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Phone Number:  (714) 986-7580 ext.  11205
Email (Contact):  [email protected]
Homepage (Daily Agendas and Homework): 
 
Schedule:
Period 0:  AP Language and Composition
Period 1:  English Language Arts II 
Period 2:  AP Language and Composition 
Period 3:  English Language Arts II
Period 4:  English Language Arts II
Period 5:  Conference
 
 
Tutoring:  Break, Lunch and After School by. Appt.
 
 
 

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Agendas and Homework: 1/22/14

LA II

  • Collect Vonnegut Letter and Soapstone
  • Provide Essay Prompt
  • Outline
  • Begin Essay (Day 1)

HW:  F-451 Review Guide (Due Day of Exam)

 

LA III

  • Provide The Night Thoreau... Study Guide
  • Continue Reading Play

HW:  Transcendentalism Review Guide (Due Day of Exam)

 

LA II H

  • Work on Chaos... Rhetoric Wksht.
  • Read Act IV, Scs. 1 -2

HW:  Othello AP 1 Sheet (Due Day of Exam); Answer Questions on Scene 1 (1, 2, 6, & 8-11); Chaos...  Wksht. Due Friday

Agendas and Homework: 1/21/14

LA II

Collect Vast Wasteland Rhetoric Chart

Read, Annotate & Soapstone Vonnegut's Letter

HW:  Finish Letter

 

LA III

 

  • Discuss and Collect Whitman Questions
  • Provide Transcendentalism Review (Due day of Final)
  • Begin The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Reading it Aloud)
  • HW:  Work on Trans. Review

 

LA II H

  • Work on Chaos... Worksheet (Due Thursday)
  • Begin Act IV

HW:  Othello AP 1 Sheet Due Day of Final (Wednesday, Jan. 29th);  Work on Chaos... Wksht.

Agendas and Homework: 1/17/14 (Friday)

LA III

  • Vocab. Quiz 9 & 10
  • Correct Quiz
  • Rhetoric Chart:  "Vast Wasteland"
  • Provide F-451 Review (Due the Day of the Final Exam)

HW:  Finish Vast Wasteland

 

LA III

  • Discuss "I Hear America Singing"  via Doc-Cam
  • QW:  Identify World (Universal Evils) Injustices
  • Read and Annotate "I Sit and Look Out"
  • Discuss Poem
  • Whitman Poem Questions 

HW:  Finish Poem Questions

 

LA II H

  • Collect Master Manipulator Wksht.
  • Finish Act III, Scene iii Questions
  • Provide Rhetoric Handout
  • Intro. Chaos... Wksht. 

 

Agendas and Homework: 1/16/14 (Thursday)

LA II 

  • Discuss Vocab. Definitions (9 &10)
  • Correct and Discuss Vocab. Exercises
  • Rhetoric Handout

HWK  Vocab. Exercise:  Reading Strategically (pgs. 169-172);  25 Point Vocab. Quiz Tomorrow


LA III

  • Discuss aphorisms from WALDEN
  • Discuss WALDEN Questions
  • Begin Reading and Annotating "I Hear America Singing"

HWK:  Finish Reading and Annotating Poem

 

LA II H

  • Discuss Questions:  Act III Scene iii (4-9)
  • Continue Act III Scene iii

Agendas and Homework: 1/14/14 Tuesday

LA II

  • Vocab. 9 and 10 List
  • Finish Film
  • Film Notes
  • "Vast Wasteland" Speech

HW:  Finish reading and annotating article (DON'T ANSWER THE QUESTIONS); Vocab. List Definitions Due Thursday

LA III

  • Finish Civil Disobedience Questions
  • Prep Walden Notes
  • Begin Reading Walden and Taking Notes (2-3 Sent. Summary Per Section Trans. Elements and Aphorism)

HWK:  Finish First Section:  Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

LA II H

  • Continue Master Manipulator Worksheet
  • Continue Reading Act III Scene iii

Agendas and Homework: 1/13/14 (Monday)

LA II

  • Revisit Film Notes
  • Continue Film (Take Notes [film v novel])


LA III

  • Civil Dis. Presentations (Thoreau)

 

LA II H

  • Answer Act II, iii Questions (6-11)
  • Discuss Questions
  • Intro. and Begin Master Manipulator Wksht
  • Begin Act III (scenes i and ii)

HWK:  Wksht. Due Friday

 

 

Agendas and Homework: 1/9/14 (Thursday)

LA II

  • Correct/Discuss F-451 Quiz
  • Collect Soapstone Chart:  Afterword
  • Read and annotate Coda
  • Soapstone Chart:  Coda

HW:  Finish Chart

 

LA III:

  • Discuss and Collect Gandhi's Response and Soapstone
  • Begin Civil Dis. Group Assignment

 

LA II H

  • Collect Othello as Other Worksheet
  • Character Descriptions
  • Analyze Iago's Soliloquy (Act I Scene i)
  • Continue Reading Act II

Agendas and Homework: 1/8/13 (Wednesday)

LA II:

  • F-451 Part III Quiz (15 Questions)
  • Read and Annotate Bradbury's Afterword
  • SOAPSTone Chart:  Afterword

HW:  Finish SOAPSTone Chart

 

LA III:

  • Discuss and Collect "Blowin in the Wind"
  • Read and Annotate Gandhi's Response to "Civil Disobedience"
  • SOAPSTone Chart:  Gandhi's Response...

