Students are expected to record assignments as I announce them verbally before leaving class each day.  As a way that students and parents can verify assignments and due dates, I will also post them here.  Turquoise document titles are links to assignments. All homework is due on the following school day unless it is specifically stated to be due at another time. No late work is accepted by the Skyline humanities department. For your social studies assignments, visit www.mrdoran.net daily.

​10th Honors Block Syllabus 2019-20      10th Writing Rubric 2019-20     10th Critical Reading Rubric    Honors v Core: Expectations
​Literary Conventions and Eras Glossary       turnitin.com Class ID for 6/7: 22038078    enrollment key: ask Matheny (online trolls) 

WWII Films Alternative Research Project: Resistance to the Nazi Party Independent Research Project Assignment

DISTANCE LEARNERS, LET'S BEGIN! No grades will be collected during this time of departure, but here's what I would have taught you today (and maybe even waaaaay more than we would have had time for, tbh) while we're out. Email me any late work you want to send--attachments, not file sharing links. Thanks!

Follow my classes on Instagram at @readwhilequarantined for updates there. I will post a few hours of optional reading and viewing activities at least twice a week for you during our break.

Thursday, 3.26.20

Essential Question: To what extent do orders from a higher-up officer justify and excuse soldierly violence? 
Today’s Film-Learning Recommendations: Both of these optional film-viewing experiences explore the same Holocaust-related question that so many have asked since—how can genocide happen? Why didn’t more individual people resist Nazi orders? Why don’t people resist the chain of command? This learning connects with our reading of Weisel’s Night.
 
To be clear, neither of these films will pass the Bechdel Test. If you’re not aware, the Bechdel Test/Rule/Measure is a simple test to measure the plurality of a film’s perspective. To pass, a film has to have the following three criteria:

1. It has to have at least two women in it
2. These women have to speak to each other
3. These women have to speak to each other about something besides a man

 

• “Experimenter”
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Written and directed by Michael Almereyda
  • Streaming on Hulu now—tbh it’s a little weird, film-wise, but it’s good if you don’t know about this important piece of research
  • Milgram (1963) examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the post-World War II Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Nazis’ defense was often based on "obedience"—that they were just following orders from their superiors.
    • Research Question: Milgram devised his famous shock experiment to answer the question: Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (Milgram, 1974).
  • Here is a quick-but-cited article about the ethical issues with Milgram’s experimentation
  • This film won’t pass the Bechdel Test because it is about high academia in the 1960s. We got those women-in-STEM initiatives you all know so well because women were marginalized from 1960s scientific experimentation.

 

• “A Few Good Men”
  • 1992
  • R
  • Written by Aaron Sorkin; Dir. Rob Reiner
  • An American legal drama film: Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a military lawyer defending two U.S. Marines charged with killing a fellow Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. 
  • A Mental Floss article with facts about the film
  • This film won’t pass the Bechdel Test because it was made in early-90s Hollywood about infantry soldiers in the US military in Cuba. Combat jobs in the US military began to be open to women in 2013.

• The Science of Well-Being #yale:This week, my online Yale class is assessing our current levels of subjective well-being. If you took the Character Strengths survey I posted earlier this week, your goal is to increase your level of overall happiness by finding new and varied ways to use your top strengths in your daily life. This process of increasing your happiness by focusing on your inherent strengths is called, by Dr. Santos, “rewirement.”
• Measure your Baseline Happiness Here are two validated, Yale-taught psychological surveys that can serve as a “baseline” of your happiness level. Later, you can redo the survey to see if your happiness and overall mood have changed. This process will help you understand your journey by understanding what your current happiness level is right now, how much room for growth you have, and whether you have changed over time. 
  • The first option is PERMA Profiler  (an acronym for Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment— the basic dimensions of psychological flourishing). The questionnaire is 23 questions and once you submit your responses, you will receive scores ranging from 0-10 for each pillar along with scores for overall well-being, health, and negative emotions. 
  • The second option is based on Authentic Happiness Inventory. It’s a quick set of 24 questions that provides an overall measure of your happiness levels. At the end of the survey you will receive a score between 1 and 5 based on your responses. 
    • When you receive your score, you will likely want to compare to others and will wonder “is my score “good” or “bad?” While these questions are fair, try to focus on your own score and your own improvement.
• Then, apply Dr. Santos' rewirement practices for this week using this graphic organizer: To get you into the practice of doing intentional and effortful activities to boost your own happiness, try to use your top strengths this week. Each day for the following week, use your selected strengths in a new way. For example, if curiosity is one of your strengths, enroll in a course on a topic you know nothing about; if kindness is your strength, perform an anonymous favor for someone; and so on. Try to use your strengths at least once per day all week long. You can find suggestions on ways to use each strength here and here. 

