Fri 11/30

Sophomores
1. vocab quiz
2. grammar 3-4
3. Othello character drawing
4. lit terms: foil, comic relief
5. HW: read to p. 91 in Othello, read your choice book, grammar 5-6

Seniors
1. collect speech RD
2. vocab quiz/ new vocab
3. quickwrite: missionary passage-- gut reaction, Achebe's purpose
4. HW: complete proverb illustration, read ch 18-21

Thur 11/29

Sophomores
1. vocab review
2. dashes
3. Othello 2.3
4. complete Othello Act II study guide, Act II character drawing
5. HW: read choice book, complete Othello journal #2

Seniors
1. vocab review
2. HW check: ch 8-10 questions in NB
3. ch 11-13 questions in NB
4. proverb illustration-- 10 pts, due next Tuesday
5. HW: speeches, read ch 14-17

Wed 11/28

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. colons
3. review lines 1-82
4. lines 83-175 with partner
5. perform rest of 2.1, 2.2 and start 2.3
6. HW: read choice book, grammar: dashes

Seniors
1. vocab warm up
2. silent quiz
3. ch 4-7-- share questions 5,6
4. ch 8-10 questions
5. HW: read background and ch 11-13

Tue 11/27

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. semicolons
3. Lit terms: soliloquy, simile, metaphor, more imagery
4. Ring the Changes
5. Act II, finish 2.1 for HW
6. HW: read choice book and look for key passages, Othello journal #1

Seniors
1. vocab warm up
2. silent quiz on last night's reading
3. quickwrite: tradition (When is tradition a good thing? When is it a bad thing?)
4. add to what we know about Ibo culture: New Yam, wrestling, story-telling
5. Okonkwo's character
6. HW: read ch 8-10, write RD of speech

Mon 11/26

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. Shakespeare in Love clip
3. HW: grammar #1; read your books

Seniors
1. vocab warm up
2. semi pop quiz: raise hand if you know the answer
3. quickwrite: details of Ibo culture (ex: polygamy, oracle, chi, evil forest, etc)
4. characters, Okonkwo's character
5. brainstorm: 3 pieces of advice you would give freshman on how to survive and thrive at THS
6. HW: read ch 5-7 of TFA

Wed 11/21

Sophomores
1. lit terms: allusion, imagery, pun, double entendre
2. review 1.1 and 1.2
3. choral reading
4. read to page 48 and do questions 1-5

Seniors
1. get Thing Fall Apart books
2. vocab warm up: quiz next Wednesday
3. anticipation questions in NB: (1) When you think of Africa, what do you think of? What ideas? What images? etc. (2) How much should one culture be allowed to impose it self on another culture?
4. proverbs
5. HW: read highlight background notes; read chapter 1-4 in TFA

Tue 11/20

Sophomores
1. lit. terms: verse, prose, iambic pentameter, paradox, dramatic irony
2. read aloud Othello 1.1 and 1.2
3. do study questions for 1.1 and 1.2 in NB
4. HW: read choice book and look for key passages

Seniors
1. HW check
2. share your personal philosophies
3. fun quiz: the card game
4. speech assignment and samples
5. begin planning speech: typed RD due on Fri 11/30

Mon 11/19

Sophomores
1. vocab quiz
2. Lover, girlfriend, buddy: more background, review
3. Othello 1.1 slightly cut script
4. Othello 1.1 read pages 24-25
5. HW: read choice book, start looking for key passages

Seniors
1. HW check
2. "Free will" from Waking Life
3. discuss final chapters of The Stranger, Camus afterword
4. The Stranger test
5. HW: complete "What is your personal philosophy?" in NB

Fri 11/16

Sophomores
1. books
2. vocab review
3. Lover, girlfriend and buddy improvs
4. HW: read choice book and do another gut reaction

Seniors
1. review philosophies
2. a converstation about Jean Paul Satre
3. discuss part 2 ch 1-3 questions
4. complete part 2 ch 4-5 questions
5. HW: review for comprenstion test on The Stranger

Thur 11/15

Sophomores
1. Bardology 101 slideshow
2. "line tossing" improvs
3. prepare "Lover, girlfriend, buddy" improvs
4. HW: read choice book; in NB do five sentence gut reaction to what you've read so far

Seniors
1. existentialism notes review
2. in groups answer part 2.1 questions for The Stranger
3. HW: finish the book; comprehension test on Monday

Wed 11/14

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up
2. continue Bardology 101: share answers
3. line tossing and improvs
4. HW: read your choice books; finish book by Dec 7

Seniors
1. philosophy quickwrite 101
2. review Stranger part 1 questions for participation
3. continue philosophy background notes
4. HW: read/ highlight existentialism notes
5. HW: read pages 63-91

Tue 11/13

Sophomores
1. vocab warm up: Othello #1
2. library: college bound reading choices
3. grammar pre-test
4. begin Bardology 101: What do you know about Shakespeare the man? Shakespeare's theater? Shakespeare's time? (in NB for HW)

Seniors
1. more philosophy notes
2. The Stranger part one questions: in small groups answer all questions, but be sure to write answers in your NBs for # 1,3,7,18-23
3. part one quiz

Thur 11/9

Sophomores
1. score NBs
2. complete CTBC essay test

Seniors
1. get books: The Stranger
2. score NBs
3. philosophy quickwrite #1
4. begin philosophy background reading
5. read pages 3-59 in The Stranger

Wed 11/7

Sophomores
1. return Crucible essays
2. on-demand essay tips
3. finish film

Seniors
1. MLA style, how to use quotations correcly, essay checklist
2. workshop
3. essay due tomorrow and don't forget turnitin.com

Tue 11/7

Sophomores
1. Book III question 4-6 discussion in small groups
2. essay topics preview: interchapters, crime, land & people
3. begin film and review

Seniors
1. essay instructions: intro, body
2. essay conventions: no "I," no "you," use present tense
3. workshop
4. HW: type what you have so far, at least an intro and one body paragraph

Mon 11/5

Sophomores
1. Ch 29 t-chart
2. Book III questions
3. HW: finish book and last questions

Seniors
1. Ch 11-12 questions and review
2. AQ comprehension twiz-- 33 points
3. lit. analysis essay instructions
4. Huck Finn sample
5. workshop: read AQ samples, complete essay prep sheet #3 (outline)

Fri 11/2

Sophomores
1. vocab quiz
2. grammar retake
3. debate: crime
4. HW: read to page 289, do first 3 Book III question in NB

Seniors
1. vocab quiz
2. ch 10 questions and review
3. HW: finish book and study questions; complete essay prep sheet
4. Monday: All Quiet comprehension test worth 33 points

Thur 11/1

Sophomores
1. grammar review: commas
2. vocab review
3. ch 26 discussion
4. HW: finish Book II and do only ch 28 question

Seniors
1. grammar pages 827-829
2. vocab review
3. Ch 9 questions and review
4. essay prep
5. HW: read Ch 10