DLackey's Lesson Plans 2007-2008

STRONGSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
ENGLISH HONORS AND AP SUMMER READING
SUMMER 2007

English 9 Honors
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas

English 10 Honors
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Chosen, Chiam Potak

English 11 Honors
Read TWO books, one from each group:

Group 1:
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Native Son, Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Group 2:
All Over But the Shoutin’, Rick Bragg
American Childhood or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Into the Wild or Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Finding Fish, Antwone Fisher

Advanced Placement English
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon Study Questions) and TWO of the following:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

(Click on links for written assignments - PDFs)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

ENGLISH 11
English 11 Review Sheets

5-29-07
Continue watching Death of a Salesman
HW: Continue College Essay - due 5/29/07
Answer Death of a Salesman questions
HW: exam review
5-30-07
Death of a Salesman quiz
HW: Exam review
5-31-07
Exam review
HW: Exam review
6-1-07
Exam review
HW: Exam review

Standards Summary:
Reading Application – Literary Text 2, 3, 4, 5
Analyze the historical, social and cultural context of setting.
Explain how voice and narrator affect the characterization, plot and credibility.
Evaluate the author’s use of point of view in a literary text.
Analyze variations of universal themes in literary texts.
English Language Arts Academic Content Standards

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ENGLISH 11
Resume - PrepHQ
College Essay Topics
Notes from Textbook:
Conventions of Drama - pp. 161-162
Arthur Miller - p. 245
Modernism - pp. 992-994, 1016-1017, 1148-1149, 1384

5-21-07
Begin reading Death of a Salesman
HW: Begin College Essay.
5-22-07
Continue reading Death of a Salesman
HW: Continue College Essay - due 5/29/07
Answer Death of a Salesman questions
5-23-07
Continue reading Death of a Salesman
HW: Continue College Essay - due 5/29/07
Answer Death of a Salesman questions
5-24-07
View video - Death of a Salesman
HW: Continue College Essay - due 5/29/07
Answer Death of a Salesman questions
5-25-07
View video - Death of a Salesman
HW: Continue College Essay - due 5/29/07
Answer Death of a Salesman questions

AP ENGLISH 12
5-21-07
View and critique Catch-22
HW: Write This I Believe statement
5-22-07
View and critique Catch-22
HW: Write This I Believe statement
5-23-07
Present This I Believe statement
5-24-07
Present This I Believe statement
5-25-07
Senior exams

Standards Summary:
Reading Application – Literary Text 2, 3, 4, 5
Analyze the historical, social and cultural context of setting.
Explain how voice and narrator affect the characterization, plot and credibility.
Evaluate the author’s use of point of view in a literary text.
Analyze variations of universal themes in literary texts.
English Language Arts Academic Content Standards

Posted by David at 08:44 AM | Permalink

ENGLISH 11
Employment Interview Questions
Resume - PrepHQ
College Essay Topics
Stranger Than Fiction Worksheet and Vocabulary

5-14-07
Writing lab - Complete Prep-HQ resume activity at PreHQ site; type employment interview questions.
HW: Define vocabulary from Stranger Than Fiction; Continue viewing film - Complete Stranger Than Fiction critique worksheet; begin College Essay and Resume.
5-15-07
Writing lab - Complete Prep-HQ resume activity at PreHQ site; type employment interview questions.
HW: Define vocabulary from Stranger Than Fiction; Continue viewing film - Complete Stranger Than Fiction critique worksheet; begin College Essay and Resume.
5-16-07
Writing lab - Complete Prep-HQ resume activity at PreHQ site; type employment interview questions.
HW: Define vocabulary from Stranger Than Fiction; Continue viewing film - Complete Stranger Than Fiction critique worksheet; begin College Essay and Resume.
5-17-07
Present employment interview questions.
HW: Define vocabulary from Stranger Than Fiction; Continue viewing film - Complete Stranger Than Fiction critique worksheet; begin College Essay and Resume.
5-18-07
Stranger Than Fiction vocabulary quiz; present interview questions.
HW: Complete College Essay and Resume.

AP ENGLISH 12
5-14-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials
5-15-07
Election Day
5-16-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials
5-17-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials
5-18-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials

Standards Summary:
Reading Application – Literary Text 2, 3, 4, 5
Analyze the historical, social and cultural context of setting.
Explain how voice and narrator affect the characterization, plot and credibility.
Evaluate the author’s use of point of view in a literary text.
Analyze variations of universal themes in literary texts.
English Language Arts Academic Content Standards

Posted by David at 07:00 AM | Permalink

ENGLISH 11
5-7-07
Quiz - short fiction selections; Discuss Prufrock and complete questions in IAR, pp. 326-340.
HW: Read Prufrock; check out the hypertext annotated and the audio versions of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
5-8-07
Election Day
5-9-07
Read selected short fiction from anthology
HW: Complete resume and college application essays
5-10-07
View film - Stranger Than Fiction. Complete attached worksheet.
HW: Define vocabulary from Stranger Than Fiction.
Conduct an employment interview using these questions.
5-11-07
Continue viewing film - Stranger Than Fiction. Complete attached worksheet.
HW: Conduct an employment interview using these questions.

AP ENGLISH 12
5-7-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials
5-8-07
Election Day
5-9-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials
5-10-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials
5-11-07
To review AP test terminology and test taking strategies; Poetry review activities; Supplemental test review materials

Standards Summary:
Reading Application – Literary Text 2, 3, 4, 5
Analyze the historical, social and cultural context of setting.
Explain how voice and narrator affect the characterization, plot and credibility.
Evaluate the author’s use of point of view in a literary text.
Analyze variations of universal themes in literary texts.
English Language Arts Academic Content Standards

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