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Tuesday, March 22

3/22/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Prepare for your presentations
2) Present your S&F thesis
3) Prepare for your Sir Gawain and Machiavelli Skits

Tonight: 
Continue practicing with membean. There is no dialectical journal, poetry response, or membean quiz this week. 

Monday, March 21

3/22/2016

 
Benchmark 2: make sure that if you were not here today, you schedule a time to make it up with me. 

Tonight:
1) Finish your S&F essay and prepare to present your thesis. 
2) There will be no dialectical journal or poetry response this week. There is also no membean quiz this week. 

Friday, March 18

3/18/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Review Essential Lit Terms Exercises
3) Review for Benchmark (receive answer key and review on your own)
4) Use the laptops to work on your S&F paper and presentation for Tuesday. 

Tonight:
1) Prepare for your benchmark on Monday
2) Read Fit 3 and 4 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
3) Work on your S&F essay and presentation

​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Monday, March 21
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22
  • Get your Shakespeare plays by the time we get back from Break. Most of them should be pretty much the same, just make sure you don't get an "abridged" version. Here is a link to a page that has all of them online for free: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/index.html 
    • You also can buy that version of the text, but they are a little pricey. 

Thursday, March 18

3/18/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Essential Lit Terms: Repetition, Selection of Details, and Epiphany (page 98-111)
3) Benchmark Review
4) Discuss hate speech article from yesterday
5) Introduce Machiavelli and Sir Gawain Skits--you will write a skit in which Machiavelli and Sir Gawain both give advice to a person or character who is in search of power. We will write and practice those skits on Wednesday of next week and perform them on Thursday, the day before break. 

Tonight:
1) Prepare for your benchmark on Monday
2) Read Fit 3 and 4 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
3) Work on your S&F essay and presentation

​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Monday, March 21
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22

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Wednesday, March 16

3/16/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Hero's Journey clips and lesson
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhk4N9A0oCA
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxs_jGN7Pg
3) Identify Archetypes in literature and text
4) Hate Speech Discussion

Tonight:
1) Prepare for your benchmark on Monday
2) Read Fit 3 and 4 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
3) Work on your S&F essay and presentation

​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Monday, March 21
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22



Tuesday, March 15

3/15/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Discuss Sound Devices and Sir Gawain
3) Discuss Free Speech: 
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3

4) Use the laptops to work on S&F essay, presentation, and Sir Gawain Seminar

Tonight:
1) Prepare for your benchmark tomorrow! BENCHMARK WAS VOTED FOR MONDAY. 
2) Read Fit 3 and 4 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
3) Work on your S&F essay and presentation

​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • Q3 Poetry Paper due on Tuesday, March 15
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Wednesday, March 16
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22



Monday, March 14

3/14/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Essential literary Terms: Sound exercise on page 223-225
2) Discuss Sir Gawain and the sound devices used
3) Use laptops to add absolute phrases in your essay, work on your Sir Gawain seminar 2, Work on Q3 essay, or work on your S&F essay with your partner. 

Tonight:
1) Read Fit 3 and 4 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
2) Finish your Q3 paper for tomorrow. 
​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • Q3 Poetry Paper due on Tuesday, March 15
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Wednesday, March 16
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22

Interesting Political Article

3/12/2016

 
Considering the discussions we gave had this week,  I thought you all night be interested in this article.  It is a thoughtful examination for the other side of the argument.
The Guardian Opinion

Friday, March 11

3/11/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Video about Machiavelli
2) Read Machiavelli Article (attached)
3) Membean Quiz
4) Read Evening Hawk essays online
5) Benchmark Review

Tonight:
1) Read Fit 1 and 2 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • Q3 Poetry Paper due on Tuesday, March 15
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Wednesday, March 16
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22

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Thursday, March 10

3/10/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Poetry Essay Planning
3) MC Benchmark Review
4) Add to your Machiavelli poster

Tonight:
1) Read chapters 19-26 of the Prince
2) Read Fit 1 and 2 and participate in your online seminar. You should have received an email with access to your seminar document. 
​
Upcoming due dates:
  • Membean ongoing
  • Dialectical Journals and poetry responses due Friday
  • S&F MWDS due on Friday, March 11--NOTE: I HAVE POSTED THE GROUPS IN THE RESOURCES PAGE
  • Poetry Paper due on Tuesday, March 15
  • Benchmark 2 (midterm) on Wednesday, March 16
  • S&F Group paper and project due on Tuesday, March 22
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