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Of Mice and Men pdf
Huck Finn Audio
Another Free Audio-book version, but this one has a female reader. 
10th grade on-line Textbook
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Wednesday 6/11/14:
Last day of CSI - Enjoy your summer!  Read, make healthy choices, and exercise!  
Thursday 6/5/14:
Click here for some practice with exam-related grammar skills.  Scroll down to FRAGMENTS -- and then scroll down to COMMAS
Grammar Practice #8 - commas, semicolons, and clauses
Practice Multiple Choice Test
Wednesday 6/4/14:
Exam Review Guide
Practice Grammar Exam - GP #7
Tuesday 6/3/14:
UCS and CSI Car Show
Monday 6/2/14:
Read and discuss the universal message of three poems from the collection
Friday 5/30/14:
Read William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much with Us"
Choose a poem from the collection - in writing, explain the message of the poem to a hypothetical first-grader.  Remember: first-graders ask why. A lot.  
Resumes DUE MONDAY!
Thursday 5/29/14:
Resume Building - last day in class.  Resumes due MONDAY!
Poetry Collection
Wednesday 5/28/14:
Read Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
Read Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Resume Building
Tuesday 5/27/14:
Read Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain"
Begin Resume Building
Friday 5/23/14:
Finish Scavenger Hunt
Check Grammar Quiz
Grammar Practice #6
Thursday 5/22/14:
Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt
Wednesday 5/21/14:
Final Due Date for MGP
Peer Evaluations of Projects
Tuesday 5/20/14:
MGP Flex Due Date #2 -- Final Due Date Tomorrow
Grammar Quiz
Monday 5/19/14
Grammar practice #5 - Commas and fragments
Focus Group Advertising Poster
Multigenre Project - Flex Due Date Begins Today!  Final Due Date Wednesday, May 21
Monday - Friday 5/12-5/16:
Project Work Time
Grammar Practices 3 and 4
Multigenre Project Flex Due Date Announced - Due Monday 5/19 - Wednesday 5/21
Friday 5/9/14:
NOTES - Grammar Practice #2: Commas
Challenge - write a single sentence that utilizes all seven reasons for comma placement - DUE MONDAY
Project Work Time
Thursday 5/8/14:
NOTES - Grammar Practice #1: Commas
Project Work Time
Focus on creation
Wednesday 5/7/14:
Project Work Time
Focus on research and creation
Tuesday 5/6/14:
Project Work Time
Focus on research
Monday 5/5/14:
Citing Sources
MGP Resources Collection:
Works Cited
Reflection/EndNotes
Organization for MGP
Research Questions
Proposal for Research 
Multi-genre Research Project Explanation
Friday 5/2/14:
Research Questions 
Monday 4/28/14:
Work on Proposal for Research -- Due Tomorrow
Friday 4/25/14:
Multi-genre Project Samples
Proposal for Research for the Multi-genre Research Project -- DUE TUESDAY
Thursday 4/24/14:
Complete Genre Study Presentations
Kick-off Multi-genre Research Project
Wednesday 4/23/14:
Genre Study Presentations
Tuesday 4/22/14:
Genre Study Project
Presentations tomorrow!
Monday 4/21/14:
Multigenre Research Project
Mini- Project - Genre Study
Choose Groups - Presentation Wednesday
Thursday 4/17/14:
Finish A Raisin in the Sun
Wednesday 4/16/14:
Watch A Raisin in the Sun
Turn in Of Mice and Men and A Raisin in the Sun books
Tuesday 4/15/14:
A glimpse into the future
Watch A Raisin in the Sun 
Monday 4/14/14:
Essays due!  
Update EDP's
Friday 4/4/14:
Watch A Raisin in the Sun

DUE MONDAY, APRIL 14th:
1. "Polished" draft - 
2. Yesterday's draft (with your dissection highlights and editor's notes)
3. Essay Dissection Sheet
4. Peer Edit Checklist with your editor's name on it. - more than one is not required, but is highly encouraged.  
Thursday 4/3/14:
The Writing Process in Action
Essay Dissection Sheet
Peer Edit Checklist
Dissect your essay using the above criteria - and answer the questions embedded.
