Objective: Students will know how Caesar was warned before he was killed and evaluate his character (Reading 3.1-3.6)

Date: February 28, 2006

Periods 1 and 4: Get your folder!
1. CAT6 #3 for Act II
2. Discuss yesterday’s presentations/do make ups
3. Act II:2-4 Notes
4. Read Act II: 2-4
5. Homework: Outside Book

Periods 2 and 5: Get your folder.
1. CAT6 #3
2. Discuss yesterday’s presentations/do make ups
3. Act II:1 continued notes and reading (p.2) Correct Vocab. (p.5)
4. Act II:2-4 Notes and Reading
5. Act II Translation, Review and Storyboard
6. Homework: Outside Book

Presentations for Act II: For Portfolio I need a Printout of your Power Point!
- Veni, Vedi, Veci
- Augury and Augerers
- Astrology(Anthony)
- Year of Confusion
- Tragedy and Tragic Hero
- Role of Women
- Marcus Cicero
- Artimidorus of Cnidos
- Calphurnia
- Portia

Objective: Students will know all important information being tested on Act I of Julius Caesar (Reading 3.1-3.6)

Date: February 27, 2006

All Periods: Get your folder!
1. Pass back all papers in graded work folder (Period 2, 3, 5 Correct Vocab)
2. Go Over Act I Test
3. Presentations for Act II
4. Act II:1 Notes continued
5. Read Act II:1
6. Homework: Outside Book

Presentations Today:
- Veni, Vedi, Veci
- Augury and Augerers
- Astrology
- Year of Confusion
- Tragedy and Tragic Hero
- Role of Women
- Marcus Cicero
- Artimidorus of Cnidos
- Calphurnia
- Portia

Objective: Students will know important historical information for our drama (Reading Standard 3.11)

Date: February 15, 2006

Period 1 and 4: Get your folder! Don’t talk during Announcements or you lose 10 points!

1. Any Act I Presentations left?
- Plutarch
- Elizabethan Stage
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
- King Tarquin
- First Triumvirate
- Julius Caesar-
- Pompey
- Marcus Brutus
- Cassius
- Festival of Lupercalia
- Tiber River
- Soothsayer
2. Act I:1 and 2 Notes
3. Read Act I:1-2
4. Homework (Research Paper and Outside Book)


Period 3: Get Your Folder
1. CAT6 #2
2. First presentations
- Plutarch
- Elizabethan Stage
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
- King Tarquin
- First Triumvirate
- Julius Caesar-
- Pompey
- Marcus Brutus
- Cassius
- Festival of Lupercalia
- Tiber River
- Soothsayer
-
3. Act I Vocabulary Correct and Turn in
4. Julius Caesar timeline
5. Act I:1 Notes
6. Read Act1:1 and parts of scene 2
7. Research paper due Thursday

Objective: Students will know important historical information for our drama (Reading Standard 3.11)

Date: February 14, 2006 Happy Valentine’s Day

Period 1 and 4: Get your folder! Don’t talk during Announcements or you lose 10 points!

1. CAT6 #2
2. First presentations
- Plutarch
- Elizabethan Stage
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
- King Tarquin
- First Triumvirate
- Julius Caesar-
- Pompey
- Marcus Brutus
- Cassius
- Festival of Lupercalia
- Tiber River
- Soothsayer
-
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
- King Tarquin
- First Triumvirate
- Julius Caesar-
- Pompey
- Marcus Brutus
- Cassius
- Festival of Lupercalia
- Tiber River
- Soothsayer
-
3. Act I Vocabulary Complete and Correct
4. Julius Caesar Timeline Notes
5. Homework (Research Paper and Outside Book)


Period 2 and 5: Get Your Folder
1. CAT6 #2
2. First presentations
- Plutarch
- Elizabethan Stage
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
- King Tarquin
- First Triumvirate
- Julius Caesar-
- Pompey
- Marcus Brutus
- Cassius
- Festival of Lupercalia
- Tiber River
- Soothsayer
-
3. Act I Vocabulary Correct and Turn in
4. Julius Caesar timeline
5. Act I:1 Notes
6. Read Act1:1
7. Research paper due Thursday

Objective: Students will know important historical information for our drama (Reading Standard 3.11)

Date: February 10, 2006

Period 1 and 4: Get your folder!
1. First presentations
- Plutarch
- Elizabethan Stage
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
2. Act I Vocabulary
3. Homework (Research Paper and Outside Book)


Period 3: Get Your Folder
1. Discuss Research Paper Guidelines (Take Notes)
2. First presentations
- Plutarch
- Elizabethan Stage
- Elizabethan Actors
- The Globe
- Elizabethan Audience
- Renaissance
- King Tarquin
- First Triumvirate
- Julius Caesar-
- Pompey
- Marcus Brutus
- Cassius
- Festival of Lupercalia
- Tiber River
- Soothsayer
-
Act I Vocabulary

Objective: Students will know how determine an author’s argument in a non-fiction informational piece (Reading Standard 3.10)

Date: January 31, 2006

Periods 1 and 4
1. Persuasive Essay Notes
2. Go over “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” and get points
3. Drama Vocabulary

Periods 2 and 5
1. Persuasive Essay Notes
2. Go over “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” and get points
3. Drama Vocabulary
4. Shakespeare Note Handout Completion
5. Research Paper and Presentation Discussion

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Objective: Students will know how determine an author’s argument in a non-fiction informational piece (Reading Standard 3.10)

Date: January 30, 2006

Periods 1-5
1. Get folder and interactive reader.
2. Sit in any seat where you can work.
3. CAT6 #1
4. Interactive Reader: “Who Wrote Shakespeare?”
5. Homework: Get new outside reading novel and start reading.

Objective: Students will know how to pull important information from literature and set up an outline.

Date: January 11, 2006

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Periods 1 and 4 (Get notebook lit book)
1. Satire Review/Share the satire that you found at home
2. “RMS Titanic” Outline and reading completion
3. Homework: You all should be reading your last novel of the semester at home for book report due January 18, 2006

Periods 3
1. Turn in your Original Satire
2. Satire Review (Due Friday)
3. “RMS Titanic” Reading and Outline
4. Homework is outside Reading

Objective: Students will know how to pull important information from literature and set up an outline.

Date: January 10, 2006

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Periods 1 and 4 (Get notebook lit book)
1. Satire Review (due tomorrow)
2. “RMS Titanic” Outline and reading
3. Homework: You all should be reading your last novel of the semester at home for book report due January 18, 2006

Periods 2 and 5
1. Same as above

Objective: Students will know how to figure out word relationships using analogies (Reading standard 1.1)


Date: December 12, 2005

Periods 1 - 5
1. Analogy Notes
2. Analogy Handout
3. Homework: You all should be reading your last novel of the semester at home!

Tomorrow District Writing Test: Come ready to write an essay in 50 minutes!

Objective: Students will know how author’s develop a main point in non-fiction, similar to the way authors of fiction develop a theme.

Date: December 9, 2005

Periods 1 and 4
1. Complete “Man in the Water” reading and activity
2. Add your article to the assignment (use mine for less credit)
3. Homework: You all should be reading your last novel of the semester at home!


Period 3
1. CAT6 # whatever
2. Hand in CAT6 11-20 packet
3. Go over Interactive Reader “Catch the Moon”
4. Man in the Water Handout
4. Reading Man in the Water and Assignment
1. Homework: New Outside Book

Objective: Students will know how author’s use figurative language in literature (Literary Analysis Standard 3.5)

Date: December 8, 2005

Periods 1 and 4
1. CAT6 #21
2. “Man in the Water” reading and activity
3. Check interactive reader “Catch the Moon” and go over
Homework: You all should be reading your last novel of the semester at home!


Period 2 and 5
1. CAT6 # whatever
2. Go over Interactive Reader “Catch the Moon”
3. Man in the Water CAT6
4. Reading Man in the Water and Assignment
1. Homework: New Outside Book

Objective: Students will know how author’s use figurative language in literature (Literary Analysis Standard 3.5)

Date: December 6, 2005

Periods 1 and 4
1) Hand in Study Guide Questions
2) CAT6 #19
3) Lit Notes
4) Interactive Reader “Catch the Moon”
Homework: You all should be reading your last novel of the semester at home!


Period 2 and 5
1. Hand in Poem and Study Guide Questions
2. CAT6 # whatever
3. Lit. Notes
4. “Catch the Moon” Interactive Reader”
5. Homework: New Outside Book

Objective: Students will know all write a character analysis essay (Writing Standard 2.4)

Date: December 2, 2005

Periods 1 and 4
1) Theme Assignment
2) Test Monday on The Good Earth
3) Complete Study Guide Questions on The Good Earth


Period 3
1. Go over The Bass, the River questions
2. “It’s Raining” poem and writing
3. Essay Prompt discussion and activity (Essay Due Wednesday)
4. Complete Extra Credit Study Guide Questions
5. Test Monday on The Good Earth

Objective: Students will know all write a character analysis essay (Writing Standard 2.4)

Date: December 1, 2005

Periods 1 and 4
1) Turn in typed poem
2) Essay Prompt
3) Complete Study Guide Questions on The Good Earth


Period 2 and 5
1) Correct Vocabulary Homework
2) Discuss Theme Notes
3) Discuss “The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant”
4) Read “It’s Raining in Love”
5) Write a 15 line poem with the same subject and theme
6) Essay Prompt

Objective: Students will know important vocabulary and denotations for reading (Reading Vocabulary Standard 1.1)

Date: November 28, 2005

All Periods
1) CAT6 #16 (what number is it?)
2) Study Guide Questions for remainder of novel.
3) “The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant” vocabulary
4) Homework: The Good Earth reading schedule
Today: Through Chp. 29
Tuesday: Chapters 30-31
Wednesday: Chapters 32-34
Thursday: Essay on The Good Earth
Next Monday: 300 point test

Date: November 18, 2005

Period 1 and 4
1. District Test on Lit Chapter 3: Point of View
2. Homework: Reading according to schedule
3. Have a great Thanksgiving!


Periods 3
1. Good Earth Quiz Chapters 13-17
2. District Test Chapter 3 “Point of View”
3. Group Activity Good Earth Chapters Study Guide Questions
4. Homework: Keep up with reading schedule and study guide

Objective: Students will know the details of the plot in The Good Earth (Reading Standards 3.1-3.9)

Date: November 17, 2005

Period 1 and 4
1. Complete and Check “Calling Home” IR
2. Group Completion of Study Guide Questions up to Chp. 15
3. Tomorrow District Test on Lit Chapter 3: Point of View
4. Homework: Reading according to schedule to Chp. 17


Periods 2 and 5
1. The Good Earth Quiz Chapters 9-13
2. District Test Chapter 3 “Point of View”
3. Group Activity Good Earth Chapters 9-15
4. Homework: Keep up with reading schedule and study guide

Objective: Students will know the details of the plot in The Good Earth (Reading Standards 3.1-3.9)

Date: November 16, 2005

Period 1 and 4
1. The Good Earth Quiz Chapters 8-13
2. Interactive Reader “Calling Home”
3. Homework: Reading according to schedule

Periods 3
1. CAT6 #15
2. The Good Earth Quiz Chapters 3-8 and Chapters 9-13
3. District-wide Disaster Drill (worth 100 points!)
a) Duck and Cover until signal
b) Line up and follow sign leader to soccer field spot
c) Stay in line for roll on field
d) Stay together as a class. Don’t wander around.
4. Homework: Reading from The Good Earth

Objective: Students will know the details of the plot in The Good Earth (Reading Standards 3.1-3.9)

Date: November 15, 2005

Period 1 and 4
1. CAT6 #15
2. The Good Earth Quiz Chapters 3-8
3. Interactive Reader “Calling Home”
4. Homework: Reading according to schedule

Periods 2 and 5
1. CAT6 #13
2. The Good Earth Quiz Chapters 3-8
3. Group Chapter Presentations
4. “Calling Home” interactive reader
5. Homework: Reading from The Good Earth