STUDYPATH* November 28-December 2, 2016

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

The Lesson of Ups

Show Up, Keep Up, Speak Up, Measure Up

Monday November 28
Responses assignments #3 ("Winter Dreams"; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; from Black Boy; from How It Feels To Be Colored Me; "The Negro Speaks of Rivers") for American Literature reading selections are due in class
Anthologies are due in class for Act V scene format preparation and reference; literary terms continue from the glossary
Selection tests for Fitzgerald, Eliot, Wright, and Hurston due Wednesday (postponed to Thursday)
Group work for writing Act V of The Crucible is scheduled all week
Evaluation Report Scoring Sheet for scene reenactments distributed to students for discussion
Anthologies are due in class for literary terms and reference for writing Act V of The Crucible

Tuesday November 29
Grammar assignment is distributed in class and due tomorrow (postponed to distributed in class Wednesday and due Thursday)
Group work for writing Act V of The Crucible continues in class
Words High School Students Should Know (WHSSSK) Words 61-70 test is scheduled

Wednesday November 30
Grammar assignment due in class today (postponed to tomorrow)
Group work for writing Act V of The Crucible continues in class
Selection tests for Fitzgerald, Eliot, Wright, and Hurston due today (postponed to tomorrow)

Thursday December 1
LA Times Letter to the Editor #5 is due by 8:30 A.M. on turnitin.com web site
Group work for writing Act V of The Crucible continues in class
Grammar assignment distributed in class yesterday is due in class today (hard copy)
"What is an American" Crevecoeur writing assignment due Monday by 8:30 A.M. on turnitin.com web site

Friday December 2
Textbook Assignment #4 distributed and due Monday, December 5 (from "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"; "City Dusk" and "We Leave To-Night"; "Letters from an American Farmer")
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense"; "Because I could not stop for Death"; "I Hear America Singing"; "What is the Grass?") (POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK DUE TO GROUP WORK IN CLASS)
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AGENDA BIN:  WINTER BREAK WORK
Contemporary Composition Textbook Units:
"How Open is the Door"
"The Rhetoric of War"

STUDYPATH* November 14-18, 2018

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

The Lesson of Ups
Show Up, Keep Up, Speak Up, Measure Up

Monday November 14
"Should School Start Later" paper due by 8:30 A.M. on turnitin.com web site
Arthur Miller's The Crucible Act IV is scheduled in class; literary terms from the anthology are scheduled; anthologies are due in class
LA Times Letter to the Editor #4 is due on Thursday by 8:30 A.M. on turnitin.com web site
Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln, Chestnut and Douglass responses due in class (hard copy)
Hughes, Hurston, Wright writing assignment distributed and due Monday, November 28
Words High School Students Should Know (WHSSSK) Words 61-70 are assigned and due Thursday
Grammar assignment (Pages 17-18) distributed and due tomorrow

Tuesday November 15
Grammar assignment (Pages 17-18) due today
The Crucible Act IV concludes in class; groups are selected for writing a short and long scene for Act V of the play

Wednesday November 16
Groups meet for writing a long and short scene for Act V of Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Thursday November 17
Words High School Students Should Know (WHSSSK) Words 61-70 are due today; test is scheduled tomorrow
Interim Assessment Block assignment is scheduled in class
LA Times Letter to the Editor #4 is due by 8:30 A.M. on turnitin.com web site

Friday November 18
Words High School Students Should Know (WHSSSK) Words 61-70 test is scheduled
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STUDYPATH* November 7-11, 2016

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

The Lesson of Ups
Show Up, Keep Up, Speak Up, Measure Up

Monday November 7
Arthur Miller's The Crucible Act IV is scheduled in class; anthologies are required
Extra credit "How to Watch Dance and Compose a Critique" responses are due
"Should School Start Later" reading assignment; stakeholder groups are assigned and will meet together on Wednesday
Words High School Students Should Know (WHSSSK) Words 51-60 test is scheduled tomorrow; work is returned to students
Essential Adjective Clauses-Whom and Whose and Subject-Verb agreement assignment is due Wednesday
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson responses are due today (Pages 162-181) in anthology
Literary terms continue in class

Tuesday November 8
Words High School Students Should Know (WHSSSK) Words 51-60 test is scheduled in class
Arthur Miller's The Crucible Act IV is scheduled in class; anthologies are required

Wednesday November 9
"Should School Start Later" stakeholder groups meet together for point of view discussion and prewriting of the paper for writing competition
Benjamin Franklin multiple choice work continues in class
Essential Adjective Clauses-Whom and Whose and Subject-Verb agreement assignment is due today

Thursday November 10
College Board account verification (print account information) is due in class today
"School School Start Later" stakeholder groups meet together for point of view discussion and prewriting of the paper for writing competition (continued from Wednesday)

Friday November 11
Today is Veterans Day, a legal holiday, and classes are not in session
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