Status What?!

1) Paradox Introduction Due


2) 1961, baby! A history lesson. A SETTING lesson

• The times they are a changing. Bob Dylan sang this in 1964
• What do the poodle skirt and the mini skirt teach us?
• How is Sammy's town kind like Comox?

3) Read: "A & P", by John Updike.

4) Status Quo and Review of Literary Terms

What is Sammy fighting against? Why is it perfect that it is set in a store? What do the girls represent?

5) Homework: Annotate your story. 

Welcome to English 11

1) Meet the Creature. I am a Paradox.

2) The Epic Outline. Tour of blog/network.

3) In other words:

4) Paradox? Huh? You are one too. 

• What are your vices?
• What are your virtues?
• Your first writing sample: Introduce yourself to me and your paradoxical ways. 200-300 words.

5) Info please! Please use the netbooks to fill in this spreadsheet.

6) If time, let's start "A&P." If not, tomorrow...

Acts 4 and 5

1) Check Homework. Hand-out final essay details.

2)What do you predict will happen to Macbeth?

3) High speed lecture is not holding you, so.... how about a little Problem Based Learning?

Tomorrow you must prove to me that you understand Acts 4 and 5 of Macbeth. You will be tested with the following two questions - What happened in Act Four? What happened in Act Five? How have Macbeth and Lady Macbeth developed (what is their character arc)?

Here are your resources:

Videos:

• The remaining scenes condensed into a cheesy, old-school animated nine minute video.
• Review the main ideas of the play in 32 seconds: http://www.folger.edu/documents/32-secondMacbeth.pdf  
• Tomorrow and tomorrow - watch the new school and the old school version of this famous soliloquy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLBfH3o1TU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g&feature=related
• Macbeth Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyytzE13iV4

Scene Summaries and Analysis:

• Macbeth Navigator: http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/macbeth/Sceneidx.html
• Lit Chart: http://www.litcharts.com/lit/macbeth/
• Sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth

Quotes:

• I will write the most important quotes on the board.

Tintern and Your Poem Place

1) Silent Reading
2) Guided Poetry Writing - a place in 14 lines
2) Tintern Notes and Explanation
3) Time with the netbooks...

Back to Poetry!

1) Welcome back! What did you read? Do? Eat?
2) Romanticism - the literary movement. A blah, blah, blah lecture.
3) LEAF poems - a creative writing warm up.
4) Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" - going into the wild again...

(Two responses to poetry overdue. "Terrance" and "Waiting Room".)

The beach by Filberg Park.

Homework: What place in nature inspires you? Decide. Tomorrow you will write about it.

Poems of Childhood

1) Response to "Stupid Stuff" due.

2) Independent Novel Study suggestions - library to take out...

3) Close your eyes... do you remember... (a meditation?)

4) Poems of Childhood and http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html

5) Group work

Into the Wild - Into Poetry

1) Creative Projects for The Kite Runner Due

2) Self Assess and Submit. (Copies of Rubric)

3) Wild - connotations? Poetry - connotations?

4) Poetry Unit Outline
5) Tara, this is stupid stuff! And Questions to Ask of a Poem.
6) Review literary response style... response due tomorrow.
Tomorrow: Library to get independent novel study. Another two poems. Another written response.