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- John Carolus S. J. http://dashboard.shorelineschools.org/ShorelineStudents My goal is to keep this site up to date with all the work that is due - however each student is responsible for making sure that he/she knows what is happening in the classroom. Course descriptions, requirements and expectations can be found in the document section of the website. Look at the document that has a similar course name. English 9 9/2 - Syllabus review Homework - Personal Information Sheet due 9/3 9/3 - In class essay - introduce self 9/4 - Reading and writing survey and SRI test 9/8 - Library - intro of reading project 9/9 - Journal - Write twelve or more sentences that describe your experience of the beginning of the year. Intro personal Journey Project - due 9/15 or 9/16 9/10-11 - Journal - "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - Greg Anderson - Expain what the quote means. - How might this quote relate to your journey through high school and the next four years? Work on power point. 9/14 - Journal - After your first two weeks of school at Shorewood - create a list of five things, advice, that you would give to an incoming freshman next year. Read 9/15-16 Present power points Journal (after presentation)
Journal - Who are some people that have influenced your life? Come up with at least one person you know personally, and one person you don't - but admire from afar. They are going to go to my web page and download the article that I have titled, “About Bruce Lee”. (I tried to do this with most of them on Tuesday.) They are going to read the article and then, using inspiration, fill out the template, Biographical Essay. You might tell them this is not an article about Bruce Lee, but the writer of the article. To get to the correct template they will: open inspiration then templates then Language Arts and finally the template will pop up for Biographical essay. They will complete this on their computers. Again I will have paper copies for the students who do not have laptops. Then they will read the article, “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexis that they can find that also on my documents. For this article they need to simply create a web with inspiration that explains what the themes of the article are. (This is simply the diagram button on inspiration.) Have them put the theme in the middle of the page and then proof around the outside that it is the theme – if they ask how many tell the eight. When they are done reading both articles, they will fill out the article comparison template. They can delete the third article. When the get to the end of this comparison, rather then explain which article is most convincing – have them say which was more interesting and why. To get there open inspiration, templates, social studies, than article comparison. When they have completed all three inspiration documents have them place them in a folder, with the naming convention as the title of the folder – Period#_lastnamefirstinitial_Biographyreading – Have them drop the folder in the appropriate class folder on the staff server. 9/21 Journal - What is your definition of a hero? Read Hercules on mythweb.com Draw 12 labors of Hercules - write task and solution Explain on your own paper what a definition of hero might be from story Hercules. 9/22-23 Journal - How is school going? How is English going? What is a hero? Worksheet in documents 9/24-25 Journal - What makes a good essay? Include all elements that are important. Hooks worksheet DUE DATES Three inspiration documents - Monday 9/28 Hercules - Tuesday/Wednesday 9/29 or 30 Hero Worksheet to be turned in with essay 9/28 • Journal: Why are heroes important in our lives? What purpose do they serve? Who is someone who acts as a hero in your life? • Essay prewriting – may use Inspiration 8 or the back of their prompt sheet HW: Pre-write due next class 9/29-30 • Check pre-write • Essay Organizer • Drafting Essay – full draft due Thurs/Fri • Cornell Notes on Greek Mythology HW: Draft of essay due Thurs/Fri – final due Tues/Wed 10/1-2 • Peer Edit essay draft – use sheet to check items off • Begin Clash of the Titans HW: Final of the essay due Tues/Wed, finish CoT on Monday 10/5-6 Complete Clash of Titans Journal - What role do the gods and goddesses play in Clash of the Titans? Peer edit rough draft essay - final draft due Wednesday 10/7-8 Final Hero essay due Journal - Evaluate how you're doing on the book project. Explain your theme - what book you are reading. If you haven't started - what are you going to do? Assignment - Read Elements of Literature pgs. 713-718 Fill out vocabulary square - due in class Read the sections of the book - for each section write a gist statement that explains the most important thought of the section. Bring a book to read on Monday in class. 10/12 - Read Journal - What did you read about today? 10/13-14 - Journal - What do you know about Ancient Greek history or culture? What do you expect to happen in a story aobut a great Greek hero? Explain your thinking. Read The Odyssey - Book 1-4 pgs. 722-730. Complete the Cornell notes Answer question on my web page - discussion. If absent read about Odysseus on mythweb.com 10/15-16 - Journal - Create a character that could be a shipmante of Odysseus. Remember this person would have fought in and won the Trojan War. Give this person a name, a physical description, and how they feel about leaving Troy to head home to Ithica. Read The Adventures of Ulysses pg. 106-146 Complete the timeline Visit portfolio room 10/19 - Journal - How does the character you created last week feel about Odysseus? Explain why and create one story of interaction with him. Complete 10/15-16 assignment - read your book 10/20 - Journal - You are headed home to Ithica. There are three ships with fifty men each in the boats. You have treasure from defeating the city of Troy, and you are returning victorious home. What do you expect on the journey home and what do you expect when you arrive home? What is the first thing you will do when you get there? Vocabulary assignment Read in Elements of Literature Lotus Eaters and Cyclops'Cave to complete Cornell Notes. If you are absent use the detailed mythweb.com - heroes - Odysseus and find the assignments on my documents. 