iMovie Due

1. iMovie due today for 75 points
2. Pick up next grammar packet on colons/semicolons

iMovie

1. Complete iMovie in the lab
2. Turn in worksheet on "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
3. Pick up iMovie rubric for grading
4. You can order a personal copy of your iMovie by bringing a blank CD, DVD, or VHS or $1.00.
5. iMovie poems are due by Friday.

Antigone - One Act Play in Auditorium

1. One Act Play in Auditorium – sit in assigned area
2. Pick up brochure for grade and return brochure to me
3. Look at no name papers (over 50 this month)
4. Must take Quiz 1 by Friday
Hour 4 - Cordell, Kate, Rebecca, Sierra
Hour 5 – Becca
Hour 6 – Tenzin and Marcus

iMovie

1. continue iMovie in the lab
2. collect homework on quiz on "We Aren't Superstitious"
3. Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
4. One Act Play in the auditorium tomorrow (Rebecca Share is Antigone and Jason Larson is Creon)

Create iMovie

iMovie
Questions due on “We Aren’t Superstitious”
Take home Quiz – 15 points

Extra Credit

1. Watch the movie Good Night and Good Luck (a movie about Senator McCarthy) and complete the worksheet. You need to rent this movie. Warning: it's in black/white.

2. Watch The History Channel: The Salem Witch Trial and complete the worksheet.

(I have this video or you can download it).

3. Due Friday, February 27th.

Quiz Act I

1. Homework:
· Read “We Aren’t Superstitious” and answer questions
· On flashdrive load pictures and music and poem

2. Watch video Act I
3. Quiz on Act I

The Crucible Act I

1. Make-up Comma Test (1 pt until 80% mastery)
2. Finish reading Act I of The Crucible
3. Quiz on Act I on Friday
4. Journal on Fear
· Fear plays an important role in the play The Crucible. What is your greatest fear? What caused this fear to develop? How does this fear affect your life? Is your fear justifiable or irrational? Explain.

· What do we as a nation fear? What caused these fears to develop? How do these fears affect our country? Are these fears justifiable or irrational?

· What happens to a person or a country when he/she/it makes decisions based on fear? Explain.

Teaching how to make an iMovie

1. Toni Beckler will teach how to make an iMovie
2. I am permanently off jury duty, so we will make iMovies next week
3. Make-up comma test during advisory on Friday
4. Choose a poem to make an iMovie .
5. Select a partner to make an iMovie with.

iMovie Presentation

Presentation by Toni Beckler on iMovie.

Read the Crucible

Tuesday:
1. Finish reading Act I of The Crucible
2. Complete How to be a Witch - p. 179

Comma Quiz

1. HP classes had 50% attendance yesterday
2. Students handed in:
· Journal #1
· Continuum with explanation
· How to be a Witch (if absent, pick up)
3. Today: finish commas, review, take the quiz

Preview to The Crucible

1. Overview of characters
2. Pick reading parts
3. Homework: Journal #1

Preparation for reading The Crucible

1. Select families
2. Choose last name
3. Choose first name
4. Select three rules for the class to follow

5. Review violations citation and trial

6. Review names

7. Pick reading parts

Preparation for The Crucible

Sasse is back. I was called as a prospective juror for a murder trial starting next Tuesday. I am juror 33 out of 50. Only 14 will be chosen to be on the jury. I am being questioned on Thursday, so I will be here teaching on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday this week.

In preparation for being gone next week (if I am not the one of the chosen 14 to be on the murder case, I go back into the jury pool for four days next week), Mr. Bolin will still teach the grammar and I will give the background information on The Crucible so Mr. Bolin can teach The Crucible if I am on the murder case for three weeks.

Commas, Semi-colons/Colons, Apostrophes

Ms. Sasse will be on jury duty all week. Mr. Warren Bolin is the sub.

Commas: Powerpoint, Exercises in grammar book, review game, quiz

Semi-colons/Colons: Powerpoint, exercises in grammar book, review game, quiz

Apostrophes: Powerpoint, notes on overhead, exercises in grammar book, quiz

Mid-tri grades will be posted by Friday, January 16th

Tuesday: Assembly schedule at end of day so a shorter class

Wednesday: Late start of two hours so a shorter class

Create a brochure for The Crucible

1. In pairs select one of 14 topics for the background on The Crucible.
2. In computer room on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday create a brochure with visuals including all important information.
3. Due on Friday by the end of the hour with a rubric attached.

Back Assignments

Friday: December 19
4 typed poems due with rubric stapled on poem to be graded
Frost 4 poems worksheet due

Monday, January 5
Notes on sonnet
Work on Sonnet 18 as a class
Assign groups for sonnet explication - due Tuesday
Extra credit: Write a sonnet to be published in The Calliope

Sonnet Explication Due

Sonnet Explication due today – end of hour
1. Vocabulary/literary device
2. Each line in own words (14 points)
3. Identify 14 lines of sonnet
4. Identify 10 syllables of stress/unstress
5. Identify rhyme scheme
6. Identify three quatrains and couplet
7. Identify the meaning of each quatrain
8. Identify all sources