Week of January 23rd

Now that midterms are over (yay!), we will begin our preparations for The Scarlet Letter. Please bring your red anthology to class, as we will be covering Native American, Age of Faith, and Age of Reason works from that text.

Your Gatsby & Kane EDITED/PERFECTED thesis is due on Friday and an outline of your body paragraphs is due on Monday.

Week of 12.19.11-12.23.11

A BLOCK

Monday: Meet with motif groups to finish project

     HW: Make sure motif is ready to go tomorrow.

Tuesday: Discuss/present motifs and themes

Wednesday: Discuss/present motifs and themes (Speakeasy: the password is "The Green Light")

Thursday: No class

Friday: Wrap-up

HAVE A GREAT VACATION!

D BLOCK

Monday: No class

Tuesday: Meet with motif groups to finish project

     HW: Make sure motif is ready to go.

Wednesday: Discuss/present motifs

Thursday: Discuss/present motifs (Speakeasy: the password is "Owl Eyes")

    HW: Read Ch. 9 and take motif/modernist element notes and one dialectical journal note.

HAVE A GREAT VACATION!

Week of 12.12.11-12.16.11

A BLOCK

Monday: Chapter 7 due

      HW: Read Ch. 8 and take motif/modernist element notes plus one dialectical journal note.

Tuesday: No class

Wednesday: Discuss Ch. 8

     HW: Read Ch. 9 and take motif/modernist element notes plus one dialectical journal note.

Thursday: Discussion of ending!

Friday: Meet with groups to start motif assignment

D BLOCK

Monday: Discuss Gatsby 5 & 6

     HW: Read Ch. 7 and take motif/modernist element notes and five bullet points of interesting moments, thoughts, quotations, etc. 

Tuesday: Discuss Ch. 7   

     HW: Read Ch. 8 and take motif/modernist element notes and one dialectical journal note.

Wednesday: Discuss Ch. 8

    HW: Read Ch. 9 and take motif/modernist element notes and one dialectical journal note.

Thursday: Discuss ending!

 Friday: Meet with motif groups to start assignment.

Week of 12.5.11-12.9.11

A BLOCK

Monday: No class

Tuesday: Discuss the bad driver motif in Ch. 3.

      HW: Read Ch. 5 and take motif/modernist element notes plus one dialectical journal note.

Wednesday: Discuss Ch. 4 & 5

     HW: Read Ch. 6 and take motif/modernist element notes plus one dialectical journal note.

Thursday: Discussion of 6.

     HW: Study unit 6 vocab. in preparation for tomorrow's quiz.

Friday: Unit 6 quiz; meet with motif groups.

     HW: Read Ch. 7, take notes on motif and modernist element; write two dialectical journal entries. This is due on Monday.

D BLOCK

Monday: Discussion of bad driver motif in Ch. 3.

     HW: Unit 6 vocab. review due tomorrow (Quiz Thursday); read Ch. 4 for Wednesday and take motif/modernist element notes and one dialectical journal note.

Tuesday: Discuss Ch. 3.

     HW: Read Ch. 4 and take motif/modernist element notes and one dialectical journal note.

Wednesday: Discuss Ch. 4.

Thursday: Unit 6 quiz; meet with motif groups.

     HW: Read Ch. 5 & 6 for Monday.

 Friday: No Class.

     HW: Read Ch. 5 & 6 for Monday.

Week of 11~21~11 to 11~25~11

A BLOCK

Monday: Notes on Modernism

Tuesday: Complete notes, start Gatsby Ch. 1

Wednesday: Ch. 1 in class

     HW: Read Ch. 2 and take motif/modernist element notes plus one dialectical journal note.

Thursday: Discussion

     HW: Read Ch. 3, take notes on motif and modernist element; write two dialectical journal entries

Friday: Discussion

     HW: Read Ch. 4, take notes on motif and modernist element; write two dialectical journal entries

VOCABULARY 6 REVIEW WILL BE DUE NEXT TUESDAY WITH THE QUIZ ON FRIDAY.

D BLOCK

Monday: Notes on Modernism

Tuesday: Complete notes, start Gatsby Ch. 1

Wednesday: No class

Thursday: Ch. 1 in class

     HW: Read Ch. 2 and take motif/modernist element notes and one dialectical journal note.

 Friday: Discussion

     HW: Read Ch. 3, take notes on motif and modernist element; write two dialectical journal entries

VOCABULARY 6 REVIEW WILL BE DUE NEXT TUESDAY WITH THE QUIZ ON THURSDAY.

Week of 11.21.11 - 11.23.11

The vocabulary unit 5 quiz is tomorrow for D block and Wednesday for A block.

Next week we'll begin GATSBY!