10/26 - No journal - complete last Thurs./Fri. assignment 10/27-28 Journal - List, as best you can, the order of events or encounters that Odysseus and his men experienced so far in our reading. The first would be winning the Trojan War – then what was next? You should know 1-6 and 12-14. Introduce wrting journal assignment - begin work on it. Elements of Literature pg. 759-762 Read book 11 - Land of Dead - on paper - 1. Explain what Odysseus learns about life back in Ithica - and about the future. 2. Describe Land of the Dead. 10/29-30 Journal - Thinking about Hercules, Jason, and Odysseus, what are qualities that make a mythological hero? Give examples from your story to support your answer. Cornell Notes on reading from Elements of Literature on the Sirens, Scylla, and Chrarbdis, as well as landing on the island of the cattle of the sun god. If you are absent you may use mythweb.com to complete the Cornell Notes that are in my documents. Continue to work on travelogue. 11/2 - No journal - Work on travelogue that is due Thurs/Fri 11/3-4 Journal - Explain about a time that Odysseus used guile in his adventures. What was one event that showed what the word ponderous means? Give an example of when something was dismembered in the Odyssey. Describe one time that Odysseus and him men used tactics to survive? What were they and did they work? Read the return, book 13-end and write a gist statement for each page. Work on travelogue - due Thursday/Friday 11/5 - NO JOURNAL but collected and graded them. Viewed movie "The Odyssey" 11/9-10 - Completed movie - Journal what are six differences between the movie and what we read and six similarites? 11/12-13 - Journal - Write an introductory paragraph for an essay about The Odyssey. Essay question is Describe the character of Odysseus. Be sure to include a hook, title and author, thesis statement. Define the words - Satire, Fable, Irony 11/16 - Journal - Define the word propaganda and explain three different techniques used in propaganda. Complete satire and irony worksheet and turned it in. 11/17-18 - Define the word revolution. Write down three examples of revolution. Read handout on animal farm - gist statements Elements of literature book pg. 808-809 - gist statements Vocabulary squares - cannibalism, cryptic, gambol, ignominious, indefatigable, parasitical, allegory, scullery. Read Animal Farm pg. 810-817 - sections I and II Link to Animal Farm online http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html 11/19-20 - Journal - Write a brief story about anything, using the five of our eight new vocabulary words. Feel free to use your vocabulary squares. (cannibalism, cryptic, gambol, ignominious, indefatigable, parasitical, allegory, scullery) We had a quiz on the first two setions of Animal Farm. Read Animal Farm section three and four, and complete the worksheets. LA 10 Inspirational Poster - due 9/10 Death Penalty reading and inspiration organizer - due 9/10 Steinbeck questions - due 9/15 Steinbeck descriptive paragraph - due 9/14 9/14 - Great Depression Reading 9/15 - Completed jigsaw reading to prepare for Of Mice and Men 9/17 - Read ch. 1 and 2 Of Mice and Men - complete worksheet. 9/21 - Read "Powder" - brainstorm for essay 9/22 - Persuasive essay 9/28 • Double-entry journal – explanation, partner work, whole class example for Chapter 1 in Of Mice and Men • Have students complete entries for chapters 2, 3, & 4 • Reading chapter 5 HW: Read chapter 5 9/29 • Entry slip – What happens in Chapter 5 that shifts the direction of the novel? What do you think happens next? How will this novel end? • Discuss events of the novel and answer any questions • Reading Chapter 6 (finishes book) and complete Double-Entry Journal • Assign Character-Analysis Essay about George • Complete pre-write/draft HW: Pre-write due Thursday 9/30 • Begin movie HW: Printed draft due on Monday 10/6 - Worked on essay and completed discussion board. 10/7 - Read three poems on documents and completed worksheet. 10/12 - Poetry termshttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html - look at poetry 180 10/13Went over worksheet on how to read a poem. Analyzed "Richard Cory" together - analyzed "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe individually. 10/15-19 - Analyze seven poems 10/20 - Did I Miss Anything? Analyze 10/22-Begin poetry project 10/26 - Poetry project 10/27- Work on project 11/2 - Poetry project due Thursday - present Thursday 11/3 - Poetry project - due Thursday 11/12 - Read Bradbury article to answer three questions - Predict that Bradbury will write about in conjunction with technology. Explain why you think that. - According to Bradbury, what is the effect of technology on society? Use text to prove it. Do you agree or disagree with Bradbury? Explain why. - What is the Eberhart’s purpose for writing this article? What prompted it and what is Mark E Eberhart's point. Read "The Veldt" complete story notes - how does this story confirm your prediction about Bradbury and technology? 11/16 - Begin Fahrenheit 451 - double entry diary through page 32 11/17 - Quiz, Bradbury reading, complete Fahrenheit chapter - pg. 68 11/19 - Quiz on part one of Fahrenheit, turn in double entry diary, vocabulary, read pgs. 71-93. Complete worksheet I graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a B. A. in English, and returned to SPU to get an education certificate several years later. I also have a M. A. in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. I taught in the Kent School District for thirteen years, and have been at Shorewood for the last five. |