11/15

Brits: Read 1.2; by Monday have read thru 2.1

9s: Continue writing speech - final due Monday @ beginning of hour. Recite Wednesday

American Lit: First Drafts due Friday at beginning of hour. Finals due Monday, recite Wed.

8s: Outline due today at end of hour. First draft due Friday at end of hour. Finals due Tuesday at beginning of hour. Recite Wednesday.

J/B: Wolverine Weekly

GB: Ch. 10 in class today. Ch. 11 for HW. Chapter 12 for Monday.

From now until Christmas Break

Brit Lit: We'll be reading, analyzing, interpreting Taming of the Shrew and then moving onto Paradise Lost.

9s: Writing our own speeches, then moving onto Poetry (analyzing different styles and techniques in order to recreate lyrical poetry)

American Lit: Writing our own speeches, then moving onto Poetry (Slam Poetry!)

8s: Writing our own speeches, then moving onto Poetry (a WIDE range of poetry - we'll be building our own anthology!)

J/B: continue Wolverine Weekly

GB: The Golden Compass

Welcome Back!

This year is already shaping up to be great and it hasn't technically even started yet. All classes of mine need to "follow" this blog in order to receive updates regarding their English class(es).

1st hour: British Literature/Creative Writing
3rd hour: English 9
4th hour: American Literature
5th hour: English 8
6th hour: Journalism/Business Writing
7th hour: Contemporary Literary Genres

Updates!

9s: We have finished Great Gatsby and are taking the final test Friday (3/9) After spring break we will begin our writing assignment for the novel and then move onto our next novel!

Basics: We are going to finishing Feed early in the week after Spring Break. We will have a final test and then a writing assignment. If there is enough time left before Junior/Senior projects we will start another novel.

Brits: We are finished with Frankenstein, we have a test review today and test tomorrow. After spring break we will begin our writing assignment for the novel and then move onto our next novel!

Film: The week after spring break (on that friday) your final drafts are due.

10s: We are going to finish Catcher this week. From there, next week we will be studying for our final test and begin writing on this novel. Then we will start our next book!

8s: We have a quiz tomorrow on Lord of the Flies. We we are back from spring break we will continue reading and relating our lives to that of the boys' on the island.

All MLA info found here

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

2/8/2012

9s: Research day Thursday - present on Friday. Next week we continue reading.

Basic: Continue working on futuristic advertisements

Brit: Screenplay and script for the first half of Frankenstein

Film: Paper assignment: Is our "Wall-E-Like-Doom" inevitable? How much control do we have over our lives?

10s: Research day Thursday - present on Friday. Next week we continue reading.

8s: Screenplay and Script for Part One of Lord of the Flies. Filming and editing Thursday, Friday, and present to class Monday and Tuesday.

Thank You and Congrats!

Thank you so much to all classes that attended today's slam poetry show!

AND A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TENTH GRADE FOR PRESENTING THEIR POEMS FLAWLESSLY FROM MEMORY!