Et tu Brute?
English10
Daily Agenda
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
 Happy Earth Day!
 We will celebrate by playing the vocabulary review game!
 HW: Vocab. Quiz on Friday! Research source summaries will be due on Friday
too!
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
 Poetry analysis test today!
Monday, April 20, 2015
 Welcome!
 Review of poetry analysis via our chart on Dickinson
 HW: prepare for your test tomorrow on poetry analysis!
Friday, April 17, 2015
 Field trip – those that aren’t going are in the library to work on research papers.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Continue with our poetry analysis via our chart
 Complete the chart on Emily Dickinson’s – “Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant”
 Enjoy your field trip tomorrow!
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
 Welcome!
 In the library working on our research paper
 Complete the research source summary - Due on Monday!
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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Welcome!
DGP
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Change poems – a few minutes for me to review your wrk
Poem explication: “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night”
o What “things” do we notice about poetry?
o Create a chart in your notebook:
What do I notice?
Why is this important What is the name of
to the poem? Why
the literary term for
does the poet write
what I notice?
this way for his
audience? (IOW:
answer the question)
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Meaning of the poem
Poetry memorization:
o Your poem title and author is due on FRIDAY.
o Must be 15 – 20 lines. Please memorize entire poems, even if they are 21 lines.
o This is due on Wednesday of next week.
Monday, April 13, 2015
 Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back!
 DGP
 Writing change poems
 HW: your change poems – well decorated – are due on Wednesday!
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
 1st - Vocabulary squares
 11th – make up from yesterday.
 In groups:
o Read “Mowing” (page 658), “Making a Fist” (page 664), and “Spring and All” (page 665). For
each poem, list four questions in your notebook that you would ask about the poem to improve
your understanding of its meaning.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
 Welcome!
 In groups:
o Read “Mowing” (page 658), “Making a Fist” (page 664), and “Spring and All” (page 665). For
each poem, list four questions in your notebook that you would ask about the poem to improve
your understanding of its meaning.
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 10 period – enjoy your Wellness Day presentation
Monday, March 30, 2015
 Welcome!
 Review of Ch. 22 vocabulary – test on Thursday!
 Continue with poetry
o Lyric poems –“The Empty Dance Shoes”
o Narrative poems –“The Bridegroom”
 How do we arrive at meaning?
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(ask questions!)
Friday, March 27, 2015
 Last day of the quarter!
 Review poetry handouts
 Finish book talks
Thursday, March 26, 2015
 DGP
 Jabberwocky – can you identify the parts of speech in this fabricated language?
 Continue with poetry workshop/book talks
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
 Independent reading and book talks today
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
 Due to my absence…vocabulary game (and test for the losing team)
Monday, March 23, 2015
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Introduction to Poetry
OGT Week – March 16 to 20, 2015
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Monday – OGT reading test
Tuesday – OGT math test
Wednesday – OGT writing test
Thursday – OGT science test
Friday – OGT social studies test
In English class we will view Spellbound (there will be no assignments or homework this week due to
OGTs)
Friday, March 13, 2015
 OGT ICE Review for those at PARCC test
 Scheduling for next year in the library. Can you believe you are almost juniors?
 HW: get your game faces on for the OGT!
Thursday, March 12, 2015
 (some of you are at the PARCC test)
 Review of yesterday’s prompt.
 Are you a six? View writing models
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
 ICE – OGT writing prompt
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
 Welcome!
 Review of last night’s homework – are you a 6?
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OGT test review
o Healthy competition – did your group get 100%
HW: tomorrow is an ICE OGT writing prompt!
Monday, March 09, 2015
 Welcome!
 OGT writing practice –
o Prewriting strategies
o Reasons not examples!
 HW: take any one of the prompts on the last page of your packet and write the essay for
the prompt – in your writer’s notebook
Friday, March 06, 2015
 DGP quiz
 OGT writing –
o What are the modes of writing?
 HW: finish the modes handout – write an amazing paragraph!
Thursday, March 05, 2015
 Begin our OGT writing prep!
 HW: finish writing about your “interesting things” list – in a persuasive, expository and
narrative mode
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
 Independent reading day – book talks begin.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
 Welcome!
 Mrs. Nichols is here to do an Internet Safety presentation.
Monday, March 02, 2015
 Welcome!
 11th – finish up what you missed on Friday.
 1st – trade and grade. How would you assess your partner’s short answer responses?
 HW: 11th period – finish Ch. 20 vocabulary workbook exercises and pags .400-401 in
your textbook.
Friday, February 27, 2015
 Welcome!
 Ch. 20 vocabulary quiz today
 In your textbook, complete the Test Practice on pages 400 – 401. Do the multiple choice and Writing
for assessment questions in your writer’s notebook.
 Extra Credit –
o Read “The Marginal World” by Rachel Carson on pages 156 -164. See me before or after school
(or at another agreed upon time) and show that you can accomplish all the reading objectives
outlined in your OGT reading handout
o Create a poster that has examples of how to accomplish the reading skills outlined in your OGT
reading handout
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HW: Complete pages 400-401
Thursday, February 26, 2015
 Welcome!
 Review of OGT responses from yesterday. We need to pay closer attention to detail!
 Password vocabulary game!
 HW: Ch. 20 vocab. Quiz tomorrow!
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
 Welcome!
 OGT prep – practice test
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
 Vocabulary review – using your vocabulary words, find their antonyms and neutral meanings.
 OGT reading skills review
 HW: Read “The Truth about Year Round Education” (in yellow packet) and answer the
multiple choice questions that follow.
Monday, February 23, 2015
 Welcome back! Nice “break”?
 OGT review packet
 HW: Read “The Man he Killed” by Thomas Hardy (at the back of the yellow packet) and
answer the questions on page four (on the top slide) of the packet
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
 Independent reading!
Thursday, February 12, 2015
 Animal Farm final test today!
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
 DGP
 Review of the ‘big questions’ and logical fallacies of Animal Farm
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Groups
o Try to persuade me not to give you a test on Thursday.
 Use a legitimate persuasive technique – logos, pathos, ethos
 Try to use a logical fallacy
o Big Ideas for the novel
 Come up with a list of ideas or questions that you have now that you have read Animal
Farm
 Questions should Level 3 – begin in the text and relate to our current times, lives, issues
etc.
 The best ideas will be used for your final exam.
 HW: prepare for your Animal Farm test
Monday, February 09, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Review of chapter 8-10 handout
 Logical fallacies – notes
 HW: none tonight
Thursday, February 05, 2015
 Boxer died! What do we think about this?
 List the 7 Commandments and their revisions
 Vocabulary review
 HW:
o Read Chapter 10 tonight. Notice how the entire commandments change.
o Chapter 19 vocabulary quiz
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
 Review of yesterday’s quizzes.
 Independent reading day.
 HW: read chapter IX in Animal Farm
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
 Welcome! Enjoy the snow day?
 Vocabulary review – Chapter 19 – quiz on Friday
 Animal Farm quiz – ch. 6 & 7
 HW: read Chapter 8 in Animal Farm; bring your independent reading book
Friday, January 30, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP quiz
 Review the deceptive communication examples from Animal Farm
 HW: Be prepared for a reading quiz –Animal Farm, chapters 6 & 7.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Big ideas?
 Review ethos/pathos/logos.
 HW: Catch up on your reading. Read through to Chapter 7.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
 Welcome!
 Independent reading day
 HW: read Ch. 7 in Animal Farm
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP
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1st – Chapter 2 quiz
Big questions explained
Logos/pathos/ethos review
Identify the purpose (logos) of Old Major’s speech.
o find an example of logos, pathos and ethos in his speech
HW: read chapters 5 and 6 in Animal Farm.
Monday, January 26, 2015
 Welcome!
 DGP
 1st – “Introducing the Novel” and quiz
 Chapter 2 quiz
 HW: Read chapter 3 & 4 in Animal Farm
Friday, Janurary 23, 2015
 1st – Lakewood Assembly
 10th period – “Introducing the Novel” quiz
 HW: none this weekend.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
 Welcome!
 Review of your exam essays.
 Animal Farm introduction
 HW: Read chapters 1 and 2 tonight in Animal Farm.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
 Welcome back! Homeroom today.
