Wed 1/3
New Semester

Explain class rationale, assignments, grading

Hand out The Outsiders
--no vocab this book!

ASGN: Read Chapter 1, take notes on characters

Start Doctor Zhivago

ASGN: Read pp1-183 by Wed 1/10

Vocab: 20-word quiz next Thursday
--15 words on list from CAH (I'll have it done by Monday)
--5 words chosen by CAH from assigned reading, unannounced!

Start thinking about possible essay topics and Big Books

DUE: Notes over Outsiders Chap1

Discuss text, names, perspective

ASGN: Read C2, take more notes on characters, esp Dallas, Cherry

ASGN: 10 extemp articles by Friday!

Method #1: Graphing!

ASGN: p.431 #5-14
--#5-8: just do math
--#9-14: Graph! You will graph 12 lines!

Lecture: Russian Pre-Rev/Rev history in 15 minutes!

Reading Time

Hand out first 11 chapters of The Philosophy Gym, students begin choosing topics

Opening Impromptus!

Also bring notes Friday for review by CAH

DUE: Notes over C2

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read Chaps 3-5, take notes on the following questions:

1. differences between Greasers and Socs
2. Why is Cherry so open with Ponyboy?
3. Why do Socs and Greasers fight?
4. (p44 old) Is there a place without groups?
5. (p47 old) Why is the gang not the same as family?
6. Why do Johnny and Ponyboy run?
7. Who helps the boys, and how?

Allessa: prepare for extemp tomorrow - practice speech?

Lauren: work on cases?

DUE: p.431 #5-14

ASGN: Extra practice at graphing and finding intersections

First topic choice tentatively due Wednesday

ASGN: Current Event Speeches!
--Choose two news stories that happen over the weekend (no old stuff from this week!)
--prepare at least 30 seconds of information (and commentary, if you wish) on these two events
--Be ready to speak on both; CAH will pick one for you to speak on.

Lecture: My Expectations for Speeches!
--"Every speech must be about something that matters, and you must speak in a way that shows that it matters."
--reasons to study and practice speech communication
--Professional
--Personal
--Democracy!

ASGN: By Friday, January 12, present a list of 11 speech topics (3 of which should be marked as visual aid topics). CAH will pick 4 as your topics for 4 big speeches (including Student Congress legislation)

ASGN: Read C6

Continue practicing graphing to solve systems of equations

ASGN: Online Practice Set #1! 8 problems!

Keep reading Philosophy Gym chapters -- choice for first paper due Wed! 

First CE Speeches!

Lecture: Reasons to study and practice speech communication
--Professional
--Personal
--Democracy!

ASGN: By the end of the week, present a typed list of 11 speech topics (3 of which should be marked as visual aid topics). CAH will pick 4 as your topics for 4 big speeches (including Student Congress legislation)

Reading Quiz!

Discuss the church fire, the boys' actions

ASGN: Read C7-8, take notes

ASGN: Practice Set #2: graphing systems to solve

reading to p183 due tomorrow!

ASGN: V21 WKST

Study Time: Read more Philosophy Gym -- fist chapter pick due tomorrow!

ASGN: V21 WKST

Continue Lecture: why Study Speech
--review professional reasons from yesterday
--personal reasons: realtionships, communication, love!
--citizenship -- democratic reasons: democracy based on free and intelligent communication

Discuss text for points!

ASGN: C9 (the rumble!) w notes
--explain Johnny's last words!

New material: solving systems by substitution!
--solve 1 equation for y
--substitute the "x-side" of that equation in for y in the 2nd equation
--solve for x!
--plug that result in for x in the 1st equation
--solve for y!

ASGN: p.431 #5-14: solve by subst, not graphing! check with old assignment!

Big Doctor Zhivago discussion
--What are all these people doing? How are they connected?
--What sort of portrait is Pasternak offering of this period of Russian history?

ASGN: Read Zhivago pp. 183-328 by next week Wednesday

DUE: Choice of PG chapter for first paper!

First paper due Wed, Jan 31!
--RD Due Tue Jan 30
--FD Wed Jan 31
--min 400 words
--max 4 "to be" forms

cture--citizenship -- democratic reasons: democracy based on free and intelligent communication
--speech and democracy
--voting
--low voter turnout among groups means those groups don't draw attention from politicians: compare youth progs with elderly progs!
--campaigning

Discuss pumping up,. rumble, Darrel's mood, difference between Dally's and Johnny's last words

ASGN: Read C10

ASGN: Online Problems Practice Set #1 -- solve by graphing!

Vocab Quiz -- Doctor Zhivago List #1

ASGN: Vocab List #2 -- Quiz next week Friday

Really Quiet Reading time!

Work Time!
--study for Vocab Quiz #21
--read The Philosophy Gym, conference w. CAH on possible essay questions, concepts, etc.
--look for Big Book!

Reading Quiz over 9 and 10!

ASGN: Read C11-12 (i.e. finish the book!)

ASGN: Practice Set #2: Solve by substitution!

CAH and Irish Speech Team gone to Silver Bowl at SFLincoln

Reading Time!

V21 Quiz!

Work Time: Read Philosophy Gym, look for Big Book!

V21 Quiz!

No Current Event Speeches -- CAH out!

DUE: present a typed list of 11 speech topics (3 of which should be marked as visual aid topics). CAH will pick 4 as your topics for 4 big speeches (including Student Congress legislation)

ASGN: Prepare brief speech on why speech communication is important
--min 1 min
--must give serious reasons
--must include at least one specific example!
--must be delivered without notes
--must be delivered with enthusiasm

Alas, no students -- in-service presentation at McCook Central.

