Lesson Plans

English 10 and Pre-AP 10 Week of May 9-13

Monday

  • Test on “Apple” (paper)
  • Plot and conflict
  • Read “Through the Tunnel” p. 242-250
  • Review and Assess p. 251 #1-7
  • Pre AP 10 – Review Part 3 of Fahrenheit 451 and Chapters 8-10 of Animal Farm

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • English 10
    • Test on “Apple Tree” (paper)
    • Theme
    • Read “Civil Peace” p. 444-450
    • Review and Assess 1-3 p. 451
  • Pre AP 10
    • Test on novel (Fahrenheit 451/Animal Farm)
    • Theme
    • Read “Civil Peace” p. 444-450
    • Review and Assess 1-3 p. 451

Thursday/Friday

  • Test on “Through the Tunnel” (paper)
  • Theme
  • Read “The Open Window” p. 540-544
  • Review and Assess p. 544

English 10 and Pre-AP 10 Week of May 2-6

Monday/Tuesday

  • Test on “Masque” (online)
  • Allusion
  • Read “The Apple Tree” p. 206-210
  • Review and Assess 1-7 p. 210
  • Pre-AP 10 – Review Chapters 5-7 of Animal Farm and Part 2 of Fahrenheit 451

Wednesday/Thursday

  • Test on “The Apple Tree” (online)
  • English 10
    • Fakebook Profile
  • Pre AP 10
    • Surprise Ending
    • Read “Hearts and Hands” and “The Fish” p. 290-294
    • Review and Assess 1- 5 p. 295

Friday

  • English 10
    • Finish Fakebook profiles
  • Pre AP 10
    • Test on “Hearts and Hands” (paper)
    • Plot and conflict
    • Read “Through the Tunnel” p. 242-250
    • Review and Assess p. 251 #1-7
    • Pre AP 10 – Review Part 3 of Fahrenheit 451

English 10 and Pre-AP 10 Week of April 25-29

Monday

  • Vocabulary lesson 25
    • Note cards
    • Matching and sentence completion worksheets
  • Finish Part 1 of Fahrenheit 451 and Chapters 1-4 of Animal Farm

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • Foreshadowing
  • Read “The Monkey’s Paw” p. 50-58
  • Review and Assess # 1, 2, 7, 8 p. 65
  • Pre AP 10 – Review Chapters 1-4 of Animal Farm and Part 1 of Fahrenheit 451

Thursday/Friday

  • Test on “The Monkey’s Paw” (online)
  • Symbols
  • Read “The Masque of the Red Death” p. 82-88
  • Review and Assess 1-6 p. 89
  • Pre-AP 10 – Part 2 of Fahrenheit 451 and Chapters 5-7 of Animal Farm due next class (May 1 and 2)

English 10 and Pre-AP 10 Week of April 8-15

Monday

  • English 10
    • Write Speak essay
    • Read library books
  • Pre AP 10
    • Inspiration activity on emotional and logical appeals
    • Analyze advertisements for appeals
    • Powerpoint of ads
    • Exit ticket

Tuesday

  • Inspiration activity on emotional and logical appeals
  • Analyze advertisements for appeals
  • Powerpoint of ads
  • Exit ticket

Wednesday

  • English 10
    • Start watching movie Speak
  • Pre AP 10
    • Animal Farm test
    • Distribute novels and study packets for Fahrenheit 451

Thursday

  • Block 1
    • Animal Farm test
    • Distribute novels and study packets for Fahrenheit 451
  • Block 2 and 4
    • Fahrenheit 451 test
    • Check out Animal Farm and distribute study packets

Friday

  • English 10
    • Finish movie
    • Vocabulary 25
    • Copy definitions
    • Flash cards (HW)
    • Matching and sentence completion worksheets
  • Pre AP 10
    • Vocabulary 25
    • Copy definitions
    • Flash cards (HW)
    • Matching and sentence completion worksheets

English 10 and Pre-AP 10 Week of March 28-April 1

Monday

English 10

  • Review Speak vocabulary
  • Learn pronunciations
  • Continue reading Speak

Pre- AP 10

  • Review Chapters 1-2 of Animal Farm
  • Defend, Challenge, Qualify
  • Keynote presentation (Take notes)
  • Sample of three introductory paragraphs on same issue with different purposes
  • Assignment
    • Choose an AP Language prompt
    • Write introductory paragraphs
      • Defend
      • Challenge
      • Qualify

Tuesday

  • Review Chapters 1-2 of Animal Farm and ”The Hearth and the Salamander” – Fahrenheit 451
  • Defend, Challenge, Qualify
  • Keynote presentation (Take notes)
  • Sample of three introductory paragraphs on same issue with different purposes
  • Assignment
    • Choose an AP Language prompt
    • Write introductory paragraphs
      • Defend
      • Challenge
      • Qualify

Wednesday

English 10

  • Review literary terms associated with novel (packet)
  • Continue reading Speak

Pre AP 10

  • Fact and Opinion
  • Powerpoint presentation (Take notes)
  • Worksheet distinguishing fact and opinion
  • Author’s Purpose
  • Worksheet

Thursday

  • Fact and Opinion
  • Powerpoint presentation (Take notes)
  • Worksheet distinguishing fact and opinion
  • Author’s Purpose
  • Worksheet

Friday

English 10

  • Finish reading Speak
  • Packets due next class (Tuesday, April 5)

English 10 and Pre-AP 10 – Week of March 21-25

Monday

Blocks 1,2,4

  • Vocabulary Lesson 24
    • definitions, worksheets, flash cards

Tuesday

English 10 (Block 1 and 4)

  • —Students to the library to check out Speak.—
  • Distribute Speak packets.
  • —Begin reading the novel and working on the vocabulary in the packet.
  • Pages 3-22 due Thursday.

Pre AP 10 (Block 3)

  • Check out Animal Farm.
  • Distribute Animal Farm packets.
  • Chapters 1 and 2 are due Friday with the questions in the packet.

Wednesday

Block 1

  • Check out Animal Farm.
  • Distribute Animal Farm packets.
  • Chapters 1 and 2 are due Friday with the questions in the packet.

Blocks 2 and 3

  • —Distribute copies of Fahrenheit 451
  • Distribute Fahrenheit 451 packets.
  • —The first section, “The Hearth and the Salamander,” is due March 28 with the questions in the packet.

Thursday/Friday

  • Reading Days

English 10 and Pre AP 10 – Week of March 14-18

Monday/Tuesday

Double Day 2

  • Work on project board (Due Tuesday)
  • Finish all parts of research paper

Wednesday

  • Finishing touches on poster board
  • Final paper and poster board due today

Thursday/Friday

  • Character Analysis of library book
  • Final research paper due

English 10 and PreAP 10 – Week of February 28-March 4

Monday

Block 1

  • MP 3 exam
  • 40 minute timed writing

Blocks 2 and 4

  • Continue research
  • 4 notecards, outline, works cited page

Tuesday

Blocks 1 and 3

  • MP 3 exam
  • 40 minute timed writing

Block 4

  • Continue research
  • 8 notecards, outline, works cited page

Wednesday

Blocks 2 and 4

  • MP 3 exam
  • 40 minute timed writing

Block 1

  • Continue research
  • 4 notecards, outline, works cited page

Thursday

Block 4

  • MP 3 exam
  • 40 minute timed writing

Blocks 1 and 3

  • Continue research
  • 4 or 8 notecards, outline, works cited page

Friday

  • Final day for research
  • Finish note cards, works cited page and outline in Google Docs

English 10 and Pre AP 10 – Week of February 21-25

Monday/Tuesday

English 10

  • Begin typing name essay – part 3 of research project
  • Essay must be finished and shared in Google Docs by end of block.

Pre-AP 10

  • Continue research
  • 4 note cards due

Wednesday/Thursday

English 10

Pre-AP 10

  • Continue research
  • 4 note cards due
  • Begin organizing ideas
    • outline
  • Begin works cited page
  • Save all documents in Google Docs and share with me

Friday

English 10

  • How to create notecards in Google Docs
    • Using presentation
    • Info on note cards
    • Citing sources
  • Source cards v. note cards
  • 8 note cards due

Pre-AP 10

  • Continue research and organization
  • 4 note cards due

English 10 and Pre AP 10 – Week of February 14-18

Monday/Tuesday

English 10

  • Finish bio-poem and share in GCPS Google Docs
  • Work on Alphabet of Me

Pre-AP 10

  • Begin research on Holocaust project
  • Four notecards due in GCPS Google Docs

Wednesday/Thursday

English 10

  • Begin Name Research for Part 3 of research project

Pre AP 10

  • Continue research
  • Four notecards due

Friday

English 10

  • Continue name research
  • Create works cited page at Son of Citation Machine

Pre AP 10

  • Continue research
  • Four notecards due

English 10 and Pre AP 10 – Week of February 7-11

Monday

  • Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 – “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
    • rhyme scheme
    • words in context
    • irony
    • couplet
    • message
  • Timed writing – 40 minutes
  • HW – Write one sonnet following Shakespeare as a model

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • With a partner, complete an analysis of each other’s sonnets
    • rubric
  • Lesson 23 vocabulary worksheet
    • Copy definitions into binder
    • Matching
    • Sentence completion
  • HW – Flash cards for vocabulary words

Thursday/Friday

  • Begin research projects

Pre AP 10

  • Discuss scope of project
  • Chose topics
  • Explain note card procedures

English 10

  • Discuss scope of project
  • Write bio-poem
  • Lesson 23 vocabulary worksheet
    • Copy definitions into binder
    • Matching
    • Sentence completion
  • HW – Flash cards for vocabulary words

Week of January 31-February 4

Monday/Tuesday

English 10

  • Check out new fiction book
  • Handout for book report on F 451
  • Due Friday, February 4

Pre AP 10

  • Check out Boy in the Striped Pajamas or Izzy’s Fire
  • Sound devices
  • Worksheet on rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia and alliteration
  • HW – #3, 6, and 9 on worksheet to be completed in literary journal

Wednesday/Thursday

  • Sonnets
    • Form, content, iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme
  • Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 -“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
    • summarize
    • scan rhythm
    • identify metaphor
    • identify two points
    • couplet

Friday

  • Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 – “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
    • rhyme scheme
    • words in context
    • irony
    • couplet
    • message
  • HW – Write two sonnets following Shakespeare as a model

Week of January 24-28

Monday

  • 40 minute timed writing on “The Witch”

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • English 10
    • Review questions on final packet for F 451
    • Watch beginning of 1966 film of F 451
  • Pre AP 10
    • Sound Devices
      • alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter
    • Examples of the effects of sound devices
    • Explain rhetorical effect
    • Practice worksheet
    • Challenge activity – homework

Thursday/Friday

  • Snow day – No School

Week of January 17-21

Monday

  • MLK Day – No school

Tuesday

  • No School – Snow Day

Wednesday/Thursday

  • Pre-AP 10
    • Turn in Levels of Reading essay
    • Analyze sensory image in a poem
  • English 10
    • Read Fahrenheit 451 “Burning Bright” (English 10)
    • Last packet due Tuesday, January 25

Friday

  • Sound Devices
    • alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter
  • Examples of the effects of sound devices
  • Explain rhetorical effect
  • Practice worksheet
  • Challenge activity – homework (Pre-AP 10)
  • 40 minute timed writing on poem from last class (Pre-AP 10)

Week of January 10-14

Monday

  • Annotation
    • Annotation and Highlighting Tips handout
  • Read excerpt from Fahrenheit 451
  • Divide students into groups of 4
  • Assign each group a concept (images, details, connotative words, comparisons, characterization, point of view)
  • Students highlight examples of concept in passage
  • Students make an individual meaningful statement about what they highlighted
  • Students collaborate to create a group meaningful statement
  • Share with class
  • Three Levels of Reading
  • Three Levels handout
  • Explain levels
  • Three Levels Circle Activity
    • light

Tuesday

  • No School – Snow Day

Wednesday

  • Discuss Three Levels Circle activity
  • Write a three-paragraph essay based on results of activity
  • Final draft for homework

