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...

 

March 25, 2011

English 9:
- Finish Chapter 4 in TKAM
- Finish BW
- Quiz over Chapters 1-5 on Tuesday, 3/29

Interesting documentary (Part 1 of 9) on The Scottsboro Boys

English 12:
- Read 1073 and 1075
- Finish The Hobbit/Questions
- Work on Papers

March 24, 2011

English 9:
- Finish Chapter 3 in TKAM
- Finish BW
- Quiz over 1-5 on Tuesday, 3/29

English 12:
- Finish The Hobbit/Questions for Monday

March 23, 2011

English 9:
- Finish Chapter 2 in TKAM
- Finish BW
- Quiz after Chapter 5

English 12:

- Victorian Period Essay Test tomorrow

- Finish The Hobbit/questions for Monday
- Work on papers

March 22, 2011

English 9:
- Finish TKAM Chapter 1
- Finish BW
- Quiz after Chapter 5

English 12:
- Victorian Period Essay Test on Thursday, 3/24
- Finish The Hobbit for next Monday
- Work on your papers

March 21, 2011

English 9:
- Read TKAM to page 6
- Finish BW

"What in the Sam Hill are you doin'?"

English 12:
- Victorian Essay Test on Thursday
- Finish The Hobbit for next Monday
- Work on your papers

If you don't turn in a paper...