Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Summer reading books are now available in the library! Don't leave for the summer without picking up your book.

Period 1: Viewing Almereyda's Hamlet

Period 2: Continue viewing Almereyda's Hamlet

Period 3: Our Town Work

Period 5: Portfolio Work

Thought for the day...
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be. " - Shakespeare

Monday, June 8, 2009

Marching Practice from 8:30-9:30

Summer reading books are now available for pick up in the library. Please see your CP or Honors English teacher for next year's assignment.

Congratulations, seniors, on the completion of your finals. See you at Class Night!

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Portfolio Work

Thought for the day...
"Well done is better than well said." Ben Franklin

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

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Period 1:
Finish All My Sons
Discuss public responsibility vs personal responsibility
Begin review for final

Period 2:
Discuss The Stranger
Which is worse?
Work on hero presentation

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Portfolio & Anthology work

Thought for the day...
"We are wiser than we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, June 1, 2009

Period 1:
Shortened due to marching practice
Continued Act II for All My Sons - go to pg. 61 for homework

Period 2:
Review/discuss The Stranger
Work on hero papers

Period 3:
Our Town - the cemetery & rehearse "marriage"

Period 5:
Work on portfolio & anthology pieces

Thought for the day...
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Period 1:
Literature circles
Working on society project
Begin All My Sons

Period 2:
Shortened period due to marching practice
Peer review of hero papers

Period 3:
Our Town costume work

Period 5:
Portfolio & Anthology work

Thought for the day...
When we are dreaming alone, it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
- Dom Hélder Câmara

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

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Period 1:
Present current events
Literature circles
Work on vocabulary review for final

Period 2:
Present current events
Present literature circle projects
Discuss/review Oedipus Rex
Ethical dilemmas

Period 3:
Rehearse Our Town

Period 5:
Work on portfolios

Thought for the day...
Eleanor Roosevelt - "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Period 1:
Literature circles
Review vocabulary
Finish archetype notes & find archetypes and symbols in literature

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Oedipus Rex
Work on projects

Period 3:
Filming - camera angles
Rehearse Our Town

Period 5:
Work on portfolio

Thought for the day...
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
— Carl Sandburg

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Period 1:
Literature Circles
Discussing literature archetypes

Period 2:
Greek tragedy
Introducing Oedipus

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Work on portolio

Thought for the day...
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- Doris Lessing

Monday, May 18, 2009

Period 1:
Present independent reading projects
Introduce literature circle roles
What is postmodernism & existentialism?

Period 2:
Hamlet test
Hero conferences

Period 3:
Our Town work

Period 5:
Work on anthology & portfolio pieces

Thought for the day...
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford

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

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Period 1:
Present current events
Hamlet Test

Period 2:
Present current events
Literature circles
Finish Hamlet Act IV, begin Hamlet Act V

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Work on anthology and portfolio pieces

Thought for the day...
"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."
— Theodor S. Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss"

Wednesday, May 14, 2009

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Finish Hamlet
Independent reading project time/study time

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Literature circles
Hamlet Act IV - Hamlet sentenced to death in England, Ophelia has lost her mind, Laertes wants revenge, and now Hamlet's returned to England via pirates.... This is falling action?

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Peer feedback on anthology pieces
Titling the anthology

Thought for the day...
The hand that holds the quills controls history.
- Charles L. Blockson

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Period 1:
Finish Hamlet Act IV, and Read Act V, Scene 1
Tomorrow - the tragic finale!!!
Independent reading project work

Period 2:
Hamlet Act II & Act III, Scene 2 quiz
Finish Act III, begin Act IV
Literature Circles

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Work on portfolio & anthology piece
Dr. Jekyll conferences

Thought for the day...
William Feather - "No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

Monday, May 11, 2009

Period 1:
Hamlet Act III quiz
Read Hamlet Act IV - review dramatic structure
Independent reading project time

Period 2:
Film version comparison finishes
Finish Hamlet Act III
Literature Circles

Period 3:
Our Town

Period 5:
Writing warm-up:Describe a scene
Portfolio work
Mr. Hyde conferences

Thought for the day...
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Period 1:
Present current event
"To be or not to be" & "Get thee to a nunnery" - a comparison of four films
Independent reading project

Period 2:
Present current events
Literature Circles
Hamlet Act III: "To be or not to be"

Period 3:
Our Town work - understanding storyboarding

Period 5:
Writing Prompt: "I miss..."
Share/Respond
Dr. Jekyll Conferences

Thought for the day....
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Hamlet Act II quiz
Begin Hamlet Act III
Introduction to "To be or not to be"

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Literature Circles
Hamlet Act I & beginning of Act II quiz
Finish Hamlet Act II

Period 3:
Our Town work: reflections & what has happened so far

Period 5:
Writing prompt: Create a list about annoying things.... Write about one of them
Mr. Hyde Conferences
Share/Respond

Thought for the day...
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
— Clive James