Friday, May 25th
IN CLASS: Students completed their
final assessment.
HOMEWORK: NONE! Enjoy the long weekend
and be ready for Flugtag day on Tuesday!
Thursday, May 24th
IN CLASS: Students started the writing
portion of their final assessment.
HOMEWORK: NONE! Get some rest so you
are ready to go tomorrow!
Wednesday, May 23rd
IN CLASS: Students started the reading
and analysis portion of the final assessment.
HOMEWORK: Bring your graphic organizer
and vocabulary list to class tomorrow! You WILL start the essay portion even
if you forget your work!
Tuesday, May 22nd
IN CLASS: Students continued prepping
for the final assessment.
HOMEWORK: Finish the graphic organizer
for Thursday! Books and short stories are available before school and during
study hall. You can also type it up using the digital copy posted on the
"Handouts" page.
Monday, May 21st
IN CLASS: Students started prepping
for the final assessment by working a graphic organizer.
HOMEWORK: Using your personal
vocabulary lists from this year, develop a list containing 20 of your best
words to use on the final assessment. Your list can be typed or neatly hand
written, and it must contain the words and definitions. Quotes and parts of
speech are optional.
Friday, May 18th
IN CLASS: Students showed off their
projects and watched scenes having to do with utopia and dystopia.
HOMEWORK: None... except make sure to
bring any resources (notes, copies of short stories, etc.) that connect to the
literature we have studied this year.
Thursday, May 17th
IN CLASS: Students worked on their
projects for the final time. Students revised reflections and conferred on the
elements of their project.
HOMEWORK: Finish your project! Project
museum tomorrow!
Wednesday, May 16th
IN CLASS: Students worked on the
written parts of their projects (writing pieces and/or reflections).
HOMEWORK: Work on your project!
*PACING NOTE: All "rough drafts" of
writing should be done by tomorrow. You should use time tomorrow to proof
read, edit, and confer with a partner.
Tuesday, May 15th
IN CLASS: All classes worked on their
written reflections for their projects.
HOMEWORK: Work on your project!
*PACING NOTE: Students working on a video,
model, picturebook, or soundtrack should be working on putting those
projects together tonight if they have not started the main product. Written
reflections can also be typed tonight or finished tomorrow in class. Students
producing a written piece (thesis paper or narrative) should
have at least a page done and typed by tomorrow.
Monday, May 14th
IN CLASS: All classes worked on
finishing their rubric and planning their project details.
HOMEWORK: Work on your project!
Friday, May 11th
IN CLASS: All classes worked on
planning their projects and developing a rubric.
HOMEWORK: Work on your project!
Thursday, May 10th
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students worked on the
final double-entry journal of the novel.
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English 8 - Students completed their
theme statements and started planning their final project.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Finish the double-entry
journal. Be ready to answer this question tomorrow in class: why do we study a
book like Fahrenheit 451?
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English 8 - Finish the project
planning sheet!
Wednesday, May 9th
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students discussed the
climax of the novel and overall development of Beatty and Montag.
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English 8 - Students discussed theme
statements and what they mean to literature.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - FOR FRIDAY: Finish reading
the novel (to page 165) and complete a double-entry journal (6 quotes). Be
ready to answer the guiding questions posed in class.
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English 8 - Complete the front side of
the theme analysis sheet. Be ready to share with classmates tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 8th
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students analyzed Section 6
and discussed key parts of the story's climax.
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English 8 - Students completed a quote
analysis activity and read Chapter 9.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Answer the following
questions in your writer's notebook: 1) In your opinion, did Beatty want to
die? How do you know? Provide evidence from the text! 2) In your opinion,
which “character” is more insane in this section: Montag or the world around
him? Are Montag’s actions simply a fit of rage or are they justified? Explain
using the text! 3) At this point in the novel, does Montag better demonstrate change
or isolation? Explain your answer using details from the story!
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English 8 - Finish reading Anthem!
Monday, May 7th
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students completed a paired
"mini-quiz" on censorship.
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English 8 - Students took a pop quiz
on Chapter 6 and read Chapters 7 & 8 together.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Read Section 6, pgs.
113-136. We will work on the double-entry journal in class tomorrow.
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English 8 - Complete your questions
for Chapters 7 & 8. Be as specific as possible!
Friday, May 4th
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students discussed Section
4 notes and watched a clip from the movie.
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English 8 - Students developed a
paradigm map using their individual analysis.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Read Section 5 (pages
93-110) and complete five quotes for your double-entry journal.
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English 8 - Read Chapter 6! Be ready
for a pop quiz on the chapter. (I'm only announcing the quiz here, which is
why it's a pop quiz.).
Thursday, May 3rd
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students watched several
movie clips that relate to our censorship discussion and analyzed examples of
censorship in the novel.
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English 8 - Students read/analyzed
Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of Anthem.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Complete the analysis for
five quotes (four given in class, one selected by you) in your double-entry
journal.
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English 8 - Complete the class work.
Wednesday, May 2nd
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students completed the
discussion on censorship.
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English 8 - Students analyzed the idea
of paradigm shift by looking at the steps it takes to make a paradigm shift
and evolve.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Read Part 2, Section 4,
pgs. 71-93. Identify three examples of censorship in the section.
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Period 7 - Read Chapters 3, 4, and 5.
It's only 10 pages!
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Period 8 - Complete the paradigm shift
chart.
Tuesday, May 1st
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students continued the
discussion about Section I and began to analyze censorship.
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English 8 - Students finished reading
Chapter 2 and began discussing paradigms.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Finish the censorship
handout.
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English 8 - Using your models on the
paradigm sheets, brainstorm four more big ideas that you can categorize as
paradigms and compare how these paradigms look in your world vs. the society
in the novel.
Monday, April 30th
IN CLASS:
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Advanced - Students discussed Section
I of Farenheit 451.
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English 8 - Students discussed Chapter
1 of Anthem.
HOMEWORK:
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Advanced - Reread pages 53-62 and
annotate each page. Find a sentence or paragraph on each page that connects to
one of the big ideas and mark the lines with a post-it. Make sure to write the
big idea on the post-it.
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English 8 - Finish your Flugtag bio
for your press packet.