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Thursday, March 24

3/24/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Discuss Scene 1 and Ode 1: looking for motifs, dramatic irony, and characterization

Over break:
1) ENJOY!

When we come back, make sure you refresh your memory on the first part of Oedipus (prologue, scene 1 and scene 2 and the odes) as we will be discussing them as soon as we get back. 
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Tuesday, March 22

3/22/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading
2) Grammar diagnostic--can you spot the fragments, runons and complete sentences?
3) Review Oedipus myth
4) Intro Oedipus project and reading calendar

Tonight:
1) Finish your blog post. The final seminar for this semester will be tomorrow. 
2) Read the Prologue and Scene 1 of Oedipus. We will discuss it tomorrow


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oedipus_project_lit_devices_and_themes.docx
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Monday, March 21

3/21/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) English II Benchmark 2

Tonight:
1) Work on your blog post: It will be due Wednesday and we will have our seminar on Wednesday as well. 
There are four questions listed at the end of the article (there are actually 2 articles to read). Answer those four questions in your blog post. 
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2) Work on read theory for this week! (there will be no readtheory over break)
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Friday, March 18

3/18/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Benchmark review: Single Sex Schools (annotate and write a thesis statement)
3) Oedipus Notes
4) Oedipus Myth

Tonight:
1) Finish your readtheory for this week
2) Study for your benchmark on Monday
3) Read the Oedipus myth attached) 

REMINDER: ALL MAKE UP WORK MUST BE TURNED IN BY WEDNESDAY!
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Thursday, March 17

3/18/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Anthem Annotation Practice
3) Greek Gods Kahoot

Tonight: 
1) Continue your readtheory for this week
2) Finish your Anthem essay for tomorrow

Wednesday, March 16

3/16/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Anthem Annotations--practice annotations for the benchmark
3) Anthem Essay Writing time and mini conferences

Tonight:
1) Finish your blog post if you haven't already. Make sure that you are following the structure of the three paragraphs. 
2) Work on your Anthem Essay
3) Practice Annotation and writing for your Benchmark on Monday

Tuesday, March 15

3/15/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading
2) Discuss introductions, thesis statements, and transition sentences
3) Complete your blog post on the "Gang Bus Tour Guides" --Write an introduction (with hook, introduction of the issue and a thesis statement), and 2 body paragraphs (including a transition sentence between them)
4) Work on your Anthem essay

Tonight: 
1) Complete your blog post for tomorrow's seminar
2) Work on your Anthem essay for Friday
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Monday, March 14

3/14/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) vocabulary quiz
2) Silent reading
3) Discuss end of Anthem
4) Briefly discuss Ayn Rand's philosophy
5) Work on Essay

Tonight:
1) Work on your essay, due Friday
2) Work on your Readtheory

Tomorrow, in class, we will discuss the current event, and blog post, but here is the article we will use. The question is: 
"Should these tours continue?"
We will use this question to practice for the benchmark. 

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Friday, March 11

3/11/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Enter Vocab Sentences into the website
3) Discuss the Anthem Questions from yesterday and last night's reading
4) Read Ayn Rand's article 

Tonight: 
1) Finish your Read Theory practice for this week
2) Study for your vocabulary quiz
​3) Finish Anthem!

Thursday, March 10

3/10/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Vocab sentences
3) Review Anthem (see attached)
4) Discuss Anthem Essay
5) Seminar part 2

Tonight:
1) Read chapters 6-8 of Anthem
2) Work on your vocabulary--extra credit story due tomorrow if you so choose! (Write a story using all 24 of your vocabulary words and turn it in tomorrow. It will be worth a readtheory grade)
3) Work on  your read theory assignments. 
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