Practical English IV Absentee Page

12/2/09-12/4/09

Friday

Part one vocab (document on Fahrenheit 451 pg. of this site)

Begin with section one The Hearth and the Salamander

Thursday

Foiled Web Search

Book Burning & MacCarthyism

Wall of Fame is Up finally

Continued in per. 4 with survey

Wednesday

Intro Fahrenheight 451

Survey

Book Assign

Notes #1

Tuesday

How did you do on the test?

Beowulf Epitaph

11/23/09-11/25/09

Wednesday

Beowulf test

Tuesday

Beowulf review

Monday

Word of the Day Quiz #5

11/16/09-11/11/20/09

Friday

Revisit legendary hero characteristics & evidence of such within text

Beowulf blog-modernization of characters

Study word of the day words 41-50 for Mon. quiz

Thursday

Finish The last Battle, The Spoils & the Farewell

comprehension questions

Revisit legendary hero characteristics & evidence of such within text

No School Wed. Parent Teacher Night

Tuesday

Begin The Last Battle pg. 54

Monday

BEOWULF PROJECT DISTRIBUTED . . . DUE DECEMBER 4, 2009

Create an Event Timeline

based on 5 important events your choosing

11/9/09, 11/10/09, 11/12/09, 11/13/09

Friday

The Battle Between Beowuld and Grendel's Mother

completed & comprehension ?

Thursday

The Battle Between Beowulf & Grendel's Mother

Tuesday

Read on with The Monstairs' Lair

Illustrate the scene based on the description pg. 49 in text

Monday

word of the day quiz # 4

Beowulf cast of characters

11.2.09- 11.6.09

Friday

DeVry University visits

Thursday

Beowulf Quiz from The Wrath of Grendel - The Monster's Liar

Wednesday

The Monster's Liar

compare and contrast Grendel's home with Herot

Tuesday

Beowulf vocab cont'd

The Battle with Grendel

paraphrasing

Monday

per. 4 review comp. ? 39-41

finish reading top of pg. 44

finish reading The Coming of Beowulf pg.

comprehension questions for section 2

Beowulf quiz on Friday-

10/26/09-10/30/09

Friday

War of the Worlds radio program and script

Thursday

Finish The Coming of Beowulf

comprehension questions (Beowulf pg.)

Wednesday

check homework

Listen to selections of Old English (ppt. on Beowulf pg)

comprehension questions (given in class & on Beowulf pg. 39-41)

Read The Coming of Beowulf

Tuesday

Elements of Anglo-Saxon Poetry ppt. from Beowulf pg.

complete kenning exercise

define terms from Beowulf vocab 1from Beowulf pg. for homework

Monday

Read pages 39-41

Beowulf vs. Davy Crockett

Beowulf Vocab 1

10/19/09-10/23/09

Friday

word of the day quiz #3 today

Beowulf Notes #2

attempt webquest again rm. 200

Thursday

substitute

Beowulf Word Search with new vocab

Wod of the Day Quiz # 3 (words 20-29) tomorrow- STUDY

Wednesday

Research Paper rough draft due today

Laptops

Anglo-Saxon webquest went awry- technological problems

Tuesday

Read "From Legend to History" pg. 4-5

Finish any notes not completed from Tues.

Per. 2 slide 2-9

Per. 4, slide 1-9

Beowulf notes

Beowulf Notes #2

Research Paper rough draft due tomorrow

Monday

Allied Medical & Technical

per. 2 - 219

per. 4 - 119

10/13/09-10/16/09

Friday

Beowulf begins

Per. 2 Beowulf Notes

Who is your hero?

Wed. & Thurs.

all research paper materials to library

time to work on rough draft due on 10/21/09

Tuesday

practice paraphrasing or quoting

10/5/09-10/9/09

Thursday

quoting and parenthetical documentation practice

rough draft reseacrh paper due date moved to 10/21

Wednesday

quoting exercises

parenthetical documentation

Tuesday

word of the day quiz #2

Parenthetical Documentation Guidelines

Monday

paraphrasing & summarizing

pop quiz on research paper info.

9/28/09-10/2/09

Wednesday- Friday

source material to note cards

Tuesday

library?

type full sentence outline

Monday

continuation of outline creation

review g.o. to topic, topic to full-sentence

9/21/09-9/25/09

Friday

graphic organizer transition to outline

topic outline vs. full-sentence outline

Thursday

note card creation review

outline creation

Wednesday

turn in works cited page

begin note cards for source cards

Tuesday

wod quiz #1

library

finding sources

prelim. works cited and source cards

Monday

Tomorrow Word of the Day Quiz # 1 (1-10)

Given "Tips for Searching the Internet," "Source Variety" and "Citing Websites"

MLA Research Paper Source Cards (Electronic Sources, format & example)

To be graded this week:

Preliminary Works Cited

3 Electronic Source Cards

1-2 Print Source Cards

Outline

9/14/09-9/18/09

Friday

laptops

laptops

evaluate websites

three "useable" sites for research paper

MONDAY have notecards

determining valid resources

website evaluation criteria

Thursday

laptops did n't work

punishment for plagairism 5 examples

5 rules to avoid plagiarism

Wednesday

terms 11 & 12 research paper

notebook quiz

Tuesday

10 steps to writing a research paper

terms 1-9

plagiarism questionnaire

research paper book & #

5 rules to avoid

Monday

research paper intro

review narrowing down of subject, topic, thesis

preliminary researching ideas

BRING JUMP DRIVE FOR MONDAY

finish senior wall of fame

9/14/09-9/18/09

Thursday & Friday

9/11 articles and questionairre

summarize events of 9/11

Wednesday

possible clssroom visitor

Tuesday

continue with Wall of Fame list

check for binder

collect contracts

check for photo or waiver

9/8/09-9/11/09

No School Friday and Monday

Thursday

Rules & Procedures

Contract

Given waiver for Senior Wall of Fame

Homework due Tuesday

-binder

-signed contract

-waiver or photo

Wednesday

Syllabus

Seating Charts

9/2/09-9/3/09