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)

SUMMER READING

If you've bounced to this page, you may or may not have already seen the summer reading lists on the BHS website. If you have, great! You can skip this! If not, though:

RISING GIFTED ENGLISH II (NON-MAGNET) STUDENTS:

Please read The Stranger by Albert Camus and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. There will be a test on Tuesday, August 24 that separates the readers from the SparkNoters, so be prepared.

RISING APEES:

The summer reading packet is on the BHS website in its entirety, but the reading assignment is as follows:

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

and one of the following:

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

You will need to submit a completed focus paper on Friday, August 27 by 3 p.m. that fuses a theme from the three works you study this summer. We discussed some of these possibilities in the spring meetings.

If any of you have any questions, you can reach me at hilleyj@gmail.com OR at jennifer.hilley@ocps.net.

You have a little over a month, so get crackin'! Love to all.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A new month is upon us!

The Writing Center is now formally open for clients, for anyone who needs assistance with anything from college admission essays to class assignments, during both lunch shifts. Bring your lunch with you to room 315 if you need help with anything.

Sophys: After a brief and awesome post-it note quiz on "The Storyteller" most of you are taking the Stranger/Death check-reading test. Yeah, yeah, two tests in one day is just mean, but that's how I roll. You will be fine! Post-it note quizzes are only five questions long (and are on actual Post-it brand stickynotes) and then the check-read test itself features 50 magical multiple choice and true/false questions that has never taken anyone longer than 35 minutes to answer. Students not testing are expected to read silently. Good times! Due to time constraints today we are skipping Author of the Day.

APees: Today is our first multiple-choice practice session; I will provide the scantrons and testing booklets, and you will provide the pencil and the brainpower. On the actual AP exam, you will have 60 minutes to complete 54 or 55 questions (it varies from year to year) and you are expected to answer 50% of them correctly to score a 3. I do not expect any of you to finish this test in our time allotted today. Do the best you can; we will go over the scoring and at least two of the passages tomorrow in class. You will earn ten points for your efforts regardless of your score.

Adjusted Lesson Plans

Dear Students,

Due to the scheduling snafu of last week, some of you are still adding to the class, and some of you are still planning to leave. Thus, I'm retooling some of my original (patented, highly inventive, and totally awesome) lesson plans to ameliorate any concerns some of you might have.

SOPHYS: If you did not have Mrs. Padgett last year, then you may opt for the adjusted schedule for the summer reading assignment. The assignment was on the BHS website and was heavily advertised, but I'll err on the side of compassion and give you an additional couple of weeks to catch up. For everyone else: The rough draft of the paper evaluating Mersault and Willy Loman is due in class tomorrow for peer evaluation, while the newer students may read. The final copy will be due at the end of the week (September 4) instead of the original due date of Tuesday. We will discuss all of this in class tomorrow.

The check-reading test for most of you will be on Tuesday, September 1--bring a pencil. Again, new students may read during the administration of the test.

APees: Our schedule wasn't as altered, since most of the students moving from class to class were switching from Mrs. Covert to my class or vice-versa, and she and I are pretty much on the same page. However, we did have fire drills and such to contend with, so I am adjusting a little bit--the discussion questions for MB will be in class on Monday, instead of last week as I had originally planned.

Gifted English II: How to Submit a Paper

This is just a reminder for the students in my Gifted English II course.

You will need to upload your paper to www.turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27, and then you will need to bring me a hard copy the following day. If you have problems uploading, you may e-mail me your paper as wither a Word attachment or embedded in an e-mail at any of my e-mail addresses by the same time deadline, and I will upload it for you.

On Thursday, when you turn in your hard copy, please do this:

--Revised (final) copy on top, with OR without a cover page. Paper should have a title, though!
--Rough draft and prewriting underneath
--Peer Edit sheet on bottom

I will have a stapler on hand. Thanks, and if you have questions, let me know!