Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Today is Bison Yell Day, Toys for Executive Testing Day, and Adjust Your Calendar Day.

Author of the Day: Angela Shelf Madearis, amateur genealogist, cookbook author, and children's author.

Word of the Day: vituperative

Gifted English II: Today, we are going to review words #21-40 for this week's vocabulary quiz and then have a Title Parade for the Stranger essays. If we finish with time to spare, we are going to review a brief history of the etymology of our entire language preparatory to our next unit. Exciting times in Gifted class! Remember: Underclass Picture Day is TOMORROW. You may either bring payment with the form I gave you in class, or have your parental units pay online at dsp.com in the next few days. Dress nicely!

AP Lit and Comp: First multiple choice practice session, followed by analysis of Tess with respect to diction, syntax, and tone. 6th and 7th period classes will probably have a moderate amount of HW tonight due to the fire drill yesterday and its resultant distractions. Bring a pencil, please!

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.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

I have a department meeting after school from 1:30-2:30 in room 315, but if anyone needs assistance with college essays I can stick around for a little bit afterwards. Also, if any of you work out at the 24 Hr Fitness at SODO I plan to be there tomorrow evening, but please don't interrupt me on the treadmill. Gotta do some cardio.

Gifted English II: Author of the Day is the amazing Vladimir Nabakov, after which we will go over the vocabulary words from 41-60. HW from last night are the thought questions from The Stranger, and if we have time I will talk with you about our next outside reading assignment.

APees: Sophocles biography and thesis statement development using the list of FRQs from College Board. BRING YOUR TEXTBOOKS on Thursday and Friday so we can deal with Oedipus Rex. Good times!!!