Homework for the week of October 27, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008: In class, you will be taking your final poetry exam. For homework, read pages 211-215. What is a tragedy? Mark the introduction. Pink= words you do not know. Be sure to look them up and bring in index cards with these new words on them to show me on Tuesday.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008: In class, you will be working on your poetry final exam. For homework, read pages 215-230. Use the green flags to mark the foreshadowing of the tragedy. Use pink for unfamiliar words.
Wednesday, October 30, 2008: In class, depending on the time needed, you will be finishing your exam. For homework, read pages 230-245.
Use the blue flags, to mark images, sensory details or examples of personification.
Thursday, October 30, 2008: In class, we will do an introduction to theater terms, classic drama and poetics. For homework, please finish the play (245-263). Use the green flags to illustrate examples of characterization (where we learn something about who Oedipus is as a person).
Friday, October 31, 2008: Happy Halloween! There will be a separate hand-out for the weekend's homework as it pertains to a project you'll be working on next week.

Homework for the week of October 20-25, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008:
Bring your copies of "Hollow Man," to class on Tuesday for discussion. Please write a journal entry on the poem if you have not already. There is an online post ALREADY on the blog for your entry but not everyone has completed the work.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008:
Choose one of your essays to revise and type for a final. Be sure to use the rubric to make sure that you're using MLA guidelines for the final, typed paper.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008:
Same as Tuesday.
Thursday, October 23,2008:
Journal entry on ballad. Requires a little research. Find a ballad, read it, and respond in journal format.
Friday, October 24, 2008: Read the first 30 pages of the Independent Reading book about Mythology.

Homework for the week of 10/14/2008

Hi All,

Poetry projects are due this week and the marking period ends Friday. With that in mind, your only assignments are:
1) finish your outline for an in class essay this week
2) Choose one of your journal entries to clean up and revise to turn in for a grade.
3) Finish that project and make sure you have ALL the pieces!

Best of luck!

Lauren

Journal Entries for "The Hollow Men"

Journal Entries for "I Know How the Caged Bird Sings"

Journal Entries for "My Last Duchess"

Homework for the week of October 6, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008: Complete your outline for the Spring sonnets that we worked on in class today. You must have a completed outline in order to take the in class essay test tomorrow. No outline, no credit.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008: Read Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess." Annotate and respond to the poem in a journal (there is a post online for you to do this).
Wednesday, October 8, 2008: Read "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou. Annotate your poem and write a journal. (there is a post online for you to do this).
Thursday, October 9, 2008: No school today. For homework, complete an outline of the "Henry IV, Part Two," excerpt you have for your in class essay test on Friday.
Friday, October 10, 2008: Read "The Hollowmen," by T.S. Elliot. Annotate and write a journal entry. Be sure to have this poem with you in class on Monday, flags and all.

Journal Entries for October 1, 2008

What poem did you read? What was the structure? What was your favorite line and why? Give me something good to read here people!