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"To be a man is precisely, to be responsible."

Antoine De Saint Exupery              

Have you checked out who the student of the month is for your class?  April results are in!

This page is designed to help you do several things in my classes: find the assignments you miss when you are absent, get the journals you miss from when you are absent, keep track of your attendance and grades, and, on occasion, get extra credit that you can only obtain by checking in every once in a while.

 

 

 

 

Daily Journals

Greek Mythology

Applied Reading

British Literature II

3/14  "Knowledge is power."  Francis Bacon

3/15  "Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to."  Mark Twain

3/16  What does the word "fate" mean?  Have you ever felt that something was destined to happen?  Can you overcome fate?  Explain your ideas.

3/17  Of the 12 gods, which is the most like you?  What is similar?  What is different?

3/20 " When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  FDR

3/21  Explain whether or not you feel close to nature.  What connects you or separates you from it?

3/22  The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

3/23  "The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."  Confucius

3/27  "He preaches well that lives well."  Miguel de Cervantes

3/28  None: Review for test

3/29  None: test

3/30  "No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."  Carrie Snow

3/31  Which would you rather have, foresight or hindsight?  What are the benefits of each?  Write your thoughts.

4/3  "It ain't over 'til it's over."  Yogi Berra

4/4  What is a prophecy?  Do you believe a prophecy can be real?  Explain.

4/5 What is customary clothing for men and women in your culture?  List some places where you would need to wear a style of clothing different from what you are accustomed.

4/6  What will/did you do over spring break?

4/17  "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."  Unknown

4/18  "Cowards die many times before their deaths; but the valiant never taste of death but once."  William Shakespeare

4/19  "A man is not good or bad for one action."  Thomas Fuller

4/20  None: Test

4/21  "Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."  Frank Colby  2nd period Greek Myth class only.  4th period did not meet on 4/21

4/24  Would you be willing to fight for your country?  Are there good and bad reasons for going to war?  Explain your thoughts.

4/25  "The narrower the cage, the sweeter the freedom."  German Proverb

4/28  "The final forming of a person's character is in his or her own hands."  Anne Frank

5/1  "A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."  Dante  2nd period only.  $th period did not meet this day.

5/2  "There are defeats more triumphant than victories."  Michel de Montaingne

5/3  "Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them."  Andre Gide

5/4  What does it mean to sacrifice something?  Describe a difficult sacrifice you have made.  What was difficult about it?  Was the sacrifice worth what you have gained by it?

5/8  Imagine that you are a soldier, Trojan or Greek.  Write a letter home describing your feelings about the fact that Menelaus and Paris are finally confronting each other.

5/9  What would you do if you knew the future but no one listened to you?  Cassandra always spoke her predictions.  Could she have found another way to communicate her knowledge?  Explain.

5/10  Write a paragraph of Brisies' conflict from her point of view.

5/11  Of these three choices which would you choose: dominion, victory or love?  Why?  Write your thoughts below.

5/15  "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."  Dwight D. Eisenhower

5/18  How do you think the gods reacted to the behavior of the suitors of Penelope? 

5/19  What would it be like if you forgot all the difficulties or bad things that had happened to you?  What would be scary about forgetting your plans for the future?  Explain your ideas.

3/14  What is your reaction to the Victor Conte video?

3/15  If you could design a room in your house for only you, what would it be like?

3/16  "Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."  James R. Murrows

3/17 " It is never too late to be what you might have been."  Unknown

3/20  "Some people think they are worth a lot of money simply because they have it."  Fannie Hurst

3/21  If you could travel to any country/city in the world, where would you go?  Why?

3/22 In 20 years from now where do you think you will be and what will you be doing?

3/23  Besides MJ, who is the greatest athlete of all time?

3/27  "What comes around goes around."  Unknown

3/28  The most important lesson I ever learned in life was...

3/29  Invent a game.  Describe it.  Explain its rules.

3/30  None: review for test

3/31  None: test

4/3 "He that is good at excuses is seldom good at anything else."  Ben Franklin

4/4  "I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man that had no feet."  Persian Proverb

4/5  "Time heals all wounds."  Geoffrey Chaucer

4/6  What will/did you do over spring break?

