Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Week of October 10, 2016
11th English
This week we will begin work on Arthur Miller's  The Crucible.  You will watch a documentary on the Salem With Trials, then will begin work with the play.  Make sure you have with you volume two of your literature workbooks and a place where you are keeping class notes.

11th Academic English
This week we will begin work with Sentence Classification.  Take good notes during the power point presentation on this material.  We will use worksheets to first identify independent and subordinate clauses then to classify sentences as either simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.

12th Academic English
This week we will begin a look at Arthurian legend.  You will view and take notes on two documentaries, "In Search of Camelot" and "King Arthur".  After we view and discuss these, you will begin work with "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight".  Remember to think about our essential question, "What makes a hero?", as you work.

SAT Prep
This week we will work on chapters 18 and 19 in the workbooks, then will continue our editing and revising practice using selections from the Editing and Revising workbook.