1. Macbeth texts should be in Monday or Tuesday (at the latest.) If you signed up for a text, be sure to check your name off on the master list before picking one up. If you would still like to BORROW one for the duration see me--I found six errant copies floating about.
2. SOPHYS: The reading deadline for The Count of Monte Cristo is officially (and inarguably) Wednesday, October 27. That gives you another MONTH. Read, read, read. . .and read some more! For those of you who plan ahead: The next novel is Candide by Voltaire.
3. BHS will have an awesome and massive rummage sale next Saturday in the faculty parking lot. Be sure to come! One person's wretched refuse is another's teeming shore!
TENTATIVE ACADEMIC SCHEDULE FOR APees:
Monday, September 27, 2010: Lecture/discussion on the origins of Shakespearean tragedy, beginning with Henry VII and the English Renaissance and culminating in James I and the Gunpowder Plot. Bring a pen or pencil and a good sense of humor. Your Oedipus Rex focus paper is due Wednesday BOTH online and in hard copy format.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010: Macbeth content vocabulary; introduction to Macbeth; Act I, scenes i and ii. And there was much rejoicing!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010: Payday, thank God, further enhanced by study of Macbeth. I LOVE THIS PLAY SO MUCH. Supplementary reading on the role of the supernatural, and further movement into Act I and the development of Lady Mac, the original Fatal Attraction. FOCUS PAPERS DUE.
Thursday, September 30, 2010: Brief interruptus of play for multiple choice practice focused on Macb content-wise, followed by the horrors of Act II.
Friday, October 1, 2010: Act II and "On the Knocking at the Gate" by Thomas de Quincey.
SOPHYS
Monday, September 27, 2010: No author, no word--but a brief foray into the world of Edgar Bulwer-Lytton before we saunter into Antigone, Scene IV. We're behind and we need to catch up. HW: Last literary vocab list!!!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010: Author of the Day; word of the day; review vocab terms and return graded papers; Antigone; Scene V and Exodos. HW: Word of the Day activity.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010: Last state-sanctioned Reading Day for CMC, enhanced by chocolate.
Thursday, September 30, 2010: In-class Antigone quiz, followed by work on the question packet (due Monday at the latest.)
Friday, October 1, 2010: Author of the Day; word of the day; vocab quiz 101-120; art show.
