Friday, August 26, 2016

10th World August 22-26

Monday:
First 10- Finish Annotations

Last 10- Assign presentation
Tuesday:
First 10- Anti Hero Notes
--Work on Stations
Last 10-Assign Parts
Wednesday:
First 10- Oedipus background
-Finish working on Stations
-Begin Presenting Stations
Last 10- Give students prompt
Thursday:
First 10-  Argumentative Notes/Give students Prompt
-Finish Presenting Stations
-Anti-Hero notes
-Argument Notes
-Begin pre-writing
Last 10-  Work on/Check Claim

Friday:
First 10- Finish pre-writing
-Writing check off
-Intro to Oedipus
-Assign parts
Last 10-Stoplight activity

Hon World August 22-26

Monday:
First 10- Study Guide
- Details Feedback/Example
- “Daredevil” Archetype Review Activity
Last 10- Recap archetypes in “Daredevil”
Tuesday:
First 10-  Study Guide
- Types of Heroes  Stations
Last 10- Essay Prompt
Wednesday:

- Details Practice

Thursday:
First 10

Unit 1 Test

Last 10 Unit 1 Survey


Friday:
First 10-

In Class Essay

Last 10-

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Unit One Study Guide Test on Thursday- Honors World

Unit One Test- Heroes and The Alchemist
The Alchemist
-Characters
-Plot
-Major ideas in the text
-Identify archetypes and Santiago’s Hero’s Journey
Annotated Bibliography
-Parts of the annotated bibliography (Summary, Analysis, Citation)
-Basic Format
-Be able to identify parts in a sample annotated bibliography
Writing
                -Types of paragraphs (Be able to identify in a “cold-read” text)
               -Types of sentences in body paragraph (Be able to identify in a “cold-read” text)
Details
-Be able to “cold-read” a text (read a text for the first time) and pick up on details and what the details infer about a character
-Analyze how details work to communicate an author’s purpose
Archetypes
-Character archetypes (be able to answer questions about each archetype as well as identify a type pf character from a “cold read”)
-Types of Heroes (be able to answer questions about each type as well as identify a type pf character from a “cold read”)

-Be able to map out hero’s journey from a “cold-read” text

Saturday, August 20, 2016

10th World Lit August 15-August 19

Monday:
First 10- Discuss Minority Report so far
-Finish reading “Minority Report”
Last 10- Discuss last (essay) question in packet
Tuesday:
First 10- Vocab 2
-Watch “Minority Report”

Wednesday:

-Watch “Minority Report”

Thursday:
First 10-  Finish Minority Report
-Annotation Instructions
-Begin New York Times Article

Friday:
First 10- Vocab Quiz
-Continue New York Times Article
Last 10-Finish Article for Homework

Honors World Lit August 15-August 19

Monday:
 First 10- Vocab 2
-Compare and contrast “10 Reasons why we need heroes” and “Why are we obsessed with superheroes?”
-Details lesson
    Last 10- Finding Details in The Alchemist

Tuesday:
First 10- Go over Alchemist details
-Assign Alchemist Socratic Seminar
-Media Center
Last 10-Socratic Sem Article Check
Wednesday:
First 10- Annotated Bib Rubric and Example
-Work in Media Center
Last 10- Format Check
Thursday:
First 10- Go over rules for Socratic Seminar
- Socratic Seminar
Last 10-  Vocab Exercises

Friday:
First 10- Vocab Quiz
-Read and Annotate Pulling Children from Nepal's Prisons
Last 10-Stoplight activity

Friday, August 12, 2016

10th World Literature August 8-August 12

Monday- Groups finished body Pargraphs, Wrote Paragraphs on posters; offfered feedback on posters
Tuesday- Began Minority Report
Wednesday- Read "Minority Report;"
Thursday- "Minority Report;" Vocab Review
Friday-Vocab Quiz; Finish Minority Report; Practice Essay Instruction

Honors World August 8- August 12

Monday- Finished analyzing "Batman Begins"
Tuesday- Practice Annotating "Hero of a Thousand Faces" Map Santiago's Journey
Wednesday- Archetype notes; Write paragraph in groups;
Thursday- Analyzsed "Not Everything's a Hero's Journey" as a class and students began brainstorming for an argumentative essay
Friday- Took Vocab Quiz; Took Alchemist Quiz; Finished practice brainstorming; Received "10 reason why we need heroes" and "Why Do We Need Super Heroes?" to annotate over the weekend

Friday, August 5, 2016

10th World Literature August 1- August 5

Monday- Introduce course; discuss flags as symbols; students created individual flags
Tuesday- Students created mission statements and symbols; global scavenger hunt; students put their symbol on part of the world (on map) that they have a connection to
Wednesday-Students review hero's journey; students are put into group and assigned a type of hero to create a poster with examples for
Thursday- Students presented posters as groups; writing instruction; Prompt "What type of hero is Odysseus?" is given to class; Brainstorm as a class for essay
Friday- Reviewed brainstorm from previous day; Wrote a thesis and body paragraph as a class; students got in groups from previous 2 days and wrote group paragraphs that support the thesis statement created at beginning of class

Honors World Lit August 1-August 5

Monday- Introduced course; discussed flags as symbols; created individual flags
Tuesday- reviewed hero's journey; Discussed types of heroes; students created posters in groups of examples of hero type they were assigned
Wednesday-Writing instruction;Students (in the same groups as yesterday) wrote group thesis statements and paragraphs
Thursday-Discussed rubric;Wrote group paragraph on poster; gallery walk-groups gave each other feedback; group re-wrote paragraph
Friday- Watched Batman Begins; analyzes Batman hero type and Batman's hero's journey