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

Questions for 4U

2P1 - Friday
-watch first part Of Mice and Men
-chapter 2 quote analysis
-for homework: complete chapter review sheets

Monday
-quiz on chapter 1 and 2 and the corresponding vocabulary

4U1
Thursday - have "Porphyris's Lover" questions done
Friday - take up questions and get ready to make some notes!! 

Here are the last few questions for the poem:

3.  How are we introduced to Porphyria at the beginning of the poem?
4.  List 3 characteristics that are revealed about the speaker?
5.  How does Porphyria's lover justify killing her? Offer proof.
6.  Quote 2 lines (1 when she is alive and 1 when she is dead) that indicate or reveal the change in the relationship.  Explain the change and the reason for it.
7.  How is irony used in the poem?


 I forgot to put these questions up last night, so, work on them tonight if you are not in class today (Thursday) and we will take them up Friday.  If you are in class today (Thursday) you can work on them today and get them done.
Peace, I'm outta here.