English II reg Calendar

Monday, September 27th

Utopia

Tuesday, September 28th

Warm-ups are due (Sentence Types)

Questions Due (redo)

Act I and Sentence Types Quiz

Writer's Notebook work time

Wednesday September 29th

Warm-up

Begin Act II and discuss

Thursday, September 30th

Warm-up

Continue reading Act II/Discussion

Friday, October 1st

Warm-up

Act II Activity

Work on Study Guide

Work on Writer's Notebook

Junior Calendar

Friday, September 24th

Library Research Day

100 Greatest Speeches- Pick one for analyzing

Monday, September 27th

Utopia

Tuesday, September 28th

Library- Look up analysis for speech

Wednesday, September 29th

Warm-up

Go through steps of analysis

Summary Due tomorrow

Thursday, September 30th

Warm-up

Summary Due of Speech

Discuss Puritanism

Friday, October 1st

Warm-ups due!

Pre AP Warm-ups

Wednesday, September 22nd

§Set up a piece of notebook paper for this week’s bell ringers. Each day you will write at least one paragraph on the given topic using the rhetorical devices listed. Paragraphs should address a thesis statement.  Write in pen and highlight/label each device.

§ 

§Wednesday’s Topic – A Windy Day

§Devices to be used:

§Metaphor

§Oxymoron

§Parallelism

§Chiasmus

Polysyndeton 

§Thursday’s  Topic – The Color Red

§Devices to be used:

§Personification

§Apostrophe

§Antithesis

§Asyndeton

§Polyptoton

§Topic is Camouflage

§Pun

§Metaphor

§Hyperbole

§Paradox

§Apposition

Calendar for Pre AP

Pre Ap English II Calendar

Remember, due dates won't change!  

 

Monday, September 20^th

Finish reading Antigone or Work on your writer’s notebook

 

Tuesday, September 21^st

Antigone Pop Quiz-Did you read?

Discuss warm-ups with schemes and tropes

Hand out TFA discussion questions for Thursday

Discuss Snake, White/Brown Burden

 

Wednesday, September 22^nd Early Release Day!!!!

1^st, 2^nd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Warm-up

Hand back Thank You Packet (Last 4 pages due Friday, Oct. 1st)

Finish discussing poems (keep as study guides)

 

Thursday, September 23^rd

Things Fall Apart Graded Class Discussion

You must participate to get a grade

 

Friday, September 24^th

Warm-up

Things Fall Apart AP Test Practice***

 

 

Monday, September 27^th

Revised Timed Writings are due!

Reminder- you should be working on your writer’s notebooks

Warm-up

Conflict and Character

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Freud

How do all of these apply to Antigone?

 

Tuesday, September 28^th

Warm-up

Monday…cont. if necessary

Literary Genre Wheel

Elements of tragedy

 

Wednesday, September 29^th

Warm-up

Tuesday cont. if necessary

Work on Antigone Discussion Questions

You should have 10 new entries by now in your notebook.

Thursday, September 30^th

Antigone Test #1- Prologue, Scene 1, Scene 2, Tragedy Notes, Character and Conflict, Maslow, Rhetorical Terms

 

Friday, October 1^st

Warm-up

Discussion Circle on Antigone

 

Monday, October 4th

Antigone Test #2 Scenes 3&4, notes

 

Tuesday, October 5^th

Warm-up

Discussion Circle on Antigone

 

Wednesday, October 6^th

Fair Day! You should have 15 new entries by now in your notebook

 

Thursday, October 7^th

Antigone Formal Timed Writing

 

Friday, October 8^th

Warm-ups due today

Antigone Test #3 Scene 5 and Exodus, notes

 

Monday, October 11^th

Catch-up and review

 

Tuesday, October 12^th

Exam

 

 

Reminder: Writer’s Notebook

 

 

Tuesday-Friday Sept. 7th-10th

Tuesday-

Juniors- Writer's Notebooks are due-Place them in your class bin. 

Bell Ringer- Read- Humanity I love you and write about the things that frustrate you about other people.

Discuss Friday's clothing activity

Read- "Paying the Mental Price" and discuss the role of technology

Soph Reg-  Bell Ringer- Place your writer's notebooks in your class bin. Work on your flip book for ten minutes

Shakespeare in the classroom (must take notes for open-note test)

Shakespeare Writing!

Soph. PRE AP- Bell Ringer- Place your "Thank You "packet inside of your writer's notebooks and turn them into your bin. 

Peer Editing of Rough Drafts

Wednesday-

Juniors- Final copy due today

Read- "paying the mental price" and discuss the role of technology in our lives

Soph- Work on Flip Books for ten minutes

Peer Edit

PAP- Essay due today

Read "Snake", "White Man's Burden", and "Brown Man's Burden" - Initial response, use of literary devices, and how do these relate to "Things Fall Apart"

Aug. 31st

Juniors- Picture day

Essay Talk 

Pre AP- Picture Day

Bell Ringer- MLA Notes 

1” Margins all the way around 

12 pt font 

Double Spacing (Set your computer) 

Times New Roman ALWAYS!!! Header- Your Name 

Mrs. Spampinato 

English II-1st period 

Date 

This should be located in the upper left-hand corner (1” from the top) 

Go over 1st Reflective Essay (Planning Page is due on Thursday Sept. 2nd-There are copies in the extra copy basket by my door. 

Socratic Seminar TOMORROW!

English II- Regular

Picture Day

Finish Allegory of the Cave

Go over first reflective essay (extra copies in the basket by my door)

Pre Planning sheet due on Thursday