Class Agenda: Wednesday, October 17

1) D.O.L.

2) The Phrase Pre-Test

3) The Phrase Guided Notes

4) Standards Practice: pp. 140-145

HW: Standards Practice: pp. 140-145

Class Agenda: Tuesday, October 16

1) In-Class Response to Literature Essay on "Marigolds"

HW: Revise Injustice Narrative Essay

Class Agenda: Monday, October 15

1) Read and annotate "Marigolds"

2) Pre-writing for tomorrow's in-class essay on "Marigolds"

HW: Revise Injustice Narrative Essay

Class Agenda: Wednesday, October 10

1) Warm-up: Gerund vs. Participial Phrase

2) Meet with groups to finish reading and annotating "The Lottery"

3) "The Lottery" Quiz

4) Response to Literature: Outlining an essay about "The Lottery"

Class Agenda: Tuesday, October 9

1) Warm-up: The Gerund and the Gerund Phrase

2) Model annotate "The Lottery" with the class

3) Read and annotate "The Lottery" in groups

Homework: Read and annotate "The Lottery" to page 4

Class Agenda: Monday, October 8

1) Warm-Up: The Participle and the Participial Phrase

2) Discuss introductions and opening hooks

3) Revise introductions for narrative essay about injustice

4) Peer review revised introductions

Homework: Finish revising introductions; type if you can!

Class Agenda: Monday, October 1

1) Vocab Flashcard Review

2) Vocab/Parts of Speech Test

3) Finish "MDG" Visual Aid Presentations

4) The Prepositional Phrase Handout

HW: Finish Prepositional Phrase Handout

Class Agenda: Friday, September 28

1) Vocab/Parts of Speech Jeopardy Review

2)"MDG" Visual Aid Presentations

HW: Study Vocab and Parts of Speech for test on Monday!

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 26

1) "Most Dangerous Game" Reading Quiz

2) Elements of Fiction Jeopardy

3) Elements of Fiction Notes: "Most Dangerous Game"

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 25

1) Warm-Up: The Phrase



2) Finish reading "Most Dangerous Game"



Homework: Finish reading "Most Dangerous Game"

Class Agenda: Monday, September 24

1) Vocab Balderdash

2) Notes on Figures of Speech

3) Start reading "Most Dangerous Game"

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 19

1) Warm-up: Handbook Pg. 42, Exercise 1

2) Check out books

3) (Period 7): Finish reading and filling out reading guide for "American History"

4) Parts of Speech Pre-Test

5) Parts of Speech Guided Notes

HW: "What is a Verb?" Packet (due Friday)

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 18

1) Get out narrative essay pre-writes:
a) Why We Write Journal Freewrite
b) Plot chart
c) 2-sided Pre-writing handout

2) Use pre-writes to write narrative essay about injustice

3) Staple pre-writes to narrative and hand in before you leave

No homework! Rest your tired hands!

Class Agenda: Monday, September 17

1) Narrative Notes: Step 5

2) Review Homework/ Answer ?s

3) Finish reading and filling out reading guide for "American History"

HW: Make sure you have all three narrative essay pre-writing activities completed:
1) Journal freewrite about Why We Write/Injustice
2) Plot Chart
3) 2-sided Pre-writing Handout

Class Agenda: Friday, September 14

1) Warm-up: Prefix (en-)

2) Narrative Essay Notes: Steps 3 & 4

3) Review homework: Pre-writing handout focusing on developing details about plot, characters, and setting, and on developing a guiding argument/theme

4) Start reading and filling out reading guide for "American History"

HW: Start 2-sided pre-writing handout (due Tuesday)

Class Agenda: Thursday, September 13

1) Narrative Essay Notes: Step Two/Homework

2) Prefixes

3) Vocab Balderdash

Homework: Plot Events for Narrative on Plot Line

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 12

1) Hand in Expert Packets

2) Elements of Fiction: Power Point

3) Narrative Notes: Basic Definition and Step One:

a) Annotate writing prompt
b) Discuss journal freewrite: Why We Write (homework)

4) Finish film

5) L of KWL on Wiesel Documentary

Homework: Journal Freewrite (Why We Write)

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 11

1) 9/11 Reflection

2) Finish Expert Groups/ hand in charts

3) KWL-- Journal

4) Wiesel documentary

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Monday, September 10

1) Class blog/website

2) Expert Group Prep (10-15 minutes)/Notebook Checks

3) Expert Group Teaching

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Friday, September 7, 2007

1) Finish Group Setting Project Presentations

2) Elements of Fiction Guided Notes: Character and Conflict

3) Begin work in Character/Conflict Expert Groups

a) Read passages and select top three

b) Begin completing group's expert findings chart

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Thursday, September 6, 2007

1) Setting Visual Aids

2) Setting Group Project Presentations

No homework!

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 5, 2007

1) Group Setting Projects:

a) 5 passages describing place

b) Write found poem

c) Write analysis

Homework: Type sentences, poem, and analysis; 1 question for Mr. Dzieza

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 4, 2007

1) Clarify Points about Night

--Sighet, TRANSYLVANIA
--Concentration Camps: Birkenau --> Auschwitz --> BUNA --> Buchenwald

2) Night Test

3) Elements of Fiction Guided Notes: Theme and Setting

4) Start homework: Setting Journal Prompt

Homework: Setting Journal Prompt

Class Agenda: Friday, September 1, 2007

1) Journals: Wiesel quote and Safe Classroom Environment Journal

2) Elements of Fiction Guided Notes: Plot

3) Plot in Night with Groups/ Magnets on Board

Homework: Prepare for Night test on Tuesday; parent signatures and notebooks

Class Agenda: Thursday, August 31, 2007

1) Attendance/Class Survey and First Day of School Freewrite

2) Review Syllabus

Homework: Parent Signatures and Notebook Check next Friday, September 7th

Informative Holocaust websites

The student section of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's website: http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/

Personal testimonies of holocaust survivors: http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.juLVJ8MRKtH/b.1343627/k.630A/Personal_Testimonies.htm

Informative Elie Wiesel websites

The section dedicated to Elie Wiesel on the US Holocaust Memorial Musem's website: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007176

An interview with Elie Wiesel where he talks about the need to apply the lessons of holocaust to present-day incidences of genocide: http://blogs.ushmm.org/index.php/COC2/special_episode_memory_and_witness/

A site designed for an Oprah special with Wiesel (of special interest are a WWII timeline with special facts about Wiesel's experience and photographs and a video of a call for action to stop genocide in the former Yugoslavia at the dedication of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum): http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/wiesel/

Another Student Film Response to _Night_

A student's film interpretation of Elie Wiesel's _Night_

Welcome to English with Ms. Gharda!

To whom it may concern,

If you're reading this, you must be in Ms. Gharda's English class. Welcome! I look forward to working with you. This blog will be a place where you can find relevant forms of media (i.e. film clips, photos, articles, etc.) to complement class studies and daily agendas. If you happen to misplace a handout or need one because you are absent, you can find those items at http://ngharda.googlepages.com/home. I would recommend bookmarking both sites so you can return to them often! I hope they will serve both of us well.

Yours sincerely,

Ms. Gharda