1. August Plans 2nd, 4th, 5th Periods
Pre AP English II
August Plans
2nd, 4th, 5th Periods

2. Welcome Shaw Raiders!
Pre AP English II

3. Welcome to Shaw! It’s great to be a Shaw Raider!
Agenda: August 10, 2015
Do now: What are your goals for this year?
List at least one academic and one extracurricular goal on a post-it note!
About ME
Crisis/ Emergency information
Procedure Practice
Welcome to Shaw!
It’s great to be a Shaw Raider!
Today’s Standards:
ELACC9/10W4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which W1-3 are appropriate to task and audience.
ELACC9/10SL1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of group (collaborative) discussions

4. All About that Bass

5. In case of an emergency

6. Ways to Pass the Bass Show up prepared! Do your work! Participate!
Be honest.
Take responsibility.
Don’t complain!

7. Do Now: Use your device to identify John Green. What has he written?
August 11, 2015
YOU MADE IT THROUGH YOUR FIRST DAY! Congratulations!
Do Now: Use your device to identify John Green. What has he written?
John Green Youtube Video: Take notes and identify anything that you may find important or interesting.
RULES Discussion
Syllabus and Procedures

8. It’s great to be a SHAW RAIDER!
Respect yourself and your future.
Respect your fellow students and their right to learn.
Respect your teacher.
Respect your school’s property and community.
It’s great to be a SHAW RAIDER!
Class Guidelines

9. August 12, 2015
DO NOW: POP QUIZ!!!! BUHAHAHAHHAHAHAH! (Mrs. Bass’s evil laugh)
Quietly answer these questions on a sheet of paper. Do not share your answers!
Where do you turn in late work?
If you turn in an unexcused, late assignment, what is the percentage taken off?
Where did Mrs. Bass grow up?
Where can you keep your cell phone?
Where do you go if there is a fire drill?
Where do you go for a tornado drill?
What is Mrs. Bass’s biggest pet peeve?
Who is the most important person in this classroom?

10. August 13, 2015
Do Now: It is important to be able to know your weaknesses so you can work to improve them. What would you say is a weakness in your schooling? How can you improve it?
Agenda:
Remind 101
Hall Passes and Praise Points
“About Me” handout
Reminder: Your signed syllabus is due tomorrow!

12. August 14, 2015 Write a six word memoir. Example: Mrs. Bass-
Do Now:
Agenda:
Write a six word memoir.
Example: Mrs. Bass-
Staying sassy while keeping it classy.
Turn in syllabus
“About Me” worksheet
Pair and Share your summer story OR your “Who I Am” worksheet.
Dear Future Me

13. Dear Future Me,
Your assignment is to compose a letter to your future self. Be creative with your writing and write neatly. You must answer each topic fully. Feel free to decorate your letter!
Things to include in your letter:
What are your current academic and social goals?
What activities and people are important in your life? 
What are your current likes and dislikes?
Where do you see yourself at the end of the year?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years, and what do you think you will be doing?

14. August 17, 2015 Today’s Standards:
Agenda:
Turn in your “About Me” worksheet and “Future Me” letter.
Do Now
Book Report Information
Due September 28th
Class Pretest
Read!
Do Now: Make corrections to the sentences below. You must copy both sentences.
Today’s Standards:
ELACC9/10W4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which W1-3 are appropriate to task and audience.
ELACC9/10SL1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of group (collaborative) discussions

15. Your first “book report” will be in the form of a review
Your first “book report” will be in the form of a review. You must complete the paper fully and professionally. Also, you must create a movie poster for the book. It CANNOT duplicate the cover of the book!
Due September 28th. This is a T.M.A., so it MUST be turned in on that date!
You can find this on the class website.

16. August 18, 2015 Do Now: What is theme? Agenda: Do Now: Theme
Short Story Lecture
Assign Textbooks
Familiarize yourself with your textbook. Don’t forget to write your name inside!
Complete vocabulary pages 49 and pages 81.
Do Now: What is theme?
What are the themes for these two films?

19. August 19, 2015 Do Now Read pages 48-49 silently.
Agenda:
August 19, 2015
Do Now
Read pages silently.
Review assigned vocabulary pg 49.
Begin Reading “The Monkey’s Paw” pg. 50
Research a Superstition.
Standards: ELACC10RL2: Determine a theme or central idea and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and defined by specific details.
Do Now:
If you could wish for anything in the world to come true, what would you wish for? Why? Explain.

20. Find: Superstition Meaning Origin Source 5. Share Tomorrow
Mini Research
Research an unusual superstition (or talisman) that is found in our culture or foreign cultures. Explain what the superstition is and the origins of it.
For example, many people believe that walking under a ladder can bring bad luck. While this really is just good common sense (no one wants to knock anyone from a ladder), there are two other possible explanations where this superstition comes from. One, Christians believed that the ladder leaning next to a wall (forming a triangle) represented the holy trinity. Breaking the trinity by walking through it would be blasphemous. Also, others believed that the ladder next to a wall resembled the look of medieval gallows, so it would be best just to walk around such an image.
Find:
Superstition
Meaning
Origin
Source
5. Share Tomorrow

21. August 20, 2015 Do Now Finish Reading “The Monkey’s Paw”
Agenda:
Do Now
Finish Reading “The Monkey’s Paw”
Share researched superstitions.
Standards: ELACC10RL2: Determine a theme or central idea and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and defined by specific details.
Do Now:
Do you believe in fate or free will? Why? Explain in complete sentences.

22. August 21, 2015
Do Now:
Agenda:
Explain what the following quote means and relate it to “The Monkey’s Paw.”
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
-William Jennings Bryan
Share Superstitions
Youtube “The Monkey’s Paw”
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Compare and contrast the short story to the video

23. Monday August 24, 2015 Agenda: Do Now: M.U.G. Vocabulary quiz
Finish “The Monkey’s Paw” video
Comparison
“The Bridegroom”
Read “The Bridegroom” as homework if not finished in class.
Standards:
ELACC10-L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
ELACC10-L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
ELACC10-RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different mediums.
Do Now: Correct the two sentences below.

24. Tuesday August 25, 2015 Agenda: Do Now: Do Now: Literary terms
Who is the protagonist of “The Bridegroom”?
Who is the antagonist of “The Monkey’s Paw”?
Standards:
ELACC10-RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Agenda:
Do Now: Literary terms
“The Bridegroom” reading (4th period)
“The Bridegroom” and “The Monkey’s Paw” quiz (Not 4th… calm down)
Review and Assess: Answer questions on page 65. Numbers
Individual reading

27. “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Bridegroom” Quiz
True or False: The setting of this story is present day India.
True or False: Morris has with him a monkey’s paw that grants the owner wishes.
True or False: Morris gladly gives Mr. White the paw.
True or False: The owner of the paw before Morris wished for death.
What is the first thing wished for by the Whites?
What is the second thing wished for by the Whites?
What is the final thing wished for by the Whites?
What happens to Herbert?
Why does Mr. White make the final wish?
True or False – Natasha was missing for five days.
True or False – Natasha chooses her husband to be.
Where was Natasha while she was missing?
What happened to the bridegroom’s first wife?
What happens to the bridegroom?

28. Wednesday August 26, 2015
Do Now: Turn in Homework. Prepare yourself for the SLO.
Student Learning Objective test in lab.
Individual Reading

29. Thursday August 27, 2015
Do Now:
Have you ever created something that took a lot of effort? What did you do with it? What would you do if it were destroyed?
Write and explain your journal section.
Agenda:
Introduction to “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket” pg 6
Characterization Power point
KWL Preview of text
Review Vocabulary
Begin reading.