The book as a book, looping back on itself!

Essays due Thursday! Check the requirements for length, text refs, and format!

New method (this is the third method!): Solving by Adding or Subtracting Equations!

--set one equation below the other
--use multiplication to make the coefficients of the x's or the y's equal
--add or subtract all elements of one equation from corresponding elements of another equation (one of the variables should cancel out at this point)
--solve for the remaining variable
--plug result into original equation, solve for the second variable

ASGN: Six pairs of equations on board: solve by today's new method!

Work Time: Essay #1

FD Essays due tomorrow

Keep practicing!

ASGN: Six more pairs of equations, a little tougher

Big Discussion Day!
--more on what sort of portrait Pasternak is painting of Russia at this time 

ASGN: Read pp329-464 by next Wed

ASGN: V22 WKST

Work time -- Essay #1 RD Due Jan 30!

DUE: V22 Defs

ASGN: V22 WKST

Hand back speech topics chosen by CAH

Finish "Importance of Speech" speeches 

Speech Lecture: Begin Biology!
--speech mental and physical

Begin reading A Separate Peace!

Note: Vocab and Objective Tests on this book! Start studying now!

ASGN: C1-2 w notes on chars

New trick: look for Least Common Multiples!
--e.g.: suppose the system is 6x + 5y = 20 and 8x - 44y = 30. Sure, you could Multiply the first equation by 8 and the second by 6 to make both x's have a coefficient of 48. But you could ease your brain load a little by taking the x's to their least common multiple of 24: multiply the first equation by 3, the second by 4

ASGN: more practice! All requiring multiplying both equations!

Financial Aid Meeting -- Jrs & Srs

Quiz Tomorrow!

Holly: HOBY presentation! 

DUE: V22 WKST

DUE: Check Notes!

Continue Biology of Speech lecture
--brain!
--diaphragm: energy, hissing, screaming, six-pack abs

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read C3-6 (pp25-77), take notes on what happens at the tree and how Finny and Gene react and reconcile
--also prepare for reading quiz!

CAH and Irish Speech Team gone to Speech Fiesta in Watertown

ASGN: Yet more practice!

Vocab Quiz: Doctor Zhivago List #2

Vocab Quiz #3 next week Thursday!

Vocab Quiz #22

Work Time -- Essay #1 RD due Jan 30!

Vocab Quiz #22

ASGN: Think of and list in notes 8 hindrances to the proper functioning of the speech mechanism
--also, find one article that relates to the first topic you plan to do your speech on!

Reading Quiz

Discuss "My knees bent" (52), word choice, and authorial intent

ASGN: Read C7, take notes!

One-Act Play Performance

short periods -- early release at 14:00 for in-service

ASGN: Read C8, take notes, prep for Reading Quiz

ASGN: Review of methods: two problems, solve each by graphing, then substitution, then add/subtract equations!

Continue Biology of Speech lecture
--lungs: floppy air sacs
--bronchi
--trachea
--larynx
--vocal cords

Reading Quiz C7-8

ASGN: Read C9-10 for Friday, take notes on the Winter Carnival, Leper, his actions, his conversation with Gene. 
--Why does Gene get so mad?
--be ready for Reading Quiz

Practice Problems in class! Quiz Friday!

ASGN: Read remainder of text! pp465-569 (including poems!)

Lecture: more biology
--resonators
--articulators
--accents and attitudes!

CAH and Montrose HS Theater Company gone to Brandon for Region I-B One-Act Play Contest!

Quiet Reading Time

Reading Quiz C9-10!

Discuss Leper, his state of mind, Gene's reaction

ASGN: Finish the book! Read C11-13, take notes on the tribunal, Gene and Finny's interaction, the conclusion 

Doctor Zhivago Vocab Quiz #3

Reading Quiz! 

Discuss text: rivalry, fear, loyalty; compare to Outsiders

New material: Back to Ratios, Proportions (and building toward probability!)

ASGN: pp302-303 #8-26

Last chance! Work on first essay!

Check notes!

Loose ends on biology of speech:
--caffeine
--screaming

New Lecture: How CAH Scores Speeches!

A Separate Peace Vocabulary Quiz!

More Dimensional Analysis

ASGN: WKSTs 263, 265

ASGN: V23 WKST

DUE: RD Essay #1!

Peer Revision!

ASGN: V23 WKST

Continue Lecture: Speech Scoring! CAH's evaluation criteria

A Separate Peace Objective Quiz (matching characters, multiple choice)!

Today's questions:
--Will all American women be able to take advantage of the cervical cancer vaccine? Is anyone other than the United States doing enough to fight terrorism? Can we trust Kim Jong Il to negotiate in good faith? Is the Bush Administration suppressing good science? Is Somalia on the way to stability or chaos? Is Microsoft's power increasing or decreasing?

More Dimensional Analysis: prices!
--value per unit: buying food by the pound

ASGN: WKST 267

Discussion: How does it come together?

DUE: FD Essay #1!

Lecture: Finish Evaluation Sheet
--variety of tone
--physical movement
--enthusiasm
--judging on appearances: it happens! Having enthusiasm won't matter if you don't show that enthusiasm!

Work Time: Review text, work on essays (in computer lab if available)

ASGN For Monday: Unit Conversion WKST

Doctor Zhivago Vocab Quiz #4

ASGN: find article about Animal Farm (not Cliff's Notes, PinkMonkey, or any other such cheat summaries): on Monday, you must show me the article and also be prepared to tell me for at least one minute what this book is about!

