Final Exam, Monday

* Click here to review dangling modifiers.
* Review for the exam (below).
* Check Focus for 0's, please.

Block Day to the Final Exam

* Open

* Memorization Quiz

* Final Exam Study Guide: A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Part 1: Final Exam Essay on A Midsummer Night's Dream
• You will have 40 minutes. 
• Examples:
• Midsummer Green World Prompt
• Samantha
• Kelsey
• Jasmine 

• AP Examples another Shakespearean play, The Tempest (AP has a 0-9 rating rather than a 0-6 SAT rating)
• AP Essays

• Part 2: Multiple Choice Exam (also 40 min.)
• Roughly twenty questions per category
• All Lit. Terms
• Grammar
• Roots
• Reading (Antigone, Midsummer, no mythology except where it applies to our later reading) 

*Finish movie.

• West class only: Journal check.

* Secondary Source

• Essay on A Midsummer Night's Dream by G. K. Chesterton

HW: Review for the final exam

Wednesday, 12/10/14: CWP

* Open

* Review Midsummer Questions

* Work on the FD of your CWP.

HW: FD and Memorization

Tuesday, 12/9/14: Act V of A Midsummer Night's Dream

* Open

• Roots
• loqu, locut: talk, speech
• luc, lum, luc, lun: light

• Memorization (quiz at the end of this week)

* Act V (25 min.)

HW: Journal: Act V (3 Responses); if you have  extra time, work on your Christmas Blessing.

Monday, 12/8/14: Midsummer Act IV

Open

• Memorization (quiz at the end of this week)
• Things _____ and _____, holding no _________,
  Love can _________ to _____ and _________:
  Love ______ not with the _____, but with the ______;
  And ___________ is _______ Cupid painted ______:
  Nor _____ Love's ______ of any __________ taste;
  Wings and ___  _______ figure __________ haste:
  And ____________ is Love ______ to be a ______,
  Because in _____ ___ is so oft __________.
  As ________boys in game themselves __________,
  So the boy __________is perjured everywhere:

      For ere __________ look'd on Hermia's ______ ,
      He hail'd ______ ______ that ___  was ______ mine;

• Roots
• loc, loco--place
• log, logo, ology--word, study, speech

• Schwager's students only: Class Survey
• West's students only: Class Survey
• Homework this week (also see calendar)
• Monday: Act IV (5 questions)
• Tuesday: Act V (3 questions)
• Wednesday: FD of Your CWP (story and map); Memorization Quiz
• Block Day: Review for the final exam

 * Listen to Act IV

HW: Journal: Act IV (five questions total)

Today's Schedule

Block Day: Midsummer

* Open

• Roots
• Liber, liver--free
• Liter--letters
• Memorization
• Things _____ and _____, holding no _________,
  Love can _________ to _____ and _________:
  Love ______ not with the _____, but with the ______;
  And ___________ is _______ Cupid painted ______:
  Nor _____ Love's ______ of any __________ taste;
  Wings and ___  _______ figure __________ haste:
  And ____________ is Love ______ to be a ______,
  Because in _______ ___ is so oft __________.
  As _________ boys in game themselves ___________,
  So the boy _______ is perjured everywhere:

* Here are picture examples from Holly Minarik's blessing.

* Peer Edit

• Author: Please write the age of the recipient of your gift at the top of your first page.
• Editor:
• Circle grammar errors.
• Is this age-appropriate writing?  What might the author consider changing or adding?
• Is this story interesting and engaging?  How might this story become richer (Change narrative perspective? Adjust the climax point?)?

* Finish Midsummer Act III (Schwager: five questions for each scene).

* Video (if Act III is in order).

HW: Midsummer Remains from Class

Wednesday, 12/2/14: Legend

* Open

• Roots
• Leg--law
• Levi--light

* Review Midsummer Answers (acts I--II)

* Work on Your Christmas Legend.

• Make sure it is 
• complete (a full story of two or more pages),
• paper (written or printed), and
• legible (handwriting or font).

HW: Legend

A Midsummer Night's Dream

You may listen while you read on Spotify.

Tuesday, 12/7/14: Midsummer Blessings

* Open

• Memorization (quiz at the end of next week)
• Enjoy exercise 4 on dangling modifiers (first 10 only).  
• Roots (copy and provide example words)
• juven--young
• lau, lav, lot, lut--wash

* More on the Christmas Blessing

• You will need a legend RD (this week) and FD (next week). 
• The legend itself must be two pages or longer.  Consider legends of old such as Excalibur, the Sword in the Stone, the One Ring, the Maltese Falcon, the Blue Cross, Snow White (poisoned apple), and the Pink Panther (diamond).
• The FD should be splendid and glorious (scroll through examples)...not in MLA format this time.  Think of the setting of the tale (Ancient scroll?  Pirate scraps? Magical book?). 
• The RD is simply the legend itself. 
• Next week, you will doctor it up to make it look old and add a map (or scavenger riddles) to finish it off. 

* A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Schwager: Read and answer three questions for act 2, scene 2 (see the Google drive for the questions if you misplaced them).  
• West: Read Act 3, scene 1 and do questions. 

HW: Finish reading and questions; Legend (RD of at least two pages due block day)

Joaquin De Luz and Maria Kowroski in George Balanchine’s ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photograph by Paul Kolnik 

Monday, 12/1/14: Advent!

* Open

• Memorization
• Enjoy exercise 3 on dangling modifiers.  
• Roots (copy and provide example words)
• ject: throw
• join, junct: join
   
• Advent is the season of church calendar when we prepare for Christmas (much like Lent is the preparation for Easter).  
• If you would like daily devotional readings for Advent, here are some from pastor John Piper (it's free; choose your download format on the left). 

* Upcoming creative writing: A Christmas Blessing

• RD of your Legend Due Dec. 4
• FD of Legend and Map Due Dec. 11

* Upcoming contest writing: The Coastal Commission

• We will work on the RD after your CWP

* Midsummer Video (Schwager's classes)

HW: Begin writing the RD of your Legend (paper or electronic)

The Advent and Triumph of Christ by Hans Memling.  Is this painting best read from left to right, center out, or right to left?