Spring+2014+Calendar

=**Class Calendar for Spring 2014**=


 * **January 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 1/20-1/24

Essential Question || ** No School ** || ** No School ** || ** No School ** || ** -Go over **


 * - Online Text Resources**
 * Online Literature**
 * and**
 * [|Online Text]**


 * -Welcome Activity**
 * -15 things about me **


 * -HW: **
 * Signed Syllabus/Computer **
 * Contract are Due Monday ** || **-Finish 15 Things**


 * - Essential Question**


 * - "The ID Project": What**
 * Forms Identity?**


 * -Shaping Identity Activity**


 * -Begin Group PowerPoint**


 * -HW: **
 * Social Misconceptions **
 * PowerPoint ** ||
 * Week 2: 1/27-1/31

Essential Question || ** Syllabus/Computer **
 * Contract **
 * Due Today; Social **
 * Misconceptions **
 * PowerPoint **
 * Due Today **


 * -Essential Question **


 * -Presentations **


 * -HW: Research a person **
 * whose **** identity is defined **
 * by the group **** they are **
 * associated with. **
 * Bring **** in some **
 * details about that **** person; **
 * Join WikiSpace ** || ** Half-Snow Day ** || ** Snow Day ** || ** Snow Day ** || ** -Essential Question **
 * -Discuss homework**


 * -Go over Elie Wiesel**
 * and MLK speeches;**
 * Find Vocab**


 * -Speech Activity: find the**
 * different elements of your**
 * speech as we did with Wiesel**
 * and MLK** ||
 * **February 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 2/3-2/7

Essential Question || **-Essential Question**


 * -Finish MLK/Wiesel**
 * Discussion**


 * -Simile, Metaphor,**
 * and Personification**
 * mini-lesson**


 * -Work on acceptance**
 * Speech**


 * -HW: Complete vocab **


 * worksheet; simile/ **
 * metaphor **
 * worksheet; choose **
 * Les Mis **
 * character for speech ** || ** -Essential Question **


 * -Go over vocab and grammar **


 * - **** Work on Speech packet **


 * -Review mini-lesson options **


 * - **** HW: Study for Vocab **
 * and Simile/Metaphor/ **
 * Personification **
 * Quiz ** || ** -Essential Question **


 * -Work on Speech,**
 * which is due Friday**


 * -Typed, 12pt TNR font,**
 * double spaced, with**
 * header** || ** -Essential Question **


 * -Peer Editing of Speeches/**
 * review for content**

**IT MUST BE PRINTED** || ** S peech Due Today  **
 * -HW: Finish Speech **
 * by tomorrow. **

9/16-920
 * [|The French Revolution Video] ** ||
 * Week 2: 2/10-2/14

Essential Question || ** Vocab and Simile/ **
 * Metaphor **
 * /Personification **
 * Quiz Today **


 * -Choose Grammar**
 * Mini-Lessons**


 * -Discuss The Timeline**


 * -Begin Identity Jigsaw** || **- Essential Question**


 * -Holocaust Pre-Quiz**


 * -Add ID Cards to Timeline**


 * -Begin Laws and Decrees** || ** Snow Day! :) **
 * aka **
 * Spring Break part 1 ** || ** Snow Day... **
 * aka **
 * Spring Break part 1 ** || ** Snow Day :( **
 * aka **
 * Spring Break part 1 ** ||
 * Week 3: 2/17-2/21

Essential Question || ** -Join WikiSpace **


 * -Holocaust Pre-Quiz **


 * -Finish ID Cards/**
 * Add to**** Timeline **


 * -Laws and Decrees** || ** -Essential Question **

[|Grammar Mini-Lesson:] [|Appositives andMovies/TV]
 * -Add Laws and Decrees**
 * to Timeline**


 * - Homework: **
 * Read to page 20 in //Night;// **
 * study guide ** || ** -Essential Question and ****Discussion**


 * -Reading Check**


 * -Elie Wiesel Identity Jigsaw**


 * -Begin Holocaust and WWII**
 * to Timeline**


 * -Homework: Read to page 43; **
 * study guide ** || ** -Essential **
 * Question ****and Discussion**


 * -Add to Elie Wiesel's**
 * Jigsaw;**
 * Add Elie to Timeline (20-43)**


 * -Holocaust/WWII**
 * Presentation**


 * -HW: Read to **
 * page 62; **
 * study guide ** || ** Grammar Quiz Today **


 * -Add to Elie's Jigsaw;**
 * add to yours**


 * -HW: Read to page 80; **
 * study guide ** ||
 * Week 4: 2/24-2/28

Essential Question || ** -Exclamation Points **** and **
 * Compound Subjects **


 * -Watch Elie Wiesel**
 * interview;**
 * take note of memorable**
 * words and moments**


