STUDYPATH* March 30-April 3, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters Sixteen-Twenty class discussion continues; book due in class
2. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary Workshop test tomorrow
3. Anthology due Wednesday in class for grammar lessons
4. Literary terms continued; test Wednesday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters Sixteen-Twenty class discussion continues; reader/writer notebook assignment
2. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary test
3. Anthology due Wednesday for grammar assignments
4. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters Twenty-One through Twenty-Five due on Friday for class discussion

Wednesday
1. Grammar assignment
2. Multiple-choice practice for the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Literary Analysis
3. Accelerated Reader book assignment; AR book test administered week after spring break
4. Literary terms test
5. Antigone essay due Friday, April 3

Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Literary Analysis
2. Antigone essay due tomorrow

Friday
1. Class discussion To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters Twenty-One through Twenty-Five
2. Spring Break April 6-10, 2009

STUDYPATH* March 23-27, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Antigone multiple-choice final continued
2. Antigone Scene Five reading check
3. Antigone final essay due April 3
4. Grammar assignment
5. Multiple-choice practice for Secondary Periodic Assessment-Literary Analysis
6. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test tomorrow

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Chapters Sixteen-Twenty talking points due for To Kill A Mockingbird class discussion Friday
2. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary Workshop answers due Friday; test Monday
3. Grammar assignment
4. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop test today

Wednesday
1. Grammar assignment
2. Accelerated Reader book assignment due at end of spring break
3. AR Book test administered week after spring break

Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for Secondary Periodic Assessment-Literary Analysis
2. Vocabulary Workshop answers due tomorrow

Friday
1. Class discussion Chapters Sixteen-Twenty of To Kill A Mockingbird; book due in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced

STUDYPATH* March 16-20, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. CAHSEE administered Tuesday and Wednesday
2. Anthologies due in class Monday for Antigone
3. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 11-15 talking points due today for Thursday class discussion
4. Vocabulary Workshop Cumulative Review due Friday; test Monday
5. Reader/Writer Notebooks due Monday for To Kill A Mockingbird Secondary Period Assessment questions

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. CAHSEE administered today
2. To Kill A Mockingbird class discussion on Thursday

Wednesday
1. CAHSEE administered today
2. Vocabulary Workshop Cumulative Review due Friday

Thursday
1. Class discussion Chapters 11-15 To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Antigone multiple-choice final exam completed Monday after Cumulative Review Units 1-12 test

Friday
1. Antigone essay assigned
2. Weekend homework to be announced

STUDYPATH* March 9-13, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Literary terms
2. Grammar assignment
3. Antigone Scene Five and Exodos
4. Anthologies required in class Monday-Wednesday
5. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters Six-Ten talking points due today for class discussion Friday
6. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers reviewed; test Tuesday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Antigone continues
2. Literary terms
3. Grammar assignment
4. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop test today

Wednesday
1. Units Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
2. Antigone continues
3. Grammar assignment
4. Literary terms test

Thursday
1. Frederick Douglass piece continues; reader/writer notebook work continues
2. Multiple-choice practice for the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Literary Analysis
3. To Kill A Mockingbird class discussion tomorrow

Friday
1. To Kill A Mockingbird class discussion Chapters Six-Ten today
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Vocabulary Workshop Units Nine-Twelve due Monday

STUDYPATH* March 2-6, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Antigone continues; anthologies required in class Monday-Wednesday
2. Multiple-choice practice for the Literary Analysis periodic assessment
3. Grammar assignment
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Twelve due Friday; test Monday
5. Chapters One-Five To Kill A Mockingbird talking points due today for class discussion Friday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Secondary Periodic Assessment skills and strategies
2. Grammar assignment
3. Antigone continues
4. To Kill A Mockingbird class discussion on Friday

Wednesday
1. Grammar assignment
2. Antigone continues
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Twelve due Friday

Thursday
1. Secondary Periodic Assessment skills and strategies continue
2. Reader/Writer notebook work continues

Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Twelve due today
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. To Kill A Mockingbird class discussion; Chapters Six-Ten talking points due Monday for next week's class discussion

STUDYPATH* February 23-27, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Antigone continues; anthologies required in class Monday-Wednesday
2. Multiple-choice practice for the Literary Analysis periodic assessment
3. Grammar assignment
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eleven due today; test tomorrow

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary test today
2. Grammar assignment
3. Antigone continues
4. To Kill A Mockingbird novels assigned for the Literary Analysis periodic assessment

Wednesday
1. Grammar assignment
2. Antigone continues
3. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters One-Five talking points due Monday for class discussion

