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 * September**
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 * - || -Labor Day Holiday || -Welcome; Attendance or "Why is this class so big?"; Summer Work: Collect and discuss; Interviews: Conduct an interview with another member of the class and present the information you learn in a creative manner (due tomorrow) || -Quiz: Brave New World || - || -**Propaganda Techniques**: [[file:propaganda terms.ppt]] and discussion; **Propaganda Assignment** (due Monday); **Senior Project Topics**: Select three possible Senior Project topics (1 page write-up due Monday) and write about (a.) what each topic is--providing details and specifics--and (b.) why you are interested in each of the topics; **Counseling Visit**: Coastline classes, Got College Plans, Email address for Mrs. Mielke,Senior Calendar from the Counseling Dept. || - ||
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 * - || -[|Senior Project Packet(download)]: distribution and discussion || -**Propaganda Techniques:** Share and discuss, watch [|Barstow 2008] and discuss propaganda techniques used; **Senior Project Topics:** read arounds and discussion; **Ghetto MySpace Posters:** Create a "myspace" page (8 1/2 x 11) with your name clearly legible from a distance, a picture of yourself, a few interesting facts about yourself, and pictures or images that represent your interests (due 9/13) || -**Senior Project-Proposal Statement:** Fill out page 11 of the SP Packet using one of your three topics from the weekend. You may use this as a first draft and then print out and complete a final copy or turn this in as your final draft (due Monday, 9/17); **Propaganda Techniques Practice Quiz:** take practice quiz to prepare for tomorrow's pop quiz; **Check out Text Books** || -**Propaganda Techniques Pop Quiz:** Take quiz and grade it in class; **Senior Project Presentation Rubric:** Discuss rubric in class and prepare for tomorrow's guest speaker. || -**Guest Speaker:** Art Institute; **Reminder!** Bring your textbooks covered to class on Monday || - ||
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 * - || -Class moves and catch up; **Ghetto My Space**: Complete presentations; **Guest Speaker Review:** Discuss speaker's performance and use of propaganda techniques. || -**Value of Life:** Introduction ([[file:What is the Value of Life.ppt]], or word doc [[file:Value of Life Texts.docx]]) and handouts ([[file:Value of Life Texts.pdf]]) discuss assignment. Begin reading texts and take notes (reading questions on first page of assignment packet). [|Value of Life Calculator]**Rough draft** due Thursday! || -**Value of Life:** Continue reading packet ([[file:Value of Life Texts.pdf]]) and taking notes. **Rough draft** due tomorrow! || -**Value of Life:** Rough draft due today: Peer edit or complete rough draft. [[file:Peer Essay Rubric.doc]] || -**Guest Speaker Series:** USMC: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday ([[file:SRGuestSpeakerEval.doc]]) || - ||
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 * - || -Value of Life Essay is due. Turn in Speaker Evaluation at the beginning of class. Discuss Friday's speaker and different propaganda tecniques used. Begin work in the Prentice Hall textbook. Read "From Legend to History" pages 4 - 12 & write 2-3 facts about each subheading in your spiral notebook. || -**Medieval Times:** Handout permission slips. Remember to pay and turn in permission slips by 10/3. **From Legend to History:** Create an illustrated "event page" for our time-line, with a picture and description of one event from your assigned section. (due tomorrow) **Vocabulary and Grammar:** Complete the [[file:Vocabulary and Grammar 1.pdf]] handout by this Thursday. **[|The Seafarer]:** Read and answer [[file:Seafarer Review and Assess.pdf]] questions 1-7 for homework (due tomorrow) || -**From Legend to History:** Share illustrated timeline events; take notes. [|**The Seafarer**]**:** Discuss poem (pg. 17) and the [[file:Seafarer Review and Assess.pdf]] questions. **Vocabulary and Grammar:** Complete the [[file:Vocabulary and Grammar 1.pdf]] handout. (due tomorrow) || -**Vocabulary and Grammar:** Review and score the [[file:Vocabulary and Grammar 1.pdf]] handout. **Anglo-Saxon Poetry:** take notes on [[file:Anglo-Saxon Poetry.pps]]. **From Legend to History:** Read and answer questions for //[|The Wanderer]// and [|The Wife's Lament] || -**From Legend to History:** Discuss the reading and questions for //[|The Wanderer]// and [|The Wife's Lament]. Due Monday. || - ||
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[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Modern Epic:** Peer editing using the || -**Modern Worker:** share poems. **Canterbury Tales:** [|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Guest Speaker Series:** Navy: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday || - ||
 * October**
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 * - || -**Counseling Visit:** Hand out stuff, talk to you. **Unit 1 Quiz 1**. **Star Testing:** in the library. || -**Journal:** What makes for a great adventure story? Why are these stories so important to us? [|**Beowulf:**] Introduction to the poem and notes on the epic and the epic hero ([[file:Beowulf PP.pps]]). **The Modern Epic Project:** Introduction? || -[|**Beowulf:**] Introduction to the poem and notes on the epic and the epic hero ([[file:Beowulf PP.pps]]). **The Modern Epic Project:** Introduction? **Homework:** Read [|Beowulf-The Wrath of Grendel] || -Beowulf || -**Guest Speaker Series:** ITT: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday ([[file:SRGuestSpeakerEval.doc]]) || - ||
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 * - || -**Guest Speaker Evaluation:** Discuss. **Beowulf:** Discuss and continue reading with [|The Coming of Beowulf and The Battle With Grendel] (due tomorrow) || -**Senior Project:** [|Letter of intent] (page 11 in the packet, due Thursday). **Beowulf:** Continue reading, finishing [|The Monster's Lair] and [|the remaining sections]. (due tomorrow) || -**Beowulf:** Review activity-[[file:Beowulf Jeopardy.ppt]]; when completed work on review and assess questions (1-7, pg. 60 and 1-6, pg. 61) || -**Senior Project:** [|Résumé] (page 10 in the packet, due tomorrow). **Beowulf:** review for final using the PowerPoint from yesterday as well as the released questions. || -**Beowulf Test** || - ||
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 * - || -**Journal:** Write a caricature of a famous (well known) person without using that person's name. Avoid direct characterization; instead, attempt to portray the character of this person by commenting on what this person does or says. **The Canterbury Tales:** Take notes on [[file:Social Commentary.ppt]] || -**The Canterbury Tales:** Continue with notes on [[file:Social Commentary.ppt]] || -**AR Books:** Check out books from the library at your reading level. This semester you will be required to read one novel at your level and write a [|Book Review] online. Along with the review, you will create and present a Graphic Essay to the class sometime before the end of this semester. || - || -**Guest Speaker Series:** Lawyer: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday ([[file:SRGuestSpeakerEval.doc]]) || - ||
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 * - || -**Guest Speaker Evaluation:** Discuss speaker. **The Canterbury Tales:** Break into groups and discuss characters using [|indirect characterization]. Create a profile of a modern worker imitating Chaucer's style. Your poem should be twenty lines of heroic couplets that indirectly reveal the traits of your modern worker. Along with the poem, you will also include a picture of your worker with accompanying comments. [[file:Modern Worker Assignment.doc]] (Due Wednesday) **Modern Epic:** Collect reseach notes (3 pages) [[file:RESEARCH FORM.doc]]. || -**Canterbury Tales:** Discuss character profiles. Work time on the [[file:Modern Worker Assignment.doc]] (Due tomorrow). **Modern Epic:** Work time. Remember to bring your first draft tomorrow for peer editing.
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 * - || -**Guest Speaker Series:** Discussion of Friday's speaker. **Canterbury Tales:** Watch "The Pardoner's Tale. Read [[file:Pardoner's Tale.pdf]] and answer the reading questions. || -**Canterbury Tales:** Break into groups and prepare a discussion of your assigned Review and Assess question. Lead class in a discussion of your assigned question. [|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Modern Epic:** Share ME's with the class. Don't forget to bring a flashlight. || - || - || - ||

