ENGLISH 3 CLASS SYLLABUS
Monday - Wednesday, June 13th - 15th
Last week of school!
Monday - Peer edit essays & turn them in.
Tuesday - Letter to your senior self,
Wednesday - Class feedback survey.
Monday - Friday, June 6th - 10th
Monday - Finish Apocalypse Now.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Begin the final essay.
Thursday - Essay work day.
Friday - Essay work day.
Tuesday - Friday, May 31st - June 3rd
No school Monday for Memorial Day.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Final poetry step! Movie: Apocalypse Now.
Thursday - Movie: Apocalypse Now.
Friday - Movie: Apocalypse Now.
Monday - Friday, May 23rd - 27th
Monday - Poetry Project continues: working on drafts.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Poetry drafts.
Thursday - Done?
Friday - Wrapping up poetry drafts and typing the final.
Monday - Friday, May 16th - 20th
Monday - Begin Poetry Project with imagery. Best lines.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Work with abstractions. Metaphor building.
Wednesday - Work with persona & audience.
Thursday - Work with rhythm. Slam Poetry for "I AM" prompt: Saul Williams Sha Clack Clack and Shappy Seasholtz I Am That Nerd.
Poetry Project - Day 2: IMAGERY & PERSONA
Poetry Project - Day 3: RHYTHM
Poetry Project - Day 4: FIRST DRAFT
Monday - Friday, May 9th - 13th
Monday - Work/notes on line. Read Survival: Infantry and The Pit.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Poetic Imagery Exam & found poetry.
Thursday - Work/notes on persona. Listen to some spoken word. Read Vietnam #4 and Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Love Poem.
Friday - Short persona poem. Next week: The Poetry Project. Look for images today.
Later on: Redesigning School, link to opinion piece on grit vs passion HERE
Monday - Friday, May 2nd - 6th
Monday - Final focus on imagery. Flash poems based on image slide-show.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Focus on RHYTHM. Listen to a couple of poems. Read The Star-Spangled Banner and analyze rhyme pattern. Do some writing in pairs.
Thursday - Rifleman's Creed clip from Full Metal Jacket. My Voice by Shane Koyczan. Skills demo on imagery & rhythm.
Monday - Friday, April 25th - 29th
Monday - Wrap up state testing, I hope!
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Intro to poetry. Start with imagery. Read: Dulce et Decorum Est, Here Bullet, and No Man Knows War.
Thursday - Read poems: Thanks and Song of Napalm. Metaphor builder writing exercise
Friday - Best lines from yesterday. NEVER-HEARD-BEFORE activity.
Monday - Friday, April 18th - 22nd
State Testing until it's done! We've blocked out the whole week.
Monday - Thursday, April 11th - 14th
Monday - Test prep. Gathering evidence for an argumentative essay - Google Classroom.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Test prep - outlines and talking through your arguments.
Thursday - Test prep.
Friday - No school: 3rd Quarter grading day.
Monday - Friday, April 4th - 8th
- Movie time! Of Mice & Men film.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Finish movie. Short skills demo on comparing the book & the film.
Thursday - Tiny grammar review - COLONS, HYPHENS & DASHES.
Friday - Grammar FINAL. Self-evaluation on state test preparedness. Based on responses here, I will design next weeks lesson plans.
Monday - Friday, March 28th - April 1st
Monday - Tiny grammar review: COMMAS. Conferences on grades. Reading time. The book is due finished for tomorrow. Our final CANNOT be taken late if you have not finished the novel in time.Tuesday (BLOCK) - Of Mice & Men FINAL. No retakes.
Thursday - Tiny grammar review: SEMICOLONS. Write an alternate ending to the novel - assignment is on Google Classroom.
Friday - Finish up & check on grades.
SPRING BREAK!
People, please finish the book over break. The final is on March 29th and it is the ONLY opportunity you will have to take it.
Monday - Friday, March 14th - 18th
Monday - Practice assignment on the first section of Of Mice & Men: Pages 1-37. See reading schedule below.Tuesday - Vocabulary link HERE. Vocab study and Jeopardy! The Rats Revenge - Internal Punctuation Pre-Test.
Thursday - Migrant farm workers in the 1930's - take a look at these photographs by Dorothea Lange and check out the assignment in Google Classroom.
Friday - Skills demo on the second section of the reading: Pages 38-83.
OF MICE AND MEN READING SCHEDULE
- MON 3/14 – Pgs 1-37
- FRI 3/18
– Pgs 38-83
- TUES 3/29 – Pgs 84-107
Monday - Friday, March 7th - 11th
Monday - Food Systems presentations begin. First, though, a quick review of what CITATIONS should look like in your essays and in your presentation.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Continue presentations.
Thursday - Intro to Of Mice & Men. Reading, notes.
Friday - Background about the 1930's & the setting of the novel.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Continue presentations.
Thursday - Intro to Of Mice & Men. Reading, notes.
Friday - Background about the 1930's & the setting of the novel.
Monday - Friday, February 29th - March 4th
Monday - Finish your Food System essay. Due at the end of the period.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Talk about the presentations. Find your groups and check out the details of the assignment. Here's the ASSIGNMENT LINK.
