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 2018-19      10th Writing Rubric     10th Critical Reading Rubric    Honors v Core: Expectations
​Literary Conventions and Eras Glossary       turnitin.com Class ID for 1/2: 18925183    enrollment key: (ask Matheny. #onlinetrolls) 
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT FOR 2019-2020 HONORS SOPHOMORES

2019-2020 Welcome-to-Honors Information including Texts to Purchase

Monday, 6.17.19
Classwork: Homework:
Tuesday, 6.18.19
Classwork:
  • Discuss Outliers chapter 8
Homework:
  • Read Outliers Chapter 9 before tomorrow's class

Wednesday, 6.19.19
Classwork:
  • Discuss Outliers chapter 9
Homework:
  • Read the epilogue to Outliers before tomorrow's class

Thursday, 6.20.19
Classwork: Homework:
Friday, 6.21.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • No homework! Have a great summer~ Matheny will be wishing you great final exams from Morocco next week. :)
  • 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 be sure to get a spot on the rapidly filling trip! 
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Monday, 6.10.19
Classwork:
  • Fast Five: Outliers Vocab Matching
  • Discussion: Outliers Chapter 3
Homework:
Tuesday, 6.11.19
Classwork: Homework:
Wednesday, 6.12.19
Classwork: Homework:
Thursday, 6.13.19 Graduation Schedule: Half-Day
Classwork:
  • Outliers Chapter 5 discussion 
Homework:
Friday, 6.14.19
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Monday, 6.3.19 SBA Testing Schedule 22-minute classes
Classwork: Homework:
Tuesday, 6.4.19  SBA Testing Schedule 27-minute classes
Classwork:
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold/Integrated history test
​Homework:
  • None

Wednesday, 6.5.19
Classwork: ​Homework:
Thursday, 6.6.19
Classwork:
  • Outliers Ch 1 discussion--relative age and the advantages of exponentially compounding experiences
​Homework:
Friday, 6.7.19 Senior Finals Schedule (5th and 6th Senior Finals--59-minute classes)
Classwork:
  • Outliers Ch 2 discussion
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Monday, 5.27.19 No School--Memorial Day

Tuesday, 5.28.19  Language Arts SBA Testing Schedule 27-minute classes
Classwork: Homework:
Wednesday, 5.29.19
Classwork:
  • Discuss chapter three in Chronicle--"My Name Is..." collaborative activity
Homework:
  • Critically read chapter four of Chronicle for Thursday's class.  ​

Thursday, 5.30.19 Language Arts SBA Testing Schedule 27-minute classes
Classwork: Homework:
  • Critically read chapter five of Chronicle for Friday's class--finish the novel ​

Friday, 5.31.19 Assembly Schedule
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Monday, 5.20.19
Classwork: Homework:
Tuesday, 5.21.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your SAT 10 list 3 quiz is Wednesday. 
  • Your Haroun Culminating In-Class Writing Assignment is due to turnitin.com before 8AM on Thursday. You will have second hour in class to work with your partner tomorrow to finish.

Wednesday, 5.22.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your Haroun Culminating In-Class Writing Assignment is due to turnitin.com before 8AM on Thursday. You will have second hour in class to work with your partner tomorrow to finish--one person per partner pair should submit your work.  prompts (choose one) and rubric (open book, open note, cite all outside sources used, 800 words max)

Thursday, 5.23.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Critically read chapter one of Chronicle for Friday's class. 

Friday, 5.24.19
Classwork:
  • Quick SBA testing information 
  • Chronicle chapter one discussion
​Homework:
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Monday, 5.13.19
Classwork:
  • Mostly all SS--Doran is heading to the IB for the rest of the week
Homework:
  • None. :) We'll pick back up with Haroun reading homework tomorrow night. 
  • Your Haroun list 2 vocab quiz is on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 5.14.19
Classwork:
  • Haroun:
    • Environmental Critique and the motif of poison
    • Revisionist Princess Rescue Stories
    • Political allegory/critique: how do we know what we know?
  • "Motorcycle Diaries" Film Analysis
Homework:
  • ​Critically read Haroun chapter seven for Wednesday's class.
  • Your Haroun list 2 Vocab quiz is tomorrow.

