Friday, September 5, 2008

FRIDAY!!! Glorious, glorious Friday. Please wear ORANGE AND WHITE today to celebrate Boone's awesomeness. We really are pretty awesome, aren't we? And if you wear the aforementioned colors, you get to go to lunch one minute early! ONE WHOLE MINUTE! That's like sixty seconds of tater-tot goodness!

Gifted English II: Vocabulary Quiz #3, which is in a slightly different format than before. We're wrapping up our miniature unit on irony today, too. Author of the Day is Yukio Mishima. Your Art Opportunity today, to celebrate your Giftedness (aka: weirdness) is to draw something that symbolically relates to any of the words on your vocab list this week. Perhaps Odysseus flailing around on his boat? Or Johnny Appleseed chasing a tortoise? Or a better version of my Titanic sketch, complete with a confused Celine Dion on the deck of the doomed ship?

APees: Oedipus Rex!!! Hello, King! I know you know the story, but the play itself is quite readable and very easy to follow. Sophocles was a genius. Today, we will discuss aspects of the tragedy and how the Greek model sets the stage for, well, everything else. You need to READ. Really READ. Another focus paper is imminently approaching. . .