Thursday - Presentation work day.
Friday - Final presentation work day. Presentations begin Monday!
Monday - Friday, February 22nd - 26th
Monday - 20 minutes to finish the Fast Food Nation skills demo. Talk about styles of writing in our last two reading. Writing practice - being a realist.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Begin our research project on our food systems. Assignment HERE. And here are some links to help you get started:
Thursday - How Not to Get Busted. Continue on with your essay.
Friday - An episode of the Netflix series: COOKED. Moved to Monday: wrap it up - essays due at the end of the period.
Tuesday - Friday, February 16th - 19th
No school Monday for President's Day!
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Text book reading: The Jungle (Pages 351-355) and small group discussion - document HERE. Presentations.
Thursday - Taylor & Chase's presentation. Tiny grammar exam! Begin reading the Fast Food Nation selection (Pages 359-368).
Friday - Finish reading and do the Skills Demo on Google Classroom.
Monday - Friday, February 8th - 12th
Monday - Final workday for A Million Ways to Die project.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Presentations! Bibliography Guide HERE.
Thursday - Finish up presentations. FIX YOUR GRAMMAR.
Friday - Valentine Haiku Showdown!
Monday - Friday, February 1st - 5th
Monday - Continue reading To Build a Fire in the text book, page 331.Study Questions HERE. This is a practice assignment - we'll get to the skills demo later this week.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Finish up the study questions. Researching and presenting: A Million Ways to Die & website evaluation.
Thursday - Take a look at the practice assignment. Skills Demo on To Build a Fire. Find the assignment on Google Classroom.
Friday - Continue with the presentation project from Tuesday.
Friday - Continue with the presentation project from Tuesday.
LINK TO TO BUILD A FIRE - TEXT ONLINE
Monday - Thursday, January 25th -28th
The first semester ends this week!
Monday - Shifting gears in the second semester to polish up grammar skills. Grammar focus on HOMOPHONES.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Check out the Oregon state practice test HERE. Go through the 11th grade ELA PT and ELA CAT tests. Take notes about needed skills as you go through it. We'll be working in the text-books for this next section - Collection 5, The Age of Realism. Begin with Academic Vocabulary on page 328 and look at Realism vs Naturalism on page 347.
Thursday - Grammar note: less/fewer. Start reading To Build a Fire in the text book, page 331.
Tuesday - Friday, January 18th - 22nd
No school on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Junior.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Essay writing day. Please finish by the end of the period.
Thursday - Peer editing and final revisions.
Friday - Final work day for re-takes and grade checks.
Monday - Friday, January 11th - 15th
Monday - Finish the movie.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Create an outline for your essay, get it checked and then begin writing. These documents will be up on Google Classroom.
Thursday - Finish and run outlines by Ms. B, then start writing. A blank document is on Google Classroom.
Friday - Writing. Check out the skills guidelines HERE.
Tuesday - Friday, January 5th - 8th
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Presentation on CONTEXT CLUES for vocabulary. Two-part activity for Into the Wild: compare/contrast Krakauer and McCandless' lives, and a vocabulary challenge - both in Chapter 14. The novel is due to be completed by today! Please bring your movie permission slips.
Thursday - Start movie. Please make sure to take notes on parallels between the book and the film.
Winter Break!
Winter Break!
Monday - Friday, December 14th - 18th
Monday - Begin writing for the Worst Christmas Story Ever Contest. Note to self: we already did the the Comma presentation.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Study guide for Chapters 9-12 DUE. Continue story.
Thursday - Finish up stories and MAKE UP/RETAKE DAY - vocab exam, skills demos, etc. Into the Wild Vocabulary Quizlet study link HERE.
Friday - WORST CHRISTMAS STORY EVER CONTEST!
Monday - Friday, December 7th - 11th
Monday - Book notes and go over the study guide.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Into the Wild Chapter 5-8, plus worksheet due today. Skills demo on structure and author's point of view.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Into the Wild Chapter 5-8, plus worksheet due today. Skills demo on structure and author's point of view.
Thursday - Vocab exam - Quizlet study link HERE.
Friday - Rea eding and study guides.
Monday - Friday, November 30th - December 4th
Monday - Reading and worksheet day.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Into the Wild Chapter 1-4 plus worksheet due today. Review Common Mistakes in Sentence Structure before doing the writing activity today. Skills Demo is on Google Classroom.
Thursday - Finish the skills demo from Tuesday. Reading time when you're done.
Friday - Illustrations - character study/graphic organizer.
Monday & Tuesday, November 23rd & 24th
Monday - Check out Into the Wild. Get book markers/reading schedules and study guides (the first one on Chapter 1-4 is due Tuesday, December 1st) and get started.
Into the Wild
Monday - Friday, November 16th - 20th
Monday - TEXT BOOK NEEDED. Begin selection from Walden, Where I Lived and What I lived For by Henry David Thoreau on pages 207-210. Notes and summaries of each paragraph.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Presentations and begin reading Solitude. Discuss.