and create an illustrated timeline event for your assigned section. (Due tomorrow) || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Guest Speaker Series:** US Army: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday || - ||
 * November**
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 * - || - || - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Guest Speaker Series:** FIDM: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday ([[file:SRGuestSpeakerEval.doc]]) || - ||
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Unit 2: Celebrating Humanity:** Read
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 * - || -Veterans Day || -**Senior Project:** In the Library. Collect information from two books using the following forms: [[file:RESEARCH FORM.doc]]. [|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Senior Project:** In the Library. Collect information from three internet sources using the following forms: [[file:RESEARCH FORM.doc]]. || -**Senior Project:** In the Library. Collect information from two to three reference sources or magazine or newspaper articles using the following forms: [[file:RESEARCH FORM.doc]]. [|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Guest Speaker Series:** Newport Rib: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday ([[file:SRGuestSpeakerEval.doc]]) || - ||
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -Thanksgiving || -Thanksgiving || -Thanksgiving || - ||
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 * - || -**Readings:** "//from// Utopia"-read and answer Review and Assess Questions. (due Wednesday) || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. **Play Previews:** De Donde. || -**Senior Bests:** Complete Senior Best lists for yearbook. **Readings:** "//from// Utopia"-discuss Review and Assess Questions. "Psalm 23" and //"from// The Sermon on the Mount"//-//Read and answer Review and Assess Questions. || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. **Readings:** Read The Parable of the Prodigal Son || -**Guest Speaker Series**: Make A Wish Foundation: Download the evaluation form and complete by Monday ([[file:SRGuestSpeakerEval.doc]]) || - ||

