Mrs. Durham
Carol
Durham 2007-08
Please contact me at 358-2210, x 890 or email caroldurham@clevelandtigers.com
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English IIIA: (pass objectives already listed on Honors work plan)
Week 1: Introduction to Colonial literature—Jonathan Edwards & Puritan documentary, vocabulary over Crucible
Essay assignment: crucible/lesson learned
Week 2:
Acts 1 and 2 of The Crucible
Assign Crucible project
Week 3:
Crucible vocabulary test
Acts 3 and 4 of the play
Week 4 (two days)
Review & take test over the Crucible
Week 5 (after Thanksgiving break):
Notes over Holocaust and Night
Documentary with Elie Wiesel
Begin Night
Week 6:
Finish Night, review & test
Week 7:
Schindler’s List
Revolutionary Period in lit
Week 8:
Early National period in American lit
Week 9:
Flannery O’Conner
Week 10:
Honors English 3A work
plan:
August-September:
Parallel structure (PASS WRIT/GR #3)
Colonial Lit—introduction & J. Edwards “Sinners….” (
Narrative essays back—revisions due Sept. 3 (PASS WR 1)
Continue colonial lit introduction (documentary &
notes); connect modern selection Crucible to colonial & modern themes
(McCarthyism) (PASS RD 3)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller Act I (
Research project:
select the Salem Witchcraft Trials or McCarthy Era—. (PASS WR 2/
.
Presentation over
your topic (can be in the form of a taped news broadcast, documentary, or live
PowerPoint. May. (PASS
Vocab test over 60 crucible words (PASS RD 1);
Crucible essay (Pass RD 2, WR 2)
Discuss & Review Crucible’s major literary techniques
& elements (dramatic and situational irony, characterization, dynamic vs.
static characters, paradox, themes, conflicts) and the ultimate purpose of this
work of literature as it connects colonial American issues to 20th century
issues. (
Grammar: Using phrases & clauses to avoid run-ons and
fragments and provide sentence variety, s-v agreement, misplaced & dangling
modifiers, pronoun-antecedent agreement
( (PASS
WR/GR 1 and 3)
October-November:
Flannery O’Conner—“The Life You Save” – page 7 ---together
read and discuss (PASS RD 2, 3, OR 1, 2)
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” –homework.
Compare/contrast the two stories (PASS RD 2, 3, R 1, 2)
Read “Good Country People”—discuss
Essay: Literary
analysis comparing similar theme, technique, or element in these three stories
(or other works of O’Conner)---due Monday, Oct. 15.
(PASS WR 1, 2, 3, and RD 2, 3, 4)
Revolutionary Age—themes, authors, Ben Franklin selections
(PASS RD 2, 3, OR 1, 2)
Early National—William Cullen Bryant “Thanatopsis”
(together) & Washington Irving “The Devil & Tom Walker” (assign)
Discuss
Night----Elie Wiesel/
Holocaust literature (Oct. 6-14 & Oct. 20-24)
Shindler’s List.
Rhetorical analysis selection 1 (RD 2, 3 and WR 1, 2)
Grammar: sentence
structure, punctuation – review (PASS WR/GR
Honors English III B (third trimester)
Week 1
Brave New World—Foreward & chapter 1-3 (p56)—Read by Tuesday, March 4.
