Sophomore Literature 2022-2023 Assignments
- Instructor
- Teacher Jennifer Lowery
- Term
- 2022-2023 School Year
- Department
- English Language Arts
- Description
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Welcome to Sophomore English!
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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DIGITAL LEARNING DAY
Assignments posted! Video and Lesson
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SAVE CAESAR
Work in teams to save Caesar's life. DLD tomorrow!
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Final Test - Julius Caesar
Test! Last one this quarter!
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Caesar Review -
Work on the review sheet you got yesterday.
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Finish Caesar
Viewing with Guide
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Act IV
Viewing with Guide
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Funeral Speeches - Rhetoric Test
Test today!
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Act III JC
Funeral Speeches - View and read. Notes pages handed out in class and posted in GC.
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Act III JC
Finish Antony's soliloquy
Funeral Speeches - View and read. Notes pages handed out in class and posted in GC.
Funeral Speeches - View and read. Notes pages handed out in class and posted in GC.
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JC Act III
Watch the film version of Caesar's death scene. Antony's soliloquy close read.
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Persuasive Letter
Finish typing your letter on the template provided.
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Persuasive Letter
Start typing your letter on the template provided.
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Presidents Day
Yay! See you tomorrow!
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Student Holiday
Have a great long weekend!
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Finish Act II
OPEN NOTES quiz
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Julius Caesar Act II
Scenes 2-3.
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Julius Caesar Act II
Scene 1 - finish. Move to scene 2.
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Julius Caesar Act II
Begins today. Brutus's soliloquy and his conversation with Cassius and the gang. (Scene 1).
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Vocab Quiz 2
Words 1-30
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Finish Act I
Finish Act I. Practice Open Notes Quiz. Doesn't count. Let's check our notes taking skills.
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JC Act I Scene 3
Read and listen. Take notes
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JC Act I Scene 2
Finish Scene 2 today.
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Act I
Scenes 1-2
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Open Notes Quiz - Shakespeare Background
Start to pre-read once complete
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Shakespeare's Bio
Notes over Shakespeare and extra info on book notes sheets - Divine Right and Tragic Hero, Thrust Stage.
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Book Notes
Handouts - take notes for open notes quiz
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Begin Julius Caesar
Vocab Words 21-30 and Caesar intro
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TEST
Movie Speech Rhetoric- New speech and chart. Open Notes.
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Speech Practice- 300
Go over Remember the Titans questions. Last chart practice before test. Queen Gorgo from 300.
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Remember the Titans
Go over Avatar questions. Chart for Gettysburg speech from Remember the Titans.
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Movie Speech Analysis
Intro to Rhetoric Chart -
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TEST - Intro to Rhetoric
Speech with MC Questions.
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Discuss movie speeches and quiz
Quiz over a new speech. Test tomorrow.
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VOCAB QUIZ 1
AND annotation practice
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Intro to Rhetoric
Practice annotating speech using the chart!
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Intro to Rhetoric
Continue with the chart - Figurative Language
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Intro to Rhetoric
Quick Quiz. Diction and Syntax activities.
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MLK Day
See you Tuesday!
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Intro to Rhetoric
Syntax
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Statement of Fact Speech
Viewing and handout
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Intro to Rhetoric
Tone
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Intro to Rhetoric
Start Rhetoric Chart - Appeals and Diction
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Intro to Rhetoric - And Grammar
You have a sub today. You will do a Comma/Semicolon practice sheet and turn this in. Then you will work on an Author's Purpose practice handout.
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Intro to Rhetoric
No homework tonight. We have a national championship game to watch. :)
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COMMAs
More comma practice.
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Open Notes Quiz - Shakespeare Background
Book notes, class notes. Start Act I.
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WELCOME BACK!
Welcome back! We are starting the day with some vocab and COMMA practice.
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Night Test
Last test of the semester!
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BOOK SHOULD BE FINISHED BEFORE YOU COME TO CLASS TODAY
MC Practice and discuss the ending.
