Friday, January 9, 2009

Can you believe finals are next week? Be prepared to review on Monday and/or finish up your book discussions.

Period 1:
Ethan Frome test
Publish and comment on sonnets

Period 2:
Discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God
Continue passage quilt
Begin developing review sheets

Period 6:
The Stranger Test
Begin reviewing

Thought for the day...
A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Period 1:
Review Ethan Frome
Work on Light, Winter, Death Sonnets
Click below to read the sonnets & comment...

Period 2:
Discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God

Period 6:
Discuss/Review The Stranger
& Myth....

Thought for the day...
Ideas without action are worthless.
- Harvey Mackay

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Period 1:
Ethan Frome Quiz
Review novel
Work with images - create haiku & begin poem

Period 2:
Discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God
Finish Tartuffe

Period 6:
Discuss The Stranger & The Myth
What is absurd?

Thought for the day...
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die --- whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
— Gilda Radner

Tuesday, January 6, 2008

Period 1:
Discuss/Review Ethan Frome
Work on Winter, Light & Death imagery
Floorplans

Period 2:
Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz
Discussion of novel & letter from Nanny
Reading Tartuffe

Period 6:
The Stranger Quiz & Discussion
Documenting the Murder
Myth of Sisyphus

Thought for the day...
"...we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."
- Ellen Goodman

Monday, January 5, 2009

Happy New Year!!

Period 1:
Ethan Frome Quiz
Exploring Wharton's images of: winter, light, and death
Creating our own images
Begin floorplans

Period 2:
Peer & Teacher Conferences

Period 6:
Stranger Quiz
Discussion of novel

Thought for the day...
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - E. Joseph Cossman