Poetry

Monday, September 2, 2013

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Tues., 5 Feb.

11AP:  Today we talked about Organization.  Complete the Passage Analysis of the "Flogging" article for Wed/Thurs.  Also be prepared to turn in your first Source Summary for the Synthesis Project.

9th English:  We finished Act I, Scene 1.  If you didn't finish the worksheet in class, finish it for Wed/Thurs.

Words to Know:  transmogrify, gentrify, ambivalent, trifecta

Monday, February 4, 2013

Mon. Feb. 4

11AP:  Today we took a true/false quiz on rhetoric and syntax. 

Homework:  Read the article on corporal punishment and identify how you would divide it into 3 parts.

9th English:

Today we read and listened to Act I, scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet.

Words to Know:  quid pro quo, persona non grata

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Fri., Feb. 1

11AP:  Today we handed in the 1-55 multiple choice and we did the Grade Game; we reviewed for a quiz on Monday over rhetoric and syntax.

9th English:  Today we did a practice vocabulary quiz, and we went over the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet.

Words to Know:  sequester, surmise, antipathy

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Wed./Thurs. 30-31 Jan.

11AP:  Today we handed in our question for the Synthesis Project
Homework:  Complete your Grade Game writing on the cards for Friday, and complete your revised answers to the multiple choice passages.
9th English:  Today we review rules for capitalization and we read an SAT passage on eye witness testimony.
Today's words to know:  Bona fide, Ad nauseam, Pandemonium, Pandemic, Nepotism

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Tues., 29 Jan

11AP:  Today we looked at the different types of subject complements:  predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives.  We also came up will assigned categories for the Name Game; we'll turn our cards in on Friday for the following categories:

Period 2: Beverages, Movie Characters

Period 3:  Holidays, Fictional Characters

Period 7:  Songs to Ban, Fast Food Restaurants

Homework:  Complete your Synthesis Project Question for Wed/Thurs.

9th English:  Today we finished watching Twelve Angry Men, and we wrote a paragraph on the most important trait of a good jury member.

Words to Know:  meritorious, perspicacious, cyclops, myopia, cogent

Mon. 28 Jan.

11AP:  Today we received the 2nd Semester Synthesis Project, and we worked in the library on selecting a topic.

9th English:  Today we continued "Twelve Angry Men"

Words to Know: Epiphany, peccadillo, neocortex, neologism, autonomous