Thursday

  • English 10
    • Review “The Sieve and the Salamander” questions
    • Begin reading “Burning Bright” (F451)
  • Pre-AP 10
    • Discuss Three Levels Circle activity from last Friday
    • Write a three-paragraph essay based on results of activity
    • Final draft for homework

Friday

  • Staff Development Day – No school for students

Week of January 3-7, 2011

Monday

Block 1

  • Finish reading part 1 of Fahrenheit 451
  • Complete packet (questions and vocabulary)
  • Complete vocabulary crossword puzzle

Block 3

  • Check out Izzy’s Fire and begin reading

Block 4

  • Quick exam review
  • Begin writing 3-paragraph essay for exam

Tuesday

Block 1

  • Check out Izzy’s Fire

Block 2 and 4

  • Check out The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • Quick exam review
  • Begin writing 5-paragraph essay for exam

Wednesday

Block 1 and 3

  • Annotation and Three Levels of Reading
  • Highlighting and Annotating Tips
  • Work in pairs to highlight and annotate a poem

Block 4

  • Exam

Thursday

Block 1

  • Annotation and Three Levels of Reading
  • Highlighting and Annotating Tips
  • Work in pairs to highlight and annotate “The Witch”

Block 2 and 4

  • Exam

Friday

  • Uncovering Layers of Meaning
  • Analysis of imagery in “The Witch”
Week of December 6-10

Monday/Tuesday

  • Vocabulary Lesson 22
  • Write words and definitions in binder
  • Create flash cards – HW
  • Matching and sentence completion worksheets

Wednesday/Thursday

  • Exam review
  • Antigone, Julius Caesar, Vocabulary
  • Notes for preparing for essay question

Friday/Monday

  • Pre-AP 10
    • Exam Review crossword
    • Vocabulary 22 crossword
    • Discussion on essay
  • English 10
    • Exam Review crossword
    • Vocabulary 22 crossword
    • Distribute Fahrenheit 451
      • Read pages 1-68 “The Hearth and the Salamander”
      • Study guide and vocabulary due JANUARY 3

Week of November 29-December 3

Monday

  • Test review
  • Finish Movie

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • Test on Julius Caesar
  • Type dialectical journals

Thursday/Friday

  • Levels of Thinking – “Miss Brill”
    • Finding Patterns and Contrasts
    • metonymy
    • epanalepsis

Week of November 22-26
Monday

  • Review Act 5
  • Share DJ responses
  • Watch film of Julius Caesar

Tuesday

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

  • No School – Thanksgiving Holiday
  • Write your book blurb – Instructions
  • Don’t eat too much turkey!

Week of November 15-19

Monday and Tuesday

  • Review Act 3
  • Read Act 4 (884-897)
  • Act 4 packet questions
  • Song Lyrics activity (quiz grade)
  • Dialectical journal – With whom do you sympathize in Act 4–Brutus, Cassius, or neither?  Why?

Wednesday and Thursday

  • Review Act 4
  • Share DJ responses
  • Read Act 5 (901-912)
  • Act 5 packet questions
  • Magic Squares activity
  • Play synopsis (quiz grade)
  • Dialectical journal – What lessons did you learn from the play?

Friday

  • Review Act 5
  • Share DJ responses
  • Figurative Language in Julius Caesar activity

Week of November 8-12

Monday

  • Read Act 2 Scenes 2-3 of JC (851-857)
  • Blank Verse activity (858 #1 and #4-6)
  • Act 2 packet questions
  • Dialectical journal question – If you had been a Roman citizen, would you have sided with the conspirators?  Why or why not?
  • Continue working on play synopsis in packet

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • Grade DLPs
  • Review Act 2
  • Share DJ responses
  • Read Act 3 Scene 1 of JC (861-870)
  • Response questions

Thursday/Friday

  • Vocabulary Lesson 21 Quiz (online @ Quia)
  • Read Act 3 scenes 2-3 of JC (871-879)
  • Dramatic Speeches Activity (880) (collected in class)
  • Act 3 packet questions
  • Character Facts Activity (Quiz grade)
  • Continue working on play synopsis in packet