Wednesday, 3.25.20
✒️Creative Writing Prompt🖋
📓60 minutes max writing time*
📓One page max*
📓Compose a memoir, written in the first person, as the Coronavirus-that-causes-COVID-19.🦠 Describe going viral in 2020 using a tone befitting your journey.
📓Email to Matheny by Monday and I’ll publish the best sentences here (or not, if you are into privacy😎)
*Or take as much space & time as you need 🦚 🦄

Tuesday, 3.24.20

• I'm taking an online class that started yesterday--I go to Yale, btw. Oh, be quiet you purists, they're all online universities right now. Corona: #thegreatequalizer. It's called "The Science of Well Being" and it's giving me all these cool personality and character and strength surveys. I'll link those that might interest you here:
  • Via Institute on Character: Your character strengths are the qualities that come most naturally to you. Every individual possesses all 24 character strengths in different degrees, giving each person a unique character profile. When you know your strengths, you can improve your life and thrive. Research reveals that people who use their strengths a lot are 18x more likely to be flourishing than those who do not use their strengths.
    • ​My top four character strengths are Zest, Love of Learning, Love and Perspective. My four lowest strengths are Creativity, Forgiveness, Teamwork, and Spirituality. (omg!) What are yours? If you take the quiz email me and let me know.

Monday, 3.23.20

• Hi sophomores! We miss you all already! If and when we go back to school, we will begin with a discussion of Night. Finish reading the memoir and compare it to others you've read, like Anne Frank, to be a good person.
  • I will post a few hours of honors humaniteis classwork work a few  times a week on my website; all this work is optional but it would have been taught to you in class this year and will help you prepare for Junior Year.
• Review the Primary Sources packet and find on the last page the "Persecution Account of Leon Hammer"--he was a relative of one of my former SHS students whose life was tragically diverted by the Holocaust. Compare and contrast his one-page memoir with Weisel's book-length account. How do they differ in purpose and content and style? Which is more effective for you as a reader and why?

• If you feel like learning through film today, watch one of these phenomenal films.
  • Tragi-comedy: "Life Is Beautiful" is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama fiction film that shows how one Italian family endured their internment. It is  directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. It is streaming on Hulu now.
  • Tragic Drama: "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" (released as "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" in the United States) is a British 2008 historical tragedy film set in World War II, based on John Boyne's 2006 novel of the same name. It is streaming on Netflix now.

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Friday, 3.13.20

• Finish watching "The Pianist" which streams on Nexflix right now.
  • Slide 32 of today's PPT has the discussion questions we would have used after the film.
  • Primary Sources: Here are three excerpts from Szpilman's memoir that inspired the film. Objective: Compare and contrast how Weisel's writing style, structure,  and tone in Night differ from Szpilman's in The Pianist.
    • Szpilman on how and why the Nazi helped him
    • Szpilman on finding the Nazi after the war
    • Szpilman on preparation for the train ride.
• Read chapters 2-3 in Weisel's Night if you haven't already done so. Remember I posted a ​Primary Sources packet that includes, on the first two pages, a list of often-unfamiliar vocabulary you'll need to understand to get Night.
  • Slides 32-38 contain the discussion questions and reflection activities we would have used in class today.

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Monday, 3.9.20
Classwork:

• Historical Anti-Semitism lecture--developing context for Night
• Weisel Interview: author's purpose
• Introduction to Night

Homework: 

• Critically read chapter 1 in Night for Wednesday's class. 
• You have an SAT 10 list 8 vocab quiz Wednesday.

Tuesday, 3.10.20
Classwork:

• SS Test
• More context for Night
  • ​Primary Sources

Homework: 

• Critically read chapter 1 in Night for Wednesday's class. 
• You have an SAT 10 list 8 vocab quiz Wednesday.

Wednesday, 3.11.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 8 vocab quiz
• ​Discuss Night: chapter one--Group Work:
  • 1.Find and analyze a couple more instances of light and darkness imagery in chapter one.
    2.Write a thesis statement about the symbolic use of light and/or darkness imagery in Night.

Homework: 

• Critically read chapters two and three in Night for Friday's class.

Thursday, 3.12.20
Classwork:

• "The Pianist" film analysis

Homework: 

• Finish watching "The Pianist".

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Monday, 3.2.20
Classwork:

• Book Club culminating independent project work time & ways to submit based on project choice

Homework:

• Your Book Club culminating independent project is due Tuesday.
  • Essays: ​Submit any essays you write to turntin.com with an appropriate works cited. No paper copy submitted.
  • Creative Prose/Poetry: Submit any creative writing, with rationale and works cited, to turnitin.com.
  • Art: Submit your rationale/Works Cited to turnitin.com and bring a printed copy of the rationale for any physical art assignments to class.
  • Song: Be prepared to preform in class tomorrow. Submit your rationale/Works Cited to turnitin.com.
  • Trailer: Any videos must be uploaded online and will be considered submitted when I have a FUNCTIONAL link for your project in my email inbox. Submit your rationale/Works Cited to turnitin.com.
• Your SAT 10 list 7 quiz is on Wednesday.
• The next book we will read is Elie Weisel's memoir Night. Order your own copy if you do that.

Tuesday, 3.3.30.  Course Request Video 
Classwork:

• Book Club culminating independent project presentations and gallery walk
  • Book Club & Ind. Project Reflection--required

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 7 quiz is on Wednesday.

Wednesday, 3.4.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 7 quiz
• SAT 10 list 8 introduction
• Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic, cont'd
  • easier to understand excerpt from Sophie's World
  • more difficult to understand Dialogue-form allegory

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 8 homework is due on Friday.  Your quiz over these words will be next Wednesday. 

