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August

Date / Activities                               

8/12     

  • Teachers return

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8/13

  • 1/2 day This or That

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8/14     

  1. Seating Chart

  2. Attendance

  3. Syllabus Pamphlet - practice annotation

  4. Device Check in - WiFi and Schoology

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8/15     

  1. 7:50 Senior meeting

  2. Assign Literary Terms Definitions - Due at the beginning of the hour (BOH) on Monday 

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8/16     

  • Begin College Talk - Handout of deadlines

Research review - annotation

  • FAFSA  

     

 

  • Apply through Admissions - 

   

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  • Scholarships - EHS Guidance page

       

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8/19   

  1. Security review 

  2. Literary Terms are due at the beginning of the hour (BOH) - This is a Homework  Grade and cannot be turned in late.          

  3. Google Docs - How to share a document - you will not email it to me

 

 

Google and gmail - How to share a Google doc with me.

           

Format:

1. Google Drive

2. Google Docs

3. New Google Doc

4. Title (upper left Untitled Document) Your Name College Essay Your Hour

5. In document - 

     Your name

     Your hour

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     Your writing prompt

6. When finished - share with me (see above on 8/17)

7.  In the comments section of share - include your name and hour

 

Assign College/Scholarship Essay - Due Thursday 8/22 by 7:00 am via Google Docs - share with me dixieteacher2005@gmail.com

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8/20     

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  • Review Docs

  • Work on College Essay

  • Format:

1. Google Drive

2. Google Docs

3. New Google Doc

4. Title (upper left Untitled Document) Your Name College Essay Your Hour

5. In document - 

     Your name

     Your hour

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     Your writing prompt

6. When finished - share with me (see above on 8/17)

7.  In the comments section of share - include your name and hour

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8/21     

  1. Vocabulary Pretest

  2. In the textbook

    • Begin Anglo-Saxon History Worksheet

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8/22     

  1. First 10 minutes - Code Stay each hour

  2. College letter must be turned in by 7:00am by sharing it with me in Google Docs dixieteacher2005@gmail.com

  3. Finish Anglo-Saxon WS 

 

8/23 

  1. Anglo-Saxon WS is due BOH

  2. Go over WS

  3. Look up definitions for Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary

  4. Anglo Saxon PowerPoint - slides 19, 20 and 21- vocabulary

Oral Poetry

Scop

Heroic Tradition

Elegiac Tradition

Epic

Riddle

Caesure

Kenning

Dialogue

Paradox

Heroic Couplet

Satire

Exemplum

Tone

Quatrain

Meter

Rhyme

Code language

Ballad

hierarchic structure

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5.  Handout - Suggested Author List for Research

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6.  3rd hour - Fire Drill - Wrestling Center - Back section 1st parking spot

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8/26 Monday

  1. Go over Vocabulary Definitions - Post test quiz on 9/06/19

  2. College Talk - Guidance office check in

 

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3.  Anglo Saxon PowerPoint slides 1-4

4.  Cornell Notes Example

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Research review - Cornell Notes

  1. Pages 64-65

  2. Read these pages and take notes in Cornell style.  Look for information on the following themes:

  3. Groups present in England – who / how many?

  4. Language and words – influences and change?

  5. Riddles

  6. Religion

 

8/27      

  1. Anglo Saxon PowerPoint  Slides 5 - 17

  2. Bede's "A History of the English Church and People"

  3. Read pages 60-62 - Due Thursday 8/29 BOH

  • Read “A History…” on pages 60-62

  • Take notes on history in Cornell style

  • Research Review – Cornell Notes

  • Possible key points

    • Albion details

    • Location

    • Livestock

    • Land

    • Weather

    • Languages and nations

    • Inhabitants

  • Ireland

Work on pages 64-65 must be in Cornell Notes

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8/28  

  • Grade / check  pages 64-65 notes - must be in Cornell style (all parts-unit name, name and date; key points; notes on key points; and summary)

  • Continue working on Pages 60-62 and define the following poetry terms

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8/29

 

  • Anglo Saxon PowerPoint 

  • slides 17,18 and 22,23  

  • “The Seafarer” page 12

Read

Re-read

Planctus – a complaint

Now you go.

Identify examples

1. plantus

2. elegy

3. Kenning (hint it is on page 15)

4. of being alone, isolation

write down line number and the words in the line

Research review - note-taking, facts and citations 

 

For the history section of our textbook

Babusci, Roger, and Andrew W. Conrad. Prentice Hall Literature: the British Tradition. Prentice Hall, 1994.

Here is the citation...

(Babusci and Conrad 334).

For the literature use the author and title of the literature

("The Seafarer" 13)

("The Wanderer" 53)

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8/30

  • Post test vocabulary test - MOVED to 09/06/19

  • Seafarer facts due BOH

  • Finish working on "The Seafarer"

  • Go over the Seafarer examples

Identify examples

1. plantus

2. elegy

3. Kenning (hint it is on page 15)

4. of being alone, isolation

write down line number and the words in the line

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  • Discuss - elegy

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Research review - Citing your works

In our textbook - can use either the history section

or the actual literary piece

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http://www.citationmachine.net/

1. Create citation

2. MLA

3. Choose type of source (book - use ISBN number)

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For the historical facts use the textbook ISBN number

Koelsch, Nanette, et al. Prentice Hall Literature. Prentice Hall, 1994.

(Koelsch, et al. page number)

For the literature use the author and title of the literature

("The Seafarer" 13)

("The Wanderer" 53)

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Review paragraph structure-

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  1. Topic sentence - Tells the topic of the paragraph (your words)

  2. Facts - citations (facts that prove and support your topic sentence) AND explain the facts importance.

  3. Summary sentence - remind them what you told them about in the paragraph.

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Read "The Wanderer" twice

Theme is exile

Find 5 examples of exile

Research review - literary analysis - theme and paragraph structure review

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9/2

Labor Day - no school

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