European Studies 10/7

Both classes met the sonnet challenge!!
Memorize sonnet 116 for Monday...sonnet review on Monday. Sonnet quiz on Tuesday, and then we will start Macbeth. And don't forget...you have a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday.

European Studies: 10/4

Homework: On an 11 by 17 piece of white paper, take your assigned sonnet, read and think about it until you understand it, then illustrate your sonnet like a comic strip, remembering to put the words of your sonnet next to each illustration. Each quatrain will have its own section and the couplet will have the final section. Due Thursday, October 6th. If you were absent, choose any but the first two Shakespearean sonnets to work on.

Don't forget: study vocab. for your quiz tomorrow!

American Literature: 10/4

Today: Finished Thanatopsis; Hudson River School paintings (journal entry)
Homework: Take your squares of the painting and enlarge each square to 4 inches by 4 inches. Use any artistic medium you like (watercolor, crayon, etc.) and reproduce your square, copying your square's letter and number onto the back. Due Tues. Oct. 11. Have fun!
Period 1 and 2: you can view your painting at this link...
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cole/cole_clove.jpg.html

Tomorrow: Intro. to Transcendentalism

European Studies: 10/3

Sonnet performances finished.
Begin in class and finish at home: Petrarch: Work with the Sonnets (HWP)

What's next:
Tuesday: English sonnets
Wednesday: Vocabulary 10/5
Thursday: Finish English Sonnets
Friday: The Sonnet Challenge! Can you write a sonnet?
Monday: Sonnet Quiz
Tuesday: Macbeth...

American Studies 10/3

Essays were peer edited today. Save your draft and peer edit sheet for process points. Final draft of essay is due next Monday, October 10th. Be sure to give your essay an appropriate, creative title...NOT "Personal Essay!"

HW: Thanatopsis Questions (HWP)

What's Next:
Tues. : Finish Thanatopsis; Romantic Art; Intro. to Transcendentalism
Wednesday: More Transcendentalism
Thursday and Friday: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature"