Friday, May 27th

Ooops! I put our work for this day inside of a different blog! :)

Have I mentioned that there are only 16 instructional days left until exam week! Hooray!

Summer is coming!

Summer is coming!

Act Three Macbeth

Wednesday, MAY 25th

Return some old marked assignments. Discuss.
(just C Block - finish reading Act Three)
Introduce Compare and Contrast Approaches

Library - Act Three Assignment

Tomorrow - Watch Act Three - Possibly Introduce Final Project

Act Two Macbeth

Here are the Review Q's and Composition Topics for Act Two of Macbeth.

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Macbeth Unit

I just realized that I have not blogged in ages! We are well into out Macbeth Unit.

I will put our Act by Act handouts and assignments from Macbeth in here soon.


"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself..." Macbeth


Check out these Macbeth Resources:
Macbeth Navigator
Video Introduction via Enotes

Wednesday, May 11

1) Silent Reading

2) The Problem of Evil - Discussion

3) Movie - Looking for Richard

Thursday, May 5th

The Really Big Essay.
Here we go...

Essay Handout

Wednesday, May 5th

1) Silent Reading

2) Announcements

• Wrap up novel discussions/literature circle today. Tomorrow we start writing a BIG paper with the whole deal - cover page, citations, research, quotations, works cited page and 750 word minimum (3 typed pages).
• June upcoming story telling unit - working briefly with a Brooklyn classroom. Your first task is to think of a book or story from your childhood that you never forgot, and that you could argue you learned something from. The idea came from this book.
• Macbeth is coming, Macbeth is coming...

3) Bookable Lab - Wrapping up Lit. Circles - notes in the NING.

Literary Terms Link

If you are having trouble remembering what all those literary terms mean, then check out these links:

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm

Monday, May 3rd

Poetry Review and Wrap-Up

• Message from Matt Rader
• Share some of your Modern Love poems.
• The Fish - review of terms - see the Unit Handout for list.
• Seeing the Extraordinary in the ordinary...

Parody Poem

Parody - a humourous imitation of another text that is usually serious.
Dover Beach vs. Dover Bitch http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW_H3hKK6a0zZG5xemQza18yN2NwZ2RobWd0&hl=en

Parody Poem - due on Wednesday.