Merry Christmas

Your book with all the memoirs has been sent to the publishers. You be able to hold a copy in your hand when we return to school. Click the picture for an online preview.

Enhanced English Week 18

Week 18 lesson plans

Mandatory EOC tutoring for all English I students

 

Tutoring will start the Tuesday we return from Christmas break.

 

 

If you attend 4 out of 6 of these sessions and stay the entire time, you will receive a 100 test grade in English I class. The sessions will meet in the multi-purpose room immediately after school (3:00). The two instructors for the session will then assess the group and most likely divide the group in half. You must sign in at the session to obtain credit.

 

The topics and dates for English I EOC tutoring are as follows:

 

Date	Topic Covered	Instructor
Tuesday, January 5	Reading Strategies (main idea, inferences, predictions, etc)
Wednesday, January 6	Vocabulary Strategies (context clues, prefixes, suffixes, etc.)	Warren
Thursday, January 7	Diverse Genres, Purpose, Audience Literary Devices (allusion, symbolism, theme, tone)	Warren
Tuesday, January 12	Element of Narrative (POV, conflict, character types)
Wednesday, January 13	Evaluating texts and sources (viewpoint, persuasion, etc)
Thursday, January 14	Grammar: S-V Agreement, sentences combining, sentences structure, pronouns, etc. Grammar: punctuation, capitalization, spelling, etc.	Boyd-Davis J

Week 17 Lesson Plans English I

Monday
3rd to computer lab
4th complete Odyssey Movie

Tuesday
3rd to computer lab
4th to media center

Wednesday
3rd complete Odyssey Movie
4th to media center

Thursday
All classes complete grammar packet and finish reading the Odyssey

Friday
Project presentations

Map for your Odyssey Project

For your project, you are required to have a map with the places Odyssues visits and the names of the those places. Check out this site to download a map.

Week 16 Enhanced English

Week 16 power point and links with lessons and notes

English I Week 16

Lesson Plans

Enhanced English Week 15

Week 14 Lessons

Week 14 assignments


Read the Cyclops 957-968 in your textbook and answer study guide questions (see me for handout) Due Friday with quiz
Odyssey Project Directions

Act 4 Notes and other helpful infomation

Week 13 Lesson Plans

Notes on choosing the right word (EOC)

Act 4 Summary and Notes due Thursday
Group Project Due Friday
Romeo and Juliet Test Due Monday

Updated Lesson Plans for Week 13-14

English I Weeks 13-14

Enhanced English

ACT II Assignments

Homework
Homework Act II and notes Due Tuesday with quiz


Notes on Subject Verb Agreement

Enhanced English Week 12

Week 12

Romeo and Juliet Project Links

Please use this list of links for your Romeo and Juliet Project. These website should have enough information for your project. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Project Directions

Romeo Notes Act I

Notes and Presentations on Drama Terms

Act I study guide
Act I questions

Enhanced English Week 11

Lesson plans

Tired of making posters? Try Scrapblog

Sample poster created with scrapblog

Enhanced English Week 10

Webquest

Week 10 Lessons

Enhanced English Notes

Notes for house on Mango Street

English I Weeks 10-12

Lesson Plans 10-12

 

Important Dates

Midterm Wednesday Oct. 28^th

Monster Test November 2

Act I Romeo and Juliet Study Guide Due Nov. 4^th

Romeo and Juliet Group presentation due Nov. 7^th

Presentation Nov. 1oth

Nov. 17^th Act 1-3 test (essay test)

Enhanced English/ Mango Research

Introduction

In the book House on Mango Street, there is many ideas that deal with the growing population of Latinos in the USA. Visit these website to learn more about immigration in the America.

Part One

Go to the interactive map on the PBS webpage to learn about immigration in the USA.

http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/timeline_flash.html

Answer this question:

What group accounts for more than 50% of the population in California and Texas?

