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:

           

Henderson

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, Babylon

 

            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, Babylon

 

 


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.

 

            Richardson

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:

 

            Richardson

12th Technical: Vocabulary, Literature: Units 3 and 4

 

            Roth

12th CP: Paradise Lost, definition paper, Restoration, vocabulary as encountered in reading, parallelism

 

12th Honors: Paradise Lost, definition paper, Restoration, vocabulary as encountered in reading, parallelism, Romanticism, Frankenstein

 

 

            Tilley

AP:  Tess of the d'Urbervilles, as well as various poetry and short stories; two in-class essays

 

            Webster

12th CP/Honors: