HOMEWORK:

For Tuesday, Sept. 2:

• Gold 1: Linguistic terms 1 definition sheet (on-line/dictionary exploration)
• Gold 4 (meets Period 2 this week): Linguistic terms sheet 1 + British/American terms
• Both groups should review notes from Week 1 for a short quiz on Thursday, Sept. 4
• Indo-European tree
• Discussion: Why Use Language?
• Letter frequency in English; the Scrabble board in three languages
• Assignment: study for first test (23 points)

For Thursday, Sept. 4:

• Quiz 1: general linguistics - popular languages, role of English, ethnic makeup of our region
• Letters and grammagrams
• Story of Writing and Recording Facts 1
• Assignment: Single letters as important communication (worksheet)

Monday, Sept. 8:

• Analysis of first quiz and corrections work
• Ink pinks
• Review of letter assignment
• History of Writing 2
• Assignment: Linguistic Vocabulary Sheet 2 (13 words)

Wednesday, Sept. 10:

• Game: Find the Country
• Review of new vocabulary
• Alphabets: how to write with oghams
• Assignment: Oghams worksheet

Friday, Sept. 12:

• Discussion: George Campbell, master of 44 languages
• Review for test 2: linguistic vocabulary sheets 1 & 2
• Visuals: shorthand, cuneiform, Chinese characters
• Videoclip: synesthesia
• Oghams: board work
• Homework: study for Tuesday's 35 point evaluation: two vocabulary sheets, history of writing (objects, pictograms, ideograms, rebusses, alphabets/characters), some elements from Quiz 1

Tuesday, Sept. 16:

• Test - 35 points
• Alphabet presentation: history, recognition of scripts
• How to write futhork (runes)
• Homework: "Colorful Expressions" (idiom worksheet with colors)

Thursday, Sept. 18:

• Test corrections (by group)
• Final exercises comparing alphabets and writing systems: Roman, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, Cherokee, Katakana, Shorthand
• Begin mini-unit on non-verbal communication and codes
• Semaphore
• Hobo language exercises 
• Homework: Reading assignment - "Northwest Tribe Struggles to Revive Its Language" (graded - 12 points - please do it by yourself)

Monday, Sept. 22

• Homework due: "Northwest Tribe..."
• Article: other dying languages
• Gestures; fan language; non-verbal language
• Marcel Marceau and mime
• Homework: reading on Marceau with vocabulary quesions and required résumé of 10 observation statements about what you read

Monday, Sept. 29

• Period 1: Marcel Marceau article observations & vocabulary due (double check) and discussion of non-verbal communication groupwork continues (lights, color, scent, temperature, sounds
• Period 4: a number of students still owe the Test 2 corrections or will lose an assignment credit; "Silent Knight" vocabulary and 10 observations were due last Thursday for this group.
• Signals and signs (Morse code, symbols, traffic signs, flags, clothing, heraldry)
• Worksheet: comparison of codes
• Two ancient codes: Julius Caesar's alphabet shift and the Polybian grid/exercises
• Coming next week: Unit test on our newest material, alphabets and writing systems, and past quizzes

Wednesday, Oct 1

• Windtalkers: examining the role of Navajos in World War II
• Documentary: "True Whispers" (part 1)
• Exercises with codes and ciphers (Caesar, Polybius, shape substitution)

Friday, October 3

• Documentary: "True Whispers" (part 2)
• Other codes: Rosicrucian cipher; Mary, Queen of Scots, cipher; a Civil War spy's cipher; The Dancing Men; The Shadow cipher
• Homework for Thursday, October 9: nautical flag project (15 points)

                  - Google any site titled Nautical flags
                  - Study the color combinations necessary to 'spell' out your first name
                  - Use construction paper to construct flags that all follow a 3x3-inch or a 6x6-                     inch format
                  - Grade will be determined by careful work, correct colors, attractiveness
                  - Flags will be assembled with string in class and hung in the classroom

• Coming the week of October 13-17: Unit test on all that we have studied this year.  There will be lots of visuals, our newest items, and a review of large quizzes 1 & 2.  You will be asked to recognize many writing systems and codes (more later this week).

Tuesday, October 7

• Ms. Kim Hawkins speaks to us about sign language (postponed until Thursday)
• Megan Kantor, a freshman, talks about growing up in a household with deaf parents
• Presentation on Braille
• Homework due for 10/9: personal nautical flags project (15 points)

Thursday, October 9

• Sign language (continued)
• Nautical flag assembly: don't be late (you will fall a whole grade!)
• Review for Evaluation 3 on Tuesday, October 14 (lots of visuals, definitions, demonstration of codes/ciphers)
• Short discuusion of Nushu, a secret women's language in China
• Study sheet distributed for the big test on Friday, October 17
• Homework: study alphabet packet (grren) and all tangerine-colored sheets in non-verbal section. 
• Test topics [also appear on packet distributed in class on 10/9]

1. Nushu
2. Morse code
3. Codetalkers alphabet code and 'history'
4. Hieroglyphics
5. Rosetta Stone
6. Roman alphabet
7. Cyrillic alphabet
8. Cuneiform
9. Futhork/runes
10.Ogams
11. Characters (chinese, Japanese)
12. Caesar shift (alphabet code)
13. Polybian cipher (number code)
14. Shape substitution cipher
15. Rosicrucian cipher
16. Hebrew
17. American Sign language (ASL)
18. Fan language
19. Hobo language
20. Braille
21. Semaphore
22. Shorthand/tachygraphy
23. Heraldry
24. Logos
25. Synesthesia
26. Gestures: hands, eyes, head, stature
27. Light as communication
28. Sound as communication
29. Color as communication
30. Mime
31. Writing systems that go from right to left
32. Quipu
33. The meanings of these words from " Silent Knight" article on Marcel Marceau
      - matinee, icon, genre, harlequin, sine qua non, vignette, alter ego, cacophonous,
         quixotic, thespian, nom de guerre, commedia dell' arte

The test will be our largest so far.  Expect to write short answers, use ciphers and codes (charts provided), and match word to definition and word to picture.

Next class: Tuesday, October 14 (because of Columbus Day)

Tuesday, October 14

• Review for Friday's large test (75 points) - time spent with writing systems, the review sheet from last class, and the 12 terms from the Marcel Marceau article
• Final thoughts on nautical flags & grades for the small project
• Animal communication: opening exercises: visuals, reading from British-based materials
• Homework: be ready for test that will close out quarter grading

Friday, October 16

• Test
• After finishing, individual work with animal communication packet & exercises and vocabulary game centered around bird idioms
• Homework: finish packet, complete the game, and have three internet articles on your chosen animal research topic (this is only a check, as presentations will take place the week of October 27-31)

Tuesday, October 21

• Last day of the first quarter
• Due: project progress report (3 articles); bird idioms; two sets of answers from blue packet on animal communication distributed in class on Friday
• Presentation: animal idioms 2 and sounds; animals in literature, comics, and in the media
• Videoclips: crows that count, monkeys
• Homework: work on 40 point animal communication project

Thursday, October 23

• Worksheets: animal idioms, group names
• Jane Goodall: When Animals Talk
• Homework: Animal adjectives/animals as verbs

Monday, October 27

• Warmup: "Secret language and Behavior of Animals
• Exercise: animals as verbs, adjectives
• Visuals: animal clichés, groups, mates, national symbols
• Article: "Bowlingual"
• When Animals Talk 2

Wednesday, October 29

• Latin Unit begins: basic expressions, Roman numerals
• Animal communication project [we begin the first half of our presentations on Tuesday, Nov. 4, but all must be turned in that first day] / Wrap-up exercises
• Keep working on project & complete Roman numeral exercise

Friday, October 31

• Latin Unit, Day 2: review of previous material
• Superstitious Romans
• How Romans were named
• Latin expressions in the Church and at Good Counsel
• Roman numeral practice
• Prefixes
• Film: Ancient Rome: Romulus/Remus, Etruscans, early days of the Republic
• Presentation in Period 1: T. J. (bears)

Tuesday, November 4

• Roman culture: how people were named; numerals; prefixes
• Short quiz: Roman numerals
• Animal presentations

Thursday, November 6

• Animal presentations 3
• Prefixes: looking at meanings and opposites; word building
• Homework 1: Packet 3 (triple points) - Roman schools (reading and questions); Roman numerals
• Homework 2: prepare for oral numbers 1-10 (unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem) and answers to basic questions (Quis es?, Quid agis?)

Monday, November 10

• Oral: numbers 1-10
• Roman schools questions
• Roman numerals (packet)
• Film: Founding of Rome 1last 2-3 animal projects
• Homework: study prefixes list in packet 1 for matching quiz (meanings); finish numbers oral

Thursday, November 13

• Film: Founding of Rome 2 (through life of Julius Caesar)
• Review notes: movie 1
• Remaining orals & re-quiz of Roman numerals for those who did not reach 70% the first time around
• Quiz: meanings of 35 prefixes (pre-, post, circum-, etc.) in packet 1
• Latin Borrowed Words (exercise sheet from Random House)

Monday, November 17

• Quizzes returned
• Classwork: Vocabulary packet, Lesson 10 - ex. 19, 20
• Scroll project: mottoes, adjectives
• Homework: Vocabulary packet, Lesson 11 - ex. 21, 22

Wednesday, November 19

• Film: Origins of Rome (Caesar)
• Culture: The Roman Table/Foods
• Review of Vocabulary 10
• Exercises- Lesson 11
• Sports in the Roman World
• Homework: Vocabulary packet, Lesson 12, ex. 23, 24; Roman food packet questions

Friday, November 21

• Vocabulary packet exercises
• Sports in Rome: reading, film on gladiators
• Homework over vacation: a good time to make flash cards to study for Latin testing on our first Thursday back!

Looking ahead to the first week of December when we return:

Tuesday, December 2

• Vocabulary: words referring to people in Rome
• Gladiator film (part 2: notes/discussion)
• Review of 36 terms to be known for 12/4
• Culture: Roman time & houses; Roman humor; origins of months
• Latin roots
• Homework: vocabulary to look up (worksheet); study for vocabulary test

Thursday, December 4

• Vocabulary assignment from 12/2 (Alma mater..........vice versa)
• Culture: Roman clothing
• Review for Semester 1 exam and distribution of study materials
• Practice Vocabulary Exercices 
• Vocabulary test: 36 terms (word bank; matching; give meaning)
• Homework: Latin roots 2 (Period 2 only)

Friday, December 12: Semester 1 exam (last Blue-day before other tests begin!): expect approximately 140 questions on material since the beginning of the year! 

Monday, December 8

• Tests returned
• Due today: roots worksheet (only for class meeting Period 2)
• Review for Sem 1 test with packet passed out in class on 12/4
• Homework: test corrections (4 extra points)

Tuesday, December 9/Wednesday, December 10

• Tutoring sessions for exam: after school, room 204, 3:00-3:30

Wednesday, December 10

• Test corrections due
• Graded group 'quiz'
• Last day of review for Sem 1 test (see the large packet that was distributed last week)

Friday, December 12

• Mid-term exam covering the entire semester (general linguistics/animal communication/Latin language and Roman culture)

BONNE ANNÉE!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Monday, January 5, 2009 (le lundi 5 janvier)

• Review of Semester 1 exam
• French Unit begins with basic expressions, pronunciation of alphabet, some French words in our daily vocabulary
• Recap of French Christmas traditions: Paris & Burgundy
• Homework: French Borrowed Words, list 1

Wednesday, January 7 (le mercredi 7 janvier)

• French Unit, Day 2: geography, alphabet practice, numbers 1-12
• French and English: hand-in-hand in medieval England
• Homework: French Borrowed Words, list 2

Tuesday, January 13 (le mardi 13 janvier)

• Geography and Facts about France
• Basic phrases and alphabet (CD)
• Practice with vocabularies 1 & 2

Thursday, January 15 (le jeudi 15 janvier)

• Test: Vocabulary lists 1 & 2 from packet (50 points) - expect word bank, 2 matching exercises, a category exercise, and free-choice definitions
• Alphabet recitation (day 2) - 16 points
• French foods 1 & Cajun culture
• Film: Cajun foods (Dorinda Hafner, PBS)
• Review of culture and geography
• Homework for next class: Vocabulary Assignment 3 & 9 point Web Search take-home assignment.

Note: a number of students (3-4 per class) missed the vocabulary testing & alphabet recitation on 1/15.  Please see Mr. Wood on Friday 1/16 or Wednesday 1/21 to complete it.  Do not expect to make it up in class and miss another session with a one-day week coming up. Mr. Wood will be available after school or come to Rm 204 and make up the test during a study hall.