5/26-29/2015 (SOL)
-Warm up/"The Rocking Horse Winner"
The Rocking Horse Winner
1) What was the little boy’s initial wager?
2) When did he start winning?
3) What is his motivation for betting?
4) How does he come up with the winning horse’s name?
-Video on horse racing 101:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZV7d1MQFOI
--Finish RHW and complete Holt Reader
5/13-14/2015
-Textbook/Exam
-McRaven Commencement
-Holt p 398 "Rockinghorse"
4/22-24/2015
-Audience Logs
-Commencement Speeches
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4/20-21/2015
-Book Reviews/Submitted
-Speeches
-TedTalk
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_piff_does_money_make_you_mean?language=en#t-356885
4/13-17/2015
-Commencement Speech/Rehearsal
-Book Review (indep.) due 4/20!
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3/14-23/2015
Speech
1) Rhetorical Essentials
2) Draft 1/Use template
3) Potential Hooks
4) Draft 2 w/ Rhetoric and Hook
3/12-13/2015
-Free Write/Athletics
-Overview/Commencement Speech
-Rhetorical Terms
-Quiz "Shooting An Elephant"
HW-Book Review due April 20th
3/4-5/2015
-Warm up/Describe an event where you or someone you know had to save face?
-Visual Irony/Cartoon packet
-"Shooting an Elephant" p 440
TP/Book Review due 4/21/2015
2/23-24/2015
-Discuss appeals
-Irony in Visual Rhetoric/Finish Packet
Directions: Using online or print resources find ethos, logos, and pathos and explain how the speech or advertisement reflects the appeal.
Options:
1) Find three advertisements that contain the appeal. Identify the appeal and explain (written).
2) Select a speech from the link http://www.americanrhetoric.com/moviespeeches.htm or http://www.filmsite.org/bestspeeches.html. Highlight the text and identify the type of appeal. A brief explanation should explain the appeal.
3) Find a comic, political cartoon, or other visual rhetoric and explain the use of the appeal.
Please save on Sharepoint and be prepared to present to the class.
2/6-9/2015
-Finish poems
-Satire/part 2
2/4-5/2015
-TPCASTT/2 poems-p 120-209
Survey:
Please have all of your students take this short survey prior to March 12.
Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VBCPSFirstColonialHS
Password: BV2C3Z
2/2-3/2015
-"Rime" quiz
-Novel Assignment/Overview
-Pick 2 poems from Holt Reader (215-340)
1/29-30/2015
-Test Review/"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
-Satire http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-willing-to-give-up-any-of-muslims-rights,37780/
-Simpsons and Satire
HW-Study for test
1/23-28/2015
-Review Narrative ballad and literary poem
-Finish "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
-Holt Reader
1/21-22/2015
-"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" review
-Components of the Ballad
-Video/Pt.1 and 2
-Finish Pt. 3 and 4
1/16-20/2015
-Literary Ballad Intro.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge bio
-"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" p 244
-Book Review Intro
1/14-15/2015
-MacBeth Test
1/12-13/2015
-Test Review
-Acts 1-5/Complete all Study Questions (5 points each)
HW-Study for Test!
1/8-9/2015
-Macbeth Act 5 and questions
1/6-7/2015
Free-Write/"What I did over the holiday break..." 1/2 page=50 points
Act III/Watch Banquo's murder/Banquet hall
Act IV-Group
Act IV Questions
12/15-16/2014
"Modest Proposal" Overview
Review Act 3 MacBeth/Finish Questions
12/11-12/2014
-"A Modest Proposal" Overview
-Holt Reader p. 175-188/graded!
12/9-10/2014
Act 2 and 3/Questions
Free-writes and missing assignments
Free-Writes are all ½ page minimum and should thoroughly discuss the topic for full credit.
1. Conditioning: How has society and/or your family conditioned you? Explain.
2. Emily Dickinson:
Much Madness is divinest Sense - (620)
BY EMILY DICKINSON
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
What does this poem mean? What is the theme?
a. How does this relate to Brave New World
(Bernard Marx and/or Helmholtz Watson)?
b. Provide examples (movies, TV, books, song lyrics) that illustrate the poem’s theme.
How is this video representative of a dystopian society and of the short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46h9dAaDfo
12/5-8/2014
-MacBeth Review
-Finish Act I
-Act I Questions due!!!
12/3-4/2014
-Quiz/Globe
-MacBeth Act I
-Questions/Act I MacBeth
12/1-2/2014
-Propaganda Presentations
-Project Review/Elements of Propaganda
-Macbeth and Shakespeare Overview
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11/21-24/2014
Group Summary (attached)
Individual Self-assessment Response
Peer Evaluation
11/13-20/2014
-Mond's PSA Proposal
-Storyboard Approval
-Rehearse w/script
-Film (15' intervals)
Project due/Presentations-Nov. 21 (A), Nov. 24 (B)
11/10-12/2015
-Assignment Sheet/Part 2
-Sub-department assignment
-Groups/Draft
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11/6-7/2014
-Character Quiz (30 points)
-Return Free-writes (conditioning and Dickinson/non-conformity)
-Chapter 7/Brave New World
-Project Overview
10/30-31/2014
Brave New World: Chapter 4 and 5 Review
Chapter 6-Group
Questions Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6
Quiz next Class Chapters 1-6
10/28-29/2014
-Conditioning/Cloning video
-Chapter 4/Brave New World
-Free write/Conditioning
http://www.huxley.net/bnw/one.html
10/24-27/2014
-BNW Quiz Overview
-"Conditioning" Free-Write
-Chapter Questions
-Chapter 4 & 5
10/20/2014
-Anticipation Guides/Go over
-Ch 1/Overview and Satire
-Ch 2/Character Development
HW-Quiz on Pt 1 and Pt 2 (Background Concepts and Historical Figures)
10/14-15
-BNW Thematic Survey
-Utopia FW/Discussion
-Pre Reading Assignments I, II, III
-Chapter 1/Brave New World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESDhaKzoMQ
10/10-13
-Free Write/"Utopia"
-"Harrison Bergeron"-Kurt Vonnegut
-Utopia vs Dystopia
-Go over BNW vocabulary
10/8-9
Vocab/ Define BNW 1-10
BNW Intro Concepts "Dystopia"
CH 1 BNW
10/6-7
-Headlines/Activity
-Quiz
-Make-up!!!
10/2-3
-Free write/"Personal Quest"
-Holt Reader p. 2-14
-Overview of Cumulative Project
-Quiz on Beowulf next class
9/30-10/1
-Translation COMPLETE!
-Beowulf (via English 12)
-Character List
-Video (TP)
9/26-29
-Finish Holt English 12 Assessment
-vbschools.schoolnet.com Passcode:24883
-Upload college and SOL essay
-Upload translation
9/24-25
-Upload Translation/Beowulf
-Characterization/pt 2
-Diagnostic/Online test
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9/22-23 Objectives: 12.3, 12.4. 12.6
-Translating the Translation/Beowulf 4-13
-Character Development/Direct vs Indirect
-Quest Free-write
TP-Holt Reader
9/18-19/2014
-Beowulf as a hero
-Review Prologue to Part 3
-Beowulf/Hrothgar and the Quest
-Writing Overview/Senior Essay Overview
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9/16-17
-Writing Assessment (see attached)
-Beowulf/Hero and the quest
-Holt Reader
9/12-15
-Free-Write/"Quest and/or Hero"
-Introduction to the Epic/Translation
-Beowulf backgroundhttp://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/
-Read Prologue to Chapter 3
9/10-11
Free-write-1/2 page "What is a hero?" (50 points)
-Peer edits/Finished and turned in (50 points)
-Evolution of language video
-Epic overview
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