Calendars

I am giving students calendars today for the remaining weeks of school. Obviously plans are subject to change!

Contact me with any questions or comments!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

Four weeks till exams!

Here are plans for this week. I am giving a few other dates just to help you plan.

College Prep

Monday-notes/read

Tuesday-LOTF Q 5-6/discuss

Wednesday-discuss

Thursday-Vocab Quiz #14-pg. 92-94 (no Bonus this week)

Friday-LOTF Q 7-8

Tuesday (4/24)-LOTF Q 9-10

Friday (4/27) LOTF Q 11-12

Tuesday (5/1) LOTF Test

Honors

Monday-notes

Tuesday-discuss/read

Wednesday-LOTF Q 1-2

Thursday-discuss

Friday-LOTF Q 3-4

Monday (4/23) LOTF Q 5-6

Thursday (4/26) LOTF Q 7-8

Monday (4/30) LOTF Q 9-10

Wed (5/2) LOTF Q 11-12

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

BTW-sometime ask your student to see his/her turnitin account. They should have two folders containing their essays from the year. We will add at least one more to the file before the year's end!

Week of 04/09

Here are plans for the upcoming week.

College Prep

Monday-discuss LOTF

Tuesday-LOTF Chapters 1-2 Q

Wednesday-Character sketch (in class)

Thursday-LOTF Chapters 3-4 Q

Friday-Vocab Q 3.17-3.20 (pgs 83-87)

Honors

Monday-ASP

Tuesday-discuss ASP

Wednesday-ASP Essay

Thursday-LOTF Chapters 1-2

Friday-Vocab Q 3.17-3.20 (pgs 83-87)

Feel free to contact me with questions or concerns!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

The Home Stretch

I hope you and your family had a great break! We did as well, and I am busy planning as we "wrap up" 2011-2012. Can you believe it? Here are our plans for this week:

Monday-Motif and Theme project (in class)

Tuesday-Motif and Theme project (in class)

Wednesday-"Julius Caesar" Test

Thursday-Begin Lord of the Flies

Friday-no school- Good Friday

Honors- Students should have A Separate Peace completed by Monday, April 9th. We will be writing in-class on Wednesday the 11th.

As always, please call or email with questions or concerns!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

Plans for next week

Here are the tentative plans for next week. I write "tentative" because I really am not positive how each day will go. I do know, however, that we will not be able to test over "Julius Caesar" until the Wednesday we return from Spring Break. We will finish the play this week, but I want to make sure everyone is on the same page before we test.

Monday-listen to Act IV

Tuesday-watch Act IV/Quiz

Wednesday-Memory Work (long) due/Act V notes

Thursday-listen to Act V/watch Act V

Friday-Quiz over Act V

Honors-in addition I have given the Honors class an additional book to read out of class. I will give them a schedule next week. We will not be having quizzes over this novel. We will discuss some in-class and then they will write an essay for their "test".

As always, please message me with questions or concerns.

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

This week's plans

Here are plans for the upcoming week. Please remember that these are subject to change as our schedule is getting pretty crazy with checkouts, etc. Remind your student that it is his or her responsibility to make up any missing work. I will not remind them about what is missing! They need to come to me. Wednesday marks the 9 week deficiency period and so, by the end of the day Wednesday 3/14 all ** will become zeros.

As always please email me with questions or concerns!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

Monday-listen to Act III

Tuesday-watch Act III /Quiz over Act III

Wednesday-Schindler's List

Thursday-Memory Work #2 (short)/Act IV notes

Friday-Vocab Quiz over "Age" words pgs. 80-82/listen to Act IV

A new month!

Historically at TPS March begins the slide to the end of the semester and the end of the year! I have so enjoyed getting to know the class of 2014. They are smart, talented, and fun. Although we still have a lot to cover, I feel so accomplished as to what we have done thus far. I wanted to give you assignments for next week and a few others to put on the calendar. Please understand that some of these are estimates, as reading and discussing Shakespeare can take more or less time than expected. As always, do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments!

Monday-JC Act I Quiz

Tuesday-JC notes-Act II/listen Act II

Wednesday-Memory Work due (Short I)

Thursday-watch Act II/Act II Quiz

Friday-Vocab Quiz pg 71-75? Extra credit for completing exercises (3.15-3.21)

Coming up...

Memory Work (Short II)- TUESDAY March 13

Memory Work (Long)- March 21

Change of plans!

I just wanted to let you all know as soon as possible that we are moving the Animal Farm test to Wednesday. The projects, which are going to be awesome, are taking an extra day to complete. Hopefully I will post the best ones on SchoolTube when we are finished. So, here are the plans for next week:

Monday- no school

Tuesday-view projects/review for test

Wednesday- AF Test

Thursday- AF movie

Friday- AF movie

Have a great weekend!

Plans for the week

Happy 4 day week!

Here are our plans for this week:

Monday-AF Quiz 9-10

Tuesday-in class project

Wednesday-in class project

Thursday-in class project

Friday-no school

Tuesday (Feb. 21)- AF Test

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

Updated plans

I just wanted to make sure that I am clear with plans. I have planned through finishing the book, so I thought I would share.

