October 28, 2009

World Literature

• Work on group projects!

AP Literature

• Act 3.3 journal discussion
• HW: Begin 3.4 and finish by Friday with ten quotations + 5 vocab

October 27, 2009

World Literature

• Work on group projects!

AP Literature

• Film clips from Othello
• HW: Act 3.3 with 15 journals + vocab due Wednesday

October 26, 2009

World Literature

• Introduce Small Group Project and Presentation

AP Literature

• For online copies of Heart of Darkness see sidebar
• Check journals
• Review through Act 3, scenes 1-2
• HW: Read Act 3, scene 3 for Wednesday. Complete journal with 15 entries and 5 new vocab words.
  

October 23, 2009

World Literature

• Finish The Odyssey film

AP Literature

• Begin Act 2, Scene 3
• HW: Finish Act 2 and read through Act 3, scenes 1-2. Complete Journal with 10 entries, 5 new vocab.

October 23, 2009

World Literature

• Finish The Odyssey film

AP Literature

• Begin Act 2, Scene 3
• HW: Journal with 10 entries, 5 new vocab

October 22, 2009

AP Literature

• Journal check, 5 quotations
• Discussion of Act 2, Scenes 1-2

October 21, 2009

World Literature

• Odyssey Test

AP Literature

• Quiz, Act 1
  
• Discussion of Act 2, Scene 2
• HW: Act 2, Scenes 1-2
  

October 20, 2009

World Literature

• Review for The Odyssey test
• Film, The Odyssey
  

AP Literature

• Discussion of Act 1 and Journals
  
• Quiz, Act 1
  
• HW: Act 2, Scene 1 (complete 5 quotations, 5 vocab, 3 sentences for journal)
  

October 19, 2009

World Literature

• Review for Odyssey Test

AP Literature

• Return Summer Reading
• Discussion of writing concerns
• Paradise Lost essays
• Discuss Act 1 of Othello
• HW: Quiz, Act 1
  

October 16, 2009

AP Literature

• Timed Writing on Milton's "Paradise Lost"
• HW: Othello, Act I and Reading Journal

October 15, 2009

AP Literature

• Discussion of Milton's "Paradise Lost"
• HW: Othello, Act 1 (15 quotations for reading journal!)
  

October 14, 2009

World Literature

8:00-11:00 am, PSAT Testing

11:00 am and 2:00 pm classes

• Review for Test

AP Literature

• TP-CASTT, Milton's "Paradise Lost"
• HW: Othello, Act I and journal
  

October 13, 2009

World Literature

• Finish "The Odyssey" and prepare for test (next Wednesday, October 21)
  

AP Literature

• "The Tyger" continued
• Sharing of poems
• HW: Othello
  

October 12, 2009

World Literature

• Return Personal Proofreading Sheet
• Quiz on usage (there, your, its, then, to)
• Begin Part II of The Odyssey
• HW: Read through page 935
  

AP Literature

• Review Test
  
• The sounds and form of "The Tyger"
• HW: Songs of Innocence and Experience; read Othello, Act 1 and prepare Reading Journal/Vocab for Monday, Oct 12
  

October 9, 2009

World Literature

• Literary Autobiographies--What I Learned
• Personal Proofreading and Writing Reminders

AP Literature

• Discuss TP-CASTT analysis of "The Tyger" and examine annotations
• HW: Write your own Songs of Innocence and Experience, due Tuesday, 10/13. Be prepared to share.

October 7, 2009

World Literature

Focused freewriting on The Odyssey (8 am only)

• Write a summary of everything that has happened to Odysseus in Part I.
• What is significant about this epic poem?
• What have you learned about mythology and the ancient Greeks?
• What are we learning about human nature, man's relationship to nature, and the importance of journeys?

Review of Olympians (all other classes)

AP Literature

• Smart Board Initiation!
• William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
• "Laughing Song" and "The Sick Rose"
• "The Lamb" and "The Tyger"

October 6, 2009

World Literature

• Interims
  
• Hades Map
• Sires, Scylla, and Charybdis
• Twelve Olympian Gods (still to do with 9)
  
• HW: Read 922-924
  

AP Literature

• Symbolism and Allusion
• Biblical Allusions
• HW: Read Poetry Explication handout and "What is Poetry?"; see "Reading a Poem" pp. 668-669 in Perrine's
  

October 5, 2009

World Literature

• Quiz, The Odyssey
• Hades
• Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis
• HW: Read pp. 24-39 of Mythology and fill out chart on 12 Great Olympian Gods
  

AP Literature

• Test
  
• HW: Read Chapter 2 in workbook, Symbolism and Allusion; read "What is Poetry?"pp. 647-8 and "Ars Poetica" pg. 665 in Perrine's
  

October 2, 2009

World Literature

• Review Odysseus in Hades and distribute map
  
• Distribute Hamilton's Mythology
  
• Review Dante's "Inferno" and personal versions of hell
• HW: Prepare for quiz on "The Odyssey" and read pp. 916-919, "The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis" and pp. 39-40, Mythology
  

AP Literature

• Review for Test