Thursday, February 26, 2009

Period 1:
Present current events
All Quiet reading quiz
In class reading time
Animal Farm research

Period 2:
Present current events
Hullabaloo reading quiz & discussion
Work on Persepolis Presentations

Period 3:
Discuss "Rear Window" - anticipate the movie
Work on Our Town

Period 5:
Publish/Comment on Sonnets
What is an ode?
Begin writing an ode...

Thought for the day...
What is now proved was once imagined.
- William Blake

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

I'm debuting a new website... Check it out!

Period 1:
Review Vocabulary
Reading Quiz & Discussion
Begin researching the Russian Revolution

Period 2:
Review Vocabulary
Reading Quiz & Discussion
Begin researching Persepolis and Iran

Period 3:
Examining perspective by using Sweet Home Alabama
Discuss Our Town

Period 5:
Publish Haikus
Begin work on sonnets
Checking out William Shakespeare for inspiration

Thought for the day...
A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson

Monday, January 12, 2009

Final Exams start tomorrow!! Period 1 & 6 are Tuesday & Period 2 will be Wednesday. Make sure you have returned ALL your books!

Period 1:
Finish publishing sonnets
Review for Final

Period 2:
Their Eyes Were Watching God test
Review for Final

Period 6:
Finish The Stranger Test
Review for Final

Thought for the day...
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." - Carol Burnett

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.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
Working on sonnets
For those of you looking for rhyming words or words of certain syllables... Check out this great link that Sean C. found: http://www.rhymezone.com/

Period 3:
Debates begin

Period 5:
Work on drafts

Period 6:
Review vocabulary
Go over novel
Discuss Lost Poets

Today's thought to ponder or perhaps, directive...
"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What do you have to do and who are you going to be?

Tuesday, April 8

My apologies for being out today. This should be my last absence for quite a while.
However, I know that you are all well-prepared on what is expected of you today.

Period 1:
Work on your sonnets

Period 3:
Work on your debate

Period 5:
Work on your research paper

Period 6:
All Quiet on the Western Front quiz
Read Hemingway's short story and discuss it

Today's thought...

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
What do you think? Do you agree?

See you all tomorrow and I hope you have a great day.

Mrs. Tyler

Monday, April 7, 2008

Good morning, all!

Period 1:
Understanding Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets & A Parody

Period 3:
Work on Debate Arguments

Period 5:
Begin drafting research essay

Period 6:
Discuss All Quiet
Progression of War

Thought for the day:
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H.G. Wells
What do you think?