Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Tonight is PTSA Parent Night. Please encourage your parents to attend--or come yourself!

APees: Fourth period needs yesterday's handouts--I forgot to give them out at the end of the period yesterday. One is The Short Handbook of Grammar and Mechanics, as assembled by The Wise One (room 315.) If you still have yours from AP Lang last year, then by all means keep that copy and save a tree or two. The other is a guide to literary allusions that I compiled, particularly for those who might need a brushing-up on some Bibilical or mythological terms.
Fifth needs their focus papers.
All AP classes: Act IV, complete with cartoons. This is the most challenging and mind-bending section of the play, so brace yourselves.

Gifted English II: After going over our AofD Nathaniel Hawthorne, we are doing a timed writing on the Icarus myth that we've been studying for the past few days. The assignment is a comparison/contrast and I will post the prompt on this blog for anyone who isn't in class for the physical timed writing element.

Project X: Many thanks to Mary Claire for organizing and carrying out Project X, in which a gift for our custodian was arranged. The gift has been acquired and we will give it to him after school today. Thanks to everyone for helping, but particular gratitude to MC for coming up with the idea in the first place and executing it with such finesse.