MAY 2008 FRESHMAN
ENGLISH CALENDAR

Last updated 5/29/08
Many assignments are projected in advance.
Please notice "Last updated" date for current adjustments.

Juliet's Ring. Naomi. "Gallery." William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Feb. 1997. 20th Century Fox. 11 Ap. 2000 <http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/8591/gallery.htm>.

Regarding Reading RJ: If absent, read scene(s) noted on calendar.
You are expected to keep up with the reading even when absent.
Lost your book? Read it online.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
                  1     2  
If needed, check Previous Logs and Previous Calendars
Act I: Scene 2
1. Correct Shake Test
Challenge #3
Voc test #10 and due
Zefferelli video
2. Team Time
         
5     6   7     8     9  
Act I: Finish
Challenge #4
Act II: Scenes 1-2
Act II: Sc. 3-4
Voc #11 and planning time for
Classic video: Cap. Ball
The Capulet Ball
Voc #11 test and, notebook
Capulet Ball and Mask.
Party Planning
Mask + best party
Nat'l Tchr Appreciation Week
Nat'l Teacher Day
Nat'l School Nurse Dayeek
12
13
14
15     16  
Finish Act II
Act III: Scene I
Type Act II - Act III, Scene 1
Zefferelli video as time
Assign parts
Submit scripts: all due
(absence is no excuse)
Read through and add blocking
 
 
Zeff and Baz versions
 
    FUN Week        
19     20     21     22     23  
Challenge # 6
Play Rehearsal
Play Rehearsal
Play Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal

Present your play to judges

Best costumes, props & acting

      Progress Reports Due  
26 Memorial Day   27     28 2-Hour  Early Release 29 2-Hour  Early Release   30  
 
Act III: Scene 2-3
Act III: Scenes 3-5
Act IV
Finish Act IV
No School
Debrief
Voc. #13
Voc Test #13
   
PER 1 7:30 – 8:10 (40 min)
PER 2 8:15 – 8:55 (40 min)
PER 3 9:00 – 9:40 (40 min)
1 st LUNCH 9:40 – 10:10 / LATE 4 th 10:15 – 10:55 (40 min)
EARLY 4 th 9:45 – 10:25 (40 min) / 2 nd LUNCH 10:25 – 10:55
PER 5 11:00 – 11:40 (40 min)
PER 6 11:45 – 12:25 (40 min)
SCHOOL DISMISSED AT 12:25
 
JUNE
2     3
4
5
6
Act V
Act V
Act V
Discussion + Prepare for test
Voc Test
4th Per.: Discussion
Movie
Movie
         
9     10
11
12
13
Movie
Movie
Essay Completed
Over-run day
Prepare for Final
         
16     17
2-Hour  Early Release
 18
2-Hour  Early Release
 19
20
Prepare for Final

Final Exams: 4, 5, & 6
Period 4 7:30 - 8:45
Period 5 8:55 -10:10
Period 6 10:20 - 11:35
Lunch 11:35 - 12:05

Final Exams: 1, 2, & 3
Period 1 7:30 - 8:45
Period 2 8:55 -10:10
Period 3 10:20 - 11:35
Lunch 11:35 - 12:05

 
         

Final Exams: 4, 5, & 6
Period 4 7:30 - 8:45
Period 5 8:55 -10:10
Period 6 10:20 - 11:35
Lunch 11:35 - 12:05

Final Exams: 1, 2, & 3
Period 1 7:30 - 8:45
Period 2 8:55 -10:10
Period 3 10:20 - 11:35
Lunch 11:35 - 12:05

Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
4/28
4/29
4/30
5/1
5/2

CHALLENGE: Fight in Verona in the back parking lot on Friday (aka history test - highest
team test average)

1. Team Time: Phone numbers/tree
2. Reading Act I to page 41

1. Report and discussion on WASL Rdg and Wrtg from Mrs. Rogers
2. Self-Assess WASL Wrtg
2. Reading from RJ		 1. History Review
2. Reading from RJ
3. Final Scoring of Reading WASL
1. History Review
2. Reading from RJ: read to Act II

1. History Test
Team Challenge
2. Reading from RJ
3. Planning time for Capulet Ball and Mask.
5/5
5/6
5/7
5/8
5/9

Voc #11
 Team Challenge
1. distraught
2. environ (v)
3. pensive
4. redress (n)
5. stifle
6. abhor
7. inexorable

1. Read RJ
2. Team Time

1. Read RJ
2. Team Time

The Capulet Ball
Team Challenge
Each team will throw a 15 min. party, beginning w/Capulets

