Mrs. Loy's English Class

12/7-11/09

11/23-27/09
11/16-20/09

11/9 (Mon) - Parent/Teacher Conferences

11/10 (Tues) - Parent/Teacher Conferences

11/11 (Wed) - Completing "The Burden of Memory" - discussing family histories, creating memoirs, in-class writing:  5 questions for your family (collecting family history)

11/12 (Thurs) - 5-questions DUE; in-class writing - questions for author Fern Schumer Chapman, creating a personal timeline

11/13 (Fri) - Fern Schumer-Chapman author visit/presentation.  Author will have books available for purchase and signing after her presentation!  $15/$25 paperback/hardcover

 

BRING CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY NEXT WEEK! 

11/2-6/09

11/2 (Mon) - Russian short-story film

11/3 (Tues) - Fern Schumer Chapman - reading prologue & chapter 1

11/4 (Wed) - Chapman - reading Chapter 3

11/5 (Thurs) - Slideshow - Chapman Scrapbook; non-fiction Chicago Tribune reading "The Burden of Memory"  (in-class copies passed out)

11/6 (Fri) - Continue Chapman discussion

Here are the vocab words that will be on the Quarter One exam:

abominate, acculturation, adventitious, affable, aggrandize, amorphous, aplomb, approbation, callow, commiserate, contraband, elicit, erudite, ex officio, exhort, gossamer, hiatus, ingratiate, innuendo, intercede, interloper, inveigh, lassitude, lurid, meritorious, noncommittal, peculate, petulant, proclivity, propensity, provincial, reverberate, sangfroid, sleazy, stringent, tenuous


10/26-30/09

10/26 (Mon) - In-class reading:  "Celebration of Grandfathers" (p224)

10/27 (Tues) - "Grandfather" summary due; working in-class (small groups) on self-created study guide ShortStoryselfcreatedstudyguide.xlsx

10/28 (Wed) - Literature Study Guide Due

10/29 (Thurs) - Quarter Exams

10/30 (Fri) - Quarter Exams

10/19-23/09

10/19 (Mon) - In-Class reading of "Like the Sun" (R. K. Narayan) & Emily Dickenson poem 10/20 (Tues) - DUE: Narayan/Dickenson reading (pp 204-209) summarize both in notebook and complete #1-10 - go over answers

10/21 (Wed) - In-class writing:  "Person who changed your life" DUE: "Teacher Who Changed My Life" summarize and answer #1-10 (pp 212-219)

10/22 (Thurs) - Vocab Unit 4 due; in-class focus discussion on characterization on this week's readings

10/23 (Fri) - Vocab Unit 4 QUIZ

10/12-16/09

10/12 (Mon) - no school

10/13 (Tues) - no school

10/14 (Wed) - PLAN/PSAT testing

10/15 (Thurs) - Correct/return grammar worksheets

10/16 (Fri) - In-class Grammar game:  run-on sentences (comma splices/fused sentences)

10/5-9/09

10/5 (Mon) - Discussing characterization / begin reading assignment for tomorrow

10/6 (Tues) - DUE:  Read "Shoofly Pie" and answer #1-10

10/7 (Wed) - SemiColon Powerpoint  semicolons.ppt; comma worksheet (2-sided) handed out (due tomorrow)

10/8 (Thurs) - DUE: "Possibility of Evil" & #1-10; comma worksheet due

10/9 (Fri) - Short Story film - Greek Mythology

9/28-10/2/09

9/28 (Mon) - Read poems "Exile" and "Crossing the Border" pp 136-140, answer questions 1-9 in notebook (due tomorrow - but given time in class to complete)

9/29 (Tues) - In-Class Reading Comprehension practice exam (PLAN/PSAE practice)

9/30 (Wed) - Unit 1 Literature Quiz (please review ALL literature) - some grammar will be included!

10/1 (Thurs) - Vocab Unit 3 due

10/2 (Fri) - Vocab Unit 3 QUIZ

9/21-25/09

9/21 (Mon) - In-Class listening/reading McCullough's "Johnstown Flood"

9/22 (Tues) - Due today:  "Johnstown Flood" questions 1-9 due in notebook; begin Apollo 13 media clip

9/23 (Wed) - Apollo 13 Media study; in-class grammar (capitalization/Punctuation)

9/24 (Thurs) - Grammar - Capitalization review

9/25 (Fri) - Grammar worksheets due (Capitalization & Punctuation)

9/14-18/09

9/14 (Mon) - Jack London's "To Build A Fire" & #1-10 answers in notebook due!

9/15 (Tues) - Reading Gonzalez "Survival Behavior" in class - relating to London's story

9/16 (Wed) - Writing:  p 99 in Lit Book:  create a checklist of Survival Behavior, rate London's protagonist against your list, write summary paragraph on your findings.

9/17 (Thurs) - WRITING ASSIGNMENT#1: Personal Narrative DUE to www.turnitin.com by 8am today!  If you cannot upload for any reason - you MUST print off a hard copy and bring it in TODAY!  Vocab Unit 2 Due; word association

9/18 (Fri) - Vocab Unit 2 Quiz;

 

 

9/7-11/09

9/7 (Mon) - Labor Day

9/8 (Tues) - #5-10 "Everyday Use" questions due in notebook; discuss story

9/9 (Wed) - In Library (must have internet access paperwork turned in to office prior to class); assign Personal Narrative paper - Due September 17th 8am to www.turnitin.com    WA1PersonalNarrative.docx

9/10 (Thurs) - "...Summer" #1-10 questions due in notebook

9/11 (Fri) - Writing Tips n Tricks Lecture; "To Build a Fire" #1-10 questions due ON MONDAY in notebook

 

8/31-9/4/09

- Lit book covers due (5 ec pts); Discussion/Lecture - elements of story: plot/mood/setting ElementsofStorySETTING.pptx

 

- Assign Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Harrison Bergeron" pp 34-40, answer questions 1-4 in your lecture notebooks due 9/2; , Vonnegut vocab/grammar handout assigned (due 9/2)

 - In Class Lit Workshop (completing #5-10 of Vonnegut in class together) Assign Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" pp 46-55, answer questions 1-4 in lecture notebook for 9/4, #5-10 for 9/8

-Walker vocab/grammar handout due today;  Vocab Unit 1 due; work on Walker in class

Vocab Unit 1 Quiz; Walker's #1-4 checked in today, #5-10 due Tuesday 9/8   

 

8/24-28/09

8/24 (Mon) - Teacher In-Service

8/25 (Tues) - Teacher In-Service; 6-7:30pm Mentor Walk-Thru

8/26 (Wed) - Freshman Orientation

8/27 (Thurs)- Hand Out syllabus,   distribute state books asgn: 5 EC pts for book covered by Mon 8/31

8/28 (Fri)    - Note-Taking, SLANT exercice; Introductory In-Class writing  cornellnotetaking.pdf