Monday, November 3, 2008

November is here! November is here!

Before school today is a brief meeting of the Project X-Mas crew, mainly to divide and distribute our collection jars for this worthy project. Meet in 313 at 9:00 a.m. if interested; if you don't come to this meeting we can always add you in later.

Gifted English II: A few students need to make up some work from last week, but as a class we are moving forward. Today is a critical thinking activity designed to help you look at things a little more discerningly; very important before we engage in our study of satire. I hope you will think it's informative and reasonably entertaining--it has to do with perspectives, ulterior motives, psychological manipulation of audiences, and uses of words, images, music, and emotions to convey meaning with various purposes. Besides, I think chimpanzees are always funny.

APees: I will be reviewing the first three acts of Hamlet with great scrutiny today. Six students still need to take the Act I quiz and four need to take the Act II quiz. I will be available during A lunch or immediately after seventh if you need to do this; the longer we wait, the more detailed information loss from your brains.