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Time in the Plato Lab to complete 1D Position Paper and complete any make-up work

HW: 1D Position Paper due Tuesday

Ashley Cooper will present to the class information related to Teen Dating Violence

Year-End Portfolio Review

A&E Class Assessment

2nd Block:

Final Exam: 4th Block

Final Exam: 2nd Block

 
December 14 to 18: We cap off a semester of learning with Final Exams

 

Pearl Harbor Day

Complete a World War II Statistics Activity

Video: Pearl Harbor

HW: Final Draft of Statistics Paper due Thursday

Statistics Activity: Teen Violence

A&E: Memphis Belle

The Links you will need include
Poets.org
Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
Memphis Belle-Wikipedia

Statistics Activity: Teen Sexuality

Randal Jarrell, pp 1044 1045

Web Assignment: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Time in the library to research for our final exam paper, the Position Paper

A&E: Video preview to World War II literature

World War II writer: John Hersey, pp 1038 to 1045

 

 
December 7 to 11: Pearl Harbor Day kicks off a week with World War II and its aftermath

 

AE Activity: Leaves of Grass

Read "Leaves of Grass "#51 and #52, pp 410-411

Read the poems of Carl Sandberg, "Chicago" and "Grass" pp 768-771

World War I Statistics Activity

Connect the statistics with the poem.

 

AEL: How do we know times are tough?

Dust Bowl Statistics Activity

Read from "Dust Tracks on a Dirt Road" pp 828-835

Brainstorming activity: what stories can statistics tell?

We spend time in the library, working on the Statistics Paper

HW: Statistics Paper due Friday

Statistics Teen Driving

Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes "Refugee in America," "Ardella," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," and "Dream Variations" pp 838-842

Statistics Juvenile Crime

Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps and Jean Toomer, pp 846-851

 
November 30 to December 4: America may be Depressed, but Harlem Rocks!

 

World War I Statistics Activity

Watch the World War I movie, "Gallipoli," part 1

Complete a movie worksheet

HW: Bring in an example of statistics that you read regularly (sports, academics, taxes, etc.)

Go over statistics from home

Watch "Gallipoli," part 2

Complete a movie worksheet

Thanksgiving Break

Happy Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving Break

 
November 23 to 27: Character studies at the Turn of the 20th Century

 

Text Message walk

In Classroom: assemble messages in the form of a free-verse poem.

Make assumptions about others' poems

Read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Make assumptions about Prufrock

Lecture: Art moves into the modern

Slang as it is Slung acrtivity, p 642

The poems of Ezra Pound, pp 660-661

HW: Final Draft Journalistic Character Profiles due Thursday

College Day Activity

View Pictures of the Day from the New York Times. Identify an object in the image and one reaction, idea or emotion

Read "Imagist Poets" pp 654-663

Complete an Imagist Table

Write a short poem describing one object in Mr. Dittes's room

Let's Go to War! World War I Propoganda

Read the poems of e.e. cummings and W.H. Auden, pp 692-697

Mr. Dittes will be away, attending Model UN Conference

 
November 16 to 20: Character studies at the Turn of the 20th Century

 

Go over Speaking, Listening and Viewing Workshop p 630

Analyze the King and the Duke from Huck Finn, Chapter 20

Interpret Chief Joseph's speech, "I Wiill Fight No More Forever," 544 & 551

Perform speeches

Seek Verbal & Nonverbal insights into Modern Celebrities (handout)

Read "The Story of an Hour," pp 590-595

 

The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbarm pp 598-601, (Handout)

Complete an alaysis of two characters

Perform poems

Go over Rubric: Journalistic Character Profile

We go to the gym to create profiles of kids that we see.

Read profile poems, "Luke Havergal," Richard Cory," "Lucinda Matlock," and "Richard Bone" pp 604-609

HW: 1st Draft Journalistic Character Profile due Friday

Character Profiles due

Read "A Wagner Matinee" pp 612-619

Do Comprehension _ 2 of Critical Thinking, p 619-20

Bonus: The American Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was a major influence on 20th-century writers like Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou. He also had a connection with some of the key African-American figures of the 19th Century, including the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (featured in the movie, Glory) and Frederick Douglass. How was he connected to these 19th-century figures? 5 bonus points
November 9 to 13: Character studies at the Turn of the 20th Century

 

Modern Slang worksheet

Video: Mark Twain & Huckleberry Finn. Seven facts activity

Redneck Insults activity

Read from "Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 20"

We will work on rafts in the wood shop with Coach Anderson

Complete sails and wigwams for our rafts

Read from "Huckleberry Finn" Chapters 21 & 23

Outside activity: The Huck Finn Regatta

Bonus: Complete a WebQuest. Answer one of the Process questions (Banned books, slavery, superstitions, steamboats or Mark Twain). Be sure to include a bibliography for your source(s). 10 points for each process question. (Grade is based on the presentation rubric included with the WebQuest.)
November 2 to 6: Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn Week

 

Notecard Activity

Read from "Mary Chesnut's Civil War" pp 496-498

Complete a note card

We will spend the 2nd part of the class in the library, completing our notecards

Notecards:

Read "Recollections of a Private," "A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg," "An Account of the Battle of Bull Run," "Reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation," and "An Account of an Experience with Discrimination."

Complete at least one notecard for each source.

Go over Rubric: 19th-Century Research

Time in the library to complete research or work on 1st Draft of 19th-century Historical Narrative

HW: 1st Draft due Thursday

Read "The Gettysburg Address" p 480 then compare with from "Glenn Beck's Common Sense" (Handout)

Notecard Activity

Time in the library to complete research or work on 1st Draft of 19th-century Historical Narrative

HW: Final Draft Notecards/Outline due Thursday

Read from "The Diary of Alice Williamson" (Handout)

What trials would you have faced had you lived in Gallatin in 1864?

Time in the library to complete research or work on 1st Draft of 19th-century Historical Narrative

Mr. Dittes will be absent

Video activity: "Secret Soldiers of the Civil War"

Complete video worksheet.

 
October 26 to 30: We complete our 19th-century Research Paper and Finish the Civil War

 

A&E: Material things--the Industrial Age

Bibliography activity: correct errors in bibliography drafts

Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," pp 466-475. Do comprehension _ 2 of Critical Thinking, p 475

In class we will create a comic strip describing AOCB

Bring notecards Thursday

Move Around Lecture: the Civil War and America's rise to a world power

A&E: A Realistic walk with Mr. Dittes

Grammar from Papers

Identify quotes that show bias.

We go to the library 2nd half of the block to complete our bibliography papers

 

Move-around Lecture: America 1850 to 1910

Authoritative Sources Activity

 

We go to the library to research

The New York Times this week had a feature on the ancestors of First Lady, Michelle Obama. Her family tree has been traced back to the era of slavery in America, and it reveals ancestors who were not only African American but also white and Native American. Read the article--or the Room for Debate piece that accompanies it, with insights from African American scholars. Write an essay describing details about Ms Obama's family, and what their experience can teach us about African Americans--or ALL Americans--today (300 words, 10 bonus points)
October 19 to 23: We begin our 19th-century Research Paper and Study the Civil War

 

New class seating charts

Lecture: from Romanticism to Realism

Read "An Episode of War" pp 440-446

AE: Artifacts of War

Watch Part 1 of "Glory"

Identify both Romantic and Realistic elements in the film

AE: Make it Real activity

Watch Part 2 of "Glory"

Describe the death of Shaw. Is it Romantic or Realistic?

No School

Fall Break

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No School

Fall Break

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Bonus Assignment: last spring the New York Times featred "Whose Father Was He?" about a Union Soldier who died at Gettysburg. He held no personal identification save a picture of three young children. Who was he? How did they find the family? What happened to his wife and children? These questions are answered brilliantly by writer/director Errol Morris. For each of the five installments, write a 100-word reflection on what you learned. In each reflection, be sure to refer to two of the facts or pictures Morris uses. Five bonus points each for a total of 25 points.
October 5 to 7: We enter the Civil War and leave Romance for Realism

 

