Tuesday, March 25

1. Turn in Character Profiles
2. Proofread Inquiry Reports
3. Go over 4th Term Book Report List
4. Discussion/Reflections on Home Unit
5. Introduction to Anthem

HOMEWORK: Research Ayn Rand. Write your Short Stories!!!!

Book List:

Term 4
Any Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Any Novel by Ray Bradbury
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1984 by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
American Born Chinese by Gene Leun Yang
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Any Novel by Ayn Rand (besides Anthem)
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Any book by Annie Dillard
Any Book by Annie Proulx
The Three-Pound Enigma by Shannon Moffett
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Any type of philosophy book by Darwin, Sartre, Descartes etc. (just clear it with me.)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Wednesday, March 19

1. Collect Inquiry Reports
2. Go over Short Stories again
3. Go over Letter for Personality Profile
4. Finish the Film


You have several writing assignments due--let me review them:

1. Inquiry reports due today
2. Personality Profile due on Tuesday
3. Short Stories due on Thursday


EMAIL ME IF YOU NEED HELP OR YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE!!!!!


YOU CAN DO IT KIDS!!

Monday: March 17

May the Luck o' the Irish be with ye!!! Note to self---go to Ireland one day and kiss the Blarney stone!

1. Silent Reading
2. Grammar--Interjections/Conjunctions
3. DUE: First five sentences of novels....
4. View: Cry, The Beloved Country


DUE NEXT TIME: Inquiry Reports ROUGH DRAFT (these will not go on this term's grades)

DUE NEXT TIME: Journals--ten entries!!

Thursday, March 13

1. Journal Entry—Absence of Home
2. Vocabulary Test #2
3. Review Short Story Guidelines again
4. Collage Presentations
5. Review Personality Profile
6. Lit Circle conclusions (if time)

Tuesday, March 11

DUE: Book Reports

Silent Reading
Review Vocabulary
Grade Grammar—Prepositions
Review Inquiry Research Paper (takes place of Compare and Contrast Essay—Due March 19th)
Group Collage Presentations Preparation


DUE NEXT TIME: Vocabulary, Two Voice Poem

Everyone take a chill pill….you’re way too stressed!

Friday, March 7

Dear Honors Students,

I am at a literary conference today, thus you have a sub and I know that you all know how to treat a sub--with great respect.

1. Silent Reading
2. Grammar--Prepositions
3. Lit. Circles



BOOK REPORTS DUE NEXT TIME!!!

Wednesday, March 5

DUE: Grammar--Adverbs, Practice Journal Entries


1. Poetry Presentations
2. Vocabulary #2
3. Lit Circles, finish Collages


READING, Book Reports, Lit. Circle Roles---Keep Up!!

Monday: March 3, 2008

DUE: Formal Letter, Collage Pictures, Vocabulary

1. Poem Presentations

2. Vocabulary Test

3. Intro to Personality Profile

4. Literature Circles: Collages


DUE NEXT TIME:

Grammar, practice Journal Entry


News Article to Read:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7274929.stm