Sunday, December 2, 2012

STUDYPATH* December 3-7, 2012

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
Anthologies are due in class all week for literary terms and project-based learning Act V of The Crucible
Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight responses are due today; test is scheduled tomorrow
Vocabulary from "Custom House" of The Scarlet Letter is due Thursday; read "Custom House" and prepare for class discussion on Thursday
Personal essay is scheduled and due by 8:30 A.M. on Monday, December 10 on turnitin.com web site
Responses from "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" and "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson and "I Hear America Singing" and "What is the Grass" by Walt Whitman are due Wednesday
Assignment:  Pages 353-363 Dickinson--Questions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8; Whitman--Questions 1, 2, 3 and 4

Tuesday
Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight test is scheduled today
Literary terms are covered from the anthology
Project-based learning groups work on The Crucible Act V
Literary terms are scheduled

Wednesday
Anthology responses for Dickinson and Whitman are due today
Responses for "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, from Dust Tracks on a Road and "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston and from Black Boy by Richard Wright are due Friday
Assignment:  Pages 526; 532-536; 604-608  Hughes Question 5; Hurston Questions 1, 2, 3 and 4; Wright Questions 2, 3, 4 and Vocabulary Study (this assignment has been postponed to the day of the final; responses are due then)
Project-based learning groups work on The Crucible Act V

Thursday
Letter to the editor is due today
Project-based learning groups work on The Crucible Act V
Class discussion on "Custom House" from The Scarlet Letter

Friday
Literary terms test is scheduled
Responses from Hughes, Hurston and Wright are due today (this assignment has been postponed to the day of the final; responses are due then)
Check STUDYPATH on Sunday evening for next week's assignments