Wednesday, January 18, 2006

So many student birthdays in the month of January!!! Happy birthday to all of you who are celebrating this month.

NOTE: The Writing Center is open during A and B lunch; APees might want to take advantage of it.

AP Literature and Composition: 1st period gets 15 minutes of Young Frankenstein, the satirical look at the Frankenmyth as re-interpreted by Mel Brooks. Both classes will look at some fairly complicated text questions about Frankenstein and will start forging connections between the Gothic novel and Romantic poetry. Next up: John Keats and a creative project. Friendly reminder: You have a focus paper due tomorrow. Thanks for shopping with us.

Gifted English IV: Review for Hamlet Unit Test, to be administered tomorrow or Friday, depending on when we finish the review. Also, I will give each of you a copy of Tom Stoppard's hilarious play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Gifted English II: After going over the first five rules in The Elements of Style, we're jumping back into Julius Caesar and using the Act II questions to guide our thinking. Content vocabulary quiz is tomorrow, and it has amazing clip art. Really.