Honors English I

11/9  SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday 11/13, TEST Friday 11/20; Essay Corrections DUE Tomorrow;

11/10  LTOTW:  satire; Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will review simple and compound sentence structures and work through sentences identifying their individual structures; Short Stories:  “The Most Dangerous Game”  Students will read the short story and answer analysis questions DUE Thursday 11/12

11/11 Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will review complex sentence structure and work through sentences identifying their individual structures; Short Stories:  “The Most Dangerous Game”  Students will finish reading the short story and answer analysis questions DUE Tomorrow; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday 11/13, TEST Friday 11/20

11/12  Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will review simple, compound, and complex sentence structure and work through sentences identifying their individual structures; Short Stories:  “The Interlopers”  Students will begin reading the short story and answering analysis questions DUE Monday 11/16; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Tomorrow, TEST Friday 11/20

11/13  Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will take a quiz over complex sentence structure, take notes over compound/complex structure and work to identify those – TEST Wednesday 11/18; Short Stories:  “The Interlopers”  Students will finish reading the short story and answering analysis questions DUE Monday 11/16

English I

11/9  SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Friday 11/13, TEST Friday 11/20

11/10  LTOTW:  satire; Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will review simple and compound sentence structures and work through sentences identifying their individual structures

11/11  Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will review complex sentence structure and work through sentences identifying their individual structures

11/12  Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will review simple, compound, and complex sentence structure and work through sentences identifying their individual structures; SAT Vocabulary List 4 flashcards DUE Tomorrow, TEST Friday 11/20

11/13  Grammar:  Sentence Structure – students will take a quiz over complex sentence structure; Sustained Silent Reading – Students will read their self-selected novels in preparation for Book Talks on December 14 & 15

Honors English I

9/28  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Parts of Speech:  Subordinating Conjunctions Review; Greek Mythology:  Fall of Icarus discussion activity

9/29  LTOTW:  tone; Parts of Speech Review – TEST Tomorrow

9/30  Parts of Speech TEST; Greek Mythology:  Orpheus with 3 flashcards and QuickWrite #6

10/1  Grammar:  Complements Introduction; Greek Mythology:  Midas with 2 flashcards

10/2  Grammar:  Direct & Indirect Objects:  Greek Mythology:  Theseus with 7 flashcards and QuickWrite #7; Book Talks (TEST grade) on 10/7 and 10/8

English I

9/28  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Parts of Speech:  Prepositions with Google Classroom assignment

9/29  LTOTW:  tone; Parts of Speech:  Prepositions Review

9/30  Parts of Speech:  Conjunctions Introduction

10/1  Parts of Speech:  Conjunctions & Interjections with Google Classroom assignment

10/2  Sustained Silent Reading; Book Talks (TEST grade) on 10/7 and 10/8

Honors English I

9/14  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; Revising & Editing – students will take notes over revision and editing techniques and then use these skills to proof their TEXXEXXT paragraph in response to “The Scarlet Ibis.”  Final Draft DUE Tomorrow; SAT Vocabulary List 2 flashcards are DUE Friday 9/18 and TEST is Friday 9/25

9/15  LTOTW:  Point-of-View – a vantage point from which a story is told; Greek Mythology Unit Introduction – Quick Write #1; SAT Vocabulary List 2 flashcards are DUE Friday 9/18 and TEST is Friday 9/25

9/16  Greek Mythology – Uranus; SAT Vocabulary List 2 flashcards are DUE Friday 9/18 and TEST is Friday 9/25

9/17  Parts of Speech Review – Students will review nouns, pronouns and their cases, along with verbs and helping verbs – QUIZ on Monday 9/21; Greek Mythology – Kronos & Zeus; SAT Vocabulary List 2 flashcards are DUE Tomorrow and TEST is Friday 9/25

9/18  Parts of Speech – Students will take notes over prepositions and their uses before searching for and using them in sentences; Greek Mythology – Prometheus

English I

9/14  MUGshot Monday editing exercise; SAT Vocabulary List 2 flashcards are DUE Friday 9/18 and TEST is Friday 9/25

9/15  LTOTW:  Point-of-View – a vantage point from which a story is told; Parts of Speech:  Pronouns – Students will review pronouns and their cases

9/16  Parts of Speech:  Verbs – Students will be introduced to helping verbs and work through assignment in the Google Classroom; QUIZ Monday 9/21

9/17  Parts of Speech:  Verbs – Students will review helping verbs and continue through assignment in the Google Classroom; SAT Vocabulary List 2 flashcards are DUE Tomorrow and TEST is Friday 9/25

9/18  Students will read their self-selected novel for sustained silent reading; Book Talks in October

Honors English I

9/10  “Daughter of Invention” by Julia Alvarez:  Students will take a Quiz in Edgenuity over the short story which was read during at-home learning; TEXXEXXT writing:  Students will take notes over the TEXXEXXT style of writing and write a paragraph following this method and answering the question, “Why didn’t James Hurst, the author of “The Scarlet Ibis,” give Brother a name in the short story?” DUE Monday, September 14.

9/11  Counselor Visit

English I

9/10  Students will catch up in Edgenuity and complete any missing work from the first four weeks of school; Book Talks for anyone finished with their self-selected novel

9/11  Counselor Visit