Monday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Dr. Frankenstein's creature emerges from the fog as you fish by a lake, reaching out towards you wordlessly. Describe your reaction."
-Complete Exercise 1 of Unit 9 - Vocabulary
-Update Collective Creative Writing Project
-Collect Extended Response answers for Frankenstein.
-The topics are posted in 10th Resources if you want to begin preliminary investigations.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Tuesday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Compare and contrast the three representations of Frankenstein's creature in these three clips."
Wednesday - Writing Notebook Entry: "In 2025, a private company is going to launch the first Mars colony and is looking for inhabitants now, but you will not ever be able to return to Earth. This is true. Would you go? Why or why not? What skills (in 2025) could you bring to the colony?"
-Vocab Unit 9, Exercise 2
-Discuss the Research process, making bibliography "cards," lead-in's.
-Begin researching topics in the computer lab.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Thursday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Write 15 original sentences using the vocabulary words of Unit 9."
- Go to the computer lab and search for information about your mysteries. Take notes, begin compiling quotes and research to answer the question, "What really happened?"
-Save your findings, preliminary documents, and PDF's to a flash drive
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Friday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Friday Freewrite!"
- Vocabulary Quiz - Unit 9
- Go to the computer lab and continue researching your topics. You should have at least three sources and 10 facts or quotes by the end of today.
-Begin working on finding images (with citations) and loading them into your Powerpoint.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
-Complete Exercise 1 of Unit 9 - Vocabulary
-Update Collective Creative Writing Project
-Collect Extended Response answers for Frankenstein.
-The topics are posted in 10th Resources if you want to begin preliminary investigations.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Tuesday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Compare and contrast the three representations of Frankenstein's creature in these three clips."
- Watch three clips that represent Frankenstein's creature in three separate movies.
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Distribute prompt for the Research project with step-by-step instructions and rubric.
- Sign up for topics
Wednesday - Writing Notebook Entry: "In 2025, a private company is going to launch the first Mars colony and is looking for inhabitants now, but you will not ever be able to return to Earth. This is true. Would you go? Why or why not? What skills (in 2025) could you bring to the colony?"
-Vocab Unit 9, Exercise 2
-Discuss the Research process, making bibliography "cards," lead-in's.
-Begin researching topics in the computer lab.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Thursday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Write 15 original sentences using the vocabulary words of Unit 9."
- Go to the computer lab and search for information about your mysteries. Take notes, begin compiling quotes and research to answer the question, "What really happened?"
-Save your findings, preliminary documents, and PDF's to a flash drive
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Friday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Friday Freewrite!"
- Vocabulary Quiz - Unit 9
- Go to the computer lab and continue researching your topics. You should have at least three sources and 10 facts or quotes by the end of today.
-Begin working on finding images (with citations) and loading them into your Powerpoint.
-HW - Read Gothic novel