HAPPY FRIDAY!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. CFA Review

2. Time to work on essay/ Review Instructions

-If you have questions over the weekend about your essay, do the following:

1. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS IN COURSE DOCS BEFORE PANICKING

2. Email me with questions at this address: ksewell@mail.brandman.edu

ESSAYS DUE: JUNE 9th

*Please take home your notebooks from poetry and grammar today!*

Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Using the frame already provided for you, please write your thesis in the box provided on the second page of your organizer

2. Today, work on filling in the second page of your organizer (THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL USE FOR BODY PARAGRAPH 3)

-If you finish that, starting writing your rough draft using the outline provided

USE YOUR TIME WISELY

Hello English 1 students!

PLEASE GRAB A TEXTBOOK

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Essay Packet

2. Continue working on the organizer from yesterday. 

Remember- you need to include DIRECT WORD-FOR-WORD QUOTES from the play!!!


HW: Fill out Page 1 of your essay packet (Pre-Writing Outline), DUE TOMORROW

Hello English 1 students!

Please take out your tablets and log on.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: after finishing the play, who do you think is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Why do you think this? Comment on the blog home page.

2. Introduce Essay Packet/Prompt

3. Who's to Blame worksheet

HW: Complete timeline worksheet, due TOMORROW!

Hello English 1 students!

Please take out your tablets, DO NOT turn them on yet.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Finish Romeo and Juliet!

2. Citation Practice


HW: Complete the timeline worksheet, DUE WEDNESDAY!!!

TGIF charming English students!

Please take out your tablets and go to the class blog home page

Grab a textbook!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Citation Practice- respond by commenting on this post. TYPE THE QUOTE AND THE CITATION CORRECTLY. Remember...author last name AND page number. 

-QUOTE: Oddly enough, most students who purchase their lunch at school rather than bring a lunch from home are 20% more likely to suffer from a learning disability.

        Information was taken from Jim Nasium's textbook, The Effects of Cafeteria Food on America's        Youth. The specific QUOTE is found on page 317.

2. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5


Announcements: there are several of you who have two or more missing assignments. The following students see me after class, no exceptions (and this applies to my two students who work in the cafeteria):

Griselda
Edgar
Angel
Dahlia
Marko
Cesar
Porch
Sergio S
Joana

Hello English 1 students!

Please take out your tablets and log on!

Here is the agenda for today:

REN LEARN TESTING

Please follow my instructions.



HW: As we have done for the last two nights, please respond to the following questions about Act 4 on our class blog. Perhaps if too many of you blow it off, I will give you a pop quiz on the whole play tomorrow...your choice. 

1. Is Paris sympathetic or unsympathetic towards Juliet?
2. What are three things that could go wrong with Friar Laurence's plan?
3. What did Capulet decide to do with the wedding?
4. How does Paris react to Juliet's death? What is he most upset about?
5. What do you think of Juliet's actions? Is it selfish? Why might YOU relate to her or feel sorry for her?
6. At this point, who do you think should be held most responsible for what will happen to Romeo and Juliet?

Hello English 1 students! 

I am sorry I could not be here today....please use your tablets AS INSTRUCTED I would hate to take away tablet privileges.

Your job:

-Read Romeo and Juliet Act 4  Scenes 2-3 in your textbook. YOU DO NOT NEED YOUR TABLETS OUT UNTIL YOU ARE DONE READING

-Once you are done reading, INDEPENDENTLY respond to the following questions (just like you did for Tuesday's homework).

-You should have plenty of time to complete your assignments for today.

Questions-respond in complete sentences!

1. Why do you think Juliet trusts the Friar? Should she?
2. How long will Juliet be affected by the potion?
3. Why is Juliet reluctant to drink the sleeping potion? Is drinking the potion foolish or brave?
4. Why is Juliet afraid of the family vault? (List three fears)
5. What does Capulet reveal to his daughter about the wedding plans in Scene 2?
6. What is the family doing in Scene 3? Why is this an example of dramatic irony? (Think about what Juliet is doing during this time...)

Hello English 1 students! I hope you had a great weekend!

Please take out your tablets and go to the class blog.

