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HUMANITIES Homework/Announcements __**Due Monday, 17 June 2013:**__ 1) Due--finish contributing to the wikiforums **//before//** MONDAY.
 * 2) Your FINAL grade for this class will be posted Monday morning.**
 * Come see me if there is a problem on Monday or Tuesday--NOT after.**

__**Due Friday, 14 June 2013:**__ 1) DUE tomorrow--REFLECTIVE ESSAYS, Be prepared to read your essays out loud. Must be typed. 1-1/2 pages 2) Due--finish contributing to the wikiforums **//before//** MONDAY. __**Due Thursday, 13 June 2013:**__ 1) Please contribute to the unlocked wikiforums on our Period 2 discussion page.
 * 3) Your FINAL grade for this class will be posted Monday morning.**
 * Come see me if there is a problem on Monday or Tuesday--NOT after.**

__**Due Tuesday, 4 June 2013:**__ 1) I have locked the older wikiforums. Please contribute to the open forums, which I will lock on Wednesday. 2) Those of you who did not turn in a letter today, please do so tomorrow.

__**Due Monday, 3 June 2013:**__ 1) Your Letters to Self are DUE. Bring an envelope and one or two forever stamps. 2) Please go to the wikiforums and contribute to all the open discussions.

__**Due Friday, 31 May 2013:**__ 1) BRING your I.D.'s to the computer Lab. 2) LETTERS TO SELF DUE MONDAY! __**Due Wednesday, 29 May 2013:**__ 1) Remember that your LETTERS TO SELF are due Monday, June 3rd. . 2) Please contribute to Felix's, Rachel's and Kirby's wikiforums. I'll lock them tomorrow morning. 3) Emily and Bobby are giving their presentations tomorrow. 4) The final exam day is Friday, June 14th. We will be reading our reflective essays on Thursday, the 13th and Friday the 14th. __**Due Friday, 24 May 2013:**__ 1) please contribute to our wikiforum. Thanks __**Due Thursday, 23 May 2013:**__ __**1) We will have a common assessment essay in class tomorrow. It's not anything that requires background information.**__

__**Due Wednesday, 22 May 2013:**__ 1) Contribute to our wikiforum. Go to the period 2 discussion link and then go to the double bubbles on the tab. Read the directions, contribute and post. Today's topics were abortion and rape.

__**Due Monday, 20 May 2013:**__ 1) Contribute to our wikiforum. Go to the period 2 discussion link and then go to the double bubbles on the tab. Read the directions, contribute and post. 2) Get your research presentations together and create a slide show or video. __**Remember:**__ The best presentations are ones in which the presenter: -- **looks at the audience** -- **provides strong images in the presentation**
 * -- memorizes the slide show content**
 * -- and LIMITS the text on the slide**

__**Due Monday, 6 May 2013:**__ 1) Sorry for the confusion today. Note cards with a source list or source cards AND an outline are due Monday--today. Rough drafts Wednesday and Final drafts Thursday.

__**Due Thursday, 2 May 2013:**__ 1) You watched a performance today entitled //The Complete Works of William Shakespeare//. You should have taken notes on your handout. Tonight, you must type up your responses to the questions and turn them in Thursday at the beginning of class. I won’t accept this assignment later than Thursday, May 2nd. The extra credit will go into your writing category, and I think all of you need a little boost in this area. 2) Here is the breakdown of due dates for research paper:
 * Note Cards due at the end of class Friday--WITH A SOURCES LIST (5/3)**
 * Outlines due Monday (5/6)**
 * Rough Drafts due Wednesday (5/8)**
 * Final drafts due Thursday (5/9)**

__**Due Tuesday, 30 2013:**__ 1) We will be in the media center tomorrow and Friday to get our research materials. We will take notes on Note Cards and start our Sources list, which works with a note card. Here is the Note Card document: and Here is a document for online research websites that Ms. Butera put together for you. 2) Wednesday we will watch the Drama class's performance of all the Shakespeare plays. 3) Thursday we will review Outlines and Works Cited formatting.

__**Due Tuesday, 23 April 2013:**__ 1) We are going to have another common assessment writing test tomorrow. Before we take the test, we will review your last test.

__**Due Thursday, 18 April 2013:**__ 1) Please think over what you would like to research for your controversial topics research paper. We will choose topics tomorrow. __**Due Friday, 5 April 2013:**__
 * 1) Siddhartha Games presentations and play**. Remember to bring your directions. I only got two today.

