What’s Going On
In Our Classrooms
First Six Weeks
January 3-February 15, 2008
Freshman English
Drenning
9th CP: non-fiction,
DLP, vocab. lessons 8-10, essential vocab., Romeo & Juliet
9th Honors: non-fiction, DLP, vocab. lessons 8-10, essential vocab., poetry, poetry project
Gayle
9th CP:
9th gifted: Greek
mythology, world mythology, short stories, independent novel, vocabulary,
editing skills, creative writing assignment
Kohanek
9th gifted:
Murphy
9th Honors: Fiction,
Fables, Fantansy, and Folk Tales; Poetry; Grammar;
Vocabulary; Composition
Potts
9th
CP: short stories, Romeo
and Juliet, vocabulary, editing skills, daily language practice
9th
Honors: short stories, Romeo
and Juliet, vocabulary, editing skills, daily language practice, creative
writing assignment
Warr
9th CP/Honors:
Sophomore English
Bateman
10th CP and Gifted: Medieval Literature (Roland, Siegfried , Arthur), vocabulary, editing skills, Medieval Research Group Project/Presentation
Drenning
10th
Honors: Middle
Ages, vocabulary lessons 8-10, DLP, essential vocabulary, Alas,
Huie
10th gifted: voice;
short story; mini-research paper; the European Middle Ages; begin Renaissance;
vocabulary units 8-10.
Leazenbee
10th Honors: Gateway skills and practice, vocabulary, Middle Ages literature, Arthurian legend
Murphy
10th
CP: Dante’s Inferno;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Grammar;
Vocabulary
Composition
Thorson
10th CP/Honors: The
Medieval period, Dante's Inferno,
writing skills (Gateway practice), vocabulary, grammar
Zidow
10th
CP: medieval literature,
SAT practice writing, editing skills, vocabulary, Dante's Inferno, Fahrenheit
451
Honors: medieval
literature, SAT practice writing, editing skills, vocabulary, Dante's Inferno,
Alas,
Junior English
Finco
Pre AP: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, continuing with vocabulary study from Word Power Made Easy, and will write a literary analysis for Huck Finn.
Gayle
11th CP:
Johnson
11th CP/Honors: SAT preparation / SAT practice essay, vocabulary, Realism, beginning of The Adventures of Huck Finn
King
11th CP/Honors: Realism, The
Adventures of Huck Finn, vocabulary, SAT Prep, independent novel,
grammar/editing skills
Kohanek
PreAP: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, continuing with vocabulary study from Word Power Made Easy, and will write a literary analysis for Huck Finn.
Meadows
11th CP/Honors: American
Realism (Unit 4 in our literature book) and The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn; writing, grammar, and
vocabulary.
11th CP/Honors: SAT
Prep, Vocabulary, Literature: Unit 4
Senior English
Finco
AP: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, as well as various poetry and short stories; two in-class essays
Herring
12th CP:
Leazenbee
12th CP: vocabulary, Metaphysical poetry, Restoration literature, Romantic poetry
Morlock
12th Honors:
Nichols
12th CP/Honors:
12th Technical: Vocabulary,
Literature: Units 3 and 4
Roth
12th CP:
12th Honors:
Tilley
AP: Tess
of the d'Urbervilles, as well as various poetry and short
stories; two in-class essays
Webster
12th
CP/Honors: