First week of class

The first week of class certainly proved to be hectic, chaotic, and very educational!  In first and fourth block (Pre-AP) we started the year with Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's penultimate play about love conquering all.  We also started work on our writing, as students completed and turned in preliminary essays on Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.  The reading review class wasted no time in our preparations for the Alabama High School Graduation Exam, as we covered main ideas, supporting details, summarizing, and lots of other topics as well.  Below, you will find each day's assignments and quizzes for the day.

Please remember, if you miss a day of class, then per board policy, you have TWO days to get a copy of the assignment you missed and turn it back into me for a grade.  Otherwise, it will be counted as a zero.

Without further ado...

Thursday, August 11 Pre-AP
-- Begin discussing Shakespearean England and Shakespeare's life (Life of Shakespeare PowerPoint- click to download)  (click here for notes handout)
-- Compared themes and archetypal figures from Romeo and Juliet and The Hunger Games


Thursday, August 11 AHSGE Reading Review
-- Read through the first selection of The Hunger Games
-- Discussed main ideas and found main ideas across different mediums
-- Main idea quiz




Friday, August 12 Pre-AP
-- Romeo and Juliet Act I Quiz
-- Played Family Feud to review Shakespeare notes
-- Began discussing Act I of Romeo and Juliet with an emphasis on tone and mood (click here for handout)

Friday, August 12 AHSGE Reading Review
-- Read Hunger Games selection and took Hunger Games Quiz #1
-- Learning centers: we studied Context Clues, Figurative Language, Sequence of Events, and Comparing and Contrasting
-- Played review game covering all four of these topics


Monday, August 15th Pre-AP
-- Turned in The Hunger Games essay on "Prejudice in The Hunger Games"
-- Finish class discussion of Romeo and Juliet Act I
-- began writing in our journals

Monday, August 15th AHSGE Reading Review
-- Read Hunger Games selection and took Hunger Games Quiz #2
-- Discussion of Summarizing
-- Practicing summarizing across various mediums
-- Summarizing quiz




Tuesday, August 16th Pre-AP
-- Romeo and Juliet Act II Quiz
-- Balcony Scene rewrite
-- Journal writing

Tuesday, August 16th, AHSGE Reading Review
-- Read Hunger Games selection and took Hunger Games Quiz #3
-- Make prediction about The Hunger Games (What will happen to Prim after the reaping?)
-- Review of summarizing
-- Summarizing practice
-- Summarizing quiz




That's a lot of information in a short space, so please make sure to email me if you have any questions about an assignment.

Until tomorrow...