Friday, December 14, 2018

Friday December 14, 2018: Final Semester Assignment

  1. spark.adobe.com
  2. Using your notes from Hamlet, create a webpage using the link above
  3. Create the following:
  • Act 1-include a summary and 2 graphics
  • Act 2 include a summary and 2 graphics
  • Act 3-include a summary and 2 graphics
  • Word history-your definition, word history, and line from the play where your word occurs 
  • Speech summary-character, speech, speech line numbers, summary of speech


Thursday, December 6, 2018

Thursday/Friday December 6th-7th, 2018: Vocabulary Quiz for Act III Hamlet. Act II speech summary.

  1. Quizlet.live for Act III Vocabulary-Hamlet
  2. Socrative.com for Act III Quiz
  3. SAT Prep
  4. Finish Summary of Act II speech (google doc)
  5. Google Form for Speech Summary
Speech Choices: 

Polonius: 2.2.93-136--Pick 25 lines "to expostulate what majesty should be"
Hamlet: 2.2.316-334 "I have of late. . . lost all my mirth"
First Player:  2.2.493-544--Pick 25 lines "Anon he finds him"

Monday, December 3, 2018

Monday/Tuesday December 3/4, 2018: Act III Vocabulary from Hamlet; Gearup Survey

  1. Quizlet.live for Act 3 Vocabulary
  2. Gearup Survey @ wvgearup.org 
  3. Watch 2nd Half of Act 2 Scene 2 (Cumberbatch)
  4. Choose an ACT II Speech to summarize--Copy and paste the speech into your google doc and summarize using bullet points.  A. Polonius (2.2.93-136) B. Hamlet (2.2.316-334) C. First Player (2.2.493-544)

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Tuesday November 27, 2018: Act II--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern


  1. Finish Watching Act II--Focus on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and their role
  2. The Players appear
  3. Consider working on your Canva for your word history project
  4. Quiz at the end of the week on Act II

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Thursday-Friday November 8-9, 2018: Vocabulary search and Background

-->Word History Submission Form<--
  1. Pick a Vocabulary word from either Act I or Act II that you like, actually, you might pick 2-3
  2. Add Etymology research to your google doc for Act I and Act II
  3. Find the Line from the play that it occurs and put that in your google doc
  4. Explain what the word means in this context and why this word might have been chosen.
  5. Explain how other definitions might be appropriate for this usage (does the word seem to have multiple meanings within the text)
  6. Create a canva.com poster to display your research and be creative--RUBRIC FOR POSTER

Monday, November 5, 2018

Friday, November 2, 2018

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

October 25, 2018: Close Reading: Act 1, Scene 1 Hamlet

Read the Article Below and Create a Coggle.it with the following branches:

  1. The quote: copy and paste the quote
  2. Context: (Why does Marcellus say this--what's happened)
  3. Meaning:What does Marcellus seem to be saying?
  4. Essayist's Interpretation: What meaning does the author ascribe to this speech?
  5. Your interpretation: Do you agree with the Essayist?  Why or Why not?
  6. Shakespeare's intent: Why do you think this image of Christmas is in the play? What time of year is it? What does this have to do with a ghost? or with war?
  7. How does this tie into the information that the ghost delivers to Hamlet in scene 5?

Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning singeth all night long; 
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, 
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, 
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 
So hallowed and so gracious is the time.                                                 
(I, i, 157)

SO HALLOWED AND so gracious is the time—these lines from the first scene of Hamlet in a sense say it all. We tend to think of time as progression, as moment following moment, day following day, in relentless flow, the kind of time a clock or calendar can measure. But we experience time also as depth, as having quality as well as quantity—a good time, a dangerous time, an auspicious time, a time we mark not by its duration but by its content.

On the dark battlements of Elsinore, Marcellus speaks to his companions of the time of Jesus' birth. It is a hallowed time he says, a holy time, a time in which life grows still like the surface of a river so that we can look down into it and see glimmering there in its depths something timeless, precious, other. And a gracious time, Marcellus says—a time that we cannot bring about as we can bring about a happy time or a sad time but a time that comes upon us as grace, as a free and unbidden gift. Marcellus explains that Christmas is a time of such holiness that the cock crows the whole night through as though it is perpetually dawn, and thus for once, even the powers of darkness are powerless. 

Horatio's answer is equally instructive. "So have I heard and do in part believe," he says to Marcellus, thus speaking, one feels, not just for himself but for Shakespeare and for us. 

In part believe it. 


At Christmas time it is hard even for the unbeliever not to believe in something if not in everything. Peace on earth, good will to men; a dream of innocence that is good to hold on to even if it is only a dream; the mystery of being a child; the possibility of hope—not even the canned carols piped out over the shopping center parking plaza from Thanksgiving on can drown it out entirely. 

For a moment or two, the darkness of disenchantment, cynicism, doubt, draw back at least a little, and all the usual worldly witcheries lose something of their power to charm. Maybe we cannot manage to believe with all our hearts. But as long as the moments last, we can believe that this is of all things the thing most worth believing. And that may not be as far as it sounds from what belief is. For as long as the moment lasts, that hallowed, gracious time.

