Thursday, November 1, 2018

Quiz Part One

Collect Part One Study Guide and RTFS Notes

HW:  Read though 122

Journal: Who is your favorite author? Why?

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Discuss Reading

Synesthesia PPT

For Some, Pain is Orange

Synesthesia Worksheet

Assign Parts Two and Three Study Guides

Journal:  What does friendship smell like?

HW:  Read through 107 and Complete Color Worksheet

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Discuss Reading

Jesse Owens Olympics
Race Trailer

The Book Thief Movie Trailer

HW:  Read through 90 Part Two Audio

Journal: What was Rudy's father trying to tell him after the "Jesse Owens incident"? ". . . you've got beautiful blonde hair and big, safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?"

Monday, October 29, 2018

Fire Drill 9:40

Correct Reading Schedule Bookmark

Discuss Reading

Zusak's Influences

Finish Road to the Final Solution Notes

HW:  Read through pg.72
Journal:
Discuss ONE of the following quotes:
1. "In the written words of the book thief herself, the journey continued like everything had happened."(p.25)
2.  "The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about.  It was what it meant that was more important." (p.38)
3.  "The only thing worse than a boy who hates you. A boy who loves you." (p.52)

Friday, October 26, 2018

Persona/Narrator worksheet Due

Begin The Road to the Final Solution

Assign Note taking guide

HW:  Read to pg 55

Journal: Comment Spamalot, elections, anything.

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Period 6 – Spamalot

Periods 1, 2-

Assign Part One Study Guide

Read and listen through pg 35

HW:  Finish reading through pg 35

Journal:  Five facts you know about the Holocaust

Prologue and Part One Audio

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Assign Death/Persona/Narrator Worksheet
Assign Reading Schedule

Read and listen to Prologue (17 min)

Complete Worksheet

Journal:

Agree or Disagree: Death is ugly and scary. Explain.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Hamlet Final

Act V Study Guide Due

No Journal today

Monday, October 22, 2018

Death Drawing Due/Share if time permitting
Hamlet Final Review
Word Search/Magic Square Review Due

Journal:  Describe your favorite color to a blind person.

Friday, October 19, 2018

Reduced Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet Review Monday/ Final - Tuesday

Act V Quiz/Study Guide Due- Tuesday

REVIEW: Study Guides, Quizzes, Plot Summary, Willy and QEI Notes

Hw: Assign Death Drawing - Due Monday

Journals Due Today

Journal: Critique Hamlet the play/movie. Who would you cast in a new version of the play for: Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Horatio, and Polonius?

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Discuss Act V, Scene II

Bookstore

Assign Review Magic Squares - Due Monday

Journal: After Hamlet debating why people don't commit suicide for 1530 lines, why is it suddenly OK for Horatio? Why does Hamlet tell him not to take his own life?

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

Discuss Act V, Scene I

View Act V, Scene II

Assign Study Guide/Quiz

Assign Review Magic Squares - Due Friday

Journal: What is ironic about Hamlet being offended

at the gravedigger's joking while digging a grave?

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

View Hamlet Act V

Assign Act V Study Guide/Quiz

Journal: What is the purpose of "comic relief" in a tragedy?

Monday, October 15, 2018

Act IV Quiz to turnitin.com

Period One

Period Two

Period Six

Act IV Study Guide Due

Journal: How does the plan of Claudius and Laertes to kill Hamlet fit into the motif/theme of poison? List other examples of poison from the play.

Friday, October 12, 2018

END OF FIRST QUARTER

Wrap Cambio/Simpson’s

Complete Study Guide

Open book quiz Monday

Quiz Worksheet

Journal DueJournal: In Hamlet's view the world is a foul place. Do you think the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now? Explain.

Thursday, October 11, 201

Last Day to submit late/makeup/absent work

Bathroom passes due for EC

Discuss Hamlet Act IV, Scenes V-VII

Cambio
Simpson's Hamlet
Hamlet, Animated Tales

Complete Study Guide

Open book quiz tomorrow

Journal: Do you believe Ophelia's death was an unfortunate accident or suicide? Explain your response.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

PSAT Late Start
No Journal Today
Complete Study Guide

Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Discuss Scenes I-IV
View Hamlet Act V-VII
Journal: Interpret the following:

1. What does it mean ?

2. Cite an example of how can this be applied to our play,  Hamlet.

3. Cite an example from modern day events or your own experiences of this concept.

Monday, October 8, 2018

View Hamlet Act IV, Scenes I-V (29 mins)

Assign Study Guide

Journal: A Modern Mousetrap

Write a brief passage of lines to be inserted

into something Claudius might watch. Be creative!

How might you slip a "mousetrap" into Claudius's favorite

soap opera or reality TV show? Into a Star Trek episode?

Into a contemporary play that you enjoy?

Select your own material, and write the inserted "mousetrap"

content in this style, beginning and ending with the source material.