5/29: AP Lang

Students will compare and contrast PBS' Macbeth with Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Agenda:
- SGA Elections

- PBS Macbeth with Patrick Stewart -- :80

- Continue working on the Macbeth movie questions

Reminders/HW:
- Miss the Macbeth timed-write from last week?  See me ASAP!

- Continue working on the Macbeth movie questions

5/29: Honors English 10

Students will analyze the effects of an author’s structural choices in a narrative by participating in a Socratic Seminar.

Agenda:

- SGA Elections

- Socratic Seminar

HW:

- Frankenstein Test on Monday.  Packets are due then.
- Work on your group sci-fi multimedia project -- it's due 6/4.

- Late Narratives to Google Classroom; Today is the DL -- your name is on the backboard, if this applies to you

5/28: Honors English 10

Students will prepare a multimedia work that shows how an important theme or central idea from a text resonates today.

Agenda:
- Vocab Quiz on 16-30
- Time to work on group projects; they're due Thursday, 6/4!

HW/Reminders:
- Narratives due to Google Classroom tonight!

(min. 2 pages; max. 5 pages) due Thursday, 5/28
- Socratic seminar on Frankenstein tomorrow; I will collect your notes!

(Seminar will be on Friday, 5/29)

- Frankenstein Unit Test on Monday, 6/1

5/28: AP Lang

Students will compare and contrast PBS' Macbeth with Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Agenda:

PBS Macbeth with Patrick Stewart -- :40

Continue working on the Macbeth movie questions

Reminders:
Miss the Macbeth timed-write from last week?  See me ASAP!

HW:

Continue working on the Macbeth movie questions

5/27: All

Graduation!

5/26: AP Lang

Students will compare and contrast PBS' Macbeth with Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Agenda:
- Missed last Friday's timed-write?  Need more time or have questions?  See me at lunch today or Thursday.
- Following a London West End run in December 2007, a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, and an eight-week run on Broadway, director Rupert Goold's stage production of Macbeth was filmed for television at the end of 2009 with Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood as his scheming wife.

HW:

- Congratulate your friends who are seniors; they're graduating tomorrow!
- Finish at least page 1 of the Macbeth movie questions

5/26: Honors English 10

Students will act out the end of the novel to understand the order of events.

Agenda:
- Complete packet check
- Chapter 23 script
- Study/Review Vocab 16-30
(Test on Thursday, 5/28)
- Work on your sci-fi/fantasy narrative:
(min. 2 pages; max. 5 pages) due Thursday, 5/28, to Google Classroom.
- Work on Socratic seminar prep:
(Seminar will be on Friday, 5/29)

HW:
- Study vocabulary, work on your narrative & prepare for seminar.
- Frankenstein Unit Test on Monday, 6/1

5/22: Honors English 10

Students will prepare for the upcoming assessments.

Agenda/HW:
- Finish reading Frankenstein and finish the packet; due Tuesday, 5/26.

- Begin writing your sci-fi/fantasy narrative (min. 2 pages; max. 5 pages) due Thursday, 5/28 to Google Classroom.

- Begin preparing for the Socratic seminar, which will be on Friday, 5/29.

5/22: AP Lang

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Macbeth's figurative language in Act 1 Scene 7.

Agenda:
- Essay on Macbeth (5 paragraphs please!)

HW:
- None!

5/21: AP Lang

Students will plan an essay in which they analyze how Macbeth speaks of his fear figuratively.

Agenda:
- Turn in 1.3-1.5 Sheet
- Turn in 1.7 Sheet
- Graphic Organizer for Act I, Scene 7
- PPT on Act I, Scene 7

HW:
- Finish planning, if necessary, for tomorrow's timed write!

5/21: Honors English 10

Students will act out Victor’s trial to understand the order of events.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define discern and fiend and use them in complex/compound sentences

- Chapter 20-21 script
- Narrative Planning
- Socratic Seminar Assignment

HW:
Catch up, if you need to!

