Lesson Plans: November 29 – December 3

Honors English I

11/29 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE 12/3; TEST 12/10

11/30 LTOTW: characterization; Gift of the Magi: Students will read the short story and begin essay assignment after reviewing expository essay expectations and grading codes; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE 12/3

12/1 EOC Benchmark in the morning; Reading Day in afternoon for Book Talks DUE by 12/8; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE 12/3

12/2 Dead Words: Students will discuss overused, watered-down words which need to be replaced with upper level vocabulary for funeral on Monday 12/6; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE tomorrow

12/3 Dead Words: Students will continue working on their dead words for funeral Monday

English I

11/29 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE 12/3; TEST 12/10

11/30 LTOTW: characterization; Gift of the Magi: Students will read the short story and take notes over TEXXEXXT writing; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE 12/3

12/1 EOC Benchmark in the morning; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE 12/3

12/2 Gift of the Magi: Students will begin paragraph writing response to the short story following the TEXXEXXT method; SAT Vocabulary List 5 flashcards DUE tomorrow

12/3 Reading Day for Book Talks DUE by 12/8

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November 14

Lesson Plans: November 15 – 19

Honors English I

11/15 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Complements: students will take a quiz over direct & indirect objects and then add notes over predicate nominatives & adjectives before working to identify them in sentences

11/16 LTOTW: idiom; Complements: students will review the four complements by identifying them in sentences and adding them to their own personal writing

11/17 Students will do background research on the author Saki before reading the short story, “The Interlopers”

11/18 Students will begin with a discussion over Saki’s short story before doing an independent analysis over it

11/19 Students will choose a faculty/staff member to whom they will write a thank you letter in honor of our Thanksgiving season

English I

11/14 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Sentence Structure: Students will do a review sheet over the four types of sentence structures for correction points on last week’s test

11/15 LTOTW: idiom; Students will do background research on British author, Saki

11/16 As a class, we will read the short story, “The Interlopers” before students begin answering analysis questions

11/17 Students will complete their analysis of “The Interlopers”

11/19 Students will choose a faculty/staff member to whom they will write a thank you letter in honor of our Thanksgiving season

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November 8

Lesson Plans: November 8 – 12

Honors English I

11/8 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Parts of Speech: Complements – direct objects; Author Background Research: Edgar Allan Poe; SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST Friday

11/9 LTOTW: theme; Parts of Speech: Complements – direct & indirect objects; Edgar Allan Poe: students will read the short story “Cask of Amontillado”; SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST Friday

11/10 Parts of Speech: Complements – predicate nominatives & adjectives; Edgar Allan Poe: students will work in small groups analyzing the short story “Cask of Amontillado”; SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST Friday

11/11 Parts of Speech: Complements Review; SAT Vocabulary List 4 Review for TEST tomorrow

11/12 SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST

English I

11/8 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Sentence Structure Review for TEST Wednesday; SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST Friday

11/9 LTOTW: theme; Sentence Structure Review for TEST tomorrow; SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST Friday

11/10 Sentence Structure TEST

11/11 SAT Vocabulary List 4 Review for TEST tomorrow

11/12 SAT Vocabulary List 4 TEST

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November 1

Lesson Plans: November 1 – 5

Honors English I

11/1 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Sentence Structure: students will work to identify and write compound complex sentences, review subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs for a QUIZ tomorrow, TEST Wedensday; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: students will read chapter 9, using study questions as a guide, TEST Friday; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday and TEST 11/12

11/2 LTOTW: paradox; Sentence Structure: students will take a quiz over the subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs before reviewing the four structures for a TEST tomorrow; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: students will read chapter 10, using study questions as a guide, TEST Friday; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday; TEST 11/12

11/3 Sentence Structure TEST

11/4 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: students will review the novella for a TEST tomorrow; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday; TEST 11/12

11/5 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde TEST

English I

11/1 MUGshot Monday editing exercise; SAT Vocabulary List 4: students will work on their study flashcards DUE Friday and TEST 11/12

11/2 LTOTW: paradox; Sentence Structure: students will take a quiz over the helping verbs, add notes over the complex sentence structure, and identify parts of a complex sentence; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday; TEST 11/12

11/3 Sentence Structure: students will review simple/compound/complex sentence structures; TEST Tuesday 11/9; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday; TEST 11/12

11/4 Sentence Structure: students will take notes over compound-complex sentence structure, identify parts of that structure, and write original compound-complex sentences; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday; TEST 11/12

11/5 Sentence Structure Review for TEST Tuesday; Reading self-selected novels for Book Talks in December

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