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=Mrs. Oppermann's Sophomore English Web Page =

Throughout the school year, you will find most assignments and documents for class on this web page. If you are absent, you may find information here listed by date. Please check this page before talking to Mrs. Oppermann.

REFERENCE AND INFORMATIONAL DOCUMENTS: 2. Summer Assignment Revision Instructions || || Summer Assignment Stamped || B-day || 1. //Great Expectations// Background Assignment 2. Outside Reading || || Summer Quotes and Responses Revised Response Disclosure || A-day || 1. Hall passes 2. Seating Chart 3. Outside Reading 4. //Great Expectations// Background Assignment 5. DOL Instructions || See link above || Summer Quotes and Responses Revised Response Disclosure || B-day || 1. DOL Instruction 2. Seating Chart 3. Group work for Background Presentation ||  || Individual Research and Connections || A-day || 1. DOL 2. Group work for Background Presentation ||  || Individual Research and Connections DOL || 8/30 || 1. //Great Expectations// Character Assignment 2. Discussion || ||   || 9/1 || 1. DOL 2. //Great Expectations// Background Presentations 3. Discussion || ||   || B-Day || 1. DOL 2. Character Groups 3. Background Presentations ||  || Character Assignment || A-Day || 1. SRI-Testing 2. Library Orientation ||  ||   || B-Day || 1. DOL 2. //GREAT EXPECTATIONS TEST// ||  ||   || A-Day || 1. DOL 2. Character Groups 3. Presentations/Discussion ||  || Character Assignment || B-day || 1. SRI Testing 2. Library Orientation ||  ||   || A-day || 1. DOL 2. //GREAT EXPECTATIONS// TEST ||  ||   || 9/14 || 1. In-Class School-Wide Writing Assessment In-Class Essay (If you do this at home spend no more than 1 1/2 hours, please hand write) MUST BE COMPLETED BY THURSDAY 9/15 || ||   || B-Day || 1. DOL 2. Essay Discussion: Sample thesis statements outlines. || || DOL || A-Day || 1. DOL 2. Partner Interview || || DOL || B-Day || 1. DOL 2. Partner Interview ||  ||   || A-Day || 1. DOL 2. Essay Discussion: Sample thesis statements and outlines. ||  ||   || B-Day || 1. DOL 2. Partner Interview 3. Culture Discussion and Clips ||  || DOL || A-Day || 1. DOL 2. Share Interviews ||  || Partner Interview Intro Essay DOL || B-Day || 1. DOL 2. Share Interviews ||  || Partner Interview Intro Essay //Great Expectations// Essay || A-Day || 1. DOL 2. Finish Interviews 3. Culture Discussion ||  || //Great Expectations// Essay || 9/29 9/30 10/3 || 1. DOL 2. Check out //The House on Mango Street// //3.// Finish interviews (B-Day) 4. Culture Discussion and Clips (A-Day)(B-Day) || ||   || 10/5 || 1. DOL 2. Elements of Culture Discussion 3. Culture Chart "YOU" 4. Memoir Writing Assignment 5. Similie and Metaphor Scavenger Hunt || ||  ||
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10/7 || 1. DOL 2. //House on Mango Street D//iscussion 3. Talk-Write ||  || 1. DOL 2. Conenctions 3. Simile and Metaphor Scavenger Hunt || 10/11 || 1. DOL 2. //House on Mango Street// Discussion Fill out Culture Chart on Esperanza 3. (A-Day) Simile Metaphor Examples ||  || 1. Simile and Metaphor Scavenger Hunt (A-Day) || 2. Check-out //The Chosen// from the library (See reading schedule in next column) 3. Talk-write (2B) 4. Map the Neighborhood || ||  || 12/2 || 1. Chosen/Chosen Quizzes 2. Revision of memoirs 3. Chosen Essay ||  ||   || 11/30 || 1. DOL 2. Plot Elements (study guide) 3. "The Catbird Seat" Plot Chart || || 1. Plot Chart || 12/2 || 1. DOL 2. Conflict (study guide) 3. Conflict Group Work 4. "The Leap" homework (access at my.hrw.com, student # user and pass- word) || || 1. DOL 2. Conflict (3B) || 12/6 || 1. DOL 2. Conflict Discussion 3. "The Leap" Discussion 4. (3A only) "The Pedestrian"from text Plot Chart, foreshadowing, suspense || Use plot chart above for "The Pedestrian." || 1. Conflict group 2. "The Leap" chart || 12/8 || 1. DOL 2. Narrative Organization (study guide) 3. Narrative Organization Clips 4. "The Trip" Homework || Access "The Trip" online at my.hrw.com. Use student # for user name and password. Answer A,C, and E during reading. Answer Literary Skills #10 &11 at end. [|online text] || 1. DOL (A-Day) || 12/12 || 1. DOL 2. Discuss "The Trip" 3. "Beware of the Dog" Setting || Read "Beware of the Dog" [|Story Link] Answer questions on handout. || 1. DOL (B-day) 2. "The Trip" Questions || 12/14 || 1. School-wide writing assessment in-class essay. || Will be attached after classes have finished. ||  || 12/16 || 1. Counselor Presentation 2. Subject-verb agreement 3. Character, "Enoch and the Gorilla" || 1. "Enoch and the Gorilla" 2. Homework: Read "Everyday Use" in the online text. Access the text online at my.hrw.com. Use student # for user name and password.[|online text] Answer questions on assignment sheet. ||  || 12/20 || 1. Starter: Packet pg. 57 (B) 57-58 (A) 2. Discuss "Enoch and the Gorilla" and "Everyday Use" 3. Point of View/Narrators Study Guide 4. "Strays" and questions || "Strays" text not available online || 1. "Enoch and Gorilla" Chart 2. "Everyday Use" Assignment 3. "Strays" Questions || A-Day HW || 1. Starter: p. 58 packet 2. Read "The Lottery" 3. Complete charts/questions || [|"The Lottery" Text] ||  || 1/4 || 1. Starter: DOL or Packet p. 62 2. Theme 3. Aesop's Fables Group Work || Get fables from Ms. Oppermann || 1. "The Lottery" || A-Day || 1. Starter: DOL or Packet p. 63 2. Symbol 3. "Through the Tunnel" || Read "Through the Tunnel" on page 325 of the online text. [|Online text link] Answer questions #5,6,7 oage 335 and define the theme. || 1. Aesop's fables (B-day) || B-Day || Outside Reading Presentations ||  || 1. Blue Review Sheet || A-Day || Outside Reading Presentations ||  || 1. Blue Review Sheet || 1/11 1/12 || 1. Turn in starters-either packet or DOL
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2. Discuss "Through the Tunnel", focus on symbol and theme. 3. Discuss written themes from "The Lottery" 4. Pass Back Papers/Portfolios ||  || 1. "Through the Tunnel" || 1/18 B || 1. Starter: Finish Agreement Packet (A) Modifier worksheet (B) 2. Discuss/prepare/review for test next time. 3. Read "The Masque of the Red Death" and identify all elements. || Link to online text [|Online text]
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Assignment sheet || 1. Agreement Packet (A-day) || 1/20 || SHORT STORY TEST IN CLASS ||  || 1. "The Masque of the Red Death" ||
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1/27 || 1. Starters: Finish Modifiers Start parallelism 2. Activate Background for //Of Mice and Men// -Clips and responses (can't make up) -Newspaper article and response -Own experience -American Dream response 3. Elements in //Of Mice and Men// 3. Short Story Essay assignment 4. Read //Of Mice and Men// || Get parallelism sheet from Mrs. O
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Newspaper article: Write a paragraph response about how the person with disabilities was treated. Then write a paragraph about your own experience with a person with disabilities. [|Article link] || 1. Modifiers Starter 2. Response paragraphs 3. American Dream poem and questions || 1/30 || 1. Starter: Finish parallelism (B-day) 2. Persuasion in //Of Mice and Men// 3. Constructing a persuasive paragraph discussion and assignment. || Fill out the pro/con chart. List at least four reasons from the text for each side of the argument. Issue (for center column): Whether or not Carlson should have killed Candy's dog. (See pages 36,44,45,47 in text) Write a persuasive paragraph, choosing one side of the argument. Make sure your paragraph has a clear topic sentence, concrete details, commentary, and a strong concluding persuasive sentence. || 1. Parallelism sheet (B-day) || 2/1 || 1. Starter: Parallelism (A-day) Active/Passive Voice (B-day) 2. Grade Dog Paragraph 3. Discuss Ch. 4 //Of Mice and Men// 4. Persuasion: Text Information "Love is a Fallacy" || [|Love is a Fallacy" link] As you read the story "Love is a Fallacy," find and describe the fallacies addressed in the story. || 1. Parallelism Sheet (A-day) 2. Essay (B-day) 3. Dog Paragraph || 2/3 || 1. Starter: Active/Passive Voice 2. //Mice and Men// Quiz 3. Book Discussion: ending and elements || [|"] || 1. Active/Passive Voice Sheet (b-day) 2. Elements Sheet || 2/7 || Starter: Active/Passive Voice, DOL 2. Subjective Evidence: appeal to emotions "There Comes a Time When People Get Tired"--Martin Luther King, Jr. "Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr." --Robert F. Kennedy || [|Speech in text] enter page 577,press "GO" Only "Eulogy..." is available in the text.
