Nov 19

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

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.

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"

Oct 21

All students should have their blogs set up with at least one piece of writing posted by Friday Oct 23. This is for your grade so make sure you do it by the due date. You should also be actively reading and commenting on your partner's blog as well.

On a side note - I have relinked twice to all students and half the time the link is fine while the other half of the time it links to the feeds. I do apologize for the issue but my suggestion is to follow or link directly to your partner. That way you can avoid unnecessary steps. (But I'm pretty sure I fixed it!)

Good luck and keep up the good work.

Oct 9

We're working on getting all the students posted to this blog. Our school system has not helped us out very much. Hopefully, by next week, we'll have everyone up and running. Thanks for your patience. We can't wait to read all the writing we'll have access to. :)

Oct 5

Senior IB - Finish Act I of King Lear. Trace (in writing) all the references to Nature...who speaks of it, what they say and how it creates tone in the play.

Junior IB - Read "A Modest Proposal" decipher and discuss how the English were treating the Irish to get such a reaction from Swift.

English IV - Read to The Battle with Grendel in Beowulf

Oct 1

Advocacy - another wasted effort...actually it was kind of nice to see grades and discuss them with their owners...kind of

Seniors - Still reading Beowulf. Haven't made too much headway but we will

Senior IB - King Lear. Translate into "modern" English page 7

Junior IB - Counting down to PSAT