My Last Day

My last few days as a teacher and coach at Hillcrest Christian School were very emotional. I invested five years into the school and its students, and I had coworkers and invested in me and prayed for me constantly. 

Administration: Thank you for taking a chance on me. It meant at lot to me, and I took seriously the task you put before me. I hope you look back on that decision with happiness and contentment.

Coworkers: Your prayers and encouragement helped get me through those bad days that all teachers have.

Students: You were absolutely unforgettable. I will miss the laughter and the challenges. I am thankful to God that he allowed me to teach you.

I began work as a 25-year-old bachelor and left married with two kids. God could not have put me in a better place for those years in my life.

It seems silly that such mundane actions--cutting off the lights and closing a door--could mean so much, but they do. I will miss this school and you people dearly.

I pray that God blesses you.

--Coach Taylor

Week 36: May 7 - 11

Monday
Test

Tuesday - Friday
Final Exam review

Pronoun worksheet answers

For those of you in Advanced English who want to check your grammar work, here are the answers to the exercises.

Page 89: Pronouns in the possessive case
Exercise 1

1. Theirs
2. ours
3. Hers
4. theirs
5. yours
6. hers
7. Ours
8. yours
9. its
10. theirs

Exercise 2

1. Their
2. its
3. your
4. their
5. your
6. its
7. Your
8. Its
9. their
10. its

Page 90: Who or Whom in Questions

Exercise 1

1. subj.
2. o.p.
3. d.o.
4. subj.
5. o.p.
6. d.o.
7. d.o.
8. subj.
9. o.p.
10. subj.

Exercise 2

1. Who
2. whom
3. Who
4. Whom
5. Who
6. Who
7. whom
8. Who
9. Whom
10. whom

Week 35: April 30 - May 4

Monday
Advanced

1. Students will take poetry test 2.
2. With whatever time they have left, students will begin reading "Emily Dickinson" on page 415.

Regular

1. Students will take their test on SRA.
2. After completing the test, students will read "" and answer questions.

Tuesday

Advanced
Continue "Emily Dickinson"

Regular
Continue SRA

Wednesday

Advanced

1. Complete "Emily Dickinson"
2. Start pronoun case worksheet to be completed for HW.
3. Read "Marian Anderson."

Regular
Continue SRA

Thursday

Advanced

1. Discuss "Marian Anderson."
2. Discuss pronoun case.

Regular
Continue SRA.

Friday

Advanced

1. Read "A Christmas Memory."
2. Possessive pronoun and Who/Whom work

Regular

1. Finish SRA.
2. Review for Monday's test.

Week 34: April 23 - 27

Monday
1. Students will take their test.
2. Students will work on vocabulary lesson 28. Quiz on Friday.

Tuesday
Advanced

1. Students will complete vocabulary work.
2. Class will go over Lord of the Flies test if all students have taken it.
3. Students will read begin reading nonfiction selections.

Regular

1. Students will complete vocabulary work.
2. Students will take notes on the following:

• epitaphs 
• the life of Edgar Lee Masters
• Spoon River Anthology (SRA)

Wednesday

Advanced

The class will read and discuss the humorous essay "The Dog that Bit People" by James Thurber.

Regular

We will complete our notes and compose our own epitaphs.

Thursday
Advanced
Students will read and "Emily Dickinson" by Van Wyck Brooks.

Regular

1. Students will complete epitaphs.
2. The class will begin reading the selections from SRA.

Friday

Advanced

1. Students will take vocabulary quiz 28.
2. Students will go to the library to take their AR test on Lord of the Flies.
3. Students may take other AR tests if they are prepared to do so.
4. Students will study for Monday's poetry test.

Regular

1. Students will take vocabulary quiz 28.
2. The class will continue reading selections from SRA.
3. If time permits, we will do a mini-review for Monday's SRA/Masters/Epitaph test.

Week 33: April 16 - 20

Monday
Advanced

• Students will write down the words and definitions for vocabulary unit 27, pages 173-74.
• The class will discuss the remaining haiku.
• Students will compose their own haiku.

Regular

• Students will write down the words and definitions for vocabulary unit 27, pages 173-74.
• The class will discuss Great Expectations in preparation for Tuesday's test.*

Tuesday

Advanced

• Students will complete vocabulary exercises 1-3 on pages 175-76.
• Students will individually analyze a poem they have not seen before.

Regular

• Students will take Great Expectations test 2.
• Students will complete vocabulary exercises 1-3 on pages 175-76.

Wednesday

Advanced

1. Continue group explanations of "Do not go gentle..."
2. Class discussion of "Elegy for my father, who is not dead"

Regular

1. Discuss vocabulary exercises
2. Group discussion of "My Papa's Waltz"

Thursday
Advanced

1. Individual analysis of "My Papa's Waltz"
2. Class discussion

Regular

1. Continue class discussion of "My Papa's Waltz"
2. Vocabulary review.

Friday
Advanced

1. Vocabulary quiz, lesson 27
2. "The Number Pi"
3. If any time remains, mini-review for Lord of the Flies test

Regular

1. Vocabulary quiz, lesson 27
2. AR test on Great Expectations in library.
3. Study for poetry test 2.

* While Monday is normally the English test day, I have been assured that the students would not have more than one test on this Tuesday. Because of that (and the students' request for more time to prepare for the Great Expectations test), I have moved their test back one day.

Week 32: April 9 - 13

Monday
Good Monday holiday!

Tuesday
1. Continue analysis of "First Lesson."
2. Discuss outside reading.

Wednesday
1. Possible outside reading quiz.
2. Continue poetry analysis.

Thursday
Continue poetry analysis.


Friday
1. Greek and Latin roots quiz. This quiz will count for two daily grades.
2.  Continue poetry analysis.
3. Mini-review for outside reading test to be taken on Monday.