Week of April 4 to April 8

English 11
Students will review Act II of Hamlet and will complete a test on the entire act on Wed. 4/6. Students will also be responsible for choosing a general and specific topic for the independent research paper.

PSSA
All work will be completed in class.

SAT Prep
All work will be completed in class.

English 8
Students will receive a grade for the creative writing preposition activity. Students will identify each of the prepositions as an adjective or adverb. Two separate grades will be given for the project. Vocabulary will be due Wed. 4/6 with a quiz to follow on Fri. 4/8.

Journalism
Students will complete the number analysis project for a grade. Another summary on perspective will be due at the end of the week.

Week of March 28 to April 1

English 11
Students will review characterization and plot development for Act I of Hamlet. A quiz will be given Wed. 3/30. Students will continue reading Act II. Vocabulary will not be due until the following week.


PSSA 12
All  work will be completed in class.

English 8
Students will review conjunctions and adverbs for a quiz Tues. 3/29. After this quiz, students will work on prepositional phrases. Vocabulary 23 is also due on Wednesday with a quiz to follow on Fri. 4/1.

Journalism
Students will work on the third edition of the Spartan Spectrum and will discuss ideas for the broadcast journalism project.

SAT Prep
All work will be completed in class.

Week of February 28 to March 4

English 11
Students will continue working with Clauses. Packet #1 will be due Mon. 2/28. Packet #2 will be due Tues. 3/1. A comprehensive review will given on all clause types Wed. with a Test to follow on Thurs. 3/2. Vocabulary 10 will be checked on Wed. with a Quiz to follow on Fri. 3/4.
***Senior Project Proposals are due Friday, March 4.

PSSA
All work will be completed in class.

SAT Prep
All work will be completed in class.

English 8
Students will review on Monday and will have a Test on Verb Tense Tues. 3/1. Vocabulary #20 will be checked in notebooks on Wed. 3/2 with a quiz to follow Fri. 3/4.

Journalism
Students will finish the paper dummy layout which will be submitted Wed. 3/2 and will begin working with digital formatting. The investigative journalism final project with research articles is due Fri. 3/4.

Week of February 22 to February 25

English 11
Students will review phrases for a quiz on Wed. 2/23. Students should use books (Chapters 2 & 3) as well as handouts to study for the assessment. Students will then continue with clauses. Vocabulary will not be checked until Wed. 3/2 with a quiz to follow that Friday.

PSSA
All work will be completed in class.

SAT Prep
All work will be completed in class.

English 8
Students will complete Quizlet #2 of irregular verbs on Tues. 2/22. Vocabulary 18 will be checked in notebooks and graded for a point value Wed. 2/23. Quizlet #3 covering irregular verbs "Make" to "Win" on the chart on page 126 of the book on Thurs. 2/24. The Vocabulary 18 Quiz will be given Fri. 2/25. A test on tenses (Simple, Perfect, Progressive, Perfect Progressive) will be given next week.

Journalism
Students will submit rough drafts of their investigative article Wed. 2/23 and will submit the final journal on this day as well. The final copy of the article will be due on Fri. 3/4. In class, students will be working on dummy layouts for newspapers.  

Week of February 7 to February 11

English 11
Students will complete a comprehensive Test on the parts of speech on Mon. 2/7. Vocabulary notebooks will be checked for a grade on Wed. 2/9 with a quiz to follow on Fri. 2/11. During the week students will work on parts of a sentence and will have corresponding homework sheets every day.

PSSA 12
All work will be completed in class.

SAT Prep
All work will be completed in class.

English 8
Students will complete a quiz on the first section of the Verb Unit on Mon. 2/7. Students will work on Tense during the week and will have corresponding homework sheets to practice conjugation. Vocabulary notebooks and worksheets will be checked for a grade on Wed. 2/9 with a quiz to follow on Fri. 2/11.

Journalism
Students will work on nonfiction writing techniques and strategies. Journals are due Fri. 2/11 and students should begin working on a concrete outline for the article. 1st and 2nd MP students will work on Newsweek or USA Today articles while new students receive information on historical figures and events in the progression of American Journalism; these summary reviews will also be due Fri. 2/11.

Week of January 31 to February 4

English 11 - There will be a review of all parts of speech worksheets and a general review of material prior to the test. A test covering all functions of the eight parts of speech will be held on Wed. 2/2. Students will begin working on parts of the sentence on Thurs. and Fri. and will have corresponding worksheets and activities on these days.

PSSA - Students will continue a review of literary terms and will have a quiz on Wed. 2/2.

English 8 - Students will review Verb packets to determine correct usage and will play a review game on Tuesday. A verb test on action, linking, and helping verb phrases will be given Wed. 2/2. The weekly vocabulary quiz on Lesson #16 will be held Friday 2/4.

Journalism - Students will begin article research for investigative project that will be due at a later time. Journal entries for Week #2 will be reviewed on Friday 2/4 and will be awarded point value.

SAT Prep - No homework.

Week of January 18 to January 21

English 11
Students will begin working on a review of parts of speech and parts of sentences before working with clauses and phrases. Students will be required to bring grammar texts for the next month.

PSSA
Students will begin working with Literary Terminology and will be required to take accurate notes for a an assessment in the following week.

English 8
Students will begin working on the verb unit and will complete a series of classroom activities to help better understand action, linking and auxiliary verbs and verb phrases. Students will also be completing the Vocabulary 15 quiz on Fri. 1/21.

Journalism
Students will be required to complete a Newsweek article summary/review while new students are integrated to the course. The class will then begin working on investigative journalism and immersion writing basics.