Fall Semester

2009-2010

English II Lab

December 15-18, 2009

Midterm Exams

Monday, December 14, 2009

• Review for Midterm Exam

Thursday, December 10, 2009

• Study for vocabulary 6 test
• Vocabulary 6 Test
• English II Time

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

• Bell work #14: Proofing sentences
• Review questions for fragments and run-ons
• Quiz on fragments and run-ons; EOC workbook p. 13-16
• Review vocabulary assignment from Friday for test on Thursday

Friday, December 4, 2009

• Bell work #13: Correct the following run-on in 5 different ways: Finding my runaway lizard in the house is easy capturing him is the hard part. At the end of each corrected sentence, tell how you corrected it in parentheses. If you need to, use your notes from Wednesday.
• Review worksheet from Wednesday
• Vocabulary – Do one of the following for each vocabulary word. Write a sentence or write the following giving 2 examples:
1. Things that wither
2. Things that are grandiose
3. Times when there is a surfeit of something
4. Things an unbridled child might do
5. Events that are fortuitous
6. Things that enrapture you
7. Actions that take a lot of guile
8. Things that desiccate
9. People who are photogenic
10. Things that you should never relinquish

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

• Bell work #12: Proofing sentences
• Fragments and Run-ons – workbook p. 371
• Unit 6 vocabulary words and definitions
• English II Time

Monday, November 30, 2009

• Bell work # 11: Write a paragraph about your Thanksgiving Break. Your paragraph needs to be at least 10 lines long.
• Notes on run-ons
• English II Time

Thursday, November 19, 2009

• Online game: identifying fragments
• Workbook p. 29; Turn in for a grade.
• English II Time

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

• Bell work #10: Correcting fragments and run-ons
• Workbook p. 370; checked in class
• English II Time

Friday, November 13, 2009

• Bell work: Study for vocabulary test
• Unit 5 vocabulary test
• Identifying fragments; workbook page 48
• Run-ons
• English II Time

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

• Bell work #9: Proofreading sentences
• Review ACT questions in class; Notes on fragments
• English II Time

Monday, November 9, 2009

• Bell work #8: Proofreading sentences
• Identifying and correcting fragments (notes)
• Vocabulary assignment for 2^nd Even
• English II Time

Thursday, November 5, 2009

• Quiz – identifying independent and subordinate clauses
• Vocabulary assignment: Give three examples of each of the following (only one example for number 10). Write the following and then list your examples.

1. examples of an abyss
2. people who are worthy of being emulated
3. things/people that are atypical
4. reasons to cajole someone
5. reasons to bereave
6. places teenagers loiter
7. things to do in lieu of homework
8. things that evoke memories
9. examples of how people can get maimed
10. one example of deducing a conclusion from evidence

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

• Bell work #7: Identifying independent and subordinate clauses
• Unit 5 vocabulary words, definitions, and explanations

Friday, October 30, 2009

• Bell work #6: Turn in bell works #3-5
• Read “The Masque of the Red Death” and answer the following questions on your own sheet of paper to turn in:
1. How is life outside the abbey different from life inside?
2. Why does Prince Prospero close himself and his courtiers off in the abbey? What might the abbey represent?
3. What effect does the masked figure who appears at midnight have on the revelers?
4. What happens to the prince and the revelers?
5. What message or messages do you see in this story? Think about what happens to the revelers and what the Red Death might stand for.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

• ACT Plan

Monday, October 26, 2009

• Bell work #5: Write three sentences that begin with subordinate clauses. Underline the subordinate clause once and the independent clause twice. Make sure that you put a comma in the correct place.
• Complete and go over workbook page 84.
• Complete workbook page 85 on your own and turn in.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

• Bell work #4: Write one simple, one complex, and one compound sentence.
• Unit 4 Vocabulary Test

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

• Bell work #3: Proofreading sentences
• Grammar workbook pages 82-83

Friday, October 16, 2009

• Notes (powerpoint) on simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• Correct sentences with first 5 vocabulary words if necessary. Write either compound or complex sentences with the second 5 vocabulary words. Subordinate clauses must be surrounded with parentheses, and underline the vocabulary words.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

• Bell work: Proofread a paragraph to make corrections
• ACT
• Turn in sentences using first 5 vocabulary words if you did not finish them on Monday.
• Turn in bell works #1-2

Monday, October 12, 2009

• Notes on subordination and creating complex sentences; Please make sure you copy a classmate’s notes if you were absent.
• Write sentences using the first 5 vocabulary words according to the following instructions:
• All sentences must be complex sentences.
• Put parentheses around the subordinate clause in each sentence.
• Underline the vocabulary words.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

• 1^st, 3^rd, & 4^th Even 1^st Nine Weeks Test

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

• Review for 1^st 9 Weeks Test

Friday, September 25, 2009

• Unit 3 Vocabulary Test

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

• Complete spirit poster
• Complete make up and missing assignments

Monday, September 21, 2009

• Bell work #5: Proofing Sentences
• Review notes on “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and explain grading of assignment
• Make a spirit poster for homecoming week using one of the vocabulary words from units 1-3

Thursday, September 17, 2009

• Bell work #4: Proofing Sentences
• Vocabulary group activity for 2^nd and 4^th even (skit)
• Write sentences with vocabulary 3 words. If you participated in the group skit using vocabulary 2 words, then you only have to write sentences using the following 5 words: dauntless, laudable, riveted (held to attention), abominate, and emit. If you were absent or did not participate in the group activity, you must write sentences with all 10 vocabulary words.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

• Bell Work #3: Proofing Sentences
• Unit 3 vocabulary words, definitions and discussion; Vocabulary Group Activity for 1-Even only (skit)
• Vocabulary test retakes and make up work

Friday, September 11, 2009

• Bell Work #2: Proofing Sentences
• Unit 2 Vocabulary Test
• Words often confused: who and whom; which, that, and who

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

• Critical Thinking Bell Work #1
• Complete reading short story and complete notes by completing the allegory chart and by finding two examples of foreshadowing. For your examples of foreshadowing, give the line numbers, tell what is being said, and what events the lines are foreshadowing.
• Review unit 2 vocabulary words

Friday, September 4, 2009

• Critical Thinking Bell work: Date and write absent in the bell work section of your notebook.
• Literature notes on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
• Begin reading short story aloud

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

• Critical Thinking Bell work: Date and write absent in the bell work section of your notebook.
• Discussed definitions and usage of vocabulary words – mnemonics and cartoons
• Write sentences using unit 2 vocabulary words and turn in.

Monday, August 31, 2009

• Bell work: In the film Die Hard: With a Vengeance, the characters have to defuse a bomb by pouring exactly four gallons of water into a jug. They only have a three-gallon and a five-gallon jug. How do they get exactly four gallons?
• Unit 1 Vocabulary Test for 4-Even
• Review of reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, and relative pronouns
• Unit 2 Vocabulary words and definitions

Thursday, August 27, 2009

• Unit 1 Vocabulary Test (4-Even will be tested on Monday, August 31)
• 4-Even – Discuss vocabulary word usage; student examples of vocabulary sentences on the ELMO

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

• Bell work: Critical Thinking
• CW #1 (to be put in the Classwork section of your notebook) – Notes on pronouns
• Grammar workbook pages 5-6; Identifying types of pronouns

Friday, August 21, 2009

• Bell work: Critical Thinking
• Unit 1 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
• Write sentences using unit 1 vocabulary words.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

• Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure Pretest
• Parts of Speech and Post It Notes: What do you know?

Monday, August 17, 2009

• Two truths and a lie

Tuesday, August 11th and Thursday, August 13^th

• Handed out and discussed the syllabus
• Letter to parents
• Student information cards
• Get to know you