Week of November 1-5

Monday/Tuesday

  • Read Act 1 scene 3 of JC (833-837)
  • Response questions
  • Dialectical Journal question – Which character interests you most? Why?
  • HW – Vocabulary Lesson 21
    • Flashcards and Worksheets

Wednesday/Thursday

  • Review Act 1
  • Share responses on DJ question
  • Read Act 2 Scene 1 of JC (841-851)
  • Response questions

Friday

  • Read Act 2 Scenes 2-3 of JC (851-857)
  • Blank Verse activity (858 #1 and #4-6) (Pre-AP only)
  • Act 2 packet questions
  • Dialectical journal question – If you had been a Roman citizen, would you have sided with the conspirators?  Why or why not?

Week of October 25-29

Monday

  • No School – Teacher Work Day

Tuesday/Wednesday

  • Introduction to Shakespeare and Julius Caesar
  • “Shakespeare on Stage” (p. 816-817)
  • Complete Fact Sheet from packet
  • Literary terms (Defined in Lecture)

◦ dialogue

◦ blank verse

◦ aside

◦ soliloquy

◦ monologue

◦ conflict

◦ tragedy

◦ tragic flaw

Thursday/Friday

  • • Read Act 1 Scenes 1 and 2 of Julius Caesar (p. 822-833)
  • • Response questions in packet

Week of October 18-22

Monday

  • • Block 1 – Because of circumstances beyond my control, the MP 1 test will be given Wednesday.
  • • Block 2 and 4 – Check out and read library book for Book Blurb.

Tuesday

  • • Block 1 and 3 – MP 1 test
  • • Block 4 – Check out and read library book for Book Blurb. Finish Lesson 20 flashcards.

Wednesday

  • • Block 1, 2, 4 – MP 1 test

Thursday

  • • Block 4 – MP 1 test
  • • Block 1 and 3 – Check out and read library book for Book Blurb.

Friday

  • • Vocabulary Lesson 20
    • ◦ flashcards
    • ◦ definitions in binder
    • ◦ sentence completion
    • ◦ crossword puzzle
    • ◦ word scramble

Week of October 11-15

Monday/Tuesday

  • ◦ Antigone test
  • ◦ English 10 – MP 1 exam review
  • ◦ Pre-AP 10 – Finish Concept posters

Wednesday

  • ◦ Blocks 1 and 2 – PSAT testing
  • ◦ Block 4 – Watch scenes from Antigone

Thursday

  • ◦ MP 1 exam review

Friday

  • ◦ Vocabulary Lesson 20

Week of October 4-8

Monday

  • • climax
  • • conflict
  • • Review Scene 2-3
  • • Read Scenes 5 – Exodus p. 799-808
  • • HW
    • ◦ Finish packet questions
    • ◦ Complete 3 vocabulary worksheets

Tuesday/Wednesday – PINK OUT FOR AWARENESS

Pre-AP 10

  • • Language analysis of passage from Antigone
  • • Analysis paragraph

English 10

  • • Research assigned Greek god or place
  • • Find copyright-free images
  • • Create Greek Poster

Thursday/Friday

  • • Review Antigone for test

Pre-AP 10

  • • Big Concepts poster project

English 10

  • • Finish Greek poster

Week of September 27 – October 1

Monday and Tuesday

  • ◦ Review Greek drama notes
  • ◦ Background of Oedipus myth
  • ◦ protagonist/antagonist
  • ◦ Read Antigone Prologue – Scene 2 p. 773-787
  • ◦ Begin reading packet
  • ◦ HW
    • ◦ Packet questions Prologue through Scene 2
    • ◦ Create flashcards for first 28 vocabulary words

Wednesday and Thursday

  • ◦ tragic character
  • ◦ resolution
  • ◦ review Prologue through Scene 2
  • ◦ Read Scene 3 – 4 p. 791-799
  • ◦ HW
    • ◦ Packet questions for Scenes 3 and 4
    • ◦ Create flashcards for words 29-57

Friday

  • ◦ climax
  • ◦ conflict
  • ◦ Review Scene 2-3
  • ◦ Read Scenes 5 – Exodus p. 799-808
  • ◦ HW
    • ◦ Finish packet questions