Thursday
1. Frederick Douglass piece continues
2. Reader/Writer notebook work continues

Friday
1. Frederick Douglass piece continues
2. Weekend homework to be announced

STUDYPATH* February 16-20, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Presidents' Day Holiday
2. Anthologies due Tuesday and Wednesday in class

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Antigone continues; anthologies required in class
2. Literary terms
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Ten test today; Unit Eleven Vocabulary Workshop due Monday

Wednesday
1. Antigone continues; anthologies required in class
2. Literary terms
3. Grammar assignment

Thursday
1. Secondary Periodic Assessment-Exposition continues; Frederick Douglass piece and reader/writer notebooks
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary Workshop due Monday; test Tuesday
3. Literary terms
4. Grammar assignment

Friday
1. Secondary Periodic Assessment-Exposition continues; Frederick Douglass piece and reader/writer notebooks
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Multiple-choice practice for the Literary Analysis Secondary Periodic Assessment

STUDYPATH* February 9-13, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Antigone continues; textbooks due in class Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
2. Grammar assignment
3. Literary terms
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Ten due Friday; test Monday
5. Sherman Alexie essay assigned; due Tuesday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Antigone continues; textbooks due in class Tuesday, Wednesday
2. "The Bet" debate preparation strategies and skills
3. Literary terms
4. Grammar assignment

Wednesday
1. Antigone continues; textbooks due in class
2. Secondary Periodic Assessment literature for Frederick Douglass on Friday
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Ten answers due Friday
3. Literary terms

Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the Periodic Assessment
2. Literary terms test in class today

Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Ten due today; test Monday
2. Frederick Douglass literature for the Secondary Periodic Assessment Unit
3. Grammar assignment
4. Weekend homework to be announced

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.

Syllabus for Honors Ten English 10B DRAFT

February 9-June 19,2009 DRAFT
Semester B Syllabus
Grade Ten Honors English 2008-2009
Instructional Dates/Material To Be Covered/Semester "B"

Week One
Opening Week Activities: Late Work Policy; Secondary Periodic Assessment Response to Literature Diagnostic; Bradbury Biography and Introduction to Fahrenheit 451; Preparation for Exposition Secondary Periodic Assessment

Presidents Day Holiday February 16, 2009

Week Two
Fahrenheit 451 Part One "The Hearth and the Salamander"; Imitative Writing from Fahrenheit 451; Talking Points Part One and Class Discussion; Exposition Secondary Periodic Assessment administered

Week Three
Fahrenheit 451 Part Two "The Sieve and the Sand"; Talking Points and Class Discussion

Week Four
Fahrenheit 451 Part Three "Burning Bright"; Talking Points and Class Discussion

Week Five
Literary Genre: Play
Introduction to Greek Tragedy and Sophocles; Before You Read Antigone; The Myth of Oedipus; To Kill A Mockingbird Part One: Chapters One-Five

Week Six
Antigone: Prologue and Parados

Week Seven
Antigone: Scene One and Ode One; Scene Two and Ode Two

Week Eight
Antigone: Scene Three and Ode Three; Scene Four and Ode Four

SPRING BREAK April 6-10, 2009

Week Nine
Antigone: Scene Five, Paean, and Exodos

Week Ten
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twenty Six to Thirty-One

Week Eleven
To Kill A Mockingbird Part One: Chapters One-Five

Week Twelve
To Kill A Mockingbird Part One: Chapters Six-Eleven

Memorial Day Holiday May 25, 2009

Week Thirteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twelve-Fifteen

Week Fourteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Sixteen-Twenty

Week Fifteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twenty-One to Twenty-Five

Week Sixteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twenty Six to Thirty-One

Week Seventeen
To Be Announced

Week Eighteen
To Be Announced

Useful Web Sites

Online Writing Labs http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Composition formatting

Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/
Vocabulary for the AP student

Strunk and White http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
Rules of style for written prose

Teacher Web Log http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments due

Apex Learning http://www.apexvs.com/
AP diagnostic tests; literary terms; study strategies

Go My Access/Vantage Learning http://www.gomyaccess.com
Intellimetric prompts and rubric-scored writing

STUDYPATH* December 15-19, 2008

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. ShakespeareinAmericanCommunities.org outline due tomorrow
2. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Acts IV and V
3. Proofreading Warm-Ups in class
4. Reading Checks for Acts I, II, III, IV, and V due at end of play
5. Mark Antony's Funeral Speech essay due Friday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Outline due today
2. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Act V
3. Julius Caesar film screened Wednesday and Thursday in class
4. "The Bet" letters to the editor rewrites due by Friday
5. Grammar assignment

