Freshman English with Mrs. Gerber: July 2008

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to your freshman year of high school! I am very excited to have you in English and am anxious to get to know you in the upcoming weeks. You can check this blog for details about assignments or due dates, and you can also email me at sgerber@d211.org. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. When you are absent, make sure you check the blog and class website to see what we've done in class. I'm looking forward to a wonderful year!

Course Calendar

Aug 20, Wed: Welcome!
Aug 21, Thurs: Intro to computer lab, start letter HW: Letter to Mrs. Gerber due Friday
Aug 22, Fri: Review of course expectations HW: magazine and action photo for Monday
Aug 25, Mon: Journal and collage HW: Mindmap due tom.
Aug 26, Tues: Present Mind Map!
Aug 27, Wed: Yearbook photos! Prepare summer reading
Aug 28, Thurs: Type summer reading essay
Aug 29, Fri: RISE DAY!
Sept 1, Mon: Labor Day! No School!
Sept 2, Tues: RISE DAY! Reading strategies for History, Bio and English
Sept 3, Wed: "You Can't Take it With You" intro
Sept 4, Thurs: Finish coding story/answer questions. Lit term notes
Sept 5, Fri: First day of RISE IR! Lit term notes due. Review Lit terms and start story map
Sept 8, Mon: Story Map Due. Review plot map and intro MEL
Sept 9, Tues: Mel Para due, peer-edit. Intro "Necklace" Voc. Sept 10, Wed: Vocab in context ws/prediction
Sept 11, Thurs: Finish Actively reading "The Necklace" Discuss characterization and introduce brainstorming for MEL #2
Sept 12, Fri: WS: Find four quotes to support your adjective/character from "The Necklace"
Sept 15, Mon: MEL Para due, vocabulary review
Sept 16,Tues: Vocab review due, Review for QUEST
Sept 17, Wed: "The Lottery" Vocabulary, "The Lottery"
Sept 18, Thurs: QUEST, LIT TERMS AND VOCAB
Sept 19, Fri: Go over quest, discuss "The Lottery"
Sept 22, Mon: Finish "The Lottery" discussion and start "The Monkey's Paw"
Sept 23,Tues: Discuss "The Monkey's Paw" and work on "The Gentle Rain" Vocabulary
Sept 24, Wed: Intro "The Gentle Rain"
Sept 25, Thurs: formative assessment for short stories and start reviewing vocabulary. (Just review voc?)
Sept 26, Fri: Finish Gentle Rain
Sept 29, Mon: Brewner subs: Poetry workshop
Sept 30, Tues: Brewner subs: Poetry workshop
Oct 1, Wed: Voc quiz and review for test- formative assessment? mels back?
Oct 2, Thurs: MELs back, wrting review -- fragments/review for test? (wed and thurs may switch)
Oct 3, Fri: Short Story Test
Oct 6, Mon: Go over Test, intro perception/reality
Oct 7, Tues: Discuss perception/reality and grammar/writing rules
Oct 8, Wed: Fragment work in grammar packet due Poetry notes/methods to study for history test
Oct 9, Thurs: Poetry workshop with Mr. Brewner. (No Mrs. Gerber)
Oct 10, Fri: FIELD TRIP!
Oct 14, Tues: Poetry Scavenger Hunt Two magazines and one song lyric due
Oct 15- 16: shortened days history work/IR? Bring independent reading book
Oct 17: Musical Assembly
Oct 20: Orange Workshop Pass-into-class, "Southbound on Speedway" with 8 questions answerd on separate sheet
Oct 21: Brewner. Poetry Orange "paragraph"
Oct 22: Brewner. Poetry
Oct 23:
Oct 24: RISE DAY! BOOK BISTRO!
Oct 27: "The Girl who Loved the Sky" cps and discuss orange poem -- tone
Oct 28: "mouth of hudson" discuss oranges/imagery and overview haiku
Oct 29: 10 haikus due. overview of compare/contrast -- start history paper
Oct 30: Haiku Tournament!
Oct 31: Library Orientation and PoETRY QUIZ!
Nov 3: Inside Scoop
Nov 4: 1 page of writing, truths of self, bring textbook, intro extended metaphor
Nov 5: extended metaphor due, share and intro performance poetry/ truth slam concept.
Nov 6: truth slam examples
Nov 7: edited truth slam due -- truth slam prep
Nov 12: Truth slam!
Nov 13: poetry quiz 2/ intro paper/ mini-RISE day
Nov 14: FIELD TRIP!
Nov 17: finish truth slams! (1st set of brainstorms due)
Nov 18: discuss paper: is perception reality? come up with thesis and begin categorizing examples
Nov 19: outlines due at end of hour --lab 164
Nov 20: start writing paper: body paragraphs first (one due at end of hour) media center with cluster
Nov 21: two body paragraphs due -- writing intro/conclusion (media center with laptops)
Nov 24: IR and conferences with Mrs. Gerber re: 2 paragraphs she edited
Nov 25: class peer-edit
Nov 26: RISE DAY! Haiku Tournament!
Dec 1: Paper Due - intro to greek mythology, Read "The Value of Myths" and discover modern day allusions
Dec 2: myth packet 1-5 due, myth scavengerhunt using mythweb.com
Bring Textbook every day from now until winterbreak!
Dec 3:scavenger hunt due, bring textbook! go over scavenger hunt, value of myths, and allusions: read article re: creation of gods-- visualization
Dec 4: visualization/creation of gods due background information re: The Odyssey -- hero's cycle and notes from textbook
Dec 5: Start reading The Odyssey!
Dec 8: The Odyssey, in class (For hw each nigh, complete the study guide for the parts we read together in class.)
Dec 9: The Odyssey, "Cyclops!"
Dec 10: Prep Reader's Theater
Dec 11: Perform Cyclops Readers Theater
Dec 12: Finish The Odyssey part 1
Dec 15: Odyssey reading due and rest of packet including hero's cycle and summaries on last two pages. Quiz Today! Clip of Homer (Simpson's!) Odyssey? Start "Perseus" together
Dec 16: "Perseus" Reading due -- actively. Discuss stories, compare/contrast, share essay prompts
Dec 17: Essay choice and thesis Due -- work on outlining in class
Dec 18: Peer-edit outlines, continue to work on this-- intro "positives" activity? White Elephant?
Dec 19: RISE DAY! HW for break? Finish 'positives' activity
Jan 5: Working on Rough Draft
Jan 6: Peer-editing rough draft
Jan 7-8: Star Wars
Jan 9: Finish Star Wars (making connections) and prep for finals
Jan 13-15 = finals!

SEMESTER 2!

Jan 21: Prep for Explore/Plan/ACT and prep for field trip
Jan 22: Field trip, Navy Pier Shakespeare!
Jan 23: Counselor visit
Jan 24: Explore Test
Jan 27: "Where I'm From..." workshop

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