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English 10 Co-Teach--(Schwill) (Period 1st )

Course Description

English 10 Co-teach
This course will include literature such as the novel Night, and the plays Julius Caesar and Twelve Angry Men. Various short stories will be explored during Quarter 3.  Vocabulary, grammar, and writing will be an integral part of daily and weekly review.  There will also be research projects assigned to enhance understanding of content.

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Week of Dec. 2 - 6

Monday, Dec. 2 - Vocab. 13 words:  hors d'oeuvre, immaculate, impartial, impediment, imperceptible, implacable, imposition, inaccessible, inadvertent, inalienable. Complete Voc. 13-2.  Students will begin reading Act III, sc. 2 - Brutus's funeral oration and analyze the speech.
 
Tuesday, Dec. 3 -  Review Voc. 13 - 2 and make Voc. Expert Cards for extra credit this week.  Begin reading  Mark Antony's funeral oration and analyze his speech.
 
Wed., Dec. 12 - Complete G.W.U. 13-1 and Voc. 13-3. Make Voc. Expert Cards for extra credit this week.  All 10 Voc. Expert Cards will be checked Thursday for 10 points extra credit on Friday's Voc. 13 quiz.  Finish reading Act III and take quiz over Act III.
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Thursday, Dec. 13 - Complete G.W.U. 13-2 and Voc. 13-4.  Read Act IV and and answer the study guide.
 
Friday, Dec. 14 - Students will complete Voc.13 quiz.  Students will watch Act III of Julius Caesar.

Week of Nov. 18 - 22

Monday, Nov. 18 - Voc. 12 words: facsimile, farce, flagrant, fluctuate, fortitude, gloat, grimace, harass, heresy, hieroglyphic. Students will complete Voc. 12-2.   Students will continue reading Act II, sc. 1 and 2, and answer the study guide.
 
Tuesday, Nov. 19 - Students will go over Voc. 12-2.  Students will choose 5 of the vocabulary words to create 5 Context Paragraphs for homework due Thursday.  Students will finish reading Act II and complete the quiz over Act II
 
Wednesday, Nov. 20 - Students will complete G.W.U. sheet on Correct Run-on Sentences. Students will choose 5 of the vocabulary words to create 5 Context Paragraphs for homework due Thursday. Students will begin reading Act III.  TurnItIn writing assignment on "Soldier's Dilemma" is due today by 2:00 PM.
 
Thursday, Nov. 21 - Students will complete Voc. 12-3 sentences.  Students will  continue reading Act III, sc. 1 and 2.
 
Friday, Nov. 22 - Students will take Voc. 12 Quiz.  Students will complete analysis of Mark Antony's funeral speech.

Week of Nov. 12 - 15

Monday, Nov. 11 - Veteran's Day Holiday
 
Tuesday, Nov. 12 - Vocabulary 11 words:  espionage, ethical, evade, evolve, excerpt, expedient, explicate, exultant, fabricate, facilitate.  Students will complete Voc. 11-2. Students will complete Chronological Order assignment on Act I.  Students will read Act II, sc. 1 and answer the study guide.  Students will receive a Progress Report that needs to be taken home, have signed and returned for a Bonus coupon.
 
Wednesday, Nov. 13 - Students will review Voc. 11 - 2.  Students will receive a writing assignment to go along with Act II, sc. 1.  The assignment must be turned in on turnitin.com by Wednesday, Nov. 20.  Students will finish reading Act II, sc. 1 and answer the study guide.
 
Thursday, Nov. 14 - Students will complete G.W.U. 11 - 1 and Voc. 11 - 3.  Students will use their computers to complete a CFA.  The CFA grade may be used as a grade replacement if it is a 65 or higher,
 
Friday, Nov. 15 - Students will take a Voc. 11 quiz.  Last day to turn in signed Progress Reports.

Week of Nov. 4 - 8

Monday, Nov. 4 - Students should be working at home on the Voc. 6-10 crossword vocabulary review that they received Friday.  The review is due Friday and the test is Friday, Nov. 8.  Students will be assigned a selection on CommonLit that will be due Friday, Nov. 8.  The selection is on William Shakespeare.  Students will begin reading Julius Caesar Act. I, sc. 1 and answering the study guide.  
 
Tuesday, Nov. 5 - Students will read Act. I, sc. 2 and 3 and answer the study guide.
 
Wednesday, Nov. 6 - An actor from Tennessee Shakespeare will be present in all classes to talk about and perform Julius Caesar for the students.
 
Thursday, Nov. 7 - Students will finish reading Act I and take a quiz over Act I.  Students will begin reading Act II, sc. 1.
 
Friday, Nov. 8 -  Students will complete Voc. 6-10 Test.  CommonLit assignment on Shakespeare is due today. Students will continue reading Act I, sc. 1 and 2.

Oct. 28 - Nov. 1

Monday, Oct. 28 - Students will complete Voc. 10-2.  Voc. 10 words:  elite,   emancipate, emphatically,   encompass,    encumber,  enjoin,  ensue,   episode,  equilibrium,  erratic.  Students will complete a test over Parallel Structure.  Students will begin to watch powerpoint on William Shakespeare and fill in guided notes.  
 
Tuesday, Oct. 29 -   Students will review Voc. 10-2 and  create 2 truths and a lie for 5 vocabulary words.  Students will continue to watch powerpoint on William Shakespeare and complete guided notes.  Students will finish for homework.  (Powerpoint and questions are on Clever/Curve).
 
Wednesday, Oct. 30- Students will turn in Shakespeare guided notes.  Students will complete Voc. 10-3 and G.W.U. 10-1. Students will also create 2 truths and a lie for  5  more vocabulary words.  Two truths and a lie for all 10 vocabulary words is due Thursday.   Students will watch powerpoint on Julius Caesar and complete guided notes.  Finish guided notes for homework.  (Powerpoint and questions are on Clever/Curve).
 
Thursday, Oct. 31 - Students will complete G.W.U. 10-2.  Students will finish guided notes for homework.  (Powerpoint and questions are on Clever/Curve).
 
Friday, Nov. 1 - Students will complete Voc. 10 quiz.  Students will receive Voc. 6-10 review.  Voc. 6 - 10 Test will be Friday, Nov. 8.

Week of Oct. 21 - 25

Monday, Oct. 21 - Students will turn in "mini Night project" if it was not turned in on the Friday before fall break.  Students will match Voc. 9-2 words:  diminutive,  disperse,  diversion,  documentary,   ecstatic,  edifice,  edify,  effervescent,  eject,  electorate.    Students will set up their notebooks for the next semester.  Students will then complete a Night Chart that will be used for the writing assignment tomorrow.  
 
Tuesday, Oct. 2 -   Students will review Voc. 9-2 and make 5 Voc. expert cards for homework.  Students will then use the Night Chart from Monday to complete a writing assignment on Night.  The assignment will be turned in on TurnItIn. com and will be due at the end of the day Wednesday.  
 
Wednesday, Oct. 23-   Students will complete Voc. 9-3 and G.W.U. 9-1. Students will create  5  more vocabulary expert cards for homework.  All 10 cards will be due tomorrow..  Student will then begin reviewing Parallelism.
 
Thursday, Oct. 24 - Students will complete G.W.U. 9-2 and Voc. 9-4.  Students will continue with the review and practice of Parallelism.
 
Friday, Nov. 2 - Students will complete Voc. 9 quiz, and complete a test over Parallelism.

Week of Oct. 7 - 11

Monday, Oct. 7 - Students will complete Voc. 8-2. Vocabulary 8 words: debut,  decimate,  decrepit,  defunct,  delectable,  demure,  destitute,  deteriorate,  detonate,  devastation.  Students will finish Night, and work on review sheet for test on Wednesday.  Students will also organize their notebook for the Notebook Test tomorrow, using the Notebook Check List that was handed our Friday. 
 
Tuesday, Oct. 8 - Students will complete Notebook Test using their notebooks.  Students will receive information on a mini project for Night which will be due Thursday.  Due to tests, mini project and ending the quarter there will be no additional Vocabulary assignment.
 
Wednesday, Oct. 9 - Students will complete Night Test.  They may then work on their mini project.
 
Thursday, Oct. 10 -  Students will have time in class to work on and turn in their mini-project on Night.
 
Friday, Oct. 11 - Students will complete Voc. 8 quiz and then watch the end of Oprah's interview of Elie Wietzel.  End of the Quarter.
Fall Break is next week!

Week of Sept. 30 - Oct. 4

Monday, Sept. 30 - Vocabulary 7 words:  condescend, condole, conducive, consolidate, constitutent, contemptuous, convene, crony, curtail, debase 
Students will complete Voc. 7-2.  Students will finish reading Chpt. 5, pp. 79 - 84, in Night and answer the study guide.  Students will begin reading Chpt. 6, 
 
Tuesday, Oct. 1 -  All 10th students will be taking a Pre-ACT test.  Because of the Pre-ACT test, there will be no additional vocabulary assignment this week.
 
Wednesday, Oct. 2 - Students will review Voc. 7-2.   Students will finish reading Chpt. 6, pp. 90 - 97 and answer the study guide.  Students will take a quiz over Chpts. 5 and 6 of Night.
 
Thursday, Oct . 3 - Students will complete G.W.U. 7-1 and Voc. 7-3  Students will read Chpt. 7,  pp. 98 - 104, and answer the study guide.
 
Friday, Oct. 4 - Students will complete Voc. 7 quiz.   Students will finish reading Night, pp. 104 - 114.  Students will finish answering the study guide. Students will receive a review sheet for Night in order to prepare for the test on Night.  
 
The Night Test will be Tuesday, Oct. 8.   The  Notebook Test will be Wednesday, Oct. 9.
 
 

Voc. 6 - 2 definitions

Coincidental  -   occurring together by accident

 

Colloquial  -  informal in language

 

Commence  -  to begin; to initiate

 

Commendable -  praiseworthy

 

Compassion -  deep sympathy

 

Compatible -  able to get along; agree; harmonious

 

Compliance -  the act of giving in or yielding; to yield

 

Composure - calmness

 

Conceive - to imagine; to understand

 

Concession– the act of granting; something granted