Discuss the Parties
Read RJ

Read RJ

5/12
5/13
5/14
5/15
5/16

Voc #12
8. meager
9. peruse
10. piteous
11. shroud
12. rigor
13. scourge
14. discern

Read RJ

1. Read RJ through page 129
2. Team Time
Read RJ
Team time for notebook and test
Read RJ

Double Murder: Notebooks and Test Challenge on both Voc. 11 and Voc 12

Explanation of RJ Play challenge
5/19
5/20
5/21
5/22
5/23

Voc #13

Finish reading Act III, scene I

 

Team time for handwriting script

Tped scenes due in Tech: submit to leader who puts script in order

5th: script time
6th: video and reading from RJ, Act III, scene 2

Read through scripts and edit as needed

 

Voc #13 Test and submit voc. notebook

Go through play with blocking. Time and edit as needed

5/26
5/27
5/28
5/29
5/30

HOLIDAY

Play practice

Senior Projects - Half-Day Schedule

1st Period - 730 - 810
2nd Period 815 - 855
3rd Period 900 940
Early 4th Period 945 1025
Late 4th period 1015 1055
5th period 1100 1140
6th period 1145 1225

Play presentations in the auditorium for an audience that scores each play and participant

 
Dress rehearsal : Team w/most most pts in auditorium first

Dress rehearsal for other 2 teams in auditorium
6/2
6/3
6/4
6/5
6/6

Voc #14

Read RJ using packet
(in book to page 187)

Read RJ using packet

(in book to Act IV, Scene 3)

Read RJ

 

Read RJ

Voc #14 test nd notebook

Orange textbooks due back
[Writer's Craft]

6/9
6/10
6/11
6/12
6/13

RJ Movie

5th period in 600 Forum

 

 

RJ Essay Discussion

 

RJ Essay : Thinking page

RJ Essay : first draft

6/16
6/17
6/18
6/19
6/20

Cask of Amontillado

Reading led by assistant

Sorry Wrong Number


75 minute periods. Thursday will be periods 4, 5 and 6

Friday will be periods 1, 2 and 3.

 

1. Correct Voc Test
2. Read "Cask of Amontillado" in textbook
3. Complete worksheet

First draft of BR in Tech
Edited by 2nd and 5th in Eng.
A-Maker

 

1. Correct Voc Test
2. Read "Cask of Amontillado" in textbook
3. Complete worksheet

First draft of BR in Tech
Edited by 2nd and 5th in Eng.
A-Maker

1. First draft of BR Edited in Eng
2. Typed in Tech and submitted

(Read "Trip to Edge of Survival")

Read "Not to Go" and do chart

1. Voc test
2. Read "The Utterly Perfect Murder" and do worksheet

ARCHIVES

MAY 2006
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
5/1
5/2
5/3
5/4
5/5

CHALLENGE: Fight in Verona in the back parking lot on Friday (aka history test - highest
team test average)

1. Team Time: Phone numbers/tree
2. Reading Act I to page 41

1. Report and discussion on WASL Rdg and Wrtg from Mrs. Rogers
2. Self-Assess WASL Wrtg
2. Reading from RJ		 1. History Review
2. Reading from RJ
3. Final Scoring of Reading WASL
1. History Review
2. Reading from RJ: read to Act II

1. History Test
Team Challenge
2. Reading from RJ
3. Planning time for Capulet Ball and Mask.
5/8
5/9
5/10
5/11
5/12
1. Read RJ
2. Team Time

1. Read RJ
2. Team Time

The Capulet Ball
Team Challenge
Each team will throw a 15 min. party, beginning w/Capulets

Read RJ

Watch Classic RJ movie
Act I

5/15
5/16
5/17
5/18
5/19
1. Watch Classic RJ 1. Read RJ through page 129
2. Team Time
Act II: Team Challenge
Play Production:
RJ Your Way

Team Time: scripts due today or Friday

Type Scripts in Tech

5/22
5/23
5/24
5/25
5/26

Read through
Add blocking
Make changes

Rehearsals

 DRESS REHEARSALS FIRST PERIOD: COMMONS STAGE
SECOND PERIOD: 400 FORUM
FOURTH & FIFTH PERIODS: AUDITORIUM

1. Voc #12, Part I
 Team Challenge
1. distraught
2. environ (v)
3. pensive
4. redress (n)
5. stifle
6. abhor
7. inexorable

Read RJ, Act III

1. Voc #12, Part II
8. meager
9. peruse
10. piteous
11. shroud
12. rigor
13. scourge
14. discern

Read RJ, Finish reading Act III

5/29
5/30
5/31
6/1
6/2

HOLIDAY

1. PAP Voc Worksheet #11
2. Read 175 - 220
3. Team Time

Senior Projects
Half-Day Schedule

1st Period - 730 - 810
2nd Period 815 - 855
3rd Period 900 940
Early 4th Period 945 1025
Late 4th period 1015 1055
5th period 1100 1140
6th period 1145 1225