- Pages 1-27 in the packet should be completed (except page 5)

- Be at page 143

5/20: Honors English 10 (6th Period)

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Frankenstein and sci-fi / fantasy narratives.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define commiserate and consolation.  Then, write a complex and a compound sentence.
- Take the Ch. 1-17 Quiz
- Begin planning your own sci-fi / fantasy narrative

HW:
- Read Ch. 18 (page 108) through Ch. 22 (page 143) and complete packet pages 24-25.

5/20: AP Lang (8th Period)

Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze Macbeth's inner thoughts.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Work on the 1.3-1.5 Sheet
- In groups of three, finish reading Act I.
- Work on Macbeth's Soliloquy 1.7 Sheet

HW:
- Turn in the "Dear Future AP Lang student" letter, if you have not already done so!
- Finish the 1.3-1.5 Sheet
- Finish Macbeth's Soliloquy Sheet

5/19-5/20: Lit as Film

Students will prove their mastery of writing film reviews by reviewing Good Will Hunting.

Agenda:
- Still need to finish your review?  Go to the MC or English Office to finish.
- Class vote: next film

HW:
- Finish your review of Good Will Hunting!

5/19: Honors English 10 (4th Period)

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Frankenstein and sci-fi / fantasy narratives.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define commiserate and consolation.  Then, write a complex and a compound sentence.
- Take the Ch. 1-17 Quiz
- Begin planning your own sci-fi / fantasy narrative

HW:
- Read Ch. 18 (page 108) through Ch. 22 (page 143) and complete packet pages 24-25.

5/19: AP Lang (2nd Period)

Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze Macbeth's inner thoughts.

Agenda:
- In groups of three, finish reading Act I.
- Work on the 1.3-1.5 Sheet
- Work on Macbeth's Soliloquy 1.7 Sheet

HW:
- Turn in the "Dear Future AP Lang student" letter, if you have not already done so!
- Finish the 1.3-1.5 Sheet
- Finish Macbeth's Soliloquy Sheet

5/19: AP Lang (8th Period)

Students will read and watch and act out Macbeth

Agenda:
- Watch the Sparknotes Video Summary of Macbeth
- Dramatic reading the first Act
- Work on the 1.3-1.5 Sheet

HW:
- Turn in the "Dear Future AP Lang student" letter, if you have not already done so!
- Finish the 1.3-1.5 Sheet

5/19: Honors English 10 (6th Period)

Students will demonstrate close reading skills by analyzing Frankenstein and the accompanying packet.

Agenda:
- Homework check of packet page 19
- Warm-up: Define eminent and intimate.  Then, write a complex and a compound sentence.
- Reading time
- Begin planning your own sci-fi / fantasy narrative

HW:
- Read Ch. 15 (page 90) through Ch. 17 (page 108) and complete packet pages 19-23.
- There will be a test on Ch. 1-17 tomorrow!

5/18: Honors English 10 (4th Period)

Students will demonstrate close reading skills by continuing Frankenstein and the accompanying packet.

Agenda:
- Homework check of packet page 19
- Warm-up: Define eminent and intimate.  Then, write a complex and a compound sentence.
- Reading time
- Begin planning your own sci-fi / fantasy narrative

HW:
- Read Ch. 15 (page 90) through Ch. 17 (page 108) and complete packet pages 19-23.
- There will be a test on Ch. 1-17 tomorrow!

5/18: AP Lang (2nd Period)

Students will read and watch and act out Macbeth

Agenda:
- Watch the Sparknotes Video Summary of Macbeth
- Dramatic reading the first Act

HW:
- Turn in the "Dear Future AP Lang student" letter, if you have not already done so!

5/15: Lit as Film

Students will prove their mastery of writing film reviews by reviewing Good Will Hunting.

