Sophomore English -LNG 321-322 Assignments

Structure planning

Intro unit 10
Read/annotate last source for essay. 

Read sources.  Take notes/annotate

Intro to Research Due - 1/2 quiz

Thesis Spider instruction

Surveys and research questions

Research Question and titles

Benchmark Q3

Good luck!

Units 7-8
Work on Study guide for last Caesar Test

Movie - Acts 4-5. Finish the play and study guide for last test. 

Movie - Acts 4-5.

Unit 8 and 9 - Instruction
Review sheet for Monday Caesar Speeches test posted in GC!

Watch and finish packet

Today we re-enact the death scene from Julius Caesar.  Start Dogs of War speech

Open Notes Quiz - Acts I and II

Finish Act II.  

Finish Act I.  Start Act II scene 1. 

watch end of Scene 2 from 1970 production.  Fill out notes pages.  Read aloud Cassius Soliloquy end of Scene 2. 

over book notes from last week

Scene 2.  Notes pages.  

Scene 1 - Watch movie scene from 1970 production (can be found on youtube!)

Scene from "Rome" showing Caesar's Triumph Parade.  Divine Right of Kings notes.  Revenge Tragedy notes.  

Notes from scanned pages  - posted in GC

Fill out the chart to plan your 11 sentence paragraph. 

Presented in class.  Choose speech, annotate, write thesis. 

SNOW DAY

SNOW DAY

11 sentence paragraph instruction.  See handout. 

Enjoy your day off! 

Using the chart we practiced with.  Open notes/packet

Figurative Language

Bring your rhetoric packet. 

Sadlier books

Tone writing activity.  

This one counts. 2.5% of final grade

Unit 2 - 

Reading poetry, graphics, and informational text

Bring it together! Book and Doc. Test Prep.

Documentary - link in GC

Documentary - link in GC

Units 4-5
Finish reading 2-3, or keep going! 

Chapters 2-3

Finish "Mirror"
Start Into the Wild -  Author's note and Chapter 1

Sadlier Unit 5. Test Friday over Units 4-5
Start "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

Finish at home.

In class writing!  Due at the end of the period. 

Planning details and In-Text Citations - Finish the plan.

Research and planning details.  Citing in APA format

Pre-research and writing a thesis

Learn to use the SIRS database today to choose your research topic. 

Poem - What does the author say about human nature and characteristics? 

Infographics lesson.  

MC Test. 

ONE PAGER IS DUE.
Guidance come to talk about registration. 
MC Test tomorrow.

Discuss ALLEGORY.  What is "the better story"? Why? 
Work on One Pager.

Finish movie.  Discuss ALLEGORY.  

Finish reading.  Preview vocab unit 4.  Work on One Pager. 

Discuss Blindness chapters.  Read from Algae Island (Chapter 92) through the end of the book.  Finish reading by class Tuesday.

Movie - Pi trains RP, Kills, fishes, survives. 

Go over Literary Pre-Write activity.  Animal Symbolism and Jung's Shadow theme.  Movie - after the shipwreck. 

Quiz over Part 1.  Literary Terms/application, reading comp, passage based questions, etc...

Chapters 32-33, 36.  Why does Part 1 end this way?  Frame Tale/STructure

first through 4th periods

Movie - first 11 minutes.  Discuss Chap 15.  
Study for vocab test

Sadlier Unit 3 words - 
Discuss Life of Pi Chapter 8.  

In class today.  If you miss, you will have to make this up.  It does count as 5% of your semester grade. 

Go over chapters 1, 4, and 8.  Characterize Pi.  Imagery/Setting/Mood.  Parallelism.  

Read this chapter - it is short.  Complete the questions provided. 

Interactive text on Google classroom.  Read and respond.  

Units 1-2.  Practice Quiz in GC!

Finish The Lottery

Short Story instruction
Theme practice. Character motivation practice. 

Quiz - Goldfish.  Open Book and notes. 
Vocab Unit 2 instruction. 

Discuss Character Motivation and Inferences
Skill Lesson - Irony.  In class together.  

Short Story instruction.  
Skill Lesson - Making Inferences and Identifying Character Motivation.

Skill Lesson - How to Determine Author's Purpose
Skill Lesson - How to Determine Theme

Memoir instruction
Cultural Context
Read and annotate

Unit 1 words.  
Fill out Data Sheets for Growth Measure Test. (except 7th - we will do yours next week).

Finish "I Lost My Talk" - go over comprehension questions.
Begin Bilingual/Bilingue.  

Vocab Quiz Friday! Unit 1.  

Handouts in GC.  We are learning poetry analysis skills starting with this poem today.  

This Multiple Choice portion is the second 1/2 of your first test.  This is open book, so make sure you bring it to use for your test. 

Write the argument we planned on Friday.  This is 1/2 a test grade. 

Today you will prep your argument to write in class Monday.  Due at the end of the period.  

In your lit book.  This is an argument. We will work through it and find the parts of an argument.  You will be writing an argument Friday and Monday, so this piece should help you.  

We will finish working with the Dissent Opinion and practice vocab or finish the growth measure today.  Today is picture day, so class will be a little fragmented.  

Today we are learning about a Supreme Court decision

Today, we measure your reading ability to start the year.  

Today, I will teach you the words in the first unit and some helpful ways to learn vocabulary. 

Rhetoric Quiz - terms and cold read with questions. 

more practice - 

Disney movie clips -  practice analyzing arguments.

Today we will discuss the Barbie monologue we read Friday, do a close read of the speech to practice, and go over the last page of the rhetoric packet-  Parts of an Argument and Logical Fallacies.  

Today we will annotate and analyze a speech from a movie.  

Today we will go to the Media Center to pick up books for your classes.  When you are finished, you can finish working on your Day 1 activity.  

Continue Rhetoric Notes packet

Today, you will receive a copy of your Rhetoric Packet that you will use in this class all year. (It will be posted in GC as well in case you need to print a new one at any point in the school year.) We will begin going over the Classical Appeals, some elements of Diction and Syntax, Fallacies, and Writing an Argument.