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Block Day, Week 17: Midsummer
* Pray
* Midsummer: Video and Guide
* Work on THE: Ask me questions.
HW: Finish your THE
* Midsummer: Video and Guide
* Work on THE: Ask me questions.
HW: Finish your THE
Wednesday, 12/6: Midsummer
* Pray or Sing
* Example Essays
1. ICE Bible Passage With Tolkien; Virtue and Bible Verse Prompt
2. ICE Midsummer Green World Comedy
3. ICE Midsummer: Various Prompts
4. THE Theme Essay for AP
5. THE Schwager's Essay
* Continue Midsummer
* Discuss questions in Act III (per. 2 a few from Act II).
HW: THE (Reno's classes can turn in THE on Monday)
* Example Essays
1. ICE Bible Passage With Tolkien; Virtue and Bible Verse Prompt
2. ICE Midsummer Green World Comedy
3. ICE Midsummer: Various Prompts
4. THE Theme Essay for AP
5. THE Schwager's Essay
* Continue Midsummer
* Discuss questions in Act III (per. 2 a few from Act II).
HW: THE (Reno's classes can turn in THE on Monday)
Tuesday, 12/5: Midsummer
* Pray or Sing
* Review Act II Q's
* Video
HW: THE (Reno's classes, don't worry about journals right now. Work on your Tolkien THE, NOW DUE MONDAY).
* Review Act II Q's
* Video
HW: THE (Reno's classes, don't worry about journals right now. Work on your Tolkien THE, NOW DUE MONDAY).
Monday, 12/5: Midsummer
* Pray
* Check J17 While your read Act III on your own. We will read together in a bit.
* Review
* Act III; begin J18: 10 Questions (you may finish this in class tomorrow)
HW: Begin THE OR Writing
* Check J17 While your read Act III on your own. We will read together in a bit.
* Review
* Act III; begin J18: 10 Questions (you may finish this in class tomorrow)
HW: Begin THE OR Writing
Block Day, Week 16: CWP, Tolkien, and Midsummer
* Pray
* Collect CWP
* Make sure you CWP has been submitted to turnitin.com on Focus. If you wrote a legend (with cool handwriting, etc.), you are exempt.
* Tolkien
- Next week, you will be writing your Tolkien essay. This will be a smaller assignment (15 points) that you will turn in on next week's block day and then bring with you to the final exam. When you take the final exam, you will be comparing a common theme in Midsummer and The Hobbit (or another outside reading if you are not reading The Hobbit because you had already read it). Next week's essay will help prepare you for the final exam.
Outside Reading Background:
"Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry" (ESV Col. 3:5). The Apostle Paul reminds us that covetousness (or greed) is idolatry (false worship). Covetousness is excessively desiring someone or something, especially a someone or something that does not belong to us. Covetousness is a sin that blinds us and hurts us and others.
Prompt: Identify a greedy character from your outside reading; explain how this character's covetousness supports the theme that covetousness is a blinding, destructive sin.
Use specific support (at least two quotations) from your text to defend your thesis.
This response should be two pages, typed, double-spaced (in the MLA format) and submitted to turnitin.com on Focus by Dec. 8.
* Read Act II
* J17: Choose 10 Questions from Act II to Answer
HW: J17
* Collect CWP
* Make sure you CWP has been submitted to turnitin.com on Focus. If you wrote a legend (with cool handwriting, etc.), you are exempt.
* Tolkien
- Next week, you will be writing your Tolkien essay. This will be a smaller assignment (15 points) that you will turn in on next week's block day and then bring with you to the final exam. When you take the final exam, you will be comparing a common theme in Midsummer and The Hobbit (or another outside reading if you are not reading The Hobbit because you had already read it). Next week's essay will help prepare you for the final exam.
Outside Reading Background:
"Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry" (ESV Col. 3:5). The Apostle Paul reminds us that covetousness (or greed) is idolatry (false worship). Covetousness is excessively desiring someone or something, especially a someone or something that does not belong to us. Covetousness is a sin that blinds us and hurts us and others.
Prompt: Identify a greedy character from your outside reading; explain how this character's covetousness supports the theme that covetousness is a blinding, destructive sin.
Use specific support (at least two quotations) from your text to defend your thesis.
This response should be two pages, typed, double-spaced (in the MLA format) and submitted to turnitin.com on Focus by Dec. 8.
* Read Act II
* J17: Choose 10 Questions from Act II to Answer
HW: J17
Special Spittle...and Organs
Best line from the AP Vocabulary Quizzes:
"At the company, the most reverence was given to the expectorate."
Best definition:
"prostrate: an organ in the body"
"At the company, the most reverence was given to the expectorate."
Best definition:
"prostrate: an organ in the body"
Wednesday, 11/30: Midsummer
* Pray
* Check J16: Act I
* Begin Reading Act II
HW: CWP Due on your Block Day
* Check J16: Act I
* Begin Reading Act II
HW: CWP Due on your Block Day
Tuesday, 11/29: Midsummer
* Pray
* Act I...
* J16: Choose 10 Questions from the Act I Reading Questions to Answer. Answer in complete sentences.
* If you finish early: Work on your CWP
HW: J16, CWP
* Act I...
* J16: Choose 10 Questions from the Act I Reading Questions to Answer. Answer in complete sentences.
* If you finish early: Work on your CWP
HW: J16, CWP
Monday, 11/28: Midsummer
* Pray: Advent
This is a painting by Hans Memling (15th century): The Advent and Triumph of Christ. If you zoom in, you can see various scenes in Christ's life. Can you recognize any?
* Writing Review of the next three weeks.
1. Week 16 Block (this week): CWP Due.
2. Week 17 Block (next week): Outside Reading THE (Take-Home Essay) Due.
3. Week 18 (Finals Week): ICE Midsummer, M.C. Grammar.
* Midsummer: Begin Reading Act I - Please get the review questions on Focus (you must answer ten questions per act-not per scene-for a total of fifty).
* If you read Act I, work on your CWP.
HW: Read Tolkien; work on your CWP
This is a painting by Hans Memling (15th century): The Advent and Triumph of Christ. If you zoom in, you can see various scenes in Christ's life. Can you recognize any?
* Writing Review of the next three weeks.
1. Week 16 Block (this week): CWP Due.
2. Week 17 Block (next week): Outside Reading THE (Take-Home Essay) Due.
3. Week 18 (Finals Week): ICE Midsummer, M.C. Grammar.
* Midsummer: Begin Reading Act I - Please get the review questions on Focus (you must answer ten questions per act-not per scene-for a total of fifty).
* If you read Act I, work on your CWP.
HW: Read Tolkien; work on your CWP
Block Day, Week 14: CWP
* Pray
* Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz
*Quick grammar review (if any of the four sheets need to be reviewed)
* CWP
* Read
HW: 1. Get your CWP in order. You may turn it in on Monday of your return and as late as the end of that week. 2. Read The Hobbit. Once you return, you will only have about a week before you write an essay on The Hobbit. Do yourself a favor, finish early.
* For Fun
Some say Tolkien's Rivendell is modeled after the Swiss Lauterbrunnen Valley (yes, this is a link).
* Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz
*Quick grammar review (if any of the four sheets need to be reviewed)
* CWP
* Read
HW: 1. Get your CWP in order. You may turn it in on Monday of your return and as late as the end of that week. 2. Read The Hobbit. Once you return, you will only have about a week before you write an essay on The Hobbit. Do yourself a favor, finish early.
* For Fun
Tuesday, 11/15: Grammar
* Pray
* Grammar: Bedford Worksheet 24-1 (Reno: 24-4)
* J15 finish
HW: Finish Grammar, J15 - The Hobbit (Reno's class finish)
* Grammar: Bedford Worksheet 24-1 (Reno: 24-4)
* J15 finish
HW: Finish Grammar, J15 - The Hobbit (Reno's class finish)
Monday, 11/13: Reading
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| J.R.R. Tolkien |
* Quiz take-n'-retake
* Satire
- Dr. Wheeler's Definition
- Elizabeth Bishop - "One Art"
- Dorothy Parker - "Love Song"
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
- Thomas Peacock - "I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade"
* CWP or Outside Reading
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