Weekly Schedule 3/28 - 4/1

Monday: 3/28
IC: I will distribute the Junior Paper assignment and timeline. We'll go over both. Then, I'll demonstrate the use of EBSCO and JSTOR, two search engines to which CMHS subscribes, in order to find scholarly articles about your paper topic. You will be responsible for locating, printing, and annotating one appropriate article that relates to the topic of your paper. These annotations are due on Monday, 4/4.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW: Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.

Tuesday: 3/29
IC: I will introduce Lessons Nine and Ten Vocabulary - test on Friday, 4/8. Then you'll complete Writer's Notebook Entry #10.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book, class notes, and Writer's Notebook Entries.
HW: Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.

Wednesday: 3/30 - Happy birthday, Nikki!
IC: You will take a few introductory notes in relation to our next read, The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW: Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.

Thursday: 3/31
IC: You will work together to complete a Lesson Nine Vocabulary Review Exercise. We'll review the vocabulary together. Then we'll begin reading and discussing The Crucible in class.
Materials: Bring your vocabulary book and class notes.
HW:

• Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.
• Your junior paper thesis is due for Writer's Workshop on Wednesday, 4/6.
  

Friday: 4/1
IC: We will continue reading and discussing Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW:

• Locate, print, and annotate an appropriately scholarly article that will be useful in composing your paper. Due Monday, 4/4. **Feel free to check with me during office hours to ask for help or to make sure that the article you've selected will suffice.
• Your junior paper thesis is due for Writer's Workshop on Wednesday, 4/6.
  

Special Assembly Schedule for Thursday, 3/17

6:40 - 7:30 Zero Hour
7:35 - 8:20 1st Period
8:25 - 9:10 2nd Period
9:15 - 10:00 3rd Period
10:05 - 10:40 Assembly
10:45 - 11:30 4th Period
11:35 - 12:25 5a/1st Lunch
12:30 - 1:20 5b/2nd Lunch
1:25 - 2:10 6th Period
2:15 - 3:00 7th Period

Weekly Schedule 3/14 - 3/17

Monday: 3/14
IC: You will turn in your completed annotations on T.J. Matheson's essay. We will begin by going over the Lessons 7 & 8 Vocabulary Test together. Then, I'll distribute copies of the chapter "Yes, She's a Christ Figure, Too" from Thomas C. Foster's book How to Read Literature Like a Professor. You'll read and discuss the short chapter in preparation for our continued discussion of Slaughterhouse-Five and our viewing and discussion of the film Cool Hand Luke.
Materials: Bring your completed annotations over T.J. Matheson's essay, class notes, and a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five.
HW: Read and annotate "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron. You must complete your annotations before our discussion on Thursday, 3/17.

Tuesday: 3/15 - Happy birthday, Abe!
IC: We'll begin viewing the film Cool Hand Luke.
Materials: Bring your class notes and annotations-in-progress of "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.
HW: Read and annotate "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.

Wednesday: 3/16
IC: We'll continue viewing the film Cool Hand Luke.
Materials: Bring your class notes and annotations-in-progress of "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.
HW: Finish reading and annotating "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar" by Frank Barron.

Thursday: 3/17 - Special Assembly Schedule for Spring Sports Kick-Off
IC: You will turn in your annotations of Frank Barron's "Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar." We will finish viewing and discussing the film Cool Hand Luke. You'll examine the elements of the film that support an interpretation of Luke as an archetypal Christ Figure.
Materials: Bring your class notes and completed annotations of Frank Barron's article.

Friday: 3/18 - No school: teacher work day! Have a safe and fun Spring Break.

Weekly Schedule: 3/7

Monday: 3/7

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut

IC: You'll begin class by completing Writer's Notebook Entry #9. Then we'll read and discuss "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye. You'll make thematic connections to Slaughterhouse-Five as you analyze the poem.

Click here for information about Naomi Shihab Nye.