Monday April 23

2P1
-go to room 315 to finish off Of Mice and Men movie

Tuesday
-review

Wednesday
-Test

Thursday
-media assignment

Friday
-essay outline on Of Mice and Men

4U1
-annotated bibliographies due on Friday
-poetry essay assigned on Friday April 20
-rough draft due Monday April 30
-good copy due Wednesday May 2

Monday
-finish STM ppt/listening quiz on ppt information (on scantron)

Tuesday and Wednesday
-watch A Man For All Seasons

Thursday and Friday
-read play

Tuesday April 17

2P1
-quote analysis on theme
-read chapter 5 up to Curley's wife's death

Wednesday
-finish chapter 5
-complete questions

Thursday
-movie
-correct questions

Friday
-finish novel (chapter 6)

Next week
-literary essay on Of Mice and Men
-media assignment on Of Mice and Men
-begin poetry unit (1 week and test)

4U1
++  annotated bibliographies due Friday

-poetry presentations continue
-once finished power point intro to A Man For All Seasons (its fantastic, by the way) followed by listening quiz on the ppt information
-then we watch the movie
-then we read (at the end of the play, there will be an in class essay test)

Monday April 12

2P1
-finished chapter 4
-completed chapter questions

Friday
-review for Monday's quiz on chapter 3 and 4
-word game

4U1
-introduce annotated bibliography
-due Friday April 20

Friday
-poetry quiz - multiple choice - dramatic monologue, poetic devices and the 4 poems studied
-return editorials
-review mythological/archetype critical approach
-introduce poetry essay - due dates to follow

Tuesday April 10

2P1
-prepared for chapter 4 by reviewing chapter 3
-what is an idiom?  idioms from our time, idioms from the 1930s
-chapter 4 vocabulary
(know these for your chapters 3/4 quiz)

Tomorrow
-Gary Sinise from CSI NY will drop by to read us chapter 4 in a way that only Gary Sinise can

4U1
-read, analysed and corrected 'puce fairy book"

-take a listen to a modernized pseudo-version of "puce fairy book"
-listen for the 3 stages of the feminism approach to literature in the lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2gy1Evb1Kg

Tomorrow
-group work period - use it wisely

Thursday
-archetype and "The Goblet" in Echoes 67

Friday
-quiz (and yes, "The Goblet" will be on the quiz

Monday
-presentations begin

Thursday April 5

2P1
-finished reading and questions for chapter 3
-remember the 2 hi-points (the dream is now becoming reality, Curley attacks Lennie)

Tuesday
-chapter 3 review (since we've been off so long)
-introduction to idioms; chapter 4 vocabulary

Wednesday
-chapter 4

4U1
-finished up are 3 day sojourn (nice use of the word) in the library researching on poetry eras

++editorials will be handed back sometime this week
Tuesday
-"puce fairy book" (be sure you have the 3 questions complete - they are listed on a previous blog entry if you do not have them)

Wednesday
-archetype and the poem"The Goblet"

Thursday
-work period for poetry seminars
-presentation reminders

Friday
-poetry quiz (multiple choice; 10 questions or so)
-how to do an annotated bibliography

Monday
-presentations begin
++poetry essays to be  assignned this week

Monday April 2

2P1
-wrote quiz (get it back tomorrow)
-vocabulary for chapter 3

Tomorrow
-read chapter 3

4U1
-assigned poetry era group seminars
-introduction to "puce fairy book" p. 36 in Echoes

Homework
-read poem and answer three assigned questions

For each stanza, identify the alluded fairy tale, the unreasonable male request and the speaker's response to the request.

The last stanza - what does the speaker decie and why?

What is the lesson to be learned in the poem?

Tomorrow
-in library, research parameters and begin to research poetry eras

Friday March 30

2P1
-review for Monday's quiz
-study chapter 1 and 2 vocabulary and plot

4U1
-finished analysis of "Porphyria's Lover"

Monday
-analyze the poem "puce fairy tale"

Tuesday - Thursday
-in library beginning poetry eras seminar