Here is the agenda for today:

1 Warm up: Citation Review

Go to Kahoot It website!

2. Act 4 Scene 1

HW: Complete the Act 4 Scene 1 review questions (go to the blog page, click comment, write your name and your responses then post!) DUE WEDNESDAY

Questions:
1. Why is the Friar uneasy about Paris' wedding to Juliet?
2. What does Juliet threaten to do in this scene?
3. What does Juliet know that Romeo does not? Why would this be a problem?
4. The potion Juliet will take will do what?
5. After Juliet takes the potion, what does the Friar say he will do?

If you have head phones bring them to class tomorrow.

Hello English 1 students!

Please take out your tablets and get them fired up and submit your homework to the basket!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. MLA Introduction Powerpoint-How well do we know it?

On the blog home page, click Course Docs and please open the "MLA Intro PPT." You are going to follow along with me and take notes!

2. In text citation practice! On our blog home page, follow this link to complete the text citation practice. Be sure to type your name on the post it

http://padlet.com/wall/8jwiqnkb79mt

HW: Write the correct citations based on the information provided on the worksheet. SKIP #s 3 AND 4!!!!!

-You need to include the ENTIRE quote and the CITATION!
-Go to our class blog and Comment! Post your responses by TUESDAY!!!!

Hello English 1 students!

Please take out your tablets and get them fired up and submit your homework to the basket!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. MLA Introduction Powerpoint-How well do we know it?

On the blog home page, click Course Docs and please open the "MLA Intro PPT." You are going to follow along with me and take notes!

2. In text citation practice! On our blog home page, follow this link to complete the text citation practice. Be sure to type your name on the post it

http://padlet.com/wall/br72s3avs6vn


HW: USING YOUR TABLETS, you have two things to do:

-Define the following terms from Act 4

1. array
2. bear
3. beguile
4. dismal
5. distraught
6.lament
7. martyr
8. pensive
9. pestilent
10. shroud
11.solace
12. treacherous

- DOWNLOAD OFFICE 2013 TO YOUR TABLETS TONIGHT!!!!

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!


Here is the agenda:

1. Copy down your Homework for tonight-

Respond to the following journal prompt: Do you agree with the following statement...dreams can warn us about future events. Explain your opinion (1 paragraph or less)

DUE WEDNESDAY

2. Tablets/Set up (BRING ID CARDS AND PERMISSION SLIPS)

Happy Minimum Monday!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Act III Review


2. Prediction Worksheet DUE THURSDAY, 5/21

REMINDER: BRING PERMISSION SLIPS AND ID CARDS FOR TABLETS TOMORROW!!

TGIF English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Act III, Scene  5

2. Start Conflict Worksheet

HW: Complete the conflict worksheet over the weekend. DUE MONDAY!!

Hello English 1 students! 

Please place your homework in the basket.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: making a bulleted list, write down everything that has happened so far in Act III

2. Continue Act III, Scenes 3 and 4


HW: Respond to the comprehension check questions on a separate sheet of paper. DUE FRIDAY And yes, you must write in complete sentences.

Hello English 1 students!

Materials: folders and textbooks

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: review for Act III, Scene I (respond to these questions in your folders)

-Why does Romeo not want to fight Tybalt?
-How is Tybalt able to kill Mercutio? Do you think it was a fair fight?
-Why does Mercutio say "a plague on both of your houses"?

2. Continue Reading Act III

HW: Vocabulary sentences!! (if you need to take your folders home that is fine, just bring them back TOMORROW or you will owe me time at lunch!)

Hello English 1 students!

Please place your Act II journals in the basket BEFORE THE BELL!

Materials:

-Folder
-Textbooks

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Act III vocabulary

2. Paraphrasing Practice

3. Act III, Scene I


HW: Tonight, you will practice paraphrasing a SHORT quote from the play on your own.

-Instructions: turn to page 819 in your textbook and paraphrase the quote from Mercutio. On a separate sheet of paper, write the quote and then your paraphrased version. IF you need to consult No Fear Shakespeare (sparknotes.com), you may do so. BE CAREFUL NOT TO WRITE EXACTLY WHAT YOU SEE ON SPARKNOTES. THAT IS PLAGIARISM. 

