European Studies: What's Next

Homework: Prepare for Socratic Seminar and finish grading your paragraph. Start studying for the Macbeth Test.

Schedule:
Monday: Final Macbeth Discussion (Socratic Seminar)
Tuesday: Macbeth Test
Wednesday: Vocab. Quiz and Research Time for Renaissance Ball
Thursday: Learn to Dance
Friday: Renaissance Ball

Socratic Seminar: Macbeth
Prepare for the seminar by answering the following questions. You must back up your answers with lines from the text and reference to the text. This will be your entrance slip to the Socratic Seminar on Monday. You will not be able to gain entry to the seminar without all of the questions completed.

What is the significance of the witches?
Who is a better or worse person, Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?
Which theme that you have been following is the most important to your understanding of the play? Explain.
What is the main message of Macbeth?

Macbeth Test
Test will be a combination of multiple choice, matching, quote identification and writing.

To study:
Review your notes taken as we read Macbeth. If you have your own copy which you have been annotating, read back through your annotations, paying attention to the most important lines, actions and concepts. As you are doing this, try to formulate possible test questions or guess which lines might end up in the quote ID section. Anything that was discussed and emphasized in class is more likely to end up on the test. Review your theme chart to remind yourself of how the various themes develop in the play. Some concepts you must be sure to review are the concept of the Great Chain of Being and how it is important to the play, the medieval and Renaissance mindsets, including beliefs about witches and about heaven and hell. Also know and understand the following Shakespearean terms and be able to identify them: soliloquy, aside, antithesis, imagery, dramatic irony.The written portion of the test will come from our Seminar on Monday.

American Studies: Whitman

Per. 3: Finish identifying poetic elements in Whitman and answer the following two questions in your journal:
How do you think Whitman decides when a line should end and when to continue it?
What evidence of transcendentalist philosophy do you find in Whitman's poem? (Find and list specific lines.)

Per. 1-3:
Sum up Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" in terms of both subject and style in a paragraph of thoughtful, errorless prose. Be sure to support what you are saying with examples from the poem. Typed, double spaced, due Monday.

What's Coming Up:
Monday Nov. 14: Be through Chapter 31 of Huck Finn (Quiz)
Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 15-16: Huck Finn, pro and con
Wednesday, Nov. 16: "Song of Yourself" due
Monday Nov. 21: Finished reading Huck Finn
Tuesday Nov. 22: Huck Finn Exam
Wednesday Nov. 23: Huck Finn Essay Assigned
Wednesday Dec. 7: Vocab 4 tested (NOTE Date Change!!)

Don't forget your independent reading! You must read either The Jungle, The Awakening or The Red Badge of Courage by Jan.3.

American Studies: What's Next

Due Wednesday: Per. 1/2, finish reading "Modern Poetry" and entering notes for each question into your journal; read and take notes on pp. 342-346 (this assignment will go in your HWP).
Wednesday: Walt Whitman and "Song of Myself"
Monday: Be finished with "Huck Finn" through Ch. 31
Wednesday, Nov. 23: Vocab Test 4
January 3: Independent Reading due (Red Badge of Courage, The Awakening or The Jungle)