Welcome to English III 8/28/2013

1. Welcome to English III8/28/2013 • Please come in and find a seat • Today’s Agenda • Syllabus Review • Course Introduction • Course Expectations • Classroom Procedures • Today’s Essential Question: • What do I need to accomplish to be successful this semester? • Tomorrow’s Agenda – Pre-test

2. 8/29/2014 • Warm Up: Many verbs can be used for a variety of purposes. For example the verb run can be used to say all sorts of different things. We can run across the street, run wild, run away, or run for political office. For each of the following verbs write five different examples that differ significantly: • Catch • Beat • Look • Find • Do • Essential Question: How well do I know Grammar? • Agenda: • Pre-Test - Grammar • SAT Vocabulary Unit 1 • Preview: Puritanism

3. Notebook Quiz 1 • What percentage of your overall grade is Major Assessments? • When do you need to have your 3-ring binder in class? • Please explain the 10/10 rule. • What are the 5 classroom rules? • Please explain the procedures for leaving the classroom to go to the restroom. • Please explain how your final grade for this class is computed – specifically explain the weighted percentage for each grading period. • What is the literary focus of this class? • Please explain the cell phone/electronic devices policy for this classroom. • What is the answer to the Essential Question from yesterday? • Please explain the procedure for turning in work. Bonus: Do you have your signed syllabus? Yes_____ No ______

4. 9/1/2014 • Labor Day – No School

5. 9/2/2014 NAME DATE ENGLISH IIIREADING PRE-TEST • Warm Up: Common Usage Problems • Essential Question: How well do I understand what I read? • Today’s Agenda: • ACT Vocabulary Unit 1 • Reading Pre-test – DO NOT WRITE ON TEST • Define Group 1 Literary Terms • 4th Period – Independent Reading • Tomorrow’s Agenda: • Introduction to Puritanism • Anne Bradstreet • Phyllis Wheatley

6. Warm Up – Common Usage Problems • When are they going to ____ the flag? (rise, raise) • I was _____ disappointed in the result, (kind of, somewhat) • Let’s go ____ the lobby to wait for them. (in, into) • A few fans ___ in the bleachers in spite of the rain. (sat, set) • This short cut seems ____ than the regular way. (further, farther) • ____ the chips fall where they may. (leave, let) • The player _____ pinch hit for the pitcher struck out. (that, which) • The hikers still had a long _____ to go before nightfall. (way, ways) • The ____ of the new drug are not fully known. (affects, effects) • The prisoner returned to jail that night _____ he said he would (as, like)

8. Reading Pre-Test • PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST • QUESTIONS 10, 20, 30 REQUIRE A WRITTEN RESPONSE ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER WITH THE FOLLOWING HEADING: • NAME • DATE • ENGLISH iii • READING PRE-TEST • ON YOUR SCANTRON – ANSWER QUESTIONS 10, 20, & 30 WITH THE LETTER “C” – MAKE SURE YOU WRITE YOUR CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER • WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED, PLEASE MAKE THREE (3) PILES • MY TEST • YOUR SCANTRON • YOUR CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES

9. 9/3/2014 • Please have a seat and prepare for today’s class. You will need to have paper and something to write with. Please make sure your phone is on silent and is put away. • Warm-Up: Comma Usage • Today’s Agenda: • Notebook Set Up • Introduction to Puritanism • Essential Question: What is Puritanism? • Tuesday’s Preview: Women in Puritan Writing

10. Warm Up – Commas Place commas where appropriate – You do not need to completely rewrite the sentence, just write the words on each side of the comma • Mary Grace lives in a dark wooded area. • The crash awoke Father and he jumped out of bed. • Buy tomatoes cucumbers scallions and lettuce. • An exhausted discouraged team limped into the locker room. • Betty must have reached home safely or she would have phoned. • I found many old stamps in Grandfather’s collection. • The rain has stopped but it is still very humid. • An angry determined speaker addressed the mayor. • Frank planned to read his speech but he lost his notes. • I prepared a salad cooked a roast and baked some cookies. • Her room unfortunately is right over the garage. • Mrs. Eriksen will you explain that answer again? • Our vacation is near the end of July not in August. • Although she is excellent at ballet she prefers modern dance. • His refusal I am certain can easily be explained.

11. 9/4/2014 • Warm Up: • Sign up for REMIND • Writing Prompt 1 – You willturnthis in soplease have a separatesheet of paper and something to writewith. • Today’s Objectives: • Women in Puritan Writing - Anne Bradstreet & Phyllis Wheatley • Essential Question: What was the Puritan attitude toward women? • Tomorrow’s Objectives: Puritans in Literature • Reminders: Quiz ACT Unit 1 on Tuesday

14. Writing Prompt 1 NAMEDATE ENGLISH III WP1 • Perseverance is a steady effort to maintain a course of action, purpose, or belief, often in spite of difficulty. Write 5 Paragraphs on the meaning of perseverance as it applies to personal success. Use the following information as well as your personal experience to construct your response: • The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. – Nelson Mandela • Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong • I would go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis • Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Sometime, somewhere, somehow we shall find that which we seek. – Hellen Keller • It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein • If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan Reminders: • A Paragraph is ALWAYS at least 5-7 Complete Sentences • You will turn this in today • Focus on the meaning of perseverance as it applies to personal success • Pay attention to proper grammar, appropriate use of language, and proper punctuation. • Put your heading in the upper left hand corner of your paper • Please write legibly

