M: The students will be introduced to the work of Mark Twain; notes and discussion.
T – W: The students will view Dr. Elliot Engel’s video lecture on the work of Mark Twain and will answer the accompanying questions.
Th: White Oak High School will dismiss classes at 9:00 a.m. to host the UIL Academic District Meet.
F: The students will read The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and complete an answer on local dialect.
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The Crucible
M: The students will read pages 105 – 111 ; notes, examples, and discussion of the motifs of revenge and greed.
T: The students will complete the Act III study guide.
W & Th: The student will be in the Plato Lab writing journal entries that discuss in detail the relationship between the personal examples the students provide and the examples from The Crucible they cite as support. Due at end of class period Thursday, April 21.
F: The students will watch an installment of Gone with the Wind, noting examples of survival.
M & T: The students will finish reading the allegory, Young Goodman Brown.
W & Th: The students will identify and interpret five faith allegorical statements from Young Goodman Brown.
F: The students will compete SAT-based vocabulary lesson 18 Words with Tales Attached.
M: Counselor Jack Hale will meet with all classes to distribute and discuss the ASVAB results.
T: The student will complete the A.P. Literary Terms Test Part I A – H. Note: This test was announce the second week of school and can not be replaced by a nine weeks test.
W – F: The students will be in the library researching To Kill a Mockingbird and preparing their chapter lesson for the Student-Led Learning Project.
M: The students will use a timeline to answer selected questions about the Puritan era and its literature in America
T: The students will discuss and note the convention of poetic structure in the poem, Huswifery, pg. 82, its comparison of salvation to the process of producing a garment, and complete a writing assignment producing a procedural document.
W: Students will be shown selected lines from their love song lyrics homework assignment and asked to identify the line not written in modern times. They will define Puritan plain style, discuss Literary Analysis, pg. 74, and read the Anne Bradstreet biography, pg. 75. Introduce selection vocabulary and read To My Dear and Loving Husband,pg. 76. Complete selection questions.
Th: The students will read Connection of Today’s World, pg. 104, red classroom set. Discussion and notes of Puritan work ethic. Introduce selection vocabulary and footnotes. Read Iron Bird: Cal Ripken’s Work Ethic, pg. 105
F: The students will complete a review for the Puritan Influence test.
M: Distribute SAT-based Vocabulary 5; due Thursday. Notes on the American Dream.
T: Define “narrative” and “historical narrative.” Classroom set red The American Experience, read Capt, John Smith biography, pg. 64 and introduce selected vocabulary and footnotes.
W: Introduce “Interest Grabber” pg. 65 and read from The General History of Virginia, pgs. 67 – 70. Literary focus to be on Smith’s purpose in creating the narrative account and his objective in doing so.
Th – F: The students will write drafts for a eulogy for Captain John Smith, with the point of view of a Jamestown settler.
M – W: The students will present to the class the analysis they have prepared for two editorial cartoons, to include attribution, subject and evidence, point cartoonist is attempting to make, tone, and rhetorical appeal.
Th: The student will take the ASVAB.
F: The students will complete the Rhetoric Unit Test.