| 8/29A - 8/30B | Introduction, Course overview, Intro toThe Crucible - Accusation PPt. 1&2 | Review The Crucible for in-depth discussion tomorrow. Introduction Letter - No HC required. | |
| 8/31A - 9/4B | Crucible Discussion and Crucible Reading Test | Please print and annotate "The Trial of Arthur Miller" for use in the next class session. | No School Monday |
| 9/5A - 9/6B | Drama PPt. and Lit. Princ. PPt. Benchmark Assessment | Print the Literary Vocabulary Chart - correct your original and study - there will be a test! | |
| 9/7A - 9/10B | Finish Drama PPt. Vocab Terms with Half-Hanged Mary | Complete Half-Hanged Mary Analysis and Study for Lit Terms Test | Late Start Day Monday |
| 9/11A - 9/12B | Lit Terms Test - Benchmark Essay | HW: Read and take notes on "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." | Back to School NIght Tuesday |
| 9/13A - 9/14B | Sinners Discussion and Group Outline | HW: Please print and annotate "Why I Wrote the Crucible" | |
| 9/18A - 919B | Effective Writing PPt. and Sinners Recap | HW: TBD | |
| 9/20A - 9/21B | FOA Intro and Rhetoric Ppt. | HW: TBD | |
| 9/24A - 9/25B | FOA Work Day | HW: Prep FOA | |
| 9/27A - 9/28B | FOA Work Day | HW: Submit Proposal to tii.com for final approval - ONE representative only. Bring typed HC outline to class for the teacher | Rally Schedule Friday |
| 10/1A - 10/2B | Present FOAs | HW: TBD | |
| 10/3A - 10/4B | Present FOAs | HW: Please watch the Presidential Debates at 6PM and take notes on rhetorical strategies. If you can not watch it live, you will be able to watch on-line before the next class. Also, please peruse websites and find both the Republican and Democratic Convention Acceptance Speeches. Read and take notes on one of those speeches. | Late Start Day Wednesday |
| 10/5A - 108B | Complete FOA Presentations - Introduce Unit 1 | | |
| 10/9A - 10/10B | Choose an outside reading book for pleasure, Listen to the Radiolab excerpt "Words" - respond to two questions in your WNB. Be prepared to discuss further next class session. | Please read and annotate Patrick Henry's "Speech at the Virginia Convention" and Frankliln's "Speech in the Convention" - Both can be found under handouts or in your text books in Unit 2. Identify audience, purpose, and strategy in these speeches. | |
| 10/11A - 10/12B | New Groups, Listen to RadioLab, respond to two questions, discuss with group. | Review historical and modern speeches and debate notes and be prepared to use them next class period. | |
| 10/15A - 10/16B | SSR, Group together, find a historical speech and a modern speech to compare and/or contrast. Create an outline according to your group collaboration. Structure an outline for a proposed essay and divide the components equally. Be prepared to present your oral essay in the next class. | Compare for oral essay exercise. | |
| 10/17A - 10/18B | Oral essays, PowerPoint lecture on Visual Literacy. | Read Common Sense by Thomas Paine in your text book, take notes, Bring any political advertisements that you can share with the class. Find the political cartoon under "Handouts" and evaluate it according to the Visual Literacy PPt - respond on the Discussion Board on tii.com by the next class session. | Late Start Day Thursday |
| 10/19A - 10/22B | Application of Visual Literacy PowerPoint - discuss political cartoons and logos. Redesign one logo in class with your group. Submit at the end of the period. | Please bring political pamphlets and advertisements to class! We need them for the next session. Also, look at the next political cartoon posting and respond on Discussion Board by next class session. Also, please make sure that your FOA responses are submitted to the discussion board by your next class period. AND -watch debate at 6:30 Monday night. | Please see the note at the top of this page regarding the political debate. |
| 10/23A - 10/24B | Work in small groups analyzing political advertisements. Apply principles of Visual Literacy. Presentation on Friendship Tours, analyze visual presentation compared to pamphlet. | Please bring political advertisements to class if possible. SEE NOTE! | If you are planning on attending the CLU Lecture, please read the document in "Handouts" and formulate three thoughtful questions to bring with you to the lecture. They are expecting you to participate and engage with the professor. |
| 10/25A - 10/26B | Friendship Tours - Investigative Journalism Opportunity | | |
| 10/29A - 10/30B | Analyze political advertisements and present findings in class - practice refining public speaking skills | Please bring debate forms to next class to submit for credit. I have posted 8 political commercials under "Links" please watch them and take notes in your WNB for use in your upcoming in-class essay. | |
| 10/31A - 11/1B | In-class Essay - Prep and Writing | TBD | |