Mrs. Bishop's Blog

Moving to www.onlinelassiter.org

Please click on the link to go to my updated website at www.onlinelassiter.org.

This change will allow for students and parents to enroll and be e-mailed forum (blog) updates each time new items are posted.  It will also allow students to take practice quizzes, link to informative websites, and participate in discussion forums.  In addition, it will provide me with immediate feedback on student performance and knowledge, along with analyses on student's strengths and weaknesses.

When you go to the new site, simply click on English 08-09 and then on your class.  Typical blog entries are now titled "news forum" and those will be input weekly.  Supplemental unit resources (websites, quizzes, etc.) will be posted by week, and handouts will be available for download through the category "handouts" at the top of my home page.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this move.  You may e-mail me at diana.bishop@cobbk12.org.

Week of January 12th

The required parallel readings for both Honors and On-Level American Lit should be available at Bookmiser (Hwy 92 & Sandy Plains) by this Friday.  Honors needs Into the Wild by this Friday; On-Level needs A Raisin in the Sun by next Tuesday.

On-level Am Lit: 
Mon:  Test prep for the GHSGT.  Finish pre-test of the GHSGT.
Tue:  Mini lesson "Parenthetical Citations".  Read "Civil Disobedience".  In pairs, identify 5 main points and support with textual evidence using parethetical citations.
Wed:  YOU NEED YOUR BOOK!!!!  Independent reading "Self-Reliance".  Outline Emerson's main and supporting details. HW:  Study for Vocab 8 quiz this Friday by practicing at this site. http://www.quia.com/quiz/1631371.html
Thur:  Video "Eyes on the Prize".  Identify examples of civil disobedience used during the U.S.  Civil Rights movement.  HW:  Vocab 8 Quiz tomorrow.
Friday:  Small Groups:  "Civil Disobedience" discussion

Honors Am. Lit:
Mon: Vocab 8 quiz.  Read "Civil Disobedience"
Tue:  Small group discussion "Civil Disobedience".  HW:  Read "Self-Reliance"
Wed:  Read "Nature".  Create a 5 entry dialectical journal.  Typed and due tomorrow.
Thur:  Read "Walden".  Create a 5 entry dialectical journal.  Typed and due tomorrow.
Fri:  Time in the writing lab to work on "Transcendentalism" Project.  This project is due Tuesday.

American Lit - Week of January 6

Tue:  Get syllabus signed by Monday, January 12.  Get a copy of Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun no later than January 20th.  HW:  Notecards for Vocab 8.

Wed: Check vocab notecards.  Powerpoint on how to take Cornell notes; followed by a powerpoint on Transcendentalism.  Students will take Cornell notes on pages 384-385. 

Thur: Quiz on Transcendentalism.  Students may use the Cornell notes they took yesterday.  Activity:  Match the quote with the key belief of Transcendentalism.

Fri:  Pre-Test End of Course Test.

H. American Lit - Week of Jan. 6th

Tue:  handout syllabus.  Take two-column notes for Vocabulary 8.  This is homework to be checked tomorrow.

Wed:  BRING TEXTBOOK. Powerpoint refresher on Cornell notes.  Students will read about Transcendentalism and take Cornell notes.  Vocabulary HW, Exercises 1 & 3. "Modern Transcendentalists" assignment due Monday.

Thur:  Quiz on Transcendentalism.  Read "Civil Disobedience". HW: Write 15 original compound sentences using each Voc. 8 word.

Friday:  Grammar Pretest.  HW:  Vocab 8 Quiz Monday.

AP Lit - Week of Exams, Dec. 15

4th period:  Monday:  Poetry analysis.  No book required.  Tuesday:  Review for exams.

5th period:  Monday:  Group discussion Scenes IV and V.  Tuesday:  Poetry analysis.   Last minute questions.

Wednesday:  EXAMS.  Bring #2 pencil.

American Lit: Week of Exams - December 15th

Mon:  Major Vocabulary Test, units 1 - 7.  Students received a cumulative list of all definitions, antonyms, prefixes, roots and suffices on Dec. 8th.

Tue:  Group Review Project for Finals

Wed:  30 min. classes for 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 7th periods.  Review last minute questions.

Thursday:  1st and 2nd period exams

Friday:  6th and 7th period exams

AP Lit - Week of December 8th

Mon, 12/8:  Students received their graded HOD Tic-Tac-Toe projects and HOD essays.  If students have any questions regarding these assignments, please make an appointment with me for before or after school.  The study guide for the final exam is available for download:  Download AP Final Exam Fall 2008 Study Guide

Tues, 12/9:  Continue reading Oedipus Rex.

