1/4:    Civil disobedience
           Oedipus myth
           Antigone (lit. books)
           Correct punctuation homework

1/6:    Late start day
           Punctuation Test
           Antigone

1/10:  Vocabulary Test #7
           Antigone

1/12:  Antigone
           Review for finals

1/14:  Antigone Test
           Review for finals

1/19:  Periods 0, 1, 3 finals
1/20:  Periods 0, 2, 4 finals
1/21:  Periods 5 and 6 finals
Dismissal at 12:40 during finals

1/25   New seats and vocab. lists
           Prepositional phrases (418-426)
           Discuss prejudice

1/27   Participial phrases (427-431)
           Start School Ties (film)

1/31   Late Start Day
           Finish and discuss film
           Gerund phrases (431-435

2/2     Infinitive phrases (435-38)
           Check out To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM)
           BRING NOVELS TO CLASS EVERY DAY.
           Discuss chapter assignments
           Vocabulary Test #8 CHANGE!

2/4      Appositive phrases (441-445)
           TKAM quiz, chs. 1-3

2/8      Review phrases
           TKAM quiz, chs. 4-6

2/10    Phrase Test
            TKAM chs. 7-9 quiz and assignment
          

2/14    TKAM chs. 10-11 quiz and assignment

2/16    TKAM chs. 12-15 quiz and assignment

2/18    TKAM chs. 16-20 quiz and assignment
            Vocabulary Test #9 (MOVED TO 2/21)

2/21    SCHOOL HOLIDAY

2/23    TKAM chs. 21-24 quiz and assignment
            Vocabulary Test #9.

2/25    TKAM chs. 25-27 quiz and assignment
      
          

3/1:   TKAM chs. 28-31
          Work on essays

3/3:   Typed thesis and statements of organization are due.
         TKAM Socratic Seminar

3/7:   TKAM Test
          First draft of essay is due; peer editing

3/9:   Vocabulary Test #10
          Watch TKAM film
          Essay help

3/11:   Final draft of essay is due; submit to turnitin.com
            Finish TKAM film
            Grammar:  semicolons (624-630)

3/15:   Life Lessons booklets are due
            Grammar:  colons (632-637)
            "Marigolds"

3/17:   Colon/Semicolon Test
            Short Story Assignment (Bring lit. books)
            Check out The Chosen


3/21:    "The Cold Equations" (7) Read before class.
            Grammar:  clauses (450-452)

3/23:    Late Start
            Grammar:  adjective clauses (450-455)
            Work in short story groups.

3/25:   Vocabulary Test #11
            Grammar:  adverb clauses (455-458)
            Group work

3/29:`  Grammar:  noun clauses and sentence structure
            (458-9, 463-66)
            Short Story TBA

3/31:   Grammar:  review clauses (467-71)
            Group work

Short story presentations on April 6 and 8


           

4/4      Clause Test
            Short Story Presentations

4/6 and 4/8    Short Story Presentations

4/12    Short Story Terms Test
            The Chosen Socratic Seminar
            Select new novels

4/14    Write The Chosen essays in class
            Assign new novels

SPRING BREAK!

4/25    The Chosen Test
            Turn in novels
            Grammar:  End Marks (596-605)

4/27    Bring new novels for group work.
            Commas (605-613)
            Meet with counselors

4/29    Vocabulary Test #12
            Commas (613-620)
            The Business Letter

5/2      Business letter is due
            Review commas and end marks.
            Discuss definition paper
            Read novels.

5/5       Comma/End Mark Test
            Modifier Usage (541-549)
            Read novels

5/9        Vocabulary Test #13
            Modifier Usage (549-556)
            Read novels

5/11    Lit. Circle #1
            Modifier Usage Test
            Read novels

5/12-16    STAR Testing

5/18    Definition paper is due (turnitin.com)
            Intro. to Our Town, gratitude journals
            Read novels

5/20    Lit. Circle #2
            Discuss description paper
            Read novels.

5/24    Our Town
            Read novels

5/26    Our Town
            Vocabulary Test #14
            Description paper is due.

5/30:    School Holiday

5/31:    Lit. Circle #3
            Our Town Act III

6/2:    Our Town Film

6/6:    Finish film/discuss
          Test on outside novel
           Review for finals

6/8:    Our Town Test   
            Review for finals

6/10    Vocab. Test #15
            Gratitude journals are due
            Review finals

6/15:    Period 2 final

6/17:`    Period 6 final

HAPPY SUMMER!