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[|There Comes a Time]is available online with this link.

Identify the Intent and Evidence in each speech and outline/summarize the evidence. || 1. Active/Passive Voice (a-day) || 2/9 2/10 2/13 || 1. Starter: DOL 2. Candy Bar Persuasive Activity || Choose either Snickers or Reese's. Brainstorm a list of why your choice is the best of the two candy bars. Choose your best reason and write a persuasive paragraph. || 1. DOL (b-day)(a-day) || 2/15 2/16 || 1. DOL Assessment 2. Outside Reading for 2nd semester 3. Registration for next year 4. Candy bar paragraphs (A-day) 4. Introduction to Research (B-day) 5. Persuasive Essay Assignment || 1. Assessment: See Mrs. Oppermann to make up test. 2. See document at top of this page for due dates and information regarding outside reading. Due Feb. 21 or 22 ||  || 2/22 || 1. Peer/Self Evaluation of Persuasive Essay 2. Research paper overview and topic brainstorming. || 1. Proposal due next class period ||  || 2/24 || SUB: //Of Mice and Men// movie ||   || Proposals || 2/28 || Computer Lab Instruction: 1. How to save research (Google Docs) 2. Methods/Search Engines for Research ||  || Proposals (A-Day) || 3/1 || Research time in Lab 1. Reliability/Validity of sources discussion ||  ||   || 3/5 || 1. New Starter: Greek/Latin Roots 2. Essential Question and Answer/ Major Body sections 3. Reading/Highlighting/Organizing research || ||   || 3/7 || 1. Root Word Starter (grat) 2. Review of due dates and assignments 3. Example of detailed outline 4. Finish //Of Mice and Men// movie || || General Outline || 3/9 || 1. Starter (junct) 2. Introductions 3. Source Highlighting Check || || Source Highlighting Check || 3/13 || 1. Starter 2. Parenthetical References 3. Reference Page 4. Using the "Guide" || [|APA Guide Purdue Owl]
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[|Citation Machine] || Introduction Detailed Outline || 3/19 || 1. Starter 2. Computer lab for reference page ||  ||   || 3/21 || 1. Pass back papers 2. Peer Response (b-day) 3. Computer lab for Reference page (a-day) ||  ||   || 2 Reference page instruction and correction ||  || Reference page || 4TH QUARTER 2 Reference page instruction and correction ||  || Reference page || 3/28 || 1. Starter: mal and phon 2. Paper format: heading, page #, spacing font, title page, etc. 3. Conclusions 4. Transitions ||  ||   || 3/30 || 1. Starter: mir and mot 2. Peer Response "final" research paper || LInks for header instructions: [|Header instructions] [|APA Format in Word for Mac (Youtube)] [|Office 2007 APA Formatting (Youtube)] If you go to these Youtube links, you will other possibilities. I haven't actually watched the videos. Just google APA headings with the software name and year, and I assume you will find some examples/instructions. Good luck! || "Final" formatted paper || 4/10 || 1. Root Word Starter: sens, contra 2. Story on board 3. Write ending 4. View example essays--short story Finish Peer Response (2B) ||  ||   || 4/12 || 1. Root Word Starter: seque, spec 2. Story on board/ending (2B) 3. Shakespeare's Life 4. Language handout (3B/3A) ||  || Research Paper Final Draft Rubric Research Paper Peer Response Version with peer response sheet attached || 4/16 || 1. Roots: sol, vol 2. Share endings (2B) 3. Language handout (2B) 4. Translate lines 5. Read Act 1 MSND (3B) || || Line translation (2B, 3B, 3A) || 5/5 || Read //A Midsummer Night's Dream// CRT's || ||  || 5/11 || //Midsummer Night's Dream Quiz// ||   ||   || 5/24 || Independent Book Groups //The Bean Trees// //A Separate Peace// //Secret Life of Bees// //Lord of the Flies// || ||  ||
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