Thursday, 3.5.20
Classwork:

• Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic, cont'd

Homework

• Your SAT 10 list 8 homework is due on Friday.  Your quiz over these words will be next Wednesday. 
• Stalin & The Bloodlands (article for Doran's class)

Friday, 3.6.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 8 matching fast five
• Introduction to Weisel's Night

Homework:

• TBA

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Monday, 2.24.20
Classwork:

• Book Club culminating independent project assignment 
  • ​Project Topic Selection Survey--to be completed in class today. 

Homework: 

• Have  read your fourth book club reading assignment for Tuesday. 
• The next book we will read is Elie Weisel's memoir Night. Order your own copy if you do that.

Tuesday, 2.25.20
Classwork:

• Book Club meeting #4 and Post-Meeting Reflection Survey 

Homework: 

• Have  read your final/fifth book club reading assignment for Thursday.
• Your Book Club culminating independent project is due Tuesday.

Wednesday, 2.26.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 7 intro
• Book Club independent project work time 

Homework: 

• ​Your SAT 10 list 7 homework is due on Friday

Thursday, 2.27.20
Classwork:

• Book Club meeting #5 and Post-Meeting Reflection Survey ​

Homework: 

• Your Book Club culminating independent project is due Tuesday.

Friday, 2.28.20
Classwork:

• SAT10 list 7 matching fast five

Homework: 

• Your Book Club culminating independent project is due Tuesday.

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Monday, 2.10.20
Classwork:

• Book Club meeting #1 and Post-Meeting Reflection Survey 

Homework: 

• Your SAT 10 list 6 vocab quiz is on Thursday rather than Wednesday due to our book club schedule. #change 
• Have  read your second book club reading assignment for Wednesday.  You need to have your chosen proof of reading, your role prepared and printed out, and have your copy of your book in class to get full credit for your discussion. 

Tuesday, 2.11.20
Classwork:

• First semester survey results review

​Homework: 

• Your SAT 10 list 6 vocab quiz is on Thursday rather than Wednesday.
• Have  read your second book club reading assignment and do your second role for Wednesday. 

Wednesday, 2.12.20
Classwork:

• Book Club meeting #2 and Post-Meeting Reflection Survey 

Homework: 

• Your SAT 10 list 6 vocab quiz is tomorrow. 
• Have  read your third book club reading assignment for Friday.  

Thursday, 2.13.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 6 vocab quiz

​Homework: 

• Have  read your third book club reading assignment for Friday.  

Friday, 2.14.20

• Book Club meeting #3 and Post-Meeting Reflection Survey 

Homework: 

• Have  read your fourth book club reading assignment for the Tuesday after break.  Have a great break!

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Monday, 2.3.20
Classwork:

• Book Club table-group rehearsal:
  • Text: Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants
  • Book Cub Roles
  • Breaking Down an Image

​Homework: 

• Get your book club book if you need to get it--you can use a digital or a paper copy.   Here are your book and group assignments. 
• Finish your Two Bad Ants Book Cub Role before tomorrow's class.

Tuesday, 2.4.20
Classwork:

• Book Club--actual group planning period
  • Group planning guide

​Homework: 

• Get your book club book if you need to get it. 
• SAT 10 list 5 vocab quiz is tomorrow

Wednesday, 2.5.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 5 vocab quiz
• SAT 10 list 6 vocab intro

​Homework: 

• Get your book club book if you need to get it. 

​Thursday, 2.6.20
Classwork:

• Book Club: Group Planning and meeting dates

​Homework: 

• Finish your SAT 10 list 6 vocab homework for Friday's class. 
• Have  read your first book club reading assignment for Monday

Friday, 2.7.20
Classwork:

• Fast Five: SAT 10 list 6 matching
• Review of Book Cub Role for Monday's first meeting
• End-of-first semester block survey

​Homework: 

• Finish your SAT 10 list 6 vocab homework for Friday's class. 
• Have  read your first book club reading assignment for Monday.  You need to have your chosen proof of reading, your role prepared and printed out, and have your copy of your book in class to get full credit for your discussion. 

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Monday, 1.27.20 No School--Teacher Professional Development Day

Tuesday, 1.28.20
Classwork:

• Modernism cont'd--discuss: Borges' "The Library of Babel"
  • ​Irish Times Article

​Homework: 

• Critically read Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"for Wednesday's class.

Wednesday 1.29.20
Classwork:

• Discuss Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

• SAT 10 List 5 vocab introduction

​Homework: 

• Choose one option and complete your SAT 10 list 5 vocab homework for Friday's class.

​Thursday, 1.30.20
Classwork:

• Book Clubs--text and group preferences survey
• ​Discuss Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" cont'd 

​Homework: 

• Choose one option and complete your SAT 10 list 5 vocab homework for Friday's class.

Friday, 1.31.20
Classwork:

• Fast Five: SAT 10 list 5 matching
• Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants

​Homework: 

• None

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Monday, 1.20.20  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day--learn about his work and consider how you can be an advocate for others each day.

Tuesday, 1.21.20 Seven-Period Schedule for the last day of the semester
Classwork:

• S1 LA Study Guide
• Final Exam review: DBQ Advice

Homework:

• Review for your final exam tomorrow. 

Wednesday, 1.22.20. 5, 6, 7th Hour Final Exam Schedule Final exam--celebration of our learning.

Thursday, 1.23.20 3rd and 4th Final Exam Schedule--Half-Day No block today. 

Friday, 1.24.20 1st and 2nd Final Exam Schedule--Half-Day No block today. 

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Monday, 1.13.20 Snow Day!

Tuesday, 1.14.20 Snow Day.

Residual Ice & High Winds Day? #cabinfever

Thursday, 1.16.20
Classwork:

• Final Exam details: objective and DBQ
• Modernism: the short story--Borges, Argentina, and (1941) "The Library of Babel" [modern style; postmodern assumptions]

Homework:

• Review for your vocab quiz tomorrow. 
• Listen to your voice comment for your Semester I Integrated essay on turnitin.com as you review your rubric. 

Friday, 1.17.20
Classwork:

•  SAT 10 list 4 quiz (the last one for first semester!)
• OPCVL project presentations
• First Semester Paper Exemplars: take a peek at these very successful semester I integrated essays to see models of great tenth grade honors writing--   One.    Two.     Three.     Four.     Five.    Six. 
• DBQ Advice: Final Exam

Homework:

• Review all the texts we've read and the vocab for our final exam next week.
• Bring your fast five paper to be collected Tuesday.

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Monday, 1.6.20
Classwork:

• Introduction to Modernism: Western Art's progression from 1300-1900--Cubism, Yves Klein

Homework:

• Choose one painting we discussed in the lecture about Western Art's progression today or yesterday--write one handwritten, thesis-driven, full-page journal entry reflecting on the form, purpose, content, audience, and the effect the art personally had on you for your chosen painting. You may need to do some informal research to support what you already know--use in-text citations for anything you look up but no works cited is needed. The full lecture is linked here for your review; this writing is due Wednesday and will be discussed in class and then collected so please bring a paper copy of your work.

Tuesday, 1.7.20
Classwork:

• Introduction to Modernism: Western Art's progression from 1300-1900, cont'd--Suprematism and Expressionism

Homework:

• Choose one painting we discussed in the lecture about Western Art's progression today or yesterday--write one handwritten, thesis-driven, full-page journal entry reflecting on the form, purpose, content, audience, and the effect the art personally had on you for your chosen painting. You may need to do some informal research to support what you already know--use in-text citations for anything you look up but no works cited is needed. The full lecture is linked here for your review; this writing is due Wednesday and will be discussed in class and then collected so please bring a paper copy of your work.

Wednesday, 1.8.20
Classwork

• Introduction to SAT 10 list 4
• Modernism: Western Art's progression from 1300-1900--Surrealism, Dada, and Kinetic Art
• Modernism: the short story-- James Joyce, Ireland, and "Eveline"

Homework:

• Critically read James Joyce's "Eveline"
• Your SAT 10 list 4 homework is due on Friday. There will be a quiz over these words next Wednesday. 

Thursday, 1.9.20
Classwork:

• Modernism: the short story-- James Joyce's (1904) "Eveline"

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 4 homework is due on Friday.

Friday, 1.10.20
Classwork:

• SAT 10 list 4: matching fast five
• Modernism: the short story--Borges, Argentina, and (1941) "The Library of Babel" [modern style; postmodern assumptions]

Homework:

• For Monday, critically read Borges fictional short story 1941 "The Library of Babel" and be prepared to ask questions. :) It's quite a little thing. 
• There will be a quiz over our SAT 10 list 3 words next Wednesday. 

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Monday, 12.16.19
Classwork:

• Jonathan Swift's Irish Satire: A Modest Proposal discussion
• Writing Prompt: Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Which is VF and which is the creature?

Homework: 

• Read and annotate the rest of the novel for Tuesday's class​
• Your collaborative or independent Heroes and Anti-Heroes Writing Prompt is due to turnitin.com by 10AM on Wednesday. One submission per partner pair.
• Your culminating Socratic seminar over Frankenstein  is on Wednesday; your objective test questions are on Thursday's integrated test.

Tuesday, 12.17.19
Classwork:

• End-of-decade Celebration Pot Luck Sign-up
• The novel's resolution: discussion

Homework:

• Your collaborative or independent Heroes and Anti-Heroes Writing Prompt is due to turnitin.com by 10AM on Wednesday. One submission per partner pair.
• Your culminating Socratic seminar over Frankenstein  is on Wednesday; your objective test questions are on Thursday's integrated test.

Wednesday, 12.18.19
Classwork:

• Culminating Socratic Seminar: Frankenstein

Homework:

•  Objective Frankenstein test questions are on Thursday's integrated test.

Thursday, 12.19.19
Classwork:

• Integrated Objective Test
• Matheny's year-long curriculum evaluation--evaluating Frankenstein
• Brexit!

Homework:

• ​Remember your contribution to our class's potluck end-of-decade celebration tomorrow.

Friday, 12.20.19
Classwork:

• Potluck end-of-decade celebration

Homework:

• None. Have a wonderful break! #selfcare

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Monday, 12.9.19
Classwork:

• Finish The Blame Game 


• ​Discuss chapters 11-12: The creature--friend or fiend?

