Period 6: Agenda for weeks of 1.4.10 & 1.11.10

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Hello all. Hope you are all well rested and ready to go for next week.

Here's the schedule of events that will take us to the end of the quarter:

1.4.10: no class.
1.5.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scenes 1-3, notes (I have your notebooks and will give them back).
1.6.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scene 4, notes.
1.7.10: Poetry Out Loud class competitions, meet in the cafe to support Pamela!
1.8.10: (long block) in-class essay on your independent reading book. Essay question TBD, but you will need your book and be able to quote from moments in the beginning, middle, and end to answer question.

Homework assignment this week will be some sort of take-home writing assignment, TBD.

1.11.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scenes 5-6, notes.
1.12.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scene 7, notes.
1.13.10: no class
1.14.10: in-class Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1, notes.
1.15.10: in-class Hamlet Act 5, Scene 2, notes, last day of the quarter before mid-terms.

Homework assignment this week will be some sort of take-home writing assignment, TBD.

Midterm: Tuesday 1.19.10

Period 2: Agenda for weeks of 1.4.10 & 1.11.10

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Hello all. Hope you are all well rested and ready to go for next week.
Here's the schedule of events that will take us to the end of the quarter:

1.4.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scenes 1-3, notes (I have your notebooks and will give them back).
1.5.10: (long block) in-class essay on your independent reading book. Essay question TBD, but you will need your book and be able to quote from moments in the beginning, middle, and end to answer question.
1.6.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scene 4, notes.
1.7.10: Poetry Out Loud class competitions, meet in the cafe to support Angie!
1.8.10: no class.

Homework assignment this week will be some sort of take-home writing assignment, TBD.

1.11.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scenes 5-6, notes.
1.12.10: in-class Hamlet Act 4, Scene 7, notes.
1.13.10: in-class Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1, notes.
1.14.10: in-class Hamlet Act 5, Scene 2, notes.
1.15.10: TBD, last day of the quarter before mid-terms.

Homework assignment this week will be some sort of take-home writing assignment, TBD.

Midterm: Wednesday 1.20.10

Period 6: Agenda for weeks of 12.14.09 - 12.21.09

Don't forget Tuesdays from 2:15 - 3:30--writing workshop with Mr. Maney and myself. Use the time to rewrite essays, finish missing work, get help on upcoming assignments, make use of computers, etc...

Class Agenda: You are responsible for anything that you miss in class.

12.14.09: Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2.
12.15.09: no class due to rotation.
12.16.09: Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 3.
12.17.09: Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 4.
12.18.09: Poetry Out Loud, selection of poems and assignment description. Practice.

12.21.09: continued practice.
12.22.09: Poetry Out Loud performances due.
12.23.09: 2/3 of Independent reading book needs to be finished before break.

Independent Reading Books to be finished on the day you return from break.

Period 2: Agenda for weeks of 12.14.09 - 12.21.09

Don't forget Tuesdays from 2:15 - 3:30--writing workshop with Mr. Maney and myself. Use the time to rewrite essays, finish missing work, get help on upcoming assignments, make use of computers, etc...

Class Agenda: You are responsible for anything that you miss in class.

12.14.09: Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1.
12.15.09: Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2.
12.16.09: Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 3-4.
12.17.09: Poetry Out Loud, selection of poems and assignment description. Practice.
12.18.09: continued practice.

12.21.09: no class due to rotation.
12.22.09: Poetry Out Loud performances due.
12.23.09: 2/3 of Independent reading book needs to be finished before break.

Independent Reading Books to be finished on the day you return from break.

Reminder for December 11th, 2009

Avinash Veeraraghavan

Total Internal Recall

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1/3 of your Independent Reading book (1st person narrator) is to be read by classtime on December 11th, 2009.

In class, I will give you two notebook entry topics (that will require your knowledge of the book), which you will complete and turn in at the end of class for a grade.

While you are completing this assignment, I will be grading your Reader's Notebooks, which should include:

3 entries on your Independent Reading book:

• How the book opens. (The choices the author made to begin the book and the effects these choices had.) Don't be afraid to come back to this moment after you have read 1/3 of your book and add to your initial impressions.
• a passage (about a half a page) which you can use to explain your narrator in terms of characterization.
• a passage that struck you becuase of either the tone or the style of writing.

Hamlet Act 2 notebook:

• Class notes (Don't forget to go back and add summaries & impressions of class notes)
• Act 2: 1: an entry on characterization for Plonius, Laertes, Hamlet, or Ophelia
• Act 2: 2: Three D.J.s on significant moments from daily class notes.

Here's the link to Reader's Notebook ideas and Rubric.