Thanksgiving Break 2008

Oops, I neglected to post what we did on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, we did a variety of activities...

Period 1:
Discussed graphics in Persepolis
Free Rice Vocabulary Challenge

Period 2:
Setting the stage for 1984...
Free Rice Vocabulary Challenge

Period 6:
Discussed Doctor Faustus
Free Rice Vocabulary Challenge
Another kindness presentation...
Popularity and Kindness:



I hope you all had a fantastic, productive break. We have a busy week planned....

Thought for the day...
"The sun is new each day."
Heraclitus

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

All classes will have Stacy Dumont of Hesser College as a guest speaker. Ms. Dumont will be presenting information about college, why college should be considered by EVERY student, the importance of establishing and maintaining good credit, and cultural and geographic awareness.

Period 1:
Brief discussion of Persepolis graphics
College presentation

Period 2:
Brief discussion of Chapter 24 in The Kite Runner
A brief video about the Taliban:

When the Taliban Ruled Afghanistan. Discovery Channel School. 2004.
Discovery Education. 2 December 2008


Community Art project check-in
College presentation

Period 6:
Brief discussion of Doctor Faustus/Share the Seven Deadly Sins
College presentation

Thought for the day....
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard Bach

Monday, November 24, 2008

Period 1:
Finish Persepolis Worksheet
Discuss graphics & review story
Understanding the culture

Period 2:
Finish Frost Place poet presentations
Discuss Kite Runner
Work on place art

Period 6:
Final Kindness Presentation
Kindness in the World...


Bullying...



Relationships without boundaries...



Video games and violence



Violence in the World



Discuss/read Doctor Faustus
Depicting the Seven Deadly Sins
Lesson with Ms. LaBella

Thought for the day...
Ernest Hemingway - "Never mistake motion for action."

Friday, November 21, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary 13 quiz
Discussed Iranian history and Islam

Period 2:
Vocabulary 13 quiz
Quick discussion on The Kite Runner
Presented Frost Place poets

Period 6:
Vocabulary quiz
Share Faustus' contract
Continue reading Dr. Faustus

Thought for the day...
Stretching out to catch stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.
— Jeremy Bentham

Thursday, November 20, 2008

There is a Financial Aid meeting tonight in the Library!!! It is recommended that ALL seniors attend.

Period 1:
Presented current events
Discussed memoir vs. autobiography
Discussed Persepolis and graphics
Worked on Persepolis background worksheet
Wondering what Persepolis is? Check out the below video...


Period 2:
Presented current events
Discussed The Kite Runner and importance of blood relationships
Worked on poet project
What is Kite Running?


Period 6:
Present current events
The last kindness presentation
Working with Faustus

Thought for the day...
By words the mind is winged.
— Aristophanes

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Period 1:
How to read a graphic novel & take notes on graphics
Reviewed vocabulary
Worked on Persepolis worksheet

Period 2:
Reviewed vocabulary
Discussed passages from The Kite Runner
Researched Frost Place poets

Period 6:
Finish Kindness Presentations
Work on Doctor Faustus

Thought for the day...
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
— Jacob M. Braude

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Period 1:
A Step from Heaven test

Period 2:
The Kite Runner quiz & review
Discuss Frost Place poet assignment
Defining a community

Period 6:
Kindness Presentations
Discussing/Acting Doctor Faustus

Thought for the day...
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher

Monday, November 17, 2008

As some of you already know, Mrs. Williams is your substitute today. I did not plan to be out today, so please be patient and on task for her.

Period 1:
Read: "Epilogue: Hands" and hands activity
Review for test tomorrow

Period 2:
Work on Frost Poet research

Period 6:
Read Doctor Faustus scenes 1 & 2
Graphic vocabulary words

Thought for the day...
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Friday, November 14, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary Quiz
Discuss A Step from Heaven
Share cultural scrapbooks

Period 2:
Vocabulary Quiz
Discuss The Kite Runner
Share poem analysis

Period 6:
Vocabulary Quiz
Present Current Events
Work on Kindness Presentations

Thought for the day....
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Period 1:
Present Current Events
Discuss A Step from Heaven
Work on Cultural Scrapbooks

Period 2:
Present Current Events
Discuss the moral conflicts of The Kite Runner
Work on poem analysis

Period 6:
Work on Kindness Projects
*behave for Mrs. Beaudin*

Thought for the day...
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
— Jawaharlal Nehru

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Period 1:
Reviewed vocabulary
Reviewed A Step from Heaven
Worked on cultural scrapbooks

Period 2:
Reviewed vocabulary
Individual check-in with Mrs. Tyler
Quiz on The Kite Runner
Worked on Frost poems

Period 6:
Review vocabulary
Discuss Three Cups of Tea & if education = peace
Work on Kindness Project

Thought for the day...
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
- H. Mathews

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Enjoy your Veteran's Day. No school.
Don't forget to take a moment to recognize why we celebrate it.


Thought for the day....
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
— José Narosky

Monday, November 10, 2008

Period 1:
Note check on A Step from Heaven
Discussion on traditional gender roles and how they are handled in the text
Finished brainstorming for cultural scrapbook

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Final soliloquies
Discussion on The Kite Runner
Establishment of the power differences in Amir and Hassan's relationship
Analysis of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Discussion of Phase Two of the Community Project

Period 6:
Reading quiz and discussion
Work on kindness projects

Thought for the day...
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
- Sigmund Freud

Friday, November 7, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Addressed questions on A Step from Heaven
Cultural scrapbook

Period 2:
Hamlet and King Lear Test

Period 6:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading quiz
Kindness Project work

Thought of the day...
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
Louis D. Brandeis

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Present current events
Discuss Korea & A Step from Heaven

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Present current events
Present Act V of Hamlet & King Lear

Hamlet Act V:


King Lear Act V:

Student soliloquies

Period 6:
Review vocabulary
Present current events
Finish viewing Edges of the Lord
Discussion on morality of choices, degrees of kindness and differences in faith

Thought for the day...
You must do the thing you cannot do.
--- Eleanor Roosevelt

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The votes are in... It's President-elect Barack Obama. WHS voters called it!

Today, I am out, so please be on your best behavior.

Period 1:
Sunrise over Fallujah test
Begin A Step from Heaven

Period 2:
Finish Shakespeare Review
Finalize Act V Presentations

Period 6:
View Edges of the Lord and related assignment

Thought for the day...
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
---Christopher Morley

See you tomorrow!

ELECTION RESULTS

How will the election turn out? Stay tuned to watch how the country goes.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

ELECTION DAY! Make your voice heard & vote!

Period 1:
Review for Sunrise Test

Period 2:
Work on Shakespeare Project
Student Soliloquies:
King Lear, Act I, Scene 2
Edmund discussing his legitimacy

King Lear, Act II, Scene 3
Edgar's decision to become "Poor Tom"


Hamlet Act I, Scene 2
Hamlet reflecting on his father's death, his mother's hasty remarriage and his own mortality



Period 6:
Three Cups of Tea Quiz
Work on Kindness Project
Finish conferences

Thoughts for the day...
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: ’Tis one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. "
John F. Kennedy

Monday, November 3, 2008

Period 1:
Sunrise over Fallujah Quiz
Discuss literary archetypes
Yossarian & Catch-22
Anticipate the end...

Period 2:
Tracing images in the plays
Begin work on review sheets
Work on Shakespeare projects

Period 6:
Three Cups of Tea Quiz & Discussion
Kindness Conferences

Thought for the day...
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Oscar Wilde