Monday, February 27, 2017

All classes: enrollment today in class.  If you missed today, counseling should track you down but you can check in with them.

10H
Document on G-Class over Act III speeches
Act III guiding ?'s on pg. 922: 2,4,5,6,8,9,11

10
Work on introduction structure and outlining the intro to your Heroes essay
Basic structure:
1. A hero is...
2. Although some say that a hero...
3. How/when/where do heroes come from or are created
4. Hero's purpose
5. Address how your content fulfills the central question and why it matters

Friday, February 24, 2017

10H
Watch Caesar Act 3 film.  Need to know the terms apophasis, ad hominem, and semantic bleaching in regard to the speeches.  Noted speeches that will appear on the Act 3 quiz on Tues: the servant pg. 903, Antony pg 905, Antony pg. 908, Brutus pg. 910-911, Antony's funeral oration pg. 912-end

10
Argumentative Hero Outline work in class.  We will start writing rough draft on Monday.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Monday: No school
Tuesday: Enrollment informational meetings all hours

Wed/Thurs:

All hours:
New vocab list 11: advocate, antipathy, emancipate, idiosyncrasy, imminent, impede, inclusive, jurisdiction, precarious, preposterous

10H
G-Classroom short answer responses and discussion in conjunction with both Caesar and our upcoming argumentative essay

Wordwright hand back and discussion

Caesar begin Act 3

Caesar test will be Tuesday, March 2

10
New vocab discussion
Quarter 4 Pre-diagnostic

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Vocab Essay #10 for all classes.

Be on the lookout for resources over the next week.  Remember, Tuesday is enrollment information day.  If you have questions or concerns about what to take next year, Tuesday is the day to ask them.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Monday 2/13

G-Class read and respond

10H
Finish reading Act 2

10
Finish Myth/Legend Test
Take WordWright 3

Friday 2/10

10H
WordWright 3

10
Myth/Legend Test

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Comment on the following list of advisory ideas to give some feedback and take some ownership of that time that you will have once a week for the next 2.5 years.

Vocab List 10: clandestine, astute, contingency, egocentric, exonerate, incongruous, indigenous, liability, reinstate, superfluous

10H
Wordwright on Friday, Feb. 10

10
Myths and Legends Test on Friday, Feb. 10
Tuesday, Feb. 7

10H
Started with this TED talk on the hero's journey.  It's only about four minutes, so watch it again/on your own if you missed the three parts that we/you need:  The steps of the hero's journey, the explanation of the exit and return from the normal world to the special world, and the quote about caves around the 4:00 mark.

Read Caesar Act 2 Scene 1 up to the point where the conspirators leave Brutus' house and Portia comes out to speak with him. Line sections of note: 10-34, 77-85, 112-128, 162-183

Wordwright - Friday

10
Myths and Legends Test will be Friday, Feb. 10.  Stories covered: Momotaro, Sigurd, Sword in the Stone, Launcelot, Sundiata, Quetzalcoatl.  Pages and corresponding questions that most TEST QUESTIONS will come directly from: 1045 #3,8,9,11, 1058 #3,6,9,11, 1066 # 5,6,7,8,9, 1076 #3,5,7,8, 1086 #9,10,11, 1090 #9,10,11.  The other three are listed in a post from last week.  Your essay pre-write is also posted on G-Class.  You don't have to finish it, but should start looking at the posted questions and thinking about/rough drafting them.

Wordwright- Monday

Monday, February 6, 2017

G-Class responses
Wordwright 3 will be this Friday, Feb 10

10H
Caesar Act I wrap up questions on pg. 866 #5,7,11,12

10
Heroes continued.  We will take a myths/legends/heroes test on Monday, Feb 13.  This heroes TED talk does a really good job explaining the cycle of a hero in literature and will be directly referenced on the test.
Wed/Thursday Feb 1st and 2nd

Vocab Essay #9.

Friday Feb. 3rd- No school for conferences