Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Note to self: Today is payday. Be sure to use your minor ducats to pay the rent today.

Note to students: Disregard note to self.

Agenda

AP Literature: Quick-quiz on the nature of human failure and despair. (Great way to start a morning!) Then launch into a deeply meaningful discussion of Oedipus Rex, or, to use the name of a website about this play, Oedipus the Wreck.

Gifted English IV: Assign Chaucer memorization; read a graphic-novel version of the life of Becket, prepare for film session.

Gifted English II: Share informal responses; review 120 literary terms. Homework tonight: grammar review questions. Our Author of the Day today is Shel Silverstein--yes, that Shel Silverstein (RIP).

AFTER SCHOOL: If you have any questions about the ESW trip, the Florence option, or Paris '07, come see Russ Russell of Art Events Orlando in my room after school. I have to leave by 2:40, so we only have about an hour to address any questions or concerns you might have, but good times all around. (I have a critically important off-campus meeting at Starbucks at 3.)