Wednesday, October 31

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer (Work for ten minutes on anticipation guide paragraph. Due at end of bellringer time [10 minutes])
• Turn in bellringer paragraph before you leave class today
• Discuss assigned essay (due next Wednesday). You will NOT have lots of time in class except to type, so write the draft at home!
• Hand out study guide
• TEST TUESDAY!

Communications second hour:
• Work on study guide (due tomorrow)
• Finish and turn in thank you letter
• Finish interviews and packets and turn in
• TEST MONDAY over Chapter 4!!

English 4 fourth hour:
§ Discuss validating online resources
§ Group work on evaluating online resources
§ Present findings if time permits

Communications fifth hour:
• Check and then discuss study guide answers
• Finish and turn in thank you letter
• TEST MONDAY over Chapter 4!!
• If time remains, begin Chapter 5

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer (Work for ten minutes on anticipation guide paragraph. Due at end of bellringer time [10 minutes])
• Discuss aftermath of trials
• McCarthyism worksheet for homework (due Monday)


English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer (Write paragraph based on anticipation guide. Use the directions sheet given to you. Work for ten minutes.)
• Watch movie clips
• With remaining time, discuss “aftermath”

English 4 eighth hour:

• Discuss validating online resources
• Group work on evaluating online resources
• Present findings if time permits

Tuesday, October 30

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer (work for ten minutes on anticipation guide paragraph)
• Check homework for completion
• Discuss McCarthyism and Arthur Miller
• Compare the witch trials and McCarthyism era

Communications second hour:
• Discuss thank you letters
• Write ONE and turn in for grade
• Work on study guide for review (due Weds.)
• Chapter 4 test Monday

English 4 fourth hour:
• Begin making notes for zero draft of essay
• Validating online sources (www.rlc.edu)
• Examine assigned sites in groups and present

Communications fifth hour:
• Work on thank you letter (due Weds. to me by end of hour)
• Work on study guide (due Weds. at beginning of hour)
• Chapter 4 review

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer (work for ten minutes on anticipation guide paragraph)
• Continue movie


English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer
• Check study guide for Act IV for completion
• Discuss Act IV study guide

English 4 eighth hour:
• Begin making notes for zero draft of essay
• Validating online sources (www.rlc.edu)
• Examine assigned sites in groups and present

Monday, October 29

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer (Write paragraph based on anticipation guide. Use the directions sheet given to you. Work for ten minutes. Due Weds.)
• Discuss the aftermath
• Begin McCarthyism reading/worksheet

Communications second hour:
• Finish interviews
• Put folders in order and turn in
• If time allows, begin Chapter 4 study guide

English 4 fourth hour:
• Quiz
• Discuss poverty essay
• Work on thesis statement
• Consider how to organize your ideas
• Read sample student essay on page 295-296.
• Work on “zero” draft

Communications fifth hour:
• Take 10-15 minutes to wrap up interviews and put folders in order
• Turn in folders
• Chapter 4 review
• Work on Chapter 4 study guide

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer (Write paragraph based on anticipation guide. Use the directions sheet given to you. Work for ten minutes. Due Weds.)
• Watch movie J

English 3 seventh hour:
• Continue reading Act IV

English 4 eighth hour:
• Quiz
• Discuss poverty essay
• Work on thesis statement
• Consider how to organize your ideas
• Read sample student essay on page 295-296.
• Work on “zero” draft

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer (1. I told my Mom that she needed to give we kids more allowance this year. 2. times three is a poetry book that contains the funny selection lancelot a poem about young love.)
• Watch movie

Communications second hour:
• Finish wincareers.com and turn in
• Write out answers to possible questions for interviews
• Correct, print, and keep final copies of resumes and cover letters (staple together)

• Put everything in manila folder
• Discuss preparations for interviews
• Assign companies to interview tomorrow and Monday (no school Friday)

English 4 fourth hour:
• Freewrite: what is your definition of masculinity or femininity?
• Freewrite on your topic (Freewrite about the following concerning your probably topic:
• --why concept is important to your life
• --why the concept needs to be defined
• --what is it similar to?
• Different from?
• --what are its causes? What effects does it have? --what information needs to be in definition)
•
• Discuss pages 272-277
• Do p. 277
• Reading assignment: “What Is Religion?”

Communications fifth hour:
• Interviews begin for these two companies:
• When Duckie Calls
• Shoes Galore

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer (1. I told my Mom that she needed to give we kids more allowance this year. 2. times three is a poetry book that contains the funny selection lancelot a poem about young love.)

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer (1. I told my Mom that she needed to give we kids more allowance this year. 2. times three is a poetry book that contains the funny selection lancelot a poem about young love.)

