English IV: October 2013

*Return Essays
---READ IT.
---Complete Reflection
*Check Annotations: I.iii-I.v
---Complete Big Questions
*TOMORROW:
---Big Questions (I.iii-I.v)
---Cover Page (except vocab.)

Monday, October 21st

*Annotations, I.iii-I.v due TOMORROW
*Cover-page due Wednesday
*Today: View Act 1

10/9/13

Thursday, October 10th

*Review Big Questions: I.i-I.ii
*Finish Reading Act 1
---Annotations due after break

Wednesday, October 9th

*Check annotations
*Discuss Hamlet through Act I, Scene 2 (I.ii)
---Share annotations
---EVERYONE answer Big Questions on lined paper
*Full-group

10/7/13

Tuesday, October 7th

*Cover-Pages
---Vocab: Copy Words
---Scene Log
---Journal
---"My Tables"?
*Read I.ii
---Develop Annotations
---I.i-I.ii Due TOMORROW

Monday, October 7th

*Hamlet, via Simpsons
*Family Tree
*How We'll Read
*Read I.i
---Develop Annotations

10/4/13

Friday, October 4th

*Collect Dubliners
*Discuss Themes
*Hamlet, via Simpsons

10/2/13

*Share predictions
*Themes Discussion (everyone jot notes)
---Agree/Disagree and to what extent (fully, partially, mostly, etc.)?
---Why? Explain using examples (personal experience, historical precedent, today's news, etc.)

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---TODAY, 10/3 before 11:59pm

10/1/13

Wednesday, October 2nd

*Review Shakespeare United 6 & 7
*Hamlet Prereading
---Wordles, Wordles, Wordles
*Return Wordle to Table!!!!

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---TOMORROW, 10/3 before 11:59pm

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