Wednesday, 5.15.19
Classwork:
  • Haroun:
    • List 2 vocab quiz
    • SAT Vocab list 3 introduction
    • What does Rushdie borrow/effect--Allusions to ​1001 Arabian Nights
  • "Motorcycle Diaries" Film Analysis
Homework:
  • ​Critically read Haroun chapter eight for Thursday's class.
  • Your SAT Vocab list 3 homework is due Friday.

Thursday, 5.16.19
Classwork:
  • Haroun: discuss chapter eight
  • "Motorcycle Diaries" Film Analysis
  • Che Books: work time
Homework:
  • Critically read Haroun chapter nine for Friday's class.
  • Your SAT  list vocab homework is due Friday.

Friday, 5.17.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Critically read Haroun chapter ten and eleven for Monday's class.
  • If you didn't finish your Haroun: discuss chapter eight and nine lit circle questions in class today please do so and have them to turn in Monday.
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Monday, 5.6.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Finish your lit circle questions if you didn't do so in class today
  • Read and annotate chapter three  in Haroun and the Sea of Stories for Tuesday's class--remind yourself what good critical reading is for tenth grade honors by reviewing our 10th Critical Reading Rubric
  • Your Haroun list 1 vocab quiz is on Wednesday 

Tuesday, 5.7.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Go out and socialize in the sun, in person, with age-appropriate peers :) 
  • Your Haroun list 1 vocab quiz is on Wednesday 

Wednesday, 5.8.19
Classwork:
  • Haroun list 1 vocab quiz 
  • Haroun vocab list 2 introduction 
  • Campbell's "The Hero Cycle" Review:  Harry Potter and Star Wars
  • The value of what Rushdie borrows from other texts & history: allusions in Haroun 
  • Frankenstein paper reflections/rubrics
Homework:
  • Complete Haroun list 2 vocab homework for Friday's class
  • Read and annotate chapter four in Haroun and the Sea of Stories for Thursday's class
  • On the back of your Frankenstein rubric, after listening to your voice comment on turnitin.com, reflect:
    • Summarize in bullets (not word-for-word) the feedback Matheny or Doran left for you 
    • Set one writing goal for the future
    • Five points extra credit: Have a parent reflect, in one to three sentences of their own writing, about how you grew as a writer and as a public speaker this year. 

Thursday, 5.9.19
Classwork:
  • The value of what Rushdie borrows from other texts & history: allusions in Haroun--Orwell's 1984; 1001 Arabian Nights, and the Beatles' Walrus #langandlitpreview
Homework:
  • Complete Haroun list 2 vocab homework for Friday's class

Friday, 5.10.19
Classwork:
  • Chapter four and five plot discussion
  • Rushdie's use of the Hero Cycle in Haroun & princess rescue stories
Homework:
  • Haroun list 2 vocab quiz will be next Wednesday

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Monday, 4.29.19
Classwork:
  • Socratic Seminar: "Understanding the Holocaust using memoir, film, and primary sources" --you will use Night, "The Pianist," "Life is Beautiful," and any other primary sources you'd like to reference as evidence for your responses.
Homework:
  • None

Tuesday, 4.30.19
Classwork:
  • Mostly SS: Battle Projects
  • Operation Paperclip: Ethical Dilemma
Homework:
Wednesday, 5.1.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your Haroun list 1 vocab homework is due on Friday.

Thursday, 5.2.19
Classwork: Homework:
Friday, 5.3.19
Classwork:
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories vocab list 1  matching
  • Haroun chapter one discussion: the motifs of sadness and time
​Homework:
  • Critically read chapter two in Haroun and the Sea of Stories for Monday's class. 

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Monday, 4.22.19
Classwork:
  • Who is responsible for this genocide?
Homework:
  • Bring all your stamped Night journal entries tomorrow, stapled in order, under this title page to turn in.

Tuesday, 4.23.19
Classwork:
  • All SS--Battle Projects
  • Submit journals
Homework:
  • None

Wednesday, 4.24.19
Classwork:
  • Integrated Extra Credit Drama Opportunity: Seattle Children's Theater production of "Diary of Anne Frank"
    • Blythe Matheny & her mom :) will be attending on Sunday, 4.28, at 3:30pm, but the play runs through 5.19. Bring Matheny a ticket stub and a few insightful thoughts about the play or the production to get extra credit. 
  • Elie Weisel interview: author's purpose
Homework:
  • None

Thursday, 4.25.19
Classwork:
  • Life is Beautiful film analysis
Homework:
  • None

Friday, 4.26.19
Classwork:
  • Life is Beautiful film analysis
Homework:
  • Review these Socratic Seminar questions for our culminating "Understanding the Holocaust using memoir, film, and primary sources" discussion Monday.   You can use Night, "The Pianist," "Life is Beautiful," and any other primary sources you'd like to reference. 
  • Integrated Extra Credit Drama Opportunity: Seattle Children's Theater production of "Diary of Anne Frank"
    • Blythe Matheny & her mom :) will be attending on Sunday, 4.28, at 3:30pm, but the play runs through 5.19. Bring Matheny a ticket stub and a few insightful thoughts about the play or the production to get extra credit. 
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Monday, 4.15.19
Classwork:
  • Film Analysis: The Pianist
Homework:
  • Read chapter four in Night for Tuesday and write one journal entry--Prompt #2: How does humanity cope with the pressure of genocide and war?  reading and journal schedule 2019

Tuesday, 4.16.19
Classwork:
  • Film Analysis: The Pianist
  • Night: chapters 2-4 discussion 
Homework:
Wednesday, 4.17.19
Classwork:
  • Auschwitz & Birkenau
Homework:
Thursday, 4.18.19
Classwork:
  • Holocaust Primary Sources Exploration
Homework:
  • Read chapter six in Night for Friday and write one journal entry--Prompt #4: Does a witness have a responsibility to testify? What are other moral obligations to witnesses and survivors? 

Friday, 4.19.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Read chapters seven through nine and write one final journal entry-- ​Prompt #5: Who is responsible for this genocide? (Pie chart and rationale journal)
  • Be sure to have analyzed quoted evidence to respond to five of the six literature circle discussion questions we began in class on Friday. We will turn those responses in on Monday. Have a good weekend!
  • 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 by 5.1.19 for the lowest cost; the cost will rise $150 after 5.1.
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Monday, 4.1.19
Classwork: Homework: 
  • Your Modernism Test will be  a part of your integrated test Thursday. 
  • Tomorrow we will check out Night. If you're getting your own copy, bring it tomorrow.
  • Print this supplementary reading packet and this vocabulary document and bring them to class tomorrow. 

Tuesday, 4.2.19
Classwork: Homework:
Wednesday, 4.3.19
  • Discussion of Night chapter one/journal sharing
Homework:
Thursday, 4.4.19
  • Integrated/Modernism Test
Homework:
Friday, 4.5.19
Classwork:
  • Film analysis & celebration of your learning
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Monday, 3.25.19
Classwork:
  • All SS today.
Homework: 
Tuesday, 3.26.19
Classwork: Homework: 
  • Become an expert in your section of "The Hollow Men" and come to class tomorrow prepared to share for 3-4ish minutes about your section.​ 

Wednesday, 3.27.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Critically read James Joyce's short story "Eveline" for tomorrow's class.   
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Thursday, 3.28.19
Classwork: Homework: 
  • ​No homework

Friday, 3.29.19
Classwork: Homework: 
  • ​Complete the Joyce's "Eveline" Literature Circle Discussion Questions for Monday if you didn't do so in class. 
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Monday, 3.18.19
Classwork:
  • Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" analysis discussion
Homework:
  • Write a unique and thoughtful thesis about "Prufrock" on a standard-sized note card before tomorrow's class. 
  • Print T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" before class tomorrow. 

Tuesday, 3.19.19
Classwork:
  • Modern Art, Cont'd
  • T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Introduction 
Homework:
  • There is a vocabulary quiz over Chronicle list 1 vocab tomorrow in class.
  • Critically read the rest of Part I of Eliot's essay for tomorrow's class.

Wednesday, 3.20.19
Classwork:
  • Chronicle list 1 vocab quiz
  • T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" part I style and content discussion 
Homework:
  • Critically read the rest of (part II & III) of Eliot's essay for Friday's class.

Thursday, 3.21.19
Classwork:
  • All SS today
Homework:
  • Critically read the rest of (part II & III) of Eliot's essay for Friday's class.
  • Print this poem, Eliot's "The Hollow Men" for tomorrow's class

Friday, 3.22.19
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Monday, 3.11.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your whole Frankenstein essay, including an MLA-formatted  works cited, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Thursday, 3.14.19.

Tuesday, 3.12.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your whole Frankenstein essay, including an MLA-formatted  works cited, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Thursday, 3.14.19.
  • Print Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and bring it to class tomorrow. 
  • Announcement for 10th graders from the College and Career Center:
    • 10th and 11th graders!  Your high school and beyond plan is past due.  All students should log into Career Cruising and confirm that their completion bar is at 100%.  If it is not, then more work has to be done.  Please stop in the College & Career Center to complete the work or finish it at home this week. Here is the link:
      https://sites.google.com/site/skylinehsccc/culminating-project/career-cruising

Wednesday, 3.13.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your Chronicle vocab list 1 is due on Friday. There will be a quiz over these words on Wednesday, 3.20.
  • Your whole Frankenstein essay, including an MLA-formatted  works cited, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Thursday, 3.14.19.

Thursday, 3.14.19
Classwork:
  • ​Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", cont'd
Homework:
Friday, 3.15.19
Classwork:
  • Fast Five: Chronicle Vocab list 1
  • ​Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" analysis
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Monday, 3.4.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • A draft of your whole Frankenstein essay, including introductions and conclusions, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Wednesday, 3.6.19 for peer editing.

Tuesday, 3.5.19
Classwork:
  • In-class drafting and conferencing time
Homework:
  • A draft of your whole Frankenstein essay, including introductions and conclusions, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Wednesday, 3.6.19 for peer editing.

Wednesday, 3.6.19
Classwork:
  • Frankenstein essay draft peer editing
Homework:
  • Your whole Frankenstein essay, including an MLA-formatted  works cited, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Thursday, 3.14.19.

Thursday, 3.7.19
Classwork:
  • All SS: Sophomore Project Research Time in the library
Homework:
  • If you haven't already, review your peer editors turnitin.com feedback for your draft.
  • Your whole Frankenstein essay, including an MLA-formatted  works cited, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Thursday, 3.14.19.

Friday, 3.8.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your whole Frankenstein essay, including an MLA-formatted  works cited, will be due turnitin.com by 8AM  on Thursday, 3.14.19.

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Monday, 2.25.19
Classwork:
  • All Social Studies: Matheny is returning from Bosnia today
Homework:
  • No homework
  • Frankenstein list 3 vocab quiz will be Thursday. Remember? I introduced the list on 2.7. 
 
Tuesday, 2.26.19
Classwork:
  • All Social Studies: Matheny is out at a district Language Arts Adoption Committee Meeting
Homework:
  • No homework
 
Wednesday, 2.27.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Work to select and analyze your six quotes on your thesis refinement sheet. Write and revise an initial thesis tonight.
  • Frankenstein list 3 vocab quiz will be Thursday.
 
Thursday, 2.28.19
Classwork: Homework:  
Friday, 3.1.19
Classwork:​
  • Outlining work time
Homework:
  • Extra Time! Have a typed MLA Formal Outline  submitted to turnitin.com by 8 on Monday morning. We will peer edit in class on Monday.
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Friday, 2.15.19
Classwork:
  • Frankenstein poster group work time to review and reconnect with the novel
​Homework:
  • None! Have a great break and we'll get your paper and Frankenstein list 3 vocabulary quiz done after break. :)

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Wednesday, 2.6.19
Classwork:
  • SS with Matheny (Doran is working in The Hague, Netherlands, this week revising the IB curriculum for World Religions)
    • Lecturing like Doran: Table Groups pretend to be Doran and still learn three facts about Madero's Uprising
  • LA
    • Frankenstein's moral dilemma--to create the female creature or not? large-group discussion 
Homework:
Thursday, 2.7.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • Your Frankenstein list 3 vocab homework is due tomorrow (Friday). Your quiz over these words will be on Wednesday, 2.13.19. 
  • Read and annotate Chapters 22-23

Friday, 2.8.19 (Doran will be back Tuesday)
Classwork: ​Homework:
  • Finish Frankenstein for Monday--annotate the rest :)
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Monday, 1.28.19 No School--Teacher Professional Development Day

Tuesday, 1.29.19
Classwork:
  • Reflecting on final exams
  • ​Discuss Frankenstein's rising action (Ch 4-6 or 5-7): literature circle discussions--each student will be required to turn in their own handwritten work tomorrow for this assignment.
Homework:
  • If you didn't finish your literature circle questions in class today, please do so before class tomorrow. 
  • Critically read Frankenstein 1818: ch 7-9 or 1831: ch 8-10

Wednesday, 1.30.19
Classwork:
  • Frankenstein list 2 vocab introduction 
  • Psychoanalytic Literary Critique--Freud, cont'd: surfacing unconscious desires and motivations 
    • Dream Analysis
    • Rorschach Tests
    • Freudian slips
Homework:
  • Complete your Frankenstein list 2 vocab homework for Friday's class. There will be a quiz over these words on Wednesday, 2.6.19.
  • Critically read Frankenstein 1818: ch 10-12 or 1831: ch 11-13

Thursday, 1.31.19
Classwork:
  • Frankenstein discussion
Homework:
  • Critically read Frankenstein 1818: ch13-15 or 1831: ch 14-16

Friday, 2.1.19
Classwork:
  • Fast Five: Frankenstein list 2 matching​
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Monday, 1.21.19 No School--Dr. Martin Luther King Day

​Tuesday, 1.22.19
Classwork:
  • Discuss Frankenstein chapters 2/3 or 3/4
  • Final Exam: DBQ advice and Q&A
Homework:
Wednesday, 1.23.19 Wednesday's Final Exam Schedule
  • 1-4th Hour Study Halls
  • 5th and 6th Hour Final Exams--90 minute testing period

Thursday, 1.24.19 Half Day for students--exam schedule
  • 3rd and 4th hour final exams

Friday, 1.25.19 Half Day for students
  • 1st and 2nd hour final exams
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Monday, 1.14.19
Classwork:
  • Freud: Day Two
Homework:
Tuesday, 1.15.19
Classwork: ​Homework:
Wednesday, 1.16.19
Classwork: ​Homework
  • Read and annotate letters 1-4 in Frankenstein for Thursday.
  • Be sure you have your copy of the text in class tomorrow so we can determine which edition you're reading.

Thursday, 1.17.19
Classwork:
  • Discussion of letters 1-4: writing style, elements of romanticism, foreshadowing, contextualizing identity constructions in the novel, and framed narrative effects
  • 1818 v 1831 versions of Frankenstein
​Homework:
Friday, 1.18.19
Classwork: ​Homework: Frankenstein novel reading homework
  • 1818: Read and annotate chapters two and three  in Frankenstein for Tuesday's class
  • 1831: Read and annotate chapters three and four in Frankenstein for Tuesday's class. 

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Monday, 1.7.19
Classwork:
  • All SS today due to the late start
Homework:
  • No homework

Tuesday, 1.8.19
Classwork:
  • Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Homework:
  • Critically read your assigned Byron romantic poem (either "She Walks in Beauty" or "Love and Death" in this year's Romantic Poetry Packet) and actually, for real this time, fill out at TP-CASTT graphic organizer about your poem. You'll be casually and informally presenting a short verbal commentary about your poem Thursday to someone who read the other poem to practice your poetic speaking fluency. :)

Wednesday. 1.9.19
Classwork: Homework:
  • There will be questions on Friday's social studies test about romantic poetry and poets we've studied this week.
  • The next book we'll be reading together is Frankenstein (1818 or 1831 versions are both fine). Please order your own copy as we'll be annotating this text for class credit. Class copies will be available for checkout.
  • Complete your Frankenstein vocab list 1 homework for Friday's class.  There will be a quiz over these words on Wednesday, 1.14.19.
  • Critically read your assigned Byron romantic poem (either "She Walks in Beauty" or "Love and Death" in this year's Romantic Poetry Packet) and actually, for real this time, fill out at TP-CASTT graphic organizer about your poem. You'll be casually and informally presenting a short verbal commentary about your poem tomorrow to someone who read the other poem to practice your poetic speaking fluency. :)

Thursday, 1.10.19
Classwork:
  • Byron Poetic Commentary Practice
Homework:​
Friday, 1.11.19
Classwork: Homework:
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Wednesday, 1.2.19
Classwork:
  • Introduction to Romanticism and British Romantic Poetry
  • Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
Homework:
  • Critically read use TP-CASTT or another one of the forms provided as you analyze Shelley's "Ozymandias"
  • Print your Romantic Poetry Packet before tomorrow and bring it to class each day. You'll need it to do your homework anyway.

Thursday, 1.3.19
Classwork:
  • Romanticism: Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Homework:
​Friday, 1.4.19
Classwork:
  • Romanticism: Shelley's "Ozymandias" continued 
​Homework:
  • No homework! We will spend time with Coleridge on Monday and then move to the Byron. 
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Monday, 12.17
Classwork:
  • LOTF journal cover sheet ​
  • "Cast Away" Film Analysis 
Homework:
  • Bring all your LOTF journal entries to submit tomorrow after the Socratic Seminar. Print this cover sheet to use when you turn in the packet, and have the entries assembled in order under the cover sheet (and stapled!) before you arrive to class tomorrow. 

​Tuesday, 12.18
Classwork:
  • Lord of the Flies Socratic Seminar and reflection
Homework:
  • Bring your LOTF Image Tracking charts to class tomorrow. You will be doing some work with those charts and turning them in before you leave for break.

Wednesday, 12.19
Classwork: Homework: ​
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Monday, 12.10
Classwork: Homework:
Tuesday, 12.11
Classwork:
  • Plato's Cave, Machiavelli,  and Piggy's Death Discussion
Homework:
  • Your quiz over LOTF list 2 is tomorrow.
  • Critically read chapter 12 for tomorrow and complete the journal entry for chapter 12. You will turn in all your journals after our LOTF/"Cast Away"/ Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" Socratic Seminar (which will be next  Tuesday next week). 

Wednesday, 12.12
Classwork:
  • LOTF list 2 vocab quiz
  • Deus ex Machina: LOTF's resolution
Homework:
  • No homework. 

Thursday, 12.13
Classwork:
  • ​"Cast Away" Film Analysis
Homework:
  • No homework. 

Friday, 12.14
Classwork:
  • "Cast Away" Film Analysis
Homework:
  • No homework. You will turn in all your journals after our LOTF/"Castaway"/ Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" Socratic Seminar (which will be next Tuesday). ​
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Monday, 12.3
Classwork:
  • Finish Ch 1-4 lit circles (continued from Friday)
  • LOTF Image Tracking Initial Collaboration Meeting
Homework:
Tuesday, 12.4
Classwork:
  • Journal entry sharing and discussion
  • Group work: perceptions of THE BEAST!
Homework:
  • Read and annotate chapter seven for Wednesday's class.
  • There will be a few multiple choice questions over LOTF on Thursday's history test--no need to have done anything to prepare but have read the book through chapter eight.
  • There is a vocab quiz over LOTF list 1 on Wednesday.

Wednesday, 12.5
Classwork: Homework:
  • Read and annotate chapter eight for Thursday's class. Your journal entry over chapter seven and eight is due tomorrow technically but will be stamped on Friday as Mrs. Matheny has to be out Thursday for a district language arts curriculum adoption committee meeting.
  • There will be a few multiple choice questions over LOTF on tomorrow's history test--no need to have done anything to prepare but have read the book through chapter eight.
  • LOTF list 2 homework due Friday, 12.7

Thursday, 12.6 Matheny is at the district office today at a language arts curriculum adoption meeting.
Classwork:
  • All SS: History exam
Homework:
  • Read and annotate chapter nine in your novel for Friday's class.

