Quarter 1
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WEEK 1 |
Date
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Presentation & Handouts
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What We Did
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Reminders
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Monday
8.19
and
Tuesday
8.20
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- Syllabus Review (Day 1 of 2)
- Course Overview
- Required Materials
- Rules
- Calendar
- Summer Reading Information and Deadlines
- "Voices from the Past"
- Code of Conduct Review
- Syllabus Review (Day 2 of 2)
- Grading Procedures
- Missed / Late Work Policy
- Revising Assignments
- Classroom Tour
- Mr. Hampton's Life
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- All materials are due by Tuesday, 8.27 or Wednesday, 8.28. Special accommodations can be made, but must be discussed with Hampton prior to Friday. Minimum of paper and pencil are required for Tuesday to Thursday.
- Summer Reading must be completed no later than Tuesday, 9.3.
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Wednesday
8.21
and
Thursday
8.22
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- Picture Day (3:00)
- Textbook Pickup Day
- Notes: "How to Take Notes"
- Notes: Moral dilemmas
- Solo: Answer moral dilemmas
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- If absent, please stop by the textbook room before or after school.
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Friday
8.23
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- Notes: Web Resources
- Notes: Study Guides
- Notes: The Hampton System (Part I)
- Brainstorm Rewards
- Register for Schoology
- Free-write: Experiences in English
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- All materials are due by Tuesday, 8.27 or Wednesday, 8.28.
- Summer Reading must be completed no later than Tuesday, 9.3.
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WEEK 2 |
Monday
8.26
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- Notes: Web Resources
- Notes: Study Guides
- Notes: The Hampton System (Part I)
- Register for Schoology
- Free-write: Experiences in English
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- All materials are due by Tuesday, 8.27 or Wednesday, 8.28.
- Summer Reading must be completed no later than Tuesday, 9.3.
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Tuesday
8.27
and
Wednesday
8.28
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- Point System Begins
- Materials Check
- Finalized Rewards List
- Word Part of the Day Introduction
- Organize Duotang sections
- Rubrics Review
- Notes: Hampton System (Part II)
- Desk Olympics
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Thursday
8.29
and
Friday
8.30
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- First Teams
- First Team Builder
- Notes: Cooperative Learning
- Teams: Practice Structures
- NEW Language Analysis Study Guide
- Teams: Work on preparation for Summer Reading exam (will be next week)
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- Summer Reading must be completed no later than Tuesday, 9.3.
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WEEK 3 |
Tuesday
9.3
and
Wednesday
9.4
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- Summer Reading Exam
- Notes: Good Reading Practices
- Activator: Basketball Bounces
- Notes / Discuss: The AICE Language Exam, Workbook Password
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Thursday
9.5
and
Friday
9.6
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- Activator: The Power of Words / Dead Poets Society
- Read: Literary Criticism, Formalism
- Notes: Literary Criticism, Formalism, Denotation/Connotation
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WEEK 4 |
Monday
9.9
and
Tuesday
9.10
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- Discussion: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- Team Builder #1: Uncommon Commonalities
- Teams: Practice Advertisements
- Notes: Word Connotations
- Teams: Practice Word Connotations
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- Make sure notebook is in order; your quiz is Wednesday/Thursday.
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Wednesday
9.11
and
Thursday
9.12
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- Early Release Day (Wednesday)
- Quiz #1
- Notes: Tone / Mood
- Teams: Practice Passages & Mix Music Meet
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Friday
9.13
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- Return New Grades
- Grammar Time #1: That vs. Which
- Teams: Practice Passages & Mix Music Meet
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WEEK 5 |
Monday
9.16
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- Hampton Off Campus (in Gainesville)
- Essay Prompt: "If you could be a fly on the wall to observe any situation--
historical, personal, or otherwise--describe what you would choose to observe and why. What would you hope to learn and how would it benefit you?"
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Tuesday
9.17
and
Wednesday
9.18
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- Big Circle Discussion: Shooting an Elephant
- Writing Exercise: Practice Composition
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- Finish practice composition
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Thursday
9.19
and
Friday
9.20
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- Quiz #2
- Read / Discuss: Shopping for Stories
- Practice Composition
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- Finish practice composition
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WEEK 6 |
Monday
9.23
and
9.24
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- Teams: Finish Shopping for Stories Composition
- Notes: How to Grade Compositions
- Teams: Grading Compositions
- Grammar Time #2: Its vs. It's vs. Its'
- Read: Venice Travel Journal
- 6th period, add:
- Return New Grades
- Grammar Time #1: That vs. Which
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Wednesday
9.25
and
Thursday
9.26
and
Friday
9.27
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- Early Release Day (Wed)
- Read: Does He Mean That?
- Team Builder: Team Names / Celebrations
- Notes: Figurative Language
- Revisit: Shooting an Elephant, Shopping for Stories, Venice Travel Journal
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WEEK 7 |
Monday
9.30
and
Tuesday
10.1
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- Notes: Descriptive Language
- Teams: Six Degree Challenge
- Notes: Part B Writing
- Read: Town Bombing
- Solo: Practice Part B from Town Bombing
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- Finish Part B Practice if not complete in class
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Wednesday
10.2
and
Thursday
10.3
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- GT #3: Who vs. Whom
- Team Builder: Placemat Consensus
- Read: Dining Experience
- Teams: Practice Part A/B
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Friday
10.4
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- Quiz #3
- Activator: Speeches
- Notes: Rhetorical Devices
- Read / Discuss: Yes We Can
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WEEK 8 |
Monday
10.7
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- Quiz #3
- Activator: Speeches
- Notes: Rhetorical Devices
- Read / Discuss: Yes We Can
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Tuesday
10.8
and
Wednesday
10.9
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- GT #4: I vs. Me
- Review: Previous Compositions
- Quiz, Quiz Trade
- Prepare for Exam
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- Prepare for Exam (Part I)
- See YouTube channel for review on Part A, introduction to Language Analysis, etc.
- Part II (due on Schoology by Sunday, 11:59 pm). See Schoology site for more information.
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Thursday
10.10
and
Friday
10.11
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- Part II (due on Schoology by Sunday, 11:59 pm). See Schoology site for more information.
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WEEK 9 |
Monday
10.14
and
Tuesday
10.15
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- Return Grades
- GT #5: Effect or Affect?
- Notes: MLA Style
- LaD Signups
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- Deadline for revised work: Friday, 10.18.
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Wednesday
10.16
and
Thursday
10.17
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- Activator: "No Man is an Island"
- Notes: Lord of the Flies, New Criticisms
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Friday
10.18
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- All Revised Work is Due
- Homecoming has cancelled class on this day.
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