Partner with a classmate and complete the peer edit process.
Wednesday 4/2/14:
Essay writing opportunity
Essays due tomorrow!  
Tuesday 4/1/14:
Quoting text in your essays
Essays DUE THURSDAY
Monday 3/31/14:
Of Mice and Men vs A Raisin in the Sun Essay Assignment - DUE THURSDAY!
How to Write a Comparative Essay 
Useful Transitions
Friday 3/28/14:
Finish A Raisin in the Sun -- What you don't finish is homework
Complete Dream Charts
Last day of 3rd quarter
Thursday 3/27/14:
Watch MLK in Chicago
Reading Groups -- A Raisin in the Sun
Wednesday 3/26/14:
Watch Housing March in Gage Park, Chicago (1966)
Reading Groups -- A Raisin in the Sun
Tuesday 3/25/14:
Reading Groups -- A Raisin in the Sun
Most group are in the 48-57 page-range
Monday 3/24/14:
Form Reading Groups
Choose Roles

Dream Charts - due upon completion of the play
Read A Raisin in the Sun


Friday 3/21/14:
Intro to A Raisin in the Sun
Thursday 3/20/14:
Character Analysis Poster Presentation
What is the desired emotional response?  
What did you do to achieve this response?  
Wednesday 3/19/14:
Of Mice and Men film
Visual Character Analysis Sketch Show and Tell Tomorrow
Tuesday 3/18/14:
Of Mice and Men film
Monday 3/17/14:
Finish Visual Character Analysis Sketch
Friday 3/14/14:
Continue Visual Character Analysis Sketch
Thursday 3/13/14:
Visual Character Analysis Sketch
Tuesday 3/11/14:
Of Mice and Men Essential Questions
Monday 3/10/14:
Of Mice and Men Socratic Circle 
Friday 3/7/14:
Part Three Reading Quiz
Dream Charts Due
Socratic Circle Monday
Thursday 3/6/14:
Of Mice and Men Movie
Wednesday 3/5/14:
Of Mice and Men Part Two Reading Quiz
Dream Chart w/ Langston Hughes Poem - completed charts due Friday
HW: Read Part Three pp. 66-end by FRIDAY - Reading Quiz on Friday
Monday 3/3/14:
Of Mice and Men Part One Reading Quiz 
HW: Read Part TWO pp. 38-65
Reading Quiz on Wednesday
Friday 2/28/14:
Read Of Mice and Men "Part One" pp. 1-37
Reading quiz over "Part One" on Monday
Thursday 2/27/14:
See above for a pdf file for Of Mice and Men
GP #6 sentence type identification using yesterday's article
Read pp. 1-37 by Monday.  Reading Quiz on Monday
Wednesday 2/26/14:
Write the exposition to an original story using the photo displayed in class as your inspiration
Read and T4 Article: "Girl from iconic Great Depression photo"
Tuesday 2/25/14:
Work on yesterday's Short Story Elements assignment
Monday 2/24/14:
Short Story Elements Applied -- Due Wednesday
Friday 2/14/14: 
Work on "The Yellow Wallpaper" Reading Questions
Book Talk Rubric -- Due Dates will be assigned after break
Thursday 2/13/14:
Grammar Practice #5
"The Yellow Wallpaper" Reading Questions
Wednesday 2/12/14:
Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Evaluations and Reflections due
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Questions Due
Tuesday 2/11/14:
Socratic Circle Discussion - "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
Evaluations and Reflections due TOMORROW!
Monday 2/10/14:
Grammar Practice #4 - Commonly Confused Words
Prepare for tomorrow's Socratic Circle by writing three questions you could ask during the discussion
Fat and Blood - eighth edition 1911
Friday 2/7/14:
Discussion Questions: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor
Thursday 2/6/14:
Grammar Practice #3
HW __ Read: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor -- also available on p 939 in the textbook
Wednesday 2/5/14:
Socratic Circle Discussions - Evaluations/Reflections Due TOMORROW!
