January 5 - 9

Happy New Year 2015

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning against the railing, holding the universe together". JD Salinger "A Girl Knew"

• TEDtalks "The Puzzle of Motivation"
• Entry #4 what motivates you?
• Entry $5 why is reputation so important to John Proctor? Why doesn't he want to sign his name?
• finish The Crucible
• finish the movie
• Questions Act 4
• Vocabulary sheet #3
• character analysis assigned (due 1/23)
• CHALLENGE ASSIGNMENT DUE JANUARY 16TH (must take quiz over your book and get 70% on quiz to receive credit for challenge assignment)
• DIALOGUE JOURNALS FOR The Crucible DUE 1/12
• FINAL JOURNAL CHECK BY 1/28
• FINAL ASSESSMENT 1/28

December 15 - 19 PROGRESS REPORTS DUE TUESDAY DECEMBER 16TH

• Read Act 3 watch movie and read up to Act 4
• questions Act 3
• vocabulary #3
• character motivation chart
• character retrieval chart
• character analysis assigned after the break

HAPPY WINTER BREAK

December 8 - 12

• Reading The Crucible and watching the movie (Act 1 and Act 2)
• questions for Act 1 and Act 2
• vocabulary sheet #1 and #2
• entry #1 word bomb (island, butter, stench, cranberry, time)
• entry #2 word bomb (coffee, ashes, purple, horn, waves)
• entry #3 reputation is a major theme in The Crucible. How might you see this being played out in the story? what might you predict may happen in terms of the characters?

Week of December 1st - December 5th

• read The Crucible
• students need to continue to work on their semester challenge book and final project.

Week of November 24th - 26th NO SCHOOL THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, THANKSGIVING BREAK

• turn in American Dream essay
• read Holt Pages 1197 - 1218 (beginning of The Crucible)
• Vocabulary sheet #1
• 1 page summary: 1) who is Joseph McCarthy? 2) What is McCarthyism? 3) What was the "red scare"? 4) What contemporary historical event could you connect to the hysteria and "witch hunt" of the Senate Hearings on Un-American Activities and the Salem Witch Trials? 
• begin reading The Crucible

HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING BREAK

Week of November 17th - 21st

• 6th and 7th period classes split
• Finish written draft of essay. Computer lab on Friday to type up.
• Read Holt Elements of Literature pages 11-26, 44-50 and questions on P. 51 1 and 6. Also writing piece "The Tone of the Time" 
• college readiness survey in computer lab on Friday

Week of November 10th - 14th.

End of the first quarter. No school Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (ICE DAY)

• Began in class synthesis essay on The American Dream