December 10 - 14, 2012

English 9
      On Monday, the class will review and identify the short story elements within the selection The Most Dangerous Game. On Tuesday, the class will proceed to complete a daily grade activity reviewing and identifying the short story elements within the selection The Most Dangerous Game. Upon completion of the activity, we will proceed to review proper punctuation usage. We will begin with proper comma usage on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we will reveiw the correct usage of colons. On Thurdsay, we will review the proper usage of semicolons. On Friday, each student will receive a study guide in preparation of next week's midterms.


English 9 Pre-AP
     On Monday, I will return The Odyssey quizzes ,and the class will proceed to review the information covered thus far within Part I of The Odyssey while discussing the quizzes. On Tuesday- Thursday, the class will continue reading The Odyssey in preparation for next week's midterm. On Friday, each student will receive a study guide detailing the content covered within the midterm.


English 10
      On Monday, the class will review and discuss the puritan's beliefs, writing style and significance within the time period. We will also reveiw Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" along with Edward Taylor's "Huswifery". On Tuesday, each student will begin reading Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". On Wednesday, the class will review the selections ,and the class will proceed to complete a daily grade activity identifying the content within each poem and/or selection covered. On Thursday, I will introduce persuasive speeches in which the class will read various persuasive speeches within the text. On Friday, we will proceed to discuss the speeches ,and we will discuss the information covered on next week's midterm.