For Thursday

English 11
Work on your assignment. It is due in January!
Bring the gift of yourself for Friday's class. You can bring a quote, a song, a story, a movie clip; anything you would like to share.

Finish the questions for Act 1 on the worksheet

There will be a quiz on Act 1 tomorrow. We will also be working on dramatic readings from Act 1

English 12
Work on your lines. We will have 30 minutes tomorrow.

English 10
Quiz: Act 2 tomorrow/multiple choice

We will begin Act 3 tomorrow. On Friday, we will be doing some work on the play and we will do a holiday writing activity

For Wednesday

English 11
Lit terms quiz
Write a journal about hypocrisy. It can be an invented story, a personal reflection
Answer questions up to Scene 5

English 12
Lit terms quiz
Practice scenes

English 10
Finish questions for Act 2 of Othello
quiz on the act on Wednesday

For Monday

Last week of school before the holidays.

English 10
Dramatic reading for tomorrow. I will collect your notes for Act 1 tomorrow.

English 11
Postponed the quiz until Tuesday because Mr. Cullen didn't give you the crossword.
Work on your projects! We are continuing with Macbeth tomorrow.

English 12
No quiz until Tuesday.
I will collect your questions tomorrow.
 These are the ones from Crucible
Good copy of persuasive paragraph. Ready to go. Stapled, paper clipped----ready to collect.
We will be working our scenes tomorrow and I will assign a date for presentations.

For Friday

English 12
Act 4 quiz tomorrow

Thank your for sending in your monologue assignments. Tonight, please write a rough draft of a persuasive paragraph: Is John Proctor a Tragic Hero? Support your opinion, use correct citations, give 3 supporting points.

You will be given the crossword for Monday's lit terms quiz tomorrow.

We will be spending the rest of class working on our scenes. List is on the board

English 11
Do the Macbeth character sheet as it applies to where we finished off in class.

We will be talking about marriage on Monday.

Lit terms quiz on Monday. Ask Mr. Cullen for the crossword.

Independent project in the library tomorrow

English 10

Read the end of Scene 1 Act 2 tonight. Tomorrow you will be working with a partner to create a dialogue that contains the essence of the interaction between Iago and Roderigo.

We will do scene 1 questions over the weekend.

For Thursday

English 12
We finished watching the movie today and discussed our discussion questions. I will collect your discussion sheets.
Do the questions on p. 38 regarding John Proctor. Is he a tragic hero? Yes or no? Be prepared to defend your position
If you haven't handed in your writing assignment, please make sure to do so for tomorrow.

English 11
Project proposals are due tomorrow.
Please make sure that you have read all of the Sparks notes for Act 1
Make sure that you fill in characteristics of the characters that we have met already. What action/quote supports your point of view?
Make note of the plot highlights for each scene.

English 10
We will finish our tableaux from today.
Please make sure that you have read the notes from Act 2 so that you are ready for our next lesson.
You should be very proud of your progress on the quiz today! Great understanding and connecting!

for Wednesday

English 10
Quiz on Act 1/review your notes/I will ask questions about quotes that we have discussed. It might be a good idea to look over the close reading sheet that we did in class today
I will collect your notes for a check tomorrow
Read scenes 1, 2, 3 in Sparks notes

English 11
Project Proposal for Thursday
Library on Friday
You must keep a record of your progress each time you work on your project
Read scenes 2 and 3 of Macbeth
No fear, you can go here!

English 12
Good copy of monologue ready to be handed in for tomorrow
Fill in your first page of the booklet for group discussion
We will finish watching the movie in class

November 7th

English 12
Quiz lit terms up to rhythm
Write a revised version of your monologue piece/final version is due on Wednesday.
Begin to fill in Act 4 sheet

English 11
Confirmation of your final project: Wednesday I will debrief with any of you who feel your question needs work. Project is due Jan. 14th. Half the class will present on the 14th and half will present on the 15th
We will begin with improvs tomorrow
Write a journal reflection about one of the pre-reading prompts from the anticipation  guide that I handed out on Friday.

English 10
I handed out a sheet about Iago and Roderigo's discussion at the end of scene 3 in Act 1.
Refer to No fear Shakespeare to clarify questions and see if you can pencil in the answers to the questions.
This is called close reading. This means that we are looking in detail at what is in the text and we are looking closely at Shakespeare's choice of words. Try to imagine Iago's manipulative tone and Roderigo's pitiful responses. Iago needs this man...Can you imagine why?Read this link for a character profile of Iago

For Monday, December 7th

English 12
Quiz: Act 3 on Monday
Lit terms on Tuesday

Write a half the three-quarter page monologue from the point of view of one of the principal characters in any of the acts. Consider a pivotal moment for that character. Have that character reflect back about his or her intentions, motivations, fears or concerns.
For example: if you choose Mary Warren...you might have her talking about what made her change her mind in court and what influenced her to take part in the activities with the other girls at the opening of the play.

Rough draft is due on Monday

English 10
Read: Sparks notes for Othello
Finish reading Act 1 Scene 3
Make 2 new notes for this scene
Write brief answers to the questions on your question sheet. We will read this scene on Monday.
There will be a quiz on Act 1 on Tuesday.

English 11
Lit terms quiz on Monday up to rhythm

Fill in the first 3 questions for your project proposal. You will discuss one more time on Monday.

Project Proposal

First, you must have an authentic research question:

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What resources will you use?

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Make a list of possible ideas for a learning product;

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For Thursday

Well, you finally made it through cross grade day! Bravo!

English 12
Finish the sheet for Act 3 and the irony sheet

English 11
Come with your question for tomorrow's project discussion

English 10
We will be continuing with Othello tomorrow. Remember what we did in class on Tuesday.