Homework:

• Your Frankenstein list 3 homework is due on Tuesday. Your quiz over these words is next Friday in class.
• 1831: Read  and annotate chapters 13 and 14

Tuesday, 12.10.19
Classwork:

• Frankenstein list 3 Fast Five: Matching
• Discuss chapters 13 and 14--the creature's backstory

Homework

• 1831: Read and annotate chapters 15 and 16

​Wednesday, 12.11.19
Classwork:

• Introduction to Freud and Psychoanalysis
  • Psyche--Id, Superego, and Ego
  • Mining the unconscious 

Homework:

• 1831: Read and annotate chapters 17 and 18

Thursday, 12.12.19
Classwork:

• Freud, Day 2--Defense Mechanisms, Dream Analysis, and Freudian Slips
• Discuss chapters 17 and 18

Homework:

• 1831: Read and annotate chapters 19 and 20

Friday, 12.13.19
Classwork:

• Frankenstein list 3 quiz
• Discuss 19 and 20--Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Which is VF and which is the creature?

Homework:

• 1831: Read and annotate chapters 21 and 22 (you will finish the novel for Tuesday's class so feel free to go ahead to do that.)

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Monday, 12.2.19
Classwork:

• Frankenstein Vocab list 2
• Reminder: Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project
• Analyzing Frankenstein ch 3-4: Victor's Characterization 

Homework:

• Your Frankenstein Vocab list 2 ​homework is due on Wednesday. Your quiz over these words will be on Friday. 
• Critically read:
  • 1831: Read and annotate chapter five and six of Frankenstein for Tuesday's class.
  • 1818: Read and annotate chapter four and five of Frankenstein for Tuesday's class.
    • ​Purpose for Reading: Evaluate VF’s dangerous ambitions
  • You will present your Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project commentary on Friday, 12/6.

Tuesday 12.3.19

• Analyzing Frankenstein ch 1-6: Literature Circle Discussions 
• Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project work time

Homework:

• Bring your gifts for our class's adopted Mary M. Knight students: Gage and Levi!
• Your Frankenstein Vocab list 2 homework is due tomorrow. Your quiz over these words is Friday. 
• You will present your Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project commentary on Friday, 12/6.
• Critically read:
  • 1831: Read and annotate chapter seven and eight of Frankenstein for Wednesday's class.
  • 1818: Read and annotate chapter six and seven of Frankenstein for Wednesday's class.

Wednesday 12.4.19
Classwork:

• Fast Five Matching: Frankenstein list #2
• Mostly SS--WWI trench warfare

Homework:

• You will present your Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project commentary on Friday, 12/6.
• Critically read:
  • 1831: Read and annotate chapter nine and ten  of Frankenstein for Thursday's class.
  • 1818: Read and annotate chapter eight and nine  of Frankenstein for Thursday's class.

​Thursday, 12.5.19
Classwork:

• The Blame Game  with Frankenstein ch 7-10

Homework:

• You will present your Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project commentary tomorrow.
• Your Frankenstein list 2 vocab quiz is tomorrow. 
• No Frank reading tonight! 

Friday, 12.6.19
Classwork:

• Frankenstein list 2 vocab quiz
• Intro to Frankenstein list 3
• Present your  Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project: Directions for commentary presentations

Homework:

• Your Frankenstein list 3 homework is due on Tuesday. Your quiz over these words is next Friday in class.
• ​Critically read:
  • 1831: Read and annotate chapter eleven and twelve of Frankenstein for Monday's class.
  • 1818: Read and annotate chapter ten and eleven  of Frankenstein for Wednesday's class.

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Monday, 11.25.19
Classwork:

• Romantic Novel- Shelley's Frankenstein and European Geography
  • Epistolary structure, framed narrative, bricolage
  • Letters 1-4 discussion

​Homework: 

• 1831: Read and annotate chapter one and two of Frankenstein for tomorrow’s class.
• 1818: Read and annotate chapter one  of Frankenstein for tomorrow’s class.
  • Purpose for Reading:
    • Introduce the two major characters and several minor characters.
    • Evaluate how Victor Frankenstein deals with his sense of personal responsibility

Tuesday, 11.26.19
Classwork:

• Discuss Frankenstein chapter one and two
  • The Prometheus Myth
• Allusions in Frankenstein mini-poetry project

Homework:

• 1831: Read chapter three and four of Frankenstein for Wednesday's class.
• 1818: Read chapter two and three of Frankenstein for Wednesday's class.
  • ​Purpose for Reading: Evaluate VF’s areas of academic study and whose academic work influenced him 
• You will present your allusions in Frankenstein commentary on Friday, 12/6.

Wednesday, 11.27.19
Classwork:

• Discuss Frankenstein chapter three and four

Homework:

• None. Enjoy your weekend! 

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Monday, 11.18.19
Classwork:

• Romantic Poetry--commentary practice: Byron's "Love and Death' or "She Walks in Beauty"

​Homework: 

• Do ten minutes of historical context research about Percy Shelley and then complete a TPCASTT sheet for your assigned poem-- Shelley's "Ozymandias"--which is both Doran and Matheny's favorite poem from that era.
• Your Frankenstein list 1 vocab quiz is on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 11.19.19
Classwork:

• Shelley's "Ozymandias"
• Introduction to Shelley's Frankenstein 

​Homework: 

• ​Review for your Frankenstein list 1 vocab quiz tomorrow

Wednesday, 11.20.29 Matheny is out at the NCTE conference in Baltimore, MD
Classwork:

• Frankenstein list 1 vocab quiz (no new list this week due to Thanksgiving break W-F next week)
• Novel checkout

​Homework: 

• ​None

Thursday, 11.21.29 Matheny is at the NCTE conference
Classwork:

• Shelley's Introduction to Frankenstein and group discussion questions

​Homework: 

• Do whatever Doran said to do at the end of class for homework. :)

Friday, 11.22.19 Matheny is at the NCTE conference
Classwork:

• All SS today

​Homework: 

• ​Finish reading the first four letters of Frankenstein before Monday's class. 

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Monday, 11.11.19--No School: Veterans Day

Tuesday, 11.12.19
Classwork:

• Don Quixote & Picasso & Satire--Comic Strip Assessment
  • ​Analyzing Visual Images: A Strategy for Deep Analysis

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 2 quiz is tomorrow.
• Your Don Quixote Comic Strip Assessment is due on Thursday. No further class time will be given for the assignment.

Wednesday, 11.13.19
Classwork:

• SAT 10 List 2 Quiz
• Frankenstein list 1 introduction

Homework:

• Your Frankenstein list 1 vocab homework is due Friday.
• Your Don Quixote Comic Strip Assessment is due on Thursday.

Thursday, 11.14.19
Classwork:

• Introduction to British Romantic Poetry--Romantic Poetry Packet--glossary, strategies, poems (more than we'll use)
  • William Wordsworth "I wandered lonely as a cloud"  and William Blake "London"
  • TPCASTT: a poetry analysis strategy deep and thorough enough for collegiate use

Homework:

• Your Frankenstein list 1 vocab homework is due Friday.
• Do ten minutes of historical context research about Byron and your poem and then complete a TPCASTT sheet for your assigned poem--Byron's "Love and Death' or "She Walks in Beauty"--for Monday and write a literary thesis statement about what you think is dominant in your poem.

Friday, 11.15.19
Classwork:

• Frankenstein list 1 vocab matching fast five
• National Romanticism Paper Work Time

Homework:

• Do ten minutes of historical context research about Byron and your poem and then complete a TPCASTT sheet for your assigned poem--Byron's "Love and Death' or "She Walks in Beauty"--for Monday and write a literary thesis statement about what you think is dominant in your poem.

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Monday, 11.4.19
Classwork:

• Mother Goose Thesis Exemplars and Real/Historical Macbeth illustration exemplars
• National Romanticism Integrated Paper: library work time

Homework:

• Keep making progress on your paper​; it will be scored on the 10th Writing Rubric.

Tuesday, 11.5.19
Classwork:

• Don Quixote & Cervantes' satire: Introduction to the Spanish Golden Age
  • ​Native Spanish speaker? El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha

​Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 1 quiz is tomorrow.
• Critically read through the end of this Don Quixote excerpt. Answer the “Understanding & Interpreting #1-7” questions at the end of the excerpt on your own piece of paper—complete ideas, rather than complete sentences.

Wednesday, 11.6.19
Classwork:

• SAT 10 List 1 quiz
• SAT 10 list 2 intro
• Introduction to Satire!

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 2
• homework is due on Friday, 11.8. Your quiz over these words will be on Wednesday, 11.13.19.
• Critically read through the end of this posted Don Quixote excerpt. Answer the “Understanding & Interpreting #1-7” questions at the end of the excerpt on your own piece of paper—complete ideas, rather than complete sentences.

Thursday, 11.7.19
Classwork:

• Formal Outline Template for your National Romanticism Integrated Paper
• ​In-class discussion--Don Quixote: Cervantes' satire

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 2 homework is due on Friday, 11.8. 

Friday, 11.8.19
Classwork:

• Punctuating the upcoming holiday that honors  military veterans 
• SAT SAT 10 list 2 fast five matching & homework check
• Peer-editing National Romanticism Outlines using the Peer Editor's guide you printed out already from Doran's website but that is helpfully linked here too #yourewelcome
• Don Quixote & Cervantes' satire--class discussion and informational lecture, day 3

​Homework:

• No homework.

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Monday, 10.28.19
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act V, i-v

Homework:

• None

Tuesday, 10.29.19
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act V, vi-viii

Homework:

• None

Wednesday, 10.30.19
Classwork:

• National Romanticism Paper Check-In
• Introduction to Vocabulary Assessment! :) 
  • SAT 10 List 1 

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 List 1 vocab homework is due on Friday. Your quiz over these words will be on Wednesday, 11.6.19.
• Complete this National Romanticism Paper Check-In Survey for a process grade by Friday's class.

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Thursday, 10.31.19
Classwork:

• Historical Macbeth: Will the real Macbeth please stand up?
• Act V Film
• Bias Audit
• Socratic Seminar Scoring Guide for tomorrow's Soc Sem

Homework:

• Your  SAT 10 List 1 vocab homework is due on Friday. 
• Your Image Tracking group work is due on Friday.

Friday, 11.1.19
Classwork:

• Fast Five: SAT 10 List 1
• Macbeth Socratic Seminar

Homework:

• Your SAT 10 list 1 quiz is next Wednesday. 

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Monday, 10.21.19
Classwork:

• All SS

Homework:

• None (but tomorrow's homework might be good to start tonight? It's a bit of a thing...)

​Tuesday, 10.22.19
Classwork:

• ​Act IV, i-iii

Homework:

• Read (you don't have to critically read) "Machiavelli and Macbeth" for Wednesday's class and answer these three questions on your own paper before you come to class.

Wednesday, 10.23.19
Classwork:

• Discuss "Machiavelli and Macbeth" and these three questions you prepared before class for discussion

Homework:

• ​Review for your Act III and IV quiz Thursday. (No act 4 paragraph needed at this time! You all are wrote really well on our first three formal paragraphs!)

Thursday, 10.24.19
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act III and IV quiz
• Macbeth Act IV film
• National Romanticism Integrated Paper: Fairy Tale Example #1--Inter-British Racism & Fairy Tales

Homework:

• None

Friday, 10.25.19
Classwork:

• National Romanticism Integrated Paper: Fairy Tale Example #2--British Misogyny & Fairy Tales
• Political Cartoons & Macbeth: analysis
• Macbeth Act V--moving towards resolution!

Homework:

• Bring a piece of foliage to class on Monday--do not take this piece of foliage from the grounds of SHS. 

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Monday, 10.14.19 No School--Teacher Professional Development Day

Tuesday, 10.15.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES (no block schedule this week due to the PSAT)
Classwork:​

• Macbeth:
  • Limerick Sharing
  • Act III Film
  • Cleaning up Preposition Clutter: grammar--editing for brevity
  • Act III Prompts

Homework:

• Your Act III Prompt paragraph is due on Friday at 8 AM.

Wednesday, 10.16.19  PSAT Day--no block class

Thursday, 10.17.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES

Classwork:

• TBA

Homework:

• Your Act III Prompt paragraph is due on Friday at 8 AM.

Friday, 10.18.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• ​Act IV, i-iii

Homework:

• ​None

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Monday, 10.7.19
Classwork:

• Magic Little Dashes: The hyphen, em-dash, and en-dash
• Macbeth Act II film 
• Prompt options: Your Macbeth Act II paragraph
  • Macbeth Act I Thesis-Driven Paragraph: Matheny's reflections

Homework:

• Macbeth Act II culminating quiz is tomorrow.
• Your Macbeth Act II paragraph is due to turnitin.com  Wednesday, 8/9 at 10 AM.  We will not have in-class writing time for the Act II paragraph--it will be done as homework  between now and Wednesday. 

Tuesday, 10.8. 19
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act II culminating quiz 

Homework:

• Your Macbeth Act II paragraph is due to turnitin.com  tomorrow by 10 AM.  

Wednesday, 10.9.19
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act III, i (B day)

Homework:

• None.

Thursday, 10.10.19

• Macbeth Act II Paragraph Exemplars:     Women     Porter      Weapon Imagery
  • Example: Citing statements about historical culture in literary analysis writing
• Macbeth Act III, i-iii (A day)

Homework:

• None.

Friday, 10.11.19
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act III, iii-vi (B day)

Homework:

• Complete your Macbeth Limerick assignment for Tuesday. 

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Monday, 9.30.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act I quiz

Homework:

• The lowest-cost enrollment window for our 2020 SPRING BREAK tour to GREECE closes TODAY at 9pm! You can enroll on our tour website. 

Tuesday, 10.1.19 80-MINUTE BLOCKS-1, AM-Flex, 3,5,7
Classwork:

• Image tracking assignment
• Macbeth, II, i

Homework:

• Spend about fifteen minutes finding images that relate to your image tracking assignment in act one. You just need to find evidence--we'll share quotes with partners and do analysis in class tomorrow. 

Wednesday, 10.2.19 80-MINUTE BLOCK SCHEDULE-2,4,6, PM-Flex
Classwork:

• Act II, ii--Close reading and discussion

Homework:

• None​

Thursday, 10.3.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act II, iii-iv

Homework:

• Your Macbeth Act II culminating quiz is on Monday.

Friday, 10.4.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act I Thesis-Driven Paragraph: Matheny's reflections
• Prompt options: Your Macbeth Act II paragraph

Homework:

• Macbeth Act II culminating quiz will be on Tuesday, We will watch the Macbeth Act II film on Monday. 
• Your Macbeth Act II paragraph is due to turnitin.com  Wednesday, 8/9 at 10 AM.  We will not have in-class writing time for the Act II paragraph--it will be done as homework  between now and Wednesday. 
  • Review  Matheny's reflections on your Act I paragraph and the above-posted exemplars to see what we can improve on for the next paragraph. 

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Monday, 9.23.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

•  Enlightenment, Society, and Literature  project presentations

Homework:

• None

Tuesday, 9.24.19 80-MINUTE BLOCKS-1, AM-Flex, 3,5,7
Classwork:

• Macbeth, I, iv-vi

Homework:

• ​Complete the attached Basilicon Doron primary source synthesis assignment for Wednesday's class.

