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American Lit- Bishop- Remainder of the year

5/1- read "Dust Tracks on a Road"
5/2- Spring Fling
5/3- review for Modernism Test
5/4- Modernism Test
5/7- EOCT review
5/8 and 5/9- EOCT- 15% of the students overall grade
5/10 and 5/11- read the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" By Tennessee Williams
5/14-5/18- Finish reading "A Streetcar Named Desire"
5/21- review for Final exam- the exam will only cover the play
5/22-5/24- Final exams

American Lit- Guinn- remainder of the year

5/1- finish Hughes/McKay poem activity
5/2- read "Dust Tracks on a Road"
5/3- finish story and review for Modernism/Harlem Renaissance test
5/4- Modernism Test
5/7- review for EOCT
5/8 and 5/9- EOCT- 15% of the students overall grade!!
5/10- Students must have obtained a copy of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and they need to have read Chapter 1 and be ready to discuss on 5/10.  Paper copies are being provided today for them to start reading.  Guided reading questions are also being given today and need to be completed by 5/10.
5/11- watch the first 2 chapters of the movie
5/14-5/18- finish reading the book
5/21- 7th period final exam- the exam will only cover The Great Gatsby and is 5% of their final grade

World Geography- Hollifield- Weeks of 4/30 and 5/7

4/30- Russia maps

5/1- Russia worksheet

5/2 and 5/3- Notes on Russia

5/4- movie

5/7- Russia Political map quiz

5/8- Rissua physical map quiz

5/9-5/10- Small group project

5/11- RUSSIA TEST and current event due!

American Lit- Guinn

Monday- Imagisty poetry assignment

Tuesday- Practice EOCT

Wednesday-Thursday- Read "Winter Dreams"

Friday- Vocab Quiz 14

4/27- Vocab Test

EOCT- May 8-9

American lit- Bishop

Monday and Tuesday- Read "Winter Dreams"

Wednesday- Practice EOCT

Thursday- "In Another Country"

Friday- FInish Practice EOCT- must be completed by midnight

 

EOCT- May 8-9

American lit- Guinn- Week of 4/9/12

Monday- finish watching "Of Mice and Men"

Tuesday- Work on vocab packet 14 (due Friday)

Wednesday- Intro to modernism/Harlem renaissance notes PPT

Download Modernism with Harlem ranaissance intro

Thursday- independent work on intro to modernism- Students NEED their textbook

Friday- vocab due- finish modernism notes and work on creating an imagist poem (due Monday)

World Geography- Hollifield- 4/9/12

We are beginning our unit on Southeast Asia.

Students worked on maps today and they are due tomorrow fully labeled and colored.

We will begin studying physical and human geography Tuesday.

American lit- Bishop- Week of 4/9/12

Monday- Modernism Notes

Download Modernism with Harlem ranaissance intro

Tuesday- Small group poem analysis- HW. create an imagist poem

Wednesday- Poetry coffee house- share Imagist poems

Thursday- review for Vocab Test

Friday- Vocab test- Extra credit vocab word due

Research Paper materials

Download Literary_Analysis_Part_I_handout GUINN 2

Download Documenting sources and hooks

Download Literary Analysis common mistakes

Download How to Write a Literary Analysis

World Geography- Keilman- Week of 3/12

Monday- China's One Child Policy

Tuesday- Background on Mongolia

Wednesday- Lab to study for map quiz and Work on Current events

Thursday- Map Quiz

Friday- Current Event due