Thursday, November 19, 2009

Nov 19

Students should be putting new writing pieces up in the next week. Just in time for the many vacations coming up.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Nov 10

Seniors - Canterbury Tales Prologue Test tomorrow. Research paper topics due on Friday. Let's get to it

Senior IB - Lear is dead! Plath/Hughes unit begins tomorrow. Time for fun with poetry

Junior IB - Almost done with the Waste Land. ACT work for the next few weeks. We're about to take a fast ride to get through work so we can have our presentations the week before Winter Break.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

November 3, 2009

Seniors - Canterbury Tales work (we're up to the Miller in 2nd and the Reeve in 5th). We were in the lab today working on personal/literary pieces. Work is due on Friday (typed and with cover pages)

IB Seniors - Finishing our discussion of King Lear. Today we looked at the storm and Lear's mindset. Tomorrow nature/animal imagery and character mapping.

IB Juniors - We fully "translated" the first section of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"