Friday, November 2nd

*Small groups: Characterization Graphic Organizer
*Debrief
HW: *First section: Chapters 2-4, discussion Monday

Thursday, November 1st

*Video Clip (ch. 26-28)
*Finish Reading Ch. 1

Wednesday, October 31st

*3rd Hour: Linson's Connection
*Timed-write: “I can offer you eternal youth. Would you take it?”
*Discuss responses
*Check out books
*6 chunks, 4 responses = 40 points; 30 points discussion (shorter time)
*Read Ch. 1 (not available for response)

Tuesday, October 30th

*3rd Hour: Jung's Connection
*Formative Assessment--Point of View, Characterization, Conflict, Imagery
*Perfect or Miss 1 = +3 points Extra Credit
*Deadline for Dante connections: 11/8/07

Monday, October 29th

*6th Hour: Graczyk's Connection
*Check Dialogue Journal over Canto XXXIV
*Briefly review Canto XXXIV
*Small-group Discussions
1) Did you like it? Explain.
2) What, if anything, surprised you most about Dante's depiction of Hell? Explain.
3) In the Hollywood blockbuster version of this tale, who should play Dante the Pilgrim. Why?
4) Virgil? Why?
5) Do you imagine that Dante's poems were successful in popularizing the basic tenets of the Catholic faith? Why or why not.
*Debrief
*Deadline for Dante Connections: 11/8/07

Objective: By considering the above questions, we will analyze & evaluate connections between the text and the world (both Dante's & our own).

Thursday, October 25th

*Check dialogue journal over Cantos XXXII-XXXIII
*Discuss same
*HW: Read Canto XXXIV, dialogue journal, 5 responses (will discuss in small groups on Monday)
*Connections?

Wednesday, October 24th

*3rd Hour: Leach's Connection
*Read Canto XXXII & XXXIII
*Dialogue journal: 10 responses, Due Thursday
*Connections?

Tuesday, October 23rd

*Check/discuss questions over Canto V
*Summary: Circles 3-8
*Read Canto XXXII & XXXIII
*Dialogue journal: 10 responses, Due Thursday

Monday, October 22nd

*Check dialogue journal for Canto V
*Discuss Canto V
*HW: Answer questions over V (PQE, see below)


1) Explain the symbolic importance of these sinners' punishment.
2) Why do you think Dante the Poet allows Paolo & Francesca to make excuses for their sin?
3) What might George Orwell say about Dante's/Catholicism's punishment of carnal sinners? Based on what you know about _1984_, would he consider lust to be a type of wrongdoing, to be "wrong"? Would he have considered this a just punishment?

Friday, October 19th

*Check dialogue journal
*Reminder: Connections
*Review Sample Essay-Test response
*Discuss Canto IV
*HW: Read Canto V & compose another dialogue journal.

Thursday, October 18th

*Read Canto IV & compose a dialogue journal
*AT LEAST FIVE responses.

Wednesday, October 17th

*Finish 20/20 video
*Discuss Canto III
*Collect paragraphs
*Return essay tests

Tuesday, October 16th

*Watch 20/20 Video

Monday, October 15th

*Background Info: Dante's _Inferno_
*Read summary & text of Canto III
*In a well-written, well-organized paragraph, respond to the following: "Describe Dante's reaction to the setting in this canto. Use and cite examples [by canto & line number (III.27-29)].

Friday, October 5th

*3rd Hour: Jordan's Connection
*Collect Essays
*timed-write: In our society today, who deserves the worst punishment?
*discuss & vote

Thursday, October 4th

*Catch up on Connections
*Essay questions?
*Work-time on drafts (due TOMORROW--no exceptions)

Wednesday, October 3rd

*Keep pushing Connections back until I return.
*Complete Comma wkst--reveiw answers
*Edit comma errors in your own essay

*Final draft due Friday.

Tuesday, October 2nd

*6th Hour: Justin's Connection
*Finish Peer Editing Experts
*Time to ask Becker (when finished)

*Deadline: No more _1984_ Connections after 10/5
*Friday (10/5): FINAL COPY DUE
*Other suggestions: ~1500 words (roughly 4 pages), ~six quotes