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

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.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Period 1:
Review Ethan Frome
Work on Light, Winter, Death Sonnets
Click below to read the sonnets & comment...

Period 2:
Discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God

Period 6:
Discuss/Review The Stranger
& Myth....

Thought for the day...
Ideas without action are worthless.
- Harvey Mackay

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Period 1:
Ethan Frome Quiz
Review novel
Work with images - create haiku & begin poem

Period 2:
Discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God
Finish Tartuffe

Period 6:
Discuss The Stranger & The Myth
What is absurd?

Thought for the day...
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die --- whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
— Gilda Radner

Tuesday, January 6, 2008

Period 1:
Discuss/Review Ethan Frome
Work on Winter, Light & Death imagery
Floorplans

Period 2:
Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz
Discussion of novel & letter from Nanny
Reading Tartuffe

Period 6:
The Stranger Quiz & Discussion
Documenting the Murder
Myth of Sisyphus

Thought for the day...
"...we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."
- Ellen Goodman