Thursday (2/9)-AF 7-8 Q

Friday (2/10)-Vocab #10 Q (Chapter 3; section 11-12 pgs 69-71)

Monday (2/13)-AF 9-10 Q

Wednesday-Thursday (2/15 & 2/16) AF project- in class

Tuesday (2/21) AF TEST

Wednesday (2/22) Start "Julius Caesar"

As always, please contact me with questions/comments!

Thanks,

CColee

Plans for this week

The students submitted Persuasive Essays Thursday/Friday. I will have them graded by the week's end. Here are the quizzes we will be having this week. My plans are not complete (I have a few things I am working on) but this will give you an idea of quizzes.

Monday--Animal Farm Q Chpt 5-6

Tuesday--notes/discussion

Wednesday--notes/discussion

Thursday--AF Q 7-8

Friday--Vocab Quiz #10

I will add more tomorrow after I know more!

Thanks!

CColee

Make-up work

Trinity policy is that if a student misses one day of school they are allowed one day to make up the work. If they miss two days, two days, and so on. Generally I understand that students returning from an illness have a lot of work to make up, so I usually extend that time a little.

Next Wednesday is the first "Deficiency Day" deadline for this semester. Any work on edline that has ** will be turned to zeros on Wednesday, February 8.

Please have your student see me about any missing work!

Thanks,

CColee

Plans for this week

Good morning! Due to the flurry of the last minute Pep Rally I failed to post plans for the week. Sorry!

Honors

Monday- Animal Farm-Chpt 1-2 Q/Study Questions/Discussion

Tuesday-notes/Discussion

Wednesday-Animal Farm- Chpt 3-4 Q/Discussion/Persuasive Essay

Thursday-Persuasive Essay

Friday-Persuasive Essay

Monday-Animal Farm-Chpt 5-6 Q

College Prep

Monday- Animal Farm-Chpt 1-2 Q/Study Questions/Discussion

Tuesday-notes/Discussion

Wednesday-Animal Farm- Chpt 3-4 Q/Discussion/Persuasive Essay

Thursday-Persuasive Essay

Friday-Persuasive Essay

Monday-Animal Farm-Chpt 5-6 Q

Have a great week and please contact me with questions or concerns!

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

Slight change of plans!

Due to other tests this week I am changing the Short Story Test to Friday and the Vocab Quiz to Thursday. Also, I updated edline this morning.

Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments!

Thanks,

CColee

Into the swing of things!

By now we are well into the swing of second semester! This week we have read several short stories and discussed how authors emphasize different elements within each selection. Also, ask your student what edmodo is! We have used this 21st century tool in our classroom all week and I am pumped about how I can use this in the classroom!

Here are the plans for next week.

Honors

Monday-"The Possibility of Evil"

Tuesday-"The Masque of the Red Death"

Wednesday-Preparing for Standardized tests--"The Princess and the Tin Box"/Review for test

Thursday-SHORT STORY TEST w/Honors

Friday-Vocab Quiz over words pgs 61-64 (Chapter 3, sections 8-10)

College Prep

Monday-"The Possibility of Evil"

Tuesday-"The Masque of the Red Death"

Wednesday-Review for test

Thursday-SHORT STORY TEST

Friday-Vocab Quiz-(Chapter 3, sections 8-10) pgs 61-64

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.

ccolee@trinitywildcats.com

Thanks!

CColee

Plans for next week

We are finally adjusting back into the groove at school! I hope that your family had a great break. Even though the fall seemed to "fly" by, historically Spring semester usually goes by super fast too.

Here are our plans for next week. As always, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Friday (1/13)- Lit Terms Quiz

College Prep

Monday-no school

Tuesday-"Everyday use"

Wednesday-"Two Kinds"/Writing

Thursday-"Kite Runner"/Writing

Friday-Vocab Quiz (pg 58-61)/Writing

Honors

Monday-no school

Tuesday-"Everyday Use"

Wednesday-"Two Kinds"/Writing

Thursday-"Kite Runner"/Writing

Friday-Vocab Quiz (pg 58-61)/Writing

Looking ahead...

Short Story Test-Jan 25 or 26

Welcome Back!

It is great being back in room 605! The students are in good spirits and we are anxious to get back to English 10. I wanted to attach the Literary Terms I gave the students today so that they can access them from the internet. I will post more information later this week!

Thanks,

CColee

Literary Terms

allegory

alliteration

allusion

analogy

antagonist

aside

ballad

character

climax

connotation

conflict

couplet

denotation

denouement

dialogue

didactic

dramatic monologue

elegy

epilogue

expostion

falling action

figurative language

flashback

foreshadowing

genre

hyperbole

irony

lyric

metaphor

metonymy

motif

myth

narrative

narrative poem

narrator

parable

persona

personification

plot

point of view

prologue

protagonist

rhyme

rhyme scheme

rising action

setting

simile

short story

sonnet

stream of consciousness

symbol

syntax

theme

tone

tragedy