Monday

Students will explore Act III

Othello

• Practice recitations
• Read Act II aloud

HW: 

• Finish Act III:  Quiz likely

Tuesday

Students will practice recitations and demonstrate understanding of Act III

• Recite
• Act III quiz
• Begin Act IV

HW:  Finish Act IV

Wednesday

Students will work toward understanding strategic dialogue in Act IV

• Recite
• Work on dialogue and act out selections from Act IV

Thursday

Students will view Act IV

• Watch Act IV

HW: 

Read Act V…yes, it’s the end!!!

Friday

Students will demonstrate understanding of outside reading

• Practice recitations
• Quiz over Act V
• View Act V

HW: 

• Create a script from any scene in Othello.  Make sure it’s easy to follow.  Use any setting you like, as long as it’s appropriate for class use: any time period, any place.  Feel free to make it outrageous, if you are so inclined
• Print out 5 copies and bring to class
• Make sure it only takes ten minutes to perform
• This is a 10 point assignment…but there is a -5 penalty on Monday if you come unprepared.  You will not be able to get those points back.

Monday

Students will clarify vocabulary and explore Act II

Collect/schedule outside reading projects

Othello

• Practice recitations
• Clarify vocabulary
• Begin oral reading of Act II

HW: 

• Study for vocabulary Act II quiz
• Finish Act II

Tuesday

Students will practice recitations and demonstrate understanding of vocabulary

• Recite
• Vocab quiz
• Oral reading of Act II Scene III

HW:

Take handwritten notes about Shakespeare’s life.  Use the link I provide on our website.  It is under the Othello link to the left of our main page. Explore all seven ages of his life.  This will take you about 45 minutes.

Wednesday

Students will work toward understanding strategic dialogue in Act III

• Recite
• Quiz over Shakespeare’s life and collect notes
• Work on scenes from Act III

Thursday

Students will view Act II

• Watch Act II

HW: 

Vocabulary for Acts III, IV, V

Friday

Students will demonstrate understanding of outside reading

• Practice recitations
• Quiz over the plot so far:  Acts I and II only

Reading Shakespeare’s language:  class reading

HW: 

• 10 slide PowerPoint on Shakespeare’s life.  You may do this on construction paper or card stock if you do not have PowerPoint.
• Slide 1:  Title slide
• Slide 10:  Credits for information and pictures you took from the internet.

Term 4: Week 6:  May 7-11

Monday

Students will gain an orientation for Shakespeare’s Othello

Collect/schedule outside reading projects

Othello

• Distribute books
• Mark and demonstrate recitations
• Explain character chart
• View opening scenes

HW:  Vocabulary

Download this template

Find the definitions to the words in Act 1:  check line numbers first!  Some are defined on the opposite page.

Tuesday

Students will practice recitations and refine understanding of vocabulary

• Recite
• Check homework
• Clarify vocabulary
• Watch scene 1

HW:

Read Act 1: Scene 1

Wednesday

Students will demonstrate understanding of vocabulary

• Recite
• Quiz
• Read aloud from Act 1

Thursday

Students will participate in oral reading

• Recite
• Finish Act 1

HW: 

Finish what we could not complete of Act 1

Friday

Students will demonstrate understanding of outside reading

Outside reading projects performed

HW:

Download the vocabulalry template (see Monday for link)

Complete Act 2 Vocabulary (see Monday for link)

Monday

Students will explore the life of Earnest Hemingway

Collect Outside Reading Proposals

Quiz:  Plans and Outside Reading Completion

Ppt:  Hemingway

HW:  Work on your OR project:  due on Friday

Tuesday

Students will compare Hemingway’s dialogue against recent oral readings for use of vernacular

Read “Hills Like White Elephants” in class and discuss

HW:  Work on OR project:  due on Friday

  Wednesday

Students will explore the freedom and disillusionment of  some 20th century female poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay:  “Oh, Oh!”

Adrienne Rich:  “Living in Sin”

Break in two groups: 

1. Paraphrase
2. Basic conflict?
3. Solution?
4. Read aloud to class and share insights

Thursday

Students will compare Editha’s concept of war and honor with that presented by Crane and Gaines

“Editha”  William Dean Howells

HW:  OR project completed for Monday

Friday

No school…finish your OR project and bring it on Monday.

Term 4 Week 4

Monday

Checks:  Read ½ of outside reading?

Reconstruction:  Background

“Flicker”

HW:

“Exodus” and “Ned Leaves Home”

Tuesday

Quiz

“Two Letters”

“Another Home”

“Molly”

HW: 

“A Dollar for Two”

“Man’s Way”

  Wednesday

“Professor Douglass”

“Albert”

Thursday

“Sermon”

“Assassination”

HW: 

“The People”

“The Chariot of Hell”

Friday

Video of Miss Jane to view the end

HW:

Have your outside reading book done by Monday and bring an MLA formatted typed project proposal to class.  Your project will be due the following Monday.

Monday

• Collect Martian Chronicles Themes
• Final MC Quiz
• Check for outside reading book

HW:  Read Miss Jane “Introduction,” “Soldiers,” and “Freedom.”

One ¼ of your outside reading done by Friday

Tuesday

• Quiz over Miss Jane to page 16
• Poll test

HW:  Read “Heading North,” “Massacre,” and “Heading South”

  Wednesday

Quiz over Tuesday’s homework stories

Read “Shelter for a Night,” and “All Kinds of People”

in class

Talk about vernacular.  Look at examples in Twain and Crane, and compare with Pearl’s speech in The Scarlet Letter

Thursday

Read “The Hunter,” and “An Old Man.”

HW:  Finish the reading

Friday

In class:  “Rednecks and Scalawags”

Have 1/2 of your outside reading book done by Monday.

Monday

Martian Chronicles:  Quiz over weekend reading

“The Musicians”

“Naming of Names”

“Usher”

HW:  finish “Usher” and read “The Old Ones”

Tuesday

“The Martian”

• HW: 
• Finish “The Martian” and read “The Luggage Store”
• In MLA:  List all the short story titles except “Way in the Middle of the Air”
• Write a one sentence theme for each story up to “The Luggage Store.”
• Your theme for each story must be a complete sentence that conveys a universal truth or lesson
• Save it as Martian Chronicles Themes and email it to yourself.  Save it on your jump, too.

  Wednesday

“The Off Season”

Thursday

“The Watchers”

“The Silent Towns”

HW:  finish today’s reading

Friday

• Finish Martian Chronicles
• Finish your Martian Chronicles Themes sheet
• Bring  your final outside reading selection to class on Monday.  Choose from

• The Crucibl:  Arthur Miller
• finish Walden:  Thoreau
• Ethan Frome:  Wharton
• The Red Badge of Courage:  Crane
• The Sea Wolf:  Jack London

We will read book reviews in class and analyze them

Monday

Martian Chronicles:  The Summer Night; The Earth Men

Tuesday

The Earth Men; The Taxpayer; The 3rd Expedition

Finish  The 3rd Expedition and be ready for a quiz on Thursday over the first six stories

  Wednesday

Students will finish resumes

134 to complete resumes

Thursday

• Martian Chronicles quiz 1-6
• HW:  Read through page 87.  Stop at “Interim”

Friday

• Good Friday