Monday, October 16, 2006

Welcome to the second grading period--a time of Homecoming revelries, advanced scholarship, and making the transition to 2007.

Today is Superhero Day.

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition: Review Act II with emphasis on the elements of duplicity and spying; HW tonight is to re-read the monologue of the Player-King and the second soliloquy. I know that Act II is the most difficult of the acts to follow, but it is very important that you hang in there and really scrutinize Hamlet's use of language and syntax in his various conversations--to Polonius, to R and G, to the actors, to himself. Also, look closely at his behavior when he confronts Ophelia in her closet. Potential quiz tomorrow.

Gifted English IV: Background notes on the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket, then begin the film and do questions 1-16.

Gifted English II: Assign the Author of the Day project, which will begin on Halloween with a presentation on Rhode Island novelist and storyteller H.P. Lovecraft. Also, circulate PSAT testing list to confirm testing rooms and distribute tonight's HW--a short passage representative of PSAT questioning. Answer the ten multiple choice questions by tomorrow. We will be composing an essay on CMC later this week, but we are going to start the film today. (One of the potential essay topics is a compare/contrast from film to novel.)