AGENDA:
1) Vocabulary Quiz
2) Review JC 1.1
3) Literature Circles
HW: Read Julius Caesar 1:2 ; as you read look critically at indirect characterization and exposition
Act 1 scene 2 JC
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
September 29
AGENDA:
1) Diction and Tone PPT
2) Read "On Being 17, Bright, and Unable to Read" by David Raymond and answer diction and tone questions
HW: Study for vocabulary; begin reading Julius Caesar, Act 1 scene 1 (1:1); Watch only 2:00 - 4:39 on video for Act 1:1
ACT I sc i text
questions for diction and tone
Diction and Tone
1) Diction and Tone PPT
2) Read "On Being 17, Bright, and Unable to Read" by David Raymond and answer diction and tone questions
HW: Study for vocabulary; begin reading Julius Caesar, Act 1 scene 1 (1:1); Watch only 2:00 - 4:39 on video for Act 1:1
ACT I sc i text
questions for diction and tone
Diction and Tone
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
September 28
AGENDA:
1) Journal Write:
Shakespeare wrote about revolution. He told the story of individuals in relationship to their government. We crave leaders, we exalt them, but we come to fear them as well. What makes a good leader? What makes people push against their leadership?
2) Peer editing essays
3) Unit test strategies
HW: Read "What Makes a Good Leader" by Michael Korda and go to the wikispaces and answer the two questions regarding the essay. Then respond to one of your classmates' comments in a thoughtful, insightful way.
What makes a Good Leader
1) Journal Write:
Shakespeare wrote about revolution. He told the story of individuals in relationship to their government. We crave leaders, we exalt them, but we come to fear them as well. What makes a good leader? What makes people push against their leadership?
2) Peer editing essays
3) Unit test strategies
HW: Read "What Makes a Good Leader" by Michael Korda and go to the wikispaces and answer the two questions regarding the essay. Then respond to one of your classmates' comments in a thoughtful, insightful way.
What makes a Good Leader
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
September 27
AGENDA
1) Vocabulary Sentences
2) Grammar Lesson
3) Test taking strategies
4) Peer Editing
5) Submit your buddys before leaving class today
HW: Watch the background video to Julius Caesar. What kind of man was Caesar? What evidence do you have to support your assertion? Be prepared to discuss in class or write about....
1) Vocabulary Sentences
2) Grammar Lesson
3) Test taking strategies
4) Peer Editing
5) Submit your buddys before leaving class today
HW: Watch the background video to Julius Caesar. What kind of man was Caesar? What evidence do you have to support your assertion? Be prepared to discuss in class or write about....
Monday, September 26, 2011
September 26
AGENDA
1) Go to library to pick up novels
2) Vocabulary words/sentences hand out- buddy system
3) Literature Circles - Due date October 21
HW: Vocabulary sentences due tomorrow, Tuesday; Vocab quiz on Friday;
1) Go to library to pick up novels
2) Vocabulary words/sentences hand out- buddy system
3) Literature Circles - Due date October 21
HW: Vocabulary sentences due tomorrow, Tuesday; Vocab quiz on Friday;
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
September 20
AGENDA:
1) Socratic seminar continued ...
HW: Study vocabulary test and unit test; essays due tomorrow- email to dbyrne@righetti.us or given to me on a memory stick or just turn them in.
1) Socratic seminar continued ...
HW: Study vocabulary test and unit test; essays due tomorrow- email to dbyrne@righetti.us or given to me on a memory stick or just turn them in.
Monday, September 19, 2011
September 19
AGENDA:
1) Socratic Seminar on Our Twisted Hero
HW: Prepare Level 2 and 3 questions to continue our socratic discussion tomorrow
1) Socratic Seminar on Our Twisted Hero
HW: Prepare Level 2 and 3 questions to continue our socratic discussion tomorrow
Friday, September 16, 2011
September 16
AGENDA
1) Vocabulary and unit review
HW: Essays due Wednesday; Vocabulary Unit Test Wednesday; Unit Test Thursday; Book should be completed
1) Vocabulary and unit review
HW: Essays due Wednesday; Vocabulary Unit Test Wednesday; Unit Test Thursday; Book should be completed
Thursday, September 15, 2011
September 15
AGENDA
1) Journal Write
Sometimes personal freedoms need to be sacrificed in order to maintain control of the larger group. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
2) Passive vs. Active Voice
3) Hand out essay choices using character sketches
HW: Complete Book
#1 Writer often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class or creed. Choose a character from Our Twisted Hero who plays a significant role and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.
#2 One of the strongest human drives seems to be a desire for power. Write an essay in which you discuss how a character in Our Twisted Hero struggles to free himself from the power of others or seeks to gain power over others. Be sure to demonstrate in your essay how the author uses the power struggle to enhance the meaning of the work.
Active and passive voice
Study Sheet for Unit Test
1) Journal Write
Sometimes personal freedoms need to be sacrificed in order to maintain control of the larger group. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
2) Passive vs. Active Voice
3) Hand out essay choices using character sketches
HW: Complete Book
#1 Writer often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class or creed. Choose a character from Our Twisted Hero who plays a significant role and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.
#2 One of the strongest human drives seems to be a desire for power. Write an essay in which you discuss how a character in Our Twisted Hero struggles to free himself from the power of others or seeks to gain power over others. Be sure to demonstrate in your essay how the author uses the power struggle to enhance the meaning of the work.
