LISTENING SELECTION
Today we began a new listening selection on the Greek philosopher Socrates. We identified a thesis statement from the task and two questions to help us pull important information. We listened to the selection once and then worked to organized our ideas and details before the second listening, which will happen in class tomorrow.
GILGAMESH
For tomorrow, please identify and explain three elements that support the theme of friendship in Gilgamesh. You may make a list, or thinking map, or write a quick paragraph. We talked quickly about the friendship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh as being one element that supports this theme. Below, find the notes from today.
INHERIT THE WIND and THE LIBERTY CONFERENCE
Please bring in signed PERMISSION SLIPS for the Liberty Conference by Wednesday.
Now that we have finished Inherit the Wind, please be thinking about possible examples of censorship, invasions of privacy, and unequal protection under the law that come from the play.
THE CRUCIBLE and THE LIBERTY CONFERENCE
Please remember to turn in PERMISSION SLIPS for the Liberty Conference by Wednesday.
The questions for Act 2 Part ii are due tomorrow.
As we have been discussion the issues of censorship, privacy, and equal protections, I’d like to focus a bit on the play. We discussed in class that women were [...]
GILGAMESH
Today we finished Tablet III, and began Tablets IV and V. Enkidu and Gilgamesh have gotten the blessing of Ninsun, Gilgameshes mom, and of the elders. They leave for the cedar forest. We will try to finish the story on Monday.
For Monday homework, please read ahead in Tablets IV and V to preview as much [...]
THE CRUCIBLE
Please find the questions for Act II scene ii and Act II scene iii. Below, find a student produced video called McCarthyism that describes McCarthyism and The Crucible. It will give you an excellent summary of the events that influenced the play.
INHERIT THE WIND
We did not have class today. Remember that the questions for Act II Scene II are due tomorrow.
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
THE CRUCIBLE
Today we had no class. Well, I got a lot of class, but you guys didn’t today…
Yesterday, we spent some time talking about the Liberty! Conference and our attending that event on October 6.
We then began our discussion on McCarthyism and The Crucible by looking at a short piece from Wikipedia. You have a paragraph [...]
LISTENING TASK – SAHARA ESSAY
We have spent the last two days working on completing tree maps for the Sahara essay. Tomorrow we will use all of your maps to complete one large class map in complete sentences. You should continue to memorize the Essay Tree Map Template.
GILGAMESH
We began Tablet II today, in which Enkidu comes to the shepherd village with the priestess. He is used to the wild, and has trouble eating the food. Once he gets used to the shepherd’s life, he helps them by killing wolves and lions that eat their flocks. He seems to become one of the [...]
