Welcome, English III students! :) Please utilize the resources below to help enable your success in my class. (Anything found below in purple is a direct link to that particular resource.) The course's syllabus can be located here.
*Everyday in class we begin with a warm-up where students are required to respond to a quote, image, or short video in their notebooks. These responses must be at least 5 sentences in length and are graded at random throughout the Quarter. In addition, we practice SSR (silent sustained reading) daily in class. In order to do so, students are required to read a text of their choice for 15 minutes without interruption (NO cellphones or headphones should be visible!). Then, they must respond to a prompt provided in class in their notebooks. These are graded daily and are worth 20 points for a total of 100 points at the end of the week.*
Coming of Age:
Week One:
*Everyday in class we begin with a warm-up where students are required to respond to a quote, image, or short video in their notebooks. These responses must be at least 5 sentences in length and are graded at random throughout the Quarter. In addition, we practice SSR (silent sustained reading) daily in class. In order to do so, students are required to read a text of their choice for 15 minutes without interruption (NO cellphones or headphones should be visible!). Then, they must respond to a prompt provided in class in their notebooks. These are graded daily and are worth 20 points for a total of 100 points at the end of the week.*
Coming of Age:
Week One:
- Vocabulary Words for this week: licentious, superfluous, duplicitous, epiphany, vapid, disheartening, facetious, chagrin, nonplussed, narcissist (You can also access these words at www.quizlet.com if you search 'MsScott1')
- Coming of Age Anticipation Guide
- The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken Text Dependent Questions
- TPCASTT Poetry Analysis
- "A&P" by John Updike
- "A&P" Text Dependent Questions
- Unreliable Narrator Mini Lesson PowerPoint
- Vocabulary words for this week: pristine, prolific, brusque, cosmopolitan, placate, cacophony, marginalize, sullen, taciturn, vacillate (You can also access these words at www.quizlet.com if you search 'MsScott1')
- JFK Presidential Profile
- JFK's Inaugural Address Questions
- "American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Vocabulary words for this week: histrionic, eschew, restitution, eclectic, hiatus, supercilious, ostentatious, rampant, contentious, lucrative (You can also access these words at www.quizlet.com if you search 'MsScott1')
- Assessment One: Review: "Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike
- "America" by P. Simon Lesson
- A representative from King's College came in to speak to us about the topic of 'research', which will be beneficial when it comes time to begin our Junior Research Paper
- We also took our first Formal Assessment this week!
- Vocabulary words for this week: retrospect, nostalgia, woo, anthology, frail, barren, putter, philander, egregious, incredulous (You can also access these words at www.quizlet.com if you search 'MsScott1')
- We watched a Mini Lesson video on Plot Analysis and analyzed an episode from the Twilight Zone: "Eye of the Beholder"
- MLA Format Guided Notes
- MLA Format Outline for student's notes
- Introduction to The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The Catcher in the Rye Introduction Video Clip
- "I'm Crazy" by JD Salinger
- "I'm Crazy" Text Dependent Questions
- "Catch Her in the Oatmeal" Writing Style Parody
- "Holdenisms": Writing Style Assignment
- Summer Reading Assignments are due on September 30th!
- Vocabulary words for this week: abhor, bigot, noxious, placid, abrasive, plethora, absolution, reprieve, tawdry, cryptic (You can also access these words at www.quizlet.com if you search 'MsScott1')
- Investigating Style Handout
- "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish" by JD Salinger
- "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish" Text Dependent Questions
- Exercises for using MLA Format Handout
- MLA Practice Handout
- Vocabulary Words Matching Handout
- Vocabulary words for this week: ostracize, qualm, compulsory, sadistic, rile, monotonous, sheer, recuperate, bourgeois, boisterous (You can also access these words at www.quizlet.com if you search 'MsScott1')