Mrs. Jouzdani English II Periods 1, 3, 7

Ext. 4627

Email jennifer.jouzdani@bvsd.org

Office Hours: Wednesdays from 3:05 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. or any lunchtime by appointment

The homework listed on this page is anticipated homework, but please allow for the fact that not all classes progress at the same rate and that our homework assignments may also change to fit the needs of students. I will do my best to keep the homework page up to date, but remember that the notes in your planner trump anything on the homework page.

Download Unit letters:

Of Mice and Men Unit Letter

Summer Reading Unit Letter

Tuesday, May 27^th – no class

Wednesday, May 29^th – Code Breaking Final Exam (period 3) – last day of class

Monday, May 19^th –

Tuesday, May 20^th –

Wednesday, May 21^st – extra credit for early presentation of Independent Reading Project ( period 7)

Friday, May 22^nd – Independent Reading Projects due –

- Code Breaking Final Exam (periods 1 & 7)

Monday, May 12^th – summer reading unit letter due back Wednesday, May 14^th

- bring green textbooks to class tomorrow to return to library

Tuesday, May 13^th – return textbooks to library today

Wednesday, May 14^th – summer reading unit letters due back today

Friday, May 15^th – final draft of Romeo and Juliet essay with editing changes due Tuesday, May 20th

Monday, May 5^th – read Parallel Journeys in class

Tuesday, May 6^th – Parallel Journeys in class – quiz tomorrow through chapter 5

Wednesday, May 7^th – reading quiz through chapter 5 of PJ

- 3^rd rough draft of Romeo and Juliet essay due Friday, May 9th

Friday, May 9^th – 3^rd rough draft of Romeo and Juliet essay due today

RUBRIC

Essay structure is correct (check P2P Writer’s Handbook pages 16 & 17)

Please bold the following changes from your 2^nd rough draft:

1) At least 2 added transitional phrases per paragraph – p. 28 of the P2P Writer’s Handbook

2) Word choice improved for at least 3 words per paragraph

3) Two sentences changed from passive to active voice (no linking verbs – remember your song!)

Monday, April 28^th – Of Mice and Men writing packets due

Parallel Journeys unit letters due

Tuesday, April 29^th – begin reading Parallel Journeys in class – reading quiz through chapter 5 on Wednesday, May 7^th

Wednesday, April 30^th – complete interview sheets for progress and read in class

Friday, May 2^nd – Professional Development Day – no school

Monday, April 21^st –

Tuesday, April 22^nd – block day – 1, 3, 5, 7

- signed unit letter for Parallel Journeys due Friday, April 25^th (PJ Unit Letter)

- Of Mice and Men writing packet due Monday, April 28th

Wednesday, April 23^rd – half day – come to school at 12:00 – periods 5, 6 & 7 meet

Thursday, April 24^th – block day – 2, 4, Access, 6

Friday, April 25^th – Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 meet – Run for the Peak during periods 6 & 7

- green writing packet for Of Mice and Men due Monday, April 28^th

Monday, April 14^th – prepare to sing the Linking Verb Song if you have not already done so

Tuesday, April 15^th – read your Independent Reading Project book for homework this week – 20 minutes per night

Friday, April 18^th – No school – Professional Development Day

Monday, April 7^th – Sentence analyzer for R&J essay due Tuesday

Tuesday, April 8^th – Sentence analyzer for essay due

Friday, April 11^th – bring book for Independent Reading Project to class

Monday, March 31^st – Code Breaking Unit 11 due Friday, April 4^th

Tuesday, April 1^st – Code Breaking Unit 10 Homework due and quiz (Period 3 only)

Wednesday, April 2^nd – Ms. Barker’s R&J lesson

Friday, April 3^rd – 2^nd draft of R&J paper due

Code Breaking Unit 11 due/quiz

Monday, March 17^th – signed unit letters due Tuesday, March 18^th

- Independent Reading Project due Wed, March 19^th

- 2^nd rough draft of Romeo and Juliet essay due Friday, March 21^st

Tuesday, March 18^th – signed unit letters due today – to download, click here – Mice and Men Unit Letter

