Integrated Lit. 2009-2010: Trimester III


Current Week


Week 1

Monday 3.15

Inservice Day — no school

Tuesday 3.16

  1. Welcome to term III
  2. Intro to the Middle East
    • In your comp books, answer the following:
      1. What are the two different religious sects of Islam?
      2. Who is the founder of Islam?
      3. What is the holiest city in the Middle East?
      4. Define "jihad" in your own words
      5. Write one good question you have about the Middle East
  3. Create a new worklinks for term III
    • Save it in your Integrated Lit > term III folder
    • Design your worklinks around a "Middle Eastern" theme
    • Keep it school appropriate

Wednesday 3.17

  1. Arabian Nights

Thursday 3.18

  1. Literature

Friday 3.19

  1. Open Lab Objectives
    1. New Worklinks
    2. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Reading Q's
    3. "The Story of an Hour" Reading Q's and Writing Assignment

Spring Break | 3.22 — 26

Week 2

Monday 3.29

No school

Tuesday 3.30

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Words Related to Money — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Writing with Style by John Trimble Intro to Commas
  3. Finish writing assignment we started before break
    • Print new copy by the end of the period and hand in to Sinks

Wednesday 3.31

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Words Related to Money
  2. Writing with Style by John Trimble
  3. Writing Assignment continued
  4. Individual Conferences

Thursday 4.1

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Words Related to Money — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Punctuation Matters
  3. Writing with Style by John Trimble
  4. Writing Assignment Revisions
    • Print a new copy and hand in to Sinks at the end of the period
  5. Individual Conferences continued
    1. Kyle
    2. Nate
    3. Mitchell
    4. Joe (Boulder)
    5. Rosa
    6. Jason
    7. David
    8. Trevor

Friday 4.2

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — Words Related to Money
    • If you are new to my class, see me so I can create a login and password for you
  2. Writing with Style by John Trimble
  3. Puctuation Matters II — semicolons???
  4. Finish up first wave of revisions
    • Print a fresh copy for Sinks!

Week 3

Monday 4.5

No school

Tuesday 5.6

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Words Related to Age — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. The Pencil that Doesn't Stop — 20–minute writing exercise in your comp books
    • First line — "It's amazing what you'd agree to when you're on fire"
  3. Finish first round of conferences
  4. Print new copy of revised draft

Wednesday 4.7

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Words Related to Age — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. First round of revisions due today — print a new copy for Sinks
  3. Conferences for those who haven't had one yet

Thursday 4.8

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Words Related to Age — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Writing with Style by John Trimble
  3. Write, write, write

Friday 4.9

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — Words Related to Age
  2. Tips on Usage — don't forget to use this resource!!!
  3. Last day for the writing assignment – we're changing gears next week
  4. Conferences — who's left?

Week 4

Monday 4.12

No school

Tuesday 4.13

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to speaking — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

Wednesday 4.14

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to speaking — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature
    • Check out Three Cups of Tea @ 2:15
    • Silent reading 20 minutes — skip the intro, start with chapter 1 "Failure"
    • Reading Homework — read chapters 2 & 3

Thursday 4.15

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to speaking — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Quiz — chapters 2 & 3
    • Vocabulary List
    • Silent reading — 20 minutes
    • Discussion — There is a telling passage about Mortenson’s change of direction at the start of the book: “One evening, he went to bed by a yak dung fire a mountaineer who’d lost his way, and one morning, by the time he’d shared a pot of butter tea with his hosts and laced up his boots, he’d become a humanitarian who’d found a meaningful path to follow for the rest of his life.” What made Mortenson particularly ripe for such a transformation? Has anything similar happened in your own life?
    • Reading homework — read chapters 4 & 5

Friday 4.16

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to speaking
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Discussion — What makes people "ripe for change"? Think about Mortenson's experience growing up in Africa and his father as a role model
    • Silent reading — 20 minutes — outside???
    • Reading homework — read chapters 6 & 7 over the weekend

Week 5

Monday 4.19

No school

Tuesday 4.20

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to personal appearance — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

Wednesday 4.21

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to personal appearance — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

Thursday 4.22

Happy Earth Day!

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to personal appearance — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Prom Court Voting — Seniores only —password is "black tie"
  3. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Pakistan Map — link on your worklinks
    • Silent Reading — graded
    • Reading Homework — read chapter 11

Friday 4.23

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to personal appearance
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
  3. Updated Worklinks
    • The Story of an Hour Reading Q's
    • Short Story Twisted
    • Map of Pakistan
    • Three Cups of Tea — chapters 7 – 9 Reading Questions

Week 6

Monday 4.26

No school

Tuesday 4.27

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to intelligence
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

Wednesday 4.28

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to intelligence
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Blog — Haji Ali's Lesson
      • You will need to log in to comment
      • Use the same username and password required to log into a computer
    • Graded Silent Reading
    • Reading Homework — read chapter 13

Thursday 4.29

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to intelligence
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Blog — Haji Ali's Lesson
      • You will need to log in to comment
      • Use the same username and password required to log into a computer
    • Graded Silent Reading
    • Reading Homework — read chapter 14

