Monday, December 17, 2018

Week of December 17 to December 21

Career Exploration
Students must complete Career Cluster documents up to an including Manufacturing by January 2019.

Honors English 10
Students will complete and submit prepositional phrase packets on Tuesday 12/18. Worksheets on Verbals will be collected on Friday 12/21.

Practical English 10
Students will continue reading Julius Caesar. Study guides for Acts I & II will be due on Wednesday 12/19 with a quiz on the same day. Study guides for Act III will be due Friday 12/21.

Sunday, December 2, 2018

Week of December 3 to December 7

Career Exploration
Students will continue completing Google Docs for Career Clusters. Students must finish Agriculture, Architecture, Arts & AV Tech, and Business before the Friday 12/7.

Honors English 10
Students will discuss Harrison Bergeron on Monday 12/3 specifically in comparison to Fahrenheit 451. Students will take a formative assessment on grammar before beginning the unit's first lesson on sentence components.

Practical English 10
Students will work on Verbal Phrases including Participles, Gerunds, and Infinitives. Worksheets will be due the day after distribution and quizzes will be announced one day in advance.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Week of November 12 to November 16

Career Exploration
Students will work collaboratively to complete a number of problem solving and critical thinking activities. No homework will be assigned until after Thanksgiving break.

Honors English 10
Students will finish reading Fahrenheit 451 on Thursday 11/15 and will be responsible for completing the study guide for Monday 11/19. The final test will be held on Tuesday 11/20. Propaganda projects must be submitted on Tuesday 11/27.

Practical English 10
Students will continue working on Objects and Complements. All worksheets will be due by Wednesday 11/13. A quiz on Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, Predicate Nominatives, and Predicate Adjectives will be held on Thursday 11/15.

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Week of November 5 to November 9

Career Exploration
Students will continue Self Evaluation activities. All students must return parent forms by Monday for full credit. Identity Posters will be due no later than Friday 11/9.

Honors English 10
Students will finish Part II by Wednesday and will discuss Dover Beach specifically. The reading schedule for Part III will be given on Wednesday. Students should begin planning Propaganda Project details and should submit a plan by Friday.

Practical English 10
Students will complete the Pearson Middle of the Year online exam. Following the assessment, students will begin a preliminary test to assess knowledge of grammar before beginning the Unit.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Week of October 29 to November 2

Career Explorations
Students in MP1 will finish interviews. New classes will begin on Wednesday 10/31. Students in MP2 will be required to complete the Google Docs for Week 1.

Honors English 10
Students will review Part I of Fahrenheit 451 and will complete a test on Thursday 11/1. Study guides and character maps will be collected on Tuesday 10/30 and redistributed on Wednesday. The first reading for Part II must be completed by Friday 11/2.

Practical English 10
Students will turn in all Fahrenheit 451 study guides on Tuesday 10/30. A test on Part III will be given on Wednesday 10/31 and Propaganda Projects will be due on 11/2.

Monday, October 22, 2018

Week of October 22 to October 26

Career Exploration
Students will submit finished resumes on Tuesday 10/23. All assignments for interviews are due Friday 10/26.

Honors English 10
Students are responsible for reading Part I of Fahrenheit 451  and taking accompanying notes. Completed study guides and character charts are due Monday 10/29. A test on Part I will be given on Tuesday 10/30.

Practical English 10
Students will review Part II of Fahrenheit 451 on Tuesday for a test on Wednesday 10/24. Study guides for Part II must be submitted this week. Students will also work on a Propaganda Project before beginning to read Part III.

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Week of October 15 to October 19

Career Exploration
All Career Cluster documents must be submitted on Monday morning. First drafts of resumes are due Friday 10/19.

Honors English 10
Students must submit stanza by stanza analysis of The Raven on Monday. Students will review all 5 fictional pieces of the unit prior to the test. Test will be given on Wednesday 10/17. On Thursday, students will begin discussing dystopian literature.

Practical Literature 10
Students will finish Part I of Fahrenheit 451 on Monday and review the remainder of the study guide. Specific worksheets on Beatty's argument will also be covered. A test on Part I will be given on Tuesday 10/16. Following the test, students will continue reading into Part II and will discuss Propaganda Techniques.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Week of October 9 to October 12

Career Explorations
Students must bring in an actual job application to review necessary information required to secure employment. Students must also fill out the sample application and submit by Friday 10/12.
All Career Cluster Google Docs must be submitted by Friday 10/12; assignments incomplete or submitted after this date will not receive credit.

Honors English 10
Students must read The Lottery and answer the worksheet questions based on tone. After The Lottery, students will complete an in-class reading and discussion of The Raven and will begin preparing for the Unit Test.

Practical English 10
Students will complete an in-class reading of Fahrenheit 451. Following the reading of Part I, students should complete the study guide and character charts to be submitted for Friday 10/12.

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Week of October 1 to October 5

Career Exploration
Students must complete all of the Career Cluster Google Docs by October 12th.

