Friday, August 13, 2010

August 16-20

AP Language and Composition
  • Student rewrites of the William Carlos Williams poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
  • Introduction to Rhetoric- pp. 1-33
  • complete literary device quiz
  • Weds. turn in dialectical journal-Huckleberry Finn
  • Introduction to the novel-Huck Finn / lecture and guided practice -identifying tone, mood, literary devices, theme, setting, characterization, criticisms of social, political and cultural aspects of American society
  • Rhetorical analysis of Mark Twain's essay "The Character of Man"
  • Deciphering essay prompts--identifying the "Big and Little" question
  • Composing essay response
English 11
  • Quiz reading check Huckleberry Finn chapter 1-8
  • Vocabulary words from the novel Huck Finn
  • Introduction to the novel-Huck Finn / lecture and guided practice -identifying tone, mood, literary devices, theme, setting, characterization, criticisms of social, political and cultural aspects of American society
  • Wednesday turn in dialectical journals for chp. 1-8 Huck Finn
  • Discussion (literary analysis) of chp. 1-8 symbolism, satire, theme, setting, characterization, mood, tone
  • Verbs transitive and intransitive, Linking verbs, Verb phrases - grammar workbook
Senior English
  • Quiz over summer reading--The Lord of the Flies
  • Determine the topic that you will trace the evolution of throughout the novel and use as the subject for your final essay
  • Dialectical journals-- guided practice/using journals as resources for final essay
  • Discussion (literary analysis) of chp. 1-8 symbolism, satire, theme, setting, characterization, mood, tone
  • Socratic Seminar Questions and response The Lord of the Flies
  • Vocabulary from The Lord of the Flies
Myth and Legend
  • Discussion of Readings of Gods & Goddesses
  • Wednesday turn in your answers to the questions covering p. 1-94 of Edith Hamilton's mythology
  • Discussion of Creation myths
  • Pandora - woman enters the world
  • The role of women in Greek society - Women in Western Political Thought chp. 1 "Plato and the Greek tradition of Misogyny"
  • Quiz over Gods and Goddesses
  • assigned reading pp. 93-158
French I & II
Textbook Bien Dit Fr. 1
review for French II
  • Chapitre un
  • Vocabulary - review Greetings, Introduction, asking how people are doing, subject pronouns, counting to thirty
  •  Introduce telling your age/ asking someone's age, introducing someone, classroom objects, classroom commands, how to ask the teacher something
  • Monday--quiz over exprimons-nous p. 6,8 and entre compains page 9
  • Friday -- quiz over numbers 1-30
  • video--bien dit chapitre 1 la rentree/standard deviants introduction to French I
  • Tues.  homework complete exercises 31, 32, 34, 41, 46, 47, 48,
  • Friday in class Prepare-toi pour l'examen p. 32 -33

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