Part Two

Learn about myths about immigration by taking the Myth Quiz

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/quiz.html

Week 9 English I (third and fourth period)

Lesson Plans for Week 9

 

Remember

Wednesday Poetry project due at the end of class

Thursday Present your poetry project

Friday Poetry Test

Week 9 Lesson Plans for Enhanced English (First Period)

Week 9 Lessons

Don't forget you have a test on Tuesday

Music and Poetry Project

Project Details

Project Example
Music as Poetry Project Assignment

Music as Poetry Example

Week 8 Poetry Lesson Plans English I

Lesson Plans for Week 8

Ben Harper

Maya Angelou

 

Homework

Draft of Poetry Project Due Friday

Bring your ipod to class Friday

Read pages 47-127 in Monster Quiz Friday

Enhanced English One Week 8 Lessons

Lessons for Week 8

Terms to Review for Midterm on Oct. 20^th

 

Getting Ready for Poetry English I

This week you will be bringing in some of your favorite songs to share with the class. You can bring your ipod or a CD. Be sure the songs are school appropriate. When you share a song with the class, you need to tell the class how the poetry uses figurative language, alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm. Most importantly you need to tell what the song means to you. Remember poetry and music are the same thing.

Week Seven Lesson Plans

English I Week 7

Lesson Plans

Tupac Shakur

Short Story Test Review

Enhanced English (First Period) Week 7

Lesson Plans Week 7

Poetry and Ads

Check out these funny commericals to see that ads use the same devices as poetry to get their messages across.

Enhanced English Vocab Quiz and Webquest

Webquest

English I Week 6

Lessons for Week 6

Short Story Test coming up Oct. 6

Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Quiz

Make friends with the parts of speech and enjoy a little School House Rock!

Progress Reports

Progress reports for all classes will be sent home Friday. Please sign and return the report.

Ehanced English I Week 6 (first period only)

Week 6 Lessons

Webquest Directions

Week 5 Lessons

Week 5 Lesson Plans

Remember you have a Nonfiction Test Monday

Test for Monday

Enhanced English I Lesson Plans Week 5 (First Period)

Week 5 Lesson Plans

Enhanced English One (First Period Only)

Here is your study guide for your test on Tuesday.

Study Guide

Progress Reports

Progress reports will go out this Friday 9/11. Please feel free to call or email with any questions you may have about your grades.

910-845-2203

mwarren@bcswan.net

Remember students with a 77% or below must come to tutoring on Thursday. There is a bus that will take them home after tutoring.

Week Four English I Sept 14-18

Your memoirs will be read aloud to the class on Sept 14th and 15th
Sept 17 you will sign a publishing contract and send your memoir to the publishing company
Sept 21 you have a nonfiction test

Week four Lesson Plans

Study Guide for Nonfiction Test

Enhanced English One Webquest

This assignment is worth 50 points

Webquest for the Friendship by Mildred Taylor
Adapted from http://www.tvhs.k12.vt.us/WMHS/Faculty/Kurucz/html/eng9/TKAM/Bird1.htm

Part One
· With your reading partner view the website and complete the questions below
· Visit: http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html
· Answer these questions and please type your answers
How did the women describe daily life? (home, speech, status)
How do you think their life was different from the lives of black people at the same time?

Part Two
· With your reading partner view the website and complete the questions below
· Visit: http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0730
· Answer these questions and please type your answers
How were the lives of the black women different from the lives of the white women?
How did poverty play a role in their lives?

Part Three
· With your reading partner view the website and complete the questions below
· Visit http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jimcrowlaw1/p/jimcrowoverview.htm
· What is a Jim Crow Law?

Part Four
Visit this sites and look at the pictures http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
Print out your picture and then explain how both a white man living in the South in the 1930's and a white man living in the North in the 2000's would react to that picture -- what might each say or do?

Part Five
Visit this site and read the story
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html

What are some emotions you feel when reading this story?

