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Monday, 6/4
RJ: Act IV, begin V

Tuesday, 6/5
RJ: Act V

Wednesday, 6/6
Final exam review begins: The Critical Lens


Thursday, 6/7
Final exam review 


Friday, 6/8
Final exam review 
*All "make-up" work must be handed in by this date.

Tuesday, 5/29
Begin Act III

Wednesday, 5/30
Compare and contrast the films, showing
Act III, scene i. Which is more intense, believable, moving?  Which captivates you more? Which captures Shakespeare's intent thoroughly? Why?  Post your response, 200 words: DUE 6/1

May 21 - 25


Monday, 5/21
Begin Act II, Prologue / Scene i

Tuesday, 5/22
Act II, Scene ii - Balcony Scene

Journal Entry: Rewrite the balcony scene (Act II, Scene 2) Rewrite Romeo and Juliet's dialogue in comtempory English. Decide what your setting will be, and describe it in your stage direction.  Due 5/25

May 14 - May 18

Monday, 5/14
Review Quiz Act I, Scene 1

Tuesday, 5/15
Act I, Scene 2-3




Wednesday, 5/16
BLOG ASSIGNMENT: Choose from one of the following questions. DUE: 5/18
1. Provide an example of DRAMATIC IRONY and substantiate using text.
2. CHARACTERIZE a minor character (Tybalt, Benevolio, Mercuito, Nurse) and substantiate.
3. Provide an example of IMAGERY and substantiate using text.

May 7 - 11

Monday, 5/7: Test-debate and review Part II of exam
*Test Analysis is due this Friday, 5/11

Tuesday, 5/8: Task III/Constructed Response.

 Wednesday, 5/9: Begin Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare, the Globe theater/Shakespeare's theatre, iambic pentameter, Elizabethan style/society.

Thursday, 5/10: Begin Prologue, Act I, Scene I

Friday, 5/11: Act I, Scene II......
Test-Analysis due / Shakespeare/Tragedy Quiz

April 30 - May 4

Monday, April 30

Complete Act III

Tuesday, May 1
Review Act III; complete film

Wednesday - Thursday

Review; critical analysis

Friday, May 4
"Raisin in the Sun" Unit Exam

April 22 - 27

Monday

Act II, Scene II

Tuesday

Act II, Scene III

Wednesday
Discuss Act II, Scene III / film
BLOG ASSIGNMENT: Due Friday, 4/27

Which character do you most admire in th e play? Which character do you least admire? Explain your answers in a 300 word post.

April 16 - 20

Monday

Begin Act I, Scene II

Tuesday
Homework: Complete Act I, Scene II study guide

Wednesday

JOURNAL ENTRY:

This is to be typed or hand written and turned in Friday, April 20.

Beneatha and Mama argue about their beliefs in God. Beneatha believes “it’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just an idea I don’t accept.” (51) Explain Beneatha’s belief in God and how she justifies her moral actions. Then explore your beliefs in God/spirituality. What do you feel should guide human behavior?

Monday, April 9 - 13

We are beginning our new unit of Lorianne Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun" this week!!!

Check out some fun facts from the 1950's...........

Popular Culture

• The US Grammy Music Awards Started
• The last musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein "The Sound of Music" opens on broadway
• The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died," popularized in Don McLean's song, "American Pie."

Popular Films

• Ben-Hur
• Some Like It Hot
• Anatomy of a Murder
• North by Northwest
• Sleeping Beauty

Popular Singers

• Doris Day
• Frank Sinatra
• Connie Francis
• Jim Reeves
• Cliff Richard
• Ella Fitzgerald

Popular TV Programmes

• Bonanza premieres on NBC, the first weekly television series broadcast completely in color
• Juke Box Jury premieres on BBC Television
• Dixon of Dock Green (UK)
• The Huckleberry Hound Show

Technology

• Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service cutting 8 hrs from transatlantic Flight
• USSR Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object and Luna 3 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon
• First Pictures Of Earth From Space Taken By Explorer 6
• IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe.
• Full size hovercraft, the SR-N1 by Sir Christopher Cockerell tested at Cowes on the Isle of Wight
• Xerox launches the first commercial copier
• US Launches first Weather Station in Space
• First Section of M1 Motorway from London to Birmingham Opens
• De Beers manufactures a synthetic Diamond

MONDAY, MARCH 3

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." (Oprah Winfrey)

1. Interpret the quote into your own words.


2. How does this relate to The Alchemist?


3. How does this relate to your own life?

Homework:

Monday, 3/5

Read pages 112-127 (to *)

Tuesday, 3/7

Read pages 127-138 (to *)

Monday, 2/27

Welcome back......Read to page 89.

*Work on Independent Reading Project.

DUE FRIDAY!

Tuesday, 2/28

Read page 90-100.....(read check tomorrow)

Wednesday, 2/29

Read page 100-112 (to the *)

Monday, February 13
Read to page 42, stop at *

Tuesday, February 14

Read to page 65, stop at *

Wednesday, February 15

Read to page 75

Thursday, February 16

Review for Quiz / *Bring in Independent Reading book!!!!

Friday, February 17

QUIZ (short answer, on our reading thus far)

Coelho states that “simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.”

Plan to bring to class something which depicts something that is “simple” yet valuable to you. *Be prepared to explain specifically why or how the item is valuable.

“Paulo Coelho is not only one of the most widely read, but also one of the most influential authors writing today.”

The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.

Dreams, symbols, signs, and adventure captivate the reader in The Alchemist. A symbolic masterpiece, Coelho writes that we should not avoid our destinies, and urges people to follow their dreams, because to find our "Personal Myth" and our mission on Earth is the way to find meaning, happiness, fulfillment, and our ultimate purpose.

The novel tells the tale of Santiago, a boy who has a dream and the courage to follow it. After listening to "the signs" the boy ventures in his personal, Odyssey-like journey of exploration and self-discovery, symbolically searching for a hidden treasure located near the pyramids in Egypt...........


HOMEWORK!!!!
Wednesday, 2/8
Read Alchemist to page 11

Thursday, 2/10
Read Alchemist to page 30

Inception: an act, process, or instance of beginning

(Christopher Nolan; 2010)

Students will view this film through a literary lens, exploring the ideas of dreams, reality, morality, deception.......

THE FILM:

"Cobb" is a corporate bugler of the highest order. He infiltrates the minds of other men to steal their ideas. Now he is hired by a powerful billionaire to do the opposite: To introduce an idea into a rival's mind, and do it so well he believes it is his own. This has never been done before.......does he have a choice??? Let's just say he has been made an offer he cannot refuse.

THE ASSIGNMENT:

What is your interpretation of the ending of Inception? Why do you think so? Please explain your understanding in a 200 word response. *This assignment should NOT be posted to the blog, but rather handed in as a journal response.

DUE: 2/7


INDEPENDENT READING ASSIGNMENT

Please post your novel choice and author to the blog by Friday, February 3.

WEDNESDAY, 1/18

Review for "Odyssey" Unit Exam

THURSDAY, 1/19

"Odyssey" Unit Exam

Homework: Study for Vocabulary - Quiz Friday!!!!

FRIDAY, 1/20

Vocab Quiz; begin test-debate

MONDAY, 1/9

Review Part I Odyssey quiz

Begin Part II: The Odyssey

*New Vocabulary words!!! Quiz Friday

TUESDAY, 1/10

Continue Part II: Test of the Bow

WEDNESDAY, 1/11

Continue Part II: Death at the Palace

THURSDAY, 1/12

Identify a CONTROLLING IDEA that supports both the poem, "Ithaca," and Homer's Odyssey

FRIDAY, 1/13

Vocabulary Quiz: 21-30

TUESDAY

Welcome back!

Today will review our reading of The Odyssey thus far.........

WEDNESDAY

End of Part I: Sirens/Scylla & Charybdis

THURSDAY

Part I Review

FRIDAY

QUIZ!!!! Vocabulary (words 11-20) AND Odyssey Part I







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