 * -HW: 5 vocab words from **
 * Night ** || **-Finish WWII/Holocaust Timeline**


 * -Go over the rest of the**
 * //Night// study guide**


 * -Finish watching Elie Wiesel **
 * interview;**
 * take note of memorable**
 * words and moments** || ** -[|Group Cloud] **


 * -Finish Identity Jigsaw/ **
 * //Night// timeline**


 * -Holocaust Poetry Activity**


 * -HW: study vocab terms; **
 * Review World Response Timeline ** || **-Finish Poetry Activity**


 * -Presentation** || **-Watch //The Boy in the//**
 * //Striped Pajamas//; complete**
 * viewing guide** ||
 * **March 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 3/3-3/7

Essential Question || ** -Watch //The Boy in the// ** //** Striped Pajamas **//


 * -Go over World**
 * Response Timeline** || ** -Finish //The Boy in the// **
 * //Striped Pajamas//**


 * [|-Propaganda Activity]** || ** -Grammar/ **** Vocab Quiz Today **


 * -Conjunction and Mood Presentation **


 * -Finish Poetry Presentations**


 * -Work on Propaganda Activity** || **-Go over Socratic Seminar and Essay**
 * Options**


 * -Work on Propaganda Activity**


 * -Begin Presenting Propaganda Activity** || ** School Closed: **
 * Power Outage ** ||
 * Week 2: 3/10-3/14

Essential Question || **-Zoo School**
 * Power Project** || -**Finish Presenting on**
 * Propaganda**


 * -Work on Holocaust Essay** || ** -Holocaust Essay Due Today **
 * -Socratic Seminar**


 * -Night Exam** || ** -Colons and Semi-colons **


 * -Beauty or the**
 * Beast Activity** || **-Finish Beauty**
 * and the Beast Activity**


 * -Prepare and Present**

Essential Question || ** No Class ** || -** Compound Sentences **
 * -HW: Define **
 * "beauty" in the media. **
 * Find examples. ** ||
 * Week 3: 3/17-3/21
 * and Holidays and Dates Presentation **


 * -Review Appositives and**
 * [|Parenthetical]Elements**
 * -worksheet** || **-Essential Question**

-**Beauty or The Beast Presentations**


 * -Go over homework;**
 * implications of "beauty"**


 * HW: Read "Male Beauty" **
 * and write 3 discussion **
 * questions (due tomorrow) ** || **-Discuss Homework**


 * [|-CNN article]**


 * -Definition of "true beauty"** || -** Grammar Quiz Today: **** Conjunctions, **
 * Compound Sentences, **
 * Mood, **
 * Colons vs. **
 * Semi-Colons, **
 * Holidays and Dates **


 * -Read**
 * "When the Other **
 * Dancer is the Self"**
 * and complete assignment attached** ||
 * Week 4: 3/24-3/28

Essential Question || **-Hand in work from Friday**


 * Benchmark** || ** -Past-tense verbs **** and double negatives **


 * -Background on Parisian**
 * Literature** || **-Presentations**


 * -Discuss packet expectations**


 * -Begin**
 * reading Cyrano**


 * HW: Work on packet for Act 1 ** || **-Essential Question**


 * -Continue reading Cyrano**


 * HW: Work on packet for Act 1 ** || **Zoo's 40th Anniversary Media Day** ||
 * **April 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 3/31-4/4

Essential Question || ** Grammar Quiz **
 * Today: **
 * Holidays and Dates **
 * Appositives vs. Parentheticals **


 * -Essential Question**


 * -Show completed**
 * homework**


 * -Finish Act 1**


 * -HW: Complete **
 * Act 1 in packet ** || **Ted Talks:**
 * The Darwinism of Beauty**
 * -take notes and prepare to discuss** || ** -[|Parentheses] **


 * -Discuss the reaction of Rostand's play**


 * -Review packet**


 * -Continue reading Act 2**


 * -HW: Work on Act 2 in **
 * packet ** || **-Finish Act 2**


 * -Review Act 1 and Act 2 in packet**


 * HW: Study for next Tuesday's Quiz ** || **-Read "On Falling in Love"**
 * and translate it into modern English**


 * -Complete worksheet**


 * -HW: Study for next Tuesday's Quiz ** ||
 * Week 2: 4/7-4/11

Essential Question || **-Essential Question**


 * -HW Check and go over HW**


 * -Unrequited Love Lyrical Activity**


 * HW: Finish Unrequited Love Activity; **
 * Study for tomorrow's **
 * quiz ** || ** Past-tense verbs, **
 * double negatives **
 * and parentheses; **
 * Cyrano vocab 1 quiz **


 * -Review Unrequited Love**


 * -Begin reading [|Act 3]**


 * HW: Start Act 3 in Study Guide ** || **-Work on Act 3 Study Guide**


 * -Work on Unrequited Love project**
 * (product check tomorrow)** || **[|-Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases]**
 * -Finish Reading Act 3**