Vocab Quiz #23

Meeting with Mr. Hruby

Vocab Quiz #23

Interviews! CAH meets individually with each student, must be prepared to offer at least one minute of information about Animal Farm (students go to secret holding area when finished -- no contact with students who haven't been interviewed yet)

Long-Term Assignments for Animal Farm:
--2 essays
--30 vocab words: quiz at end of reading
--objective quiz day after vocab quiz
--Memorized recitation of "Beasts of England" by end of reading!

ASGN: Read Animal Farm Chapters 1-2, take notes on characters! Be prepared for a reading quiz....

Also prepare for extemp speeches: Lauren speaks Wednesday, Allessa speaks Thursday

ASGN for Wed: Get prices from stores or ads for five pairs of differently priced but comparable groceries (two brands of peanut butter, orange juice, bread; two diff size bags of snacks; etc.); calculate unit prices by mass or volume (pound, ounce, gram, fluid ounce -- be consistent with each pair!) and unit prices by calorie

Study Day! Students get the period to review the Zhivago vocab quizzes, check definitions, and work on essays 

Review Proofreading, prepare for quiz tomorrow

ASGN: V24 Defs (don't forget etymologies!)

ASGN: V24 Defs (don't forget etymologies!)

Begin Lecture on Communication (students take notes!)
--sender, receiver, message
--verbal vs. non-verbal
--noise, feedback
--verbal: denotation, connotation
--non-verbal:
--paralang. ("Yeah, right!" volume, pitch, rate, tone)
--emoticons!
--proxemics
--kinesics

Prepare for quiz over this material on communication after the big speeches!

Prepare for Practice Speeches on Friday!

Reading Quiz!

CAH lecture: History of Russia, Communism, Stalinism

ASGN: Read C3-4, take notes!

Doctor Zhivago Essays Due!
--Students hand in hard copies of "Kicker" essays at beginning of period
--Students write third essays in class from own knowledge (no notes, no books, only one sheet with quotes and page #s)

Begin reading Jane Eyre

ASGN: Read C1-4 for Friday!

ASGN: V24 WKST

Continue review of proofreading worksheet, beginning with the misplaced modifier at the top of page 3

ASGN: V24 WKST

Continue Lecture on Communication
--non-verbal:
--paralang. ("Yeah, right!" volume, pitch, rate, tone)
--emoticons!
--proxemics
--kinesics

Discuss for Points!

ASGN: ASGN: Read C5-6, take notes

ASGN: Cross - Multiplication Review! WKST 269

Seniors gone to Pierre 
(read on the bus!)

Proofreading Quiz! 1 page from prev asgn

Finish Speech Comm lecture:
--proxemics

Reading Quiz! then discuss

ASGN: Read C7 w notes!

ASGN: More complicated Cross-Mult -- WKST 271

Doctor Zhivago Cumulative Vocab Quiz

Reading Time:
Jane Eyre -- Read C1-12 for Tuesday!

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read C8-10 (finish the book!)

Organize for Mundt!

New Material: Basic Probability, desire outcomes over possible outcomes

ASGN: p312-4 #5-22

CAH and Irish Speakers gone to Mundt in Madison!

Prepare for Jane Eyre Vocab Quiz #1 Wednesday

Also begin looking at Essay Questions

Vocab Quiz #24

Vocab Quiz #24

Practice Speeches in gym! Students delvier full speeches in small groups, provide written critiques to the students they listen to. Be sure to time each other!

Reading Quiz!

Note Orwell's shift: Chapter 10 perhaps seeks to predict the future (and reflects it remarkably well, especially for China, which did not turn Red until 1949, after Animal Farm was published; China went thru all its revolutionary fervor only to become an economic power by embracing capitalism)

ASGN: Return to the beginning! Read the Baker preface and the Woodhouse intro

No practice speeches this week: just fire up for Friday!

New Material: Basic Probability, desire outcomes over possible outcomes

ASGN: p312-4 #5-22

Big Speech #1:
Bethanny 
Brian 
Ashley 
Betsy 
Lauren 
Austin 

Listening Quiz #1!
After all of today's speeches, I will ask one question about the content of each speech. Students may take notes and consult those notes to answer these questions. Students do answer questions about their own speeches (consider it your one freebie!)

Reading Quiz

Discuss the ending - why there? any hope?
--Continue discussion of political meaning of the text

Emphasize P(x) notation

ASGN: WKST 277

Reading Quiz?

Discuss the story!

ASGN: Read Chapters 13-20 for next Tues 2/20! 

Big Speech #1:
Patty
Zach
Jenna
Craig
Angela

Listening Quiz #2

ASGN: WKST 279

Big Speech #1:
Corinne
Jacob
Dathan
Dustin
Brianna
Erin

Listening Quiz #3

short periods, 14:00 release

Parent - Teacher Confs!

Animal Farm
Vocab Quiz

Examine file for illegal documents!

New Material: Sample Space!
--trees
--Counting Principle!

ASGN: pp318-9 #3-19

Big Speech #1:
Kennon
Abbie
Katie
David

Listening Quiz #4

No School -- CAH at Irish Speech Team at Northern NFLs! National Qualifying Tournament!

No School -- CAH probably mapping curriculum... or playing with baby!

short periods, 14:00 release

Teacher cmte time

Animal Farm
Objective Quiz
--upon completion, study for retake of Animal Farm Vocab Quiz

"Beasts of England" Recitations Due:
Brent
Brittany
Shelby

Allessa speaks tomorrow on question #2: "Is New Orleans dead?"

See all questions here

More probability!

ASGN: pp320-1 #30-40

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read C21-27 for Monday, 2/26
--prepare for Jane Eyre Vocab Quiz #2 (2/27)

Tell juniors about EF essay contest!

