Room 7 Edublog

OBJECTIVES:
To create a background for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
To evaluate how Shakespeare is still relevant today
To analyze characters in their significance to the conflicts
To apply grammar and writing strategies to written work

BELLRINGER:
Grammar refreshers

AGENDA:
Finish watching R & J movie

HOMEWORK:

Reading logs due 4/4/14.
Continue reading 10-15 minutes nightly.

OBJECTIVES:
To utilize research to be informed on subject of choice
To synthesize research from different sources into topics

BELLRINGER:
Review parts of speech
Jobs of nouns

AGENDA:
Refine outlines and thesis statements
Work on completing notecards
Testing on April 1-3

HOMEWORK:

April 4th: 1st 10 Notecards Due

OBJECTIVES:
To investigate historical era of Beowulf’s time
To read and analyze Beowulf
To note literary devices and religious elements in Beowulf

AGENDA:
Continue reading & explicating Beowulf

HOMEWORK:

Beowulf essay due 4/7/14

OBJECTIVES:
To create a background for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
To evaluate how Shakespeare is still relevant today
To analyze characters in their significance to the conflicts
To apply grammar and writing strategies to written work

BELLRINGER:
Grammar refreshers

AGENDA:
M: Pods write objectives for what is important for them to learn from R & J
Discussion as a class of objectives
Overview of family trees for Montagues and Capulets
Begin watching movie
T-F: Continue watching movie after completing practice grammar questions

HOMEWORK:

Reading logs due 3/28/14.
Continue reading 10-15 minutes nightly.

OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate sample AP writings
To justify critiques
To investigate historical era of Beowulf’s time
To read and analyze Beowulf
To note literary devices and religious elements in Beowulf

BELLRINGER:
M: Realism
T: Romance
W: Surrealism
Th: Symbolism
F: Absurdism

AGENDA:
M: Evaluate and score AP samples
Justify scores
Evaluate and score their own essays with the same rubric
T: Background to Beowulf
W-F: Read and analyze Beowulf
Emphasize: literary devices, religious elements, theme, heroic cycle

HOMEWORK:

Independent novel reading & activity

OBJECTIVES:
To utilize research to be informed on subject of choice
To synthesize research from different sources into topics

BELLRINGER:
Review parts of speech
Jobs of nouns

AGENDA:
M: Research and write over-arching thesis statement
T – F: Research and write outlines

HOMEWORK:

March 25th: Thesis Due
March 28th: Outlines Due

OBJECTIVES:
To establish the differences among goals, motivation, and outcomes
To compare and contrast in writing
To analyze the historical background to Romeo & Juliet
To justify pre-reading themes from Romeo & Juliet

BELLRINGER:
M: Quickwrite: Compare/Contrast what you did during spring break with what you thought beforehand.
T: New Seating Chart
W-F: Silent Reading

AGENDA:
M: Last oral presentations from novel groups
Goals and motivations
T: Organize notebooks for new quarter
Group activity: Goals and motivation vs. outcomes
Library time for choosing new novels
W: Reading logs
Shakespeare activities and film
Th: Class discussion on key Sheakespeare ideas (prep for Romeo & Juliet)
Finish watching Shakespeare film
F: Vocabulary and key terms
R & J film

HOMEWORK:

Reading log due Friday, March 28th

OBJECTIVES:
To identify parts of a fable
To dissect fables
To write an original fable
To dramatize original fable

BELLRINGER:
Nouns and Verbs

AGENDA:
Review Thesis Statement and Intro paragraphs.
Dramatize fables.

HOMEWORK:
Thesis statement due Tuesday, March 25th.

OBJECTIVES:
To identify parts of a fable
To dissect fables
To write an original fable
To dramatize original fable
To rehearse thesis statements and intros

BELLRINGER:
Prepositions, Conjunctions, & Interjections

AGENDA:
Handout thesis/intro papers and discuss.
Handout dramatization rubrics.
Groups will complete their original fables and practice dramatizing them.

HOMEWORK:

Thesis statement due Tuesday, March 25th.

OBJECTIVES:
To identify parts of a fable
To dissect fables
To write an original fable
To dramatize original fable

BELLRINGER:
Topics for research paper

AGENDA:
Complete analyzing fables in groups.
Begin creating original fables.

HOMEWORK:

British author subjects for research papers due today.
Thesis statement due Tuesday, March 25th.