Honors English 10
Students will finish reading The Fall of the House of Usher and will discuss literary elements on Monday. Discussion will include the use of Gothic elements in both Usher and Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. Students will also be responsible for completing an assessment of the story before reading a parallel story in Cortazar's House Taken Over.

Practical English 10
Students will focus on dystopian literature and will discuss characteristics of the genre in preparation for the novel analysis of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Week of September 24 to September 28

Career Exploration
Students must finish GoogleDocs for the first eight Career Clusters by Wednesday 9/26. The assignment for Hospitality & Tourism, Humanities, and Information Technology will be opened on Monday 9/24 but will not be due until next week.

Honors English 10
Students will present Literary Device projects on Monday 9/24. Packets for Sleep Paralysis will also be due on Monday. Readings for The Masque of the Red Death will be due on Tuesday. Masque discussions about symbolism will take place in class on Tuesday and Wednesday. Literary Response Journals will be covered in class on Friday and students will begin working on the Perspective writing assignment.

Practical English 10
Students will begin reading cover a presentation on Mob Mentality and social pressure on Monday in preparation for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Study guides for the story will be completed by Wednesday. Students will cover vocabulary terms for the unit on Thursday and will review each of the literary pieces on Friday in preparation for a test on Monday 10/1.

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Week of September 17 to September 21

Career Exploration
Students will continue working on documents for each of the Career Clusters. This week, students must finish Agriculture, Architecture, Arts/Communication, Business Administration, Education, and Finance. All documents must be submitted by Friday 9/21.

Honors English 10
Students will begin work on Unit 1 - Inside the Nightmare and will read the following passages: Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear Sleep Paralysis - A Waking Nightmare, Masque of the Red Death. Students will be responsible to take introductory notes, especially those on Gothic Literature and Edgar Allan Poe. The Poe mini-unit will have corresponding worksheets and graphic organizers in addition to the analysis work in the text.

Practical English 10
Students will begin reading Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. All reading will occur in class and students will be required to take independent notes during the discussion. Students will complete a graphic organizer to outline the basic plot events and to identify elements of Gothic Literature. Once Usher is complete, students will read House Taken Over and compare the two stories.

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Week of September 10 to September 14

Career Exploration
Students will begin working on researching Career Clusters. 3 of the 16 must be completed by Friday 9/14. Time will be allotted in class for the majority of work, but all unfinished assignments must be completed as homework.

Honors English 10
Students will finish the Literary Device PPT and will be assigned the group project. Metaphor Poems and Motif/Theme worksheets will be due on Friday 9/14. Projects will be due on Monday 9/24. Students will also be given textbooks and will be responsible for reading Unit 1 submissions: Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear p. 82 by Monday 9/17.

Practical English 10
Students will continue reading Masque of the Red Death and will focus on a minimum of six symbols in the story. The chosen symbols must then be used in a storyboard project that will be due on Thursday 9/13.

Monday, September 3, 2018

Week of September 4 to September 7

Career Exploration
All assignments from last week must be completed by Tuesday afternoon at 2:45. Identity folders and Celebrity Personality Presentations must be completed by Thursday 9/5. Responses to the Team Building and Critical Thinking activities should be completed on the day following each activity.

Honors English 10
Students will complete notes for the Literary Terminology presentation. Individual assignments will include Allusions, Euphemisms, Metaphor Poems, and Theme. The Group project will be assigned on Friday and will be due on September 14. All online tests for Pearson must be completed by Friday September 7.

Practical English 10
Literary Device worksheets and Metaphor poems will be due at the end of class on Tuesday. Literary Device quizzes will be given during 5th period of Thursday's class. Students will begin work on Edgar Allan Poe and Gothic Literature. Individual readings will include The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Week of August 27 to August 31

Career Exploration
Tuesday - Log into Google Classroom to verify that all assignments can be viewed and that students are able to post.
Wednesday - Read about MB Types and complete self evaluation of skills to predict Myers-Briggs type. Complete all 4 documents on Google Classroom.
Thursday - Complete Online Personality Assessment and respond to the questions on the attached document for that day.
Friday - Classroom Contracts are due. Begin work on Identity Folder.

Honors English 10
Summer reading novel review on Monday 8/27 with exam to follow on 8/28; students must score a 70 or higher to remain in Honors English 10. Classroom expectations will be covered and contracts distributed; all paperwork due back on Tuesday 9/4.

Practical Eng/Lit 10
Classroom Contracts and related paperwork due Friday 8/31. Students must complete the Beginning of the Year exam through Pearson Realize online by Friday 8/31; time will be allotted in class but any unanswered questions outside of that time frame must be completed at home. Students must have notebooks and folders by Wednesday 8/29.

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Week of May 7 to May 11

Broadcast Journalism
Students will complete the final episode of In The News. A small group of students will finish edits on commercials for the Spartan Games.

Honors English 10
Students will review for the final test on Julius Caesar that will be given on Wednesday 5/9. Students will also begin preparing for the Keystone Lit exam. On Thursday, students will also be given outlines for the Research Paper.

Practical English 11
Students will take the Act V Hamlet quiz on Tuesday 5/8. Students will also begin preparing for the research paper.

Monday, April 30, 2018

Week of April 30 to May 4

Broadcast Journalism
Students will work on segments for ITN 5.4.18. Students will also finalize commercials for the Spartan Games. Current Event due Friday May 4th.

Honors English 10
Students must submit study guides for Julius Caesar Acts I-III by Tuesday May 1st; a test on those acts will also be given that day. Students will be responsible for reading Acts IV and V by Monday May 7th.

Practical English 11
Students will finish reading Act III of Hamlet on Monday April 30th and will review for the quiz. The Act III quiz will be given Tuesday May 1st and a reading of Act IV will follow.

Monday, April 23, 2018

Week of April 23 to April 28

Broadcast Journalism
Students will film segments for ITN and prepare commercial advertisement for Spartan Games II.

Honors English 10
Students will complete reading Julius Caesar Acts I-III and will submit all study guides. Review for the Quiz will be 4/27 with the Quiz on Tuesday 5/1. Acts IV-V will be covered in the following week.

Practical English 11
Students will submit all completed resumes by Tuesday 5/24. Quiz for Act I of Hamlet  will be given Monday 4/23. Act II quiz on Friday 4/27.

Monday, April 2, 2018

Week of April 2 to April 6

Broadcast Journalism
Students will begin working on an Oral History project in which they conduct an extended interview with a subject and record and edit the process.

Honors English 10
Students will work on projects for To Kill a Mockingbird and will prepare for a test on the novel for Wednesday 4/4. Projects will be due Monday 4/16.

Practical English 11
Students will work on Propaganda Projects and must submit them by Friday 4/6. On Tuesday, students will prepare to read the novel Of Mice and Men. Subsequent readings with follow for the remainder of the week with brief quizzes after each of the six chapters. Study guides will also be completed.

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Week of March 12 to March 16

Broadcast Journalism
Students will work on completing the lessons for Typography. Quiz on Friday 3/16.

Honors English 10
TKAM Chapter 12 on Monday, 13 on Tuesday, 14 and 15 for Thursday.

Practical English 11
Students will work on Gerunds and Infinitives. Test on Phrases on Friday 3/16.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Week of February 26 to March 2

Broadcast Journalism
Students will take the 2nd terminology quiz on Friday 3/2.

Honors English 10
Students should read TKAM chapters 3-5 for Monday 2/26, chapters 6-7 for Wednesday 2/28, and chapter 8 for Friday Friday 3/2.

Practical English 11
Students will take the Act III quiz for The Crucible on Monday 2/26 and will take the Act IV on Thursday 3/1.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Week of February 12 to February 16

Broadcast Journalism
Broadcast and Print Journalism terms will be split into 3 quizzes that will be given on Friday 2/16, Monday 2/19, and Tuesday 2/20.

Honors English 10
Students will review all phrases for the Quiz on Wednesday 2/14.

Practical English 11
Students will complete the Act I Crucible Quiz on Monday 2/12. Study guides for Act 2 must be completed by Friday 2/16.

Monday, February 5, 2018

Week of February 5 to February 9

Broadcast Journalism
Students will film the 2/9 episode of ITN and will begin working on broadcast and print journalism terminology. A quiz on the terminology will be given Friday 2/16. Current events will be postponed for the next 3 weeks.

Honors English 10
All worksheets for gerunds must be completed and submitted by Tues 2/6 at the end of class. Worksheets for Infinitives must be submitted by Friday 2/9. A test on all phrases will be Wednesday 2/14.

Practical English 10
A review of The Crucible Act I will be held on Tuesday. The test for Act I will be Thursday 2/8.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Week of January 29 to February 2

Broadcast Journalism
Students will schedule interviews for Electives segment and will prep for Super Bowl recipes.

Honors English 10
Students will complete packets on Prepositional Phrases and Participles by Tuesday. A quiz on Participles will be given on Thursday.

Practical Lit/Eng 11
Students will read Act I of The Crucible and will complete the corresponding study guides. A quiz will be given on Tuesday Feb 6th.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Week of January 22 to January 26

Broadcast Journalism
Full year students will work on STC and electives clips. Half year students will work on Chapter 4 of the textbook, focusing on areas of newsworthiness. A quiz will be given on Friday 1/26.

Honors English 10
Students will quiz on Objects/Complements on Wednesday 1/24 and Participles on Friday 1/26.

Practical English 10
Students will begin on Puritanical history in America prior to beginning the reading of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Week of January 15 to January 19

Broadcast Journalism
Students will continue working on the 1/19 Newscast video and will prepare for next week's video on elective courses. Weekly current event assignments will begin in the 3rd marking period and the first will be due Friday 1/19.

Honors English 10
The Propaganda commercial project and the Lyrics in Literature paper will both be due Tuesday 1/16. Students will finish the Object/Complement packet for Tuesday to go over in class. Subsequent grammar assignments will include Phrases with an emphasis on Verbals.

Practical English 11
Students will begin with an introduction on Puritanical history in America prior to next week's reading of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.