Intro to Lit A Course Calendar

Week 12 (Mar. 3-7)

Monday, Mar. 3
Tuesday, Mar. 4
Wednesday, Mar. 5
Thursday, Mar. 7
Friday, Mar. 8
Class

work:
-Review for R&J
-Review for parts of sentence quiz
-R&J exam
-Parts of Sentence exam
-Review for finals
-Common Assessment
-Finals
-Finals
Homework:






Week 11 (Feb. 24-28)
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Monday, Feb. 24
Tuesday, Feb. 25
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Thursday, Feb. 27
Friday, Feb. 28
Class
work:
-R&J Act II Quiz
-R&J Act III
-R&J Exam study guide
-R&J Act III
-Phrases

-Participle Practice
-Gerund Practice
-Infinitive Practice
-R&J Act III quiz
-R&J Act IV
-R&J Act IV
-Clauses

-R&J Act V
-Parts of Sentence review
Homework:
-Finish Act III, scene ii
-Act III Study Guide due tomorrow (and quiz!)
-3 online worksheets and preposition/appositive
worksheet
-Infinitive worksheet
-Act IV Study Guide (and quiz!) tomorrow
-Clauses worksheets
-R&J exam next Tuesday!
-Parts of Sentence Review


Week 10 (Feb. 17-21)

Monday, Feb. 17
Tuesday, Feb. 18
Wednesday, Feb. 19
Thursday, Feb. 20
Friday, Feb. 21
Class
work:
-No School
(President's Day)
-Vocab 6 Quiz
-Shakespeare Literary Terms
-Collect TKAM Lit Analysis
-Collect TKAM books
-Discuss Webquest
-Intro to Shakespeare
-Sign-ups for Romeo and Julie
-Begin R&J
-Shakespeare's Language p. 766 LIT
-The Globe

-R&J Act I
-Finals Study Guide
-R&J Act I Quiz
-R&J Act II
-Subjects

-Finish R&J Act II on your own
-Read through Complements Notes below
(DO,IO,PN,PA,OC)
and p. 434-441 in GRAMMAR BOOK

Homework:

-Shakespearean Terms worksheet

-Act I Study Guide due tomorrow (and quiz!)



-Bring Grammar Book tomorrow
-Act II Study Guide due Monday (and quiz!)
-DO/IO worksheet


Week 9 (Feb. 10-14)

Monday, Feb. 10
Tuesday, Feb. 11
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Thursday, Feb. 13
Friday, Feb. 14
Class
work:
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 5 quiz
-TKAM quiz
-Collect character worksheets
-Scottsboro boys

-Scottsboro boys update
-TKAM study guide

-Vocab 6 due Wednesday
-Daily Practice
-Discuss Thesis Statments
-TKAM movie-Write down at least
five differencesfrom the movie
and the novel (due at the
end of class)
-Daily Practice
-Collect outlines
-Collect Vocab 6
-TKAM movie
-Daily Practice
-Parts of Speech Exam
-Go through Vocab 6
-Finish TKAM movie
-Review for TKAM Test
-Daily Practice
-TKAM Exam
-Time to work on Lit Analysis
(due Tuesday)
-Any questions on Lit Analysis?
-Intro to Shakespeare Webquest

Homework:
-Parts of Speech Review
-TKAM study guide (quote identification)
-Vocab 6
Topic and outline for TKAM lit
analysis due tomorrow-PLEASE
PRINT before class!
-Vocab 6 due tomorrow
-Parts of Speech Exam tomorrow
-Study for TKAM Test tomorrow!
-Work on TKAM lit analysis
-Shakespeare webquest
-TKAM Lit analysis due Tuesday!
-Vocab 6 quiz Monday!
-BRING LITERATURE BOOK TUESDAY!!!
-Bring TKAM book to turn in TUESDAY!!!


Week 8 (February 3-7)

Monday, Feb. 3
Tuesday, Feb. 4
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Thursday, Feb. 6
Friday, Feb. 7
Class
work:
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 5 (due Wednesday)
-TKAM quiz
-Discuss TKAM
-Read TKAM 17-18
-Reading time
-Daily Practice
-Preposition Practice (p. 407 Grammar Book
Ex. 4, 5, 7-- see list of prepositions on page 402)
-TKAM quiz
-Read TKAM 19-20
-Reading time
Online Learning Day:
-Read this article:
-Rosa Parks Bus Incident
and answer the 9 questions
on a piece of notebook paper.

-Read chapters TKAM 21-23. We will take a quiz over those tomorrow.