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Sad Eyed Angel Passage and Chapter 6 discussion
MC Practice for test. Discuss Death Marches
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Night
Read today. Get through Chapter 7 by tomorrow. We will discuss the Death Marches
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Vocab Quiz 2 for Q2
And read!
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Read Night
Finish through Chapter 5.
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Night Quiz
OPEN NOTES Chaps 1-4. Read through Chap 5.
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Chapters 3-4 due today
Discuss what you have read so far - and MOTIF.
Night and Dehumanization
Terms - selection, gestapo, deportation, exterminate, fascist
Quotes selection
Graphic realism - why?
Night and Dehumanization
Terms - selection, gestapo, deportation, exterminate, fascist
Quotes selection
Graphic realism - why?
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Night
Handout for close reading
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Intro NIGHT
New book Last one! Introduction today.
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Get Night Books and test review continued
Finish review. Q and A.
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Test Review Materials
Test review pages will be given out. Work on these in class and complete any stories you neglected. Test Tuesday.
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Go Over Le Morte d' Arthur
Tragic Hero Notes
Discussion over the end - archetypes and foreshadowing
Discussion over the end - archetypes and foreshadowing
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Le Morte D'Arthur
Read the selection that ends the stories. Questions and analysis chart.
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Lancelot and Guinevere
Go over this story. Plus, I will teach you the next one (The Siege of Benwick) to prep for you reading the last one.
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Lancelot and Guinevere
Quiz over Notes, Gawain, and Sword in the Stone. Then read Lancelot and Guinevere.
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IN CLASS - Gawain
Discussion and analysis .
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IN CLASS -Vocab Quiz
Vocab and Keep working on Gawain. Finish Gawain and questions
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Sword and Gawain
discuss Sword and start reading Gawain and the Green Knight.
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The Sword in the Stone
Read the Sword in the Stone and do the questions and analysis guide.
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Diary Entry Due! Submit to turnitin.com as well
Instructions for TII.com are on your STREAM in Google Classroom.
Today we will begin our first Arthurian Legend after we finish the notes powerpoint. You will read "The Sword in the Stone"
Today we will begin our first Arthurian Legend after we finish the notes powerpoint. You will read "The Sword in the Stone"
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IN CLASS - Lancelot
Begin Lancelot and Guinevere.
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TEST
Archetypes and Storytelling - The Princess Bride
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Archetypes and Storytelling
Finish review for Archetypes test (Princess Bride) and pre-write narrative.
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Review and Narrative
The narrative writing assignment for this quarter is a Diary Entry. I will introduce it today. We will also continue to work on the review for your Archetypes test over PB.
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Finish Princess Bride
Finish movie. Finish Analysis and review questions.
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Princess Bride
Q&A and continue movie. Work on analysis sheets.
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Archetypes and Storytelling
Open Notes Quiz over archetypes. Start the Princess Bride.
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PSAT Day for Sophomores
PSAT. I will only see 5th and 7th today. We will finish the notes that the other classes completed. We will also get new vocab 1-10
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STORY TELLING UNIT BEGINS!
Today we begin a unit on story telling. It's a notes day. :)
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F451 Test
Today! Last test of this 9 weeks.
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F451 Test Review
you will get review sheets to prep so you are ready.
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MC Practice
For the test. Complete your charts and finish treading. Tomorrow we will talk about the ending!
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Part III
MC Practice - Burning Bright passage.
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Burning Bright Intro
The whole book changes here - as Montag flees and tries to find the Wandering Men. We will work with the graphic organizers for this part as we try to SEE, HEAR, TASTE, TOUCH, and SMELL the Romantic characteristics embedded.
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451 Part 2 Quiz and read
Quiz! Start reading Part part 3 - Burning Bright
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Vocab Quiz 3
Last one for Q1. Then read!
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F451 Part 2
Visit with Faber - the end of Part 2 -
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Dover Beach poem
Poetry lesson -Dover Beach
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F451
Read through p 74 (red and white) 78 ending with "the total adding itself."