Wednesday, March 19^th – Independent Reading Project due today

Friday, March 21^st – 2^nd rough draft of Romeo and Juliet essay due

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, March 10 –

Tuesday, March 11 – no class – CSAP

Wednesday, March 12 – periods 1&3 Unit Letters due Friday

Thursday, March 13 – work on R&J essays in class

Friday, March 14 – Code Breaking Unit 10 due/Quiz

- Introduction of Unit 11 Code Breaking –

- Period 7 – Unit 11 roots – chrom, ann/enni, iso, port, amphi, dent, mar, ish

- Period 1 – Unit 11 roots – hex, para, vice, dia, mal

- Period 1 Spelling – Unit 11 – hexameter, paraphrase, Vice President, diameter, malady

- Period 3 – Unit 11 roots – bio, dent/dont, centri, bibl, sen, sist/sta, tempo, vor

- Period 3 Spelling (Extra Credit) – hyphosis, justifiable, bibliomania, claustrophobia

Monday, March 3^rd – Work on Compare/Contrast paper in class – typed and double-spaced rough draft of compare/contrast essay

comparing 1997 and 1967 versions of Romeo and Juliet due Friday, March 7^th [check P2P Writer’s Handbook (p. 18 & 19) for details]

- Independent Reading Project due Friday, March 19th

Tuesday, March 4^th – Introduction of Unit 10 Code Breaking – due Friday, March 14^th

Periods 3&7 Code Breaking roots for Unit 10:

Corp = body gastro = stomach gloss, glot = tongue hema, hemo = blood arch = chief, first, rule

Derm = skin omni = all, every path, pathy = feeling, suffering

Period 1 Code Breaking prefixes and roots for Unit 10

Uni = one for = away, off se = aside viv/vita/vivi = alive, life

Period 1 Spelling words: forswear, unique, revive, forever, separate

Wednesday, March 5^th – Per 3 Code Breaking Unit 10 – Write Conclusions for Compare/Contrast paper in class

Thursday, March 6^th –

Friday, March 7^th - typed and double-spaced rough drafts of essay comparing 1997 and 1967 versions of R& J due today

– Unit Letters for Of Mice and Men due Monday, March 10th

Monday, February 25^th – Shakespeare scenes in class

Tuesday, February 26^th – Begin compare/contrast paper in class

Wednesday, February 27^th – Compare/Contrast paper in class

Friday, February 29^th – Code Breaking Unit 9 Due

Monday, February 18^th – Presidents’ Day – No School

Tuesday, February 19^th – Shakespeare scenes in class

Wednesday, February 20^th – Shakespeare scenes in class – close read Juliet’s Speech

Friday, February 21^st – R&J scenes in class

Monday, February 11^th – Presentation of Shakespeare scenes in class

Tuesday, Feb 12^th – Presentation of Shakespeare scenes in class

Wednesday, February 13^th – Presentation of Shakespeare scenes in class

Friday, February 15^th – Code Breaking Unit 8 Homework due/Code Breaking Unit 8 Quiz

- Introduction of Code Breaking Unit 9 – Due Friday, Feb 29th

- Code Breaking Unit 9 Roots: -ee = one who receives the action, -et/-ette = a small one/group,

- -hood = order, condition, quality -ine = nature of am/amor = love, liking geo = earth

- ject = throw vac = empty

- Code Breaking Unit 9 Spelling Words (optional for Period 3): idiosyncrasy, incandescent, interrogative, irrevocable, intensify

Monday, Feb 4 – Work on Shakespeare scenes in class – discuss figurative language for each scene

Tuesday, Feb 5 – Work on Shakespeare scenes in class (periods 3&7)

- Register for 08-09 classes (period 1)

Wednesday, Feb 6 – Register for 08-09 classes (periods 3 & 7)

- Shakespeare scenes in class (period 1)

