Monday, 1/5: Twelfth Night: The Last Day of Christmas

* Open

• Choose a new seat with a new person on at least one side of you.
  

*  Tell us the story of your Christmas blessing...on the last day of Christmas. 

* What is our focus in quarter 3?

• Click the Plan link above

HW: Journal 15: Compose an interesting thesis on the study of poetry and defend it for three nicely crafted, delicious sentences. 

Example theses:

• People who cannot interpret and compose basic poetry should not receive a high school diploma. 
• Poetry is a hindrance to education in the modern world.  
• Historically, Americans write poor, depressing poetry that sounds awful.  We cannot outdo our forebearers and should give up now to focus on higher math.   
• Poetry, spoken out loud, can change the physical world.  

A Twelfth Night Celebration

A Scene from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night

The End?

Peter Jackson may be finished with the story of The Hobbit, but the story of those hobbits is not finished with you: read a good professor's notes.

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