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Week 3:3 (Dec. 2-6)

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SENIORs Watchmen Journal, Watchmen Sketches, Watchmen Prompts, Watchmen Essay Rubric, Watchmen Notes, Reading Schedule for 3:1-4

FRESHMEN   Animal Farm: Animal Farm Vocab List, AF Notes, Theme Log; Great Expectations: E-Text, Essay Outline & Rubric, Citing & Weaving Examples; Journal: GE Ch. 20-29, GE Ch. 30-59, AF Ch. 1-5, AF Ch. 6-10, Proofreading Expectations, Journal Expectations, Usage Notes, Literature Terms; Turnitin Registration Instructions

Writing a Thesis Statement: Thesis/Essay Prompt (general directions handout), Thesis Tips (theme-specific summaries), Thesis Questions (theme-specific thought-provoking questions), Thesis Notes (given in class), Thesis Help (getting your ideas together), Thesis Development (forming your ideas into a sentence), Subordinate Conjunctions (forming complex sentences with useful words), Thesis Generator (if you can’t quite get your ideas into a sentence), Thesis Builder (another thesis generator if you’re having trouble fitting it all in one sentence)

Week 3:2 (Nov. 18-22)

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Seniors: Reading Schedule for 3:1-4, Poems for the 3rd Six Weeks, MLA Template, Watchmen Journal, Watchmen Sketches, Watchmen Prompts, Watchmen Notes, Rubric for Monday’s Prose Essay, Tips for Tuesday’s Multiple Choice, Wheel of Feels

Freshmen: GE Audiotext, GE E-Text, Animal Farm Vocab List, Vocab Presentation Instructions, AF Notes, Theme Log, Essay Outline and Rubric, Citing and Weaving Examples, GE Journal Questions for Ch. 20-29, GE Journal Questions for Ch. 30-59, AF Journal Questions for Ch. 1-5, AF Journal Questions for Ch. 6-10

Writing a Thesis Statement: Thesis/Essay Prompt (general directions handout), Thesis Tips (theme-specific summaries), Thesis Questions (theme-specific thought-provoking questions), Thesis Notes (from in class), Thesis Help (getting your ideas together), Thesis Development (forming your ideas into a sentence), Subordinate Conjunctions (forming complex sentences with useful words), Thesis Generator (if you can’t quite get your ideas into a sentence), Thesis Builder (another thesis generator if you’re having trouble fitting it all in one sentence)

Week 2:4 (Oct. 21-24)

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Seniors:  Reading Schedule 2:1-6, Mythology Quiz Preview, 2nd Six Weeks’ Poetry Packet, MLA Template (New and Improved), Tone Words, Notes on Middle English through Early Modern English (The Elizabethan Era) and Hamlet, Hamlet Response Journal, Documentary with David Tennant, Hamlet Essay Prompts, Tips for Reading Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I Vocab

Hamlet Audioplay: Act I (≈:50), Act II (≈:37), Act III (≈:58), Acts IV-V (≈1:23)

Freshmen: Literary Analysis Task, Figurative Language Review, GE Vocab List, GE Journal Questions for Ch. 1-10, GE Journal Questions for Ch. 11-20 (1st period, 2nd period, 4th period, 5th period, and 6th period), Weaving and Citing Guide, GE Theme Log, GE Audiotext, Colormarking #6, GE E-Text (Whole Novel), GE Graphic Novelization of Ch. 23-25

Week 2:3 (Oct. 14-18)

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Seniors: Reading Schedule 2:1-6, Frankenstein Journal, Frankenstein Audiotext, Tone Words, Mythology Quiz Preview

Freshmen: PSAT Tips, Literary Analysis Task (an in-class piece asking students to analyze how Shakespeare transformed Ovid’s story of “Phoebus and Daphne” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream)