Thursday, January 31, 2013.
Per. 1: Scapegoats
Periods 2-3: Students brainstormed process for short answer response to question.
How do the Jewish people's attitudes and behaviors change as they make their way to Auschwitz on the train?
Quotes from pp. 25-26 Conclusion: Sympathetic---tolerant---intolerant---abusive/agressive.
The Jews change from bing caring and sympathetic to being intolerant and abusive.
HOMEWORK: Study for Night Vocabulary Quiz 4 31-40. Quiz tomorrow. Bring Night question completed.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Night Ch. 7-9 Quiz
2. Same as periods 2-3.
3. Study words for I Had Seen Castles and Night words 31-40. Quiz tomorrow.
HOMEWORK: I Had Seen Castles: Read pp. 1-32 by tomorrow.
REMINDER: Vocabulary Quiz: IHSC words 1-16 and Night 31-40.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013. (Early Dismissal)
Periods 1 - 3
1. Checked Night Vocabulary definitions 31-40 .
2. Night: Checked and discussed Chapters 7-8. We will complete discussion tomorrow.
3. Homework: Night handouts 3-5 and 6-9 due tomorrow. Questions only.
4. NOTE: Night TEST Monday, 2/4
Periods 5 - 7
1. I Had Seen Castles: Issued books and IHSC Reading Guides to students. Students need to complete pages 1-32 and questions on guide by Friday, 2/1
2. I Had Seen Castles 1-16 and Night 31-40 vocabulary. Quiz Friday, 2/1
3. Night: Checked and discussed ch. 4-6 and part of 7-9.
4. Night handouts 3-5 and 6-9 are due tomorrow.
NOTE: Night TEST: Monday, 2/4
Periods 1 - 3
1. Checked Night Vocabulary definitions 31-40 .
2. Night: Checked and discussed Chapters 7-8. We will complete discussion tomorrow.
3. Homework: Night handouts 3-5 and 6-9 due tomorrow. Questions only.
4. NOTE: Night TEST Monday, 2/4
Periods 5 - 7
1. I Had Seen Castles: Issued books and IHSC Reading Guides to students. Students need to complete pages 1-32 and questions on guide by Friday, 2/1
2. I Had Seen Castles 1-16 and Night 31-40 vocabulary. Quiz Friday, 2/1
3. Night: Checked and discussed ch. 4-6 and part of 7-9.
4. Night handouts 3-5 and 6-9 are due tomorrow.
NOTE: Night TEST: Monday, 2/4
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013.
Periods 1-3
1. Work on Night ch. 7-8 and the two focus activity handouts for 3-5 and 6-9.
2. Check and discuss Night chapters 4-6 and Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech.
HOMEWORK: Bring Night Ch. 7-8 completed and Night Vocabulary def. 31-40.
Periods 5-7
1. Night: Checked and discussed Chapters 4-6.
2. Distributed vocabulary for I Had Seen Castles. Books and reading guide will be issued tomorrow.
3. Distributed handouts on Night Chapters 3-5 and 6-9. Read the "Background, " "Did You Know?," "Vocabulary," and complete Responding: Personal Response and Analyzing Literature questions only.
4. Vocabulary for this week will be I Had Seen Castles 1-16 due Thurs. 1/31 and for next week Lesson 20.
5. Night: Research Andrei Sakharov, Joseph Begun, Ida Nudel, Lech Walesa, and Nelson Mandela. Who are these people, where are/were they from, and what is/was their plight? One half page each.
Periods 1-3
1. Work on Night ch. 7-8 and the two focus activity handouts for 3-5 and 6-9.
2. Check and discuss Night chapters 4-6 and Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech.
HOMEWORK: Bring Night Ch. 7-8 completed and Night Vocabulary def. 31-40.
Periods 5-7
1. Night: Checked and discussed Chapters 4-6.
2. Distributed vocabulary for I Had Seen Castles. Books and reading guide will be issued tomorrow.
3. Distributed handouts on Night Chapters 3-5 and 6-9. Read the "Background, " "Did You Know?," "Vocabulary," and complete Responding: Personal Response and Analyzing Literature questions only.
4. Vocabulary for this week will be I Had Seen Castles 1-16 due Thurs. 1/31 and for next week Lesson 20.
5. Night: Research Andrei Sakharov, Joseph Begun, Ida Nudel, Lech Walesa, and Nelson Mandela. Who are these people, where are/were they from, and what is/was their plight? One half page each.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013.
1. Night: Distribute study guide questions for ch. 7-9. 3rd Period: 4-6 to absentees. Complete all questions for homework.
Period 3: Tomorrow's handouts were passed out to students who completed all work.
Periods 5 -7:
Vocabuary Quiz 19 + Night 21-30.
Night: Ch. 7-9. Complete all reading and questions for homework.
1. Night: Distribute study guide questions for ch. 7-9. 3rd Period: 4-6 to absentees. Complete all questions for homework.
Period 3: Tomorrow's handouts were passed out to students who completed all work.
Periods 5 -7:
Vocabuary Quiz 19 + Night 21-30.
Night: Ch. 7-9. Complete all reading and questions for homework.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013. Students worked on Night questions due to abundant absenteeism due to "rumor." No vocabulary quizzes for Periods 3, 4, and 5.
Thursday, January 24, 2013.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Night: Check vocabulary # 21-30.
2. Night: Read and discuss chapter 4. Distribute ch. 4-6 questions (except for Per. 3 whose discussion was long).
3. HOMEWORK: Study for vocabulary quiz 21-30. Quiz tomorrow. Read Night chapter 5 and answer questions.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Exercise on Before and After (Shared by N. Terry): Students folded a sheet of paper and from left to right labeled 9th grader in August and 10th grader now. Then they brainstormed to list feeling and emotions, attitudes and behaviors for both columns. Volunteers shared. We discussed the "before" and "after". At the end students put the two columns together to analyze the reasons for this change.
To relate this exercise to the short answer responses which require to state differences and changes in certain characters or people, some students read the first sentence in their responses, and the class critiqued whether the student's sentence contained a "before" and "after." Students will revise and bring short responses tomorrow.
2. Checked vocabulary lesson 19. Quiz on this lesson + 21-30 tomorrow (Friday 1/25).
3. Bring second drafts of Twain essays tomorrow.
Thursday, January 24, 2013.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Night: Check vocabulary # 21-30.
2. Night: Read and discuss chapter 4. Distribute ch. 4-6 questions (except for Per. 3 whose discussion was long).
3. HOMEWORK: Study for vocabulary quiz 21-30. Quiz tomorrow. Read Night chapter 5 and answer questions.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Exercise on Before and After (Shared by N. Terry): Students folded a sheet of paper and from left to right labeled 9th grader in August and 10th grader now. Then they brainstormed to list feeling and emotions, attitudes and behaviors for both columns. Volunteers shared. We discussed the "before" and "after". At the end students put the two columns together to analyze the reasons for this change.
To relate this exercise to the short answer responses which require to state differences and changes in certain characters or people, some students read the first sentence in their responses, and the class critiqued whether the student's sentence contained a "before" and "after." Students will revise and bring short responses tomorrow.
2. Checked vocabulary lesson 19. Quiz on this lesson + 21-30 tomorrow (Friday 1/25).
3. Bring second drafts of Twain essays tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Black Boy and Night: Work on short answer response questions.
2. Night: Begin reading Chapter 4. Periods 2-3 to pages 54 and 51, respectively. Period 1 did not read.
3. Check Night Vocabulary defintions 21-30 for homework grade. Quiz Friday.
Periods 5 - 7
* Passed out Night questions chapters 4-6 for students to work on.
1. Passed back Mark Twain statement essay rough drafts which received a daily grade. Bring completed rough drafts by Friday, 1/25.
2. Night: Checked questions for chapters 1-3. Per. 7 needs back part.
3. Homework: Vocabulary Lesson 19 due Thursday, 1/24 and two short answer response questions due 1/24.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Black Boy and Night: Work on short answer response questions.
2. Night: Begin reading Chapter 4. Periods 2-3 to pages 54 and 51, respectively. Period 1 did not read.
3. Check Night Vocabulary defintions 21-30 for homework grade. Quiz Friday.
Periods 5 - 7
* Passed out Night questions chapters 4-6 for students to work on.