Wednesday
1. Julius Caesar film screening
2. "The Bet" final rewrites due by Friday

Thursday
1. Julius Caesar film screening
2. Caesar essay due Friday

Friday
1. Caesar essay due today
2. "The Bet" final rewrites due today
3. Winter Break December 20-January 11

STUDYPATH* December 8-12, 2008

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Acts III and IV all week; anthologies due in class
2. Homework Three continued in class
3. Outline of ShakespeareinAmericanCommunities.org due on Monday, December 15
4. Literary Terms
5. Grammar assignment

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Caesar Acts III and IV continued
2. Literary Terms

Wednesday
1. Caesar Acts III and IV continued
2. Homework Three continued in class
3. Grammar assignment

Thursday
1. Caesar Acts III and IV continued
2. Caesar essay assigned tomorrow; due on Wednesday

Friday
1. Caesar essay assigned; due Wednesday
2. Grammar assignment
3. Weekend homework to be announced
4. Outline due Monday, December 15

STUDYPATH* December 1-5, 2008

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. "The Bet" letter to the editor due today (see format suggestion at end of this week's blog)
2. Anthologies due in class all week for The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
3. Literary Terms
4. Homework Three printout due in class for in-class assignment
5. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test on Friday
6. Grammar assignment

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Caesar Act II
2. ShakespeareinAmericanCommunities.org outline due December 15
3. Literary Terms

Wednesday
1. Caesar Acts II and III
2. Grammar assignment

Thursday
1. Caesar Acts II and III continued
2. Grammar assignment

Friday
1. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop test today
2. Caesar Act III
3. Weekend homework to be announced
4. Literary Terms test today

"The Bet" Letter to the Editor format suggestion:

Letter to the Editor (center title on top line of paper); make sure standards are in upper right hand corner; do not pass margin; skip one line after title for text; this letter is in block form, meaning all text begins inside left hand margin

November 25, 2008

Editor
The Crimson Chronicle
1521 N. Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90028


Dear Editor:

I am writing this letter to state my opinion regarding capital punishment. I firmly believe that capital punishment is inhumane and unjust...

(this is sample text; your letter must be different from the sample text)


Respectfully,

Suzy Student (signed)

Suzy Student (typed)

STUDYPATH* November 24-28, 2008

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Unit Six Vocabulary test today in class
2. Grammar assignment from anthology
3. Anthologies due in class for Caesar Act I, Scenes 2,3
4. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary due on Monday
5. Marlowe-Raleigh-Housman poetry essays due today

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Caesar Act I, Scenes 2, 3 continued
2. Anthologies due in class; grammar assignment
3. "The Bet" letter to the editor due Monday; format introduced in class

Wednesday
1. School holiday Thursday and Friday
2. Caesar Act I continued; Act II assignment
3. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary due Monday

Thursday
1. Thanksgiving Day holiday

Friday
1. School holiday

STUDYPATH* November 17-21, 2008

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Review of Cornell Notes; poetry unit exam tomorrow
3. "The Man He Killed" Thomas Hardy poem assignment
4. "The Bet" letter to the editor due Friday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Poetry Unit exam today
2. Grammar assignment
3. Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due Friday

Wednesday
1. Shakespeare in American Communities assignment
2. Marlowe-Raleigh-Housman poetry essay tomorrow in class timed writing
3. Literary terms
4. www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org

Thursday
1. Marlowe-Raleigh-Housman poetry essay in class
2. "The Bet" letter to the editor due tomorrow

Friday
1. "The Bet" letter to the editor due
2. Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test Monday
3. Weekend homework to be announced
4. Anthologies due in class Monday for The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

STUDYPATH* November 10-14, 2008

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
1. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop test today
2. Poetry Unit continues; Raleigh-Marlowe-Housman essay assigned
3. Literary Terms (next ten terms with test to be scheduled)
4. Secondary Periodic Assessment multiple-choice practice
5. Grammar lesson in class

Tuesday
1. Veterans Day school holiday
2. Poetry Unit continues Wednesday

Wednesday
1. Literary Terms continue all week
2. Poetry Unit Raleigh-Marlowe-Housman essay prewriting due
3. "The Bet" letter to the editor assigned; postponed from last week
4. Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop answers due Friday; test on Monday

Thursday
1. Unit Five Vocabulary answers due Friday; books required in class tomorrow
2. Poetry Unit continues

Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Five test today Monday
2. Multiple-choice practice for the Secondary Periodic Assessment
3. Grammar lesson in class
4. Weekend homework to be announced
5. Literary Terms test today in class
6. "The Bet" letter to the editor due Monday