Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Period 1:
Finish All My Sons
Discuss public responsibility vs personal responsibility
Begin review for final

Period 2:
Discuss The Stranger
Which is worse?
Work on hero presentation

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Portfolio & Anthology work

Thought for the day...
"We are wiser than we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, June 1, 2009

Period 1:
Shortened due to marching practice
Continued Act II for All My Sons - go to pg. 61 for homework

Period 2:
Review/discuss The Stranger
Work on hero papers

Period 3:
Our Town - the cemetery & rehearse "marriage"

Period 5:
Work on portfolio & anthology pieces

Thought for the day...
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
- Oprah Winfrey

Friday, May 29, 2009

Summer reading books are filling up fast! Sign up today so you don't miss out on your first choice.

Period 1:
Final literature circle meeting
All My Sons
Work on society project

Period 2:
Shortened class due to marching practice
What is existentialism?
Discussing Camus' The Stranger

Period 3:
Our Town... At the graveyard

Period 5:
Publish & Perish
Peer Review

Thought for the day...
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
—Carol Joyce Oates

Thursday, May 28, 2009

All students may sign up for summer reading!

Period 1:
Shortened class- marching practice
Present current events
All My Sons

Period 2:
Present current events
Greek Tragedy Test

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Anthology/Portfolio work

Thought for the day....
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
—Claude Monet

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Summer Reading sign up for Class of 2010!

Period 1:
Literature circles
Society work
All My Sons

Period 2:
Antigone
Hero Project work

Period 3:
Rain date - props & costumes

Period 5:
Work on portfolio/anthology

Thought for the day...
When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One representing danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Period 1:
Literature circles
Working on society project
Begin All My Sons

Period 2:
Shortened period due to marching practice
Peer review of hero papers

Period 3:
Our Town costume work

Period 5:
Portfolio & Anthology work

Thought for the day...
When we are dreaming alone, it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
- Dom Hélder Câmara

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Period 1:
Review Vocabulary
College Fair

Period 2:
Pass a Passage Discussion
Worked on Narratives
Reviewed Vocabulary

Period 6:
Discussed All My Sons
Reviewed Vocabulary
Judging Joe Essays

Thought for the day...

Mary McCarthy - "We are the hero of our own story."

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Book orders are due today!!
AND... Yearbooks are on sale now. See a yearbook member to purchase one.

Period 1:
Discuss Breathing Underwater
Finish Passage Reviews

Period 2:
Discuss Things Fall Apart
Pass a Passage activity
Writing group conferences

Period 6:
Discuss All My Sons
Hero's Journey
How to critique personal narratives

Thought for the day...
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
— Joan Borysenko
How will you choose to live?

Monday, September 15, 2008

Period 1:
Breathing Underwater Quiz
Passage Discussions

Period 2:
Things Fall Apart Quiz
Examining Personal Narratives

Period 6:
Ethics and All My Sons
Began Act II

Thought for the day...
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it."
— Roald Dahl, BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD

June 4, 2008

Period 1:
Viewing "All My Sons"

Period 3:
Working on your "word" plays

Period 5:
Work on Portfolio

Period 6:
Viewing "1984"

Quote of the day...
Clarence Day - "We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Period 1:
Read Act 2 of All My Sons
Discuss Final Exam Date

Period 3:
Quote Speeches

Period 5:
Work on Revisions

Period 6:
1984 Quiz
Discuss 1984
Vocabulary Review


Quote of the day...
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

I have decided that despite what the calendar says, it is NOT Tuesday. It is really Monday. Please excuse any inconsistencies & errors because Mrs. Tyler is having a real Monday.

Period 1:
Reading Act One of All My Sons
Work on "I believe..."

Period 3:
Talking about your final
Quote Speeches
Using Propaganda

Period 5:
Revision Activities: Another Point of View...

Period 6:
Discussing 1984 Parts I & II - Quiz tomorrow
Vocabulary Review Games

Quote of the day...
Walt Disney - "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

Mrs. Tyler's dream: Please let it be Tuesday...