Holiday Break....

What great independent reading and inspired by place projects. I will be posting some of them later in the break, so stay tuned. See you on the 5th! Enjoy your holiday.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Early Release Day!!

Period 1:
Finish Independent Reading Presentations
Viewing Hamlet

Period 2:
Reading Tartuffe

Period 6:
Finish Hamlet

Thought for the day...
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
- Edith Sitwell

Have a fantastic break & see you in 2009.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Snow Delay....

Period 1:
Introduce Ethan Frome
Weston & Tayler presented independent reading projects
Recommend to all readers: The Last Treasure and My Sister's Keeper
Viewing Hamlet

Period 2: Canceled due to delay...
On your own: read Tartuffe & work on literary immersion project

Period 6:
Finish Hamlet Act IV, and begin Act V
Understanding Hamlet's Character


Section C: Hamlet's Character. Standard Deviants. 2001.
Discovery Education. 22 October 2008


Thought for the day...
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
- Elizabeth David

Friday, December 19, 2008

Period 1:
Final vocabulary quiz
Independent reading project
Finish Hamlet
Begin viewing film - discussion of differences

Period 2:
Final vocabulary quiz
Literary immersion project
Tartuffe

Period 6:
Final vocabulary quiz
Independent reading project
Finish Hamlet Act III, and begin Act IV

Thought for the day...
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
— Dr. Seuss

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Period 1: Shortened due to advisories...
Present current events
Read Act V of Hamlet... what a sight Fortinbras is going to see!

Period 2:
Present current events
Read Tartuffe
Thoughtcrime

Period 6:
Present current events
Finish Hamlet Act III, begin Act IV
Independent reading

Thought for the day...
Michelangelo - "Genius is eternal patience."

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Reading Hamlet Act IV
Independent reading

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Finish tests, make-ups & work on Community Project

Period 6:
Review vocabulary
Ophelia & Hamlet "Get thee to a nunnery"

Thought for the day...
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
- Anna Quindlen, A SHORT GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Period 1:
Hamlet Quiz on Acts I, II, & III (through scene 2)
Finished Act III
Independent reading time

Period 2:
1984 & Catch 22 test
Thoughtcrime
Literary immersion project begins

Period 6:
Hamlet Act II and III
Independent reading

Thought for the day...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
- Washington Irving

Monday, December 15, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2: The Mousetrap & Claudius' guilt
Independent reading project

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Reviewing 1984
Discussion on community project
Introduction to literary immersion project

Period 6:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading Hamlet, Act I & II
Independent reading project

Thought for the day...
Ideas shape the course of history. - John Maynard Keynes

Friday, December 12, 2008

Snow day...
Keep up on your independent reading! See you Monday.

Thought for the day...
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
- J. D. Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Period 1:
Present current events
Finish Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2
Comparing versions of Hamlet
Independent reading

Period 2:
Present current events
Discuss Room 101
Begin Tartuffe
Thoughtcrime Game continues

Period 6:
Present current events
Finish Hamlet Act I, begin Act II
Thoughtcrime Game continues
Independent reading

Thought for the day...
The more you can dream, the more you can do. - Michael Korda

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Reading Hamlet Act III: "To be or not to be"
Independent Reading Project

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Catch-22 and 1984 Quiz
Thoughtcrime Intro day 2 & the game begins... THANK YOU to Literary Worlds and Robert Rozema for creating this game.

Period 6:
Review vocabulary
Reading Hamlet
Thoughtcrime Intro day 2 & the game begins... THANK YOU to Literary Worlds and Robert Rozema for creating this game.
Independent Reading

Thought for the day...
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Period 1:
Reading Hamlet Act 2
Independent Reading Project

Period 2:
Discuss/review 1984
Thoughtcrime Intro Day 1

Period 6:
Reading Hamlet Act 1
Thoughtcrime Intro Day 1

Thought for the day...
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson

Monday, December 8, 2008

Period 1:
Finish Hamlet Act I
Discussion on characters and first character reflection
Independent reading project

Period 2:
Discuss 1984/Review developments
Satire discussion
Introduce Voltaire and begin Tartuffe

Period 6:
Hamlet Act I
Character reflections
Independent Reading Project

Thought for the day...
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
- Carol Burnett

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Period 1:
Review Vocabulary
Present Current Events
Discuss yesterday's activities
Read Hamlet Act 1, Scene 1

Period 2:
Discuss 1984 - reviewing part 1
Present Current Events
Ordering pizza with Big Brother watching...

Period 6:
Check in on independent reading project
Present current events
Visit Shakespeare High
Making up skits with famous lines

Famous Lines from Hamlet...

Hamlet & Flatulence:


Poor Yorick was in an accident...



Thought for the day...
"Don't go through life, grow through life."
Eric Butterworth

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Today I am learning new ways to bring technology into the classroom, which means that you have a fabulous substitute: Mrs. Williams!

Here's the plan for the day...

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Hamlet's famous lines activity
Independent reading

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
1984 Quiz on ch. 6-7
Orwell activities

Period 6: (shortened due to advisory)
Review vocabulary
Doctor Faustus' obituary
Independent reading

Thought for the day...
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B.F. Skinner

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Period 1:
Persepolis Test
Independent Reading Project

Period 2:
Reading Quiz Ch. 1-5
Finish debriefing Apple commercial
Discussion on censorship, history, etc.
Work on Community Project

A brief intro regarding 1984...


Introducing Winston Smith, INGSOC, Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia. Discovery Channel School. 2001.
Discovery Education. 2 December 2008


And for Catch-22 readers... a short video clip about Yossarian


The Madness of Countries: The Impact and Message of "Catch-22". Discovery Channel School. 1997.
Discovery Education. 2 December 2008


Period 6:
Discuss/Review Faustus Act 4
After 24 years...was it worth it?
Read Act 5
Independent Reading Project

Thought for the day...

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe

Monday, December 1, 2008

Can you believe it's already December???? Where did the time go?

Period 1:
Review Persepolis
Intro to Hamlet
Intro to independent reading project

Period 2:
Discuss/review 1984
Looking at Apple's 1984 commercial

and responding to it...click here
Final phase of community/Frost project

Period 6:
Discuss & explore Doctor Faustus
Start thinking about independent reading project

Thought for the day...
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead