End of Hamlet reading schedule

5/18-5/19     Act 4
5/20-5/23     Act 3-4 quiz; Act 5 scene 1
5/24-25        Act 5 scene 2
5/26 - 5/31   Act 5 quiz; review
6/1-6/2         Hamlet in-class essay
6/3                Facebook projects due

Homework for Mon, 5/16 and Tues 5/17

Monday and Tuesday -

*Finish Act 3 and journals. 

*Make sure you are keeping up with your character for your Facebook project.

*submit Act 2 and 3 reading journals

*Act 3 quiz

Homework for week of May 9

Tuesday/Wednesday - finish reading Act 2; complete reading journals - work on Final Project!
                                  - Quiz on Act 2

Thursday/ Friday - read Act 3. scenes 1-2; journals

HW for May 4 & 5

Act I journals (scenes 1-2; 3-4; 5)
Act I quiz!!!!

HAMLET

Welcome to the last 6 weeks of your freshman year!

We are going to delve into Shakespeare's work, Hamlet. For each reading assignment, you are also to complete a reading log (handout provided in class - to be uploaded soon).
In class, we will read/act out the material, and whatever we do not finish will be homework.

Some of the words may be confusing, but here is a website that has a glossary.
 

Chekc out this writing page of synonyms!

http://larae.net/write/synonyms.html

Catcher & Dead Poet's - Paper

Since the movie will not have been finished, essays will be given an extension until Thursday/Friday of this upcoming week. Make sure that you have started the essay with a thesis and outline.

While I'm Gone...

you will be watching Dead Poet's Society and writing an essay that is due April 12/13.

Another quote essay for Catcher

On p 188 or 244 in big book, Mr. Antolini states, "The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

1. What is Holden's cause?
2. Does he want to "die nobly or live humbly" for it? Explain.

3/4 to 1 page in length!

Homework for Tuesday 3/29 (EVEN days)

Since some of you left the assignment behind in class...Check out your writing assignment here

Catcher reading schedule - updated 3/16

ODD DAYS:
3/16 Chp. 8-12
3/18 Chp. 13-16
3/22 Chp. 17-19
3/24 Chp. 20-22
3/28 Chp 23 - end
3/30 tba

EVEN DAYS
3/17 Chp. 4-7
3/21 Chp. 8-12

3/23 Chp. 13-16

3/25 Chp. 17-19

3/29 Chp. 20-22

3/31 Chp 23 - end

Catcher in the Rye

Monday - bring Catcher to class
Tuesday - read Chapters 1-3 for class.

3rd Quarter Calendar

You can get the 3rd quarter syllabus HERE

Third quarter - first week's work

so far this week, we have:
*read Chapter 1 in A Separate Peace
*written a one page essay discussing elements that the author brought to the reader's attention in Ch.1
*Read "Genesis" in The Bible in/as Literature
*read Dillard and Twain passages in the Bible text

homework for 2/1-2/2:  Read Chapter 2-3 of A Separate Peace

homework 1/11-12

A Separate Peace -
a) read chapter 11
b) this is the longest chapter  and one of the most important. In a one page - typed - essay, explain why you think it is so important.