Agenda:
- Summarize/Discuss the film
- Write a review of the movie in Google Classroom
- To sign up for Google Classroom -- 

1. Go to classroom.google.com
2. Register for Literature as Film 7
3. Class code = kc3333

HW:
- Write a review of the movie in Google Classroom

5/15: AP Lang

Students will write an informative letter to future AP Lang students, in which they describe the most essential information/skills that are necessary for the AP Lang exam.

Agenda:
- If you were here yesterday, please read Macbeth after completing this survey (Preface-xxxv, which includes: A Study in Evil, The Author, and The Shakespearean Theatre)
- If you were not here yesterday, write a "Dear Future AP Lang Student" letter due at the end of class, Address these questions in your letter:

1. What do you know now that you wish you knew in August (pertaining to this class)?
2. What should next year's AP Lang students focus more on?
3. What was the most useful assignment/skill we worked on this year?  Why was it effective?
4. Is there anything you wish you had done/studied/practiced instead?
5. Do you have any other advice for future AP Lang students who have Mr. Arora?

- Time permitting, dramatic reading of Act I, Scene I.

HW:

Good luck on your AP Exams!

5/15: Honors English 10

Students will predict what will happen to Frankenstein's creature after he reveals himself to the De Lacey family.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define averse and machination.  Then, write a complex and a compound sentence.
- With a group of no more than three, complete packet page 17.

- Sci-Fi Friday Surprise!

HW:
- Read Ch. 12 (page 77) through Ch, 15 (page 97) and complete packet page 19.
- There will be a HW check on Monday!

5/14: Lit as Film

Students will prove their mastery of writing film reviews by reviewing Good Will Hunting.

Agenda:
- Summarize/Discuss the film
- Write a review of the movie in Google Classroom
- To sign up for Google Classroom -- 

1. Go to classroom.google.com
2. Register for Literature as Film 7
3. Class code = kc3333

HW:
- Write a review of the movie in Google Classroom

5/14: Honors English 10

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of vocabulary from Frankenstein.

Agenda:
- Packet check (pages 14-15)
- Vocab Quiz on the first 15 words

- Review Ch. 9-10
- Read Ch. 11 aloud (finish packet page 15)

- Time permitting, work on Ch. 12 and the Lapdog activity

HW:
- Catch up if you need to!  We are up to Ch. 12 in the book and up to page 16 in the packet.

5/14: AP Lang

Students will write an informative letter to future AP Lang students, in which they describe the most essential information/skills that are necessary for the AP Lang exam.

Agenda:
- AP Lang exam de-brief
- "Dear Future AP Lang Student" letter due at the end of class -- address these questions:

1. What do you know now that you wish you knew in August (pertaining to this class)?
2. What should next year's AP Lang students focus more on?
3. What was the most useful assignment/skill we worked on this year?  Why was it effective?
4. Is there anything you wish you had done/studied/practiced instead?
5. Do you have any other advice for future AP Lang students who have Mr. Arora?

HW:

Good luck on your AP Exams!

5/13: Lit as Film

Students will prove their mastery of writing film reviews by reviewing Good Will Hunting

Agenda:
- Continue watching the film
- Write a review of the movie in Google Classroom
- To sign up for Google Classroom -- 

1. Go to classroom.google.com
2. Register for Literature as Film 7
3. Class code = kc3333

HW:
- Write a review of the movie in Google Classroom

5/13: AP Lang

Good luck on the AP Lang exam today!

5/13: Honors English 10

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Frankenstein

Agenda:

- Packet check, pages 6-13
- Reading Quiz on Ch. 5-7

- Review vocabulary 1-15
- Reading time

HW:
- Study for a vocabulary quiz on 1-15 tomorrow!

- Read Ch. 8-10 (pages 54-70 in the book); complete packet pages 14-15

5/12: Lit as Film

Students will describe and discuss their favorite scenes in a movie.

Agenda:
- Continue watching Goodwill Hunting
- Write one paragraph that identifies your favorite scene in the movie thus far and why:
- Use types of shots, music, acting, directing, or story structure terms in your response.