-Daily Practice
-Go through Vocab 5
-Narrative Essay due
-TKAM quiz
-Read TKAM 24-27

-Parts of Speech Review

-Online practice
-Daily Practice
-Parts of Speech review
-TKAM quiz
-Read TKAM 28-end of book
-Intro TKAM Lit Analysis (due
Tuesday, Feb. 18)

Homework:
-Read TKAM 17-18
-Vocab 5 due Wed
-Bring grammar book tomorrow!
-Read TKAM 19-20
-Read TKAM 21-23
-Narrative essay due tomorrow!
(must be printed before class!)

-Vocab 5 due tomorrow (from yesterday)
-Preposition practice due tomorrow
(from yesterday)
-Read TKAM 24-27
-Finish TKAM (28-end of book)
-Character worksheet due Monday
-Vocab 5 quiz Monday!
-Parts of Speech review



Week 7 (Jan. 27-31)

Monday, Jan. 27
Tuesday, Jan. 28
Wednesday, Jan. 29
Thursday, Jan. 30
Friday, Jan. 31
Class
work:
Online learning day:
Answer these questions on TKAM and
email to me BEFORE class tomorrow.

Read TKAM ch. 6-8 (quiz tomorrow
over chapters 1-8)
-Finish note on Adjectives/Adverbs


-Go through Vocab 4
-TKAM reading quizzes (through chapter 8)
-Rosa Parks Bus Incident

-Adjectives/Adverb practice
-Introduce Narrative Essay
(due next Wednesday, Feb. 5)


-Quiz on TKAM
-Discuss TKAM
-Intro to prepositions


-Preposition practice
-Quiz on TKAM
-Discuss TKAM
-Vocab 4 Quiz
-Prepositions homework
-Quiz on TKAM
Homework:
-Ch. 3-5 questions
-Read TKAM ch. 6-8
-Adjectives/Adverbs worksheet
-Read TKAM ch. 9-10
-Read TKAM ch. 11-12
-Read TKAM ch. 13-14
-Prepositions practice
-Read TKAM ch. 15-16
-Preposition practice


Week 6 (Jan. 20-24)

Monday, Jan. 20
Tuesday, Jan. 21
Wednesday, Jan. 22
Thursday, Jan. 23
Friday, Jan. 24
Class
work:
No school
-No Daily Practice
-Vocab 3 Quiz
-Vocab 4
-Intro to Harper Lee

-Time to work on poetry portfolio
-No Daily Practice
-Harper Lee Biography information due
-TKAM setting: read the following
article and answer the accompanying
questions



-Time to work on poetry portfolio
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 4 due
-Great Depression questions due
-Poetry Portfolio due!!
-Discuss Harper Lee/Great Depression
-Hand out TKAM books
-Intro to "To Kill a Mockingbird"
-Reading Time (read chapters 1-2)
-Daily Practice
-TKAM character sheet
-Adjectives/Adverbs




Homework:

-Vocab 4 due Thursday
-Vocab 4 due Thursday
-Poetry portfolio due tomorrow
-Read TKAM ch 1-2
Read TKAM ch 3-5

Week 5 (Jan. 12-16)

Monday, Jan. 12
Tuesday, Jan. 13
Wednesday, Jan. 14
Thursday, Jan. 15
Friday, Jan. 16
Class
work:
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 3 (due Wed)
-Finish group poetry analysis
-Intro to Poetry Portfolio
assignment (topic due tomorrow!!)

-Daily Practice
-Types of poems
-Poetry Portfolio Topics
-The Raven (p. 940),

-Daily Practice
-Go through Vocab 3
-Song lyric analysis

-Hand out poetry study guide

-Emily Dickinson, maggie and milly and molly and may (p. 328)
Your little voice
-Turn in song lyric analysis
-Read "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe and answer questions

-Time to work on poetry portfolio: Please write the limerick and the sonnet (following directions from the rubric) and email to me by the end of class! Make sure to follow iambic pentameter for the sonnet (10 beats per line)
-Study for Poetry test (tomorrow). We will review briefly before the exam on Friday.
-Vocab 3 quiz will be moved to Monday!!
-Daily Practice
-Poetry Unit Test
-Time to work on Poetry
Portfolio (due next Thursday)
Homework:
-Poetry Portfolio topic due tomorrow!

-Finish Song lyric analysis
-Poetry Unit Test tomorrow!
-Work on Poetry Portfolio
-Vocab 3 quiz Monday!!


