On Thursday, April 23, at 9:45-12:30 (or 10:00 - 11:00 depending on who you ask) our school's poetry team will be competing online in the annual Get Lit Classic Slam! You can watch it online here:
Get Lit Classic Slam Online I believe AHS will be in Theatre 1. I have decided to keep this page for only announcements that have to do with class. I am still going to post (hopefully) interesting and helpful information, but these posts have moved to the "Blog" section here:
Blog Or you can click on "BLOG" from the menu at the top of this page. Generally, there is one post a day Monday-Friday at 7:45 a.m. It is now official that we will not be returning to campus for the rest of this school year. That means we will continue Distance Learning all the way through finals week. You will take your final online as well.
I have heard from some students (mostly seniors) that they have too much work in all of their classes, so I am going to give you less work these last few weeks; however, you will still need to spend time reading. There will still be assignments due every week. Attendance is taken every Friday and is based on whether or not you did any of the assignments for the week by Friday at 3:00 p.m. Any student who did not complete any assignments will be marked "N" Here is a calendar/schedule of what we are basically going to do for the rest of the year. Not every assignment is listed here, just the basics. This is subject to change. Week 3: April 13-17 We will read/study Act IV of Romeo and Juliet Week 4: April 20-24 We will finish Romeo and Juliet Week 5: April 27-May 1 We will start reading To Kill a Mockingbird. (Chap. 1-11) The final draft of your Night essay is also due this week - more details on that will follow. Week 6: May 4-8 We will continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird (Chap 12-21) Week 7: May 11-15 Your independent/choice reading book project is due this week. You will make and post a FlipGrid video where you review/recommend the book you read. We will finish reading To Kill a Mockingbird (Chap 22-31) Week 8: May 18-22 (the week before finals, AKA "Closed Week") You will write the essay for To Kill a Mockingbird Week 9: May 25-28 (Finals week) Your final will be on To Kill a Mockingbird A YouTube channel that I follow is Rescue and Restore. They take rusty old metal toys, take them apart, paint them, and put them back together. It may not sound interesting, but it is actually pretty chill to watch. Give it a try if you are bored or need a break. Here's one of their videos: Schoolwork is important, but it is also important for you time take some time to take care of yourself. This is a video that guides you through something simple: breathing. Did you know that anyone in your family age 18 or under can get breakfast and lunch from the district for free?
Grab and Go lunches are available on Mondays (you can get two breakfasts and two lunches per person) and Wednesdays (you get three of each) at these locations: Granada Elementary Marguerita Elementary Ynez Elementary The District Office (1515 West Mission) This is a great way to get food so you and your family do not have to take a lot of trips to the grocery store! Here are the flyers with more information (available in three languages). I've been checking essays lately and I saw a sentence that read, "...his experiences as a fifteen year old boy..." This comes up a lot in English and in journalism: is it fifteen-year-old or fifteen year old or 15 year old or 15 year-old or 15-year-old? What about fifteen years old?
I know the answer, but I thought I would look it up just in case I've gotten rusty! Here is a helpful website I found: The "Year Old" Hyphen As for fifteen vs. 15 - fifteen is correct for English class. We use MLA format. Newspaper uses AP style, which, for numbers, follows the same APA rules below: "MLA Style spells out numbers that can be written in one or two words (three, fifteen, seventy-six, one thousand, twelve billion) and to use numerals for other numbers (2¾; 584; 1,001; 25,000,000). APA Style, on the other hand, generally uses words for numbers below 10 and numerals for numbers 10 and above." So, in English class (MLA format) the correct way is fifteen-year-old. In newspaper (AP style) it is 15-year-old. Now we know! Today (Monday, April 6, 2020) is a professional development day. Teachers get the day to work on Distance Learning and students get the day off. The lessons for this week will be posted to Google Classroom tomorrow. All assignments are still due on Friday by 3:00.
If you want to get a head start, however, you can start reading Act III. I would love to show you a video and I have several DVDs - but they are in my classroom. I tried to find some good videos on YouTube but they are few and far between. There are a lot of videos that look like projects high school kids made in a park. ROMEO AND JULIET FILM VERSIONS: There are several movie versions of Romeo and Juliet you can watch if you want. The two most famous ones are Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet. You can watch the Zeffirelli version for free on Pluto TV here. It's free because it has ads. SO MANY ADS and you can't fast forward without watching a ton of ads. Ugh. There is a made-for-TV version you can watch for free using Kanopy. You need a library card to use Kanopy. If you do not have a library card, you can get a free digital library card without leaving your house! This one has no ads. Romeo + Juliet is streaming on Starz if you have it (but who has Starz??) Apparently you can watch it if you have Directv (which I do) but I tried it (you need to search "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet") but it tried to charge me ten dollars, so no thanks! You can rent it for 2-4 dollars on YouTube or Amazon. There is a 2013 version that stars Hailee Steinfeld but I haven't seen it. I understand it is an adaptation that does not use Shakespeare's language. It is on Cinemax. This is the version that all of the photos in our textbook come from. ROMEO AND JULIET AUDIOBOOK VERSIONS: You can also listen to an audiobook for free here: https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B00K7EG2QK?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_cntr-4-9 This version uses "chapters" and Act III starts at chapter 14. Basically it goes like this: Act III scene 1 = chapter 14 Act III scene 2 - chapter 15 Act III scene 3 - chapter 16 Act III scene 4 - chapter 17 Act III scene 5 - chapter 18 There is also an audio version that goes with our online textbook (this was assigned on Google Classroom). READING ROMEO AND JULIET: If you want to read, you can read the online textbook (it also has audio) which is on Google Classroom. I also assigned the Accessible Leveled Text if you want to read that - it has the text but cuts out some of the parts and puts in summary. You can read from your textbook - Act III is on pp. 425-449. You can also read the No Fear Shakespeare version here (it has Shakespeare's original text on the left and a version on the right that is written in a more easy-to-understand way: No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet I will also be posting some helpful videos this week. |
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