Friday, January 17, 2014

Independent Reading Projects



Remember your independent reading book(s)? Here is a list of suggestions for your project. These are only suggestions. If you have another idea, run it past me.

If you are planning to take the ELA Regents, it is strongly suggested you write a critical lens essay, using your independent reading book and one other novel, play, poem, or short story that you have read. Here are more directions and some quotations to choose from.

Please turn in the Literature Circle worksheet with the grading rubric when you turn in your project. Also, please plan to present your project to the class.
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Standards

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.10 By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

    By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Thursday, January 2, 2014


Aim: How do we evaluate the function of the witches in Macbeth?

Do Now: Sit down THOU MAMMERING, TOAD-SPOTTED SKAINSMATES!!!!!!

Do you believe in witches? Put your thoughts in at least one well-organized paragraph.

Today we begin our reading and staging of Macbeth. Make sure you have drawn a theme, completed the "First Look" at your theme, and have a line collection sheet so that you may begin collecting lines related to your theme.

What's Due
  • First Look 
  • Argument essay
  • Thematic essay
  • Independent reading projects!!!!!!