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!

Wednesday and Thursday

Yesterday you worked on quotations in groups for The Crucible. The attachment is here. You’ll also need this as it was on the back and has the themes to help you discuss the significance of of the quotes to the work as a whole.

Today (Thursday), you finished working with groups on the above assignment, I handed out the possible essay questions for tomorrow’s essay. Here they are. Crucible Essay Question Choices 2009

I also gave back your Queen Elizabeth/Modest Proposal essays, and I promised you an AP Language rubric, so here it is: AP Language Essay Rubric

Tuesday

Today was a great day for you! I gave you the opportunity to work in class in the computer lab to read the two articles to the right about Arthur Miller and The Crucible, and you also had the opportunity to work on the articles that are due Friday, looking at history from links to the right: Smithsonian and National Geographic. Some classes, who had longer periods, also got to work on revising their Assertion Journals (#3), which are due Friday as well. We will tie up our Crucible discussions tomorrow.

Monday

On Friday I was at a conference, so you took your WPME quiz and finished The Crucible, right?

Monday brought good news: you have the option to revise your Assertion Journal #3 (the essay about conformity vs. objective facts). You can bring your grade up to 100 by revising it for both grammar/mechanics and content, not just one thing. PRINT OUT your revised version to turn in by Friday. You are welcome to turn it in sooner!

We also had a discussion on the big ideas presented in The Crucible. Your job was to jot down what those big ideas were as well as thought-provoking questions that we could use for class discussion.

Tomorrow we have a weird testing schedule, so we will have 1st period for a longer class period, no second or third, and a long block for 4th. After that, normal schedule. Woo hoo!

Thursday

Writing talk delayed until next week. Today you had three choices: continue reading The Crucible (due Monday), study WPME for quiz tomorrow, and/or work on your two articles due tomorrow.

Wednesday

Today you got well into The Crucible with a reading day–lucky you! Tomorrow, we talk writing.

Keep up with your reading and with the articles due Friday!

Monday–no, Tuesday!

On this gray Tuesday we entered into The Crucible. You will have until Monday, 10/19 to read it on your own; I assigned copies of the play to each of you. Articles are still due on Friday by classtime (look to the handout I gave you for more information); you will also have the WPME quiz over Chapter 5 on Friday.