Weekly Schedule 4/18 - 4/22

Monday: 4/18
IC: We will finish reading and discussing The Crucible. We will discuss the events of the play and the motivations of the characters.
Materials: Bring your complete, correctly labeled Writer's Notebook Entries to turn in (if you haven't already done so) and class notes.
HW:

• Your typed second body paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/19 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed third body paragraph is due in class Friday, 4/22 for Writer's Workshop.

Tuesday: 4/19 - Happy birthday, Brian!
IC: We'll begin with Writer's Workshop on your second body paragraph. Then you'll work with a peer to complete a Lesson Twelve Vocabulary Review Exercise.
Materials: Bring your completed, typed second body paragraph for Writer's Workshop, class notes, and vocabulary book.
HW:

• Your typed third body paragraph is due in class Friday, 4/22 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed conclusion paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/26 for Writer's Workshop.
  

Wednesday: 4/20 - Happy birthday, Chris!
IC: You will complete the Lessons Eleven and Twelve Vocabulary Test. Then we'll go over expectations for an MLA formatted Works Cited page. Be sure to come prepared to take good notes, because you will be required to have a perfectly formatted Works Cited page as part of your Junior Paper.
Materials: Bring any completed extra credit vocabulary work and class notes.
HW:

• Your typed third body paragraph is due in class Friday, 4/22 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed conclusion paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/26 for Writer's Workshop.
  

Thursday: 4/21
IC: We will go over an introduction to Lessons Thirteen and Fourteen vocabulary (test on Wednesday, 5/4). Then we'll begin viewing the film The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book and class notes.
HW:

• Your typed third body paragraph is due in class Friday, 4/22 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed conclusion paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/26 for Writer's Workshop.
  

Friday: 4/22
IC: You will workshop your third body paragraph, and then we'll continue viewing the film.
Materials: Bring your typed, completed third body paragraph and class notes.
HW:

• Your typed conclusion paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/26 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed Junior Paper is due on Thursday, 4/28. **Remember that you must submit a paper copy in class, and an electronic copy to turnitin.com.**
  

Weekly Schedule 4/11 - 4/15

Monday: 4/11 - Happy birthday, Brent and Ben!
IC: We will finish viewing The History Channel documentary on the Salem Witch Trials. We'll briefly discuss, going over your responses on the documentary response sheet. We'll make some connections to what we're seeing in The Crucible. Then you will have the remainder of the class period to participate in Writer's Workshop for your Junior Paper introductory paragraph.
Materials: Bring your completed, typed introductory paragraph for Writer's Workshop, as well as your response sheet for the documentary (distributed on Friday).
HW:

• Your typed first body paragraph is due in class Wednesday, 4/13 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed second body paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/19 for Writer's Workshop.

Tuesday: 4/12 - Happy birthday, Daniel!
IC: We will complete an introduction to Lessons Eleven and Twelve Vocabulary (test Wednesday, 4/20). Then you'll complete Writer's Notebook Entry #12! All Writer's Notebook Entries are due by Monday, 4/18. Finally, we'll continue reading and discussing Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book, Writer's Notebook, and class notes.
HW:

• Your typed first body paragraph is due in class Wednesday, 4/13 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed second body paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/19 for Writer's Workshop.

Wednesday: 4/13
IC: You will participate in Writer's Workshop for a body paragraph from your Junior Paper. Then we'll continue reading and discussing The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your typed body paragraph for workshop and your class notes.

Thursday: 4/14 - Happy birthday, Declan!
IC: You will complete a Lesson Eleven Vocabulary Review Exercise with a peer. We'll go over a vocabulary review together, and then continue reading The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book and class notes.
HW:

• Your typed second body paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/19 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed third body paragraph is due in class Friday, 4/22 for Writer's Workshop.
  

Friday: 4/15
IC: We'll continue reading and discussing The Crucible. Hopefully we'll have time for a fun movie clip that spoofs the logic and motivations implied by the use of spectral evidence.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW:

• Your typed second body paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/19 for Writer's Workshop.
• Your typed third body paragraph is due in class Friday, 4/22 for Writer's Workshop.
  

Weekly Schedule 4/4 - 4/8

Monday: 4/4 - Happy birthday, Dakota and Sarah!
IC: You will turn in your completed annotations. We will continue reading and discussing The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your completed annotations and class notes.
HW:

• Your polished, typed thesis statement is due in class Wednesday for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed, typed introductory paragraph is due in class Friday for Writer's Workshop.
  

Tuesday: 4/5
IC: You will complete a Lesson Ten Vocabulary Review Exercise. We will quickly review your words for Lessons Nine and Ten Vocabulary. You will also complete Writer's Notebook Entry #11. Finally, we will continue reading and discussing The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book and class notes.
HW:

• Your polished, typed thesis statement is due in class Wednesday for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed, typed introductory paragraph is due in class Friday for Writer's Workshop.
  