Remainder of book by Monday, March 24 (after spring break)
Latin Roots tests 1
Documentary projects due March 7
Week 2
Brave New World—discuss, test
Latin Roots 4
Synthesis essay & MLA format: paraphrasing, summarizing, plagiarizing Topic: gene research
Assign: “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” & Mark Twain selections (cover Realism)
Introduce Transcendentalism (Emerson) (
(Thoreau) (
Dead Poet’s Society as a representation of Transcendental concepts (PASS VIS 1, 2)
Review Transcendentalism; add Whitman & Dickinson
writings (PASS RD 2, 3 and ORAL 1, 2)
Poe introduction (PASS RD 2, 3)
Hitchcock connection (PASS VIS 2, 3)
March 31-April 4—Modern Poetry & short stories
“A Rose for Emily”
“The Story of an Hour”
“We Wear the Mask”
“Richard Cory”
“If We Must Die”
“I, Too”
“Ode to my Socks”
“Ars Poetica”
Robert Frost selections
Sonnet -749
“Mirror”
“Traveling through the Woods”
Writing/Grammar:
Active-passive voice, commonly misspelled words
April 7-11
The Scarlet Letter-begin
Persuasive Writing – begin
April 21-25:
Scarlet letter chap. 1-5 video
Scarlet Letter Chapters 9-12
Presentation: Symbolic personal letters (4/22)
Satires due: 4/23
EOI Practice Test
April 28-May 2
Monday: Scarlet Letter Chapter 13-14 discussion
Tuesday: EOI mc test
Wed: Scarlet Letter Chp. 15-16
Thursday: Sc. L.—video clips
Thurs/Fri: Trifles---read and discuss
May 5-9
Finish Scarlet Letter
Do body bio presentations & review
Notes for Gone With the Wind & handout
May 12—Scarlet Letter Test
May 13-16: Gone with the Wind video plus questions
May 19-Gone with the Wind review and test
Publications:
Publications
class PASS standards covered:
RDG 1:
Vocabulary---pertaining to journalism techniques
RDG 4: Research—for
writing in-depth Tiger’s Tale articles
RDG 2: Critiquing
each issue of Tiger’s Tale
Writ/Gram 1/3:
creating & revising drafts of pages for newspaper & yearbook
Writ/Gram 2: writing articles for various sections of the
newspaper (opinion, factual, feature, entertainment, sports)
Oral Lang/List 1
& 2: advanced students working with new students learning the program,
demonstrating techniques utilized in our products (student & teacher
demonstrations)
Vis Literacy 2/3:
Creating podcasts & yearbook video
Week 1:
Go over program
details for new students
Assign yearbook
spreads, Tiger’s Tale pages, and yearbook video work
Demonstrations:
Assigning templates & pictures to your yearbook page, using Walsworth’s Photoshop enhancement techniques, designing a
page,
Examine current
pages of yearbook & Tiger’s Tale for examples
Week 2:
page design---share
various sample layouts
Yearbook video
(for students who will be working on this project): view in-progress video, demonstrate how to use the program
Interviewing—group
interview (may do week 1 or week 3, depending on availability of interviewee)
Themes &
covers—discuss & create potential ones
Ad sales
Week 3:
Ad sales
Feature
writing---what to do with the interview information
Work on
individual assignments
Indesign & Photoshop
techniques---demonstrate
Week 4:
TTAle pages due Monday
New version of
Online Design – demonstration (Robin Grissom)
Practice Indesign
Create ads &
try to wrap up ad invoices & copy
Week 5:
Ttale revisions
Create templates for
yearbook pages
Organize picture
folders in network computer folders
Edit pictures for
red eye, color correction, sharpness
Plan next TTale articles
Week 6:
Work on
individual pages & practice computer programs
(Photoshop/Indesign/Online Design)
Drama
Week 1 & 2:
improvisation #1
Voice flexibility
& projection exercises
Monologue #1 –
prepare
Week 3:
Present
monologues
Critique
monologues
Continue voice
exercises
Week 4:
Mirror paired
activity
Select duet or
monologues for next performance
Read “The Perfect
Idiot” (play)
Week 5:
Improvisations
(Monday & Wednesday)
Practice
duet/monologue #2
Drama analysis
(Tuesday & Thursday)
Week 6:
Duet/monologue #2
performances
Performance
projects—select & begin to practice
Pantomimes—create
& begin to practice
Week 7:
Skit
writing---prepare a 3-4 person performance skit from a story
Performance
Practice
Each week: continue voice exercises, short improvisation
activities
October:
Plan variety
show; assign various parts
Performance will
be Oct. 29
Oct. 30-Nov. 4:
Critique
performance (watch video of it)
Prepare final:
Final: individual monologue 1 ½-3 minutes in length