Week of 4/21
Freshmen only meet three times this week. HW is Vocab #13 ( students are back to writing sentences with context clues) and a vocab quiz on Friday on words 1-10
Week of 4/28
Vocab #14 due Thursday-- vocab quiz on Friday
Monday
complete questions on Poem #2
Tuesday
complete questions on poem #3
Wednesday
Complete questions on poem #4
Thursday
Finish analytical paragraph
Study vocab
Week of 5/5
Monday
Vocab #15--sentences due Thursday
Finish analytical paragraph on Emily Dickenson's "Because I could not stop for Death"
Tuesday
no HW
Wednesday
Finish Poetry worksheet
Poetry Test this Friday
Thursday
Study poetry terms-- test tomorrow
Friday
no HW
Week of 5/12
Monday
Shakespearean Treasure Hunt—due Wednesday
Vocab #16 due Thursday
Tuesday
No additional HW
Wednesday
Discussion questions on the Chorus due Friday
Thursday
Study vocab quiz on 31-40 on Friday
Friday
Translation work-- Nurse ACt 1.3 Mercutio Act 1.4
First create line by line notes as to what the speaker says. You should have at least 10 good bullet points. Then put the bullet points into a 6-8 sentence summary. Complete this for both. Due Wednesday
Week of 5/19
Monday
Teacher work day
Tuesday
Vocab REview 2 paragraphs using 20 vocab words due Friday
Wednesday
Find five insults in act two, write the line and translate them. Find five compliments, write the line and translate them. Due Friday
Thursday
Renaissance Rally
Friday
Romeo and Juliet Dramatic Presentation
This is your opportunity to perform in front of the class
• Speech must be 15 lines or more
• It must be memorized and grade will be based partly on dramatic presentation and on written analysis.
• Can work with one other partner
• Project will be turned in on _______6/5______
• Project needs to include a typed version of the lines that will be presented and ˝ page typed interpretation of these lines.
Week of 5/27
New Vocab List 17-20-- Usage words 1-40 due Friday
Quiz Friday on 1-40 as well
Week of 4/7
Monday Read thru chapter two annotating book due Tuesday
Tuesday
Read thru chapter 6 and continue annotating.
Wednesday- Friday
finish essay which is due on Friday- students must complete turnitin.com
Week of 4/14
Finish questions on Boethius due Thursday
Grades updated 4/14
4/21
REad thru chapters 7,8,9,10 due Friday 4/25
Week of 4/28
Read thru chapters 11,12
Tuesdays with Morrie Project
• Read Three Cups of Tea and discuss with Mr. J by 5/15
• Create a high school version of Tuesdays with Morrie. This needs to be accompanied with a written script it can be performed live or video taped. Assignment will be evaluated on how well you incorporate Morrie’s ideas. Up to four people in a group is okay.
• You can also do the same as above by yourself but then you just need to create the written script. 3-4 pages
• Read one of the following: The Dalai Lama’s How to Practice: The way to a Meaningful life or Dan Millman’s The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, or B. Alan Wallace Genuine Happiness or a Cynics guide to Happiness by Don Zinzell or Conversations with God part 1 and compare/ contrast these ideas to Morrie’s through your notes. You and I will then review those notes in an interview at a later date.
• Volunteer at a senior community center or convalescent hospital. Five visits with each one written in a journal. If you choose this option you must clear it with me.
• Learn to dance the Tango. Dance must be preformed in front of the class. Written report on where this dance comes from and its significance 1 page.
• Write a detailed analysis of Morrie’s philosophy. 3-4 pages typed.
• Create a power point presentation to be given on two of the following philosophers focusing your efforts on ‘how can humans achieve happiness?’ Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, ( Please pick only one of the Greeks) Jean Paul Sartre or any other existential philospher, Frederick Nietzsche, William James, David Hume, John Dewey, Dalai Lama, or John Locke. This needs to be 11 slides long with at with the last 3 sides devoted to Morrie’s philosophy for happiness.
Due Date______5/30_______
Week of 5/5
Finish annotating Confederacy by Thursday 5/8
Every day this week students are preparing for their in-class essay test which is Monday and Tuesday next week. If you are absent please get notes from a classmate.
Week of 5/12
Essay test this week and then we are starting Tuesdays with Morrie. If students are absent they will need to make up journal writes.
Wednesday
Journal #1 p. 18 Pick on of Morries Aphorisms to discuss the importance in this idea in you own life.
Thursday
Journal #2 p. 40 Tension of opposites. Explain this idea in your own life.
Friday
Lecture on Happiness
Week of 5/19
Tuesday- Friday
lecture on happiness
Jounral # 3 Write about Morrie's idea if you know how to die you know how to live
Reminder that projects are due Friday 5/30
Journal #4 P.81-82 "When you Know how to die, you know how to live" respond and connect to your own life
Week of 5/26
Projects due Friday
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