English 4 eighth hour:
• Freewrite: what is your definition of masculinity or femininity?
• Freewrite on your topic (Freewrite about the following concerning your probably topic:
• --why concept is important to your life
• --why the concept needs to be defined
• --what is it similar to?
• Different from?
• --what are its causes? What effects does it have? --what information needs to be in definition)

Tuesday, OCTOBER 23, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer (Who bears the most guilt for the fate of those hanged in the Salem witch trials—the girls who accused innocent people or the judges who sentenced them to death? Why?)
• Watch movie

Communications second hour:
• Finish wincareers.com and turn in
• Write out answers to possible questions for interviews
• Correct, print, and keep final copies of resumes and cover letters (staple together)
• Put everything in manila folder
• Discuss preparations for interviews
• Assign companies to interview
• tomorrow and Thursday

English 4 fourth hour:
• Quiz
• Discuss essay
• Freewrite activity (Freewrite about the following concerning your probably topic:
• --why concept is important to your life
• --why the concept needs to be defined
• --what is it similar to?
• Different from?
• --what are its causes? What effects does it have? --what information needs to be in definition)

Communications fifth hour:
• Finish wincareers.com and turn in
• Write out answers to possible questions for interviews
• Correct, print, and keep final copies of resumes and cover letters (staple together)
• Put everything in manila folder
• Discuss preparations for interviews
• Assign companies to interview
• tomorrow and Thursday

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer (Who bears the most guilt for the fate of those hanged in the Salem witch trials—the girls who accused innocent people or the judges who sentenced them to death? Why?)
• Read Act IV
• Hand out study guide
• Finish the play on your own. You will have tomorrow all hour to read and finish study guide.
• Study guide due Thursday.

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer (Who bears the most guilt for the fate of those hanged in the Salem witch trials—the girls who accused innocent people or the judges who sentenced them to death? Why?)
• Continue reading Act 3

English 4 eighth hour:
• Quiz
• Discuss essay
• Freewrite activity (Freewrite about the following concerning your probably topic:
• --why concept is important to your life
• --why the concept needs to be defined
• --what is it similar to?
• Different from?
• --what are its causes? What effects does it have? --what information needs to be in definition)

Wedensday, October 17, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer: (Answer the following: If you were John Proctor, would you tell the truth about you and Abigail so that everyone would know what she was truly like? What if it would save your wife’s as well as other people’s lives? What might the consequences be if you did, indeed, tell? If you didn’t tell?)
• Read in Act 3
• Work on study guide (due Thursday)

Communications second hour:
• Work on cover letters

English 4 fourth hour:
• Make list of concepts for possible topics
• Read pages 254-257 and do questions 1 and 2 in the first set and 1 and 3 in the second set
• Quiz tomorrow

Communications fifth hour:
• Work on cover letters

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer: (Answer the following: If you were John Proctor, would you tell the truth about you and Abigail so that everyone would know what she was truly like? What if it would save your wife’s as well as other people’s lives? What might the consequences be if you did, indeed, tell? If you didn’t tell?)
• Act 2 quiz
• If time remains, continue in Act 3

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer
• Continue reading in Act 2

English 4 eighth hour:
• Make list of concepts for possible topics
• Read pages 254-257 and do questions 1 and 2 in the first set and 1 and 3 in the second set
• Quiz tomorrow

Thursday, October 11

English 3 first hour:
• Vocabulary test
• Continue in Chapter Act 2

Communications second hour:
• Finish job opening advertisements
• Save to my flash drive and turn in a copy
• Work on job applications

English 4 fourth hour:
• Begin Chapter 8 discussion of concepts

Communications fifth hour:
• Finish job opening advertisements
• Save to my flash drive and turn in a copy
• Work on job applications

English 3 sixth hour:
• Vocabulary test
• Possibly present two groups
• Begin reading Act II if time allows

English 3 seventh hour:
• Vocabulary test
• Work on essays for ten minutes
• Turn in essays (final, then drafts, then peer edit sheet)
• Work in groups

English 4 eighth hour:
• Continue Chapter 8 discussion of concepts

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringers
• Practice for vocabulary test tomorrow
• Continue in Act II

Communications second hour:
• Continue working on job descriptions
• Make job opening advertisement and save to my flash drive

English 4 fourth hour:
§ Discuss Chapter 8

Communications fifth hour:
• Continue working on job descriptions
• Make job opening advertisement and save to my flash drive

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringers
• Practice for vocabulary test tomorrow
• Turn in essays
• Continue Mr. Ruedin’s activity

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringers
• Practice for vocabulary test tomorrow
• Hand back peer editing
• Correct errors (paper due tomorrow)
• Continue Mr. Ruedin’s activity

English 4 eighth hour:
§ Discuss Chapter 8

Thursday, October 4

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringers
• Complete your draft
• Begin peer editing

Communications second hour:
• Discuss resumes
• work with www.careercruising.com
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English 4 fourth hour:
• Discuss formatting of paper
• Choose a partner and peer edit using chart in the back of your textbook
• Fix your draft
• Final draft due by the end of the hour tomorrow

Communications fifth hour:
• Discuss resumes
• work with www.careercruising.com
•

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer
• Primary sources activity with Mr. Ruedin
• Essay due Monday

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer
• Primary sources activity with Mr. Ruedin
• Essay due Monday

English 4 eighth hour:
• Discuss formatting of paper
• Choose a partner and peer edit using chart in the back of your textbook
• Fix your draft
• Final draft due by the end of the hour tomorrow

Wednesday, October 3

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer
• Last vocab. presentation (test on all words Friday)
• Work on essay. Be ready to peer edit tomorrow.
• Final due Friday the end of the day though you will not have time Friday to work in class (I can write you a pass in study hall).

Communications second hour:
• Work on www.wincareers.com
• Remember your new user name and password

English 4 fourth hour:
• Work on peer editing
• Work on draft, due Friday

Communications fifth hour:
• Work on www.wincareers.com
• Remember your new user name and password

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer
• Vocabulary presentations (test on all words Friday)
• Work on essay. Be ready to peer edit tomorrow.
• Final due Friday the end of the day though you will not have time Friday to work in class (I can write you a pass in study hall).

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer
• Vocabulary presentations (test on all words Friday)
• Work on essay.
• Final due Friday the end of the day though you will not have time Friday to work in class (I can write you a pass in study hall).

English 4 eighth hour:
• Work on peer editing
• Work on draft, due Friday

October 2, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer
• Vocabulary presentations
• Work on essay (due Thursday)

Communications second hour:
• Continue in Chapter 4

English 4 fourth hour:
• Peer editing: read aloud in groups and discuss.
• See page 87

Communications fifth hour:
• Continue in Chapter 4

English 3 sixth hour:
• Bellringer
• Vocabulary presentations
• Work on essay (due Thursday)

English 3 seventh hour:
• Bellringer
• Vocabulary presentations
• Work on essay (due Thursday)

English 4 eighth hour:
• Peer editing: read aloud in groups and discuss.
• See page 87

Monday, October 1, 2007

English 3 first hour:

• Bellringers
• Vocabulary presentations
• Act I quiz
• Work on essay response (due Wednesday)

Communications 2nd hour:

• Continue Chapter 4 discussions (telephone conversations)
  

English 4 fourth hour:

• Quiz over Orwell’s essay
• Discuss Orwell’s essay
• Discuss editing your draft
• Work on typing / editing draft in preparation for peer editing tomorrow

Communications 5th hour

• Continue Chapter 4 discussions (telephone conversations)

English 3 sixth hour:

• Bellringers
• Vocabulary presentations
• Act I quiz
• Work on essay response (due Wednesday)

English 3 seventh hour:

• Bellringers
• Vocabulary presentations
• Act I quiz
• Work on essay response (due Thursday)

English 4 eighth hour:

• Quiz over Orwell’s essay
• Discuss Orwell’s essay
• Work on typing / editing draft in preparation for peer editing tomorrow

Friday, September 14, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer:

• Assign vocabulary presentation dates
• Continue in the play

Communications second hour:
• Practice logical fallacies
• Explain commercial assignment

English 4 4th hour:
• Continue discussion of essay in groups
• Discussion on creativity
• Discuss topics/thesis statements

Communications 5th hour:
• Finish fallacies worksheets and go over answers
• Work on commercial project

English 3 6th hour:
. Same as first hour

English 3 7th hour:

• Bellringer
• Assign vocabulary and discuss assignment
• Assign parts for Act I
• Begin reading Act I
• Homework: read pages 1234-1235 all, 1236 last paragraph, and 1237 all. Quiz over it tomorrow.

English 4 8th hour:
Same as fourth hour

Thursday, September 13, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer
• Assign vocabulary and discuss assignment
• Assign vocabulary presentation days
• Assign parts for Act I
• Begin reading Act I
. READ pages 1234-1235 all; 1236 last paragraph; 1237 until the play begins--QUIZ over reading tomorrow


Communications 2nd hour:
. Discuss logical fallacies
. Work on commercials

English 4 fourth hour:
• Quiz
• Discuss reading selection
• Work on essay

Communications 5th hour:
• Logical fallacies practice in groups
• Discuss commercial project -work on commercials

English 3 6th hour:
• Bellringer
• Assign vocabulary and discuss assignment
• Assign vocabulary presentation days
• Assign parts for Act I
• Begin reading Act I

