February 4-8, 2013

Greetings Students!

I hope you had a great weekend! I will be out Tuesday morning but back Tuesday afternoon, so my plans for my morning classes will be a bit more independent in nature.

Remember, we delayed out vocabulary quizzes until Monday last week, so I will post all your new vocabulary (for THIS Friday) on Friday afternoon so as not to confuse it with your current vocabulary. Check Edmodo Monday afternoon or Tuesday for your new words.



Now for this week's plans:

Pre-APEnglish 10

 The rough drafts of your The Crucible essays are due on Monday, February 4. In class, we will do a "peer review." Take your peer's suggestions home and write a final draft, due Friday, Feb. 8.

I've also posted and excerpt from The Wonders of the Invisible World, which is a court document from the Salem Witch Trials.We started reading this and will finish on Monday or Tuesday.

The remainder of the week will be spent reading and discussion other Puritan texts, poetry and sermons. On Tuesday, we will read excerpts from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. I would like you to consider the most effective imagery in the sermon and make an illustration of it, with a quotation on the illustration.


Lesson 11 vocabulary Monday. Lesson 12 Friday.
English 12 

This week we will continue reading the play Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. This play is the namesake for all subsequent Faustian tales. Expect to write and essay on some thematic statement from the play. This essay will count as a test grade, so it would greatly behoove you to pay attention to the text.


I have uploaded your lesson 11 vocabulary for Monday, and will upload lesson 12 for Friday. We will review your new words this week.


APEnglish Literature and Composition

This week we will read and discuss as much of Hamlet as possible. On Tuesday you will have a practice MC passage or two. I have posted lesson 56 vocabulary on Edmodo; your quiz will be on Monday. Lesson 55 will be posted Monday for a quiz on Friday.