Week of September 20-24

Monday

  • • Vocabulary Day
  • • Finish and upload Scratch projects

Tuesday and Wednesday

  • • Grade DLP lessons
  • • Introduction to Greek Drama
  • • Video
  • • PowerPoint lecture
  • • Greek drama handout
  • • Background on Antigone and Oedipus

Thursday and Friday

  • • Vocabulary test
  • • Present Scratch game

Week of September 13-17

Monday/Tuesday

  • • With your partner, research your assigned database
  • ◦ GHS Media Center page
  • • Create 20 GOOD questions/answers about your database (10 per person)
  • ◦ Questions need to have an answer, not just Yes/No
  • ◦ Keep answers short (Remember, it is a game!)
  • • Design Scratch game
  • • Have questions approved/edited by Mrs. Cross
  • • Discuss design with Miss Kuhns
  • • Today’s grade will be based on whether you write EFFECTIVE questions for your database.

Wednesday/Thursday

  • • Create free Scratch account
  • • Create game
  • ◦ Minimum of 3 sprites
  • ▪ one must be an original you create
  • ◦ Minimum of 10 questions
  • ◦ One background
  • ◦ Score
  • • Save to Miss Kuhns’ drop box
  • • Upload game to Scratch website

Friday

  • • Vocabulary Day
  • • Final day to finish and upload Scratch game

Week of September 6-10

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY

  • • Introduce Scratch
    • ◦ See blog entry below for more information
      • ▪ Move sprite
      • ▪ Add a sound
      • ▪ Start a dance
      • ▪ Forever
      • ▪ Green flag
      • ▪ Change color
      • ▪ Key press
      • ▪ Add a sprite
      • ▪ Say something
      • ▪ Image effects
      • ▪ Glide*
      • ▪ Surprise button*
      • ▪ Dance twist*
      • ▪ Interactive Whirl*
      • ▪ Animate it*
      • ▪ Follow the Mouse*
      • ▪ Key Move*
      • ▪ Moving Animation*
      • • Explore Scratch website

THURSDAY/FRIDAY

  • • Mrs Cross – databases and library review
  • • Play LMC Scratch game
  • • Creating variables in Scratch
  • • Learn more!
    • ◦ Making music
    • ◦ Animated stories
    • ◦ Sprite interaction
    • ◦ Dance to a beat
    • ◦ Changing the stage
  • • Divide into pairs
  • • Explain game project

Week of August 30-September 3

MONDAY

  • • Levels of Thinking
    • ◦ brief summary of levels of thinking
  • • Understanding Mood – excerpt “From the Waters of Babylon”
    • ◦ Remember – Define mood
    • ◦ Understand – Foreboding graphic organizer
    • ◦ Apply –  Write paragraph
    • ◦ Analyze – Tone, imagery, details
    • ◦ Evaluate – Analyze paragraph for tone, imagery and details
    • ◦ Create – Rewrite paragraph

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY

  • • Analyzing tone
    • ◦ Identify figures of speech from passage
    • ◦ Understand language choices
    • ◦ Analyze sentence structure
    • ◦ Rewrite paragraph to establish tone
    • ◦ Rewrite passage to change point-of-view

THURSDAY/FRIDAY

  • • Internet/Media Resources
    • ◦ find and evaluate information
    • ◦ copyright issues
  • • Copyright Issue packet
  • • HW – Choose a topic, find 3 copyright free pictures online, cite properly as per copyright (photographer, “title,” URL)

Week of August 23-27

MONDAY/TUESDAY

  • • Distribute books
  • • Discuss syllabus
  • • 5 fibs and a Truth activity

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY/FRIDAY

  • • Levels of Thinking
    • ◦ brief summary of levels of thinking
  • • Understanding Mood – excerpt “From the Waters of Babylon”
    • ◦ Remember – Define mood
    • ◦ Understand – Foreboding graphic organizer
    • ◦ Apply –  Write paragraph
    • ◦ Analyze – Tone, imagery, details
    • ◦ Evaluate – Analyze paragraph for tone, imagery and details
    • ◦ Create – Rewrite paragraph

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