Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Period 1:
Discussed All Quiet & reading quiz
The image of earth
What is irony and how is it used...
Comparing Sunrise & All Quiet

Period 2:
Discussing Don Quixote
Work on essays

Period 3:
Finish A River Runs Through It
Examining the fidelity
Why the changes?

Period 5:
Flying...
Onomatopoeia

Thought for the day...
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
- Henry Drummond

February 6, 2009

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
All Quiet on the Western Front quiz
How to take notes: characters, major events/changes, relationships - how do the characters relate to one another....
Taking notes on Ch. 1 - reviewing some of the characters

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Reviewing Don Quixote
Finishing Archetypes - Present on Monday

Period 3:
A River Runs Through It

Period 5:
Reading and discussing: "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
Writing about your "ugly red sweater"

Thought for the day...
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer

February 5, 2009

Period 1:
Present current events
Sunrise over Fallujah test

Period 2:
Present current events
Don Quixote quiz
Components of a literary analysis essay
Finish character archetypes

Period 3:
Film Vocabulary Test
Viewing A River Runs Through It

Period 5:
Discussing "Young Goodman Brown"
Role of description in writing

Thought for the day...
"Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens." - Stella Terrill Mann

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Early Release Day - Shortened Periods

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Sunrise over Fallujah review

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Don Quixote quiz
Work on archetypes

Period 3:
Viewing A River Runs Through It

No Period 5 due to Honor Roll and Attendance Assembly
I'll see you tomorrow - be prepared to discuss "Young Goodman Brown"

Thought for the day...
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
- Joseph Addison

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Period 1:
Sunrise quiz & discussion
Looking at archetypes in literature and identifying roles in novel

Period 2:
Don Quixote quiz & discussion
Tracing theme/archetype through novel
Bringing an archetype to life

Period 3:
Types of montages and their uses
Building a scene from A River Runs Through It - movie tomorrow, I found it! :)

Period 5:
Describing "a scary place"

Thought for the day...
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Hermann Hesse

Friday, January 30, 2009

Period 1:
Vocabulary Quiz
Reading Quiz
Present Current Events
PRESENTATIONS ARE DUE WEDNESDAY

Period 2:
Vocabulary Quiz
Review Part One
Archetypes

Period 3:
A River Runs Through It test
Discuss scenes from Citizen Kane

Period 5:
Finish conferencing
Begin reviewing and revising - revision due Tuesday

Thought for the day...

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln