Tuesday, May 31, 2022

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

Thursday, May 26, 2022

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!!

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

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

Monday, May 23, 2022

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

Friday, May 20, 2022

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!

Thursday, May 19, 2022

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"

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

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

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

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

Monday, May 16, 2022

Sci-Fi Unit: Harrison Bergeron

 

AGENDA FOR MONDAY, MAY 16:

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

Thursday, May 12, 2022

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!

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

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

Monday, May 9, 2022

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!

Friday, May 6, 2022

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

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

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

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

Monday, May 2, 2022

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

Jeopardy Game!

 Last Day! Jeopardy Game Winning team gets bonus points!