Tuesday 2/4/14:
Grammar Practice #2
Write three questions about "The Story of an Hour" for tomorrow's Socratic Circle
Monday 2/3/14:
"A Rose for Emily" Discussion
Timelines Due
Read "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin pp. 684-687
Friday 1/31/14:
Correct/Discuss yesterday's Grammar Practice
Place the events in "A Rose for Emily" in chronological order
"A Rose for Emily" Events List
Blank Timeline
Thursday 1/30/14:
Finish William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" -- Reading Questions Due Tomorrow
Grammar Practice #1 - Identifying Dependent Clauses in Complex Sentences
Thursday 1/23/14:
Finish yesterday's NOTES
READ: William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" pp. 878-884
Assignment: Reading Questions for "A Rose for Emily" - Answer as you read, the letters correspond with the letters in the TEXT.  
Wednesday 1/22/14:
NOTES: Elements/Styles/Techniques of Short Fiction - Use the Handbook of Literary Terms p. 1464 in your Textbook
News Seats
Turn in Huck Finn books
Friday 1/10/14:
EXAM STUDY - Huck Finn Theme Exploration 
Review The Crucible events/character/themes
Review Huck Finn events/character/themes
Complete the grammar practices on Parallel Structure that are linked below
Reading Logs DUE TODAY
Grammar Practices 11-16 due on your exam day (TUESDAY)
Thursday 1/9/14:
EXAM STUDY - Grammar Midterm Review Study Sample - Due Tomorrow
7 Reading Logs DUE TOMORROW (#'s 9-15)
Wednesday 1/8/14:
EXAM STUDY - Answers to Yesterday's Huck Finn Exam Study Sample
Tuesday 1/7/14:
EXAM STUDY - Huck Finn Exam Study Sample - 10 multiple choice questions based on a passage from Huck Finn
EXAM STUDY - Grammar Practice - Scroll down to Parallel Structure - Complete Exercises 3 and 4
See yesterday's entry for Exam Review Guide
DUE this WEEK:  7 Reading Logs! (#'s 9-15)
                            6 Grammar Practices - (#'s 11-16)
Monday 1/6/14:
Mid-Term Exam Review Guide
More updates/practice will be posted later this evening and/or tomorrow
Exams will now be Monday and Tuesday next week instead of Friday, Monday, and Tuesday...
Friday 1/3/14:
Cold/Snow Day
Thursday 1/2/14:
Welcome back!  Happy New Year!
GP #16 - Parallel Structure
Click here to continue your practice - Scroll down to Parallel Structure - Complete Exercises 1 and 2
HW - Huck Finn Chapter 37
Friday 12/20/13:
HW for over break = Read Huck Finn up to p. 290!
SSR- minimum # of Reading Logs after today = 14 (#'s 9-14)
Have a great, relaxing break!  Read! 
Thursday 12/19/13:
Grammar Mid-way Test
Wednesday 12/18/13:
Tuesday 12/17/13:

Monday 12/16/13:
Friday 12/13/13:
Word Connotations assignment DUE
Discussion groups: ordered sharing
Chapters 19-23 Discussion Questions
HW: Read Chapters 22 and 23SSR- minimum # of Reading Logs after today = 13 (#'s 9-13) 
Thursday 12/12/13:
GP # 14 Compound-Complex Sentences
Notes: Connotation and Denotation
Assignment: Word Connotations
HW: Read Chapter 21
(Huck Finn)
Wednesday 12/11/13:
Huck Finn Vocabulary Quiz
Alternative Energy Reflection Questions
HW: Read Chapters 19 and 20 (Huck Finn)
Tuesday 12/10/13:
Alternative Energy Trade Show
Vocabulary Quiz Tomorrow!
Monday 12/9/13:
Full work day - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project
Persuasive Pitch ESSAYS DUE TODAY - Peer Edit sheets must be stapled to the Polished Essay
Huck Finn Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday!  
Friday 12/6/13:
Trade show discussion
Polished Essays due Monday - Peer edit sheets must be attached!
Discussion groups: "satire of the low down Abolitionist..."
Vocabulary Quiz Postponed until Wednesday
Minimum # of Reading Logs after today = 12 (#'s 9-12)
Thursday 12/5/13:
Full work day - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project
Peer Edit Session for Persuasive Pitch Essays
Click here if you're editing a single essay
Click here if you're editing multiple essays
Peer Edit Sheets must be attached to the Polished Essay and submitted on MONDAY
Trade Show Tuesday!!
Wednesday 12/4/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project
Peer Edit Session Thursday - Each group member must have a clean copy
Tuesday 12/3/13:
GP #13 Compound and Complex Sentences
Vocabulary Quiz FRIDAY - see 11/21 entry for Vocabulary list 
Discuss Allusion to King Solomon - Chapter 14 
Peer Edit Session THURSDAY!
Monday 12/2/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project
Persuasive Essay Requirements
Peer Edit Session Thursday - Each group member must have a copy
Polished essay submitted for grading on MONDAY
Chapter 12-18 Discussion Questions DUE TODAY!
Tuesday 11/26/13:
Discussion Group Peer Evaluations
Discussion Groups Chapters 8-11 Discussion Questions
Thanksgiving Break HOMEWORK Chapters 12-18, Discussion Questions are DUE Monday, December 2nd.  
Monday 11/25/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project
Discussion Groups - Chapters 8-11 Discussion Questions
Discussion Group Peer Evaluations Tomorrow!  
Friday 11/22/13:
No class
Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project - Full work day. 
HW: Chapters 10 and 11 (pp. 62-74) Complete this reading by Monday
Minimum # of Reading Logs after today = 11
Thursday 11/21/13:
Huck Finn Vocabulary
Finish Dialogue Translation Activity
Chapter 4-7 Group Discussion Questions
HW: Chapters 10 and 11 (pp. 62-74) Complete this reading by Monday
Check out this site that charts Huck's journey on Google Maps
Wednesday 11/20/13:
Read this article about the Michigan accent
Discussion Groups
Dialogue Translation Activity
HW: Read chapter (pp. 57-61)
Tuesday 11/19/13:
Huck Finn Webquest
HW: Read chapter 8 (pp. 44-56)
Monday 11/18/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project - Proposals DUE TodaY!
Huck Finn Discussion Groups - Chapters 1-3
HW: Read chapters 4-7 (pp. 19-43)
Friday 11/15/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project - Proposals DUE MONDAY!
Begin reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
For MONDAY -- READ CHAPTERS 1-3
SSR - minimum # of reading logs after today = 10
Thursday 11/14/13:
Half Day AM - No CSI
Wednesday 11/13/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project - Proposals DUE MONDAY!
Grammar Practice #12 Complex Sentences with Relative Pronouns
Tuesday 11/12/13:
Shortened Schedule - Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Project Introduction/Group Selections
Discussion Groups: Pejorative Language in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Monday 11/11/13:
ACT Practice Reading Passage - from "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain
Pejorative Language in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Friday 11/8/13:
Discussion groups - Theme starter Small Group Discussion Questions
SSR Reading Log #9
Thursday 11/7/13:
Grammar Practice #11 Complex Sentences with Relative Pronouns
Wednesday 11/6/13:
New Seats
New Discussion Group Assignments
Click here for Theme Starter Small Group Discussion Questions
Tuesday 11/5/13:
"Remember, remember... the fifth of November..."
No School
Monday 11/4/13:
Word Generation Exercise
Friday 11/1/13:
Assignment - Write a theme statement for The Crucible
SSR.  Reading Logs 1-8 Due tOdAy!
