Agenda for week of 9.13.10

Artist: Swoon

9.13.10 (shortened period, block 5)

• Homework Due: finish "Letter to Me."
• Opening activity, notebook set-up & SAT prep. (10 minutes)
• Explain D.J. / Reader’s notebook entries on Ovid’s “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus.”

9.14.10 (meet in the Computer Loft, block 6)

• Homework Due: D.J. / Reader’s notebook entries on Ovid’s “The story of Daedalus and Icarus.”
• Set-up blogger accounts, make blog posts

9.15.10: No Class due to rotation.

9.16.10 (Block 1)

• Homework due: 500 word description of Breugel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” posted on blog
• Opening activity, notebook set-up & SAT prep. (10 minutes)
• Class discussion on Breugel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
• What was Breugel saying about the myth?
• Class / Jigsaw discussion of Ovid’s “The story of Daedalus and Icarus.”

9.17.10 (Block 2)

• No written homework due.
• Opening activity, notebook set-up & SAT prep. (10 minutes)
• Williams’ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
• What is Williams saying about the painting?

Blog Assignment # 2: Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus  by Pieter Bruegel

Assignment due: 8:00 a.m Thursday morning, 9.16.10.

Assignment: A 500 word description of the above painting is to be posted in the comment stream.  I am only interested in what you see, in your own words.  You will be graded solely on your completion of the assignment.  All late posts are subject to a loss of one letter grade per day.

Beginning the year with a blog assignment (Step 1)

image by Swoon, image found at The Brooklyn Museum

Date: 9.14.10 (Computer Loft)

Topic: Setting up your blogger accounts.

Objective: SWBAT post their objectives for the year on this blog, as well as their own blog.

• This blog will be an area for me to post agenda for the week, resources for the class, and a place to gather homework assignments.

• Your blog will be your portfolio of work for the year.

In order to complete Step 1 of this class, you need to make a comment on this blog post that states your objective for English class this year.  When you are done, post the same message on your own blog.

Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke with You" & your first homework assignment

Homework:

This is a fairly simple assignment, but requires you to follow directions.  I expect you to come after if you need help or computer access.

1. Email me at ryanseangallagher AT gmail DOT com.  Make sure your email is "professional".  In the subject title, please put "Senior CP".  You will be required to use and check this email often for this class.

Due by class-time Wednesday.  I will also check to make sure you have a notebook and binder for the year.

Syllabus for 2010 - 2011

Gallagher 12 CP Syllabus 2010 - 2011