February 17, 2014 - February 21, 2014

2/17/14 – 2/21/14

Monday – School Closed (President’s Day)

Tuesday

• Reading 8 (Odd): Students will work on the study guide for the play, “Anne Frank.” Students must complete questions for Act 1: scenes 1 and 2. Individual prompts for scenes 1 and 2 are due on Thursday. Students must turn these responses in on a separate sheet of paper.
• Reading 7: Students will complete the sonnets packet together and turn these in today. They will also read a poem and analyze it using the provided worksheet.
• Practical Literature 12: Students will finish reading “The Wanderer” today in class. As a class, we will analyze and discuss the poem together. Students will identify key parts of the poem, such as speaker, tone, theme, etc.

Wednesday

• Reading 8 (Even): Students will work on the study guide for the play, “Anne Frank.” Students must complete questions for Act 1: scenes 1 and 2. Individual prompts for scenes 1 and 2 are due on Thursday. Students must turn these responses in on a separate sheet of paper.
• Reading 7: Students will discuss the poem they read and analyzed with a partner yesterday. As a class, we will read a second poem that is a response to the first poem and discuss this response together as a class. Students will then begin a poetry writing assignment. The poem is due on Tuesday of next week.
• Practical Literature 12: Students will finish identifying key parts of the poem, “The Wanderer.” As a class, we will discuss their responses together. Students will then read the final poem in this collection, “The Wife’s Lament.” Students will read and analyze the poem, highlighting key words/phrases.

Thursday

•  Reading 8 (Odd): Students will finish reading scene 3 and begin scene 4 for Act 1.

•  Reading 7: Students will work on writing their poem today during class time. The poem is due Tuesday. They will also read AR books silently.

• Practical Literature 12: Students will discuss “The Wife’s Lament” together and identify key elements such as the speaker, setting, theme, etc.

Friday

• Reading 8 (Even): Students will finish reading scene 3 and begin scene 4 for Act 1.

• Reading 7: Students will work on the next poetry collection during class today. They must analyze each poem in the packet and respond to the guided questions as they read and the post-reading questions when finished reading each poem.
• Practical Literature 12: Students will use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the three Anglo-Saxon poems that we read. They will work in groups to complete this assignment.

February 3, 2014 - February 7, 2014

2/3/14 – 2/7/14

Monday – School Closed (Snow Day)

Tuesday

• Reading 8 (Odd): Students will view a timeline and discuss this together to gain background knowledge for the setting of the play, “The Diary of Ann Frank.” We will assign parts for Act 1 and begin reading Act 1, scene 1 together out loud.
• Reading 7: Period 6 students will take their quiz on poetry terms. Periods 4 and 6 students will discuss the RACERS prompt from the PSSA lesson packet together on the board. Students will turn this work in and then begin working with a partner on poetry collection 3/4.
• Practical Literature 12: Students will finish “The Seafarer.” They will answer discussion questions on the poem and we will discuss these together.

Wednesday

• Reading 8 (Even): Students will answer questions in the study guide packet on Act 1, scene 1. We will then begin reading scene 2 together as a class.
• Reading 7: Students will complete the poetry packet for collections 3 and 4. As a class, we will discuss these together focusing on elements of poetry discussed in the notes.
• Practical Literature 12: Students will create their own kennings based on those identifies in “The Seafarer.” Students will also begin reading background info and the poem, “The Wanderer.”

Thursday

•   Reading 8 (Odd): Students will answer questions in the study guide packet on Act 1, scene 1. We will then begin reading scene 2 together as a class.

•  Reading 7: Students will begin reading the next collection of poems together and they will answer the questions on their own as individual practice with poetry analysis.

• Practical Literature 12: Students will read the poem, “The Wanderer” and identify elements such as the speaker, theme, setting, etc. As a class, we will discuss these elements together.

Friday

•  Reading 8 (Even): Students will continue reading Act 1, scene 2 together as a class. When finished, students will complete the study guide section for this scene with a partner. They will also complete an individual writing prompt for this section of the play.

• Reading 7: Students will complete the next poetry packet and we will begin to discuss these together as a class. Students will then begin a writing assignment to create their own poem using certain sound devices and elements of figurative language.
• Practical Literature 12: Students will begin reading background information for the next poem, “The Wife’s Lament.” They will read this poem in class together and identify poetic elements.