 * HW: Act 3 Study Guide; **
 * find 3 words for vocab list; **
 * Unrequited love songs due **
 * tomorrow ** || ** -Present Unrequited **
 * Love Project ** ||
 * Week 3: 4/14-4/18

Essential Question || **-Assign Parts: [| Act 4 Character List]**


 * -Read Act 4**


 * -HW: Act 4 Study Guide ** || **-Finish Reading Act 4**


 * -Act 4 Study Guide**


 * HW: Finish Act 4 Study Guide; **


 * Vocab List ** || **-Essential Question;**
 * Hand in Journals**


 * -Go over Vocab List**


 * -Assign Parts:**
 * [|Act 5 Character List]**


 * -Read Act 5**


 * -HW: Act 5 Study Guide: Whole Study Guide Due **
 * Tomorrow ** || **No Class** || ** No School: **
 * Spring Break part 2 ** ||
 * Week 4: 4/21-4/25

Essential Question || ** No School: **
 * Spring Break part 2 ** || **-Go Ov****er Cyrano Final Project: Deleted Scene**
 * or Trailer** || ** Vocab and Prepositions Quiz **


 * -Work on Projects**


 * -Peer/Teacher Editing for Essay** || **-Work on Projects**

**after school:** **3:45-4:30 in the Media Center**
 * -Peer/Teacher Editing for Essay** || **-Make-up session**


 * -Work on Projects**


 * -Peer/Teacher Editing**
 * for Essay** ||
 * **May 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 4/28-5/2

Essential Question || ** Cyrano Essay and Final Project Due: **
 * Present **


 * -Adjectives and Places **


 * -Begin "Roxanne"** || **-Finish "Roxanne"**


 * -Final Discussion on Cyrano** || **-Shakespeare [|Webquest]**


 * -Present** || **-Finish Webquest and Present**


 * -Insults**


 * -One-Liners** || **-Insults**
 * -One-Liners** ||
 * Week 2: 5/5-5/9

Essential Question || **-Finish One Liners** || **-15-Minute Shrew**


 * -Begin "Report Cards"** || **-Work on Report Cards**


 * -See "Exhibit This"** || **-Finish Report Cards**


 * -Begin "Taming"**


 * HW: Read "Shakespeare: Words, Words, Words" ** || **-Read Induction in "Taming"**


 * -Reading Check**


 * HW: Read "Not of an Age, **
 * but for All Mankind" ** ||
 * Week 3: 5/12-5/16

Essential Question || **-Begin Act 1 in "Taming"**


 * -Reading Check**


 * HW: Read **
 * "Elizabeth's England"; **
 * finish study questions for "Induction" ** || ** -Pronouns and antecedents **


 * -Continue Act 1 in "Taming"**


 * -Reading Check**


 * -HW: Work on Act 1 in study questions; read **
 * "History is Written by the Victors" ** || **-Reading Check**


 * -Continue Act 1 in "Taming" (with accents)**


 * -HW: Work on Act 1 study guide ** || **-Go over summer reading requirements**


 * -Finish Act 1 in "Taming" (with accents)**


 * -Work on study guide**


 * -Act 2 parts**


 * HW: Finish study guide for **
 * Act 1; read **
 * "Mr. Shakespeare, **
 * I Presume" ** || **-Reading Check**


 * -Continue Act 2** ||
 * Week 4: 5/19-5/23

Essential Question || **-****Reading Check**


 * -Continue Act 2**


 * -HW: Read **
 * "Actors in Shakespeare's Day" ** || ** Pronouns and **
 * antecedents quiz **


 * -Finish Act 2**


 * -Assign parts for Act 3** || **-EOC practice**


 * -Finish Act 3**


 * -Work on study guide** || ** -Predicates and Compound Predicates **


 * -Act 4**


 * HW: Read next article in packet ** || ** Awards Ceremony **
 * and Aloha Day ** ||
 * Week 5: 5/26-30

Essential Question || ** No School ** || **-EOC Daily Dose**


 * -Finish Act 4**


 * -Assign Roles for Act 5**


 * -Update Sumptuary**
 * Report Card**


 * HW: Study Predicates and Compound Predicates; **
 * read the next article in the packet ** || ** -Predicates and Compound predicates quiz; **
 * Reading check ** ||  || ** Zip-lining and Fun Day!! ** ||
 * **June 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 6/2-6/6

Essential Question || **-Finish Act 5**


 * -Report Cards**


 * -HW: Study grammar **
 * and finish reading essays ** || - **Taming of the Shrew**
 * Final Quiz Today (open book) **


 * -Reading check; discuss essays in packet** ||  ||   || ** Test Review for EOC **

||
 * Week 2: 6/9-6/13

Essential Question || ** EOC Exam Today ** ||  || ** Teacher Workday: **
 * No School ** || ** Teacher PD: **
 * No School ** || ** Teacher Workday: **
 * No School ** ||