English III Calendar

January 2010
5
Tuesday
Review TAKS benchmark from Oct.; semester overview; discuss final retest/ grades
6
Wednesday
B day
7
Thursday
groups; visual representation practice and individ. ad; HW conjunctions & interjections worksheet
8
Friday
B day
11
Monday
submit ad poster & homework (conjunctions & interjections); Benchmark II; HW: write 5 sentences with
12
Tuesday
interjections & conjunctions (skills from previous day's HW) B day
13
Wednesday
submit sentences; finish benchmark; begin Individualism Unit 3 (Transcendentalism on p. 340);
14
Thursday
begin reading Emerson's from "Self-Reliance" on page 363 B day
15
Friday
HW check (pronouns-antecedents); complete worksheets for Emerson & begin Civil Disobedience (p. 369)
18
Monday
Martin Luther King Day - no school
19
Tuesday
B day; Symphony Concert; 5th period: Grammar Rocks video & Parts of Speech Bingo
20
Wednesday
A day: complete Civil Disobedience from Thoreau (p.369) for HOMEWORK; HW is also animal sentence
21
Thursday
B day: complete Emerson's Self-Reliance & Thoreau's Civil Disobedience; HW animal sentence
22
Friday
Submit HW & discuss Civil Disobedience; complete packet & submit; begin rough draft (HW)
25
Monday
B day
26
Tuesday
Personal Narrative peer revision; read model essays; discuss elaboration techniques; rewrite
27
Wednesday
B day
28
Thursday
personal narrative editing: watch 1 miute clip from Finding Forrester about writing; Punctuation Bin
29
Friday
(continued) Bingo for 30 minutes; review grammar rules; edit personal narrative
February 2010
1
Monday
PERSONAL NARRATIVE DUE; Read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and complete worksheets; HW comma usage
2
Tuesday
B day