Begin Lecture: Speech Organization
--IBC
--body: organize with ideas, tone, and transitions!
--focus on intro attention devices:
1) humor
2) anecdote
3) common ground
4) shock
5) suspense

Animal Farm
Essays Due!

Retake
Animal Farm
Vocab Quiz

"Beasts of England" Recitations Due:
Michael (abs: may make up Thu)
Mary
Cody S.
Blake

ASGN: Lauren speaks tomorrow on her choice among questions #4-7

See all questions here

Review problems, trees

ASGN: WKST 283 Sample Space

Peer Revision

"Beasts of England" Recitations Due:
Cody L.
Jon
Trevor

Begin reading Frankenstein!

CAH Lecture notes:
--science fiction as genre: literary and social value -- "What if...?"
--Frank as seminal work (written by woman!)
--timeline of novel

ASGN: Read Robert Walton's "Letters" (1-4) pp9-24

ASGN: Allessa and Lauren each prepare speeches on one of the remaining 8 questions
--both speak tomorrow to sub, get critiques, submit list of sources
--both revise, re-practice

See all questions here

Independent vs. Dependent Events!

ASGN: pp325-6 #8-25

Go Over rules for Essay #3:
--grade goes on Quarter 4 unless submitted by March 8!
--must include at least one cited source from ProQuest or InfoTrac (available at SD State Library)

ASGN #1 (for tomorrow): Current Events Speech #2
--everyone speaks tomorrow!
--must find and speak on a news event that no one else has! (You might want to have more than one story ready, just in case)
--10% reduction if doing news story already delivered (advantage to those who volunteer to go first)
--news event must be from this week (happened no earlier than Monday)
--min 1 min, max 2 min
--deliver with notes = 10% off credit
--must keep sub's interest -- sub will evaluate!
--all speak tomorrow! 

Katie K makes up quizzes after school!

CAH gone to SF Lincoln judging Rushmore NFLs

Discuss answers

Note that Essay Exam Questions are now online!

ASGN: 
(1) Read Chapters 1-2, take notes!
(2) Study for vocab quiz #1 over the first 9 words on the list (hitherto thru abortive)
(3) Along with notes, write down the sentences in which the first 9 vocab words appear

ASGN: update speeches with at least two new sources, revise presentation for Monday!

More Independent and Dependent Events

ASGN: WKST 289

Continuing Assignment (Due Monday!): read Chapters 21-27 of Jane Eyre, prepare for Jane Eyre Vocab Quiz #2, which will happen Tuesday.

Reading Out Loud! Although students are likely at different places in the book, they all will benefit from reading Chapter 23 out loud. Have various students read out loud (British accents are optional but oh so enjoyable). This chapter is one of the most fun, most melodramatic of the book. I expect those not reading aloud at any given moment to follow along attentively in their texts.

After finishing Chapter 23, students have the remainder of the period to read silently and study vocab.

ASGN: Instant Intros! Students must compose intros for possible speeches
--should include all three elements -- attention device, thesis, roadmap
--no time limit!
--all students deliver on Monday

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #1 (hitherto thru abortive)

ASGN: Read C3-4
--take notes
--write down the sentences in which the listed vocab words appear (prognosticated thru incipient)

Final Assignment: Really Big Speech
--choose an extemp-worthy issue
--define a clear, extemp-worthy question, requiring a definite position
--prepare an extended persuasive speech, minimum 25 minutes, to answer the question
--lots of room for background here!
--you may use highlighted text from sources and a bare outline, but no manuscript or extended speech text is permitted. All materials must be presented to CAH for review the day before the speech.
--flip a coin: speeches due next week.

More Independent and Dependent Events

ASGN: WKST 291

Reading Quiz!

Discuss!

ASGN: Read C28-38 (finish the book!) for Friday, 3/2
--prepare for Jane Eyre Vocab Quiz #3

Work on vocab and essays
--ote: reading interviews on third essay chapter next week! If you plan to hand in essays early to get them on this quarter, come see me this week to do your reading interview

DUE: Instant Intros! All speak!

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read C5-6 (pp47-58)
--take notes: creation! reaction of creator!
--write sentences for all vocab words in this reading!
--prep for vocab quiz tomorrow!

Topic and question due Thursday

New material: sampling, extrapolating from poll or survey data

ASGN: pp334-5 #3-20

Reading Time

ASGN V25 WKST

Research and Reading Time

ASGN V25 WKST

Wrap up Instant Intros

Lecture: Persuasion!
--everything is persuasion: sales, job interviews, contract negotiations,  relationships, planning, politics, etc.
--even this class: at some level, you are not only presenting your information but trying to persuade me to give you full credit for your efforts
--Aristotle and the Greeks: persuasion in the first democracy
--Ethos
--Pathos
--Logos
--Hohos

DUE: C5-6 Notes, vocab sentence

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #2 (prognosticated thru fetter, plus review words!)

Discuss Frankenstein's reaction
--just how did he animate the being, anyway?

ASGN: Read C7-8 (pp59-73)
--take notes: tragedy! death!
--Victor: why doesn't he tell what he knows?
--write vocab sentences for all listed words in this reading

Early Dismissal -- Snow!

Reading Quiz!

Discuss the murder, the trial, Victor's conscience (note first-person and impact on story!)

ASGN: Read C9-10 (pp75-85)
--take notes: nature (symbolism of setting, weather, etc); creature's first dialogue! is the beast what you expected?
--write sentences containing all listed vocab words in this reading
--prep for vocab quiz tomorrow (precipices thru odious, plus review words from previous quizzes!)

Get laptop lab! Research!

More sampling practice
--bias in samples! how to be random!

