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CP English 11: Term 1 Archive of Weekly Syllabi
Below is a list of assignments and assessments completed thus far in the current marking period.
If you missed a class or an assignment, this archive, along with your X2 online grade report, will give you the opportunity to discover what you missed. It will also provide with the resources to complete all the work that can possibly be completed outside of class.
Weekly Syllabus
This syllabus is from the week of...
No School: Hurricane Eileen
Welcome to Junior Year and College Prep. English 11
Begin working with vocab. logs by uploading the Term 1 Vocab. Log to Google Apps (see network drive).
Using The Natural, begin adding two "Words in Context" to your vocab. log. To learn how to do this, see this link.
The Natural
Yearbook Photo Day
Share & discuss responses to reading.
Continue reading and responding to The Natural Continue reading and responding to The Natural: pages 103- 117 and complete an open reader's response (Entry#6).
This week, add two more "Words in Context" from The Natural to your vocab. log. This will bring your total number of vocab. log entries to four(4). Due date: Wednesday, 9/28/11
Learn how to use Google Apps to "share" your vocab. log with Mrs. Juster.
Independent reading and responding to The Natural - see reading schedule.
Complete work not completed in class - see reading schedule. Continue work on your vocab. log- two "Words in Context" from The Natural - bringing the total # of words to 4.
The Natural&Writing Workshop
Tracking Thoreau Rain Delay to Next Week
Choose one of the prompts below:
As The Natural comes to its conclusion, I imagine the ending will…
If I could write the ending of The Natural, I would …
By the end of the novel, I hope that Memo will…
By the end of the novel, I hope that Roy will…
Respond to this prompt and follow your ideas wherever they lead. Write without stopping for five full minutes.
Save your prompt response as "Discovery Draft # 1- The Natural" and upload it to your digital portfolio at www.turnitin.com.
Explore and discuss the "text to text" connections between The Natural and "Homer at the Bat", an episode from the Simpsons:
Continue reading and responding to The Natural - see reading schedule.
Complete work not completed in class - see reading schedule. Finish work on your vocab. log- two "Words in Context" from The Natural (bringing the total # of terms in your vocab. log to 4).
Download and print Discovery Draft # 1 for The Natural.
Writing Workshop
Review your viewing journal/prompt responses for The Natural (film version) and your Discovery Draft # 1.
Highlight ideas that you want to explore further.
Choose one of these highlighted ideas as the starting point for your first rough draft.
Now create a rough draft of your reflection paper. (Be sure to follow the formatting guidelines.)
Before the end of class, either print your rough draft in progress orupload your draft to your Google Apps account so you can continue to work on it at home.
Revise & edit your rough draft to create the final draft of your reflection paper on The Natural.
Before the end of class, print a hard copy of your final draft in progressand upload it your Google Apps account so you can continue to work on it at home. Don't forget to share it with Mrs. Juster.
Download your Finaldraft in progress from your Google Apps . Finish it, save it and then upload it your portfolio at www.turnitin.com before 11:59 pm on Monday, October 24th.
This lesson and related assignments will be scored as Term 2.
Tracking Thoreau
What kind of detail should be in your nature journal entry? Click here and see an example of an "A" nature journal entry.
Click here and see the scoring rubric for nature journal entries.
Complete viewer's response/journal# 1 by responding to the following prompt/questions: What is Abby’s motivation? Why is she doing what she is doing? What is her primary goal? Review Abby’s lines at the bottom page 1268 and Abby’s conversation with John Proctor on pages 1269 – 1271.
