Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Period 1:
Review Cannery Row
Share community maps

Period 2:
Review Heart of Darkness
Finish discussing "The Second Coming"
Reviewed Things Fall Apart

Go to: African Scramble and read The Dark Places on Earth and Racism in the Heart of Darkness. Please comment on THIS blog whether you agree/disagree and why. Consider what you know about postcolonial literature and the writers' positions as you respond.

Period 3:
Our Town work
Independent Film/Novel Project selections due

Period 5:
Writing Prompt: "If I could..."
Share/Respond
Work on own writing

Thought for the day...
"We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies"
- Emily Dickinson, "We Never Know How High We Are"

Monday, April 6, 2009

Period 1:
Cannery Row reading quiz and discussion
Continue work on community maps - due tomorrow!!!
Iran research (prepwork for Persepolis)

Period 2:
Discuss/review Heart of Darkness
Revisit "The Second Coming"
Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"

Period 3:
Our Town prepwork - AUDITIONS ARE THURSDAY DURING LUNCH - Come be a movie star!
Select second Independent Film Project novels

Period 5:
Writing prompt: Write about something you threw away.
Share/Respond
Work on personal writing

Thought for the day...
"Were I called to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' " - Edgar Allen Poe

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

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Happy April Fool's Day.... Try not to be anyone's fool. :)

Period 1:

Review vocabulary

Cannery Row quiz & discussion

Work on community maps, begin developing anecdotes for maps

Period 2:

Review vocabulary

Discuss Things Fall Apart

Review postcolonial literature themes

Introduce Heart of Darkness & Joseph Conrad

Period 3:

Congrats, Nicole, on getting your license!

Our Town

Period 5:

Writing prompt: Begin at the end

Share/Respond

Work on writing

Thought for the day...

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." - Thoreau

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary Quiz
Present Current Events
Work on Breathing Underwater Projects

Period 2:
Vocabulary Quiz
Present Current Events
Personal Narrative Work
Happy Birthday Jacquie & Liz

Period 6:
Vocabulary Quiz
Present Current Events
Personal Narrative Work
Discuss Heart of Darkness

Thought for the day...
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
— Elizabeth Lawrence

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Period 1:
Review Vocabulary
Breathing Underwater Quiz & Review
Work on Maps...

Period 2:
Worked on literary essay introductions - finding the focus/thesis
Discussion of Things Fall Apart

Period 6:
Discuss Heart of Darkness
Work on literary essays

Thought for the day...
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." Jean Jacques Rousseau

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Period 1:
NWEA testing...

Period 2:
Review Vocabulary
Discuss Things Fall Apart
The importance of a thesis discussion - reviewing literary essays

Period 6:
Discuss Heart of Darkness
Description activity
Review Vocabulary
Hero Journeys

Thought for the day...
"You want a deliberate belief." Joseph Conrad
What is a deliberate belief? Why is it so important?

Monday, September 22, 2008

This is a short week so don't forget vocabulary for Tuesday!!

Period 1:
Discussed Breathing Underwater
Collected Technology Papers
Worked on Nick Maps - tracing the key developments in Nick's story & relationship with Caitlin. Don't forget to include at least 3 quotes on your "map" and you need to include past & present!

Period 2:
Discussed changes at the end of Part One in Things Fall Apart
Worked on Yeats' poem: "The Second Coming"

Period 6:
Discuss Heart of Darkness
Defining and identifying irony

Thought for the day...
John Lennon - "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
Apply this thought to your text under study.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary Quiz
Small Discussion Groups on Breathing Underwater
Technology Paper work

Period 2:
Vocabulary Quiz
Discussion on Things Fall Apart
Personal Narrative Work

Period 6:
Vocabulary Quiz
Discussion on Heart of Darkness
Literary Essay Revisions

Thought for the day...
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Period 1:
Breathing Underwater Quiz & Discussion
Present Current Events
Work on technology papers


Period 2:
Things Fall Apart Quiz
Passage Discussion
Present Current Events

Period 6:
Present Current Events
Share Judging Joe thoughts
Introduce Heart of Darkness
Revising Literary Essays

Thought for the day...
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
— Aldous Huxley
How has reading impacted you? Magnified you? Added to your life?