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) 

BOOK CLUBS: READING ASSIGNMENTS & NORMS                                      Book Club: Post-Meeting Reflection Survey 

Monday, 2.24.20
Classwork:

• Book Club culminating independent project assignment 

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 Monday.

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 Monday.

Friday, 2.28.20
Classwork:

• SAT10 list 7 matching fast five
• TBA

Homework: 

• Your Book Club culminating independent project is due Monday.

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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.