Friday 4.30

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to intelligence
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Graded Silent reading
    • An extended stay...
    • Reading Homework — read chapter 15

Week 7

Monday 5.3

No school

Tuesday 5.4

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to joy and sorrow — 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Graded silent reading
    • Reading Homework — read chapter 16
  3. bin Laden Wanted
  4. Osama Interview 1998
  5. ADL – Osama
  6. Al Jazeera Interview
  7. Interivew Transcription

Wednesday 5.5

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to joy and sorrow — 15 minutes

Thursday 5.6

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to joy and sorrow — 15 minutes

Friday 5.7

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to joy and sorrow
    • Study for 5 minutes
  2. Literature —Three Cups of Tea
    • Reading Homework — read chpater 17
  3. House of Saud

Week 8

Monday 5.10

No school

Tuesday 5.11

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to praise and criticism — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Check point — where are you at in the book?
    • Graded Silent Reading
    • Reading Homework — read...
  3. Middle East Current Event

Wednesday 5.12

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to praise and criticism — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Graded Silent Reading — 20 minutes
  3. Critical Response: Education — 1 page — link on your worklinks

Thursday 5.13

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to praise and criticism — 10 – 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Continue working on Critical Response from yesterday — due today
    • Read chapters 18 and 19

Friday 5.14

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to praise and criticism
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

Week 9

Monday 5.17

No school

Tuesday 5.18

  1. Video: Behind Taliban Lines

Wednesday 5.19

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to energy and laziness — 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

* Link on your worklinks

Thursday 5.20

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to energy and laziness
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea

Friday 5.21

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to energy and laziness
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
    • Reading Homework — finish the book
  3. Open Lab Objectives:
    1. Critical Response from yesterday
    2. Chs. 19 – 20 Reading Q's
    3. Update worklinks

Worklinks Update

  1. The Story of an Hour Reading Q's
  2. Short Story Twisted
  3. Map of Pakistan
  4. Three Cups of Tea — chapters 7 – 9 Reading Questions
  5. Middle East Current Event
  6. Three Cups of Tea — Critical Response: Education
  7. Three Cups of Tea — Reading Q's chs. 19 – 20
  8. Three Cups of Tea — Critical Response: The Power to Change

Week 10

Monday 5.24

No school

Tuesday 5.25

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to stubborness
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
  3. Open Lab the rest of the period

Wednesday 5.26

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to stubborness

Worklinks Update

  1. The Story of an Hour Reading Q's
  2. Short Story Twisted
  3. Map of Pakistan
  4. Three Cups of Tea — chapters 7 – 9 Reading Questions
  5. Middle East Current Event
  6. Three Cups of Tea — Critical Response: Education
  7. Three Cups of Tea — Reading Q's chs. 19 – 20
  8. Three Cups of Tea — Critical Response: The Power to Change

Thursday 5.27

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — words related to stubborness
  2. Literature — Three Cups of Tea
  3. Final Exam
  4. Return your books — Seniors – return books to avoid any addiontal monetary charges from the library!

Friday 5.28

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — words related to stubborness

Week 11

Monday 5.31

No school

Tuesday 6.1

  1. Current Event Blog — Sinks' Blog
    • Choose one of the two to blog

Wednesday 6.2

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Impressive Words for Impressive Scores — 15 minutes
  2. Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — discussion

Thursday 6.3

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Impressive Words for Impressive Scores — 15 minutes
  2. Literature — Tupac Shakur — The Rose that Grew from Concrete
    • Government Assistance
    • Answer the below questions and send to Sinks in an email
      • What does the poem mean to you?
      • The poem's theme deals with pride. Discuss what you "would never do" that would compromise your pride.
      • Discuss your position on "Governemnt Assistance"

Friday 6.4

  1. SAT Vocab Quiz — Wednesday 6.09
  2. Open lab — last day to turn in late work

Week 12

Monday 6.7

No school

Tuesday 6.8

  1. SAT Vocab Practice — Impressive Words for Impressive Scores — 15 minutes
  2. Literature

Wednesday 6.9

  1. SAT Vocab Practice before quiz — 10 minutes
  2. SAT Vocab Quiz — Impressive Words for Impressive Scores
  3. Finish Robert Frost — The Road Not Taken

Thursday 6.10

  1. Writing Poetry — you will need your comp books

Friday 6.11

  1. Poetry — ee cummings
  2. Poetry Writing — you will need your comp books

Week 13

Monday 6.14

No school

Tuesday 6.15

  1. Register for classes for next year
  2. Continue working on poem

Wednesday 6.16

  1. Pick a favorite poem to share with the class tomorrow — one written by another poet — print it out (you may not choose a poem we've already read in class).
    • Be prepared to tell the class:
      1. A little bio about the poet
      2. Why you like the poem — how you relate to it
  2. Finish revising your own poem — you will share this with the class
  3. Before you leave today, I want to read your poem — a type of mini–conference

Thursday 6.17

Last day of school

  1. Blue slips
  2. Read poems
  3. AWEPA

Friday 6.18

 

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