April 1, 2011

English 9:
- Finish Chapter 9
- Finish BW
- Quiz over TKAM 6-10 on Tuesday 4/5
- Research Ray Bradbury

English 12:
- Page 1149, 1-7
- The Hobbit Papers due 4/14

March 31, 2011

A snow day will move everything forward one day.

I suggest you panic, as the media would suggest...

English 9:
- Finish TKAM Chapter 8
- Finish BW
- Quiz over 6-10 on Tuesday

English 12:
- Read 1122-1133
- Read 1138+1139 (Yeats)
- The Hobbit papers due

March 30, 2011

English 9:
- Finish TKAM Chapters 6+7
- Finish BW
- Quiz after Chapter 10


English 12:
- Compile Modernism notes from 3/29 and 3/30
- Read "Journey of the Magi", p1158
- The Hobbit papers due 4/14

March 29, 2011

English 9:
- Define TKAM 6-10 vocab and write a sentence using each
- Bring TKAM tomorrow

English 12:
- Read 1152-1153 in textbook
- Read Plato handout "Allegory of the Cave"
- Research Modernism

Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times

T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"  Part I

Picasso's Cubism

The emptiness of meaning in language.. I'm not one to speak ill of the dead...so, if I even remotely believed this piece of garbage was written by anyone other than some room full of chimps, I would keep my mouth closed.  However, I don't. Enjoy? 

March 28, 2011

Attention:  Quarter 3 ends April 8th.

English 9:
- Finish TKAM Chapter 5
- Finish BW
- NB Check tomorrow
- Quiz over TKAM 1-5 tomorrow

English 12:
- Read 1067, 1073, and 1077
- The Hobbit papers due 4/14/2011
- Research Modernism: "A heap of broken images"

-possible topics include... fragmentation/T.S. Eliot, Picasso/Cubism, 

Charlie Chaplin/Modern Times, Jazz, Freud/Psychoanalysis, 

Plato/Allegory of the Cave, and more...