Today is the first Exam Review Day. I'm posting the review sheets here in this forum for each class so check the entry that applies to your class. We will be reviewing both today and tomorrow, bell to bell.
For the exam days, please bring a pencil and some paper for the essay portion of the test.
EXAM SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, December 14--Periods 1,2, and 7; adjusted bell schedule. Each exam block will be 130 minutes; you will have a fourth period lunch block and school will get out at its regular time.
Thursday, December 15--Periods 3 and 4. Each exam block is 130 minutes and you have a 15 minute break in between; you will be dismissed before noon.
Friday, December 16--same set-up as Thursday with early dismissal; exam blocks 5 and 6.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Friday, December 9, 2005
AP Literature: "The World is Too Much With Us" by Wordsworth.
Gifted English IV: Hamlet.
Gifted English II: Things Fall Apart Check-Read Activity.
Gifted English IV: Hamlet.
Gifted English II: Things Fall Apart Check-Read Activity.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Advanced Placement Literature: 1st period; finish "Rime" and listen to Iron Maiden's stirring rendition of it. 5th period, careful deconstruction of the poem in collaborative groups.
Gifted English IV: Hamlet, continued.
NOTE TO SENIORS: Please submit your diploma forms ASAP.
Gifted English II: Look at the Kipling poem "White Man's Burden" and analyze through the perspective of both imperialist and colonialized.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Gifted English IV: Hamlet, continued.
NOTE TO SENIORS: Please submit your diploma forms ASAP.
Gifted English II: Look at the Kipling poem "White Man's Burden" and analyze through the perspective of both imperialist and colonialized.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The meeting for future trips will be tonight at 7 p.m. here in room 313.
- The Writing Center will be having its holiday party today in 315 during A and B lunch.
Wednesday December 7, 2005
If you are worried about your grades, relax/curse me. I am drowning, people. Drowning. Make-up essay tests, resubmissions, exams that have to be written. . .freaking out over here. Please give me a couple more days.
::sigh::
AP Literature: 1st period--Timed Writing 5th period--Finish "Rime".
Gifted English IV: Hamlet, Act I film screening.
Gifted English II: Author of the Day presentation(s) and discussion of TFA through the lens of feminist criticism.
::sigh::
AP Literature: 1st period--Timed Writing 5th period--Finish "Rime".
Gifted English IV: Hamlet, Act I film screening.
Gifted English II: Author of the Day presentation(s) and discussion of TFA through the lens of feminist criticism.
Monday, December 05, 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Tragically, I won't be here today--doctor appointment and (maybe) Christmas shopping.
Advanced Placement Literature: 1st period will probably be attending the Senior Breakfast; keep up with "Rime" and be prepared to discuss in-depth Wednesday (if you're not going to the Honors breakfast. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE the fact that they schedule these things right before finals?????) 5th period will be doing a cool timed writing from the 2001 AP Lit exam, based on Romanticism. 1st will have to do it for HW some time in the next week, unless they'd like to ditch the breakfast. . .
Gifted English IV: Breakfast Problem, Part II. Students who attend will have a chance to get ahead in Hamlet.
Gifted English II: After the Author of the Day presentation, you will each get three (not five, but three, and the number of the counting will be three, not two, except that thou proceedest then to three) thought questions on TFA and the critique I gave you yesterday. You will discuss the questions with a partner or a group of three (see previous parenthetical statement) before writing thoughtful, in-depth, symbolically meaningful responses. It will be so great.
Advanced Placement Literature: 1st period will probably be attending the Senior Breakfast; keep up with "Rime" and be prepared to discuss in-depth Wednesday (if you're not going to the Honors breakfast. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE the fact that they schedule these things right before finals?????) 5th period will be doing a cool timed writing from the 2001 AP Lit exam, based on Romanticism. 1st will have to do it for HW some time in the next week, unless they'd like to ditch the breakfast. . .
Gifted English IV: Breakfast Problem, Part II. Students who attend will have a chance to get ahead in Hamlet.
Gifted English II: After the Author of the Day presentation, you will each get three (not five, but three, and the number of the counting will be three, not two, except that thou proceedest then to three) thought questions on TFA and the critique I gave you yesterday. You will discuss the questions with a partner or a group of three (see previous parenthetical statement) before writing thoughtful, in-depth, symbolically meaningful responses. It will be so great.
Monday, December 5, 2005
Sorry this post is late; I really had no idea where the day would go until I got through it.
Here's what we did:
AP Literature: Lecture/discussion on Coleridge's "Rime" and the willing suspension of disbelief. We read through Parts III and IV today; I asked each of you to re-read I through IV to reconnect some the ideas we discussed in class.
Gifted English IV: Hamlet, Act I and reading through Act I, scene iii.
Gifted English II: Author of the Day: Laura Esquivel. We discussed a persuasive essay by Kathleen Parker of The Orlando Sentinel and looked at her rhetorical strategies for articulating a position against the death penalty, and then we had a chance to read TFA and/or a feminist critique of the novel by Rose Mezu, an African scholar.
ANNOUNCEMENT: If you have a chance, go see Every Christmas Story Ever Told. It's hilarious.
'NOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are available and interested, I will have the tour guide for Art Events discussing my upcoming trips 7 p.m. Thursday night here in my classroom.
Here's what we did:
AP Literature: Lecture/discussion on Coleridge's "Rime" and the willing suspension of disbelief. We read through Parts III and IV today; I asked each of you to re-read I through IV to reconnect some the ideas we discussed in class.
Gifted English IV: Hamlet, Act I and reading through Act I, scene iii.
Gifted English II: Author of the Day: Laura Esquivel. We discussed a persuasive essay by Kathleen Parker of The Orlando Sentinel and looked at her rhetorical strategies for articulating a position against the death penalty, and then we had a chance to read TFA and/or a feminist critique of the novel by Rose Mezu, an African scholar.
ANNOUNCEMENT: If you have a chance, go see Every Christmas Story Ever Told. It's hilarious.
'NOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are available and interested, I will have the tour guide for Art Events discussing my upcoming trips 7 p.m. Thursday night here in my classroom.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Friday, December 2, 2005
Advanced Placement Literature: Quiz on your reading from yesterday; discussion of the poems; introduction to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge.
Gifted English IV: Quiz on Hamlet; Act I, scene ii, and deconstruction of the soliloquy from that scene.
Gifted English II: Author of the Day; go over Candide essay assignments; pass back graded work; go over HP vocab; poetic connections.
Gifted English IV: Quiz on Hamlet; Act I, scene ii, and deconstruction of the soliloquy from that scene.
Gifted English II: Author of the Day; go over Candide essay assignments; pass back graded work; go over HP vocab; poetic connections.
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