Link for Birbiglia Summary

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=361

English I Week 3

Your memoir assignment is due this week. This assignment makes up 20% of your nine weeks grade.

Week Three Lesson Plans

Week Two

Lesson Plans

Homework
English I only Complete summary on Birbiglia due Tuesday 30 points
Read My English Pages 107-114 due Friday with quiz
Memoir Draft Due Sept. 8th

Parent Homework

Parent Homework
Parents please email me at mwarren@bcswan.net
Please state: Your name, your child’s name, and please tell me if I can discuss your child’s progress via email.
You will receive a return email with more information about my class.

Thanks,

Melissa Warren

Get a Google Docs Account

It is important that you and I can work together on projects. One of the easy ways to do this is to use google docs. Please sign up for a Google Docs account to have access to a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation maker that we can all use together. Go here to sign up for Google Docs. http://docs.google.com/

Summer Reading for Freshmen

You must finish reading to Kill a Mocking Bird before the first day of your English I class. You must also turn in double entry notes on this novel. The assignment instructions are linked below.

Here are the directions for your summer reading assignment.

Here is a template you can download and email to your English teacher.

Summer Reading for Honors Students

This assignment is for rising 10th graders

Here is the link to your summer reading assignment.

Practice Makes Perfect

Remember just 30 minutes of night of study time will significantly raise your test scores. Last day for tutoring is Tuesday!

EOC Review Materials

· Subjects and Predicates
· Sentences
· Combining Sentences
· Subject/Verb Agreement
· Punctuation
· Semicolons and Colons
· Vocabulary Strategies
· Multiple Meaning Words
· Purpose and Audience
· Evaluating Text and Sources

EOC Study Guide

Please use this study guide to complete your 100 EOC flash cards.

EOC Study Guide Link

EOC Review May 18th through June 10th

EOC Review Plans

Project Due Tomorrow

Table of Contents for your project

Your project must me bound and organized. You must hand in your project at the start of class.

The Book Is Here!

Read and order the book online.

If you do not want to pay a shipping charge. Bring Mrs. Warren $10 by Wednesday, and she will order the book for you.

4 Summaries Due by 12am

Remember if you did not complete your summarizes in class today, you must email me your work by 12am.

mwarren@bcswan.net

Summaries due
Cyclopes
Land of the Dead
Sirens
Cattle of the Sun God

Week 16 Assignments May 11th-15th

Here are your assignments for week 16


Homework
Read Argus page 1000-1001
Complete summary for pages 994-998
Project is Due Friday: with 7 summarizes, illustration, and notes. Late projects will not be accepted.

EOC Tutoring

The sessions will alternate between English I teachers depending on the lesson that day. In addition to helping to review to make a Level 3 or 4 on the English I EOC, I will offer an incentive for you. If you attend five out of the six sessions, you will be eligible for a 100% test grade to help your last 9 Weeks average. YOU MUST STAY FOR THE ENTIRE SESSION (until 4:15) TO GET CREDIT.

Teachers will give you a ticket upon exiting the tutoring schedule. DO NOT LOOSE THESE TICKETS! These will prove to your teacher that you attended!

If you need extra tutoring to prepare for the English I EOC, mark your calendar for Tuesdays and Thursdays leading up to final exams. Here is the schedule:

Tutoring Schedule

Thurs. 5/14
Harrington & Boyd-Davis
Reading Strategies (main idea, inferences, predictions, etc.)

Tues. 5/19
Pankey & Birdyshaw
Vocabulary Strategies (context clues, prefixes, suffixes, etc.)

Thurs. 5/21
Warren & Birdyshaw
Diverse Genres, Purpose, & Audience
Evaluating texts and & sources (viewpoint, persuasion, etc.)

Tues. 5/26
Warren & Harrington
Literary Devices (allusion, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.)

Thurs. 5/28
Warren & Pankey
Elements of Narrative (POV, coflict, character types, etc.)

