the LAST scene, 5.2. 1-215 tonight. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: Organized our Book Clubs. Close to getting a novel in everyone's hands. Period 2: Did a Hamlet film review, still have ONE more scene to go!!! Period 4: We've wrapped it up! We will be ready (both groups) to move on to our final review & beginning our essays tomorrow. Finish reading 5.2. to the end of the play. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: Finished //Hamlet//. Final reviews. The Simpson's version of //Hamlet//. The Facebook News Feed. Students receive essay topics. Begin to brainstorm a topic. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(If using this copy of the Essay Topics... the topics are the same but directions & due dates have been edited. Please see me for the correct hand-out.) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR: Book Club Books. You and your group have assigned the reading for next Wednesday, you alos have the Discussion Questions which must be prepared for Wednesday's meeting. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Introduction of Senior Project. Please see me for the hand-out. Proposals due Wednesday, Dec.16. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today we began working on a thesis statement for essays.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Fifteen: Monday, December 13- Friday, December 17 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. Book Club Meeting #1 is Wednesday! Working on refining a thesis statement and starting an outline. Please ensure you have a working thesis statement and outline complete. We will work on your introductory paragraph tomorrow. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. The introductory paragraph. Ensure all beginning stages are complete: thesis, outline, intro. Check up for process is on Thursday. (There are worksheets for each step. See me.) SNOW DAY. No School. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: Book Club Meeting #1: Ensure you have work on Discussion Questions complete BEFORE meeting today. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: SSR. Receive Book Club Meeting Sheets (Meeting #2: Wed. Dec. 22). Senior Project Proposals due today. Lesson from Tuesday: working on Introduction/ Body of essay. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: SSR. Work on developing your first draft of your essay. Students who wish to have a draft looked at by me, must submit it Monday, Dec. 20 for me to give you feedback. Process check-point: pieces (brainstorm, outline, draft) are stamped to confirm process work completed this week. These are for December's portfolio mark. Submit November portfolio work for marking over break.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: SSR. MLA Formatting. How to Quote Shakespeare. Your conclusion. Work Cited (Hyperlinks for citation machines.) See MLA Power point for all info and hyperlinks!!! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: SSR. Reviewing for the Reading & Viewing (35%) portion of the Exam: Short story; "Dressing up for the Carnival." looking for text to text, text to self and text to world connections. Some students still have not passed in Semester Project proposals (due Dec. 16); this must be done before break!! Prepare for tomorrow's Book Club Meeting #2! Remember-- the questions requires research on the Internet. This MUST be done BEFORE tomorrow's meeting! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: Book Club Meeting #2. Recieve sheets for Book Club #3 (Wed. Jan.12).
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Sixteen: Monday, December 20- Thursday, December 23 **

Portfolio Mark for December will based on your timely completion of the following:
 * Brainstorm (on a topic for your Hamlet essay).
 * An outline for your essay (you received severall types of graphic organizers, at least one should be complete)
 * A first draft
 * Evidence of editting
 * YOUR FINAL FORMAL ESSAY (30% of EXAM Mark: Writing)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: Professional Development Day-- No School for Students <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: Reading & Viewing/ lesson <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: Book Club Meeting #3 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: //Hamlet// Essays are due today. Begin presentations of Semester Projects. Please check below to confirm your assigned presentation time. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Remember: this is 30% of your Exam evaluation (Speaking & listening mark).
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Seventeen: Tuesday, January 11- Friday, January 14 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: Presentations continue.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: Presentations continue. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: Presentations continue. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: Last day for presentations. SNOW DAY. Presentations will move to Thursday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: Book Club Meeting #4. Book Club cancelled due to Snow Day. PRESENTATIONS. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">It is no longer necessary to prepare Meeting #4 Fiction/ Non-Fiction Meeting Discussion Questions. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">It is however, necessary to complete the FINAL BOOK CLUB ASSIGNMENT given to you at the beginning of the six weeks of Book Club. Attached you will find all sheets. Find what you need. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Also, please ensure that all your DRAFT work on your essay is in your portfolio, as I asked so I may take a look at this step of your writing. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: Exam review/ course wrap-up. Pass in Final Book Club Assignment. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The final exam is a Reading Exam valued at 40%.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week Eighteen: Monday, January 17- Friday, January 21 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday: Period 1 Exam <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday: Period 2 Exam-- 122 English @ 9:00 a.m. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday: Period 3 Exam <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday: Period 4 Exam-- 122 English @ 9:00 a.m. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday: Period 5 Exam
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">EXAM WEEK: Monday, January 24- Friday, January 28 **