Dec 20

--make up common assessments
--other make-up work since mid-terms if necessary

Dec 19

--students take common assessment
--see Mr. Schappert to arrange make-up if necessary

Dec 18

--review for common assessment
--review notes until you can return to class; see mr. Schappert for copy of review hand-out

Dec 17

• Students read all Dickinson selections from p. 548 to page 554
• discussion questions on p. 556

Dec 16

• Review Free Verse / create examples from Whitman and Dickinson
• Same as above for Figurative Language /
• Read Whitman “Beat! Beat! Drums!”
• #9 on p. 541.  (Why is Free Verse an appropriate form for Whitman’s poems?  Support your opinion) / as the text points out, there are no rules with Free Verse, so it is an appropriate form for Whitman due to his individualistic views on America and life in general
• read about Emily Dickinson p. 546 / define:  inventive punctuation and irregular capitalization 
• read “Because” on p. 548 / students do: A and B on p. 548

Dec 13

DOL

--terance dont run very good but he always enters run for you’re life a five mile race held on labor day

Class Activities:

--read Whitman "Song of Myself," and "Spider" beginning on p. 534
--text analysis questions on p. 537
--identify Figurative Language in both poems / also briefly discuss in your notebook what makes these poems examples of Free Verse

Dec 12

DOL

--sally who did you see at the pizza wagon last night megan asked after Algebra class

Class Activities:

--read Whitman on p. 530
--read information on p. 531 about Free Verse
--read "I Hear America Singing" on p. 532
--do the Text Analysis questions on p. 532
--also, there is a handout from class you must ask me for when you return

Dec 11

DOL

--by the time the fourth of july parade ended the light drizzle became a downpour and few people remain on main street

Class Activities:

--students write Short Narratives today
--see post on 12/6 for writing prompt.  complete narrative and hand in.
--be sure narrative is complete with Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
--and a Title! (always Title your writings!)

Dec 6

Short Story Workshop

consider the following writing prompt:

"Write a short story in which a character reacts to an unexpected event in his/her neighborhood.  In your story, try to entertain peers and adults by presenting a lively description of how the main character and other handle the unexpected event, an dwhat happens as a result."

--you may write fiction, or non-fiction
--if you write non-fiction, about yourself, challenge yourself to not write in 1st person, but rather 3rd person

--make some notes on the following aspects of the short story to chart out your story as a pre-writing assignment

1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution

--we will be writing them in class on tuesday, 12/10 as a timed writing assignment.  Considering your pre-writing will be extremely helpful for you on that day.

Dec 5

DOL

--neither of my parents are able to take me to the village theater to see oscar wilde play the importance of being earnest

Class Activities:

--finish reading "The Masque of the Red Death"
--begin at line 80 on p. 450
--answer questions 6 and 9 on p. 453 to be handed in

Dec 4

DOL

--marks Father is a engineer at the ace farm equiptment co his Mother is a illustrator at herrera publications inc

Class Activities: 

--read about American Gothic Literature p. 312
--begin reading "The Masque of the Red Death" line 79 p. 450
--question 'B' on p. 448 in notebook

Dec 3

DOL

--tito had ought to call his Mother so that shell know weather she should plan for less people

Class Activities:

--reread "The Raven" beginning on p. 436
--be sure to have definitions for each of our  3 Literary Sound Devices:

--Onomatopoeia
--Internal Rhyme
--Alliteration

--on p. 441 do questions 5, 6 and 7 (hand in to teacher when you return to school)

Dec 2

DOL

--mr arceneaux stated i used ravioli machine from italy and how they came out real good

Class Activities:

Look up the following terms before reading "The Raven"

--Internal Rhyme

--Onomatopoeia

--Alliteration

--Read "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe on p. 436

--E p. 438 and G p. 439 for Sound Devices / H p. 440 for Inference