Monday

We worked on answering AP multiple choice questions on your own and with group intervention. We’ll continue practicing this through Wednesday. For homework, keep up with your reading! Finish the novel by Thursday!!!! (And WPME quiz #7 on Friday…)

Friday

We discussed chapters 13-16, focusing particularly on the passage starting on page 125 and ending four paragraphs later with “The scarlet letter had not done its office.” Homework is to keep up with your reading.

Thursday–Bonfire tonight!

Quiz over Chapters 1-12 today. It seemed to take most of you the whole period, so if you have to make it up, consider that.

Gold star tomorrow for the first person who can tell me what Guy Fawkes Day is. It’s today, and it’s very appropriate that we’re having a bonfire tonight!

Wednesday

Well, we had quite the discussion in class today about the secrets of The Scarlet Letter. Quiz tomorrow over Chapters 1-12. Keep up with your reading!

Tuesday

To help you slow down with some close reading, I asked you to revisit several passages in your text. They are included here in the attached document: Scarlet Letter Close Reading

We will have a quiz over Chapters 1-12 on Thursday. However, keep up with the reading as it is listed on the bookmarks I gave you.

Friday and Monday

On Friday you had your WPME quiz #6, and you turned in your final articles for the second Issues Portfolio. No more after that! Afterwards, you read silently in The Scarlet Letter.

On Monday, we discussed the fruit of your reading. Homework is to keep up with your reading this week; we have no other homework so that you can stay focused on this!!!

Wednesday and Thursday

On Wednesday we discussed a bit about “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” we read a poem from Anne Bradstreet (“To My Dear and Loving Husband”), and we read a few poems from the Fireside poets (“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls,” “Old Ironsides,” “Thanatopsis,” and “A Psalm of Life”).

Thursday led us to The Scarlet Letter. I gave you a bookmark with your reading assignments on it, a copy of the book, and the charge to keep up with your reading. Tomorrow you will have your WPME quiz over Chapter 6, and then you’ll have the opportunity to read SL in class for the remainder of the period.

Tuesday

You finished working on the notes for the periods mentioned yesterday.

For the Issues Portfolio, I have changed the dates to make it easier for you to upload revisions/missing assignments. Try www.worldnews.com and www.middle-east-online.com/english/ for articles from around the world. Thanks Rachel!

Monday–last one in October!

Today I collected your revised essays, gave you a chance to turn in any missing Issue Portfolio assignments via turnitin.com by 10/30, and you read the following pages in the red, class copy lit book: 7-11, 106, 107, 108-112, 230-238. In your pj’s, you jotted down the strongest images from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and you made a list of the characteristics of Puritan, Colonial/Neoclassical and Romantic literature as found in your texts. We’ll finish this up tomorrow.

Homework this week is to get those final articles in and be prepared for the WPME quiz over Chapter 6.

Friday–Mole Day!

Not only was there a Mole Day celebration throughout the science halls, but today you also wrote an in-class essay for The Crucible.

You have homework: to turn in your revised essays by Monday. Please don’t forget about those (the revisions of Assertion Journal #3), and print them out to hand in on Monday. You won’t be able to print from my room, so please come prepared!

Have a good weekend!