1. Passed back Mark Twain statement essay rough drafts which received a daily grade. Bring completed rough drafts by Friday, 1/25.
2. Night: Checked questions for chapters 1-3. Per. 7 needs back part.
3. Homework: Vocabulary Lesson 19 due Thursday, 1/24 and two short answer response questions due 1/24.
Tuesday, January 22, 2012.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Black Boy: Read selection. Discuss attitudes of characters and reasons for these attitudes.
2. Work on short answer response for Black Boy. Complete question on reverse for homework.
3. Homework: Night vocabulary 21-30 definitions.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Night: Pop quiz over chapters 4 - 6.
2. Black Boy: Same as above. Completed short response questions due Thursday.
3. Homework: Bring Vocabulary Lesson 19 p. 33-34 by Thursday.
4. Homework: Complete rough draft of Mark Twain statement (Given 1/18) essay by Friday.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Black Boy: Read selection. Discuss attitudes of characters and reasons for these attitudes.
2. Work on short answer response for Black Boy. Complete question on reverse for homework.
3. Homework: Night vocabulary 21-30 definitions.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Night: Pop quiz over chapters 4 - 6.
2. Black Boy: Same as above. Completed short response questions due Thursday.
3. Homework: Bring Vocabulary Lesson 19 p. 33-34 by Thursday.
4. Homework: Complete rough draft of Mark Twain statement (Given 1/18) essay by Friday.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013.
Periods 1-3
1. SSR and review of vocabulary for Night 11-20
2. Vocabulary Quiz Night 11-20
3. Night Short Answer response questions: Respond to the following questions providing evidence from the text to support your answer.
* In Chapter 3 of Elie Wiesel's Night, what are some examples of acts of kindness and signs of hope in the midst of brutal inhumanity?
* In chapter 3 of Night, how has Elie Changed in a short time?
Homework: Watch The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Periods 5 - 7
1. Vocabulary Quiz 17 + Night 11-20
2. Essay Assignment No. 1:
Read the information in bold below.
Mark Twain said that “truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be believable but truth does not.”
Some people believe that blocking out the painful truth is a better way to live than to face the pain and suffering that comes with knowing and preparing for the worst.
Write an essay supporting or refuting Mark Twain’s statement. (Thesis) Think about how it relates to what we have read so far (the first three chapters of Night). Support your thesis with examples from Night as well as with other real-life/world events. Remember to avoid shifting in person and to be consistent with singular and plural. (You will use 3rd person).
HOMEWORK:
1. Finish handout on Night Significant Quotes.
2. Night: Read Ch. 4-6
3. Watch free documentary online: Third Reich: The Rise and Fall (12 sections: Three hours total viewing time).
Periods 1-3
1. SSR and review of vocabulary for Night 11-20
2. Vocabulary Quiz Night 11-20
3. Night Short Answer response questions: Respond to the following questions providing evidence from the text to support your answer.
* In Chapter 3 of Elie Wiesel's Night, what are some examples of acts of kindness and signs of hope in the midst of brutal inhumanity?
* In chapter 3 of Night, how has Elie Changed in a short time?
Homework: Watch The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Periods 5 - 7
1. Vocabulary Quiz 17 + Night 11-20
2. Essay Assignment No. 1:
Read the information in bold below.
Mark Twain said that “truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be believable but truth does not.”
Some people believe that blocking out the painful truth is a better way to live than to face the pain and suffering that comes with knowing and preparing for the worst.
Write an essay supporting or refuting Mark Twain’s statement. (Thesis) Think about how it relates to what we have read so far (the first three chapters of Night). Support your thesis with examples from Night as well as with other real-life/world events. Remember to avoid shifting in person and to be consistent with singular and plural. (You will use 3rd person).
HOMEWORK:
1. Finish handout on Night Significant Quotes.
2. Night: Read Ch. 4-6
3. Watch free documentary online: Third Reich: The Rise and Fall (12 sections: Three hours total viewing time).
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013.
1. Check Vocabulary for Night 11-20. CP Check Lesson 17.
Periods 1-3
Discuss Night Ch. 1-3 Study guide questions.
Turn in Active reading and Responding handouts. Study for quiz tomorrow.
Per. 5-7
Check Voc. Lesson 17
Pop Quiz Ch. 3
Work on Short Response questions for Night Ch. 3 ( Need to distribute quotes to Per. 7). Period 7 needs to complete review of back part of study guide.
1. Check Vocabulary for Night 11-20. CP Check Lesson 17.
Periods 1-3
Discuss Night Ch. 1-3 Study guide questions.
Turn in Active reading and Responding handouts. Study for quiz tomorrow.
Per. 5-7
Check Voc. Lesson 17
Pop Quiz Ch. 3
Work on Short Response questions for Night Ch. 3 ( Need to distribute quotes to Per. 7). Period 7 needs to complete review of back part of study guide.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
Periods 1-3
SSR if students completed Night study guide 1-50.
Work on study guide 1-50. Students were issued books to complete work by tomorrow. Vocabulary 11-20 due tomorrow for quiz.
Periods 5-7
Diligent students worked on Night handout assignment. Those who did not complete homework, worked on 1-50 questions.
Vocabulary lesson 17 and 11-20 are due tomorrow. Quiz over these words will be Friday.
Periods 1-3
SSR if students completed Night study guide 1-50.
Work on study guide 1-50. Students were issued books to complete work by tomorrow. Vocabulary 11-20 due tomorrow for quiz.
Periods 5-7
Diligent students worked on Night handout assignment. Those who did not complete homework, worked on 1-50 questions.
Vocabulary lesson 17 and 11-20 are due tomorrow. Quiz over these words will be Friday.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2012.
Night pre-reading activities.
1. View Ten Most Evil Propaganda Techniques Used by the Nazis.
2. Explain Hitler's Rise to Power I-VIII notes.
3. Students worked on Hitler's Rise to Power open-notes quiz 1-30.
Periods 5 - 7
Reviewed/checked Vocabulary Lesson XVI in workbook. Quiz tomorrow.
Night pre-reading activities: Same as above.
Night pre-reading activities.
1. View Ten Most Evil Propaganda Techniques Used by the Nazis.
2. Explain Hitler's Rise to Power I-VIII notes.
3. Students worked on Hitler's Rise to Power open-notes quiz 1-30.
Periods 5 - 7
Reviewed/checked Vocabulary Lesson XVI in workbook. Quiz tomorrow.
Night pre-reading activities: Same as above.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Wednesday, January 9. 2013.
1. English 2B Expectations
2. Check completion for Shift in Person homework. We will check 1-15 tomorrow.
3. Night historical context---Hitler, WWII, and the Jewish Holocaust. Fill in the blanks as the handout is being read.
Periods 5 - 7
Bring Vocabulary Lesson XVI and Night words defined.
1. English 2B Expectations
2. Check completion for Shift in Person homework. We will check 1-15 tomorrow.
3. Night historical context---Hitler, WWII, and the Jewish Holocaust. Fill in the blanks as the handout is being read.
Periods 5 - 7
Bring Vocabulary Lesson XVI and Night words defined.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Advocacy Schedule
Periods 1 - 3
Avoiding Shift in Person
Due to the common problem of shift in person found in fall semester essays, students practiced correcting improperly written sentences.
1. Review pronoun cases and shift in person.
2. Guided practice 1-10. Check guided practice
3. Independent practice 1-15: Correct errors on handout and then write correct sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Complete for homework.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Students practiced avoiding shift in person. Same as above.
2. Students received vocabulary for Night. Look up definitions for first ten words and study for quiz in addition to Vocabulary Lesson XVI, due Thursday, January 10.
Periods 1 - 3
Avoiding Shift in Person
Due to the common problem of shift in person found in fall semester essays, students practiced correcting improperly written sentences.
1. Review pronoun cases and shift in person.
2. Guided practice 1-10. Check guided practice
3. Independent practice 1-15: Correct errors on handout and then write correct sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Complete for homework.
Periods 5 - 7
1. Students practiced avoiding shift in person. Same as above.
2. Students received vocabulary for Night. Look up definitions for first ten words and study for quiz in addition to Vocabulary Lesson XVI, due Thursday, January 10.
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