THE STORM
Today we begin the short story, The Storm, by Sebastian Junger. The story is the basis for the movie, The Perfect Storm. During the reading of the story, we will begin working on note-taking. You will be required to have notes for each day we read and discuss the book. I will explain the [...]
ISHMAEL
We will review today for the Ishmael Test. You will be given the test at the beginning of class on Tuesday. It will be due at the end of class on Wednesday. Please spend some time preparing.
First Amendment PSA Contest
During this marking period we will be researching the First Amendment and creating a 60 second public service announcement to submit to the GVCLU PSA Contest. The due date for our completed PSA is April 1st.
Today we began brainstorming and the class decided to focus on the idea of petitioning the government for [...]
Ishmael
Papers on the Hero’s Journey will be due on Friday. You will have the class today to work on them. We have no class tomorrow per the half day, many of you will be gone on Thursday with the Ecology trip, and Friday we will be having Sean’s presentation.
Please seek help if you need it!
Into Thin Air
We have read up to page 25 in the short story and should finish it by Friday. Please make sure you are keeping up with the questions for each page.
As we finish the book, be sure to keep in mind the variety of causes for the Everest tragedy of 1996 and the fact [...]
ELA REGENTS
We went over the Regents schedule for next week, your test modifications, and proctors. Please be sure to ask me if you have any questions. Be sure to see your advisor to double check your mods from the IEP.
We also spoke about advocating for yourself on the test. Please be sure to know your [...]
Critical Lens Essay
Today we introduced the Critical Lens Essay. The lens statement was “You must take life the way it comes at you and and make the best of it.” In class we wrote the following:
The statement “You must take life the way it comes at you and and make the best of it” from [...]
Into Thin Air
You should be caught up with questions through page 17 for tomorrow and have them turned in.
Ishmael
Please have chapter 11 finished for tomorrow with questions finished.
You have a 2 page writing assignment due next Friday, January 18th. It should answer the question How does the concept of the Hero’s Journey work within the context of the novel Ishmael? Some directions this discussion might take:
Who is the Hero?
Name and describe the steps, [...]
Into Thin Air
We are currently at the bottom of page 4. Please be sure you are keeping up with the character list and places/items list.