Friday, Feb 8 – No School – Professional Development Day

Monday, Jan 28^th – signed course sheets due

- bring book for Independent Reading Project to class

Tuesday, Jan 29^th – independent reading project guidelines changed:

400 pages for students entering English III standard next year

600 pages for students entering English III honors next year

- new deadline for projects: Wednesday, March 19^th

Wednesday, Jan 30^th – bring independent reading book to class for reading time

Friday, February 1^st – Codebreaking Unit 7 due/Quiz

- Unit 8 Introduction –

- Unit 8 Code Breaking Prefixes – a-, ab-, abs- = away, from circ-, circum=around

De = from, down super, supr = more, over, above

- Unit 8 Spelling words: history, holiday, horrible, hospital, hammer

- Unit 8 Extra credit words hazardous, humorous, hypocrisy

Monday, Jan 21^st – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – no school

Tuesday, Jan 22^nd – Codebreaking Unit 6 homework due and quiz

Intro Unit 7 Codebreaking/Spelling – Unit 7 due Friday, Feb 1st

Unit 7 Roots – belli = war sume/sump = take, use, waste liber/liver = free ped/pod = foot

Unit 7 Spelling Words – generous, government, gratitude, guarantee, guilty

Wednesday, Jan 23^rd – Independent Reading Project Explained – due Wednesday, March 5^th

- book proposal for reading project due Monday, Jan 28^th

Friday, Jan 24^th – Bring signed course sheets back to English class Monday, Jan 28th

Monday, Jan 14^th – bring text to class

Tuesday, Jan 15^th – Codebreaking Unit 6 due Tuesday, Jan 22^nd

Wednesday, Jan 16^th – Centers with Ms. Hankey

Friday, Jan 18^th – Professional Development Day – No School

Mon, Jan 7^th – Codebreaking/Spelling Intro for Unit 6 – due Tuesday, Jan 22^nd

Suffixes – er/or = one who, that which -less = without -ology = study, science, theory

-oid = resembling

Spelling – fascinate, favorite, finally, formally, friend

Signed unit letter due Wednesday, Jan 9^th

Complete love relationships sheet with an adult

Tues, Jan 8^th – love relationships sheet filled in by an adult due

- bring green Prentice Hall textbook with you to class Wednesday

Wed, Jan 9^th - bring green Prentice Hall textbook with you to class today

– signed unit letter due

Friday, Jan 11^th – bring green textbook to class with you on Monday

Unit Exams for Rosa Parks and Codebreaking Units 1-5 are Wed, Dec 19^th for periods 1 & 3 and Thursday, Dec 20^th for period 7.

Monday, December 10^th – complete first person narrative based upon “The Color Bar” reading – choose a story from the reading and write a first person narrative from the perspective of someone other than the narrator

Read through Chapter 9 of RP

Tuesday, December 11^th –

Monday, December 3^rd –

Tuesday, December 4^th- Timeline Assignment Due

Mrs. Metge to sub

Read “The Color Bar” for Friday

Wednesday, December 5^th – presentation of timeline assignments

Friday, December 7^th – Unit 5 Codebreaking/Spelling Homework due/Quiz

Monday, November 26^th – Codebreaking/Spelling Unit 5

Prefixes:

retro = backward neo = new counter/contra = against bene/bon = well

Spelling words : either, embarrass, emergency, encourage, enough

Check out Rosa Parks for Wednesday, November 28th

Unit Letter for Rosa Parks Unit due Wednesday, November 28^th

Tuesday, November 27^th – Rosa Parks Timeline Assignment due Tuesday, December 4^th

Wednesday, November 28^th – Unit letter for Rosa Parks Unit due today

- bring book to class

- read through chapter 2 of Rosa Parks by Friday (QD Quiz Friday)

Friday, November 30th - Ender’s Game Exams Returned

- QD Quiz through chapter 2 of Rosa Parks

- read through chapter 4 of Rosa Parks by Monday, December 3rd

Monday, November 12^th – No school – Veteran’s Day

Tuesday, November 13^th – Unit Exam – Ender’s Game – includes character matching, LAC, SOAPSTone, Scholarly Paragraph

Wednesday, November 14^th – Ms. Barker’s Lesson – Ender’s Game

- Unit Letter for Rosa Parks Unit due Friday

Friday, November 15^th – CB/Spelling Homework due for Unit 4 – Quiz

Unit 4 Roots: anthrop spec/spect/spic prim/prime mor/mort

Unit 4 Spelling Words: decision, definition, describe, develop, different

- Ms. Hankey to sub

– no homework over Thanksgiving Holiday

- Unit Letter – Rosa Parks due

Monday, November 5^th – read through Ch 14 of EG by Tuesday, Nov 6^th

Tuesday, November 6^th – finish EG by Wednesday, Nov 7^th

Wednesday, November 7^th – 7^th period complete EG SOAPSTone pink sheet for Friday

Friday, November 9^th – prepare for Unit Exam over Ender’s Game (Tuesday, November 13^th) using review sheet to be handed out in class

Monday, October 29^th – read through Ch 10 of EG for Tuesday, Oct 30 – quiz

- Unit 3 Codebreaking/Spelling homework due Tues, Oct 30th – quiz

- Descriptive five senses paragraph due Tuesday, Oct 30^th

Tuesday, October 30^th – read through Ch 12 of EG by Friday

Wednesday, October 31^st – read through Ch 12 of EG by Friday

Friday, November 2^nd - read through Ch 14 of EG by Tuesday, November 6^th

Monday, October 22^nd – No School – Charter Day

Tuesday, October 23^rd – 2, 4, A, 6 – block day – No class

Wednesday, October 24^th – bring picture or photograph to class to complete sensory writing assignment

- read through chapter 8 of EG

Thursday, October 25^th – Wellness Day – No regular classes

Friday, October 26^th – be through Chapter 10 of EG by Tuesday – Quiz over chapters 6-10 of EG Tuesday – CB/Spelling Unit 3 Quiz Tuesday

Monday, October 15^th – read through chapter 6 of Ender’s Game – quiz tomorrow over characters, plot, and themes

- Codebreaking/Spelling Unit 2 due – Codebreaking/Spelling Quiz tomorrow

Tuesday, October 16^th – quiz over Ender’s Game chapters 1-6

- quiz over Codebreaking/Spelling Unit 2

- Codebreaking/Spelling Homework due

Unit 3 Codebreaking/Spelling due Tuesday, October 30th

Codebreaking Unit 3 Suffixes - -able/-ible -an/-ian -cian -cule/-ling

Unit 3 Spelling Words – canceled, caught, certain, changeable, compromise (per 1,3), Colorado (period 7)

Wedesday, October 17^th – fieldtrips

Friday, October 19^th – Bring picture to class on Wednesday, Oct 24^th to complete sensory writing assignment

- read through chapter 8 of EG for class today

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Monday, October 8^th – Periods 3&7 – Write a scholarly paragraph in response to the prompt below:

Jane Yolen authored both “Wilding” and “Lost Girls”. In a well-organized paragraph, describe the similarities between the two stories. How are the plot, characters, settings, and themes connected? How do authors show their style in multiple works?

- Signed unit letter due Wednesday, October 10^th

- Codebreaking/Spelling Worksheet due Tuesday, October 16^th

- Bring Ender’s Game to class Tuesday

Tuesday, October 9^th – Period 1 - Write a scholarly paragraph in response to the prompt below:

Jane Yolen authored both “Wilding” and “Lost Girls”. In a well-organized paragraph, describe the similarities between the two stories. How are the plot, characters, settings, and themes connected? How do authors show their style in multiple works?