Week 4 (Jan. 6-10)

Monday, Jan. 6
Tuesday, Jan. 7
Wednesday, Jan. 8
Thursday, Jan. 9
Friday, Jan. 10
Class
work:
Snow day!
Snow day!
-Daily Practice
-Collect grammar worksheets
-Introduction to Poetry

-Poetic Devices Notes

-Daily Practice
-Action/Linking Verb Practic
-Transitive/Intransitive Verb Practice
-"Summer" p. 927
-Analyzing favorite poems
-Poetry Group Analysis

-Poetry Analysis presentations
-Grammar practice
-Daily Practice
-Individual Poetry Analysis (due at end of class)

Homework:


-Bring LIT BOOK tomorrow!
-Bring a copy of your favorite poem
to class tomorrow
-Poetic devices worksheet




Week 3 (Dec. 16-20)

Monday, Dec. 16
Tuesday, Dec. 17
Wednesday, Dec. 18
Thursday, Dec. 19
Friday, Dec. 20
Class
work:
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 2 (due Wed)
-Peer editing
-Intro "The Scarlet Ibis"
-Daily Practice
-Short story due!
-Quiz on "The Scarlet Ibis"
-Discussion on "The Scarlet Ibis
Review for short story test (Monday)
by summarizing and analyzing elements
of a short story from
each story
-Daily Practice
-Short Story Test
-Go through Vocab 2
-Daily Practice
-Nouns/Pronouns


-Noun/pronoun practice
-Intro short story

-Daily Practice
-Vocab 2 quiz
-Discuss short story
-Finish nouns/pronouns
-Verbs

Homework:
-Finish reading "The Scarlet
Ibis"
-Short story due tomorrow!
-Vocab 2 (due Wed)
-Short story test tomorrow!
-Vocab 2 due tomorrow

-Read "Christmas Day" by Pearl Buck
-Noun/Pronoun worksheet
-Pronoun Practice
-Verb practice


Week 2 (Dec. 9-13):

Monday, Dec. 9
Tuesday, Dec. 10
Wednesday, Dec. 11
Thursday, Dec. 12
Friday, Dec. 13
Class
work:
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 1 due Wednesday
-Introduction to Edgar Allen Poe

-Intro "The Tell-Tale Heart"
-Daily Practice
-Intro to "Cask of Amontillado" p.7-12 LIT Book
-Develop your own character/setting
worksheet


-Daily Practice
-Quiz on "Cask of Amontillado"
-Go through Vocab 1
-Intro short story writing assignment

-Intro to "Eleonora" by Poe
-Discussion on stories
-Writing style and process(see link on left)
-Spell checker mistakes
-Develop your own plot/theme worksheet


-Daily Practice (commonly confused words 1 Quiz)
-Hand out Short Story Test Review
(test next Wednesday)

-Biography information on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-Intro to "The Red-Headed
League"
-Daily Practice
-Vocab 1 Quiz
Quiz on RHL
-Discussion of RHL
-Time to work on short story
Homework:
-Finish "The Tell-Tale Heart"
-Analysis of Tell-Tale Heart due tomorrow

-Vocab 1 due Wednesday
-Finish Cask of Amontillado" p.7-12 LIT Book
-Develop your own character/setting worksheet
-Finish Vocab 1 (due tomorrow)
-Develop your own plot/theme worksheets
-Begin working on short story draft
-Read "Eleonora" by Poe
-Commonly confused words quiz tomorrow!
-Finish reading "The Red-Headed League"
-Red-Headed League worksheet
-Keep working on on short story draft
-Vocab 1 quiz tomorrow
-Short story first draft due Monday!(MUST BE PRINTED BEFORE COMING TO CLASS!)


Week 1 (December 2-6):

Monday, Dec. 2
Tuesday, Dec. 3
Wednesday, Dec. 4
Thursday, Dec. 5
Friday, Dec. 6
Class
work:
-Seating Chart and books
-Introductions
-Course Expectations
-Getting to know the class wiki

-Daily Practice
-MLA formatting (see link on left)
-Vague words activity

-Daily Practice
-Common Assessment
-Why and how we read
-Sentence Combining
-Explanation of Descriptive paragraph

-Daily Practice
-Notes on elements of a short story

-"Casey at the Bat" p. 42 LIT BOOK and
discuss 5 elements
-Intro "The Birds"
-Reading Time
-Daily Practice
-Quiz on "The Birds"
-Discuss "The Birds" and 5 elements of that story
-More literary terms

-Intro "The Most Dangerous
Game" LIT Book p. 19-36
-Daily Practice
-Quiz on "TMDG"
-MDG group discussions
-Assign expository paragraph

Homework:
-Replacing vague words worksheet
-Email Mrs. Speck Daily Practice
-MLA formatting worksheet

-Descriptive paragraph due tomorrow!
**MUST BE PRINTED BEFORE CLASS!

-Finish reading "The Birds" p.50-82 LIT Book
(quiz tomorrow)
-Finish "The Most Dangerous
Game" p. 19-36
-Expository Paragraph due Monday!