September 16, 2011

English 9:
- Finish MDG
- Page 24, 1-8
- Finish BW
- Folders due Monday
- Rough Drafts due Wed, 9/21

English 12:
- Finish Beowulf
- Page 65, 1-4
- Folders due Monday
- Beowulf Test on Tuesday, 9/20

Psychology:
- Read Chapters 1-4 in CIR
- Read about Freud, 206-208

September 15, 2011

English 9:
- Read MDG to page 20
- Finish BW
- Rough Drafts due 9/21
- Folders due Monday

English 12:
- Read Beowulf to page 622
- Finish BW
- Folders due Monday
- Find your college essay prompt (due tomorrow)
- Beowulf Test on Tuesday

Psychology:
-Watch the video below...does this help at all?
- Journal #3 - "Seeing is believing.... Is this a true statement?  Consider a situation in which a person is interviewed following a traumatic event.  Can their testimony be considered completely accurate?  Consider shock, speed to the events, inability to rehearse, conversion of short to long term memory, ability to translate memory into words, etc.  Use the verbiage you have learned in the reading to decide whether or not police questioning is a useful investigative tool."

September 14, 2011

English 9:
- Finish BW
- Read MDG to page 16
- Rough Drafts due 9/21

English 12:
- Read Beowulf to line 448
- Make sure Grendel is finished immediately as paper assignments will be handed out soon...

Psychology:
- Read 53-61
- Consider the link between smell and memory.

September 13, 2011

English 9:
- Finish BW
- Read page 9
- Read MDG to page 11

English 12:
- Finish BW
- Read Beowulf to line 284

Psychology:
- Journal Entry #2   "What is learned helplessness?  How can the effects of learned helplessness affect a person's life?  Is there anything that can be done once this has been learned?  Consider the conditioning typologies that we have previously studied."  Write until you are satisfied with your answer.

September 12, 2011

English 9:
- Define MDG vocab and write a sentence using each word
- Consider paper topics for summer reading.
- Rough Drafts due 9/21

English 12:
- Review Anglo-Saxon Period and Epic Hero
- Read Beowulf to line 29

Psychology:
- How do we learn?
- Read pages 37-43
- Review previous types of conditioning