Close read - Stream of Consciousness and the Subway ride.
Close read - Stream of Consciousness and the Subway ride.
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F451 Part 2 - Beginning Lecture
We are learning about the major concepts for Part 2 today.
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F451
Part 1 Test - 2 Short responses.
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Fahrenheit 451 Part 1 Continued
Montag Concept Chart. Finish Themes Chart. This is prep for the Part 1 test tomorrow.
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F451 Continue Part 1
Reading/Themes Chart update. Finish part one.
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Fahrenheit 451 Part 1 Continued
Beatty tells Montag how the world got the way it is in the novel. This conversation is VERY revealing and important. Come ready to work with it in class today. Handout in GC.
BROWN book - you should have read to page 63, and RED/WHITE, page 60, "He turned...open door."
BROWN book - you should have read to page 63, and RED/WHITE, page 60, "He turned...open door."
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F451 and Vocab
new vocab words 31-40.
Handout - Themes Chart for test 1
Handout - Themes Chart for test 1
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F451
Reading through page 38/42 is due today. (Small brown book is pg 42; white or red book is page 39). Reading quiz over Part 1 through the Elm Street "event".
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F451
Theme Quotes handout. Reading through page 21 is due today.
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F451
Reading the novel lesson. Graphic organizers.
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Notes - Fahrenheit 451
Introduction to the novel
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DIGITAL LEARNING DAY
We will start working with Fahrenheit 451
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Vocab Quiz 2
all words 1-30
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TEST DAY - Part 2 - Short Answer
Satire, Sci - Fi, Dystopia. See the review sheets on GC.
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TEST - MC
Satire, Sci - Fi, Dystopia. See the review sheets on GC.
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Review for Test
Part 2 of the review. Plus we will check out our novels.
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Test Review
Finish TWCSR discussion/questions. Test Review handout.
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Short Story -There Will Come Soft Rains
Listen and read. Study Guide.
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Poetry - There Will Come Soft Rains
Day 2 - Finish circles. Gallery Walk / present
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Poetry - There Will Come Soft Rains
Day 1 - Poetry Circles activity.
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New Words and Gallery Walk
10 new words. Gallery Walk - tech satire cartoons.
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Vocab Quiz 1
Today you will be quizzed over ALL 20 words. You will have to fill in the blanks with words IN CONTEXT from the word bank. Study those words and pictures! :)
We will also get 10 new words after the quiz.
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Picture Day! Study for vocab quiz
Vocab Quiz tomorrow. We will play a vocab review game after pictures.
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Harrison - finish
Harrison Bergeron 1/2 quiz. If we finish in time, we will watch a version of this famous story.
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Finish Harrison Bergeron
and discuss. Quiz tomorrow.
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Quiz! Start first Short Story
Baby quiz - counts .5 of a normal quiz. Satire concepts practice.
Begin the short story "Harrison Bergeron"
Begin the short story "Harrison Bergeron"
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Satire Article -
Of Mice and Men satire - practice in class
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In Class
Satire lessons continued- SNL and Article
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IN CLASS -
GET BOOKS/WORK ON NOTES
4th, 5th, and 7th - We will finish the Quote blending over TKM and then work on notes over Satire, Sci Fi Dystopia
3rd - we will get books and work on the notes some more in class.
3rd - we will get books and work on the notes some more in class.
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GET BOOKS/WORK ON NOTES
4th, 5th, and 7th - we will get books for your classes today and start notes.
3rd - we will start notes and get books tomorrow.
3rd - we will start notes and get books tomorrow.
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Quote Blending - Writing Conventions Lesson
Review and informal assessment.
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IN CLASS -
Today we learn about one of the MOST essential writing skills - BLENDING Quotes.
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WELCOME BACK!
Happy first day back! You are no longer Freshmen! :) Today we will go ahead and get a little vocabulary and learn about what we get to do this year.