HW:  Finish SOAPSTone Chart

 

 

LA II H:

  • Finish Discussion on Act I Questions
  • Begin Reading Act II

HW:  Othello as Other Worksheet

Agendas: 1/7/14 (Tuesday)

LA II:

 

  • Discuss Symbolism Worksheets:
  • General, Character and Title
  • Five sentence summary of Part III.  Include important events, characters and symbols

LA III:

  • Discuss "This Land..." Lyrics (Doc-Cam)
  • "Blowin' in the Wind annotations and questions

 

LA II H:

  • Collect pair summary paragraphs
  • Answer Act I Study Guide questions
  • Begin Discussion

Agendas and Homework: 12/19/13

LA II

  • Finish Comic Book Visuals

HW:  Read Part III, Section 9 (Page 156)

 

LA III

  • Finish Aphorism Wksht.
  • Begin "Civil Disobedience" Questions

HW:  Walkabout Paragraph Due Tomorrow

 

LA II H

  • SSR 
  • Othello Intro. Questions
  • Drama Literary Terms and Othello Study Guide Questions

HW:  Gatsby Essay Due Tomorrow

 

Agendas and Homework: 12/17/13

LA II

  • SSR
  • Title Symbolism
  • Intro. and Begin Comic Book Visuals

HW:  Finish Part III Section 7

 

LA III

  • SSR
  • Answer Questions Concerning Walkabout
  • Begin Reading excerpt of "Civil Disobedience"

HW:  Walkabout Paragraph Due Friday

 

LA II H:

  • Collect Symbolism and Theme Worksheets
  • Gatsby Exam

HW:  Essay (typed & double-spaced) Due Friday

Agendas and Homework: 12/16/13

LA II

  • SSR
  • Discuss Novel
  • Begin Title Symbolism (4th Period)

HW:  Read III Sect. 7 by Wednesday

 

LA III

  • Discuss and Collect "Say/Do" Nature Wksht.
  • Nature "Walk-About"

HW:  Walk-About Due Friday

 

LA II H

  • Finish and Discuss Symbolism and Themes

HW:  Gatsby Exam Tomorrow

Agendas and Homework: 12/13/13

LA II:

  • SSR
  • Discuss Beg. of Part III
  • Continue Character Symbolism

HW:  Pt. III- Section 5

LA III:

  • Discuss Nature Questions (Imagery)
  • Say/Do Wksht. on Nature

HW:  Finish Say/Do Wksht.

 

LA II H:

  • Vocab. 12 Quiz
  • SSR
  • Essay Prompt
  • Discuss Ch. 9
  • Continue Symbolism
  • Test Structure

HW:  Gatsby Exam on Tuesday

Agendas and Homework: 12/12/13

LA II

  • SSR 
  • Discuss F-451 Part II Quiz
  • Provide Character Symbolism Wksht.

HWK:  Part III Section 2

 

LA III

  • Collect Self-Reliance/Steve Jobs Paragraph
  • Discuss Nature 
  • Nature Imagery Questions

HWK:  Finish Imagery Questions

 

LA II H

  • Discuss Calendar (Due Dates):  Ch. 9 Friday, 12/13; Provide Essay Prompt Friday,12/13;  Gatsby Exam Tuesday, 12/17; Gatsby Essay (typed & DS) Friday, 12/20 and Gatsby AP1 Sheet Monday, 1/6 
  • Discuss Chapters 7 and 8
  • Continue Symbolism

HWK:  Vocab. Quiz Tomorrow

 

Agendas and Homework: 12/10/13

LA II

  • Collect Summaries
  • Discuss Symbolism

HW:  Finish Part II; Part II Quiz Tomorrow (15 Points)

 

LA III

Collect DPS Notes

Write "Self-Reliance" and Steve Jobs Paragraph

HW: Paragraph Due Thursday

 

LA II H

  • Collect Ch. 5 Wksht.
  • Finish and Collect Mtg. Gatsby Wksht.
  • Discuss Chapter 7

HW:  Vocab. 12 Def's and Ch. 8 Due Tomorrow