Thursday 10/31/13:
Merry Halloween
Click here for Today's Grammar Practice 
Notes on The Crucible
Notes on Theme
SSR tomorrow.  Bring a book.  Reading Logs Due tomorrow!  Eight of 'em.  
Wednesday 10/30/13:
4th hour: Finish The Crucible movie 
Notes on the The Crucible
5th and 6th hour: 
Finish Irony presentations
Finish The Crucible movie 
Tuesday 10/29/13:
Watch The Crucible Movie
Monday 10/28/13:
The Iron Knee Project Presentations
Friday 10/25/13:
The Iron Knee Project
SSR- Minimum number of Reading Logs after today = 7
Thursday 10/24/13:
The Iron Knee Project
Wednesday 10/23/13:
Act 4 Quiz
The Iron Knee...
Notes: Three types of irony: dramatic, situational, verbal
Tuesday 10/22/13:
Vocabulary Quiz
Vocabulary Sentences Due
Meet with Reading Groups -- Read ACT 4
HW: Finish Act 4
Tomorrow -- Act 4 QUIZ!  
Monday 10/21/13:
Meet with Reading Groups -- Finish Act Three Discussion Questions, Read Act Four
Prepare for tomorrow's Vocabulary Quiz
Click here to try Quizlet to help you study!  
Friday 10/18/13:
Grammar Quiz #1
GP's 1-10 due
Meet with Reading Groups -- Act Three Discussion Questions
SSR - Minimum number of Reading Logs at this point = 6
Vocabulary Quiz Next Week Tuesday! 
Thursday 10/17/13:
GP #10 - Practice with Sentence Types
Meet with Reading Groups -- Act Three and Act Three Discussion Questions
Grammar Quiz Tomorrow!
Grammar Practices 1-10 Due Tomorrow!

Click here for Practice Quizzes on Identifying Sentence Types
Wednesday 10/16/13:
Reflection #5: 
Think about it: why has a "witch" not been executed in America since 1692?  What has changed about our sensibilities since the Salem Witch Trials?  
Tuesday 10/15/13:
Meet with Reading Groups
Read from Act THREE of The Crucible
Monday 10/14/13:
Handout: The Crucible Acts 3 and 4 Vocabulary -- Complex Sentences should be DONE by Thursday
GP #9 -- Parts of Speech "Tricks of the Trade" -- Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives
Watch a portion of the The Crucible Movie
Friday 10/11/13:
Job Applications DUE
SSR Minimum # of Reading Logs after today = 5
Watch a portion of the The Crucible Movie
Thursday 10/10/13:
Special Presentation about Resumes, Applications, and Co-op opportunities
Vocabulary Quiz
Job Application Due TOMORROW!
Wednesday 10/9/13:
Vocabulary Quiz postponed until TOMORROW!
Finish Act TWO Discussion Questions
Tuesday 10/8/13:
GP #8 - Compound and Complex Sentences
Meet with Reading Groups
Finish Act TWO
Begin Act TWO discussion questions
Vocabulary QUIZ Tomorrow!  
Monday 10/7/13:
Meet with Reading Groups
Finish Act ONE questions
Begin Act TWO
Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday!  
Friday 10/4/13:
Meet with Reading Groups:
Finish Act ONE
Complete Act ONE questions
SSR
Minimum # of Reading Logs after today = 4
Vocabulary QUIZ Wednesday! 
Click here for the Vocabulary Packet
Thursday 10/3/13:
GP #7 - Compound Sentences
Meet with Reading Groups -- continue Act ONE
Wednesday 10/2/13:
Meet with Reading Groups. 
Begin Act ONE
Tuesday 10/1/13:
GP #6 - Complex Sentences
Meet with Reading Groups -- choose roles
Discuss setting and beginning of play
Monday 9/30/13:
The Crucible Vocabulary for Acts 1 and 2 -- Due by Wednesday
Notes: The Crucible Character Synopsis
Reading Groups assigned
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