Poetry Out Loud Selections

Agenda:

• Kobe Bryant's retirement poem:
• http://www.theplayerstribune.com/dear-basketball/
• Selecting a peom
• http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/find-poems

Homework:

• Honors essay due upon return
• Complete final section of O Pioneers! and reading section

Tracing the Mulberries in Part IV

Agenda:

• Questions on quotes from the second half of part 4
• Discussion of themes and the motifs we discussed yesterday
• Time to work on Cather letters

Homework:

• Letters due tomorrow (there will be no further extension of this deadline)
• Finish the book and reading questions by the day we return from break
• Honors paper now due after break

Motifs

Agenda:

• What is a motif? 
• Watch the video: http://study.com/academy/lesson/motif-in-literature-definition-examples-quiz.html
• Create a list of motifs that you have seen in a book or a TV series that you have watched.
• Create a list of motifs that you have seen in O Pioneers!
• Reading: "Pyramis and Thisbe" myth reading
• http://cmes.arizona.edu/sites/cmes.arizona.edu/files/The%20Love%20Story%20of%20Pyramus%20and%20Thisbe.pdf
• Why does Cather use the mulberry allusion to refer to this text?
• What do you think will happen in the text?

Homework:

• Finish reading part IV w/ reading questions

Vocab Quiz 2

Agenda:

• Vocab Quiz
• Continue working on Cather letters

Homework:

• Read part 4 chapters 1-4 and complete questions
• Honors paper will be due Friday or before you leave for break, whichever comes first

Bingo Vocab Review

Bingo Vocab Review

Homework: Study for tomorrow's quiz

Goal Setting and Vocab Review

Agenda:

• Look through your folders and IC grades.  Answer the following questions based on them:
• Did you meet your English 10 goal?
• Why do you think you did or didn't?  (Think about the steps that you wanted to take to achieve your goal that you outlined at the very beginning of the year.)
• Write a new goal specifically for the end of Q2.  (It may not be what you want to achieve overall, but it should be something that you realistically can achieve in the few weeks we will have after returning from break.)
• Vocab Review Sheet

Homework:

• Part 3 reading due Monday (complete reading questions to go along with it)
• Vocab Quiz Tuesday, STUDY-->Vocab review chart also due Tuesday

Cather's Perspective

Agenda:

• Begin sections 3 and 4 of packet with others who read the same passage as you

Homework:

• Be prepared to finish part 4 with your group within 10-15 minutes of class time tomorrow
• Study vocab list
• Part 3 reading will be due on Monday

Close Reading of Sample Passages

Agenda:

• Review
• Sample Passage--Analysis based on Cather's criteria

Homework:

• Finish Part 2 of the class packet
• Study vocab terms (first 13 from SAT crossword 2)
• Be prepared to finish Part 3 for Friday's class

The Novel Demeuble: Style Intro

Agenda:

• Discuss Cather's article
• Analysis: Cather v. Charlotte Bronte

Homework:

• Nothing new; study your first 13 vocab lists from list 2

The Novel Demeuble

Agenda:

• SAT Crossword #2
• Read Cather's article on "The Novel Demeuble" and answer the worksheet questions

Homework:

• Finish worksheet from class
• Be sure you have finished the crossword puzzle
• You will be handing in the reading questions from the weekend on Tuesday

SAT Vocab Quiz I

Agenda:

• SAT Vocab Quiz I
• Reading Questions

Homework:

• Complete reading questions for chapters 10-12 of part 2

City v. Country Continued

Agenda:

• Continue discussion
• Begin work on chapter questions

Homework:

• Study for Friday's vocab quiz: adamant, adversity, affable, allay, aloof, altruistic, animosity, ardent, arrogant, austere, banal, baneful, berate, brevity, circumlocution, compliant
• Read 8 + 9, answer reading questions