Around the World: "Sing" Screening

AGENDA FOR TUESDAY, MAY 31:

• "Sing" Screening - answer questions
• After that, the rest of the week will be spent completing your postcard project and other missing work

Independent Work Day

AGENDA FOR FRIDAY, MAY 27:

• Work on the following:
• 1. Postcard Assignment
• Instructions on Google Classroom. Last assignment of the year!
• 2. MISSING WORK!!

Around the World: "The Piece of String" (France)

AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 25:

• Read "The Piece of String"
• Complete Reading Guide Questions
• Thurs: Independent Work Day...
• Friday: Postcard Assignment > See instructions on Google Classroom!
• Tuesday: "Metamorphosis" (Graphic Novel Version)
• Wednesday: Watch "Sing" Short Film
• Thursday-Friday: FINAL DAYS TO WORK ON ASSIGNMENTS

Sci-fi: Screening Day 2/2

 

AGENDA FOR TUESDAY, MAY 24:

• Screening Day Wrap-Up
• Watch "A Trip to the Moon"
• Final Discussion, Complete Assignment
• Work on Sci-Fi Summative (due Wednesday!)
• Upcoming:
• Thurs-Thurs: 1-Week Mini-Unit - Around the World
• 1 short story, 1 short film, 1 summative (postcard assignment)
• Friday: Jeopardy! If your team wins, you get two freebie formatives! 2nd place gets 1 freebie! 

Sci-Fi: Screening Day 1/2

 AGENDA FOR MONDAY, MAY 23:

• Sci-fi Screening Day (1/2)
• "Eye of the Beholder"
• "Alive in Joburg"
• "Please Hold"
• Reminder: Sci-Fi Summative Due Wednesday

Sci-fi Unit: Finish Flowers for Algernon

AGENDA FOR FRIDAY, MAY 20:

• Finish "Flowers for Algernon"
• Complete reading guide questions and submit
• Time Left: Work on Sci-fi Summative
• Next Week: Wrap-up Sci-fi Unit, Begin Around the World Unit (Mini!)
• Final Week: Around the World Project and graduate!

Sci-fi Unit: Continue Flowers for Algernon

AGENDA FOR THURSDAY, MAY 19:

• Continue "Flowers for Algernon" (First Half)
• Work on sci-fi summative (Second Half)
• Tomorrow: Finish "Flowers for Algernon"

Sci-fi: Begin "Flowers for Algernon"

 AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 18:

• First Half: Read "Flowers for Algernon" (1/2)
• Second Half: Continue work on Sci-fi Summative
• Upcoming:
• Thurs: Finish "Flowers for Algernon"
• Fri: Screening Day
• Next Week: Wrap up screening day, sci-fi summative, and sci-fi unit test
• Final Week: Mini-unit, "around the world"; last day Jeopardy game

Sci-fi Unit: They're Made Out of Meat

AGENDA FOR TUESDAY, MAY 17:

• Read "They're Made Out of Meat"
• Watch short film
• Time left: Review, begin Sci-fi C2 summative

Sci-Fi Unit: Harrison Bergeron

 

AGENDA FOR MONDAY, MAY 16:

• Read "Harrison Bergeron"
• Complete Reading Guide Questions
• Complete any missing work!

FINISH ESSENTIAL AUTHOR PROJECT!

 AGENDA FOR FRIDAY, MAY 13:

• Work on your essential author projects (DUE TODAY!!)
• Days left... get your late work in NOW!

C3 Analysis Test

AGENDA FOR THURSDAY, MAY 12:

• C3 Test
• Watch "Feeling Through"
• Answer questions
• Time left: work on essential authors project (due tomorrow!)

Essential Authors: C1 Test

 AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 11:

• Essential Authors - Complete C1 Test
• Upcoming:
• Thurs: C3 Test
• Fri: Final work day on Essential Authors project!
• Next Week: Sci-fi Unit

Screening Day: Symbols in Film

AGENDA FOR TUESDAY, MAY 10:

• Screening Day - Symbols in Movies
• Time left: Complete Essential Authors Project
• Tomorrow: Essential Authors Test C1
• Thurs: Essential Authors Test C3
• Fri: Final work day!

Essential Authors: Shel Silverstein Poems

AGENDA FOR MONDAY, MAY 9:

• Review Static and Dynamic Characters
• Silverstein Poems and Assignment
• Share poems - can be anonymous!
• Coming up:
• Tues: Screening Day (clips only)
• Wed-Thurs: Essential Authors Unit Test
• Fri: Last day to work on Essential Authors Project!

Essential Author Project: Last In-Class Work Day

 AGENDA FOR FRIDAY, MAY 6:

• Final full in-class work day for Essential Author Projects! (due 5/13)
• A good place to be is working on your second story!
• Upcoming:
• Mon: Shel Silverstein Poems
• Wed: Essential Authors Unit Test, Part I
• Thurs:  Essential Authors Unit Test, Part II

Essential Authors Project

 

 AGENDA FOR THURSDAY, MAY 5:

• Independent Work on Essential Author Project (due 5/13)
• Finish reading your first story, work on slideshow
• Essential Authors test will be next Wednesday (5/11)
• Tomorrow: Finish reading your second story
• Next Week: Shel Silverstein poems, essential author unit test (similar to first test)

Yesterday's Bonus Song:

"Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave; connection is both the song and the short story "The Killers" are about hired gangsters

Essential Authors: "The Killers"

 AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 4:

• Read "The Killers" Short Story
• Background Info
• Work on Reading Guide Questions
• Time left: Work on Essential Authors Project

Yesterday's Bonus Song:

"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" by Marilyn Monroe; connection is we read the short story "The Necklace," in which a poor woman loses the allegedly valuable necklace she borrowed from a friend

Essential Authors: "The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant

AGENDA FOR TUESDAY, MAY 3:

• Read "The Necklace"
• Go over review questions
• Upcoming:
• WED: Read "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway
• THURS-FRI: Begin Essential Authors Project
• Next Week: Essential Authors Unit Test

Yesterday's Bonus Song:

"Take the Money and Run" by Steve Miller Band; connection is the main character in "A Retrieved Reformation' was a bank robber

Essential Authors: "A Retrieved Reformation"

AGENDA FOR MONDAY, MAY 2:

• Reminder: If you were absent last week, make sure to complete the horror unit summatives!
• Read "A Retrieved Reformation"
• Comlpete reading questions

Friday's Bonus Song:

"Eat It" by Weird Al; connection is that the story we read involved a husband eating an unusual dinner