NM History Sept 24-28

Monday

 

Movie reviews due

2 Gallup Independent summary-and-response due

Computer Lab—downtown Gallup group project

 

Tuesday

 

Lab—Finish and prepare to present Gallup project

 

Homework: make sure to email PP to me at bdonkersloot@rcsnm.org or bring it on a zip drive for Wednesday. Decide who will say what during the presentation and make sure it is polished.

 

Wednesday

 

Present Gallup downtown project

Introduce semester current events assignment

 

Assignment details: students will keep a notebook and will add one New Mexico current event for each day of class (meaning four current events per week). They may pull from local new stations, the Albuquerque Journal and the Gallup independent. Format as follows:

Date of the article/broadcast

Title

1/3 to ½ page summary of the event.

 

These will be checked at any given time, so keep up with current events every day.

 

Homework: First current event due Friday

 

Friday

Current events

Introduce famous New Mexican profile project.

Public speaking tips.

 

Homework: current event

 

English 10 Sept 24-28

Monday

Literary terms due

Group work using literary terms

Begin reviewing for test Wednesday

Hand back papers

Hand out review guide

 

Homework: study for test Wednesday

 

Tuesday

Review games

 

Homework: test Wednesday/Thursday (block)

 

Block

Test

Introduce Unit 2—ancient mythology

Anticipation Guide

 

Friday

PP of Creation Myths

Discussion

Handout mythology vocab

Assign Essay III—due Oct 12 (discussion of the qualities of a hero—detailed info to come).

Introduction and outline due Oct 5

 

Homework: study for vocab quiz Monday

 

 

English 9 Sept 24-28

Monday

Hand back assignments

Turn in papers

PP on the Greek gods

 

Homework: complete Odyssey vocabulary for Tuesday

 

Tuesday—Sub

Who’s who Greek gods family tree

Begin reading in class

 

Homework: read pgs. 890-903

 

Thursday

Reading quiz

Hero’s Journey—Campbell, Star Wars and the odyssey

Calypso character notes

Context of the Odyssey notes, clip and activity.

Cyclops reading in class

 

Homework: finish reading Cyclops pgs. 903-909

 

Friday

Reading quiz

Odyssey clip

Cyclops character notes

 

Homework: read pgs. 910-921

 

Monday

Reading quiz

Check for understanding

Tiresias and Circe

 

Homework: finish part I. graphic organizer Odyssey part one

 

Tuesday

Groups to begin working on mini dramas

Homework: finish preparing mini dramas, including script and costume

 

Thursday

Present mini dramas

Quiz Friday on part I

Homework: study for quiz

 

Friday

Quiz

Assign essay III due Oct 19

Introduction and outline due Oct 10

 

NM History Sept 17-21

Monday

 

Finish legends presentation

History of Gallup

Permission forms Gallup fieldtrip

 

Tuesday

 

Gallup Independent review

History of Gallup continued

 

Wednesday/Block

 

Field Trip Downtown Gallup

 

Friday

 

Computer Lab—download pictures and make a Power Point

 

English 10 Sept 17-21

Monday

 

Journal

Comic Relief

Credibility

Read Typhoid Fever

 

Homework: Finish reading Typhoid Fever

 

Tuesday

 

Quiz

Character review

Writing activity: pick a character and tell a part of the story from that person’s point of view.

Angela’s Ashes

 

Wednesday/Block

 

Outdoor activity

Essay writing “how to”

Vocabulary and Lit terms activity

 

Homework: work on essay

 

Friday

 

Typhoid Fever and appreciation of language

Highwayman

Discussion

 

Homework: test Tuesday

 

English 9 Sept 17-21

 

Monday

 

Review for test Tuesday

 

Homework: study for test Tuesday

 

Tuesday

 

Test

 

Thursday/Block

 

Essay writing review

Outside activity

Focus on details writing activity

Writing “how to”

 

Homework: Essay 2 due Friday

 

Friday

 

Revision and grammar workshop

 

 

English 10 Sept 10-14

Monday

 

Spanish inquisition clip

Journal: one event that shaped who you are.

Check journals

Imagery activity

Rewrite journal with imagery

 

Homework: begin essay 2: Tell about one experience that helped shape you into the person you are today. Use imagery. Due Friday, Sept 14.

 

Tuesday

 

Review imagery

Journal: Reaction to war

Vietnam war—Tim O’Brien’s note

Read Charming Billy

 

Homework: Finish reading Charming Billy and do questions 1-6

 

Wednesday

 

Collect homework

Billy Boy, by Jones Brothers and Log Cabin Boys

Journal: respond to song and story—why might O’Brien have picked this song?

Imagery work with a partner

War clip

Connecting to poetry

 

Homework: clauses grammar worksheet. Essay 2 due Friday

 

Friday

 

Go over homework.

Computer lab

Essays due at end of hour

 

NM History Sept 10-14

Monday

 

Present webbe booklets

Review events on board

NM food to celebrate

 

Tuesday

 

NM movie review assignment

Jeopardy review of events

 

Homework: quiz on events Wednesday

 

Wednesday

Quiz on webbe events

American West legends group work and presentation

 

Homework: Present legendary men Friday

 

Friday

Presentations

Assign project two—1^st person account of historical figure

 

 

 

English 9 Sept 10-14

Monday

 

Go over and collect grammar homework

Journal: Describe the villain in your story

Imagery

Cask of Amontillado discussion and clip

Quiz

 

Tuesday

 

Pass back papers and check journals

Journal: Envy. Have you ever seen any of its negative effects?

3^rd person limited Point of View

The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant

 

Homework: finish the story and answer questions 1, 2 and 6-8

 

Thursday

 

Turn in homework.

Discussion

Watch clip and respond in journals.

Debate group work—response to story.

 

Assign essay 2—due Sept 21.

 

Test Monday—review sheet

 

Friday

 

Computer lab to work on essays.

 

Homework: test Monday

 

English 10 Sept 3-7

Monday

Labor Day--No school

Tuesday

Hand back essays

Practice setting

Pass out textbooks

Journal: does torture every serve a good purpose?

Discussion

Assignment: Pit and Pendulum

Wednesday/Block

Reading quiz

Discussion

Setting and Plot group work activity

Grammar work—repetition

Assignment: finish grammar sheets and work on essays.

Friday Sept 7

Tom Swifties—adverbs

Groups finish and present group work.

Assign second essay

Imagery grammar

Homework: work on essays and finish grammar worksheet

English 9 Sept 3-7

Monday

Labor Day

Tuesday

Scary story outlines

Grammar homework

Computer Lab

Assignment: essay 1 due Wednesday

Wednesday

Turn in essays

Grammar work—Tom Swifties

Journal

Irony—unreliable narrator

Read Cask of Amontillado in class

Assignment: finish Cask. Quiz Friday. 1-9

Friday

Vocabulary

Reading quiz

Imagery

Assignment: grammar worksheet