Monday, February 29, 2016

Weekly Agenda 2.29-3.4

MONDAY

Work Day: Students work on outlining their poet study biography.
-laptops
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UPDATED Reading Schedule:
Book 3
Read Chapters 4-5 for Tuesday
Read Chapters 6-7 for Wednesday
Read Chapters 8-9 for Thursday
Read Chapters 10-12 for Friday (Book Quiz)
Read Chapters 13-15 for Monday
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TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Review Chapters
Reading Journal Entry #7:
Diary Entry from a Character’s Perspective: Dr. Manette or Mr. Lorry -use key language.

Answer: How is Dickens portrayal of the guillotine and the repetition of the phrase “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death” a commentary on the French Revolution?  
-what other language invokes a similar response from the reader.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Excerpt Analysis: Chapter 9
Carton as Christ (literary)
Quiz 10-12-features of a novel: reversal
HW FINISH BOOK

Friday, February 19, 2016

Weekly Agenda 2.22-2.26

MONDAY
Your Active Reading annotations should contain all of the following:

  • Underlined key words and phrases
  • Circled unfamiliar words -defined in margins.
  • Diamond-ed figurative language
  • Bracketed symbols
  • One 2nd or 3rd level question
  • Connections to other texts; to the world; to self
  • Comments on how underlined elements connect to character, conflict, or theme.
  • Comments about the meaning of figurative language, symbol, style

GRADED DISCUSSION:
Review Carlyle’s account compared to Dickens’.

POET STUDY
-outline and biography model; review features of each
-clarify outlining elements
HW Read the end of Book 2, Chapter 22-24 for Wednesday.

TUESDAY
Chapter 22 and 23
Close-Reading
-Annotation

WEDNESDAY
Review Chapter 22-24
HW Read Book 3: Chapters 1-5 for Friday

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Review Chapters 1-5
-focus Chapter 2: The Grindstone

View excerpts-Film

Multiple-Choice Practice
HW Outline due MONDAY.
READ Chapters 6-9 by WEDNESDAY, QUIZ.

Mandatory Forms

CAP and GOWN information
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and

AP PRACTICE Sign UP
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Weekly Agenda 2.16-2.19

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

President’s Day

TUESDAY
SSR
#5

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
Review Journal Entries
In Class, #6: Glossary Entry on “animal imagery”
-share
-COLLECT JOURNALS-



FRIDAY
Reading Quiz on Chapters 19-21

POET STUDY
-outline and biography model; review features of each


HW Handout, compare Carlyle and Dickens’ accounts of revolution, for MONDAY.  Use shared annotations to thoroughly mark the text.  Discussion Monday.

Monday, February 8, 2016

Weekly Agenda 2.8-2.12

A Tale of TWO CITIES

MONDAY-TUESDAY
Check Journals  /20
Review Chapters 5-7
  • Symbolism, Foreshadowing, Irony, Satire
Quiz on Chapter 8-11
-review
1935 MOVIE


WEDNESDAY
Critical Annotations Return
-review requirements for Annotated Bibliography
-what to include in a biography
-what to include in an outline
-new due dates
HW READING, READING!!


THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Review Chapter 12-15
  • imagery
  • twin cities
  • characterization


HW Read Chapters 12-18 for TUESDAY

READING JOURNAL #5: Letters due TUESDAY on 12-18