ASGN: WKST 299-301

Study for Quiz tomorrow!

Study for Quiz tomorrow!

Hand out Student Congress 2007 Bills!

Assign: find and print off three articles relating to any of the bills

DUE: C9-10 Notes and vocab sentences

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #3 (precipices thru odious, plus review words!)

ASGN: Read C11-14 (pp87-108)
--take notes: creature's learning, development, character; story of the family he watches (what are they doing in this story, anyway? why so much detail in Chap 14?)
--write sentences containing all listed vocab words in this reading (melancholy thru noisome)

ASGN: Review for Quiz!

Reading Quiz!

Jane Eyre Vocab Quiz #3

Vocab Quiz #25

Begin Reading Interviews over third essay chapters

Vocab Quiz #25

DUE: three articles

Continue Persuasion Notes: ethos, pathos, logos...

Reading Quiz -- Chaps 11-14

Discuss the creature's first moments (don't forget the moon!), his education, his view of mankind, and his relationship with the DeLaceys
--what is the creature's moral character?

ASGN: Read Chapter 15 (pp109-115)
--take notes: books, creature's communication, family's reaction
--write sentences containing the listed vocab words
--prepare for vocab quiz tomorrow (melancholy thru tumultuous)

Study for tomorrow's quiz!

Jane Eyre Review Vocab Quiz!

End of Quarter!

DUE: C15 Notes and Vocab Sentences

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #4 (melancholy thru tumultuous, plus review words!)

Discuss: How will the creature react?

ASGN: Read C16-17 (pp117-129) -- creature's monologue ends, Victor resumes the story
--take notes: the creature's demand, Victor's response
--write sentences containing the listed vocab words in this reading

ASGN for Monday:
--make a chart for the Student Congress bills and resolutions, mark whether you are for, against, or neutral on each
--next to at least eight of the pieces of legislation on the chart, write down at least one reason for your position

No School

Beginning of 4th Quarter!

Reading Quiz!

Discuss companionship, rights, duties

ASGN: Read C18-19 (pp129-140)
--take notes: the travels!
--write sentences containing the listed vocab words in this reading
--prepare for vocab quiz (myriads thru consummation, plus review words!)

New Material: Exponents (actually, we're reviewing, but we need to set up FOILing and Factoring!)

ASGN: Red Book pp339-340 #14-40 evens!

Begin Reading 1984

Lecture: intro to 1984 and dystopian literature
--note Zamyatin (We, 1921), Huxley (Brave New World, 1932)

ASGN: Read Part ONE, Chapters 1-4
--prep for reading quiz!

DUE:
--make a chart for the Student Congress bills and resolutions, mark whether you are for, against, or neutral on each
--next to at least eight of the pieces of legislation on the chart, write down at least one reason for your position

Discuss Parliamentary Procedure, Congress format, decorum, bills and resolutions
--start session tomorrow!

DUE: C18-19 Notes and vocab sentences

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #5 (myriads thru consummation, plus review words!)

ASGN: Read Chapters 20-22 (pp141-163)
--take notes: Victor's actions with respect to the second creature; the creature's reaction; revenge!
--write sentences containing the listed vocab words in this reading
--prepare for vocab quiz (sophisms thru embarkation, plus review words!)

New Material: 8.2Red: Multiplying and Dividing Exponents
--multiply terms >> add exponents
--divide terms >> subtract exponents!
--x⁰ = 1 (!!!) Note that xⁿ/xⁿ = x^n-n = x⁰

In-Class Practice: Red 344 #3-14

ASGN: Red 344-345 #16-43 ALL

--don't forget to read 1984, Part ONE, Chapters 1-4 for tomorrow!
--also, study for Doubleplushard Vocab Quiz over Part ONE!

Review etymologies

ASGN: V26 WKST

Work Time -- Essay #3 (if finished with Essay #3, start Essay #4 or read Big Book!)

Review etymologies

ASGN: V26 WKST

Opening of Class Congress!

π Day!

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #6 (sophisms thru embarkation, plus review words!)

Discuss: does Victor make a right, reasonable choice? Any justification to creature's response?

ASGN: Read Chapter 23 and part of Chapter 24 (pp165-176)
--take notes: final revenge, the chase, creature's motives
--write sentences containing the listed vocab words in this reading

Review style! Talk about topics!

due tomorrow: brainstorm list!

New Material: 8.3Red: Negative Exponents!

In-Class Practice: Red 350 #4-13

ASGN: Red 350 #15-42

Discuss text!

ASGN: Read 1984 Part ONE Chapters 5-8
--study for Doubleplushard Reading and Vocab Quizzes Monday!

Prep for quiz tomorrow!

DUE: RD Essay #3

Peer Revision

Final Draft due tomorrow

Prep for quiz tomorrow!

Day 2 of Class Student Congress

Reading Quiz (may cover earlier chapters as well)

Discuss Victor's fate: ruined by his aspirations (pride?)

ASGN: Finish reading the text ("Walton, in continuation", pp 176-186)
--take notes: parallels between creature and Frankenstein, Frankenstein and Walton
--write sentences containing the listed vocab words in this reading
--prepare for vocab quiz (transitory thru insatiable, plus review words from previous quizzes!)

Discuss topics for argument, interest, and research

ASGN: for Monday, finalize topic choice and thesis statement, find two sources on the topic!
(Don't forget: topic choice should pay some attention to the availability of primary sources!)

New Material: 8.5 -- Square Root!
--note etymology of radical

ASGN: Red360 #16-39

Vocab Quiz #26

DUE: Final Draft Essay #3

ASGN: Fragment and Run-On Worksheets (84, 85, 87, 88)

Vocab Quiz #26

Day 3 of Class Student Congress

DUE: Notes and vocab sentences over last reading!

Frankenstein
Vocab Quiz #7 (omnipotent thru insatiable, plus review words!)

ASGN: find 10 sources, write MLA citations for all. At least one source should be non-Internet! All web sources must have verifiable authors or organizations! Also, either find or suggest at least one primary source!
--five sources by Thurs!
--other five by next Monday!

ASGN: Pythagorean Theorem! Red 369-370 #3-18

ASGN: Read 1984 Appendix: "The Principles of Newspeak"

Doubleplushard Vocab and Reading Quizzes over Part ONE and Appendix tomorrow!

DUE: Fragment and Run-On Worksheets (84, 85, 87, 88)

Review answers

Practice confused words!

ASGN: WKSTs on accept vs except, affect vs. effect, amount vs. number

Day 4 of Class Student Congress

Arrange date for SDSU field trip

Pythagoras in 3 dimensions (and more!)

a²+b²+c²=d²

^{no assignment!}

DUE: Read 1984 Appendix: "The Principles of Newspeak"

Doubleplushard Vocab and Reading Quizzes!

ASGN: Read Part TWO C1-2

ASGN: V27 WKST

DUE: WKSTs on accept vs except, affect vs. effect, amount vs. number

ASGN: WKST on  than vs. then

ASGN: V27 WKST

Day 5 of Class Student Congress

Frankenstein
Cumulative Vocab Quiz #7 (all words!)

ASGN: Read Part Two C3-4

DUE: WKST on  than vs. then

ASGN: WKST Blue 499-500 (Grammar Test Practice)

Day 6 of Class Student Congress

Frankenstein Objective Test (questions over the reading -- characters, events, symbols, motives, etc.)

10 total, with complete MLA cites, due Mon!

Discuss patterns, ways to finish the assignment more quickly!

ASGN:  Red 370-1 #19-44

ASGN: Read Part Two Chaps 5-6

Review of grammar from compositions

Review for potential grammar quiz Monday: Students give sentences using each word appropriately.

Day 7 of Class Student Congress

CAH and Irish Speech Team gone to East River Student Congress in Brookings!

Frankenstein Essays Due!

Begin Reading Romeo and Juliet

ASGN: Read the Prologue and Act I, Scene 1
--be ready for a reading quiz Monday!

ASGN: Red pp 374-376 #1-10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29-36, 45-48, 54-60.

Discuss Winston and Julia's relationship!

ASGN: Read Part Two Chaps 7-10 (Chap 9 = "The Book"!), prep for Doubleplushard Quiz #2!

ASGN: Pick StuCo legislation topic, type a rough draft of a bill or resolution on this topic for Monday!
--follow exact format of 2007 SD-NFL Legislation!
--

CAH Lecture: Shakespeare's language
--new words (neologisms!), unusual sentence structure, wordplay: compare to rap!
--play vs novel: text is just a guide! performance is the real artwork!
--more cooperative than novel, must address interpretations of directors, actors, designers, etc.

ASGN: Read I.2-3
--take notes, prep for quiz

ASGN for Mon: Intent Statement
-- <1pg
-- basically an abstract: what will this paper accomplish? what research will the paper require? what info will it cover? what arguments will it make?

Review for tomorrow's quiz on exponents, square roots, and the Pythagorean Theorem

Doubleplushard Quiz #2: Part Two

ASGN: Read III.1

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read I.4-5, take notes, prep for quiz

Research and Writing Time!

Coming next: How to FOIL and Factor!

Discuss!

ASGN: Read III.2

ASGN: V28 WKST

Reading Time!

ASGN: V28 WKST

ASGN: Read Act II Scenes 1 and 2 (arguably the greatest love scene in English literature), take notes, prep for reading quiz

Discuss!

ASGN: Read III.3-4

Study for quiz Friday!

Practice Grammar and Rhetoric Test!

Study for Quiz Friday!

Short Session -- sophomores return from planning day

RQ R&J II.1-2 w notes!

Read aloud, discuss

ASGN: Read II.3-6, take notes

9.1: Monomials, Polynomials, Degree

ASGN: Red p386 #16-45

ASGN: Read III.5-6 (to the end!)
--prep for Doubleplushard Quiz #3! Part Three -- Reading and Vocab

Interview Quizzes!

2nd Practice Grammar and Rhetoric Test!

Reading Quiz! II.3-6

Read aloud

ASGN: Act III -- the plot turns! comedy to tragedy! Murphy's Law in Shakespeare!
--take copious notes, prep for copious reading quiz

In-Class Practice arranging terms in order of degree: p386 #46-53

New Material: 9.2 -- Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
--a.k.a "combine like terms!"
--watch those parentheses: distribute your negative signs!

ASGN: Red pp 392 #9-24

DUE: Read III.5-6

Doubleplushard Quiz #3! Part III -- Reading and vocab!

Discussion -- Essay Topics!

Vocab Quiz #28

Study Time: Big Essays due next week!

Vocab Quiz #28

Committee Work: Student Bills!
--students divide into three committees
--each committee receives and discusses 6-7 bills
--cmte members rank bills independently
--CAH calculates cumulative rank; top 2 bills from each cmte make the agenda for next week

Continue session with NFL legislation

Reading Quiz over Act III!

ASGN: Read Act IV.1-2, take notes, prep for reading quiz

ASGN for Wed: compile list of 10 sources you want to hunt down at the SDSU library
--show me titles and location/call numbers!

Note that #17 (and coming problem #43)

More Practice!

ASGN: Red pp392-3 #25-43

Writing and Review Time

Review Tip Sheet #4 and Exercise 6 from Grammar Bytes in class

ASGN: who/whom practice! Exercises 7 and 8

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read Act IV.3-5

NCLB Tests Mutate Schedule!
This class happens 2nd hour!

Search SDSU Briggs catalog online

New Material: 9.3 -- Multiplying Polynomials by Monomials (it's getting more interesting!)
--a.k.a. Distribution!

ASGN: Red p397 #18-44

Cumulative Doubleplushard Quiz -- may include any (or all!) reading questions and vocab from DPHQs #1-3! 

DUE: who/whom practice! Exercises 7 and 8

DUE: RD Essay #4

CAH will check worksheets during Peer Revision!

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read Act V.1-3 (the whole thing!), take notes, prep for reading quiz

Discuss plans for tomorrow's trip!

NCLB Tests Mutate Schedule!
This class happens 2nd hour!

DUE: Red p397 #18-44

Same section, next step: using this distribution to solve equations!

ASGN: Red p397 #45-64

Work on Shadow Letters and Resumes!
--Bring Letter RD tomorrow! FD due when we get back from Easter

Contents of Shadow Letter:
--times for arrival and departure
--reasons interested
--questions
--contact info (self and school)

Reading Quiz highly possible!

Discuss ending
--double death scene: unique!
--Friar Laurence's conduct: selfish?
--Paris

Field Trip -- SDSU Briggs Library!

ASGN: Spend all day in the library, find 20 texts that deal with your topic! 

ASGN: Geometry practice WKST!

NCLB Tests Mutate Schedule!
This class happens 2nd hour!

DUE: Writer's Choice Essay -- Hand in final draft in class 

Begin reading Frankenstein

ASGN: Read Preface and Chapters 1-6 (pp 7-58)
--study for reading and vocab quizzes Tuesday!

ASGN: FD Shadow Letter and Resume for Tuesday!

No School -- Good Friday

No School -- Easter Monday

Keep in mind final paper requirements

New Material: 9.4 -- FOIL!
--First
--Outer
--Inner
--Last
--can do this by drawing a rectangle:

ASGN: Red p403 #4-23 (FOIL all; ignore instructions on the first few!)

Reading and Vocab Quizzes!

Discuss the plot, differences from pop culture conceptions

ASGN: Read Chapters 7-16 (pp59-123) for Thursday!

Get Big Books: Quiet Reading Time

ASGN: Red p403 #24-52

No Child Left Behind Tests Mutate Schedule!
This period happens 2nd hour; juniors miss class entirely as they fulfill the requirements of bureacrats and politicians hundreds of miles away who think data from bubble tests are a legitimate substitute for genuine, firsthand knowledge of the high quality of education our school offers.

New: Red Chapter 9-5, Special Products

ASGN: Red p408 #10-30

Vocab and Reading Quizzes!

Discuss!

ASGN: Finish the book! Read Chapters 17-24 for Monday, prep for reading and vocab quizzes

CAH and Irish Speakers gone all day to State Student Congress in Pierre!

ASGN: Fun FOIL Practice WKST!

NCLB Tests Mutate Schedule!
This class happens 2nd hour!

In-Class Assignment:
(1) Generate outline of visual aid or problem-soultion speech, whichever you have signed up to do first
(2) Sign up on job interview sheet

Prologue Recitations Due:
--Michael
--Brittany
--Cody S.

ASGN for Next Monday: next 700 words

Review for Quiz over Chapter 9 tomorrow

Reading and vocab quizzes!

Discuss science, responsibility, teenagers, conformity,

Lecture: Job Interview Killers

Finish watching Romeo and Juliet

Discuss omissions from script

Prologue Recitations Due:
--Cody L.
--Trevor
--Jon
--Blake

Romeo and Juliet Quotes Quiz

Prologue Recitations Due:
--Dakota
--Shelby
--Mary
--Brent

10.1: Factors
--review prime numbers, prime factors
--Greatest Common Factor: make the trees (for numbers and monomials with variables!)

ASGN: Red p424 #5-27

ASGN: V29 WKST

Note: A couple people haven't signed up yet for a speech before the first deadline! Get on it!

Ethos, pathos, logos review -- magazine ads

Romeo and Juliet Objective Quiz

NCLB Tests Mutate Schedule!
This class happens 2nd hour!

More practice at factoring monomials

ASGN: Red p424-5 #28-55, 57-66

Cumulative Vocab and Reading Quizzes!

Interview Quizzes on PG chapter

Finish ethos, pathos, logos magazine ad speeches!

Big Speeches!

Romeo and Juliet Essays Due

Begin reading Of Mice and Men

Discuss time frame! Much like R&J, a short span!
--Consider reading this book voer the timeframe it covers: pick it up 

ASGN: Read C1, take notes

NCLB Tests Mutate Schedule!
This class happens 2nd hour!

DUE: Red p424-5 #28-55, 57-66 (worth 20 points!)

New: 10-2: Factoring Polynomials
--factoring as undistributive property!
--note that division can be written with division sign (÷) or with a big fraction bar

DO p432 #4-15 together

ASGN: p432  #19-42

Frankenstein Essays

--Students hand in all three at beginning of period. 
--Instructor reserves the right to ask students to recompose from memory any one of the three essays submitted.

Vocab Quiz #29

Interview Quizzes on PG chapter

Vocab Quiz #29

Speeches!

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read C2, take notes

ASGN: Next 700 words (i.e., words 1201-1900) for Monday!

More practice! Save unFOIL for tomorrow!

ASGN: Factoring Practice WKST

Begin reading A Midsummer Night's Dream!