DUE: Wednesday

Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Act III vocabulary

2. Act II Review

3. Act II Pop Quiz!

HW: Act II Journal- respond to the following (2 paragraphs minimum!)

What kind of statements does Romeo make to Juliet about his love for her? Do you believe they are sincere? Why/why not?

DUE TUESDAY!

TGIF!!!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: introduce essay prompt

2. Act II, Scene 5 (with scene guide)

Hello English 1 students!

Please grab your folders and textbooks.

Here is your agenda for the day:

1. Warm up: Act II, Scene 3 review questions

-What is Friar Lawrence doing at the beginning of the scene?
-Who does Friar Lawrence think Romeo has been with all night?
-What does Romeo ask Friar Lawrence to do?
-What is Friar Lawrence's reason for agreeing to help marry Romeo and Juliet?

2. Blank Verse Notes (pg. 794)

3. Act III, Scene 4 with guide

Happy Hump Day English 1 students!

Please grab a textbook and your folders.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: review Act II, Scene II guide

2. Act II, Scene III with your guide

Hello English 1 students!

Please grab your folders and a textbook.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm Up: Act II Journal

Agree or disagree: long engagements (as in marriage) are better than short ones. Explain your reasoning. 

2. Review quiz answers!

3. Act II, Scene II

HW: Complete the scene guide for Act 2, Scene 2...remember these are due at the end of this act!!!!

Hello English 1 students! 

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Act II Journal

2. Start Act II

3. Pass back papers/quizzes

HW: Work on the Act II scene guide as we read, DUE THURSDAY

Happy Friday English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

-Discuss HW issue
-Drama Terms/Sonnet Quiz

Hello English 1 students!

Please submit your questions to the basket before class

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Drama Terms Review

2. Sonnets and Iambic Pentameter

3. Start Act II

HW: 

-Study for your quiz tomorrow
            Review ALL of the drama terms on your flashcards and review the SONNET worksheet!!

-If you did not finish the Iambic Pentameter worksheet, finish it for HW!

Hello English 1 students

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Sub Report

2. Warm up: soliloquy, monlogue, aside worksheet

3. Review Act 1 questions and Dramatic Foils

4. Finish Scene 5

HW: Act 1, Scene 5 Questions

Hello English 1 students!

Hope you all had a great weekend. 

YOU WILL NEED: FOLDERS AND TEXTBOOKS

 Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Journal Topic #1

2. Review Act 1, Scenes 1-4 

3. Finish Scene 5 (?)

4. Class Visit at 11:50 am RE: testing

HW: Complete the Act 1 Review and Assess questions, page 792 (textbooks)

DUE TUESDAY (to basket)


HEADS UP: there will be a quiz on ACT I FRIDAY.

Happy Friday English 1 students!

Please grab a textbook as you come in.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Check HW/Flashcards

-Use the flashcards to study for your quiz next week!

2. Continue Act 1

Hello English 1 students!

Grab your folders and a textbook as you come in.

Have your HW out so that I may stamp it, put BOTH pages in your folders when you are done!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Insults and Puns activity

2. Continue Act I

Hello English 1 students!

Please hold on to your prologue questions, we will review them before you submit them.

Here is the agenda:

1. Warm Up: prologue review

2. Round and flat characters/Dramatic Foils

3. Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1


HW: using the character map, fill out the worksheet to keep track of characters in the play. 

DUE THURSDAY!!! Bring back BOTH worksheets, they will be kept in your R and J folders.

Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1.  Folder set up and instructions

2. Act I vocabulary

3. Romeo and Juliet: prologue reading and discussion

HW: Please respond to the following nine questions on the prologue for Romeo and Juliet: 

Romeo and Juliet: The Prologue       DUE WEDNESDAY

1.              What is the setting of the play?

2.              How do the two families feel about eachother?

3.              What does Shakespeare mean by “star-crossed lovers”?

4.              What happens to the lovers?

5.              What is the play going to be about?

6.              What does the chorus ask the audience to do in the last two lines?  Why?

7.              What is the name of the poetic form that Shakespeare uses for the prologue?  How many lines are there?

8.              What is the rhyme scheme?

9.              Give me three examples of alliteration (the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry).

Hello English 1 students! Today is a minimum day. 

Here is the agenda:

1. Review Shakespearean Background

2. Elizabethan Language and translation worksheet

HW:

-Finish Elizabethan Language worksheet DUE TUESDAY
-Make drama terms flashcards DUE FRIDAY

Happy Friday! 

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm Up:

Review Ideal Mate Worksheet!

2. Shakespeare Background- Stations

Today, you will be working in groups to develop your background on Shakespeare and theatre.


Step 1: get into groups of five (30seconds)

Materials: each group member will need a pencil and paper

Step 2: in your groups number off one through five
Step 3: with your new group, study the information at the station that corresponds to your number. (Example- if you were numbered off as a "1" go to STATION 1).

At each station, there are a list of questions. On your piece of paper, write the question number and the correct response based on what you read. REMEMBER- it is your responsibility to become an expert on the information so you can teach the other the members of your original group what you learned.

YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES AT YOUR STATIONS.

Step 4: when you return to your original group, you will present your information for four minutes each to your other group members. GROUP MEMBERS NEED TO TAKE NOTES ON THE INFORMATION FROM OTHER STATIONS. 




Note: there will be a quiz/review on Shakespearean Background and Drama terms next week!!

Hello English 1 students!

Here is our agenda for today:

1. Warm up: review Romeo and Juliet questions
2. Drama Terms and Notes
3. Distribute and start Ideal Mate worksheet

HW:

1. You and your parents need to complete the Ideal Mate worksheet, DUE FRIDAY
2. Study the drama terms from today, there will be a review you turn in for credit tomorrow!!

Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: when you think of social offenses, what comes to mind? Explain. 

2. Social Offenses Activity and Response


-Tomorrow there will be a substitute teacher. You will be working on Romeo and Juliet pre-reading questions and will begin the Ideal Mate survey activity.

The Ideal Mate activity is a worksheet with questions for both you and your parents. 

There are two parts to this activity-

Part 1: you will respond to the questions (IN COMPLETE SENTENCES).
Part 2: you will take the worksheet home and have either of your parents respond to their questions and sign the worksheet.

You will start working on this Wednesday in class, it is due FRIDAY. We will go over it and it will be submitted for credit.

Any attempt to forge parents responses or signatures will result in a phone call home and lunch detention. 

Hello English 1 students!

I hope you all had a wonderful spring break!

Here is the agenda for today:

1.Warm Up: tell me everything that you know about the play-write William Shakespeare. What questions would you ask him if you could?

2. Romeo and Juliet Anticipation Guide

3. Pre-reading Questionnaire

The week ahead:

-We will be jumping into our Romeo and Juliet unit this week!!

Hello English 1 students!

Here is today's agenda:


1.  Raven Quiz!


Reminder: if you can, please bring a treat for tomorrow's party. 

STANZA RE-WRITES DUE TOMORROW!!

Hello English 1! THREE MORE DAYS UNTIL SPRING BREAK!!

Here is today's agenda:

1. Please have your stanza re-writes out. DO NOT TURN THEM IN YET.

2. Re-read 'Raven'/discussion 

Textbooks page 940

HW: Complete the SOAPSTONE worksheet and turn it in tomorrow. USE IT AS REVIEW!!

Other things to study for the quiz:

-narrative poetry (definition, where you can find it now, what does it include)

-review Raven/Poe notes

When was the poem first published? What is an allusion? Know an example from the poem.

Know alliteration! What is the raven a symbol of? What is the tone of Raven? When did Poe's parents die?

Happy Friday English 1 students!

Here is today's agenda:

1. De-brief yesterday's questions

2. Gallery Walk:

As you can see, your stanza posters are hanging around the room.

Before we begin pick someone from your group to act as a "host." During the Gallery Walk, they will stay at the posters.

HOSTS: Read the original stanza, explain the vocabulary words, the tone, rhyme scheme, and share your paraphrased version of the stanza.

