Weekly Syllabus-English II Dec. 12-19
Day	In Class	Homework
Monday and Tuesday	View Roxanne	No homework this week due to the huge amount we had during the play.
Wednesday and Thursday	Poster Project on themes in Cyrano
Friday and Monday Poster Presentations		Coming up… last definition essay and vocabulary list 4

	Weekly Syllabus-English II Dec 5-9th
Day	In Class	Homework
Tuesday/Wednesday	Complete Act 5 Create time line of events and themes	Act 5 Homework due next class period.
Thursday/ Friday	Open book Cyrano Test Start Roxanne
	Create an essay on beauty with your group.

Where are we going?

Reflections on English II

Overview of units taught

2011-2012

Attempt One

Melissa Warren

Unit One Love and Sacrifice

Completed Tasks 

·        Ice breakers and team building

·        Federigo’s Falcon and intro to concepts of love and sacrifice

·        Intro to writing test

·        Marriage is a Private Affair with seminar on the importance of definitions (how does out country define marriage?)

·        Common grammar mistakes packet

·        Three SAT vocab lists tested

·        Of The Clay We are Created (types of love and importance of love)

·        Extensive overview of definition essays and the writing process

·        Diagnostic definition essay test

·        Writing Conference

·        Revision practice

·        Two Kinds

·        Spanglish

·        Group essay on generosity

·        Benchmark on definition essay 

·         Writing Conference

·        Revision practice

2^nd Nine Weeks Starts

Working on Conclusion of Love and Sacrifice Unit

·        Background on the Play Cyrano and France

·        Read play

·        Created setting and added key themes to setting

·        Created Class essay on beauty

·        Currently my classes are finishing Cyrano. We are starting Act III

Unit Two War and Peace

·        Overview of cause and effect essays

·        Historical background on the Holocausts and causes of

·        Christmas break

·        Read Night

·        Read Maus

·        Create group cause and effect essay on Holocaust

·        Read Sniper and Comrades

·        Study current holocaust

·        Create essay on current holocaust

Student Weaknesses

Stating and supporting a theme

Conventions and handwriting

Essay structure and transitions

Creating and supporting a thesis

Student Strengths

Memorizing essay structure

Prewriting and planning essays

Reading and understanding a text

Memorizing and using vocab words

Writing in complete sentences

Motivation to complete essays

Finding relevant examples in text to support claims.

Lesson Plans for next week Nov. 29th -Dec.5th

Mon/Tuesday
Act 3 Quiz
Read Act 4
Act. 4 homework due next class period.

Wednesday/ Thursday
Act 4 Quiz
Create a reading paragraph on Cyrano

Friday/ Monday
Create an observation paragraph
Read Act 5
Act 5 homework due next class period

	Weekly Syllabus-English II Nov 14-18
Day	In Class	Homework
Monday	Notes on Cyrano and author Read act one and complete assignment	Rewrite of benchmark essay due Friday
Tuesday/ Wednesday	Act II	Act II homework due next class period
Thursday/Friday	Set and Character design for Cyrano Map out the setting and write down the important events that happened in those areas. Create a life sized Cyrano complete with physical, mental, and emotional characteristics. What definitions could Cyrano Be use to represent?	Looking ahead Acts II-IV next week, and after we finish the play we will start the cause and effect essay.

	Weekly Syllabus-English I Nov. 7-11
Day	In Class	Homework
Monday/Wed	Background on Cyrano Read and discuss Act I	Act I questions for Homework
Thur/Mon	Read Act I on your own Conference on Benchmark	Act II questions for homework