English 3 7th hour:
• Bellringers
• Continue discussion of background of the play
• Finish study guide and outline notes

English 4 8th hour:
--Same as fourth hour

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer
• Continue discussion of background to The Crucible.
• Finish study guide outline notes
• Assign vocabulary
• Assign parts to Act I first half

Communications second hour:
• Continue in Chapter 3 discussion
• Listening exercise

English 4 4th hour:
• Discuss thesis statements
• Discuss Chapter 3 and 4

Communications 5th hour:
• Review logical fallacies/propaganda
• Look at examples

English 3 6th hour:
• Bellringer
• Continue discussion of background to The Crucible.
• Finish study guide outline notes
• Assign vocabulary
• Assign parts to Act I first half

English 3 7th hour:
• Do Bellringer: anticipation guide
• Discuss “Sinners” sermon
• Fill in notes over Pilgrims/Puritans
• Continue discussion

English 4 8th hour:
• Discuss thesis statements
• Discuss Chapter 3 and 4

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer
• Discuss “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
• Check homework
• Discuss background to The Crucible


Communications second hour:
• Chapter 2 test
• Articulation test
• Discuss Chapter 3

English 4 fourth hour:
. Discuss first assignment parameters

Communications 5th hour:
. Discuss Chapter 3

English 3 sixth hour:
. Same as first hour

English 3 seventh hour:
. Bellringer
. Collect summaries
. Discuss Pilgrims and Puritans
. Assign “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
. Discuss background to The Crucible

English 4 eighth hour:
. Same as fourth hour

Monday, September 10, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer: do citation
• Collect summaries
• Puritan Power Point –take notes

Communications 2nd hour:
• Go over study guide
• Discuss articulation test
• Journal write: Write about one or two times you judged a person based on the language he/she used? Or, write about a time you were judged based upon the language us were using. Explain.
• Test Monday
• Begin Chapter 3

English 4 4th hour:
• Quiz over “Under Water”
• Discuss “Under Water”
• If time permits, discuss essay assignment #1

Communications 5th hour:
• Test over Chapter 2
• Articulation test
• If time permits, continue in Chapter 3


English 3 6th hour:
• Bellringer: do citation
• Collect summaries
• Puritan Power Point –take notes

English 3 7th hour:
. No bellringer
. Discuss "America"
. Assign summary
. Turn in old bellringers up to last Weds.

English 4 8th hour:
. Same as fourth hour

Friday, September 7, 2007

English 3 (all hours):
• Bellringers and print/turn in all old ones (not yesterday’s or today’s)
• Discuss “Born in the U.S.A.”
• Listen to and annotate “America”
• Discuss how to write a summary
• Summary assignment, with focus on complete sentences and spelling

Communications 2nd hour:
• Practice w/partner for articulation test Monday
• Work on study guide, due Monday
• Test Tuesday
• Journal write: What are your problem areas as a speaker? Do you speak too rapidly? Are you too quiet/loud? Are you monotone? Do you use vocal fillers such as “um” or “uh”? Do you have pronunciation/articulation problems with specific words/sounds? What are they?

Communications 5th hour:
• Go over study guide
• Discuss articulation test
• Journal write: Write about one or two times you judged a person based on the language he/she used? Or, write about a time you were judged based upon the language us were using. Explain
• Test Monday
• Begin Chapter 3

English 4 (both hours):
• Quiz over Dillard’s essay
• Discuss Dillard’s essay
• Assign next reading assignment: “Under Water” and questions that follow

Thursday, September 6, 2007

English 3 (all hours): Discuss annotating. Discuss the poem "Barbie's Shoes". Listen to "Born in the U.S.A." and annotate for discussion tomorrow.

Communications:

second hour:

• journal write on "experiment"
• Finish articulation problems discussion
• Practice articulation

Fifth hour:

• practice with a partner for articulation test on Monday
• work on study guide, due tomorrow, over Chapter 2
• Journal write over articulation problems
• Test over Chapter 2 Monday

English 4 (both hours): Discuss p. 67 homework. Journal write on page 64. Assignment: pages 69-70--read first time for questions on p. 68 (just think about them--don't write them out) then read a second time, answering on paper both sets of questions at end of reading.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

English 3 first hour:
• Bellringer paragraph with open notes
• If time permits, discuss the American Dream concept through poetry and song

Communications 2nd hour:
• Finish discussion over articulation
• Practice articulation exercises


English 4 4th hour:

• Continue Chapter 3 discussion
• Discuss homework from Friday: page 61.

Communications 5th hour:
• Articulation exercises


English 3 6-7 hours:
• Finish presentations


English 4 8th hour:
• Continue Chapter 3 discussion

• Discuss homework from Friday: page 29 #3 and page 61.