Rotating Groups: LISTEN and LOOK at the posters. This is not social hour, pay attention to the stanzas to review for the quiz.

Happy Hump Day English 1 students!

YOU WILL NEED:

-index cards from homework
-Poetry Notebooks
-pencil
-textbooks

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Review HW questions
2. Stanza Re-write assignment (directions located in Course Documents)
3. FINISH STANZA POSTERS

NOTE: The quiz on "Raven" and narrative poetry has been moved to NEXT TUESDAY 3/31!!!

Hello English 1 students!  

Here is today's agenda:

1. Go right to your partners/groups from yesterday!

You will need:

-textbooks

-pencil

-poetry notebooks

I will pass out your stanza assignments and questions. Today you should start working on your posters!!

HW: On the index card I give you, write your name and title it "Poe Questions." For homework, you will come up with three questions you would like to ask Poe about his poem "The Raven" if you could.

DUE TOMORROW

Make ups:

-Yohali- you need to make up the POETRY QUIZ this week!!!!

Hello English 1 students! Hope you all had a great weekend!

Here is the agenda for today:


1. Start "Raven" stanza assignment

-YOU HAVE TWO DAYS TO COMPLETE THIS IN YOUR GROUPS. GET TO WORK.


HEADS UP: There will be a quiz on narrative poetry and "The Raven" on FRIDAY.

Happy Friday English 1 students!

Please grab/take out your poetry notebooks so I may check your questions from last night.

1. Warm up (my poetry section): tell me something that you learned about Poe or "The Raven" from yesterday's notes that you found interesting, tell me WHY.

2. "Raven" oral reading, follow along on page 940

3. React and write: what is your reaction to the poem? How did it make you feel? Do you think the narrator is crazy or just upset? Who or what did he lose? Write down everything that comes to your mind now that we have read the poem.

On Monday, we have another minimum day. So please come in, grab your notebooks, and go straight to your group table so we can get started on the group activity!

Hello wonderful English 1 students!

Here is our agenda for the day:


1. Warm up (in the "my poetry" section of your notebooks): do you like scary stories and movies? Why or why not? EXPLAIN

2. Notes: Edgar Allen Poe and The Raven

3. Review vocabulary list for poem


HW: Please respond to the Poe questions in the "Poetry Notes" section of your notebook. Bring your notebooks back tomorrow for HW credit :)

Hello English 1 students!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here is today's agenda:

1.  Warm up: in the "my poetry" section of your notebooks, please respond to the following:

Tell me about something that makes you feel like an outsider. One paragraph minimum.

2. Narrative Poetry: notes

3. Narrative Poetry response questions

Hello English 1 students!

Here is today's agenda:

1. Warm up(my poetry section):  if you were to write a song, what would you write about. Brainstorm SEVERAL ideas for today's activity.

2. Rap song: today, you are going to work on writing a rap song to wrap up our lyrical poetry section. Please write this in the "My Poetry" section of your notebooks.

Your rap song needs to meet the following requirements:

-It needs to include rhyming words

-Must be three stanzas!!

-Try to include figurative language and deliver a message in your song

-Suggestion: include a refrain or chorus that is repeated throughout the song

HW: Finish your rap song and bring your notebooks back tomorrow!

Happy Friday to all!!

Please make sure to put your notebook on the desk so I can grade your memory letters!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. QUIZ!!

When you are finished with the quiz, please take out work from another class or find something to read silently. NO CELL PHONES.

HW: Have a great weekend and be safe :)

Hello English 1 students!

Please come in and grab your notebooks and flip charts, have a seat at any table and I will reassign you once class begins.

Here is today's agenda:

1. Review: what is lyric poetry?

2. Poetry Cafe


HW: Take your notebooks home tonight and

1. STUDY FOR YOUR QUIZ TOMORROW. The quiz will be on imagery, lyric poetry, and rhyme scheme. Look at your notes, the quiz will be multiple choice and true/false.

2. Complete the final draft of your memory letter if you have not done so already. 

BRING NOTEBOOKS BACK TOMORROW SO YOU DO NOT LOSE POINTS!