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Raleigh Charter High School
2009-2010
Room 208


Homework

Date In-class What's due Homework
August 17 Orientation/book sale    
August 18 Introduction   study/forms
August 19 Peace Like A River test   Study questions, one from questions 1-5
August 20 Vocabulary/discussion Study question Study questions: two from questions 5 - 15; Vocabulary
Augusts 21 Discussion Signed forms due/study questions Study question: two from 15-23
       
August 24 test results study question Study questions: two from 23-29
August 25 discussion study questions Peace Like A River response
August 26 Vocabulary quiz   PLR response
August 27 Lab training   PLR response
August 28 2nd Friday, shortened class in lab PLR response  
       
August 31 Literary terms   Short stories on the web
Chekov "The Lottery Ticket"
September 1 Literary terms   Short stories on the web
de Mauppasant "The Necklace"
September 2 Literary terms   Short stories on the web
O'Henry "The Ransom of Red Chief"
September 3 Discussion   Review
September 4 Quiz over terms and stories, subject verb agreement    
       
September 7 Holiday/No school    
September 8 The Odyssey: Beginnings
Vocabulary
http://www.stanford.edu/
~plomio/history.html
http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/
english/canary/iliad.html
Finish written glossaries
Visual representations of god/goddess
September 9 Go over drafts, glossaries   Visual representations of god/goddess
September 10 ex day, no class
  Vocabulary: Book one
September 11 ex-day
Vocabulary quiz
Odyssey Beginnings
  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~merrie/Arthur/story.html
       
September 14 The Epic:Beginnings
Vocabulary
  Trojan War Handout
September 15 The Trojan War
Epic charts
   
September 16 Rules for guest
Book one
  Vocabulary/Study for quiz
September 17 Book one

Quiz (Vocab/Trojan War and characters) The Odyssey book one pp. 1-15
September 18 Flex day   Reading Logs
       
September 21 Telemachus
Vocabulary Book Two
  Odyssey: book two pp. 19-31
September 22 Family Circles   Reading Log
September 23 Family Circles   Reading Log/Study Vocabulary
September 24 EOG Vocabulary Quiz
Reading Log due
 
September 25 Flex/no class    
       
September 28 No class    
September 29 Book Two/Vocabulary   Book Three pp. 35-49
September 30 Book Three   Reading Log
October 1 Book Three   Book IV pp. 45-65
Vocabulary
October 2 Book IV Vocabulary quiz Book IV pp. 63-78
       
October 5 Vocabulary
Book IV
  A & P
October 6 Coming of Age   Reading Log
October 7 Using quotes
Reading Log Book Three and Four Book Five pp. 81-95/Study
October 8 Odyssey test   Essay
October 9

Vocabulary Quiz
Reading day pp. 99-108 (book VI)

  Essay
       
October 12 Book V   Book Seven pp. 111-121
Reading log
October 13 Book VI Telemachus essay due None!

October 14

PSAT    
Fall Break      
       
October 19 Vocabulary
Book seven
  Book Eight pp. 125-142
October 20 Sentence Boundaries   Log
October 21 Book eight Log due (books 5-8, two summaries, two reflections) Book Nine pp. 145-162
Vocabulary
Octrober 22 Book 9 Vocabulary quiz Book Ten pp. 165-182
Octrober 23 Community workday   Logs
       
October 26 Vocabulary   Book Eleven pp. 185-206
October 27     Log
October 28     Book Twelve pp. 209-225
October 29 no-class, ex day   Vocabulary/Log
October 30 Ex-day O Brother
two summaries/two reflections
O Brother worksheet
       
November 2 film discussion Vocabulary quiz essay
November 3 Book Elevan   essay
November 4 Book 12   essay
Bring your study guides for the review!
November 5 Review O Brother essay due
Study guides
 
November 6 EOG Test, books 5-12   Book thirteen
       
November 9 Vocabulary
Book thirteen
  Book Fourteen
November 10 Reading day -- Book 16   Book 19
November 11 No School, Veteran's Day   Summaries: 17-18, 20 Log
November 12 Return to Ithaka   Book Twenty-one
November 13 Testing the Bow Vocabulary quiz
Logs due, two summaries, two reflections, books 13, 14, 16, 19, 21
Book Twenty-two
       
November 16 Book 16
CS, RO
  Book Twenty-three
November 17 Books 21-22   Book Twenty-four
November 18 Books 23-24   study
November 19 Odyssey Test book 13-24   Project/Letters
November 20 The Hero's Journey   Project
       
November 23 Creating Superheroes   Project
November 24 POL   Poetry Outloud, memorize a poem
       
Thanksgiving Break      
       
November 30 Grammar Review   Project
December 1 POL practice   Project
POL poem and grading sheet
December 2 POL contest POL poem and grading sheet due
grading /vocabulary definitions
Christmas Carol pp. 1-16
December 3 No class, ex day   CC pp. 16-31
December 4 Projects/Greek Feast Greek feast, projects/POL CC pp. 31-50
       
December 7 Christmas Carol
Vocabulary
  CC pp. 50-62
December 8 Christmas Carol   CC pp. 63-68
December 9 Christmas Carol
vocabulary quiz
  study
December 10 Review   study
December 11 Review   relax!
       
December 14 1/2 day, review    
December 15      
December 16      
December 17 fourth period exam    
       
Semester break!      
       
January 5 Arrangement!
Vocabulary
  two description paragraphs arranged by two different organizing principles
January 6 "Death of a Moth" two description paragraphs Two paragraph description of your writing process
January 7 "How I Wrote Death of a Moth"
The writing proc ess
Writing process paragraphs  
January 8 Arrangement   Poem Scramble and paragraph description
       
January 11 Vocabulary
Arrangement
unscrambled poem and paragraph Sentence Focus
January 12 Parts of speech Sentence Focus Joining Sentences
January 13 Parts of Speech
Conjunction
Joining Sentences Sentence Combining
January 14 Vocabulary Quiz
Sentence Combining
Sentence Combining  
January 15 ID flex    
       
January 18 Holiday, no school    
January 19

Quiz over parts of speech, sentence combining
Vocabulary

 

Shakespeare's Life
Shakespeare's Theater

January 20 Lab: Shakespeare research   Two Shakespeare sonnets and questions
January 21 Sonnets/Prologue   Sonnet/Meter
Vocabulary
January 22 Sonnets
Vocabulary Quiz
  R & J pp. 7-19
       
January 25 I i
Vocabulary
  R & J pp. 21-33
January 26 I ii   R & J pp. 33-49
January 27 I iii   R & J pp.; 51-61
Bring Diane Hacker book to class
January 28 I iv
Integrating quotes
Diane Hacker book love and marriage worksheet/Vocabulary
January 29 Vocabulary Quiz response due R & R pp. 65-79
       
February 1     R & J pp. 79-91
February 2     R & J pp. 91-103
February 3 Intros and quotes   R & R pp. 103-111
February 4 no class, ex-day   catch-up reading
February 5 ex-day
essay/using quotes
  essay
       
February 8 Balcony scene
Vocabulary
  essay
February 9 Balcony scene   essay
February 10     essay/Vocabulary
February 11 Vocabulary quiz essay due study
Feb. 12 Flex    
       
February 15
Vocabulary
  R & J pp. 115-129
February 16 Test, Act I and II   R & J pp. 129-139
February 17 III i   R & J pp. 139-153
February 18 III ii   R & J pp. 153-173
February 19 Flex/No class   R & J pp. 177-189
       
February 22     Essay revision
February 23 III iii/vocabulary   essay revision
February 24 III iv - v   R & J pp. 191-207
February 25 IV i - ii Revision due R & J pp. 211-219/vocabulary
February 26 Vocabulary quiz   Tomb design assignment
       
March 1 integrating quotes   Tomb design assignment
March 2 Vi Tomb design due R & J pp. 219 - 243
March 3 V ii - iii   Romeo's last words assignment
March 4 Film   Romeo's last words
March 5 Review Romeo's last words study
       
March 8 R & J test   R & J essay
March 9 Scenes   R & J essay
March 10 scenes   R & J essay
March 11 scenes   R & J essay
March 12 Lab: peer review drafts due  
       
March 15 poetry   essay revision
March 16 poetry   essay revision
March 17 poetry R & J essay scenes
March 18 No class   scenes
March 19 Ex-day: scenes promptbooks due none
       
March 22 sound   sound elements
March 23 Rhythm & meter   scansion exercise
March 24 Meter   poetry essay
March 25 stanzas   favorite songs stanza excerise
March 26 imagery   imagery exercise
      none
Spring break      
       
April 5 imagery   metaphor exercise
April 6 metaphor   symbol exercise
April 7 symbol   exploring forms
April 8 Forms/haiku   two Haiku
April 9 Haiku/sonnet two Haiku Triolet
       
April 12 triolet/sonnet triolet villanelle
April 13 Villanelle/sonnet   villanelle
April 14 open forms villanelle sonnet
April 15 Vendler "We Real Cool"   sonnet
April 16 Community Work day    
       
April 19 Planning   poetry essay
April 20 Vendler "We Real Cool" Sonnet due poetry essay
April 21 Reviewe   poetry essay
April 22 No class, ex-day   poetry essay
April 23 Ex-day/poetry test Peer review drafts/poetry essay  
       
April 26 Practice questions   Cisneros: pp. 3-13
April 27 Review Pracitice question   Cisneros: pp. 14-22
April 28 Poetry test explained   Definition of Chicano/a
House on Mango Street chart
April 29 Cisneros Explications due chart
April 30 Planning   Cisneros pp. 23-38
       
May 3 Cisneros chart due Cisneros: pp.39-57
May 4 Cisneros (Lab)   Cisneros pp.58-75
May 5 Cisneros   Cisneros pp. 76-98
May 6 Cisneros   Cisneros pp.99-110
May 7 Cisneros   study
       
May 10 Mango Test (Lab) chart due Hansberry pp. 23-53
May 11 Raisin   Cisneros essay
May 12 Raisin   Cisneros essay
May 13 Raisin   Cisneros essay
May 14 Raisin   Cisneros essay
       
May 17 Raisin    
May 18 Raisin Cisneros essay due  
May 19 Raisin Response (Lab)    
May 20 Review    
May 21 Review    
       
May 24 Review    
May 25 Review    
May 26 exams begin    
       
June 1 EOC    
       
       
May 19