5/28/09

Monday, June 1st

*Final Exam: 5th & 7th hours
---Lettering is correct on #'s 28-31.
---Please return all test materials to me when finished.
---Please remain QUIET until all the tests are in.
---No headphones until all the tests are in.
---No passes.

Friday, May 29th

*Final Exam: 3rd hour
---Lettering is correct on #'s 28-31.
---Please return all test materials to me when finished.
---Please remain QUIET until all the tests are in.
---No headphones until all the tests are in.
---No passes.

*Tomorrow
---Monday: 5 (exam), 3, 7 (exam)

Thursday, May 28th

Final Exam: 1st & 2nd hours
---Lettering is correct on #'s 28-31.
---Please return all test materials to me when finished.
---Please remain QUIET until all the tests are in.
---No headphones until all the tests are in.
---No passes.

*Finals Schedule
---Friday: 3 (exam), 7, 4 (exam)
---Monday: 5 (exam), 3, 7 (exam)

5/27/09

Wednesday, May 27th

*Course Evaluations

*Finals Schedule
---Thursday: 1 (exam), 2 (exam), 4, 5, 6 (exam)
---Friday: 3 (exam), 7, 4 (exam)
---Monday: 5 (exam), 3, 7 (exam)

5/26/09

Tuesday, May26th

*Grammar/Mechanics Review
---review answers

*Finals Schedule
---Thursday: 1 (exam), 2 (exam), 4, 5, 6 (exam)
---Friday: 3 (exam), 7, 4 (exam)
---Monday: 5 (exam), 3, 7 (exam)

5/22/09

Friday, May 22nd

*Review Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73", p. 226
*Read Bacon's "Of Studies", p. 406

5/21/09

Thursday, May 21st

*Review Burns/Solzhenitsyn questions
*Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73", p. 226
---answer questions

5/20/09

Wednesday, May 20th

*Review short story answers
*Grab a purple book
*Read Burns' Bio: p. 640
*I'll read the Robert Burns poem: p. 642
*Answer the questions over the Burns poem
*Read/answer the Solzhenitsyn poems/questions

Tuesday, May 19th

*Sub
*Read Maupassant story and answer questions.

5/18/09

Monday, May 18th

*Finish Watching _Gulliver's Travels_

*OBJECTIVE: Identify & explain satire.

5/15/09

Friday, May 15th

*Watch _Gulliver's Travels_

*OBJECTIVE: Identify & explain satire.

5/14/09

Thursday, May 14th

*Collect HW
*Watch _Gulliver's Travels_

*OBJECTIVE: Identify & explain satire.

5/13/09

Wednesday, May 13th

*Exemption goof
*Read p. 497-99
*Briefly answer the following using at least one supporting quote each:
1) How would you describe Gulliver's attitude toward the Brobdingnagians?
2) During Gulliver's journey to Lilliput, he looks down on the inhabitants, but in Brobdingnag, he is looked down upon. What THEME emerges from this situation?

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain satire.

5/12/09

Tuesday, May 12th

*Final Exam: Writing portion
---Worth 10% of semester grade
---You MAY use dictionary/thesaurus.
---When finished, staple all materials (including prompt) and put them in the FINISHED box.
---Please remain quiet while others are testing.

5/11/09

Monday, May 11th

*Final Exam: Writing portion
---Worth 10% of semester grade
---you MAY use dictionary/thesaurus
---exam period extends through tomorrow's class
---drop off in box ON THE WAY OUT

5/8/09

Friday, May 8th

*Info: Finals expemptions
*View _Gulliver's Travels_
*WRITTEN EXAM MONDAY & TUESDAY

*OBJECTIVE: Identify & explain satire

5/6/09

Thursday, May 7th

*Check Swift Response
*Small Group Discussion: Develop one response that represents the best of your ideas.
---1 writer, same format: 1/2 page, 2 supporting quotes
---Share
*Info: Constructed Response Final Exam
---Monday & Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE: Identify & explain satire

Wednesday, May 6th

*Collect leftover novels
*Collect responses to songs
*If you need to, finish Swift response

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain satire

Tuesday, May 5th

*Sub
*Grab a purple book
*Read p. 486 & list 5 things you learned about Swift that may be important/useful in making sense of his work
*Read pp. 488-94
*Answer the following in at least 1/2 page, using at least two supporting quotes: "What aspects of society does Swift seem to be satirizing in this section? Hint: Consider the Lilliputians symbolic of society in general.

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain satire

5/4/09

Monday, May 4th

*Ironic Songs
*1/2 Page, 2 supporting quotes--Choose one of the songs and respond to this prompt: This song makes use of an ironic tone to make the point that . . .
*Definition: Satire

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain irony.

5/1/09

Friday, May 1st

*Irony Video
*(time permitting) Help me brainstorm more movie clips w/ irony

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain irony

Thursday, April 30th

*Sub
*Irony in the Simpsons: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish

Wednesday, April 29th

*Sub
*Essay Test