Wednesday: 4/6
IC: You will complete a Writer's Workshop for your junior paper thesis statement. We will spend the rest of the class period reading and discussing The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your polished, typed thesis statement and class notes.
HW:

• Your completed, typed introductory paragraph is due in class MONDAY for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed, typed first body paragraph is due in class Wednesday, 4/13.
  

Thursday: 4/7
IC: We will review the vocabulary roots from Lessons Nine and Ten. Then we'll continue reading and discussing Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your class notes. Your vocabulary book may be helpful, but is optional.
HW:

• Your completed, typed introductory paragraph is due in class MONDAY for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed, typed first body paragraph is due in class Wednesday, 4/13.
  

Friday: 4/8
IC: You will complete the Lessons Nine and Ten Vocabulary Test. Then we'll continue reading and discussing The Crucible.
Materials: Bring any completed vocabulary extra credit work.
HW:

• Your completed, typed introductory paragraph is due in class MONDAY for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed, typed first body paragraph is due in class Wednesday for Writer's Workshop.
• Your completed, typed second body paragraph is due in class Tuesday, 4/19 for Writer's Workshop.
  

Weekly Schedule 3/28 - 4/1

Monday: 3/28
IC: I will distribute the Junior Paper assignment and timeline. We'll go over both. Then, I'll demonstrate the use of EBSCO and JSTOR, two search engines to which CMHS subscribes, in order to find scholarly articles about your paper topic. You will be responsible for locating, printing, and annotating one appropriate article that relates to the topic of your paper. These annotations are due on Monday, 4/4.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW: Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.

Tuesday: 3/29
IC: I will introduce Lessons Nine and Ten Vocabulary - test on Friday, 4/8. Then you'll complete Writer's Notebook Entry #10.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book, class notes, and Writer's Notebook Entries.
HW: Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.

Wednesday: 3/30 - Happy birthday, Nikki!
IC: You will take a few introductory notes in relation to our next read, The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW: Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.

Thursday: 3/31
IC: You will work together to complete a Lesson Nine Vocabulary Review Exercise. We'll review the vocabulary together. Then we'll begin reading and discussing The Crucible in class.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book and class notes.
HW:

• Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.
• Your junior paper thesis is due for Writer's Workshop on Wednesday, 4/6.
  

Friday: 4/1
IC: We will continue reading and discussing Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW:

• Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.
• Your junior paper thesis is due for Writer's Workshop on Wednesday, 4/6.
  

Special Assembly Schedule for Thursday, 3/17

6:40 - 7:30 Zero Hour
7:35 - 8:20 1st Period
8:25 - 9:10 2nd Period
9:15 - 10:00 3rd Period
10:05 - 10:40 Assembly
10:45 - 11:30 4th Period
11:35 - 12:25 5a/1st Lunch
12:30 - 1:20 5b/2nd Lunch
1:25 - 2:10 6th Period
2:15 - 3:00 7th Period

Weekly Schedule 3/14 - 3/17

Monday: 3/14
IC: You will turn in your completed annotations on T.J. Matheson's essay. We will begin by going over the Lessons 7 & 8 Vocabulary Test together. Then, I'll distribute copies of the chapter "Yes, She's a Christ Figure, Too" from Thomas C. Foster's book How to Read Literature Like a Professor. You'll read and discuss the short chapter in preparation for our continued discussion of Slaughterhouse-Five and our viewing and discussion of the film Cool Hand Luke.
Materials: Bring your completed annotations over T.J. Matheson's essay, class notes, and a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five.
HW: Read and annotate "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron. You must complete your annotations before our discussion on Thursday, 3/17.

Tuesday: 3/15 - Happy birthday, Abe!
IC: We'll begin viewing the film Cool Hand Luke.
Materials: Bring your class notes and annotations-in-progress of "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.
HW: Read and annotate "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.

Wednesday: 3/16
IC: We'll continue viewing the film Cool Hand Luke.
Materials: Bring your class notes and annotations-in-progress of "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.
HW: Finish reading and annotating "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.

Thursday: 3/17 - Special Assembly Schedule for Spring Sports Kick-Off
IC: You will turn in your annotations of Frank Barron's "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar." We will finish viewing and discussing the film Cool Hand Luke. You'll examine the elements of the film that support an interpretation of Luke as an archetypal Christ Figure.
Materials: Bring your class notes and completed annotations of Frank Barron's article.

Friday: 3/18 - No school: teacher work day! Have a safe and fun Spring Break.

Weekly Schedule: 3/7

Monday: 3/7

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut

IC: You'll begin class by completing Writer's Notebook Entry #9. Then we'll read and discuss "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye. You'll make thematic connections to Slaughterhouse-Five as you analyze the poem.

Click here for information about Naomi Shihab Nye.