Book List for Book Trailer

Book list for Book trailer

BOOK TRAILER PROJECT

Book trailer uploading instructions--Note correct class section

Note: May 2-6--finish book trailer project and view
Course survey

May 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
9
College essays introduced, explained / 10
Silas Marner / 11
Mrs. Hauer, book talk / 12
COW / 13
College essay 1 workshop
16
Silas Marner / 17
Silas Marner / 18
Independent read / 19
Silas Marner / 20
College essay 2 workshop
23
Silas Marner / 24
Silas Marner / 25
Independent read / 26
COW / 27
College essay 3 workshop
30
Memorial Day; no school / 31
Silas Marner / 6/1
Independent read / 2
Silas Marner / 3
College essay 4 workshop;

April 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
4
Skipping with Shakespeare / 5
Skipping with Shakespeare / 6
1 Poem 1 Stoga / 7
MND I.i.
Book trailer script due / 8
MND I
11
MND video I / 12
MND II / 13
MND II / 14
COW
Book trailer image list due / 15
MND II
18
MND III / 19
MND III / 20
MND IV / 21
MND IV
Book trailer storyboard due / 22
MND V
25
Book trailer—iPad/iMovie / 26
In-service; no students / 27
Book trailer—iPad/iMovie / 28
Book trailer—iPad/iMovie / 29
Book trailer—iPad/iMovie

March 2016

7 Into the Woods; viewer response journal; issuePart-Time Indianand reading sequence / 8 Into the Woods;viewer response journal—reading check Wednesday;
Story patterns / 9 Into the Woods;viewer response journal; reading check 1-66 / 10 Into the Woods; viewer response journal; folk tale story patterns—short storyassignment;
COW--EC / 11 Part-time Indianreading check 2 (67-113); Stereotypes (handout)
14 Reading day—Part-time Indianor chosen novel / 15Part-time Indianreading check 3 (114-168) / 16Smoke Signals(1 & 2); pd 4—268, in-school fieldtrip / 17Part-Time Indianreading check 4 (169-230);Smoke Signals / 18 Folk tale story due;Smoke Signals
21 Spring / 22 Break / 23 all / 24 week / 25 long
28 In-service;
no students / 29 “The Four Fists” Fitzgerald (handout) / 30 Book trailers—assignment explained / 31 COW / 4/1 Skipping with Shakespeare

February 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
25
SNOW / 26
SNOW / 27
2-hr delay; speed-date & choose novel / 28
COW
Truth in Fiction / 29
“The Fool and the Flying Ship”; supplementary books assigned,assignmentsexplained
2/1
Reading day; historicalcontext / 2
“East of the Sun, West of the Moon”—identify pattern, similarities / 3
Story motifs
Foster “HanseldumGreteldee” / 4
Bettelheim Introduction; story patterns and purpose / 5
Cisneros “Name”
8
Reading day; samplenote(task 1, 15 notes due 2/16). / 9
Mango Street;
Historical context worksheetdue / 10
Icarus & Daedalus—Bruegel, Auden, Abse / 11
COW / 12
Mango Streetreading check 1 p. 3-52
15
Presidents’ Day
No School / 16
Reading day;
15 footnotesdue / 17
Mango Streetgeography and themes / 18
Blake—Innocence and Experience / 19
Giovanni “Nikki-Rose”; Hayden “Those Winter Sundays”; Olds “The One Girl”; Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
22
Reading day / 23
Mango Streetreading check 2 p. 53-110; more poems
Essayexplained / 24
Mango Streetmap-making; Book review/lit critdue / 25
COW / 26
Mango Streetmap-making
29
15 footnotesdue / 3/1
Mango Streetmap presentations / 2
Essaydue / 3
Part-Time Indianand supplemental reading (YA) / 4
Reading day

January 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
4
Synthesis essay—plan/mapassignment / 5
Synthesis essay—in class / 6
Essay—in class / 7
Synthesis essay due / 8
“Sending Women to War”Time14 Dec. 15
11
“Chickamauga” / 12
Supplementary novel project DUE--turnitin / 13
Last things—The Sun Also Risesandindependent reading / 14
COW (3rdmp)
Extra credit project due--turnitin / 15
Reading/review day
18
MLK holiday / 19
Reading/review day / 20
Social Studies
English
Mid-term exams / 21
Science
Math
Mid-term exams / 22
World Language
Conflict exams

December 2015

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
11/30
Parent Conferences, no students / 12/1
The Sun Also Risesguide questions chap. 1-7 / 2
Supplement novel—group discussion/
Independent reading / 3
COW / 4
Vera Britten “Youth”
7
Sunthrough chap. 11; extra credit explained / 8
Sunchap. 12; project explained--anno biblioandextra credit / 9
Independent—supplement reading & discussion / 10
WWI poems / 11
Sunthrough chap. 14
14
Sunthrough chap. 17 / 15
Sunchap. 18 / 16
Independent supplement
Reading & discussion / 17
COW / 18
Sunfinish
21
Casablanca / 22
Casablanca / 23
Casablanca / 24
Christmas Break / 25
Christmas break

November 2015

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
2
Essay work day / 3
Election Day—no students / 4
Odyssey essay due
“Odysseus in America” excerpt / 5
Great Books—King Arthur / 6
Great Books King Arthur
9
“Tale of the Sangreal” Malory / 10
“Back from War” NYTimes / 11
Grail--Malory / 12
COW / 13
Grail--Malory
JourneyTale
DUE 11/23
16
Mars—Holst, Mozart; Barber-- Adagio; Albinoni-- Adagio / 17
Hemingway biography (video on demand);
The Sun Also Rises / 18
The Sun Also Rises / 19
Supplemental text chosen / 20
The Sun Also Rises
23
Reading day (supplemental text) / 24
PMA Field trip / 25
Thanksgiving break / 26
Thanksgiving / 27
Thanksgiving break

October 19-30

Mon 10/19—The Odysseybook 22

Tues. 10/20—The Odysseybook 23, summary book 24

Wed. 10/21—poems inspired byThe Odyssey, poetic effects; creative writing (due 11/4)

Thurs. 10/22—archetypes

Fri. 10/23—hospitality, authority of women—text

Mon. 10/26—essay 1 assign, plan, draft (work from Fri. 10/23)

Tues. 10/27-Fri. 10/30—O Brother, Where Art Thou—parallels and archetypes

w/o 10/12-16/2015

ØMonday 10/12—TheOdyssey, Book 17 (McKellan); homework

ØTuesday 10/13—The Odyssey18.1-390; 19.1-440

ØWednesday 10/14—PSAT, no period 1,2

ØThursday 10/15—COW

ØFriday 10/16—The Odyssey, Book 21

Comparative Literature Accelerated

Week of October 5:

Mon 10/5--Book 11 (homework)--the Underworld

Tues. 10/6--Book 12 (homework)--Sun God's cattle

Wed. 10/7--Work day (read or children's book)

Thurs. 10/8--Book 13-14 homecoming, Tennyson

Fri. 10/9--Book 14, 15.555-end

Tasks and values:

COW—Criterion online writing—20 points each

Classwork/homework—points/task.

*homework—45 points (3 points each/15 submissions)—finish reading book started in class; submit to teacher page: unfamiliar vocabulary; 1 question; 1 quotation; 15-word summary of that book.

Literary tropes (Bloom’s)—25 points (research task) + 15 points—class (oral) explanation