Monday-Friday, December 1-5, 2008

Here is the schedule for the week, for those who like to plan ahead.

Note: Sophomores! Your next literature assignment is Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. I have plenty of copies for you to use, and it is in your textbook, but if you have historically encountered problems with comprehension, you may wish to avail yourself of the No Fear Shakespeare series from Barnes and Noble. This series features the Elizabethan language on one side of the page, with American vernacular on the other. You can get these books at Barnes or on amazon.com, or ask one of the juniors if they kept their copy from last year. You will need it in a week or so.

APees:

Monday: T.S. Eliot and "Prufrock"/Prufrockian Critical Essays (read by Wednesday for timed writing) and distribute Hamlet review sheets for upcoming test.
Tuesday: Comprehensive Hamlet review
Wednesday: Timed Writing on Prufrock and Hamlet
Thursday: Hamlet Unit Test
Friday: Hamlet Focus Paper #2 due by 5 p.m. and transition into existentialism and absurdism

Words of the Day: abstemious, verity, vacuous, debonair, elucidate

Sophys:

Monday: Candide review/characters and themes
Tuesday: Candide essay test (start in class then take home to finish)
Wednesday: Submit essay test/grammar activity/return MP essays for possible resubmission/wrap up satire unit with "Miniver Cheevy"
Thursday: Transition into Julius Caesar/The Tudors and Shakespeare
Friday: Transition part II