ASGN: Read Act I, Scenes 1 & 2
--study vocabulary (given in class); be ready to define any words/phrases in the reading!)

Finish Interview quizzes with those absent Friday, plus Ben

Listening Quiz over Friday's Speeches!

Then, more speeches!

Then, Listening Quiz over today's speeches!

DUE: C2 Notes!

Reading Quiz!

ASGN: Read C3, take notes

10.3: Factoring Trinomials
--get set to guess!

ASGN: Red p438 #4-17

Vocab Quiz!

Read Act I out loud in class

ASGN: Read Act II, Study for second vocab quiz!

Really finish interview quizzes: Ben, Lucas, James

Speeches!

Listening Quiz #4

DUE: C3 Notes!

Reading Quiz!

Discuss the dog, the dream, the fight

ASGN: Read C4, take notes

ASGN: Red p438 #19-33

Vocab Quiz!

Read Act II aloud in class

ASGN: Read Act III for Friday!

Peer Revision!

Final Drafts due tomorrow!

Speeches!

Listening Quiz #5

CAH gone all day!

DUE: C4 Notes!

Reading Quiz!

Discuss the flow of the chapter, starting and ending the same way
--major theme: the outsiders!

ASGN: Read C5-6 (finish the book!) take notes!

ASGN: Red p438 #34-45

DUE: Final Draft Essay #5

Big Book Day: Students should have their chosen Big Book in hand and be reading it, taking notes from it, and/or working on their Big Book Papers!

Reading Quiz

Discuss the ending, the parallels in the story, how things tie together.

New: 10-4 -- Factoring Trinomials of form ax² + bx + c

ASGN: Red p443 #3-21

Vocab Quiz Over Act III

ASGN: Read Act IV MND, study vocab list

Speeches!

ASGN: Full Draft due Monday, May 7!

ASGN: Red p443 #22-41

Vocab Quiz!

ASGN: Read Act V MND, study Act V vocab for quiz!

Assign Quince's Act V Prologue ("Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show....") for memorization
--students must complete recitation by the end of the school year (before I leave the building on Friday, May 18)
--80% on memorization, 20% on meaningful and energetic delivery

Note: MND Essays due next week Monday!

Speeches!

ASGN: Practice WKST 10-4 #1-30

Vocab Quiz

ASGN: Vocab 30 WKST

Begin Big Book Interviews

Speeches!

OMAM Objective Test

ASGN: Red p 448 #3-30

Seniors gone for STD workshop!

Continue Individual Big Book Interviews; students not being interviewed work on Big Book Papers

Speeches!

OMAM Essays Due

Begin Poetry Unit

ASGN: p449 #36-50, 54-57

Mr. Greeno speaks to seniors first 10-15 minutes!

ASGN: Find a poem that you genuinely believe is a good poem (remember the cat story)
--each student will read the poem aloud in class (memorization not necessary)

Vocab Quiz #30

Finish Individual Big Book Interviews; students not being interviewed work on Big Book Papers

ASGN: Vocab 30 WKST -- do in class!

Vocab Quiz Monday

Speeches!

DUE: Bring poem to read aloud!

First, CAH demo's how to read a poem; then all students read

ASGN: Students prepare at least 2 minutes of commentary on the poem they read aloud today
--discuss structure (rhyme, meter)
--discuss meaning
--discuss relevance to other literary works
--discuss relevance to other issues
--discuss when and where it might be appropriate or useful to read this poem 
--spit out your gum

Students review MLA rules while CAH reviews papers

review for big quiz Wednesday!

DUE: MND Essays

Be prepared for in-class writing

Vocab Quiz #30

Speeches!

Read Shakespeare, Browning, Arnold, Whitman, discuss meaning and relevance of each poem

Revised Drafts due next week Monday!

Peer Revision for credit
--study rough drafts for quiz tomorrow! Students may take notes over each o
--Hand in rough drafts at end of period; CAH will look at every paper as well!

Final Drafts due Friday

Quiz over other student papers! No notes permitted!

Consultation and Revision Day

Allow time to work on final essays! Rough drafts due Monday!

ASGN: Red Review!
--pp181-2 #29-53 odd
--pp231-2 #11-19 odd, #37-43 odd
--p331 #3-18
--pp375-6 #21-35 odd, 45-57 odd

--don't forget make-up BBP quizzes for all who missed Thursday

Work Day -- research, consult, revise on final essay

Review Everything! 

Exam Day: Even-#'d Periods

Final Exam! Monster Problems! Everything we've covered all year is fair game!

Mega Vocab Quiz!
Senior Literature List

Final Essay Due: "How should we respond to oppression?"
--compare the responses offered in at least two of the texts we have read this semester
--use those responses as supporting examples (or counterexamples) of your own position!
--min 500 words
--max 5 to be forms
--min 4 quotes/text refs

MND Recitation Due!

Mega Vocab Quiz!
Lists 21-30

Exam Day: Odd-#'d Periods

Final Essay DUE:
"Identify a common theme between two of the texts we've read this semester."

--min 300 words
--min 3 text refs
--In-Class Writing Option is possible! Students should know their final draft well enough that, if asked, they could substantially reproduce the content and style of the essay during this class period (on the computer or with pen and paper)

Mega Vocab Quiz!
Freshman Literature List

Final Drafts Due!
--cover page
--in-text citations
--"Works Cited" page
--include copy of rough draft

All Senior Grades Due!

Mega Vocab Quiz!
Lists 21-30

Final Essay -- in-class topic based on the fact that you have read at least five chapters of The Philosophy Gym
--handwritten during the class period
--base length 300 words
--maximum 3 to be forms, regardless of final word count

Last Day of School

Seniors preparing for graduation