Semester One Calendar/CyberEnglish9

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Ms Hogue's CyberEnglish classes meet 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th hours.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Due Dates
are in Red; use your planner to record homework due dates.

9/3

Labor Day
No School

  9/4

Today is Connections Day.

Mini schedule:

Introductions and brief overview.

  9/5

Seating chart

Get web permission form; due 9/7 or earlier. Look at web site; overview of class.

9/6

Get logged in and set up. About your e-mail account.

Surveys.

 

9/7

Web permission form due. About independent reading.

 

 

9/10

Get Intro to Internet Assignment

9/11

Intro to Internet is due today.

 

 

 

 

9/12

Begin work on student web pages. Review: setting up your web pages. Learn FrontPage.

9/13

Web page building.

 

9/14

Independent novel choice by today; have your novel with you!

ThinkBook #1
Silent Reading

  9/17

Web page building.

9/18

Web page building.

9/19

Web page building. Your web page is due today. Make sure your web site measures up. Check the rubric.

 

9/20

Write your first CyberJournal entry. This is to be finished by the end of the hour.

 

9/21

ThinkBook #2
Silent Reading

Mr. Gross will teach html & web design. Html & Web design. Html & Web design. This was three days. maybe not for 2007/08 9/24

Start to think about your education and career goals.Career prep; visit WisCareers with Ms. Jarosch.

9/25

Start to write your personal statement.

 

 

9/26

Personal statement is due at the end of the hour.

9/27

ThinkBook #3
Silent Reading

9/28

No School

 

 

  10/1

Begin Hypertext assignment. Read directions and begin.

10/2

Write your note to email to your cyber partner; review the directions.

10/3

Homework: get your parents' email address by next Wednesday.

Finish answering the questions and email it to hand in.

10/4

Write your hypertext paragraph.

10/5

Midquarter

ThinkBook #4 Biography of another;
Silent Reading

Speak Unit Begins This Week

10/8

Finish and publish your hypertext paragraph. All hypertext assignments are due today.

10/9

Start Speak ; Get books & first reading assignment.

Read pages 3-24 for 10/12.

10/10

Login in to Lit_space. Get Syllabus and talk about rereading strategy.

 

10/11

Online & in-class discussion of pages 3-24.

Read pages 24-51 for 10/16.

10/12

Send Midquarter report to parents


Silent Reading

10/15

Online & in-class discussion of pages 24-51.

Read pages 52-92 for 10/19.

10/16

Begin working on vocabulary assignment. Due 10/25.

10/17

Activity: Word choice: great verbs--going beyond the ordinary.

10/18

Online & in-class discussion of pages 52-92.

Read pages 95-126 for 10/23.

10/19

ThinkBook #5

Silent Reading

  10/22

Online & in-class discussion of pages 95-126;

Finish novel (Speak) by 10/30.

10/23

Analyzing the Pledge of Allegiance

Activity: What are we really saying?

 

10/24

Speak vocabulary assignment is due.

Finish Pledge activity if needed.

 

10/25

No school--teachers' convention

 

10/26

No school--teachers' convention

 

Discussion questions are due today.

10/29

Online & in-class discussion of pages 127-end.

 

Independent novel log booklet #1 is due on or before today! Get a new book.

10/30

Begin work on Speak Literary Analysis essay

10/31

October CyberJournal due today.

 

 

11/1

Work on Speak essay.

11/2

ThinkBook #6 Fictionalized journal entry

 

Choose your new independent novel by 11/10. Bring your book to class. 11/5

Word tutorial--how to use the comment/editing feature.

Email your essay by the end of the hour today. Begin peer review.

11/6

Send your cp's essay back (cc: teacher) today. Start looking at the comments you got. Begin revising and getting ready to publish. Revisit directions..

11/7

Revise your own Speak essay

 

11/8

Work day! Get caught up.

 

11/9

1st quarter ends.

ThinkBook #7

Silent Reading

Bring your new novel with you: title due today!

 

 

Parent Teacher Conferences

11/12

Publish your Speak essay

Hand in Speak books.

 

 

11/13

Review the Independent novel unit requirements. This quarter, your project is due on January 4.

11/14

NCTE

Review and revise all web documents.

You and your cyberpartner can do an optional peer review if you like, or choose one of your classmates instead.

11/15

NCTE

Bring your independent novel to read if you've finished early.

11/16

NCTE

ThinkBook #8

Silent Reading

 

 

11/19

November CyberJournal due at end of hour today

11/20

 

11/21

No School

11/22

Thanksgiving: No School

11/23

Thanksgiving: No School

  11/26

Begin Scarlet Ibis

11/27

Scarlet Ibis

11/28

Scarlet Ibis

11/29

Finish Scarlet Ibis.

11/30

ThinkBook #9:
Poem for two voices

Scarlet Ibis packet is due today.

Lit terms pkt due today.

Silent Reading

To Kill A Mockingbird unit begins. See this calendar for reading assignments and other important dates. 12/3

Begin TKAM: Look at unit plans and create web pages needed for the unit.Students get TKAM books and listen to 1st chapter. Read  chapters 1-7 by 12/7.

12/4

Make first annotation for TKAM web. Students do a web search for two more sites and finish the annotated links.

 

12/5

Lit terms quiz today.

 

12/6

Lit_Space "Quiz" on ch. 1-7; discuss section; assign ch. 8-11 for 12/11.

12/7

Send Mid-quarter report to parents; Silent Reading
 

 

 

12/10

Lit_Space "Quiz" for ch. 8-11; discuss section; assign ch. 12-15 for 12/14.

12/112

Reading day

12/12

Reading Day; work on packet

12/13

Lit_Space "Quiz" on ch. 12-15; discuss section; read ch. 16-20 for 12/18.

12/14

ThinkBook: Job Application for a character

Silent Reading

  12/17

Lit_Space "Quiz" on ch. 16-20; discuss section; assign ch. 21-24 for 12/21.

12/18

December CyberJournal due today.

Silent Reading; work on packet

 

 

12/19

Web page work day; start planning your project.

12/20

Lit_Space "Quiz" on ch. 21-24; discuss. Read chapters 25-31 (rest of the novel) by January 2. Packet is due January 2.

12/21

Silent Reading Winter Break Begins this afternoon @ 2:00

 

 

12/24

 

12/25

 

12/26

 

 

12/27

12/28

 


 

TKAM project grade goes on second semester.
12/31

 

 

 

1/1

 

1/2

School resumes

Discuss ch. 25-31 of novel; discuss.

TKAM novel packet is due.

Using Inspiration to brainstorm an essay.

1/3

Prewrite and begin first draft of essay.

1/4

Finish draft of TKAM essay. Begin planning genre pieces.

2nd Independent Novel project due

  1/7

Get study guide for semester exam.

Web page work day.

1/8

Web page work day.

1/9

Web page work day.

1/10

Web page work day.

 

1/11

ThinkBook

Web page work day.

 

 

  1/14

Peer review: you and your cyber partner proofread each other's web site, including TKAM project and give advice on how to improve.

1/15

Web page work day.

TKAM web project is due today.

Turn in TKAM books.

1/16

Choose a novel for third quarter!

 

1/17

 

1/18

ThinkBook

 

1/21

Semester Exam Review: Moodle quiz on lit terms.

Read about exam structure.
 

1/22

semester exams

1/23

semester exams

1/24

semester exams

1/25

No school; teacher work day


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