Tues. 6/02
Harrington & Boyd-Davis
Grammar: subject/verb agreement, sentence combining, sentence structure, prounouns, etc.
Grammar: punctuation, capitalization, spelling, etc.

Download Final Exam Dates

Week 15 May 4th -8th

Week 15 Lessons
Calendar for Odyssey Project
Project Directions
Homework
p. 969-974 due Tuesday
p. 980-987 due Monday

Tour Greece

The next work we will read, The Odyssey by Homer, takes place in Greece. Learn about the history and famous landmarks featured in the epic. Take a tour.

Ever wonder what your teacher does on the weekend?

 Goes on educational trips with her family. :) 

Greek Mythology

Next week we will study the ancient Greeks. Catch up on your Greek mythology with a book about the gods and goddesses.

Helpful link for group project on gangs

http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-gangs

No Tutoring Today

The school has canceled tutoring today. There will be no after school tutoring buses. Have a great vacation.

Week 12

Week 12 Lesson Plans

Comma Rules

Act Three Due Thursday
Act III Summary
Act III Notes

Group Project Due 4/24/09
Approved Websites for Research Project.
Research Project Directions

Commas Can be Tricky

On April 3rd you will send your memoir to the publishing company. Why not fix those commas first.

Week 9 Lessons

Week 9 Lesson Plans

Homework
Poetry Test Wed (can work on your poetry project or novel after the test)
Poetry Project Presentation Friday
Finish your novel by next week
Midterm next week

Want to Start Your Own Blog?

Blog Vocab and Benefits

Get your blog start

How To Videos

Educational Widgets


Other South Bloggers

Week 8 Lessons

Week 8 Lesson Plans

HW
Poetry Draft due Tomorrow
Novel 1-75 due Friday (ipod assignment)
Alice 1-100 due Friday (10 double entry notes and ipod assignment)

Important Dates
March 13th draft of poetry project due
March 18th Poetry Test
March 20th poetry project
Novel Test March 23rd
April 3rd publish memoirs

Week Seven Lessons

Lesson Plans for week seven

Remember short story test Tuesday
Wall-E review assignment

Poetry Project Directions
Poetry Project Rubric

Homework
Read pages 1-27 in Novel (Mango/ Monster) handout due Friday
Honors pages 1-25 Go Ask Alice with double entry notes (handout example)

Short Story Test Tuesday

Here are some notes and presentations to help you prepare for your test on Tuesday. Don't forget to bring your textbook to class.

Print your study guide

Week Six Lessons

Lesson Plans for Week 6


Homework
Short Story Test will be Monday March 2
Review Sheet Due Monday
Short Story Review in tutoring on Thursday Everyone Welcome (set up in Lab)
Honors Novel Test and Book Jacket Due Friday

Week Five Lesson Plans

Week Five Plans

Homework
Read Interlopers p. 255 (audio online) Quiz Tuesday
Parts of Speech Project due Feb. 24h
Memoir Due Feb. 20th (presentation)

Check out these dialects to learn about the different ways one language can be spoken

Progress Reports

Progress reports will be handed out Friday. Remember if you have below a 77% in the class you must stay for tutoring from 3pm until 4:30 each Thursday. There is a bus that will take you home.

Week Four Lessons

Week 4 Lesson Plans

Guided Notes on Lit Terms

Homework
Most Dangerous Game p. 215 finish quiz Tuesday
Memoir Due Friday

Study Island and Extra Credit

Your extra credit assignment is here. Go to Study Island and complete 100 questions with 85% or better. You must answer questions from each topic. Good luch assignment due March 23! This assignment will get you ready for the EOC. See me if you need help logging in.

Week Three Lessons

Week Three Lesson Plans

Homework
Read My English Pages 107-114 due Friday with quiz
Memoir Draft Due Feb 13
Honors Novel Project Due Feb 16th

Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month, we will be viewing African American Lives 2. A PBS documentary on the genealogy of famous African Americans. Watch the documentary online.

Scrapblogs we love

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Videos for your ipod

Find out how directors are taking videos to the very small screen, "When I make a video, I just assume the majority of watchers are going to be on the Internet."Sean Drake, music video director

First Period Rocks!!!

Every student in first period passed the EOC!!! Congratulations!

EOC Review

Week 18 Lessons
Homework
Create 111 flash cards for a test grade Due Jan. 9th
50 lit terms
50 grammar terms
Complete list of grammar rules covered on the EOC
and
11 test terms (see me for test terms handout)

or
Complete 100 questions on study island between Jan. 5th and 9th Due Jan. 9th

Be sure to come to the daily after school cram secessions for a 100 test grade if you attend 5 out of 6 secessions starting Jan. 5th

EOC Review Characterization

The 8 Methods Of Characterization Powerpoint

From: es99.trish.turner,
5 months ago

The 8 Methods Of Characterization Powerpoint

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: literature elements)

SlideShare Link

Point Of View In A Short Story Powerpoint

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: point of)

Your Exam Schedule

SBHS Exam Schedule
Fall 2008 – 2009
Thursday, January 8 (A Day)
1st Block
8:00 – 10:00
VoCATS, OCS, Non-EOC Exams and Benchmarks
2nd Block and Lunch – Sections will be called to lunch. 10:05 – 12:05
10:05
500/600 Bldg.

10:35
300 Bldg.

11:05
JROTC/100 Bldg.

11:35
Gym/200/400 Bldg.
3rd Block
12:10 – 2:10
VoCATS, OCS, Non-EOC Exams and Benchmarks
4th Block
2:15 – 2:50


Friday, January 9 (B Day)
2nd Block
8:00 – 10:00
VoCATS, OCS, Non-EOC Exams and Benchmarks
3rd Block and Lunch - Sections will be called to lunch. 10:05 – 12:05
10:05
500/600 Bldg.

10:35
300 Bldg.

11:05
JROTC/100 Bldg.

11:35
Gym/200/400 Bldg.
4th Block
12:10 – 2:10
VoCATS, OCS, Non-EOC Exams and Benchmarks
1st Block
2:15 – 2:50


Tuesday, January 13 (B-Day)
1st Block
8:00 – 11:30
EOC, Non-EOC Exams and benchmarks
2nd Block and Lunch- Sections will be called to lunch. 11:35 – 1:15
11:35
500/600 Bldg– Pick up lunch and return to 2nd block.

12:10
JROTC, 100, 700 Bldg.

12:45
200, 300, 400 Bldg.
3rd Block
1:20 – 2:50


Wednesday, January 14 (A-Day)
2nd Block
8:00 – 11:30
EOC, Non-EOC Exams and benchmarks
3rd Block and Lunch- Sections will be called to lunch. 11:35 – 1:15
11:35
500/600 Bldg– Pick up lunch and return to 3rd block.

12:10
JROTC, 100, 700 Bldg.

12:45
200, 300, 400 Bldg.
4th Block
1:20 – 2:50


Thursday, January 15 (B-Day)
3rd Block
8:00 – 11:30
EOC, Non-EOC Exams and benchmarks
4th Block and Lunch- Sections will be called to lunch. 11:35 – 1:15
11:35
500/600 Bldg– Pick up lunch and return to 4th block.

12:10
JROTC, 100, 700 Bldg.

12:45
200, 300, 400 Bldg.

Friday, January 16 (A-Day)
4th Block
8:00 – 11:30
EOC, Non-EOC Exams and benchmarks
Lunch--- Sections will be called to lunch. 11:30-12:10
11:30
500/600 Bldg - Pick up lunch and return to 4th block

11:43
JROTC/100/700 Bldg.

11:56
200/300/ 400 Bldg.
January 15-16: Dismissal time may be flexible due to completion time of exams.