AE: Life in Chains

Read from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano pp 42-47

Watch clip from the movie, Amistad

Go over Rubric: Outline-to-Essay

Time in the Library to complete our first drafts of bibliography

Time for writing essays or wrapping up research

Read from Roots, pp 202-206

1D Outline-to-Essay Due

Identify details about slavery from sprituals

Read from "My Bondage and My Freedom" pp 456-463

2nd Block will write their Midterm Essays

1D Bibliography Due

Song: "Nellie Gray"

First-person Slave Narratives:
Frederick Douglass's escape from Slavery

Slavery separates an African-American Family

The brutality of a Southern Plantation

The return of an escaped slave

For each, identify (1) the name fo the slave, (2) the nature or condition of their slavery, (3) the slave owner or enslaver, (4) an act of violence, (5) a quote that best describes the horrors of slavery.

2nd Block: Pep Rally

4th Block will write their Midterm Essays

This week Channel 8 airs a documentary on the history of America's national parks. Watch one episode and complete a 5-2s outline on one of the theses advanced for an assignment credit. If you wish, you can also watch the episodes online.
September 28 to October 2: We examine Slavery in America, and we take Midterms

 

AE: Bone & Marrow activity

Henry David Thoreau
read from "Walden" pp 372-379

Complete 2nd Bone/Marrow activity & find three quotes

Go over the program, Inspiration

Ralph Waldo Emerson
read from "Nature"

We go to the Library to complete an Inspiration outline on a 19th-century Career

 

Outside: we take a Romantic walk with Mr. Dittes

I sense/I feel journal

Go over Rubric: Outline to Essay paper

AE: Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman
Read from "Leaves of Grass: pp 404, 408-411

We return to the Library to look up sources for research on our 19th-century career.

1D Outline to Essay due

Isn't it Romantic? presentaions

 
September 21 to 25: Nature Week

 

Reading Logs Due

Grammar from Papers

Historic Poems, "Old Ironsides," p 262-63; "Concord Hymn" p 369; "O Captain, My Captain"

5-2s Outline

AE: Learn the Ropes

Read handout: from "In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex"

52s Outline: Life on a Whaling Ship

Video: The Real Moby Dick

Video preview: Moby Dick

Read Moby Dick, pp 330-337

52s Outline: Captain Ahab

AE: Visualize Moby Dick

Read Moby Dick, pp 337-345. Dramatic Reading

52 Portfolio Project--do independently

AE: "Blow Ye Winds" song

Outside: Harpoon activity

Read the account of how Ahab lost his leg to Moby Dick in Chapter 42. Write a 52s outline to answer this question: How did Moby Dick get his infamous reputation?
September 14 to 18: Whaling Week

 

No School

Labor Day

labor day graphic

Go over the 5-2s outline, using detaiils from 218-223

Read "Crossing the Great Divide" pp 276-77

Watch "Lewis & Clark, Great Journey West"

New 5-2: What was the Voyage of Discovery like?

Reading Activity

Read "Heading West" pp 544-550

View "Into the West, Wagon Trail" on DVD

Write an additional diary entry describing the trip

A&E: Packing for the Trip

Complete "Into the West, Wagon Trail" on DVD

52s outline activity

Write a diary entry describing one of the events from the film.

Gold Rush Days

Review "suitcases." Make assumptions

Map activity: Getting to California, 52s

Read "Gold Rush Letters" Identify details

52: I'm going to California!

If you didn't get a chance to see President Obama's remarks on Tuesday, watch it online or read the text. Think about what he said. Turn in a 5-2s outline based on his thesis, " I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education," for an extra ten bonus points.
September 7 to 11: America Expands Westward

 

Review 1st drafts of Declaration Essays

Pop Quiz: America in the 1st half of th 19th Century

Move-around lecture: America 1800-1850

Lecture: American Romanticism

AinE: All you could want...for Everything you have!

