LISTENING TASK
You will have Monday to finish the Frisbee essay. We will begin looking at them on Tuesday in class.
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LISTENING TASK
You will have Monday to finish the Frisbee essay. We will begin looking at them on Tuesday in class.
ANTHEM
Anthem/The Island theme paper is due at the beginning of class next Thursday. You will have Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week to work on it.
MYTHOLOGY/NOTE TAKING
Today we started taking notes on the Greek creation myths. It is important that we understand that we are working on how to take notes, as well as learning the Greek myths. Here are a couple of things we need to remember about note taking:
Don’t try to write down everything, that would defeat the [...]
ANTHEM
Today we will finish the movie The Island, after which you should begin work on your paper (3-5 pages on the development of a theme found in the novel and the movie) which will be due on Thursday at the beginning of class. If you are having trouble finding a theme in the movie, you [...]
Mythology/Creation Myths
Homework for tomorrow is to use a flow map to sequence the events in the Mesopotamian and Egyptian creation myths. You will need your World Myth chapters on Mesopotamia and Egypt.
CREATION MYTHS
Homework for tomorrow – Please look over Mesopotamian Tree Map (below), Egypt Notes (below), and Egypt Reading from World Myths (you have hard copies) in preparation to tree map important information as we did in class today for Mesopotamia. You and your partner will have tomorrow’s class to complete the tree map. We worked through the [...]
ANTHEM
We read to the beginning of Chapter 10 today. Please have questions for Chapters 6-9 for Monday.
REVISE AND EDIT
We have been spending the last few days working through your essays on the last presidential debate. It is very important that you are learning how your teachers will use the RUBRIC to assess your written work. So in addition to the template tree map:
… we should be working to learn the five [...]
ANTHEM and THE HERO’S JOURNEY
Today we looked at the video below as an illustration of the Hero as commoner.
ANTHEM
Please have the questions for Chapters 2 and 3 due for tomorrow. We spoke about the use of violence today in regards to the the execution of the Transgressor scene in Chapter 2. We got off on several tangents that while interesting and related, missed the point a bit. I was trying to raise the [...]