Apology!

Over the weekend I moved to a new house and in the chaos of boxes, dust, tape and cardboard, it took a while to find my brain (but also to set up the internet) so I didn't update the blog. I am so sorry to those of you who rely on the blog!!!! I do beg your pardon.

If you missed homework because of my error, please let me know and I will grant you a grace period to turn it in (one extra day).

Periods 2 and 6: You needed to write out your ten lines and explicate them. You can make a t-chart if you wish and write down the soliloquy that you are working to memorize on one side and the explication on the other. Period 6 will be performing their soliloquies on Friday. Period 2 will be performing on Monday.

Tuesday is Oaks Testing for Period 2/Wednesday for Period 6

On Tuesday

Period 7: You need to make sure you turned in the evidence you collected for the debate so that I can give you credit. You also need to begin your Simplicity Sojourn. If you started it today, then you must work for one full week to try and maintain that agreement with yourself.
If you forgot, you may start Tuesday or Wednesday, but start soon! We will have an in-class reflection paper Friday the 18th.

We have Oaks Testing this week, so come prepared (fed and hydrated, to give your best brainwork to the task!)

Homework!

Periods 2 and 6: Finish Iambic Pentameter sheet

Period 7: Finish the book. Remember to use sticky notes to help track your thinking! Prepare for the debate on Wednesday. Brainstorm an idea for the Simplicity Sojourn.

Period 2 and 6!

Finish reading Act IV in Macbeth.

Period 7: Into the Wild!

Come on Monday Prepared to continue your debate. I will be looking for the use of strong evidence in your arguments. I loved when you were able to use the book to argue a point. Go back over the book and find evidence that supports your point of view.

Finish Reading Act III!

Finish reading Act III. Make sure you are very competent at reading your character's lines.

Homework!

Period 2: over the weekend!

Finish Act I Macbeth and translate a section, 10 lines long, into modern language.


Period 6: None


Period 7: Read through chapter 15 in Into the Wild! If you didn't finish your pages from last class, make sure you do so and turn them in Monday.

Homework!

Period 2: write one page in your notebooks (or typed if you prefer) about the blessings and the dangers of ambition. (Think of Macbeth's descent into the madness of his ambition.)

Period 6: Annotate the poem "Pink" and write a half page about which character you would like to play in Macbeth.

Periods 2 and 6: Make props or bring Macbeth costumes!!!

All periods: Please turn in your Things Fall Apart books. The next class needs them!
Also, you need to make sure you have turned in your typed draft of your TFA paper with edits and all previous drafts.

Period 7: Make sure you are finished with Chapter 11 and 12 for Wednesday! Also complete your two pages, assigned by your group discussing Author's Purpose, Plotline (storyboard), Questions (2-3 per chapter), Character Map (notes or drawings anything that you think is important in describing who Chris McCandless was through action, his notes, others impressions, quotes, or pictures), and Power Quotes.