1. Classic Card due
2. Test, Worksheet and Voc Notebook due
3. Thinking Page: Team correct
4. Begin first draft

Today's Test is a Team Challenge

 
1. Finish RJ 220-239
2. Classic Card, : Discussion of RJ and card time
3. Team Time

1. Classic Card, : Discussion of RJ and card time
2. Team Time

3. Thinking pages for Book Report due Monday: Thinking Page detailed or Thinking Page general

2003 example
6/5
6/6
6/7
6/8
6/9

Voc #12

75. vindicating
76. abate
77. prostrate
78. wayward
79. apothecary
80. presage
81. sepulchre
82. sovereign
83. inauspicious
84. ambiguities

First draft team check
A-Maker by peer
Final draft due tomorrow

 

RJ Books due back

DiCaprio RJ

1 st Period: 7:25 – 8:20
2 nd Period: 8:25 – 9:15

At 9:15 have your 2nd per go to main gym for the assembly.

 Assembly: 9:25 – 10:05

 3 rd Period: 10:10 – 11:00
1 st Lunch: 11:00 – 11:30
Late 4 th Period: 11:35 – 12:25
Early 4 th Per: 11:05 – 11:55
2 nd Lunch: 11:55 – 12:25

5 th Period: 12:30 – 1:15
6 th Period: 1:20 – 2:05

 

Orange textbooks due back
[Writer's Craft]

DiCaprio RJ

 

DiCaprio RJ

Brown Textbooks due

Begin Preparing for Final

1. RJ
2. All semester's voc
3. Citations
4. Essay components

1. Voc Test
2. Read "Cask of Amontillado" in textbook
3. Complete worksheet

6/12
6/13
6/14
6/15
6/16

 

Brown Textbooks due back

Read "Sorry Right Number"

 

Voc Review

 

Voc Review

FINALS
Half Day

Final exams periods
4, 5, 6

Warning Bell 7:25
Period 4 7:30 - 8:45
Period 5 8:55 - 10:10
Period 6 10:20 - 11:35
Lunch 11:35-12:05
School Dismissed 12:05

FINALS
Half Day

Final exams for periods
1, 2, 3

Warning Bell 7:25
Period 1 7:30 - 8:45
Period 2 8:55 - 10:10
Period 3 10:20 - 11:35
Lunch 11:35-12:05
School Dismissed 12:05

 

Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
5/2
5/3
5/4
5/5
5/6

CHALLENGE: Fight in Verona in theback parking lot on Friday (aka voc test - highest
team voc test average)

1. Voc
55. exposition
56. wench
57. feign
58. salutation
59. constraint(s)
60. wanton

2. RJ view of scene 1, old and new

 1. Voc Review
2. Supplemental Voc Worksheet #10
2. Reading from RJ, Pages 7-27		 1. Voc Review
2. Reading from RJ, pages 27-
3. Planning for next challenge: Capulet Ball and Mask due Friday
 1. Voc Test
2. Reading from RJ
3. Planning time for Capulet Ball on Monday and Mask.

1. Voc Test
2. Reading from RJ
3. Planning time for Capulet Ball and Mask.
5/9
5/10
5/11
5/12
5/13

1. Review of Voc 1-10

Voc #11:
Team and Individual Challenge
Create the Best Test

2. Thinking Page (thesis, 3 contentions and 1 example for each contention) for Book Report
3. First Draft of BR
4. Revise and Edit

1. Voc Review
2. Finish writing first draft, edit, revise
3. Partner read
4. Read necessary RJ
5. Party Planning

[Type first draft of BR in Tech]
Classes 2 and 4 read, edit, revise
Partner Edit
Classes 1 and 3 get new book at media center

THE BALL

[Type last draft of BR in Tech
Book Report due
- Submit in Tech]

Classic version - finishing Act I

Classes 1 and 3 read, edit,
reviseand Partner Edit
Classes 2 and 4 get new book
at media center

5/16
5/17
5/18
5/19
5/20
Prepare for Voc 1-10 Test
1. Read RJ
2. Go over worksheets

Blank tests for
home study are here

1. Voc. test over Voc 1-10 words
2. SSR
3. Read RJ

Read RJ 63-
Challenge: Write RJ Your Way
Team Meeting
Typed script due Friday

Challenge:

Write RJ Your Way
Team Meeting

Read RJ
See Act II Classic

See Act II of Classic
Team Time
Scripts due - no late ones can be accepted even if absent (so email them to me)
5/23
5/24
5/25
5/26
5/27

1. Voc #11 Test
2. SSR
3. First rehearsal with scripts
Read-through and edit


SCOLIOSIS SCREENING
Second rehearsal with scripts
Add blocking and find performance space

4th period rotates 400 Forum

Dress rehearsal

Teachers submit
Progress Reports today

4th period rotates 400 Forum

PERFORMANCE
for invited guests

4th period in 400 Forum

WASL-Writing
Training in scoring
Score your own

4th in 400 Forum
5/30
5/31
6/1
6/2
6/3

HOLIDAY
1. Voc #12 worksheet, 1-5
2. Score your own WASL
Turn in with WASL
3. Intro to SAT scoring
4. Introduction to
THE HOOK
5. Book Report due 6/8
Biography Book Report
Classic Book Report
1. Voc #12 worksheet, 6-10
2. Read RJ
Pages 129-155
1. Voc Review
2. RJ Pages 153-173 (Act IV)


1. Two Tests
a) RJ Acts I-III Test
b) Voc #12
2. SSR
3. Read RJ, 175-187
6/6
6/7
6/8
6/9
6/10

1. Voc #13
2 RJ 187- 217

Discuss RJ

 

Finish RJ 217-239

BOOK REPORT DUE

Wind up RJ discussion, book and if time, classic video
Voc #13 Test

 

 

RJ in Forum

 

 

RJ in Forum

 

June Log

June Calendar

Read RJ to page 129
Classic RJ

Bring magazine, glue and scissors tomorrow

Voc. #12
75. arbitrating 76. abate 77. prostrate 78. wayward and 79. apothecary

Voc #13
presage and sepulchre
sovereign and inauspicious and ambiguities


ARCHIVED CALENDARS
for teacher use

2004
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
5/3
5/4
5/5
5/6
5/7

Eat a good breakfast
and sleep well
***
First/Third Period Testing
Mathematics
and SSR
Second/Fourth split w/Schmidt

 1. Voc
2. Reading RJ

First/Third Period Testing
Interest Explorer and Questionaire
and SSR
Second/Fourth split w/Schmidt

 1. Voc
2. First draft of voc test due

Team and Individual Challenge
Create the Best Test

61. distraught
62. environ (v)
63. pensive
64. redress (n)
65. stifle
66. abhor
67. inexorable

1. Team Time with Voc
2. Read RJ to page 85

Type final draft
of voc test in Tech

Read RJ to page 103

 

Discuss March
Book Reports to 2 and 4

Read RJ to page 115
5/10
5/11
5/12
5/13
5/14

Retype April BR in Tech

Voc Test
Read RJ to page 129
Classic RJ

Bring magazine, glue and scissors tomorrow

 

RJ Picture

 

Voc. #12
meager, peruse and piteous

Finish reading to page 129
Classic through fight scene
Team Meeting

shroud, rigor, scourge and and discern

Challenge: Write RJ Your Way
Team meeting and SSW
Voc Test and RJ Test
SSW
Typed draft due Monday
5/17
5/18
5/19
5/20
5/21

Turn in typed RJ scene
First Draft of Book Report in

Type book report in Tech
SCOLIOSIS SCREENING
Read through scripts

Peer Editing of Book Report
Rehearsal

Dress Rehearsal
Plays presented
5/24
5/25
5/26
5/27
5/28

Voc #13
75. arbitrating 76. abate

Read RJ 129-139
77. prostrate 78. wayward and 79. apothecary
1. Play self-eval
2. Correct papers
3. Read RJ 139-145
Reading Test in 800 Computer Lab
Finish Act III
RJ 145-173

1. Voc #13 Test
2. RJ Act III Test
3. Modern Version

Teachers submit Progress Reports today
5/31
6/1
6/2
6/3
6/4

Voc #14
presage and sepulchre
sovereign and inauspicious and ambiguities

Modern
Classic Movie
Modern Version

Modern

Early Release
Video in 400
Early Release
Video in 400and on Monday

Archives for Instructional Use

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5/5
5/6
5/7
5/8
5/9


Dress Rehearsal
for Plays

Play Presentations

AUDIENCES
1 - Schmidt
2 - Schmidt
3 - Riley and Schmidt
4 - Riley and Schmit
5 - Riley and Bennet

usurer, digressing, valor, perjury, lamentation, loathed, distraught, environ, pensive redress stifle, abhor and inexorable