4/17  "Thinking is the hardest work their is; which is probably why so few engage in it."  Henry Ford

4/18  "Don't judge a book by its cover."  English Proverb

4/19  "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."  Albert Einstein

4/20  "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."  Mark Twain

4/21  "The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue."  Unknown

4/24  None: Test

4/25  "Talk does not cook the rice."  Chinese Proverb

4/28  "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first, the lesson afterwards."  Vernon Saunders Law

5/1  "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

5/2  "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."  Edward Phelps

5/3  "It doesn't matter where you come from, it's where you are going that's important."  Unknown

5/4  "There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone."  Ellen Glasgow

5/8  "He who laughs last, laughs best."  Unknown

5/9  "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."  Vince Lombardi

5/10  "Failure is just another way to learn to do something right."  Marian Edelman

5/11  None: Test

5/15  "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will break my heart."  Robert Fulgram

5/18  "It is never too late to be what you might have been."  George Elliot

5/19  "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."  Proverb

 

3/14  "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."  Walter Winchell

3/15  "I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me."  Sara Teasdale

3/16  "Behold the turtle.  He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."  James Conant

3/17  "The secret to getting ahead is getting started."  Sally Berger

3/20  "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."  Unknown

3/21  "Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever."  Latin Proverb

3/22  "A stiff apology is a second insult"  GK Chesterton

3/23  "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

3/27  "It is better to live rich than die rich."  Samuel Johnson

3/28  None: Review for test

3/29  None:  test

3/30  "He who praises everybody, praises nobody."  Samuel Johnson

3/31"A little learning is a dangerous thing."  Alexander Pope

4/3  "I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me."  Anwar El-Sadat

4/4  "Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art."  Miguel De Cervantes

4/5  "Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."  Ovid

4/6  What will/did you do on spring break?

4/17  "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."  Beverly Sills

4/18  "Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage."  Jean Anouilh

4/19  "He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."  Thomas Fuller

4/20  "That which does not kill me makes me stronger."  Frereich Nietzsche

4/21  None:  No class

4/24  None: Test

4/25  "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."  Aesop

4/28  "The devil can cite scripture for his own purpose."  William Shakespeare

5/1  "Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched."  Miguel de Cervantes

5/2  "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."  F. Scott Fitzgerald

5/3  "Where there is a will, there is a way."  Proverb

5/4  "If God wanted us high, he would have given us wings."  Arsenio Hall

5/8  "Only the educated are free."  Epictetus

5/9  None:  Test

5/10  "It's the job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."  J. R. R. Tolkien

5/11  "Go and wake up your luck."  Persian Proverb

5/15  "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

5/18  "The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors."  Henry Begue

5/19  "Bad excuses are worse than none." Thomas Fuller

 

 

Class Assignments

Greek Mythology

Applied Reading

British Literature II

3/14  20 examples of Greek/Roman mythology in the world today.  Due 3/27

3/17  Read 12 gods of Olympus

3/20  Read about Demeter 

12 gods of Olympus quiz

3/21  Read about Dionysus

Fragment quiz

3/22-3/23  Read about the beginning of the universe

3/27  20 examples of mythology today is due

3/28  Review for test

3/29  Test

3/30  Create a Deity

3/31  Create a Myth  (Due Wed.)

4/3  Read Perseus

Perseus Timeline

4/4 Read Theseus

Theseus Timeline

4/5Theseus quiz.  Read Hercules. 

4/6  Continue Hercules.  Explain the 12 labors of Hercules

4/17  Finish Hercules

4/18  Read Atalanta.  Work on notebooks.  Notebooks due Friday!

4/19  Review for test

4/20  Test

4/21  Notebooks due

4/24-5/1 Watch Troy

5/3  Begin reading The Trojan War

5/4  271-283  summarize what you read.

5/8  Finish the Trojan War

5/9  Who's Who in the Trojan War worksheet.  Capitalization quiz

5/10  Contrast Troy and The Trojan War.

5/11  Review for Trojan War test

5/12  Trojan War test

3/15  Read article on Barry Bonds and answer questions on separate paper.

3/17  Write a one paragraph essay explaining the role of three Bulls players (not including MJ) in their first championship.

