Sonnet homework is due Monday, Oct. 17. It includes: Petrarch: Work with the Sonnets, Shakespeare Sonnet Questions, and your copy of your class sonnet
Monday: Act I, Scene i Performances and Act I, Scene i Journal due
Journal: Act I, Scene i: (due Monday)
How does this scene seize the interest of the audience?
What atmosphere is created?
What is the conflict that is introduced?
What seeds of catastrophe are sown?
What major theme is established? (you may look over the themes in your packet)
What prediction does the scene make about what the play will be about?
Also for Monday: Read the pages in your Macbeth packet that have to do with witches and history.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
American Studies: 10/13
Yesterday's journal, if you missed it:
1. When do you have money to spend? How do you earn the money you spend?
2. Do you prefer to spend your money right away?
3. What kinds of things would you save for?
4. Do you buy things only when you need them?
5. How do you differentiate between what you "want" and what you "need?"
6. Do you shop when you have to, or do you shop for other reasons?
7. Do you have time to yourself? How do you spend it?
8. How do you get to the places you want to go? How would you get there if you could?
You don't have to copy the questions, but by your answers it should be clear what the question was.
Monday: Parent/adult interview due; complete Thursday's "Walden" journal (below), keeping in mind whether Walden is relevant today.
Write a minimum 3/4 page response to this quote in your journal…tape or glue this quote in above your response.
“The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. It lives too fast. Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads?” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
For Tuesday: Read "Resistance to Civil Government" (often known as "Civil Disobedience") in your textbook, pages 249 to 254
Thoreau wrote this piece after he spent a night in jail as a result of refusing to pay his poll tax to protest the Mexican-American war.
You need to take critical reading notes on the piece.
What's next:
Monday: Affluenza
Tuesday: Discuss Affluenza and Civil Disobedience
Wednesday: Civil Disobedience
Thursday: Romanticism/Transcendentalism Fishbowl
Friday: Test on Vocab. List 2
Monday 10/24: Start The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1. When do you have money to spend? How do you earn the money you spend?
2. Do you prefer to spend your money right away?
3. What kinds of things would you save for?
4. Do you buy things only when you need them?
5. How do you differentiate between what you "want" and what you "need?"
6. Do you shop when you have to, or do you shop for other reasons?
7. Do you have time to yourself? How do you spend it?
8. How do you get to the places you want to go? How would you get there if you could?
You don't have to copy the questions, but by your answers it should be clear what the question was.
Monday: Parent/adult interview due; complete Thursday's "Walden" journal (below), keeping in mind whether Walden is relevant today.
Write a minimum 3/4 page response to this quote in your journal…tape or glue this quote in above your response.
“The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. It lives too fast. Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads?” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
For Tuesday: Read "Resistance to Civil Government" (often known as "Civil Disobedience") in your textbook, pages 249 to 254
Thoreau wrote this piece after he spent a night in jail as a result of refusing to pay his poll tax to protest the Mexican-American war.
You need to take critical reading notes on the piece.
What's next:
Monday: Affluenza
Tuesday: Discuss Affluenza and Civil Disobedience
Wednesday: Civil Disobedience
Thursday: Romanticism/Transcendentalism Fishbowl
Friday: Test on Vocab. List 2
Monday 10/24: Start The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
American Studies: 10/11
Today we discussed Emerson's "Self-Reliance." Grammar (Subject-Verb) is due tomorrow. Walden by Thoreau must be read and notes completed by Thursday (lit. book, pages 233-244). Notes on the following questions:
What does Thoreau say about Nature?
What is he trying to teach his readers?
What is he critiquing?
What transcendentalist principles (as we've learned about through reading Emerson) are evident in Thoreau's writings?
Write down important quotes you find and let me know why you think they're important.
What does Thoreau say about Nature?
What is he trying to teach his readers?
What is he critiquing?
What transcendentalist principles (as we've learned about through reading Emerson) are evident in Thoreau's writings?
Write down important quotes you find and let me know why you think they're important.
European Studies: 10/11
We completed our sonnet mini-unit today. If you didn't take the quiz today, you must make it up by next Tuesday. Tomorrow is vocab. quiz 10/12. You'll get a new list tomorrow with words for the next four weeks. Your pronoun worksheet is also due tomorrow. On Thursday we start Macbeth...bring your books!
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