Wednesday, 9.25.19 80-MINUTE BLOCK SCHEDULE-2,4,6, PM-Flex
Classwork:

• All SS, since we did all LA on Tuesday :)

Homework:

• Your Macbeth Act I paragraph is due on Monday at 3PM to turnitin.com.​

Thursday, 9.26.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act I film viewing

Homework:

• Your Macbeth Act I culminating quiz is on Monday.

Friday, 9.27.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Macbeth Act I thesis-driven paragraph prompt choices and paragraph directions
• Passive Voice--Avoiding Wordy Writing and a Lack of Specificity
• Macbeth Act I paragraph writing time with laptop carts

Homework:

• Macbeth Act I culminating quiz will be on Monday. 
• Your Macbeth Act I paragraph is due on Monday at 3PM to turnitin.com.

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Monday, 9.16.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

•  Blythe Matheny is sick. Matheny is out today. ​:(
• Macbeth: assigning roles

Homework:

• The Curse of Macbeth--briefly answer the questions in complete ideas #shorthomeworkassignment

Tuesday, 9.17.19 80-MINUTE BLOCKS-1, AM-Flex, 3,5,7
Classwork:

• Library work time: Enlightenment, Society, and Literature  project
  • ​Example of how to integrate language and literary analysis 

Homework:

• Your Enlightenment, Society, and Literature  project is due 9.23.

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Wednesday, 9.18.19 80-MINUTE BLOCK SCHEDULE-2,4,6, PM-Flex
Classwork:

• Work time: Enlightenment, Society, and Literature  project

​Homework:

• None

Thursday, 9.19.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• ​Macbeth I, i-iii

Homework:

• None

Friday, 9.20.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Macbeth I, iii

Homework:

• Your Enlightenment, Society, and Literature  project is due 9.23.

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Monday, 9.9.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Socratic Seminar Pre-Assessment Discussion & Reflection
  • For more information about the Socratic Seminar, review the last few slides from Friday's class. 
  • Discussion pre-assessment scoring guide

Homework:

• None. Prepare to return to Shakespeare tomorrow! 
• Doran and Matheny are excited to lead an educational trip to Greece over Spring Break, 2020 (2.16-24.2019)!   Click here to jump to our travel page for itinerary and cost. Register now to get a spot on the rapidly filling trip! 

Tuesday, 9.10.19 80-MINUTE BLOCK SCHEDULE  (OMG! Brace for the whirling confusion of block classes and flex time!)
Classwork:

• Class Intro Survey--sharing results and reflecting on our culture
• Shakespeare! 
  • What do we already know about the Bard? Let's avoid redundancy.

Homework:

• None.

Wednesday, 9.11.19 80-MINUTE BLOCK SCHEDULE
Classwork:

• Shakespeare! ​
  • Jorge Borges "Everything and Nothing" critical read and discussion ​
• Table group webs--Shakespeare: he's lit and his lit--what do we already know?

Homework:

• Read British King James I's meditations (primary source!) in "Daemonologie in the Forme of A Dialogue" and answer the questions that follow using complete ideas. 

Thursday, 9.12.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• Discuss your evaluation of  "Daemonologie in the Forme of A Dialogue": to what extent was James I misogynistic?
• Webs--Shakespeare: he's lit and his lit--what do we already know?, cont'd

Homework:

• None

Friday, 9.13.19 50-MINUTE CLASSES
Classwork:

• English, Shakespeare, and Macbeth
  • The English Language changes--thorn!
  • The United Kingdom Explained
  • Shakespeare-not required but quite informative article I used to teach (#ripsixperiodday) to add WS historical context: ​"Mirror of Life"--Harpers Magazine article 
• Macbeth: assigning roles

Homework:

• Take this survey before Monday's class so we can cast the major roles in Macbeth. 
• Bring your book copy of Macbeth to class on Monday.

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First Week of School Bell Schedule
Wednesday, 9.4.19
Classwork:

• Welcome to honors block! 10th Honors Block Syllabus 2019-20     
• Summer Reading discussion information

Homework:

• Register for our block's turnitin.com class before tomorrow's class Class ID for 6/7: 22038078    enrollment key: prufrock 
• Take our block's welcome survey before class tomorrow
• Bring your summer reading book to class tomorrow
• Have a parent or guardian sign your 10th Honors Block Syllabus before class Friday. 

Thursday, 9.5.19
Classwork:

• Summer Reading: Socratic Seminar discussion criteria and outer-circle writing task information 
  • Discussion pre-assessment scoring guide
• Picture Day!

Homework:

•  Continue bringing your SR novel to class for the next week.

Friday, 9.6.19
Classwork:

• Summer Reading: Partner Work and a model for evaluating bias in literature
  • Slides from Friday's Class
• Sharing welcome survey results

Homework:

• Have finished your summer reading partner evaluation charts before class on Monday and have it ready to turn it in on Monday.
• For more information about the Socratic Seminar, review the last few slides from Friday's class. (If you want more practice identifying literary conventions or reviewing the parts of a thesis, there are some more practice slides I didn't get to in class on Friday as well)
• On Monday, we will have our Socratic Seminar Discussion over your SR novel-bring your SR novel to class for our discussion. scoring guide

Your Act III Prompt paragraph is due on Friday at 8 AM.