Gifted English II Learning Schedule: Week One

Greetings! This is the tentative reading schedule for the first week of classes (barring fire drills, assemblies, or Other Fun Interruptions that might impede our learning.) You will each receive information each day with more details, of course, but this should give you a general idea of due dates and expectations for Week One in Gifted English II.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Schedules/Codes of Conduct

Follow procedural handout

Read-aloud: It’s a Book

Syllabus

120 Literary Terms

Focus paper assignment: RD due Friday for peer review

(You will need to establish your account with www.turnitin.com by FRIDAY. Instructions will be given out in class throughout the week and posted here tomorrow evening.)

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Author of the Day: Raymond Carver

Death of a Stranger Check-Reading Test (bring pencil)

Planning ahead: Next outside reading is The Count of Monte Cristo

“Little Things” and analysis

Pick up textbooks from Media Center

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Author of the Day: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Review 1-20 Literary Terms

Existentialism in a Nutshell

HW: Stranger Thought Questions

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Author of the Day: Alice Walker

Grammar Activity: Sentence Combining

Discuss Willy Loman and Meursault as characters

Friday, August 27, 2010

No Author today

Vocabulary Quiz #1

Peer Review—Death essay (revision due Tuesday, August 31, 2010)