- signed unit letter due Wednesday, October 10^th

Wednesday, October 10^th – Read chapters 1-4 of Ender’s Game for class on Monday – quickdraw quiz over reading Monday

Friday, October 12^th – No school – Professional Development Day

Monday, October 1^st – QD quiz over “Lost Girls”

Tuesday, October 2^nd – Codebreaking/Spelling Test – be able to spell correctly and use codebreaking and spelling words in sentences – be able to define the four roots – Codebreaking/Spelling worksheet due

- Codebreaking/Spelling Unit 2 Introduction

- Unit 2 prefixes – mis-/miso-, multi-, poly-, extra-/extro-

- Unit 2 spelling words – beautiful, beginning, behavior, boundary, brought

Wednesday, October 3^rd - Stations in class re: “Wilding” and “Lost Girls”

Friday, October 5^th – Finish paragraph about “Lost Girls”

Monday, Sept 24 – Fill in LAC chart for “Wilding”

Tuesday, Sept 25 – Write scholarly paragraph about “Wilding” (complete worksheet from class)

Wednesday, Sept 26 – Write 3 level one questions, 3 level two questions, and 2 level three questions about “Wilding”

Friday, Sept 28^th – Read “Lost Girls” for Monday, Oct. 1^st (packet will be handed out in class on Friday)

- Codebreaking/Spelling Unit 1 worksheet and quiz – Tuesday, Oct 2nd

Monday, Sept 17^th – 3 euphemisms due (period one – due Wednesday)

- prepare for unit exam tomorrow

Tuesday, Sept 18^th – unit exam over summer reading books

Wednesday, Sept 19^th – read “Wilding” for Monday – packet handed out in class

- Codebreaking/Spelling Unit 1 due Tuesday, Oct 2^nd

Unit 1 roots: astr, aster cide, cise graph, gram phil

Unit 1 spelling words: absence, achievement, address, anonymous, awkward

Monday, Sept 10^th – Write a well-organized narrative paragraph (first person) in your composition notebook describing a time when you felt alone, separate, or invisible. Include a grabber, topic sentence, 3 detail sentences, and a concluding sentence.

Tuesday, Sept 11^th – prepare for annotation quiz Friday

Wednesday, Sept 12^th - IC grade sheets should be signed and returned by Monday, Sept 17^th (print off a copy of your grade and assignments from Infinite Campus and have your parents sign it)

- complete annotation, prewriting, and paragraph for the following writing prompt:

Write a well-organized paragraph describing how Lois Lowry’s memories influenced her to write The Giver. Which memories contributed to which elements of plot, setting, character, and theme in the book. How do memories contribute to our life stories?

Friday, Sept 14^th – annotation quiz/bring 3 euphemisms to class on Monday, Sept 17^th (period 1 – due Wednesday, Sept 19^th)

- signed grade sheet from IC due Monday

UNIT EXAM ON SUMMER READING BOOKS – TUESDAY, SEPT 18th

Tuesday, Sept 4^th – final copy of I Wish I Weren’t So Poem due

- invite your parents to Back to School Night – Thursday, Sept 6^th

Wednesday, Sept 5^th – read “Waiting for Midnight” (handout in class) by Friday, Sept 7^th

- write a paragraph connecting the events in the story to Karen Hesse’s inspiration to write Out of the Dust

Thursday, Sept 6^th – Back to School Night – parents only event

Friday, Sept 7^th – no homework

Monday, August 27^th – show covered textbook to Mrs. J – create 3 level 1 questions, 3 level 2 questions and 1 level 3 question about the summer reading for Tuesday, August 28th

Tuesday, August 28^th – complete the annotations of the two prompts about the summer reading (handout) for Wednesday, August 29th

Wednesday, August 29^th –complete final drafts of I Wish I Weren’t So… poems by Tuesday, September 4th so that they can be posted in the classroom for Back to School Night

Friday, August 31^st – Quiz over three levels of information based upon summer reading

No homework for the Labor Day Weekend – no school on Monday, September 3rd

Monday, August 20^th – SUMMER READING PACKET DUE

Tuesday, August 21^st – turn in signed syllabus

Wednesday, August 22^nd – no homework

Friday, August 24th – cover textbook and show to Mrs. J on Monday, August 27th

Thursday, August 16^th – no homework

Friday, August 17^th – return signed syllabus by Tuesday, August 21st