May 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
9
College essays introduced, explained / 10
Time5/16 / 11
Library—advertising survey / 12
COW / 13
College essay 1 workshop
16
BL LOC propaganda / 17
Time5/23 / 18
Nazi propaganda pre-war / 19
LOC posters
(Spanish civil war, WWI) / 20
College essay 2 workshop
23
Visual project (McCloud TED) / 24
Time3/30 / 25
Visual project work day / 26
COW / 27
College essay 3 workshop
30
Memorial Day;
no school / 31
Visual project work day / 6/1
Time6/6 / 2
Visual project work day / 3
College essay 4 workshop

April 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
4
Describing the indescribable; Ackerman / 5
Time / 6
1 Poem 1 Stoga / 7
Didion / 8
Schlosser
11
Sontag / 12
Time / 13
Storytelling/ paper approaches / 14
COW / 15
Storytelling/ paper approaches
18
Fun with style / 19
Time / 20
Final crime paper due--extra credit early / 21
Pollitt, Kincaid, Brady / 22
Whitehead
25
Ehrenreich / 26
In-service; no students / 27
FINAL CRIME PAPER DUE--electronic & paper.
Time / 28
COW / 29
Fun with words

March 2016

7 Research day / 8 Time3/14 / 9Draft / map Cause and Effect essay—due 3/17 (CANCELLED); set up peer review groups / 10COW / 11Riverside, Madden, Seagull—reader’s choices
14Research/ drafting day / 15Time3/21 / 16 Results of 3/11 / 17 Readings based on 3/11 / 18 Fun with words
21 Spring / 22 Break / 23 all / 24 week / 25 long
28 In-service; no students / 29Time(choice 3/28 or 4/4) / 30 Readings based on 3/11 / 31 COW / 4/1 Work on final research paper

February 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
1/25
SNOW / 1/26
SNOW / 27
2-hr delay
BrowseTime / 28
COW / 29
FinishTime;begin historical crime research (modified dates)
1
Research work day / 2
Time2/9/16 / 3
“Neat People vs Sloppy People”
Madden / 4
History of English / 5
Journal 1 due
Ehrenreich “Cultural Baggage” Madden
8
Journal 2 due
Research work day / 9
Time2/15/16 / 10
Rodriguez “Growing Up Old” Madden / 11
Journal 3 due
COW / 12
Map/plan definition essaydue 2/18
15
Presidents’ Day no school / 16
Research day / 17
Time2/22/16 / 18
Definition essay due;
History of English / 19
Journal 4 due
22
Research Day / 23
Time3/1 / 24
Forster “My Wood” RR alt / 25
Journal 5 due
COW / 26
Gould “Carrie Buck’s Daughter” RR alt ed
29
Research Day / 3/1
Time3/7 / 2
Quindlen “Reading” RR8 / 3
Journal 6 due
History of English / 4
Map/plan cause & effect essay—due 3/10

January 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
4
Plan/plot division and classification
Essay—DUE 1/12 / 5
Story of English—Tyndale and Shakespeare / 6
Historical newspapers / 7
Historical
newspapers / 8
Will “Virtues vs. Values” Seagull; Brooks “Small Terror” NYT handout
11
Definition:Pizzi “Doorways”RR8 / 12
Div/Class essay DUE
Time1/18 / 13
Berendt “The Hoax”RR8 / 14
COW / 15
Hurston “How it feels”Seagull
18
MLK holiday / 19
Practice essay & response / 20
Social Studies
English
Mid-term exams / 21
Science
Math
Mid-term exams / 22
World Language
Conflict exams

December 2015

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
11/30
Parent conferences, no students / 12/1
Time / 2
Plan/map comparison essaycompare essay guidelines / 3
COW / 4
“Everyday Use”
7
Draft—peer conference / 8
Time / 9
Comparison essay due / 10
Division & Classification—Trillin “Fork” / 11
Baker “Plot”
14
Austin “Chance” / 15
Time / 16
Mebane “Shades” / 17
COW / 18
Lopate “Friendships”
21
O’Connor “Revelation” / 22
Time / 23
Fun with words / 24
Christmas break / 25
Christmas break

November 2015

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
2
Style/grammar / 3
Election Day—no students / 4
Time / 5
History of English / 6
Compare & Contrast—Twain “Two Views of the River”
9
Style/grammar / 10
Time
Process essay/graphic due / 11
Vowell “Cowboys vs Mounties” / 12
COW / 13
Underhill “Shop like a Man”
16
Style/grammar / 17
Time / 18
Bohannan “Shakespeare in the Bush” / 19
History of English / 20
Catton “Grant and Lee”
23
Style/grammar / 24
Time(Cornucopia) / 25
Thanksgiving break / 26
Thanksgiving / 27
Thanksgiving break

October 2015

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
5
Verbs & Complete sentences / 6
Time10/12 / 7
Draft/ peer review; introductions / 8
English language history / 9*
Process
Eighner “Dumpster Diving”
12**
More fun with grammar—sentence errors / 13
Time10/19 / 14
PSAT testing—fun with words, figurative language / 15
COW / 16
Giovanni “Campus racism 101”
19
Grammar/style / 20
Time10/26 / 21
Baker, N “Recipe”
Baker, R “Slice” / 22
Ehrenreich “Scrubbing in Maine” / 23
O’Rourke “Third World Driving Tips”
26
Grammar/style / 27
Welty “Listening” / 28
Welty “Listening” / 29
COW (1stmarking period) / 30
Map/plan process

*period 5—Narrative essay due

**period 7—Narrative essay due

September 2015

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
8/31
Welcome
First things / 9/1
More first things; teacher page assignment—due 9/8 / 2
Williams “The VillageWatchman” / 3
Summer reading tasks / 4
Pictures
Summer reading tasks
7
Labor Day—no school / 8
Teacher page assignment due;
finish, submit summer reading task / 9
Time / 10
Academic integrity activities / 11
Academic integrity activities
14
Rosh Hoshanah —no school / 15
Time / 16
Dillard, “A Chase”; Woolf “Death of the Moth” / 17
COW / 18
Momaday “The Way to Rainy Mountain”
21
Grammar—pos—“Jabberwocky” / 22
Time / 23
Yom Kippur—no school / 24
White “Once more to the lake” / 25
Map descriptive/ narrative (due 10/1)
28
Grammar sentence ex / 29
Time / 30
Workshop—narrative essay / 10/1
COW
Narrative essay due / 2

Tasks and values:

·Classwork/homework—points/task

·Criterion (COW)—20 points each

·Teacher page assignment—25 points

·Summer reading tasks—100 points

·Timesummaries—20 points/week