ESOL American Literature Week of October 23 - 27

Our main focus will be on preparing for our speeches, due November 2. We will look at some speeches in our textbook, as well as covering rhetorical appeals and techniques. We will have a summative test over The Crucible on Friday, October 27.

Link to Pro/Con Gun Control

Link to Pro/Con on Gun Control
Link to Border Wall Pro/Con

Link to Kneeling for Anthem Pro/Con

Link to Pro/Con website

ESOL World Literature Week of October 23 - 27

This week we will complete Persepolis. As usual, we will have a vocabulary quiz on Monday, and a common formative assessment on Tuesday. We are focusing on preparing for the Argumentative Essay that will be due on November 2. I need everyone to turn in their T-charts on Monday. Remember that one piece of your Mango Street project is due Friday, October 27.

Link to Pro/Con

ESOL World History Week of October 23 - 27

We started Unit 7 on Asia, which is a mini-unit. The summative grade will be a combination of a final quiz and the group project that we started on Friday. You will have part of class Monday and Tuesday to work on the projects and present them. The quiz will be Wednesday, and then we will start on Unit 8, which is a super-unit that covers a whole lot of information. I will continue to post helpful links to this blog.



Link to Video about Enlightenment

ESOL American Literature Week of October 16 - 20

We will focus on finishing The Crucible and Unit 2 for the next two weeks in preparation for writing and giving a speech. I will hand back your Unit 2 Embedded Assessment Synthesis papers on October 16, and we will discuss some of the skills we need to work on for the next writing assignment. We will have an Act 1 Quiz on Monday. We reviewed for it pretty extensively on Friday.

Remember that from now on, class will begin with ten minutes of independent reading. Get your books from the drawer and be ready to read when the bell rings.

Link to Chart about Rhetorical Appeals

ESOL World Literature Week of October 16 - 20

I had previously announced that the Mango Street project would be due on October 27. Because we have not read much of the novel, I am going to have the October 27 date be the due date for only one piece of the project. There are 3 assignments you must do, so I'll leave it up to you to decide which one to turn in first. The other 2 assignments will be due at the end of November, when we will have read more of the novel.

We will be focusing on finishing Persepolis and writing an argument in the next two weeks. Monday, October 16 will be the weekly vocabulary quiz.

World History Week of October 16 - 20

The test that was going to be Tuesday will now be Wednesday. We will do some extension activities on Monday and review on Tuesday. After the test on Wednesday, I will give you the new Word Wall words for Unit 7. The remainder of the week will be on introductory material (notes, activities) for Unit 7. I will be posting the review game for the Unit 6 test on Monday.

Link to Unit 6 Review game

American Literature Week of October 9 - 13

We will continue to read The Crucible as well as watching the movie version of it as we go. We will have quizzes over Acts 1 and 3. We will also discuss rhetorical devices in preparation for our Embedded Assessment for Unit 2 which is giving a persuasive speech. I will continue to post links to power points, etc. as the week progresses.

Link to Conflict Video

World Literature Week of October 9 - 13

The Vocab quiz will be tomorrow, October 9. We will continue reading Persepolis and The House on Mango Street. We will meet on Wednesday after the PSAT/PACT testing, but we will not meet Thursday because of early release. Remember to work on the Mango Street project.

Link to Film clip about Iranian Revolution  Argo

Link to Persepolis Trailer

World History Week of October 9 - 13

We started on Unit 6, The Americas and Exploration, on Wednesday. We will have the test on either Friday the 13th or on Tuesday, October 17. This week will be a little crazy. On Wednesday, we will not meet because of PSAT and PACT. Thursday is early release, so we will have class during 2nd block. Throughout the week, I will post links to activities and the Review game for the test.

ESOL American Literature Week of October 2 - 6

Welcome back from Fall break! I hope it was great.

We will be starting on Unit 2 in the textbook. The theme is persuasion and the text we will be studying is The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It is a play about the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, but it is also about McCarthyism in the 1950's. I just visited Salem on Saturday, so I learned all about the history of the event. We will begin by studying some Puritan primary documents to understand the religious beliefs that led to the witch trials.

Full text for Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Characterization PPT

ESOL World Literature Week of October 2 - 6

I hope everyone had a great break!

We will continue reading both Persepolis and The House on Mango Street this week. Remember to get started on your Mango Street Project. I will assign new Vocabulary words on Monday, and the quiz will be next Monday.

ESOL World History Week of October 2 - 6

I hope you all had a great break and are ready to work!

This week, we will study the second half of Unit 5--the Reformation. We will have a test over this material and average the grades from part 1 and part 2 for the final test grade. I will continue to add links to this blog as the week progresses, including a link to the study game when we get closer to the test. I will let you know the date of the test as soon as get it from the other World History teachers.

The Part 2 test will be on Wednesday, Oct. 4

Link to Flipquiz for Unit 5

Only the last 2 categories, Reformation 1 and Reformation 2, will be on this test.

For anyone who needs to make up Medieval vs. Renaissance
Link to Medieval vs. Renaissance

Early America Notes PPT