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"

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Early Release Day!!

Period 1:
Finish Independent Reading Presentations
Viewing Hamlet

Period 2:
Reading Tartuffe

Period 6:
Finish Hamlet

Thought for the day...
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
- Edith Sitwell

Have a fantastic break & see you in 2009.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Period 1:
Hamlet Quiz on Acts I, II, & III (through scene 2)
Finished Act III
Independent reading time

Period 2:
1984 & Catch 22 test
Thoughtcrime
Literary immersion project begins

Period 6:
Hamlet Act II and III
Independent reading

Thought for the day...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
- Washington Irving

Monday, December 15, 2008

Period 1:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2: The Mousetrap & Claudius' guilt
Independent reading project

Period 2:
Vocabulary quiz
Reviewing 1984
Discussion on community project
Introduction to literary immersion project

Period 6:
Vocabulary quiz
Reading Hamlet, Act I & II
Independent reading project

Thought for the day...
Ideas shape the course of history. - John Maynard Keynes