English I - 1st period
Click on the links below to navigate through vocabulary help, grammar practice, monthly calendar, and more.
For help with your weekly vocabualry, please go to www.sadlier-oxford.com where you can find games to help test your knowledge.
For help with grammar, please go to www.chompchomp.com and get immediate feedback on grammar questions!
Writing a paper and need to know what MLA style is or how to write a clear thesis? Visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/05/ for help with all of your writing needs.
Click on the web address below and see a calendar for planned weekly assignments, quizzes, tests, etc.
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For help with your weekly vocabualry, please go to www.sadlier-oxford.com where you can find games to help test your knowledge.
For help with grammar, please go to www.chompchomp.com and get immediate feedback on grammar questions!
Writing a paper and need to know what MLA style is or how to write a clear thesis? Visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/05/ for help with all of your writing needs.
Click on the web address below and see a calendar for planned weekly assignments, quizzes, tests, etc.
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Planned Monthly Curriculums
Each month I plan to cover a certain amount of material. The following is a projected timeline of when and what different units will be covered. "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." - Robert Burns For a more detailed calendar of when specific items within the unit are due, please see the calendar on SnapGrades or my Google calendar.
Jan - Feb Introduction to the short story, fiction, and nonfiction. Literary terms, grammar, and writing.
SCOS Goals:1.01,1.02,2.01,3.03,3.04,4.01,4.03,5.01,5.03,6.01,6.02
Feb- Mar: Romeo and Juliet, elements of drama; weekly vocabulary units from Sadlier-Oxford, grammar exercises, writing, and daily practice which reflects reaching the goals of the course in addition to the needs to progress in the course for the next four years.
SCOS Goals:1.01,1.02,1.03,2.02,2.04,4.01,5.01,5.02,5.03,5.03,5.04,6.01,6.02
Mar-Apr: Poetry, Poetry Out Loud, short story, the novel (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee), writing, grammar, and weekly vocabulary work.
SCOS Goals: 1.01,1.02,1.03,2.02,6.01,6.02,5.02,5.03,4.01,30.1,3.02,3.03
Apr-May: Finish the novel and begin the epic tale The Odyssey with connections to Oh Brother, Where art Thou? Continued weekly grammar, writing, and vocabulary.
SCOS Goals: 1.02,3.01,4.02,5.01,6.01
May-June: Independent novel and exam review
SCOS Goals:
Jan - Feb Introduction to the short story, fiction, and nonfiction. Literary terms, grammar, and writing.
SCOS Goals:1.01,1.02,2.01,3.03,3.04,4.01,4.03,5.01,5.03,6.01,6.02
Feb- Mar: Romeo and Juliet, elements of drama; weekly vocabulary units from Sadlier-Oxford, grammar exercises, writing, and daily practice which reflects reaching the goals of the course in addition to the needs to progress in the course for the next four years.
SCOS Goals:1.01,1.02,1.03,2.02,2.04,4.01,5.01,5.02,5.03,5.03,5.04,6.01,6.02
Mar-Apr: Poetry, Poetry Out Loud, short story, the novel (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee), writing, grammar, and weekly vocabulary work.
SCOS Goals: 1.01,1.02,1.03,2.02,6.01,6.02,5.02,5.03,4.01,30.1,3.02,3.03
Apr-May: Finish the novel and begin the epic tale The Odyssey with connections to Oh Brother, Where art Thou? Continued weekly grammar, writing, and vocabulary.
SCOS Goals: 1.02,3.01,4.02,5.01,6.01
May-June: Independent novel and exam review
SCOS Goals: