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."

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