Friday, May 30

• • Continue playwriting work
  • Finish social studies presentation (if not finished)
  • Blog post – Week 15 due

Thursday, May 29

• • 6th Period: SBA testing
  • All periods: SOCIAL STUDIES PRESENTATION WORK DAY

Wednesday, May 28

• • SBA testing makeup day
  • All periods: Continue playwriting work

Tuesday, May 27

• • 5th Period: SBA testing
  • Other periods: Continue playwriting work, Twelve Angry Men (film)
  • Blog post – Week 15 assigned (FINAL BLOG POST)

Monday, May 26 – NO SCHOOL

Friday, May 23 – NO SCHOOL

Thursday, May 22

• • 4th Period: SBA testing
  • Other periods: Continue playwriting work, Twelve Angry Men (film)

Wednesday, May 21

• • SBA testing makeup day
  • All periods: Begin playwriting work
    • Play rubric

Tuesday, May 20

• • 3rd Period: SBA testing
  • Other periods: Continue playwriting work, Twelve Angry Men (film)

Monday, May 19

• • 2nd Period: SBA testing
  • Other periods: Begin Twelve Angry Men (film)
  • No blog post this week

Friday, May 16

• • 1st Period: SBA testing
  • Periods 2-4: Watch Twelve Angry Men
  • Blog post – Week 14 due

Thursday, May 15

• • SBA prep: practice test review

Wednesday, May 14

• • SBA prep: practice test
    • CLICK HERE
    • Click “SIGN IN”
    • Select GRADE 8.
    • Select Smarter Balanced Practice Tests
    • Proceed through these questions until you are on the test page. Begin the test.

Tuesday, May 13

• • Dialogue exercise continued

Monday, May 12

• • Dialogue
    • Brief notes on dialogue
    • Dialogue situation:
      • A plainclothes police officer suspects a man is a wanted criminal.
        • What do the characters want?
        • What will the characters do to get what they want?
        • Why now?
        • What is the location this scene takes place? (This is not one of the Mamet questions, but it is still very important for this activity.)
  • Blog post – Week 14 assigned

Friday, May 9

• Lesson on components of a play and revisiting the three act structure and P.O.O. structure with Twelve Angry Men
  
  • Relatively well-known stories and their basic P.O.O. structure handout
  • Tridimensional character bone structure (we did this in first semester)
  • Narrative structure handout (we also did this in first semester)
• Brainstorming for play using narrative structures
• Blog post – Week 13 due

Thursday, May 8

• Finish Twelve Angry Men

Wednesday, May 7

• Continue Twelve Angry Men

Tuesday, May 6

• Continue Twelve Angry Men

Monday, May 5

• Begin Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
• Blog post – Week 13 assigned

Friday, May 2

• • Persuasive letter final draft due – PRINT OUT WITH RUBRIC STAPLED ON TOP and eight rhetorical devices evidence sheet on bottom
  • Eight rhetorical devices evidence sheet

Thursday, May 1

• • Rhetorical devices 41-50
  • Rhetorical devices 41-50 activity
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