15. Name Date English III ACT 1 Crossword 9/5/2014 • Warm Up: • Review Unit 1 ACT Words • ACT Crossword – You will turn this in today • Essential Question: Is Puritanism still relevant in American Literature? • Today’s Agenda: • Puritanism in American Literature • Complete Puritanism Packet • Puritanism Web Search • Notebook Quiz 2 • Preview: • Salem Witch Trials • Assignment: Puritanism Web Search – Due 9/10/2014. This is a HOMEWORK assignment

16. Name Date English III NBQ2 NOTEBOOK QUIZ 2 • What were the dates of Puritanism? • Who was the first American Poet? • What is the definition of Lurid? • What is the date of your first ACT Vocabulary quiz? • What are the three reasons Puritans wrote? • What is the definition of Puritanism? • What are the FIVE required sections of your notebook? • What type of grade is your notebook counted as? • What were the 4 Puritan values? • What did Benjamin Franklin write? Bonus: Please list 3 things you like/dislike about this class and 3 things you want to learn in this class

17. Notebook Quiz 1 • 1. What was the essential question on 9/3/2013 and what is the answer? • 2. What percentage of your grade is Projects? • 3. According to the syllabus, when should you fill up your water bottle? • 4. What is class rule number 2? • 5. Under what tab number do tests and quizzes go? • 6. What were the dates of Puritanism? • 7. Who was the first American Poet? • 8. What is the definition of Lurid? • 9. What date is your crucible project due? • 10. What are the three reasons Puritans wrote?

18. 9/5/2013 • Warm Up: • Complete Exercise 1 on page 174 of your Grammar book • Please make sure you record your answers in your spiral notebook or composition book • Essential Question: What were the Salem Witch Trials and why did they happen? • Objectives: • Complete Puritanism Packet – Page 7 • Notes on Salem Witch Trials • Salem Witch Trials Web Search • Preview: • Begin Reading The Crucible • Assignment: Puritanism Web Search – Due 9/6/2013 • Reminder: Notebook Quiz on FRIDAY!!!

19. Phillis Wheatley Born in Senegal about 1753, poet Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts, on a slave ship in 1761, and was purchased by John Wheatley as a personal servant to his wife. The Wheatleys educated Phillis, and she soon mastered Latin and Greek, and began writing poetry. She published her first poem at age 12, and her first volume of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in 1773. She died in Boston in 1784. A pioneering African-American poet, Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal around 1753. At the age of 8, she was kidnapped and brought to Boston on a slave ship. Upon her arrival, John Wheatley purchased the young girl as a servant for his wife, Susanna. • Under the family's direction, Wheatley (who, as was the custom at the time, adopted her master's last name) was taken under Susanna's wing. While Wheatley suffered from poor health, her quick intelligence was hard to miss, and as a result, Susanna did not train her to be her servant. • Instead, Wheatley received lessons in theology, English, Latin and Greek. Ancient history was soon folded into the teachings, as were lessons in mythology and literature. Additionally, Wheatley, while still a slave, enjoyed limited restrictions on her life and became a part of the family. At a time when African Americans were discouraged and intimidated from learning how to read and write, Wheatley's life was an anomaly. • Wheatley wrote her first published poem at age 12. The work, a story about two men who nearly drown at sea, was printed in the Newport Mercury. Other published poems followed, with several also being published, further increasing Wheatley's fame. • In 1773, Wheatley gained considerable stature when her first and only book of poems, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published. Susanna Wheatley helped finance its publication. As proof of her authorship, the volume included a preface in which 17 Boston men claimed that she had indeed written the poems in it. • Poems on Various Subjects is a landmark achievement in American history. In publishing it, Wheatley became the first African American and first U.S. slave to publish a book of poems, as well as the third American woman to do so. • After her return to Boston, Wheatley's life changed significantly. While ultimately freed from slavery, she was devastated by the deaths of several Wheatley family members, including Susanna (d. 1774) and John (d. 1778). • In 1778, Wheatley married a free African American from Boston, John Peters, with who she had three children, all of whom died in infancy. Their marriage proved to be a struggle, with the couple battling constant poverty. Ultimately, Wheatley was forced to find work as a maid in a boarding house.

20. Questions from Phillis Wheatley • In what specific ways does Wheatley’s poem “A Hymn to Humanity” meet the objectives of Puritan writing? (Cite specific examples that coincide with the goals of Puritan writing) • What is the rhyme scheme of the poem “A Hymn to Humanity” and how does that rhythm reinforce the idea of a hymn or song? • In what ways does Wheatley implore God to help mankind? • In “On Imagination” to whom is the poem addressed? • In what ways does “On Imagination” achieve the goals of Puritan writing (specifics please)? • What is the poet’s attitude toward nature in the poem “On Imagination”?