Active and passive voice
Study Sheet for Unit Test
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
September 14
AGENDA
1) Journal Write:
Power corrupts. Do you agree or disagree? Explain
2) Vocabulary Quiz
3) Indirect and direct characterization - begin working on your homework
HW: Character sketch using direct and indirect characterization on either Han Pyongt'ae or Om Sokdae. Locate appropriate evidence for your assertions.
1) Journal Write:
Power corrupts. Do you agree or disagree? Explain
2) Vocabulary Quiz
3) Indirect and direct characterization - begin working on your homework
HW: Character sketch using direct and indirect characterization on either Han Pyongt'ae or Om Sokdae. Locate appropriate evidence for your assertions.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
September 13
AGENDA
1) Complete the story and discuss irony in the short story
2) Reading quiz - Our Twisted Hero
3) Discussion of Korean post-modernism
HW: Read through page 89; study for your vocab quiz tomorrow
Our Twisted Hero
1) Complete the story and discuss irony in the short story
2) Reading quiz - Our Twisted Hero
3) Discussion of Korean post-modernism
HW: Read through page 89; study for your vocab quiz tomorrow
Our Twisted Hero
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 12
AGENDA
1) Irony
2) Read "Whatever Happened to the Guy Stuck in the Elevator"
HW: Read to top of page 74 in Our Twisted Hero
1) Irony
2) Read "Whatever Happened to the Guy Stuck in the Elevator"
HW: Read to top of page 74 in Our Twisted Hero
Thursday, September 8, 2011
September 9, 2011
AGENDA
1. Have you ever had a nightmare? What characteristics of a dream or a real experience cause you to label it a nightmare.? What kinds of situations cause you to have nightmares? Write an essay answering this. Make sure you have a title, a thesis, an organized paper, connections with your thesis. You may want to write an outline to get going.
2. When you are done.... begin reading Our Twisted Hero by Korean author Yi Munyol
HW: Reading for Our Twisted Hero (read through page 61 by Monday)
1. Have you ever had a nightmare? What characteristics of a dream or a real experience cause you to label it a nightmare.? What kinds of situations cause you to have nightmares? Write an essay answering this. Make sure you have a title, a thesis, an organized paper, connections with your thesis. You may want to write an outline to get going.
2. When you are done.... begin reading Our Twisted Hero by Korean author Yi Munyol
HW: Reading for Our Twisted Hero (read through page 61 by Monday)
September 8, 2011
AGENDA
1. Check vocabulary worksheets
2. Synthesizing yesterday's discussion
3. Silent Socratic Seminar - "The Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka
4. 3 Levels of Questioning
1. Check vocabulary worksheets
2. Synthesizing yesterday's discussion
3. Silent Socratic Seminar - "The Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka
4. 3 Levels of Questioning
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
September 7, 2011
AGENDA
1. Socratic Seminar on reading
HW: Read "A Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka and prepare three questions from the short story to discuss in class in a socratic seminar. VOCAB sentences due tomorrow.
The Country Doctor
1. Socratic Seminar on reading
HW: Read "A Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka and prepare three questions from the short story to discuss in class in a socratic seminar. VOCAB sentences due tomorrow.
The Country Doctor
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
September 6, 2011
AGENDA
1. JOURNAL TOPIC:
Do you think technology (such as cell phones and portable music players) brings people closer together? If three people stand next to each other, but two are listening to headphones and the third is talking/texting on a phone, how is this different than being alone? Explain.
2. Style, tone & mood
3. Vocabulary Worksheets - Right Word, Completing the Sentence, Synonyms, Anytonyms/ no quiz this week; however, quiz next Wednesday, 14th of Sept. on lectures and vocabulary
HW: Read “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin; “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and prepare three questions about each short story to be discussed in class in a socratic seminar; Vocabulary worksheets due Thursday
yellowwallpaper
The Story of An Hour
Friday, September 2, 2011
September 2, 2011
AGENDA
1. JOURNAL TOPIC:
Is Humanity bound by chains and afraid to see beyond the shadows? Are you? Explain.
2. Vocabulary Quiz
3. Discuss questions from "Araby"
Great weekend to start reading and working on your 1st literary analysis ....
Leave your notebooks in class for grading....
HW: Read Socractic Seminar and be prepared to discuss in class on Tuesday
The Socratic Method
1. JOURNAL TOPIC:
Is Humanity bound by chains and afraid to see beyond the shadows? Are you? Explain.
2. Vocabulary Quiz
3. Discuss questions from "Araby"
Great weekend to start reading and working on your 1st literary analysis ....
Leave your notebooks in class for grading....
HW: Read Socractic Seminar and be prepared to discuss in class on Tuesday
The Socratic Method
Thursday, September 1, 2011
September 1, 2011
Journal Topic:
1. Discuss "The Allegory of the Cave"
2. Return essays and discuss
HW: STUDY for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow; answer questions to "Araby" to discuss in class tomorrow and turn in.
1. Discuss "The Allegory of the Cave"
2. Return essays and discuss
HW: STUDY for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow; answer questions to "Araby" to discuss in class tomorrow and turn in.
“Araby” by James Joyce
1. What would you consider the story’s major idea?
2. How might the bazaar, “Araby,” be considered symbolically in the story? How does this relate to the story’s theme?
3. Consider the attitude of the speaker toward his home as indicated in the first paragraph. Why do you think the speaker uses the word blind to describe the dead-end street? What relationship exists between the speaker’s pain at the end of the story to the ideas in the first paragraph?
Be ready to turn in and discuss in class.
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