English 11
- Monday/Tuesday: We'll be choosing books from the library for silent reading - which we'll have at the start of every class from now on. We'll also start your Macbeth essay outline.
- Wednesday / Thursday: Your essay outline is due today. Please hand in by the end of class. During the last ten minutes of class, you'll be getting into your production companies for the Macbeth Production Project!
- Friday: Today 2.1 and 2.4 classes will be working on the casting and doing some read throughs.
- Monday: We'll be discussing the Frost poem and starting letters from Ponyboy to one of his brothers. Due next class.
- Wednesday: Today you'll have time to finish your letters from Ponyboy.
- Friday: Reminder of the quiz today on everything up until Chapter 9. You should be ready to discuss some of the events, their importance, characters' relationships, and the characters themselves.
- Tuesday: Today we'll get into Macbeth. Ms. Smith is in for you today as I am at home working on getting healthy.
- Wednesday: Guest Lecturer from Quest University! We'll be looking at lyrical poetry in this seminar style lesson.
- Tuesday: Ms. Smith is in for you today and you'll be writing about memories, brainstorming memories like crazy.
- Thursday: Go to the following link and read Chapter One of Frederick Douglass' famous memoir. Mr. Douglass, as you'll find out, was a slave in the US and he used his life to work for freedom for himself and others like him. As you read it, consider how he shapes his story. At what point in his life does he begin his story? Would it be better if he started with a flashback, withs ome action, or do you enjoy the way it feels like he's talking right to you? After you've read it, I'd like you to email me your thoughts as to why or why not you think your memoir would be good to start at the very beginning as well. http://books.google.com/books?id=3dqI0o5PyToC&dq=Frederick+Douglass&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=QpdDS73kEYLcsgP37MTwBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CCoQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
- Monday: for a change in pace, check this link out... send me an email in which you tell me about how you think Bolz' choice to begin her memoir with a scene of death rather than birth might change your response to it. Email me with a list of scenes like this (not necessarily about death but about big significant moments in your life) that you think might be a good starting place for your memoir. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/river_teeth/v005/5.1bolz.pdf
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