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.

Weekly Schedule 2/28 - 3/4

Monday: 2/28
IC: You will begin class by completing the Lessons Seven and Eight Vocabulary test. Then you'll work with a peer to complete a comprehension activity for Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll focus on the satirical nature of the text to increase understanding of specific elements as they relate to the meaning of the text as a whole.
Materials: Bring your completed extra credit vocabulary work, class notes, and copy of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Tuesday: 3/1 - Happy birthday, Zach!
IC: We'll begin class with a reading quiz over chapters six through eight of Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll discuss the reading selection and continue the comprehension activity from yesterday. We will end class with a parts of speech review and assessment.
Materials: Bring your class notes and copy of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Wednesday: 3/2
IC: I will distribute a critical essay about Kurt Vonnegut's writings. You will have the class period to work on reading and annotating the article. Your annotations will be assessed using the Assessment Rubric for Annotations.
Materials: Bring your class notes and copy of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Thursday: 3/3
IC: You'll begin class by completing a reading quiz over chapters nine and ten of Slaughterhouse-Five. Then you'll have additional time to complete your annotations, which are due tomorrow.
Materials: Bring your class notes, copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, and annotations.
HW: Complete annotations for class tomorrow.

Friday: 3/4
IC: We will begin by going over your parts of speech pre-tests. Then we'll discuss the end of Slaughterhouse-Five, and then you will continue working on your annotations.
Materials: Bring your class notes, annotations, and copy of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Weekly Schedule 2/22 - 2/25

Tuesday: 2/22 - Happy birthday, Shane!
IC: You will turn in your completed satirical genre poem with the workshop sheet and draft stapled neatly underneath. Then you'll complete a reading quiz over chapters two through four of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll discuss the reading selection, addressing characterization and the development of key concepts. We'll focus on the passage that describes the war movie Billy watches backwards as a starting place for your Writer's Notebook Entry #8. Then you'll work together to complete a Lesson Seven Vocabulary Review Exercise, and we'll go over an introduction to Lesson Eight Vocabulary (test on Monday, 2/28).
Materials: Bring your completed satirical genre poem, copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, class notes, and vocabulary book to class.
HW: Complete Writer's Notebook Entry #8.

Wednesday: 2/23 - Change of plans: you'll have a substitute teacher in today.
IC: You will receive a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's "Fates Worse Than Death." You will have the class period to read and annotate the speech. Your annotations are due in class tomorrow.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW: Complete annotations of Kurt Vonnegut's speech for class tomorrow.

Thursday: 2/24
IC: We will review the elements of the rhetorical situation, using a PIGSAC chart as a guide. We'll read and discuss Vonnegut's speech, identifying elements of the rhetorical situation. Then we'll review the concept of rhetorical strategies, and you'll work together to identify Vonnegut's use of rhetorical strategies in the speech.
Materials: Bring your class notes and completed annotations of "Fates Worse Than Death."

Friday: 2/25
IC: You'll begin by completing a brief reading quiz over chapter five of Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll discuss the reading selection. You'll work together to complete a Lesson Eight Vocabulary Review Exercise. We'll return our discussion to the concept of rhetorical analysis, this time focusing on the author's use of rhetorical strategies in order to achieve a specific purpose. We'll generate a list of the techniques that Vonnegut employs in his speech, and you'll make connections to his purpose. We'll discuss the structure of a written rhetorical analysis (much like a literary analysis), and we'll work together as a class to begin composing a rhetorical analysis of Vonnegut's speech.
Materials: Bring your class notes, copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, vocabulary book, copy of "Fates Worse Than Death," and class notes.

Slaughterhouse-Five Reading Schedule

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Reading Schedule: Be sure to read the following selections by the dates listed below. Remember to expect a brief reading quiz over each selection on the date listed. **Since this is an ongoing assignment, you are responsible for keeping up with the reading schedule regardless of absences. This means that even if you are absent on a day before reading is due, you are still responsible for the reading quiz on the day you return. Be prepared so that you can learn as much as possible in class each day.

Thursday, 2/17 - Ch. 1
Tuesday, 2/22 - Ch. 2-4
Thursday, 2/24 - Ch. 5
Tuesday, 3/1 - Ch. 6-8
Thursday, 3/3 - Ch. 9-10