- Originally published in The Faces of Jesus by 

Frederick Buechner

Wednesday October 24, 2018: It harrows me with fear and wonder


  1. Act I Quiz Socrative
  2. Turn in Act I review paper for grade


Monday, October 22, 2018

Monday October 22, 2018: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me


  1. quizlet.live for Hamlet Act II vocabulary
  2. Act I, Scene III: using No Fear Shakespeare find 3 quotes to Laertes from Polonius and explain what he means add this to your google doc
  3. Act I, Scene III: using No Fear Shakespeare find 3 quotes to Ophelia from Polonius and explain what he means add this to your google doc
  4. You will submit your answers to a google form tomorrow
  5. Study your vocabulary for Act II when finished.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Wednesday/Thursday October 17-18, 2018: Toys of Desperation

The Ghost motions Hamlet to follow

Wednesday: Leadership Trip

Thursday/Friday:

  1. Quiz on Act I Vocabulary Hamlet (Socrative)
  2. Finish watching Act 1.5 (The Ghost)
  3. Finish Notes Act 1.5 (Google docs)
  4. Quizlet.live for Act II Hamlet
  5. Go back to Act 1.3 (Laertes and Ophelia)
  6. Coggle.it for Hamlet

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Tuesday October 16, 2018: Some vicious mole of nature


  1. Quizlet.live for Hamlet Act I vocabulary
  2. Quiz tomorrow for Act I vocabulary
  3. Finish breaking down Hamlet's speech 1.4.15-41 (google docs)
  4. Coggle.it for Act I

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Thursday October 3, 2018: Shakespeare's Imagery


MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1


  1. Quizlet.live for Hamlet Act I
  2. Open Google Doc and create the graphic on the right----->
  3. Review the state of affairs at the beginning of the Play
  4. Watch Act I, Scene 1 of Film

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Monday, October 1, 2018

Monday September 1, 2018: Unit 2 Shakespeare--The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

MAKE SURE YOU FINISH AND SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY FROM UNIT 1


  1. Create a Google Doc: 6TH YOUR LAST NAME--SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDY OF HAMLET-The Prince of Denmark
  2. Copy and paste this image of Shakespeare into your doc------->
  3. Notes on Shakespeare
  4. Shakespeare Film

Monday, September 24, 2018

Tuesday September 25, 2018: Unit 1 Essay and Wrap up

List of Graded Assignments:

  1. Summary Practice of Balboa by Sabina Murray (Google Form)
  2. Balboa Notes, completed and shared with teacher (Google Doc)
  3. William Bradford/Handsome Lake Notes, completed and shared with teacher (Google Doc)
  4. Unit 1 Coggle on Bradford, Handsome Lake, and Balboa (Coggle.it)
  5. Unit 1 Pre-writing Form--Topic Sentences and supporting details based on your coggle from all three stories (Google Form)
  6. Unit 1 Pre-writing Google doc, shared with teacher (Google Doc)--a topic sentence and three supporting details from each story (you should have copied and pasted your answers from the Pre-writing Google form for this)
  7. In the Pre-writing Google Doc, draft a paragraph based on your topic sentence and supporting details (one paragraph for each story)
  8. Take each drafted paragraph over to prowritingaid.com, sign-in with your Google account, and copy and paste each paragraph into the grammar checker
  9. Copy and paste your edited paragraphs back into your pre-writing Google Doc (don't erase the original paragraph, just put it underneath and label it as edited)
  10. Write an introduction and conclusion in your Pre-writing Google Doc and repeat the steps with the grammar checker Write a conclusion and Introduction for your 3 paragraphs and grammar check them (prowritingaid.com)
  11. Create a Final draft Google Doc and share it with me; copy and paste your edited sentences/paragraphs into your final draft
  12. Create a title for your essay
  13. Go to canva.com and create a title graphic for your essay and put it into your final draft under your title

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Tuesday-Friday September 18-21 2018: Balboa Summary


  1. Google Form on Balboa
  2. Complete Coggle for Unit 1
  3. Check Live grades for if you've shared your coggle or not. (maybe you didn't put your last name or period in the center of the diagram)
  4. Complete the Writing form for UNIT 1
-->Google Form for Balboa Short Story<--

-->Google Form for Essay on Unit 1<--

Friday/Monday, September 21-24, 2018: 
  • Take your answers from Your Essay on Unit 1 google form (it's in your email), and put that in a new google doc "Pre-writing for Unit 1".  
  • Draft a paragraph for each topic sentence and its supporting details. (3 paragraphs total)



Friday, September 14, 2018

Friday/Monday September 14/17, 2018: Unit 1 Recap

  1. Create a Coggle and Share with me
  2. Use the example to the right to design your diagram
  3. Fill in the appropriate information
  4. Please feel free to work cooperatively with your table mates
  5. Let's leave take-aways/themes for last
  6. This Diagram should be complete by the end of class on Monday September 

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Thursday September 13, 2018: Notes on Balboa


  1. Open Google docs for Balboa and make sure you have shared this with me
  2. Open your Online text book to Balboa
  3. Re-read the story and complete the notes