3/20  Read "Basketball & Honeysuckle"

3/21  Read "Football & Scrambled Eggs"  Summarize the story

Fragment quiz

3/23  Write a 1-2 page story "The Most Dangerous Game" (see instruction sheet for details)

3/27-3/29 Read The Most Dangerous Game

3/29  Draw a map of Ship-Trap Island.  Show where each of the three traps are.  Trace Rainsford's journey in the game.  There should be a legend on your map.  On the back of the map describe each of the three traps.

3/30  Review for test

3/31 Test

4/3  Read Muhamad Ali

Answer Ali questions

4/4  Read Jackie Robinson

Answer Jackie Robinson questions

4/5  Begin Nazi Olympics (handout)

4/6  Continue Nazi Olympics

4/7  Finish Nazi Olympics.  Olympic questions. (Handout)

4/17  Read Jesse Owens.  Jesse Owens questions. (handout)

4/18  Review Jesse Owens questions.  Prepare notebooks.  Notebooks due tomorrow!

4/19  Notebooks due.  Read Cold War and Miracle on Ice handouts.  Answer questions on sheet.

4/21  Review for test

4/24  Test

4/25-5/1  Watch Remember the Titans.  One paragraph essay:  Choose Gary Bertere or Petey and explain how he changed throughout the movie.  Spelling and grammar count.  Worth 100 pts.  Must have hand written rough draft and a typed final draft.  Due Thursday 5/4.

5/2  Read Chad the Sports Announcer.  Write a summary of the story.

5/3  Persian War notes

5/4  Read  A Man Can Change.  Summarize story.  Write a short story in which someone changes their life through sports.

5/8  Running poetry handout

5/9 Finish running poetry handout.  Capitalization quiz

5/10  Review for test

5/11  Running Test

3/15  Examples of satire and parodies from the Simpsons

3/17  Read "A Modest Proposal"  What are the real solutions Swift encourages to help the Irish?

3/20  Examples of satire worksheet for "A Modest Proposal"

3/21  Read and answer questions for "Lord Tomnoddy" and "Indifference."

Fragment quiz

3/22 Read "Journal of the Plague Years"

Answer the following:  Reader's Response

Check Your Comprehension 1-3

Critical Thinking #2

3/24  Write an essay or poem on Man or one of the four seasons.  Due 3/28

3/28  Review for test

3/29  Test

3/30 Romantic Period background notes

3/31  Begin Rime of the Ancient Mariner

4/3  Continue Rime of the Ancient Mariner

4/4  Finish Rime of the Ancient Mariner

pg.  651  Reader's Response, Sentence the Mariner, Check Your Comprehension 1-4, Critical Thinking 2-3

4/5  Read: The World is Too Much with Us, London 1802, Expostulation and Reply, The Tables Turned

4/6  Read Introduction to Frakenstein.  Check your comp 1-4, Critical Thinking #4, and write your own Romantic horror story (min. 2 pages)

4/17  Read Darkness. Notebboks due Thursday!

4/18  Read She Walks in Beauty, Ozymandias, To A Skylark.  Answer Ozymandias questions.

4/19 Read When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be, Ode on a Grecian Urn

4/20  Notebooks due!  Review for test

4/21  No class

4/24  Test

4/25  Background notes for the Victorian period.

4/28  Lady of Shalott questions

5/1  Read Ulysses and My Last Duchess

5/2  Read Sonnet 43, Recessional, and Victorian Language.  Create 5 of your own euphimisms for jobs today.

5/3  Read God's Granduer, Spring and Fall, Dover Beach, and Jane Eyre.  Answer CYC #1-3 and CT #4 for Jane Eyre

5/4  Read Hard Times  CYC 1-4 and CT 2+4.  Write a short story that illustrates the need for reform in today's classroom.

5/8  Review for Victorian test

5/9  Victorian test

5/10  Background notes for Modern Period

 

 

Grades

 

 

Applied Reading

 

 

 

 

 

Greek Mythology Period 2

 

 

 

 

 

British Literature II

 

 

 

 

 

Greek Mythology Period 4

 

 

 

Bonus Points

 

Student of the Month

 

 

Survivor Island

"Mmmm...extra credit."