Monday, January 8, 2007

Welcome back to the first FULL week!

Announcements:

1. SENIORS: Financial Aid Night is 1/18/2007 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. If you have ANY questions or worries about the FAFSA plan to attend.
2. We will be having an emergency drill Thursday at some point--stay tuned for updates.
3. A new school policy encourages all teachers to post a learning objective on the board for each class. Since my objective never really changes--we read, we talk, we write, we read some more, we talk some more, sometimes we eat--I've decided to place this on the board from now on, until I'm told otherwise: "To unravel the threads of literature's fuzzy sweater." It's a metaphor. I like it.

AP Literature: After taking the quiz on chapters 11-16 from Jane Eyre, we will go back into "Tintern Abbey" and discuss allusions, metaphor, and vivid visual imagery as seen in the poem.

Gifted English IV: Finishing Act I; we have a quiz tomorrow! Prepare.

Gifted English II: After signing up for Early Lupercalia (next Thursday, 1/18), we finished Act V of Julius Caesar. We will start screening the film tomorrow in class. NOTE: You have a paper due on Friday, and can earn five extra points by going to the Writing Center with it.