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Tuesday September 11, 2018: Balboa


  1. Quizlet for Balboa: Quizlet.live
  2. Google Doc for Balboa
  3. Read Balboa from the online text book, or you can grab a hard copy from the front
  4. Complete Notes for the story in your Google doc as you go

Friday, September 7, 2018

Friday September 7, 2018: Test on Coming of Age in Dawnland


  1. Test on "Coming of Age in Dawnland"
  2. Finish Notes and make sure you've turned them in (shared them)
  3. Short Video on the Wampanoag Way
  4. Have a great Weekend!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday September 4-6, 2018: Coming of Age in the Dawnland


  1. Finish notes from Bradford: Chapter 11 (I will check your google doc for a grade over the weekend)
  2. Add new section (Heading 1) in your google doc: Coming of Age in the Dawnland and make subsections (Heading 2) for the (1)Author, (2) background of the book and overview, and (3) notes
  3. Read Coming of Age in the Dawnland  in the online textbook. 
  4. Take a short note in your google doc on each paragraph from the text. 
  5. Vocabulary Quiz on the Bradford Vocabulary on Wednesday September 5, 2018
  6. Quiz on Coming of Age in the Dawnland on Friday September 7, 2018

Friday, August 31, 2018

Friday August 31, 2018: Pilgrims and Beyond

Thursday August 30, 2018: No Class, Early Out.
  1. Return test for Of Plymouth Plantation
  2. Log on to Online Textbook
  3. Copy and Paste terms of the Treaty with Massasoit into your google doc
  4. Make sure you have shared your google doc with me and put your period and last name into the document title
  5. Coggle: outline for Essay 1
  6. Listening Activity (time permitting)

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Wednesday August 29, 2018: Quiz on Bradford "On Plymouth Plantation"


  1. Quiz on Bradford "On Plymouth Plantation"
  2. Take quiz at Socrative--> link in the sidebar------------>
  3. Study vocabulary at Quizlet for vocabulary quiz when you come back friday
Thursday August 30, 2018: Early Out. No 6th-8th period classes.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Tuesday August 28, 2018: Bradford "Of Plymouth Plantation"


  1. Practice quiz on Quizlet
  2. Google Doc--Bradford: Add 10 main points summary to each Chapter 9-11 on your Google doc
  3. Compare and Contrast Chart on your Google Doc: Compare examples from Bradford and Handsome Lake in a 2 column chart
  4. Quiz on Bradford "Of Plymouth Plantation" tomorrow, Wednesday August 29, 2018

Monday, August 27, 2018

Monday August 24, 2018: Of Plymouth Plantation and Handsome Lake (summaries)


  1. Finish the Summary (added to Bradford Google Doc) of The Vision of Handsome Lake
  2. Add short summaries to your Ch 9-11 Section of Bradford Google doc.
  3. Other notes and additions to Google Doc.
  4. Take Practice test for "Of Plymouth Plantation" vocabulary on Quizlet

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Thursday/Friday August 23-24, 2018: Account of Handsome Lake; Vocabulary practice


  1. Textbook issue (keep at home)
  2. Short video on Pilgrims
  3. Quizlet.live vocabulary practice
  4. Read the Account of Handsome Lake
  5. Add a Summary to your Google Doc of your Reading
  6. Read "Of Plymouth Plantation" in your textbook for Monday August 27, 2018. Pg. 5-18 *SHORT QUIZ ON MONDAY*

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Wednesday August 22, 2018: William Bradford "Of Plymouth Plantation"


  1. Finish Adding Bio Information on William Bradford in the appropriate time frame on your google doc.
  2. Create a New Google Doc and Title it: Period last name William Bradford
  3. Copy and paste your Bio information into the new Document
  4. Create Headings for this document
  5. Quizlet for "Of Plymouth Plantation" vocabulary

Monday, August 20, 2018

Monday/Tuesday August 20-21, 2018: Finish History Research-Google Docs


  1. Complete your diagram for History of N. America 1400-1700
  2. Add a 2-3 Sentence summary for each Century 
  3. Google Docs (time permitting) 
  4. Download Plain TXT from your Coggle diagram and copy and paste the text into a google doc (title the google doc the same as the coggle)
  5. Create Heading's and Sub-headings in Google doc
  6. Share Google doc with instructor

Friday, August 17, 2018

Friday August 17, 2018: History of N. America Coggle


  1. Work with a partner to fill in this diagram
  2. Each person should submit their own work
  3. You should have Student Learning Conversations to communicate the information you each found
  4. Use your partner's information to complete your chart
  5. Make sure YOUR LAST NAME and the PERIOD is in the middle of the diagram
  6. Make sure you have shared this coggle with me

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Wednesday August 15, 2018: Club Schedule and Second Half of Gates

Map of the U.S. 1848

  1. Finish Gates test (comprehension) (35 mins)
  2. Thanks for your effort on these tests!

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Tuesday August 14, 2018: Quizlet and Gates Test

1. Join Quizlet Class
2. Take Vocabulary Portion of Gates test (Socrative)

Both links are in the side bar to the right---->