HW:
- Good luck on your AP exams!

5/12: Honors English 10

Good luck on the AP NSL exam today!

5/12: AP Lang

Students will prepare for the AP Lang exam this Wednesday by developing a plethora of examples to argument prompts.

Agenda:
Scategories!
1. Science & Technology
2. Sports
3. Arts & Literature
4. History
5. Pop Culture
6. Current Events
7. Personal Experience

HW:
Good luck tomorrow!  Get a good night's rest and eat some breakfast.  Be present at 7:15am!
Remember, last names A-Mi report to the Auditorium and last names Mj-Z report to the Main Gym

5/11: Honors English 10

Students will act out Justine’s trial to illustrate their comprehension of the trial by connecting it to Victor’s unreliable nature.

Agenda:

- Warm-up: Define efface and irrevocably and use them in complex/compound sentences.
- Review/Preview Frankenstein Ch. 6-8
- Act out the trial from Ch. 8

HW:

Wednesday, 5/13 -- Reading quiz on Ch. 5-7

Wednesday, 5/13 -- Packet check, pages 6-13 

5/11: Lit as Film

Students will describe and discuss their favorite scenes in a movie.

Agenda:
- Vote off: Captain Phillips or Goodwill Hunting?
- Write one paragraph that identifies your favorite scene in the movie thus far and why:
- Use types of shots, music, acting, directing, or story structure terms in your response.

HW:
- Good luck on your AP exams!

5/11: AP Lang

Students will prepare for the AP Lang exam this Wednesday by developing study questions/answers.

Agenda:
- Finish the Banneker packet (if you have not already done so, and turn it in)
- Submit at least 5 Q&As
- Practice prompts

HW:
Good luck on your AP Exams!

5/7: Honors English 10

Students will read and compare the graphic novel Frankenstein to the original novel.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define endue and absolve and use them in complex/compound sentences

- Read the graphic novel and work on the Text Dependent Questions in groups of three
- The graphic novel is in slides 27-41

- I will also send you the graphic novel Powerpoint via Remind
- The Text Dependent Questions are due at the end of the period

HW:

- Read Chapters 5-6 (p. 34-46) and answer the reading question on packet pages 9 & 13

5/7: Lit as Film

Students will describe and discuss their favorite scenes in a movie.

Agenda:
- Finish watching Robot & Frank
- Write one paragraph that identifies your favorite scene in the movie thus far and why:
- Use types of shots, music, acting, directing, or story structure terms in your response.

HW:
- Good luck on your AP exams!

5/7: AP Lang

Students will read and discuss the rhetorical strategies of a pre-20th century text.

Agenda:
- (Redemption for 2nd period only) Hot Seat: Do you really know EVERYTHING in the packet?
- Work on the Banneker Packet
- You will turn in the Banneker Packet tomorrow

HW:
- Good luck on AP Exams!
- Catch up on late work if you've been absent {TED Talks, Syntax packet}

5/6: Honors English 10

Students will discuss Chapter 2 of Frankenstein and read Chapter 3 of Frankenstein.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define dirge and depraved and use them in complex/compound sentences

- Peer-review Chapter 2 questions on packet page 12

- Discuss the Chapter 2 questions on packet page 12
- Preview Chapters 3-5
- Read Chapters 3-5 (p. 23-39) and answer questions 9 & 10 on packet page 13

HW:

- Read Chapters 3-5 (p. 23-39) and answer questions 9 & 10 on packet page 13

5/6: Lit as Film

Students will describe and discuss their favorite scenes in a movie.

Agenda:
- Watch Robot & Frank
- Write one paragraph that identifies your favorite scene in the movie thus far and why:
- Use types of shots, music, acting, directing, or story structure terms in your response.

HW:
- Good luck on your AP exams!

