06/02/2015

***Critical Analysis Essay Due Friday:)

 Semester Finals Schedule

80 minute periods

SPRAGUE HIGH SCHOOL

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Regular Schedule

Seniors at Senior Assembly @ 9:15am

Friday, June 5, 2015

Regular Schedule

Seniors begin Graduation Practice @ 8:30am

Commencement Ceremony

@ 7:00pm

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Monday, June 8, 2015

1st period 8:00am-9:20am

Snack break 9:20am-9:30am

2nd period 9:35am-10:55am

Snack break 10:55am-11:05am

3rd period 11:10am-12:30pm

Locker Clean Out  - 12:30pm

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

4th period 8:00am-9:20am

Snack break 9:20am-9:35am

5th period 9:40am-11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am-11:30am

Study time 11:40am-12:30pm (teachers available in their classrooms to help students)

Buses depart at 1:10pm

WED, June 10, 2015

6th period 7:30am – 8:50am

Snack break 8:50am – 9:05am

7th period 9:10am – 10:30am

Lunch - 10:30am – 11:00am

Buses depart at 11:10am

Lunch – 12:30pm

Buses depart @ 1:10pm

Breakfast and lunch will be served Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and Thursday.  Snack Bars will be open with 'grab and go' items both breaks on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Requirement:

All teachers should give a cumulative semester evaluative activity during the scheduled exam time.  The inclusion of work samples is appropriate as a part of the final assessment.  A copy of the final exam/project must be given to the supervising administrator.  Students with study hall are expected to report to class as usual.

Return of Texts:

Teachers of semester classes should make arrangements with the library to complete this task.  If taking whole classes to the library during finals, please remember to move quietly through the halls.

Guidelines for Students:

In an effort to maintain a quiet testing atmosphere, please follow these guidelines:

• Students are to remain in the classroom for the entire scheduled period.
• Students are not to be given hall passes during exam periods.
• There are 20 minute scheduled breaks for snacks and restroom use between each final exam.

06/01/2015

Today we worked on presentations, and I gave some important announcements (see below).

Discuss what you want to work on with your group tomorrow:)

Friday Critical Analysis Paper due!-a zero after that day, no exceptions :

A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Monday/All remaining groups:

Night

Fahrenheit 451

Treasure Island

Lord of the Flies

A Separate Peace

***NO MAKE UP WORK OR DISCUSSIONS ABOUT GRADES AFTER FRIDAY.

05/29/2015

*Dear Students,

*I am concerned that some of you are not doing your reading for your group. I am asking you to please honor your group and have the integrity within yourself to please read and finish your book this weekend.
*Also, it's often apparent when a student has not read a book and reads Cliff Notes instead, so please read your book--this is preparing you for AP Literature, and most likely, you won't be able to write on a novel for an AP prompt that you haven't actually read.

Let's not go down the consequence path, yuck, yuck, double yuck!

Ms. J

05/28/2015

Choose your "ism" (Marxism, psychoanalytical criticism, feminism, etc) for your novel and begin charting notes with quotation and page number.

Paper Due Next Friday, June 5th

05/22/2015

Read your novel for your group this weekend:)
Congrats on the TKAM test results!

05/18/2015

TKAM test Wednesday!
Test Prep tomorrow!
Quiz today up through chapter 29

Johnson

05/12/2015

Follow calendar
In-Class paragraph today can be turned in tomorrow!
Paragraph Assignment

Johnson

05/11/2015

Reading Quiz today over chapters 14-21! Make it up by Friday please.

Thank you!

Johnson

05/07/2015

Follow calendar! Read chapter 18!!!

05/01/2015

Follow reading calendar! Quiz Monday! Courage quote journal due Monday!

04/21/2015

Please take lecture notes on the following Power Point as these are significant themes and motifs present in the novel--some of these will appear on the unit exam:
TKAM Reading Calendar
Study Guide
To Kill A Mockingbird Themes and Motifs


Tonight's Homework (I won't always type this out as you are to follow your reading calendar) is to read chapter one and answer your study guide questions:

Ms. J

04/17/2015

Read "Harlem Tragedy" by O' Henry and write a brief paragraph explaining how the title and story illustrates examples of irony.

You can find a copy of the story online. Sorry I would link it here to my website, but suddenly there's a tech problem, and of course I can't:0

04/15/2015

Pick up a Harlem Renaissance Packet and read each article in it and take bullet point notes on it. This is due Friday. I will give you a brief quiz over the packet, my Power Point lecture (which you'll get tomorrow), and an O'Henry story that we'll read Friday/Monday. The quiz should take place either MOnday or Tuesday and then we will start To Kill A Mockingbird.

Over and Out!

Johnson

03/19/2015

Yesterday in class, we had a Socratic seminar over White Man's Burden and various Imperialism documents from history.

Homework Over break:

*Read "Two Friends" by Guy de Maupassaunt (you will find this document on Curry's website) and complete the assignment with it. Or you can get it right here: Two Friends Assignment

*Read "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and complete the questions with it. (I gave out a packet in class yesterday), but here it is: Charge of Light Brigade

**You will have to get the final assignment, Mahan's "Sea Power" document on Curry's site.

Progressivism/Imperialism Quiz Review: Review

Phew, that's it! Be ready to take the Imperialism/Progressivism Quiz when you return!

Happy Break!

Johnson

03/17/2015

Quiz over anaphora and anadiplosis tomorrow!
Also White Man's Burden Assignment due.

Johnson

03/06/2015

Don't forget to do your Political Cartoon for Curry!

Have a nice weekend,

Johnson

03/03/2015

If you were absent today, then the following assignment: Progressive Ideas

02/20/2015

Finish novel!
Character Descriptions can be turned in on Monday!
Socratic Seminar Questions due Monday
Character Lists due today

02/19/2015

*Vocab Quiz tomorrow over the following words: 

Decry:

-to belittle, denounce, deprecate, or disparage openly

Example:

And he goes on to decry the fact that some American intellectuals no longer believe in America 's role of defending the West.

Descry:

-to discern something difficult to catch sight of (often from a distance) or to discover by careful observation.

Example:

Because I wanted to descry my favorite actor at the movie premiere, I stood outside in the rain for six hours.

*Reading Quiz over chapters 45-55

02/17/2015

Today in Class:

One of our awesome counselors came in and discussed next year's class schedule, handed out your transcripts, and discussed course credits and Smarter Balanced test info.

***Homework- for me follow GE Reading Calendar
Check Curry's website but I do not believe that you had any homework in history.

*** We reviewed for the Great Expectations exam in English today.
Johnson

02/05/2015

Follow Reading Calendar!
Vocab and Apostrophe Quiz tomorrow!
And People Posters-so bring materials!

Johnson

01/09/2015

Finish Romeo and Juliet and able to not only take a quiz on act V but explain the Prince's final words to the families . . .

Presentations due by Jan 15th.