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

Finals Schedule (FYI)

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"

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

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).

Wednesday, 11/16: Writing

* Pray

* J15 Reviewed

* CWP

HW: Study for your vocabulary unit 4 quiz

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)

Monday, 11/13: Reading

J.R.R. Tolkien
* Open

* Quiz take-n'-retake
 
* Satire
* A Midsummer Night's Dream

* CWP or Outside Reading