Thursday - Skills demo on Walden. Passages from Emerson, Thoreau, and Krakauer, practice assignment.
Thursday - Skills demo on Walden. Passages from Emerson, Thoreau, and Krakauer, practice assignment.
Friday - Vocab for Into the Wild. Quizlet HERE. Individual conferences about grades.
Monday - Friday, November 9th - 13th
Tuesday (special conference schedule) - "Close Reader" workbook - Ralph Waldo Emerson readings and activities on pages 41-43, On Nature.
Wednesday - Veteran's Day/No School
Thursday - Ralph Waldo Emerson readings and activities on pages 45-46, from Self Reliance.
Friday - True Grit essay revisions DUE TODAY.
Friday - True Grit essay revisions DUE TODAY.
Monday - Thursday, November 2nd - 5th
Monday - Into the Wild movie trailer and assignment on Google Classroom. See the links below. Read both excerpts and complete the assignment above to turn in today.
Links to Into the Wild
- Into the Wild Practice Assignment is on Google Classroom
Thursday - A look at the TRUE GRIT ESSAY - time for revisions. This is the end of the FIRST QUARTER!
Friday - Grading Day/No School.
TRUE
GRIT Reading Schedule:
Pages
1-82 ~ Due Thurs Oct 8th
TRUE GRIT Reading Schedule:
Monday - Friday, October 26th - 30th
Monday - Final editing on essays. Please follow these links and apply the guidelines to your essay, especially the tips for quoting text.: Comma Guide and Formatting Guide.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Movie time: TRUE GRIT.
Thursday - Movie time.
Friday - HALLOWEEN HAIKU SHOWDOWN!
Monday - Friday, October 19th - 23rd
Monday - Study for the VOCAB skills demo next week. Quizlet link below. Work in pairs to turn in illustrations of select vocab words.
Tuesday - NY Times article True Grit, Odd Wit about author Charles Porter. Skills demo on Google Classroom.
Thursday - Finish True Grit for today and begin essay. You'll have today and tomorrow in class to complete it. This two-day time frame is one of things I'll be grading on.
Friday - Essay due today.
VOCABULARY LINK - TRUE GRIT QUIZLET
Monday - Friday, October 12th - 16th
Monday - Book notes.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Intro to the essay for True Grit. Brainstorming for the final. If there is time, reading and completion of last week's skills demo.
Thursday - Pages 83-197 due today. Skills demo on Part 2.
Friday - Vocab study day.
Monday - Friday, October 5th - 9th
Monday - TRUE GRIT Vocabulary: Quizlet link HERE.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - On the topic of "grit": TED Talk, personal survey, and article. Links below. Find your assignment on Google Classroom.
Thursday - Practice assignment on Part 1 of the novel - document link HERE.
GRIT SURVEY: FIND OUT YOUR GRIT SCORE HERE
ARTICLE: GRIT: THE KEY INGREDIENT TO YOUR KIDS' SUCCESS
VOCABULARY LINK - TRUE GRIT QUIZLET
Monday - Friday, September 28th - October 2nd
Monday - Read Balboa in the text book, pages 77-83. Have students take notes on character, timeline, plot, and themes (worksheet to turn in at the end of the period).
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Notes on story structure. Practice assignment - group work on Analyzing the Text questions (page 85).
Thursday - True Grit. Check it out, start reading.
Friday - Book notes on time, place and character.
Monday - Friday, September 21st - 25th
Monday - Small group collaboration and presentation on purpose, themes, and rhetorical devices. One last skills demo for Of Plymouth Plantation.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - Continue? Writing from history.
Thursday - Continue writing assignment.
Friday - Wrap up the writing, share, illustrate.
Monday - Friday, September 14th - 18th
Monday - Go over "The Difference between Refugee and Migrant Matters" responses and discuss the standards that are related to them. Bring your text book today. Read an excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation (Pages 5-18). Academic vocabulary on Page 2. Read Chapter IX today and discuss.
Tuesday (BLOCK) - OPB Radio article, Migrant Crisis Adds To Tension Between UK And Rest Of Europe - link HERE. YouTube link to London protests on 9/12/15 - link HERE. Continue text book reading, plus small SKILLS DEMO.
Thursday - Discuss and RETAKE skills demo.
Friday - Finish reading the text. Small group collaboration on purpose, themes, and rhetorical devices.
Tuesday - Friday, September 8th - 11th
Tuesday - Introductions and class syllabus. Writing diagnostic: What is the American Dream? Is it attainable for everybody? What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century?
Wednesday - Complete diagnostic and discuss. Possibly check out text books.
Thursday - The refugee crisis - on Google Classroom.
Friday - Reviewing the assignments from yesterday. Refugee story search - links below.
Friday - Reviewing the assignments from yesterday. Refugee story search - links below.
Text Link: The Difference between Refugee and Migrant Matters
Podcast Link: That Little Syrian Boy: Here's Who He Was
Refugee Stories Links: Refugee Voices and Refugee Stories
For next week:
Start with the text book, an excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation (Pages 5-18). Academic vocabulary on Page 2. Read Chapter IX today and discuss.
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