STUDYPATH* February 2-6, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Antigone continues
2. Grammar assignment
3. Literary Terms
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Nine due

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Antigone continues
2. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Nine test
3. Literary Terms
4. Grammar assignment

Wednesday
1. Final Exams Periods Two/Three
2. Semester Reflections
3. Period Four does not meet today
3. Portfolio preparation

Thursday
1. Final Exams Periods Five/Six
2. Literary terms in class

Friday
1. Final Exams Periods One/Four
2. Semester Reflections
3. Periods Two and Three do not meet today
3. Portfolio preparation

STUDYPATH* January 26-30, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test tomorrow
2. Secondary Periodic Assessment-Exposition
3. Frederick Douglass and Sherman Alexie assignments continue
4. Literary Terms test today

Tuesday (Shortened Day-Senior Projects)
1. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Literary Analysis
3. Reader/Writer journals assignment
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Nine answers due Friday; test Monday
5. Fahrenheit 451 assignment after books are issued

Wednesday (Shortened Day-Senior Projects)
1. Frederick Douglass assignment
2. Multiple-Choice practice continues
3. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop answers due on Monday; test Tuesday
4. Participants for debate set

Thursday
1. Protocol for debate set
2. Date protocol and procedure set
3. Antigone introduction and Sophocles biography; textbooks required in class Thursday and Friday
4. Literary terms

Friday
1. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop answers due today
2. Weekend homework to be announced

STUDYPATH* January 19-23, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2. School holiday

Tuesday
1. Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the Secondary Periodic Assessment
3. Sherman Alexie's "Superman and Me" continued
4. Short Constructed Response continues in class
5. Fahrenheit 451 books issued this week

Wednesday
1. Frederick Douglass assignment
2. Multiple-Choice practice continues
3. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop answers due on Monday; test Tuesday
4. Participants for debate set

Thursday
1. Protocol for debate set
2. Secondary Periodic Assessment

Friday
1. Secondary Periodic Assessment
2. Weekend homework to be announced

STUDYPATH* January 12-16, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Seven answers due Friday; test Monday
2. Expository Periodic Assessment multiple-choice/essay skills all week in class
3. Proofreading Warm-Ups rewrites due Thursday; attach rewrites in front of assignment
4. Grammar assignment; textbooks due in class Monday-Thursday of this week
5. Mark Antony's Funeral Speech essay from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar due today

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Expository Periodic Assessment skills and literature continued; "Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie and Frederick Douglass pieces assigned
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the Expository Periodic Assessment continues in class
3. Classroom debate protocol announced
4. Grammar assignment

Wednesday
1. Grammar assignment
2. Expository Periodic Assessment skills and literature continue all week in class

Thursday
1. Grammar assignment
2. Expository Periodic Assessment skills and literature continue all week in class
3. Proofreading Warm-Ups rewrites due today

Friday
1. Capital Punishment debate linked to Chekhov's "The Bet" dates and participants announced
2. Expository Periodic Assessment skills and literature continued
3. Weekend homework to be announced
4. Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop test Monday

Julius Caesar Essay

Here are instructions for completing the Caesar essay due Monday January 12:

Double space typed essay
No "you" and no contractions in formal prose
Cite specific text references to support opinions/statements/assertions
Six paragraphs minimum
Paper standards and formatting rules must be followed
Address the prompt! (if necessary, read the prompt several times and highlight exactly what is being asked)


Write jcarmicl@lausd.net if there are questions
The January 12-16 web log will be posted this weekend.
Enjoy the remainder of winter break.