5/5: Honors English 10

Students will discuss Chapter 1 of Frankenstein and read Chapter 2 of Frankenstein.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Define remit and environs and use them in complex/compound sentences

- Peer-review Exit Card TEXT paragraph on packet page 11

- Preview Chapters 2
- Read Chapter 2 and answer the reading questions on packet page 12

HW:

- Read Chapter 2 and answer the reading questions on packet page 12

5/5: AP Lang

Students will discover the differences between the different types of sentences and their respective rhetorical effects.

Agenda:
- Syntax Symposium
- Syntax?  We're talking about syntax!? Syntax!

HW:
- Good luck on AP Exams!

5/5: Lit as Film

Students will describe and discuss their favorite scenes in a movie.

Agenda:
- Robot & Frank
- Write one paragraph that identifies your favorite scene in the movie thus far and why:
- Use types of shots, music, acting, directing, or story structure terms in your response.

HW:
- Good luck on your AP exams!

5/4: Lit as Film

Students will describe and discuss their favorite scenes in a movie.

Agenda:
- Vote-off: Captain Phillips or Robot & Frank
- Watch the winning movie
- Write one paragraph that identifies your favorite scene in the movie thus far and why:
- Use types of shots, music, acting, directing, or story structure terms in your response.

HW:
- Good luck on your AP exams!

5/4: Honors English 10

Students will discover the language Shelley uses to describe Elizabeth by writing a TEXT paragraph.

Agenda:
1) Warm-up: Write a complex sentence and a compound sentence for harrowing and livid.

A complex sentence is made up of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses connected to it.  Examples of dependent clauses include the following:

• because Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station before noon
• while he waited at the train station
• after they left on the bus. 

A compound sentence refers to a sentence made up of two independent clauses (or complete sentences) connected to one another with a coordinating conjunction. Coordinating conjunctions are easy to remember if you think of the words "FAN BOYS":

• For
• And
• Nor
• But
• Or
• Yet
• So

2) Homework check -- packet pages 6-9

3) Review packet pages 6-9 with a partner; discuss any questions

4) Quiz on Robert Walton's Letters

5) Complete packet pages 10-11

HW:

- Complete packet pages 10-11
- Read Frankenstein Ch. 1

5/4: AP Lang

Students will develop an effective introduction paragraph for a rhetorical analysis essay.

Agenda:
- Discuss and turn in TED Talk HW
- Watch Media
- Write an introduction paragraph that utilizes (in order):
1) Hook
2) SOAPStone
3) Author's purpose

HW:
Good luck on your AP exams!

5/1: AP Lang

Students will describe and discuss the arguments that are developed in a TED talk of their choosing.

Agenda:

- Warm-up: Complete Mr. Arora's two Remind surveys: AP snacks | AP week reminders
- Turn in The Great Influenza packet.
- On your device, watch one TED Talk (with ear buds preferably)

- Then, write a TEXT paragraph that rhetorically analyzes at least one argument made in that Talk.
- Paragraphs ought to be, at a minimum, five complete sentences.

HW:

- Write another TEXT paragraph that rhetorically analyzes one argument made in another Ted talk.

5/1: Lit as Film

Students will write a scene of their final project (TV show or movie).

Agenda:
- Read example scripts to review formatting
- Writing time!
- The script is due at the end of the period.
- The script ought to be at least 10 journal pages minimum, with proper formatting.

5/1: Honors English 10

Students will discuss the technique of framing and its importance in Frankenstein by completing a close reading.

Agenda:

- Warm-up: First 2 vocabulary words in sentences - ardent, dauntless

- Read Robert Walton's 4 letters (pages 1-15 in book)

A frame story (also known as frame tale, frame narrative, etc.) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones) within it.

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is another good example of a book with multiple framed narratives. In the book, Robert Walton writes letters to his sister describing the story told to him by Victor Frankenstein; Frankenstein's story contains the creature's story; the creature's story even briefly contains the story of a family he had been living among.

HW:

Complete packet pages 6-9

- Narrative Structure & Practice Multiple Choice Questions