Friday, June 5, 2009

Period 1:
Congratulations, I will see you at class night & graduation.

Period 2:
Final Exam

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Anthology editing & Portfolio work

Thought for the day...
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
— Carl Sandburg

Friday, May 29, 2009

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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

Friday, May 22, 2009

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Literature circles
Creating a new society - Your New World Order

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Review Oedipus Rex
Introduce Antigone
Hero Project Work

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Conference on Portfolio and/or Anthology

Thought for the day...
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
— Helen Keller

Friday, May 15, 2009

Period 1 (shortened due to marching practice):
Vocabulary quiz
Book selection - Ch. 1 due on Monday

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Literature Circles
Finish Hamlet
Watch The Simpsons' Hamlet

Period 3:
Our Town & Chinese food!!!

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Anthology workshop

Thought for the day...
To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.
—Walt Whitman

Friday, May 8, 2009

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 2-3 (maybe even 4???)
Independent reading

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Video exploration of "To be or not to be..." and "Get thee to a nunnery..."
Literature Circles

Period 3:
Our Town work - storyboarding, etc.

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Small group conferences

Thought for the day...
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
— Louisa May Alcott

Friday, May 1, 2009

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Finish Hamlet Act I, begin Act II
Independent reading
Journal check - Next Journal check Tuesday

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Introduce Literature Circles
Select books

Period 3:
Our Town work

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Conferences in Jekyll & Hyde

Thought for the day...
I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.
— Cicely Tyson

Friday, April 17, 2009

The last day before spring break...

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Persepolis test

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Finish Doctor Faustus
What are the themes?
Beginning analytical essay

Period 3:
Our Town: Finish the script

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Portfolio work
Teacher conferences

Thought for the day...
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
— Rachel Carson

Friday, April 10, 2009

There are 65 calendar days left for seniors... Wow!

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Present current events
Persepolis reading quiz
Work on Iran research

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Present current events
Discuss/review Doctor Faustus
Begin reading Act 1

Period 3:
Our Town auditions continue!!

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Peer Workshop
Schedule writing conference with me!

Thought for the day...
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller

Friday, April 3, 2009

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Cannery Row quiz
Work on community maps
Begin Iran research

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Review Heart of Darkness, Ch. 1

Period 3:
Our Town: Reviewing script

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Workshop

Thought for the day...
To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.
—Walt Whitman, NOTES LEFT OVER

Friday, March 27, 2009

It's Spirit Day and the last day of World Cultures Week.

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Discuss Cannery Row
What is a family?
Building a community

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Things Fall Apart Part One Quiz
Discuss Things Fall Apart

Period 3:
Our Town work continues...

Period 5:
Publish or Perish
Small group workshops

Thought for the day...
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
-M. C. Escher

Friday, March 20, 2009

HAPPY SPRING (or mud season)

Please be kind to Mrs. Williams. Enjoy the long weekend & I'll see you on Tuesday.

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading quiz
Inside/Outside box

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading quiz
Personal myth papers

Period 3:
AI: Artificial Intelligence, continue viewing

Period 5:
Publish or perish day...

Thought for the day...
"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." - Ruth Stout

Friday, March 13, 2009

Two Friday the 13ths in a row....

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Breathing Underwater quiz and discussion
Relationships
Beginning a character study

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Discussion of American Born Chinese
Read & discuss myths
What is your mythology?
Working on memoirs

Period 3:
Our Town work - return to Act II?

Period 5:
Publish or Perish Day!!!
Reading/commenting on one another's writing.
Goal setting

Thought for the day....
"Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos." - I Ching

AND a bonus quote because it was too good to hold onto....
Kurt Cobain - "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."