 Writer’s Notebook:
o Review your goals that you wrote about at the beginning of last semester. Now,
write – a page – about what your goals are for this semester and how you plan to
accomplish them.
 Library – select an independent reading book.
o Non fiction/fiction
 HW: Begin reading your independent reading book.
January 14-16, 2015
 Semester exams
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 to Friday, Dec. 19, 2014
 Spirit week!
 Complete packets
 Complete Vocabulary unit review
 Complete independent reading book talks
Monday, December 15, 2014
 DGP
 Make it better writing – OGT prompt practice
 Masque of the Red Death – page 373 in your textbook
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HW: Finish reading Poe’s story - Masque of the Red Death
Friday, December 12, 2014
 Ch. 18 vocabulary quiz
 OGT practice prompt (2007 MLK speech)
 HW: finish the prompt if you did not finish it in class.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
 Stems vocabulary game
 Review of invention strategies – using our knowledge of developing ideas in our own writing.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
 Independent reading day – book talks begin!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
 Learning targets 24 & 25 test
Monday, December 8, 2014
 Ch. 18 vocabulary review – sentence parts
 Review for tomorrow’s test – learning targets 24 & 25
Friday, December 5, 2014
 DGP quiz
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014
 Discussion of how writers develop ideas: compare/contrast
 Review “developing ideas” handout
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
 Independent reading day
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014
 DGP
 Work on ‘’developing ideas” (learning targets 24 and 25) handout
 Continue to annotate “Letter.”
Monday, Dec. 1, 2014
 DGP
 Introduce “Letter From Birmingham Jail”
 HW: annotate the first two pages
Friday, Nov. 21, 2014
 Ch. 17 vocabulary quiz
 In-class writing prompt
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014
 Password vocabulary game!
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
 Independent reading
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014
 Review in class essay
 View student models
 Opportunities for revision
Monday, Nov. 17, 2014
 In class writing prompt
Friday, November 14, 2014
 DGP quiz
 Practice with prepositions
 Bring your notebook on MONDAY!
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014
 Dependent/independent clause poems
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014
 DGP
 Independent reading
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014
 Antigone test
Monday, November 10, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Return of most recent tests
 Discussion for tomorrow’s test on Antigone!
o Be prepared to write about this: Compare and contrast how the characters of Antigone and
Creon show a theme from the play:
Excessive pride can destroy our relationships
with others
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HW: test tomorrow
Friday, November 07, 2014
 Password game
 Ch. 16 vocabulary quiz
Thursday, November 06, 2014
 Welcome!
 Password game prep
 Examining characters
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Here’s your theme:
o Excessive pride can destroy our relationships with others
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HW: Finish the handout on complex characters. Study for your vocabulary test
tomorrow. Antigone test on Monday.
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014
 Independent reading.
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014
 No school! Election day!
Monday, Nov.3, 2014
 Begin Vocabulary, Ch. 16
 Review summaries homework.
Friday, Oct. 31, 2014
 DGP Test 10-7 (labeled for English 10)
 Two options:
o Read independent reading book silently
o Read Scenes 4 & 5 of Antigone in their textbook and complete “Reading: List Events to
Summarize” homework.
 HW: “Reading: List Events to Summarize” worksheet is due on MONDAY.
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014
 Continue reading Antigone
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
 Book talks in the library!
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Review your homework (summary worksheet)
 Quiz
 HW: none
Monday, Oct. 27, 2014
 DGP
 Antigone –finish our summaries
 HW: be prepared for a quiz on the Prologue through Scene 2 tomorrow.
Friday, Oct. 25, 2014
 Antigone
 Complete our objective summaries and review
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2014
 Antigone - Scene 1
 create a text evidence chart – Antigone vs. Creon
 Writing an objective summary
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2014
 Antigone – Prologue
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2014
 New Learning targets!
 Begin reading Antigone
Monday, Oct. 21, 2014
 Collect your narratives –
o For learning targets 13 -17, tell me your best examples of how you met each target. Write this
on the back of your paper.
 Review for Chapter 15 vocab. Quiz
 Ch. 15 quiz
 HW: In your writer’s notebook, read and answer the following:
o In Europe, a woman was near death from a rare form of cancer. There was one
drug that might save her, a form of radium that a pharmacist had recently
discovered. The pharmacist was charging $2000, ten times what the drug had
cost him to make. The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to
borrow the money, but he could get together only about half of what it would cost.
He told the pharmacist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or
to let him pay later. But he said no. Heinz got desperate and broke into the man’s
store to steal the drug for his wife.
o SHOULD HEINZ HAVE STOLEN THE DRUG? WOULD YOU HAVE? WHY?
o WHICH IS WORSE: STEALING OR LETTING SOMEONE POSSIBLY DIE?
EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS.
 Bring your textbook tomorrow.
Monday – Thursday, Oct. 13-16
 Revising our narratives
o Coherence
o Dialogue
o Word choice
 Lab time for revising.
 YOUR NARRATIVE ESSAYS ARE DUE ON TUESDAY. PLEASE BRING YOUR
PREWRITING TO TURN IN WITH YOUR FINAL DRAFT.
 Ch. 15 Vocabulary test in on TUESDAY.
Friday, October 10, 2014
 DGP quiz
 Begin revising for coherence.
 HW: have a good weekend!
Thursday, October 09, 2014
 DGP
 What is sensory detail?
 Cotton ball exercise
o Describe a story setting based on the smell of the cotton ball
o Identify sensory details used in your paper.
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o Write a simile based on the smell of the cotton ball.
HW: keep revising those essays! Add sensory detail! DGP quiz tomorrow.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014
 In the library typing drafts!
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014
 DGP
 Revising our narratives –
o Dialogue
o Banned words
Monday, Oct. 6, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Introductions.
 Show don’t tell
o What is it?
o The sunset was beautiful.
 How do we show this?
o In your rough draft, identify all the telling sentences that you need to expand.
 Choose one to develop with details.
 Will a volunteer share their good writing?
 Using dialogue
 HW: revise your rough draft in your notebook, including showing, not telling details.
Revise your introduction following the model in class.
Friday, October 03, 2014
 Welcome!
 Ch. 14 test (for some)
 Check your prewriting – discuss organization of essay.
 In –class writing
 HW: Begin a draft of your narrative. Write three pages in your writer’s notebook.
Thursday, October 02, 2014
 Welcome!
 Review of prewriting
 Password game
 HW: study for your vocab. Quiz tomorrow!
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
 Welcome!
 Complete prewriting handouts.
 HW: complete whatever remains unfinished in class.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
 Welcome!
 Picture day.
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Begin prewriting for autobiographical narrative. Handouts provided.
Monday, September 29, 2014
 Welcome! How was your homecoming weekend?
 Grade DGP quiz from Friday – record our results in our notebooks.
 1st - review examples of rhetoric in “Swimming to Antarctica”
 Introduce Autobiographical narrative.
 Brainstorming ideas.
o In your notebook, without stopping to think too hard about it, write down 10 things you know
to be true.
o Next, jot down the experiences that led to the belief.
 HW: topics for your narrative are due tomorrow.
Friday, September 26, 2014
 DGP quiz
 Vocabulary ch. 14 review – prepare for Password game!
 HW: enjoy homecoming weekend!
Thursday, September 25, 2014
 DGP
 Fun with verbals
 Review and collect homework.
 Identify examples of rhetoric in “Swimming to Antarctica”
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
 DGP
 Quiz – questions 2 and 3 page 74
 Review notes on author’s perspective
 HW: complete “Determining Author’s purpose and point of view” handout
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
 DGP
 Finish reading “Swimming to Antartica”
 HW: “Lit Analysis – author’s perspective” handout and “Using prior knowledge to make
predictions”
Monday, September 22, 2014
 Welcome! Extra credit opportunity – create a graphic novel sequel to “The Monkey’s
Paw.”
 DGP
 New Learning targets
 Textbook – Fiction vs. nonfiction, page 4 & 5
 Begin “ Swimming to Antarctica”
o Three groups – how does what we read demonstrate:
 The writer’s perspective
 Interesting writing
 Predictions about the story
 HW: complete retake of “The Story of An Hour” test at home
Friday, September, 19, 2014
 Vocabulary Ch. 13 quiz
 Re-take, round 2 of Learning targets week 2 test.
 HW: none for the weekend.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
 Review of test – close reading of “The Story of an Hour”
 Vocabulary quiz tomorrow!
Wednesday, September 18, 2014
 Learning targets week 2 test
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
 Welcome!
 Vocabulary arrays
 HW: Test on learning targets week two tomorrow!
Monday, September 15, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP quiz review and recording of progress!
 Vocabulary review – quiz on Friday
 Back to our review of theme. Writing that paragraph.
 HW: finish your paragraph. Complete the chapter exercises in your vocabulary
workbook.
Friday, September 12, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP quiz
 Writing a literary analysis paragraph
o With the example, identify the claims, data, and warrants
 HW: none! 
Thursday, September 11, 2014
 Welcome!
 Vocabulary quiz
 DGP
 Review of learning targets
 How do I write a paragraph about theme?
 Claims, data, warrants
 HW: write another original claim, data and warrant in your notebook
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Vocabulary review
o In groups – find a way to make the rest of the class remember your group’s assigned vocabulary
word.
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Homework review – how do I write a paragraph about theme?
HW: study for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
 Welcome! How was your test yesterday?
 Note: you will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday for your “Monkey’s Paw” vocab.
 DGP
 Learning targets for week 2.
 Review identifying theme in fiction: pages 6-8 in your textbook.
 Count off in groups
o 1 – title
o 2 – setting
o 3 – symbol
o 4 – statements and observations
o 5 – character
o 6 – conflict and plot
o Consider your assigned literary elements. Using the chart on page 8, what theme can you
derive from “The Monkey’s Paw?”
 HW: Choose two other literary elements from the chart on page 8. Write a short
paragraph in your writer’s notebook on how that element reveals a theme in “The
Monkey’s Paw”
Monday, September 8, 2014
 Test today: “Monkey’s Paw” and week one learning targets.
Friday, September 05, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP quiz
 Review inferential and explicit detail questions from “The Monkey’s Paw”
 HW: review your learning targets for the test on Monday.
Thursday, September 04, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Review our learning targets (via a PowerPoint)
 Complete our close reading of “The Monkey’s Paw”
 HW:
o Complete the Explicit Details Text Evidence Importance chart.
o DGP quiz tomorrow.
o Test on Week One Learning Targets will be on Monday.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
 Welcome!
 DGP
 Review quiz from yesterday.
 Using vocabulary words from “The Monkey’s Paw,” write three sentences:
o One should contain an appositive phrase.
o One should use a proper noun.
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o One should add another prepositional phrase.
Working in groups, create a chart with strong textual evidence and making inferences from “The
Monkey’s Paw”
HW: complete the chart we began in class. Find 3 explicit details per page to page 38.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
 Welcome!
 Collect homework.
 DGP/review of test
 Intro to “The Monkey’s Paw”
o Four corners
o Video
 Apply learning targets to the story.
o Quiz – Explain the difference between explicit details and textual evidence.
 HW: finish reading “The Monkey’s Paw”
Friday, August 29, 2014
 DGP quiz
 Learning objectives for Unit 1
 Four corners/writing
 HW: complete vocabulary warm up exercises on the handout IN YOUR WRITER’S
NOTEBOOK!
Thursday, August 28, 2014
 Welcome!
 Distribute textbooks
 Grammar review
 HW: none tonight!
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
 Welcome!
 Summer reading test today.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
 Welcome back! How was your first day?
 What I know about you from your writing from yesterday.
 Assignment: Breaking Night – levels of questions.
 HW: summer reading test tomorrow!
Monday, August 25, 2014
 Welcome to English 10!
 On the yellow sheet of paper provided, please answer the following questions:
o Tell me about yourself. What kind of student are you? Be specific and detailed.
o Write one thing about yourself that I (or anyone else!) wouldn’t know by looking at you.
o Describe your perfect English classroom. What would it look like, feel like, smell like?
What would you write about? What would the teacher be like? What would your fellow
students be like? Be specific. I’ll be collecting this!
What are your goals for this semester? Feel free to write about personal and academic
goals you have.
We’ll review the syllabus and classroom rules. You may have a quiz on this!
HW: get your writer’s notebook and bring it to class by tomorrow.
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