with this concept, providing examples. 1/2 to 1 full page, due tomorrow. || -[|Book Reviews] and The Graphic Essay **Directions:** Write an online review of your book using the AP Book review blog posting. Write your review as a comment to the post. For the Graphic essay, follow the preceding link and read the directions on the page. Be sure to check out the samples towards the bottom of the page. Per 1-1. RRedding 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. **Literature:** "Read" Macbeth. Perform the 32-second MacBeth. || - || - ||
 * December**
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 * - || -**Literature:** Review The Parable of the Prodigal Son; Prepare for KJB Quiz: [[file:KJB Quiz-Student Review.doc]] || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. **Quiz:** KJB. || -**Literature:** Read the introduction to MacBeth, pages 292-299. Read the "Background" section on page 300. Respond to the Elizabethan view of "universal order," stating whether or not you agree
 * - || -**Literature:** Review The Parable of the Prodigal Son; Prepare for KJB Quiz: [[file:KJB Quiz-Student Review.doc]] || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. **Quiz:** KJB. || -**Literature:** Read the introduction to MacBeth, pages 292-299. Read the "Background" section on page 300. Respond to the Elizabethan view of "universal order," stating whether or not you agree
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Shakespeare:** Discuss Shakespearean Comedy [[file:Shakespeare Comedy.ppt]] **Literature:** Read the Introduction to Unit 3: A Turbulent Time (pgs. 408-417) || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || - ||
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || -**Notes:** [[file:Satire and Parody.pptx]] Assignment due: Monday after we return from break. [|Parody Sample 1] || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || - ||
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 * January**
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. CCalderon 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || - ||
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || - ||
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 * - || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || -[|Book Reviews] Per 1-1. 2. ; Per. 5-1. 2. ; Per. 6-1. 2. || - || - ||
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Test library || -Jane Eyre Movie || -Jane Eyre Movie || Jane Eyre Movie || - || Secondary || -Lab || -Lab || -Lab || -Lab || -SA HW Due 26th ||
 * February**
 * Sunday || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday || Saturday ||
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 * - || - || -Start AR
 * - || - || -Start AR
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 * - || -Integraty
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 * - || -President week || -President week || -President week || -President week || -President week || - ||
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 * - || -Poetry || -Poetry || -Poetry || -Poetry || -Poetry || - ||

Per.5- Omar Rios Per.6- Isac, Elizabeth || -**Poetry: Presentations** Per.1- Jordanne Swett, Janeth Z, Erika ocampo, Alex A, Edee P, Mayra Vera Per.5- Matt, Marco T, Maricarmen Rojas, Cathy Zalasar, Jennifer G, Jennifer T Per.6- esteban S, John D, Addison, Heidi, Athma, Abby Adams, Jaime || -**Poetry: Presentations and PoetryTerms Review**: Per.1- Logan P, Eric Duarte, Marlene Perez, Adarian Rogers, JoJo Crowley, Diana Per.5- Adril, Paula, Mark Allred, Ryan Redding, Nadia, Julianna A, Per.6- Dat Tran, Maria G, Lani || -**Poetry: Presentations** Per.1- Max F, araceli Ceja, Claudia H, Ariana, Luis Per.5- Sandra, Andres, hunter, Brad Fisher, Roy Ortiz, Sam T, Magali M. || -**Poetry: Presentations and Final**:Per. 1- Miguel, Colin, Fritzie, Mayra, Erica Per.5- Eunice R, Davis L, Nallely, Luu, Lorena, Vincent E || - || Prepare for the poetry terms final. Hint: study this || - ||
 * March**
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 * - || -Poetry: [|Poetry Terms Review] || -Poetry: [|Poetry Terms Review] || - Poetry: [|Poetry PowerPoint Outline] || -Lab Time || -Lab Time || - ||
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 * - || -**Poetry: Presentations:** Per. 1-Kimberly Varela, VIdya Ramdath, Anabel, Regina, Stephanie
 * - || -**Poetry: Presentations:** Per. 1-Kimberly Varela, VIdya Ramdath, Anabel, Regina, Stephanie
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 * - || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet.
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 * - || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || - ||
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Hamlet Final || - || H/O district Due date || - || - ||
 * April**
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 * - || - || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -SP H/O Due
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 * - || -Spring Break || -Spring Break || -Spring Break || -Spring Break || -Spring Break || - ||
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 * - || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet
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 * - || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || -Hamlet || - ||
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 * - || -Hamlet || --Hamlet || -SP Interviews: [|Thank You Letter Format]. **Hamlet:** complete Acts IV and V. || -SP Interviews: [|Thank You Letter Format]. **Hamlet:** complete Acts IV and V. || -SP Interviews: [|Thank You Letter Format]. **Hamlet:** complete Acts IV and V. || - ||

Power Points || - || Lab || -SP Power Point Lab || -SP Power Point Lab || -SP Power Point Lab || -SP Power Point Lab || - ||
 * May**
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 * - || - || - || - || - || -Intro SP
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 * - || -Sp Power Point
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 * - || -Assemble Portfolio || - || - || - || - || - ||
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 * - || - || - || - || - || -Min Day || - ||
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 * - || -No School || - || - || - || - || - ||

Presentation || -Senior Boards Presentation || - ||
 * June**
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 * - || -Final Practice || -Final Preactice || -Final Practice || -Senior Boards
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 * - || - || -TBA || -TBA || -TBA || -TBA || - ||
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 * - || - || -Finals || -Finals || -Graduation || - || - ||
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