September 24-28, 2007
Sept. 24, 2007
English 11
Discuss "Why I Wrote the Crucible" (PDF); collect Study Questions
Extra credit: Read pp.145-148 and answer Reader's Notebook on www.classzone.com/eservices
HW: Read "The Crucible"; answer questions from text, p. 190 (Reader's Notebook online)
AP English 12
Guidance Talk
HW: Read The Dubliners - "The Sisters"
Sept. 25, 2007
English 11
Continue reading The Crucible
HW: Crucible questions, p. 206
AP English 12
Discuss "The Sisters"
HW: Read The Dubliners - "Araby"
Sept. 26, 2007
English 11
View The Crucible video
HW: Crucible questions, p. 228
AP English 12
Discuss "Araby"
HW: Read The Dubliners - "Eveline"
Sept. 27, 2007
English 11
View The Crucible video
HW: Crucible questions, p. 243; Vocabulary in Action, Exercises A & B, p. 245
AP English 12
Discuss "Eveline"
HW: Read The Dubliners - "The Dead"
Sept. 28, 2007
English 11
View The Crucible video; quiz over Crucible vocabulary - Words to Know, p. 163 textbook
HW: Write a movie review of The Crucible, pp. 248-252
AP English 12
Discuss "The Dead"
HW: Read "Winesburg, Ohio"
LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS
OH GLI A.1 "Recognize and identify how authors clarify meanings of words through context and use definition, restatement, example, comparison, contrast and cause and effect to advance word study."
OH GLI D.6 "Recognize characteristics of subgenres including satire, parody and allegory and explain how choice of genre affects the expression of a theme or topic."
OH GLI D.7 Analyze the characteristics of various literary periods and how the issues influenced the writers of those periods