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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
GOTHIC SHORT STORIES
Your Gothic stories are due before the upcoming break. We will begin the movie Sleepy Hollow on Thursday. If you are finished with the story, you’ll watch the movie as long as your permission slip is turned in. Those who need more class time can continue working on their stories in the computer lab.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Gothic Short Stories
Today we finished The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Please complete your tree maps by Monday. Tomorrow we will be working in the computer lab on your own Gothic story. Your story should meet the following parameters:
Your story should be heavily laden with Gothic elements found in the Gothic elements sheet you were given [...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
GOTHIC SHORT STORIES
We are currently finishing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. For homework, please read the Wikipedia article that deals with the story by following the link above. Please use the comment feature to post a piece of information that you learned about the story and why you found it interesting. For [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
GOTHIC SHORT STORIES
Homework: Please find some anagrams for the name ARNOLD FRIEND. Two or three will be enough.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
GOTHIC SHORT STORIES
Your tree map should include the following stories at this point:
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A Rose for Emily
The Outsider
A Cask of Amontillado
We are currently reading Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? IF YOU ARE BEHIND WITH YOUR TREE MAP PLEASE COME IN AND SEE ME.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
OF MICE AND MEN
Questions for Chapters 2 and 3 due tomorrow.
Of Mice and Men
Today we finished reading at the end of Chapter 2. Please have chapter two questions to me on Wednesday. I will be out at a conference tomorrow. Ms. Shearer will begin reading with you from the beginning of Chapter 3.
Below find the cover from a Japanese edition of the book. I liked [...]
PHILOSOPHY FRIDAY
Today we will be looking at where the following philosophers and their ideas coorespond with the books we have read…
Thales and his idea that there is a life force present in everything.
Heraclitus and his idea that change is constant.
Parmenides and his idea that reality cannot be understood by the senses, but through thought.
Empedocles and [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
OF MICE AND MEN
We left off on pages 22-23 today. Please have the Chapter One questions as homework tomorrow. And if you needed any further reasons for reading Of Mice and Men…
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