Wed, 12/10:  In-class Final - Essay Portion.  This will be graded using the 9-point AP Essay Rubric.  Students will be given a short piece of prose or poetry to respond to.

Thursday:  Wordmasters Quiz.

Friday:  Socratic Seminar Oedipus Rex. 

Important Dates for American Lit

We have a lot of final assessments coming up.  I am attaching a study guide for the Final Exam and links to grammar review sites in preparation for these grade-changing events.

Download Study Guide for Honors American Literature Fall exam (although this says "honors", it is good review for everybody!)

Links for on-line grammar review:  Focus on subject/verb agreement, pronoun/antecedent agreement, commas and semicolons, frequently confused words, and comparisons (good, better, best).

http://www.edufind.com/english/englishtests/list_of_english_tests.cfm

On-Level American Lit:  

• Monday, Dec. 8th:  Vocab 6 quiz. Grammar Review
• Tuesday, Dec. 9th:  Writing Lab.  Quiz on MLA format
• Wednesday, Dec 10th:  Major Grammar Test
• Thursday, Dec. 11th:  Begin Review for Final Exam
• Friday, Dec. 12th:  Vocab 7 quiz
• Monday, Dec. 15th:  Major Vocabulary Test, Units 1-7
• Tuesday, Dec. 16th:  Review for Exam

Honors American Lit:

• Monday, Dec. 8th:  Wordmaster's Definitions are due; discuss.  Grammar Review
• Tuesday, Dec. 9th:  Writing Lab, Quiz on MLA format
• Wednesday, Dec. 10th:  Major Grammar Test
• Thursday, Dec. 11th:  Wordmaster's Quiz.
• Friday, Dec. 12th:  Vocab 7 quiz
• Monday, Dec. 15th:  Major Vocabulary Test, Units 1-7
• Tuesday, Dec. 16th:  Review for Exam

Additions to the week - American Lit and Honors American Lit

HW for tonight (if not finished in class), response questions for "Minister's Black Veil".  If you didn't bring your book home, you can probably find this story on-line. 

For Friday:  Study Vocab 6 terms handed out in class today.

“The Minister’s Black Veil” Response Questions

 

1. Even if

   Hawthorne

   hadn’t stated that this story is a parable, you should be able to determine so on your own.  What makes this a parable?  What is a parabolic message?  Answer both parts of this question.
2. Why didn’t Mr. Hooper tell the congregation why he was wearing the veil?  Why does the congregation ask him why he wore it?  Two parts:  answer both!
3. Interpret how Mr. Hooper became an “efficient” minister:  “By the aid of his mysterious emblem—for there was no other apparent cause – he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin.  His converts always regarded him with a dread peculiar to themselves, affirming, though but figuratively, that, before he brought them to celestial light, they had been with him behind the black veil.  It’s gloom, indeed, enabled him to sympathize with all dark affections” (345).
4. Quote a sentence that shows a Dark Romantic perspective. Remember quotes require lead-ins (sentences that come before a quote).  See example in number 3.  Then explain two ways your quotation is Dark Romantic.
5. What does the veil symbolize?  Besides Mr. Hooper’s saying it is a symbol, how do you know it is a symbol?  Answer both parts.

AP Lit - Week of Dec. 1st

Mon:  Video on "Greek Theatre".  Assign students sections of Oedipus Rex to analyze and present to class. 

Tue:  HOD ESSAYS DUE at beginning of class today.  If you have not turned it in to turnitin.com by the beginning of class, it will not be graded. 

Powerpoint presentation - "The Origins of Drama".  Handout background on Greek tragedy and Sophocles.  Bring Perrine textbooks until we finish Oedipus.

Wed: Begin in-class reading of Oedipus Rex.  Students will be assigned roles and we will read aloud using study guide as an aid.

Thur:  Continue reading Oedipus.

Fri:  Continue reading Oedipus

American Lit - Week of Dec. 1st

Mon:  Notes on Hawthorne.  Begin reading "Minister's Black Veil" p. 336.   Handout Vocab 6 (quiz this Friday).

Tue:  Finish "Minister's Black Veil".

Wed.  Work in pairs to complete response questions to "Minister's Black Veil".

Thursday.  Notes on MLA format and frequently misspelled/mis-used words.  Practice in class.

Friday:  Quiz on Vocab 6.  Notes on commas and semicolons.