Friday, 12.7
Classwork: Homework:
  • Read and annotate chapter ten in your novel for Monday's class. Your journal entry over 9 and 10 will be stamped Monday. #penultimateentry  Novel Reading Schedule and Journal Prompt/Rubric 
  • Over the weekend, listen to your voice comment on turnitin.com. On the back of your rubric:
    1. Summarize Matheny's feedback about your paper
    2. Set two writing goals for your final exam now that you've gotten your semester paper feedback
    3. Ask for a specific writing lesson--what do you hope Matheny will focus on for the whole class's writing lessons next semester that will help you improve?
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Monday, 11.26
Classwork: Homework:
​Tuesday, 11.27
Classwork: Homework:
Wednesday, 11.28
Classwork: Homework:
Thursday, 11.29
Classwork:
  • Discuss LOTF chapter three
Homework:
Friday, 11.30
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Monday, 11.19
Classwork:
  • Final essay editing advice: you got this!
  • The real historical Macbeth: irony!
  • Peer Edit  Essay Drafts on turnitin.com
  • Drafting time--last day to work on Macbeth essays in class.
Homework:
  • Your final draft of your Macbeth essay, including a MLA-formatted Works Cited page, is due to turnitin.com by Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM. The Humanities Writing Rubric will be used to score your work.

Tuesday, 11.20
Classwork:
  • Enlightenment Salon (Mostly history, since yesterday was mostly LA due to the paper deadline)
Homework:
Wednesday, 11.21
Classwork:
  • Plural and Possessive Ss--why all the errors, Instagram? (meme edition)
Homework:
  • No homework. Have an excellent holiday weekend!

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Monday, 11.12 No School: Veterans Day

Tuesday, 11.13
Classwork:
  • Submit Image Tracking Group Poster and Individual Notes Charts
  • Large Lab for MLA Formal Outline work time: here is a template to guide your efforts
Homework:
  • Your Macbeth outline is due on Wednesday, 11.14, at 10 AM.

Wednesday, 11.14
Classwork: Homework:
  • A draft of your essay, including introductions and conclusions, is due to turnitin.com before 8AM on Friday. 

Thursday, 11.15
Classwork: Homework:
  • A draft of your essay, including introductions and conclusions, is due to turnitin.com before 8AM on Monday. 

Friday, 11.16
Classwork: Homework:
  • A draft of your essay, including introductions and conclusions, is due to turnitin.com before 8AM on Monday. 
  • Submit your completed essay and works cited to turnitin.com before 10 AM on Wednesday, 11.21. 
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Monday, 11.5
Classwork:
  • Macbeth Act V cold reading and analysis discussion 
Homework:
  • Your Act IV and V quiz is on Thursday.
  • Add to your image tracking chart with images from Act V

Tuesday, 11.6
Classwork:
  • Act V film analysis: PBS great performances
Homework:
  • Your Act IV and V quiz is on Thursday.
  • Bring your completed image tracking charts and your copies of Macbeth to class tomorrow. Be thinking about a partner (groups of three at the most) who tracked the same image as you who you'd like to work with on your Image Tracking Culminating Poster Assignment. We'll request partners/groups tomorrow. 

Wednesday, 11.7
Classwork: Homework:
  • Print your thesis refinement sheet for tomorrow's class. Select a paper topic prompt and six quotes for your paper and write/analyze them briefly on your Macbeth essay Thesis Refinement Sheet for Thursday.
  • Your Image Tracking Culminating Assignment--both your chart of individual notes and your group's poster-- is due Tuesday. 
  • Your Act IV and V quiz is tomorrow in class. 

Thursday, 11.8
Classwork:
  • Act IV and V quiz
  • Image Tracking Poster Work Time
Homework:
  • For Friday, write a thesis on your thesis refinement sheet for your Macbeth essay. 
  • Your Image Tracking Culminating Assignment--both your chart of individual notes and your group's poster-- is due Tuesday. 

Friday, 11.9
Classwork:
  • Punctuating Monday's holiday in a way that honors the sacrifices of our troops
  • Macbeth essay thesis peer-editing 
  • Image Tracking Poster Work Time
Homework:
  • Your MLA-formatted outline of your whole Macbeth paper is due to turnitin.com by 10AM  on Wednesday, November 14th for peer editing in class that day.
  • Your Image Tracking Culminating Assignment--both your chart of individual notes and your group's poster-- is due Tuesday. 
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Monday, 10.29
Classwork:
  • Think Again Presentations
  • Discuss Machiavelli and Macbeth homework
Homework:
  • No