1. ITED Questionnaire
2. Debrief on plays
3. Vocab. Challenge
Teach your team your word

6th period ITED Test: Make-up in 503A

Two Hour
Late Arrival

1. Corrent last voc. test
2. Vocabulary Activity
3. Read Act III

 
1. Review Words
2. Timed Pop
3. Read Act III
5/12
5/13
5/14
5/15
5/16


1. Team prep for voc 11/12 test
2. take test
3. Read Act III

 meager, peruse and piteous

1. correct voc 11/12
2. Voc
3. Finish Act III (read to page 173)

shroud, rigor, scourge and and discern

1. voc
2. Finish Act III
3. Advice on next project: picture , fight scene or both
4. Act IV

no johnson


1. RJ Class Movie: The Fight
2. voc review
3. Project explanation:
Team Challenge: Supplies due Friday: glue, scissors, magazines (17 magazine is good)

no Johnson

1. voc and RJ test (over acts 1-3) and notebooks due
2. Project Time

Collages due at end of class
Script due
Skits presented Monday
5/19
5/20
5/21
5/22
5/23

arbitrating, abate and prostrate

1. voc
2. Skit
3. Read Act IV
4. Voting on characterization

wayward and apothecary

1. voc.
2. Finish Act IV
3. Begin Act V

Scoliosis Screening


1. voc
2. Correct last test
3. Finish Act V


voc review
Explain Thesis Paper Options
Graphic Organizer due Handwritten draft due upon entry to class tomorrow


1. Voc. Notebooks due, Voc and RJ test
2. First draft of thesis paper edited

Typing of first draft
in Tech
5/26
5/27
5/28
5/29
5/30

NO SCHOOL

Review essay drafts

400 Forum new RJ

presage and sepulchre
sovereign and inauspicious and ambiguities

400 Forum new RJ


606 Forum new RJ

606 Forum

1. voc review
2. notebook and test on voc
3. LOF anticipation guide
4. Check out LOF book
4. chapt one due 5/27

New Units
Period 2 and 4:
Periods 1 and 3
Period 5: Odyssey
5/27
5/28
5/29
5/30
5/31

Lord of the Flies Unit
LOF cal

"Psychologist's Point of view"
Chapter One Quiz

Chapter Two Quiz

LOF Voc

Chapter Three Quiz
Read LOF chapters 1-2, pages 7-47 - LOF Quiz #1 tomorrow

Chapter 4 Quiz
no johnson

For 6/5

4 & 5 Early Release for Senior Project, buses will pick up grades 9-11 as follows: Skyview @ 12:25 PM

 

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 MAY 2002 FRESHMAN
ENGLISH CALENDAR

Last updated 6/2/02
Many assignments are projected in advance.
Please notice "Last updated" date for current
adjustments and changes.

Juliet's Ring. Naomi. "Gallery." William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. February 1997. 20th Century Fox. 11 Ap. 2000 <http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/8591/gallery.htm>.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5/1
5/2
5/3



1/2

Interest Survey
5/6
1. voc
2. Leaders review grammar and come up with 1 or 2 things we need that they could teach
3. Read RJ
Pages: 121-131

Perjury, lamentation and abhor
1/2
1. voc
2. Read RJ, pages 122-140
5/6
1. voc review
2. Read RJ: 131-157


1. Review Voc
Voc Test on Monday
2. Read RJ
(157)-173

Bring glue, scissors and magazines like 17 next week.

5/6
5/7
5/8
5/9
5/10


1.pre-voc test
2. correct
3. take test
4. Classic movie of RJ

 68. meager

1. voc
2. Finish Act III (read to page 173)
3. Take Surprise Test over Acts II-III

69. peruse, 70. piteous

1. voc
2. picture

CHALLENGE: Individual and team best pictures

71. shroud, 72. rigor, 73. scourge and 74. discern

1. voc
2. Correct last week's voc
3. Correct Act II-III Test
2. Read Act IV

 1. voc and RJ test, notebooks due
2. Read Act IV
5/13
5/14
5/15
5/16
5/17

75. vindicating
76. abate

1. voc
2. Finish Act IV
3. Voting on characterization

77. prostrate
78. wayward

1. voc.
2. Read Act V

79. apothecary

1. voc
2. voc. review with partners in teams
2. Finish Act V

1. voc review in teams

Vote: Classic RJ, impromptus or next story

SCOLIOSIS SCREENING
1. Voc. Notebooks due, Voc and RJ test
2. Explain Newspaper Project- handout
3. First of 3 articles due in Grammar notebook

Dr. Questad's Progress Reports on you are due to admin. by 2:00.

CHALLENGE: Class with highest voc/RJ test average

5/20
5/21
5/22
5/23
5/24

80. presage
81. sepulchre

1