Read handout: "The Devil & Daniel Webster"

AinE: Fabrics and Emotions

Read "The Raven" pp 309-310

 

Homecoming: Classes will be irregular as we get ready for the big game against Portland

Bonus: watch a movie and describe the Gothic elements we discussed this week, or write a Gothic story of your own! See the rubric for more instructions.
August 31 to September 4: Gothic Week

 

 

Using Vocabulary references p 113

Go over Reading Logs

A&E: Reasons to be Independent

 

Read "The Declaration of Independence" pp 140-143

Complete a details outline for Jefferson, for You

Vocabulary References "Delcaration of Independence"

 

A&E: "These are the times that..."

Read from "The Crisis, Number 1"

Go Over Rubric: The Declaration Essay

HW: Declarationi Essay due Friday

Vocabulary References Obama Speech

Read "Speech in the Virginia Convention" pp 166-171

 

Vocabulary References: Obama Speech

Group work: read either "Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House" pp 194-196 or from "Letters from an American Farmer"

Complete details outline

Paul Jennings worked as a slave in the White House at age 10 under President Madison. Read an account of his life in the New York Times and prepare a 1/2-page report on the events of his life, first as slave, then as a free man.

President Obama, in his inaugural address last January 20, quoted Thomas Paine's "The Crisis." Watch the video online or read the transcript. Then answer these questions: what was President Obama's thesis?

August 24 to 28: Seeking Liberty

 

 

Art thoughts: page 1

Real-world Reading Skills p 211

Read "from the General History of Virginia" and "from Of Plymouth Plantation" pp 64 to 75

How Bad Was It? activity in class

 

 

 

Time in Library to check out books and fill out a form about the web site.

Writer's motivation: Jamestown & Plymouth

Read "Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville" pp 38-39

OSU Essay #3

 

Writer's Motivation: Letters to the Editor

Grammar Activity

Identify thesis & supports--in particular numbers, stories, etc.

Final Draft OSU Essay #3

Writer's Motivation: Print ads

A&E: Good place/Bad place. Use details to describe your own Heaven or Hell

Read from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" pp 96-101

Writer's Motivation: TV ads

Read from "Poor Richard's Almanac" pp 186-189

 

View the full online video for "We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower." Answer one of the Analysis Questions from each of the nine video chapters (short answer, 9 total) and one of the Comprehension Questions (2 to 5 sentences). For one additional make-up assignment, double this number.
August 17 to 21: The Birth of the American Nation

 

Reading Log: Introduction

Revisit collages and native artifacts from Friday

Read "The Earth on Turtle's Back," When Grizzlies Walked Upright," and "from The Navajo Origin Legend" pp 20 to 27

Identify native artifacts in the stories. Present the stories in class.

OSU Essay #2

Essay Activity: supporting details

Final draft OSU Essay #2

For the picture of Columbus, describe objects from a native American perspective

Read "from Journal of the First Voyage to America" pp 12 to 17

Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking p 17 & 18 or write a journal describing the visit from the perspective of a native

Identify objects in group myth

Grammar from papers

OSU Essay #3

What did visitors look like?

Read "A Journey through Texas" pp 32 to 37

Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking p 37 or write a journal describingCabexa da Vaca and Estevanico from the perspective of a native

Identify characters in group myth

Visiting artist, Rising Moon, will work with us to develop symbol and dance around our native myths.

Perform dances for other English 11 classes

Review reading logs for Monday

Finish dance study by viewing a powwow video and a 19th-century painting

Move-around lecture: America--1492 to 1700

Five bonus points. Research the tribe whose origin myths you will present on Thursday. Discover five facts about the tribe (for example, tell about their interactions/wars with Americans), and tell where the tribe lives today.
August 10 to 14: We visit the First Americans

 

1/2 Day of School: Schedule, ID, Fees!

No class. Final Day of Break

Welcome Back!

Class Rubric Activity

Go over Class Syllabus/Reading

Oregon State Essay: Goals

 

Review Summer Reading: Raisin in the Sun

Thesis-writing activity: Top 5

Rubric: the TCAP

Time in class for 2nd Draft of Goals essay

Raisin in the Sun Summer Reading Test

Aesthetic Activity: early America

Raisin in the Sun online resources include a full script, or a more comprehensive web site, or you can listen to the whole, durned thing online.
August 3 to 7: Welcome Back, Let's get busy writing