In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
The Lesson of Ups
Show Up, Keep Up, Speak Up, Measure Up
Monday November 30
Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop tests scored and returned to students
Units One-Six Vocabulary Workshop tests scored and returned to students
Resiliency unit (Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass) continues in class; prewriting and paper due date are scheduled in class and as homework
All Thanksgiving break assigned work is due today in class and online (letters to the editor); see last week's blog entries
Tuesday December 1
Pre-AP literary terms and rhetorical devices continue in class
"The Standard of Living" Dorothy Parker fiction piece is scheduled
Wednesday December 2
Holt Grammar textbook is required in class; homework includes clauses assignment
Thursday December 3
Upfront New York Times nonfiction is scheduled in class
Friday December 5
Preview of Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural speech analysis and discussion is scheduled
Winter break work reviewed and assigned; Shakespeare in American Communities and Shakespeare.org outlining and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Acts I-V responses and analysis
Check STUDYPATH over the weekend for next week's assignments and class updates
Lord of the Flies Chapters 4-9 class discussion is scheduled; all dialectical journal work and novel is required in class
AGENDA BIN:
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) (Roman drama unit)
Antigone (Sophocles) (Greek Drama unit)
