Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem: Practice speed thesis and bullet points
2) Finish 1984 activities
3) Practice multiple choice from the last benchmark

Coming up:
1) Read Brave New World for Thursday and prepare for the seminar
2) Practice for your benchmark next week!

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Discuss new calendar, reminders to buy Sound and the Fury and to sign up for the AP Exam
3) Review Syntax in the Essential Lit book
4) 1984 final seminar--we will continue discussing 1984 and reviewing for the benchmark next week

Coming up:
1) Complete your poetry response for tonight
2) Read Brave New World for next week
3) Complete Sound Patterns in Essential Lit for next week

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Close reading presentations for 1984
3) Discuss Goldstein Quotes from yesterday

Coming up:
1) Finish 1984 for tomorrow
2) Complete your poetry response by Midnight tomorrow
3) Review the new calendar for upcoming due dates.

I am not going to be in class Wednesday, but I have left an assignment for you which asks you to dig into some quotes from Goldstein's book. I have attached that assignment to this post as well. After you are finished, you should work on any of your number of assignments that are due this week.

See you all on Thursday.

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) 1984 Seminar
3) Begin reviewing benchmark 1: passage 1

Coming up:
1) Finish 1984 for Friday
2) Complete your poetry response for friday

Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Check Essential Lit assignments for this week
3) 1984 and Today Theme activity (see attached handout)

Coming up:
1) Read through page 217 in 1984 tomorrow. Prepare for the seminar. The group that went on Friday will be the group that goes tomorrow.
2) Poetry response due Friday

Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Close reading presentations
3) Video clips and discussion: 1984 and today

Coming up:
1) Your Streetcar paper is due tomorrow by midnight
2) No Poetry response this week
3) Make sure you have read through page 156 tomorrow

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem: The Unknown Citizen, analysis and discussion of style (see attached)
2) Utopia vs Dystopia discussion
3) Seminar 1

Coming up:
1) The students turned in the MWDS for Streetcar today, so make sure you get that to me if you did not already .
2) Your Streetcar Paper is due on Friday
3) You need to read through page 156 for Friday
4) You have a poetry response due on Friday
5) EL Syntax (pages 184-194) is due on Monday

Today was the ACT testing, so 1st block did not meet and 3rd block had a work day. Make sure you are prepared with your asignments for this week!