Monday, December 13, 2010

A New Book!!

Yeay! We are starting a new unit today - John Knowles' A Separate Peace.

The reading schedule is as follows (the dates are the day the reading is DUE). There will be additional work as well!
12/13-14  - Read Chapter 1 in class
12/15-16  - Chapter 2-3
12/17 - tbd
**winter break**
1/3-4  - chapters 4-6
1/5-6  - chapters 7-8
1/7-10 - chapters 9-10
1/11-12 - chapter 11
1/13-14  - chapter 12-13 (end)
1/17 - **no school**
1/18-19 - review
1/20-21 - In class test/essay

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Bible as Literature Take Home Essay

Due to our two snow days this week, I have changed our Bible test to a take home essay. we will work on it in class, and then you will have the weekend to polish it up. Next week, we will start John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace.

You will have to cut and paste the following link...

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Sqm8JxyAhyqVI3xMRXdJkP17ayyNdQgPunQzOm3-Cqs

* Just remember that this is a 2-3 page paper. You are to take the information you gathered, expand upon your points while defending your thesis statement. This is a formal paper, not just an outline of ideas.

**If you are having difficulty - ask yourself this question: "by reading this passage, what does it teach us?"