"Keep not standing fixed and rooted; briskly venture, briskly roam."- Goethe

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Welcome to our Honors & College Prep English Classes! I am so excited to start the school year with you and can't wait to get on the program! 

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AUGUST & SEPTEMBER "HONE"WORK CALENDAR

Monday, Late Start 9/17	Tuesday, 9/18	Thursday, 9/20
Both Honors & CP Step It Up Challenge!  Write a one page response to the following article of the week. Yes, title your paper in MLA format. Yes, you should handwrite it ONLY. Yes, it's due tomorrow. : )	Both Honors & CP ​Remember that there is a Literary terms. Quest on THURSDAY.  Woohoo!  Bring in our ORB book too!	WOTD for both classes!  Quest grades are posted! Honors 7  Please read "All Summer in a Day" (Ray Bradbury). Be sure to mark up the figurative language & look up words you don't know. English 7 CP Please read "All Summer in a Day" (Ray Bradbury) - look up word you don't know.

Monday	Tuesday, 9/11	Thursday, 9/13
NO SCHOOL	Both Honors & CP Practice your Literary terms. ​ for 30 minutes using Quizlet. ​​Bring in an outside reading book.	Both Honors & CP Practice your Literary terms. ​ for 30 minutes using Quizlet. ​​Bring in an outside reading book.

NO School!  Happy Labor Day!	Tuesday, Sept. 4th  ​BLOCK 1, 3, 5	Wednesday, Sept. 5th  BLOCK, 2, 4, 6	Thursday, Sept. 6th BLOCK 1, 3, 5	Friday, Sept. 7th BLOCK 2, 4, 6
NO SCHOOL!	BOTH CP & HONORS Question of the day: Do animals have their own language?​ WOTD: Review from last week. We watched this  TEDx video by Mac Barnett around how books offer secret doors for us.  Check out this film of the mongoose and a cobra. CP & HONORS HW: Bring in an outside reading book.  Write down one goal for the year on the index card I handed out in class. Practice - ​quizlet.com/_54jtk4​​ ​​	At the district office.  Will not be at school today. Here is my back to school night presentation!  Thank you, parents! ​	BOTH CP & HONORS Question of the day: Do animals have their own language?​ WOTD: draggled, cowered, gait, archetype. We finished watching this  TEDx video by Mac Barnett around how books offer secret doors for us. We took notes on some of our Literary terms. (first 25) CP & HONORS HW: Practice your literary terms for 20 minutes on Quizlet.	At the district office.  Will not be at school today. ​

MONDAY 27th	TUESDAY 28th ​SINGLE PERIOD	WEDNESDAY 29th SINGLE PERIOD	THURSDAY 30th ​BLOCK (1, 3, 5)	FRIDAY, 31st ​BLOCK (2, 4, 6)
NO SCHOOL!  ​ ​	(BOTH H & CP) WOTD: peruse & potable HW: Review my class expectations, syllabus (see above) (SIGN BY TUESDAY the 4th) Have a section for English in your notebook & bring a free reading/outside reading book. Remember how to put an MLA heading on your papers. (Hee hee) ​ Here is my first day of school presentation.	​​(BOTH H & CP) WOTD: slipshod, dilly-dally, behoove, ​allegory, facetious 1- Do you remember how to head your paper in MLA format? 2-Ask your parents about the craziest parenting strategy they have tried on you.  Did it work?  Think of my whipped cream example.   HW: Bring in an English notebook.  Take notes on Plotline from the images above. Bring in a Silent Reading Book by Tuesday the 4th. Woohoo &  Don't forget to sign your syllabus (see below)	(BOTH H & CP) ​WOTD: cantonment, mongoose, bungalow 1 - Review Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" if need be and how it relates to Plotline. HW:  ​Fill out plotline chart with "Allegory ot the Cave" quizlet.com/_54jtk4​- Play the quizlet  on your literary terms 5 times for fun. Try the Matching game. Use your WOTD. Bring in an outside reading book and sign that syllabus. (see below)   Woohoo! ​​	​At the District Office TODAY.  Email Chufo if you have questions.