__**Due Thursday, 4 April 2013:**__ 1) Bring a **draft of your directions**. 2) Final adjustments to game in class. __**Due Friday, 5 April 2013:**__ __**DUE TUESDAY, 16 April 2013:**__ 1) Spring Green Package:
 * 1) Siddhartha Games presentations and play**

__**Due Wednesday, 3 April 2013:**__ 1) Siddhartha Essay Due (50 points) Here are the essay topics: here is another version of the same topics:

__**Due Monday, 1 April 2013:**__ 1) Monday in class we will work together to make our Siddhartha games, so **bring materials to assemble the game**. 2) Due TUESDAY: So, yes, this is a holiday weekend. We will working on a life path mini-project in class.

__**Due Friday, 22 March 2013:**__ __**Remember this? It was our reading schedule.**__ 2) Here is the breakdown of the reading requirements for Siddhartha: Tuesday: Gotama and Awakening Wednesday: Kamala Thursday: Amongst the People Friday: Samsara Monday: By the River and The Ferryman Tuesday: The Son Wednesday: Om Thursday: Govinda Friday: Exam Instead of Friday being an exam, we will have it **Tuesday in the computer lab**. You will find the test on Edline. __**Due Monday, 18 March 2013:**__ 1) Please complete the chapter quiz on Kamala:
 * Tomorrow--Friday,** we will talk about the end of the text, watch the rest of the film, and plan our Nirvana Game.[[file:Siddhartha Nirvana Game.docx]]

__**Due Friday, 15 March 2013:**__ 1) Please bring your student I.D.'s to the Media Center. Open book/text tests. __**Due Tuesday, 12 March 2012:**__ 1) Please read the following //Siddhartha// Chapters: Gotama, and Awakening 2) Here is the breakdown of the reading requirements for Siddhartha: Tuesday: Gotama and Awakening Wednesday: Kamala Thursday: Amongst the People Friday: Samsara Monday: By the River and The Ferryman Tuesday: The Son Wednesday: Om Thursday: Govinda Friday: Exam

__**Due Tuesday, 5 March 2013:**__ 1) Please finish Chapter 1 of __//Siddhartha//__ 2) Please also bring the list you filled out today, so that we can contnue discussing it. (the list of statements like "Money can buy happiness")

__**Due Friday, 1 March 2013:**__ 1) Please watch the short video about "nirvana" explained by a Buddhist monk: [|Buddhism and Nirvana] 2) Please read the article about child brides: [|Too Young to Wed] __**For Wednesday, 27 February 2013:**__ 1) Please bring your outside reading book tomorrow. We will have a reader's workshop. __**For Tuesday, 26 February 2013:**__ 1) Bring your student I.D.'s so that you can check out //Siddhartha// in the Media Center. 2) Bring your journals because you will take some notes in class.

__**For Thursday, 21 February 2013:**__ __**Study: **__

__**For Wednesday, 20 February 2013:**__ 1) We will review all the slides and prepare for our test on Thursday. __**For Friday, 15 February 2013:**__ 1) Prepare for the Renaissance Vocab test tomorrow. 2) We will have the slide test on Tuesday

__**For Thursday, 15 February 2013:**__ 1) We will finish our slide show tomorrow and take a test on Friday. Don't forget to memorize the art vocabulary too. See the file below. __**For Wednesday, 13 February 2013:**__ 1) Study your art terms: 2) Tomorrow we will finish Michelangelo

__**For Tuesday, 12 February 2013:**__ 1) We will finish up the Renaissance Art next week, but I would like you to watch a couple of brief videos related to our art. We will study Michelangelo next, so here are the links for the videos of Michelangelo's Pieta: [|Pieta] [|Pieta 2] 2) Here is a link to a brief biography of Botticelli: Botticelli Information: [|Botticelli]

__**For Wednesday, 30 January 2013:**__ 1) Come to the Media Center and bring pens, pencils, lined paper, your //Hamlet// text and ONE note card with your own notes. 2) Final Exam is on Hamlet--objective portion is CLOSED BOOK, but you may use your note card. And essay is OPEN BOOK. __**For Tuesday, 29 January 2013:**__ 1) Peruse the notes on Hamlet for our discussion tomorrow. Please read the "analysis of major characters" and the "themes, symbols and motifs" [|Spark Notes Hamlet] __**For Monday, 28 January 2013:**__ 1) Our big Final will be on Hamlet. Finish the text--Act V this weekend. We will finish the film Monday and review Monday and Tuesday. 2) On our Final exam day (or before), you must turn in a book review of your outside reading book--I'm looking for 200 pages of outside reading. This will go into your grade for semester 1. Here is the book review form:

__**For Friday, 25 January 2013:**__ 1) Finish Act IV tonight if you haven't already. 2) We will do some online work in the computer lab tomorrow so meet there and BRING YOUR STUDENT I.D.s. (Prepare for a quiz)

__**For Wednesday, 23 January 2013:**__ 1) We read and saw the film through all of Act III today. Tomorrow, you may bring //Hamlet// for our Reader's Workshop, and start reading Act IV. OR bring your outside reading book. NO SLEEPING, or I send you to jail with no reader's workshop points. To earn points, you have to have one of the two books and read through the period. 2) We don't have much time left to finish Hamlet, so it's all of Act IV read by Thursday, and Act V by Monday.

__**For Tuesday, 22 January 2013:**__ Please read ALL of Act III. Here is the translated version to help you out. Just keep reading through the scene and then click on the next scene: [|Hamlet Act III]

__**In Class :**__ Hamlet Act II practice quiz: [|Practice quiz] Please take the quiz on Hamlet Act II. Open the following document. You can copy it to another Word document or enable editing on this one and print your answers. __**Due Friday, 18 January 2013:**__ 1) **Bring your Student ID to the Media Center!** 2) __I'm only going to test you on Hamlet ACT II, not III tomorrow__. __**Due Thursday, 17 January 2013:**__ 1) Tomorrow you will take a common assessment essay test with all the senior English students. Our work today on the article about income inequality will help you. Please also look at these graphs to get ideas about what America is doing right now. ; . 2) You will have a quiz on Hamlet, Acts II, and III on Friday in the Media Center. __**Due Wednesday, 16 January 2013:**__ 1) Please read Hamlet. Act III, scene i. __**Due Tuesday, 15 January 2013:**__ 1) This Thursday you will be taking another common assessment essay. You will read a brief prompt and then spend your response taking a position and supporting it. You may use support from other readings, or your own experiences and observations. We will spend Wednesday preparing for your writing the next day. 2) **__Tonight, read Act II, scene ii up until you get to the part where the //Players// enter, which is half way through Act II, scene ii.__** I am not requiring you to read Act II, scene i, because this is all about Polonius sending Reynoldo to spy on Laertes in France. It's one of those weird scenes that show you how much of a busy-body Polonius is. Polonius' son, Laertes is a good guy---there's nothing in his behavior that indicates he should be spied on, but Polonius can't help himself. It's Polonius's job to know what's going on in Denmark for the King's sake, but to send a spy on his own son shows how Polonius wants to know everything. Just read to where the Players come in. __**Due Monday 14, January 2013:**__ 1) Read Hamlet Act 1, Scenes iv, and v. If you prefer to read our text, please continue to do so. If you would like to read a modern translation, please go to the following site: [|Hamlet translated,] 2) Contribute to our wikiforum on Act 1, scenes 4, and 5. 3) please also read your outside reading pages! (200 pages due in two weeks)

__**Due Friday, 11 January 2013:**__ 1) Go the the Media Center! 2) Please **bring your student I.D.'s** to the Media Center with you, or you won't be able to participate today. 3) Please contribute to our Wikiforum for your period.

__**Wednesday, 9 January 2013:**__ 1) BRING YOUR OUTSIDE READING BOOKS TO CLASS!!! You will be reading in your outside reading books today in class. Catch up because Book Reviews are due at the end of the month before finals.

Welcome Back, Everyone I am excited to see you, but I won't be able to until Thursday--I'm at a conference. Until then, you will be reading the first Act of //Hamlet// and Wednesday you will bring your __**outside reading book**__ and catch up on the pages that are due at the end of the month. See you all Thursday ): __**Due Tuesday, 8 january 2013:**__ 1) Please read Act 1, scenes i, ii, and iii tonight in //Hamlet//. At the least, scenes i and ii. 2) You will watch the first part of one film interpretation of //Hamlet// in class tomorrow. 3) Be prepared to contribute to our wikiforum tomorrow night for homework.

__**Due Monday, 7 January 2013**__ __**1) Please complete the winter package:**__ __**Due Tuesday, 18 December 2012:**__ 1) BRING YOUR I.D.'s!!!!! 2) We will do two things--pick up //Hamlet// 3) and take the rest of our dark ages tests. 4) When I get home I'll try to post the rest of the Dark Ages video--Parts 8-10. If I can't do it soon, and you were in class today, just go to parts 9 and 10. Thanks. See you tomorrow.

__**Due Friday, 14 December 2012:**__ 1) If you didn't turn in your Tristan and Iseult essays today, turn them in. Please write an essay which explores the comparisons and contrasts between //Tristan and Iseul//t the text and //Tristan and Isolde// the film. Be sure to indicate which one you preferred. You may want to explore whether or not the text can accurately or successfully be translated to film. 2) You can bring in notes on **a note card**--front and back for your test. You will also have a quiz on the history aspect of the Dark Ages, based on our film. Here are links to the film for you to review: This is The History Channel's The Dark Ages film: [|dark ages part 1] [|dark ages part 2][| dark ages part 3] [|dark ages part 4] [|dark ages part 5][|dark ages part 6] [|dark ages part 7] 3) You will also have a quiz on the architecture and architectural terms. You only need to know slides 1-25. I may add other illustrations, but I won't add more things to learn.

__**Due Thursday, 13 December 2012:**__ 1) Study the PowerPoint and keep good notes for your test on Friday. Review the definitions of the architectural terms as well.

__**Due Wednesday, 12 December 2012:**__ 1) Please write an essay which explores the comparisons and contrasts between Tristan and Iseult the text and Tristan and Isolde the film. Be sure to indicate which one you preferred. You may want to explore whether or not the text can acurately or successfully be translated to film. This essay will be due Thursday. **Start working on it tonight.** 2) I'm going to put up the medieval PowerPoint that I showed you today. __**Due Monday, 10 December 2012:**__ 1) Please look at the link on Notre Dame: [|Notre Dame] 2) This week we will be finishing the Tristan and Iseult film. We will also finish medieval architecture and history. 3) Plan on an architecture/art/history test on Friday

__**Due Friday, 7 December 2012:**__ 1) We are continuing with the film tomorrow.

__**Due Thursday, 6 December 2012:**__ 1) Your final //Tristan and Iseult// task will be to write a comparison/contrast between the text and the film, so start keeping notes in your journal about the differences. 2) Tonight in your journals, please note the differences you saw today in the film: Morholt, King Mark, Brangien, the war aspect of the Briton tribes versus Ireland. __**Due Tuesday, 4 December 2012:**__ 1) We will be working this week on our writing and on the art and architecture of the Dark Ages (Middle Ages) in class. Have a good night

__**Due Monday, 3 December 2012:**__ 1) Read the last three chapters of Tristan and Iseult: Dinas of Lidan, Tristan Mad and Death.

__**Due Friday, 30 November 2012:**__ 1) Meet in the Media Center. BRING YOUR ID's!!!!! 2) REad Tristan and Iseult: Pages 147-155 and Kaherdin 159-164) 3) You will have a quiz on the chapters we have read. __**Due Thursday, 29 November 2012:**__ 1) Please read two chapters in Tristan and Iseult and answer the questions: Chapter 13 The Voice of the Nightingale (131-137) Chapter 14 The Little Fairy Bell (141-144) __**Due Tuesday, 27 November 2012:**__ 1) I will be at a funeral today. You will have reading questions to answer in class on chapters 10-12. What you don't finish in class you may take home to finish.
 * 1) When Iseult is asleep with King Mark, how does she know Tristan is summoning her?
 * 2) How does Tristan kill Denoalen? How does he kill Gondoine?
 * 1) Duke Gilain owns a fairy dog. What is its name?
 * 2) How does Tristan win it? Why does he send it to Iseult?
 * 3) What does Iseult throw out the window into the sea and why?

__**Due Friday, 16 November 2012:**__ 1) Please continue to read the following chapters and to answer the questions; Brangien Delivered to the Serfs The Tall Pine- Tree 2) You will be reading a few chapters over the week, which will be due on **Monday, November 26th-**-it's only 27 pages: The Dwarf Frocin The Chantry Leap
 * 1) Does King Mark genuinely love Iseult, or does he love her through the help of the potion?
 * 2) What important orders does Iseult give the two serfs?
 * 3) How do the serfs “prove” to Iseult that they carried out her plans?
 * 1) How does King Mark know to be on the look-out for affections between Tristan and Iseult?
 * 2) Why does Iseult admit that Tristan summons her nightly when she knows King Mark is there?
 * 3) Why does Frocin flee to Wales?
 * 1) What is Frocin’s plan to prove Tristan is truly in love with Iseult?
 * 2) What does Frocin put on the floor after everyone is thought to be asleep? Why?
 * 3) The stars lead Frocin, the king, and the barons back to the room, but Tristan is in his own bed and Iseult pretends to be asleep. How do they know that Tristan did talk to Iseult?
 * 1) What does Dinas of Lidan say and do for Tristan?
 * 2) How does Dinas of Lidan try to help Iseult? What does he do after his request is denied?
 * 3) What punishment does King Mark agree is worth more than death for Iseult? Who requests it?

The Wood of the Morois
 * 1) What does Ogrin beg Tristan to do and why? Why does Tristan refuse?
 * 2) What is “Failnaught” and how does it get its name?
 * 3) When King Mark discovers Tristan and Iseult asleep, why does he believe that Tristan and Iseult have lived purely in the woods together?

__**Tuesday, 13 November 2012:**__ 1) Please read "The Morholt Out of Ireland" and "The Quest for the Lady with the Hair of Gold" in your //Tristan and Iseult// texts 2) Please also contribute to our wkiforum discussion topic if you haven't already done so. __**Friday, 9 November 2012:**__ 1) BRING I.D to work in the computer lab in the Media center 2) I am going to have you start reading articles from National Geographic and Archeology Today. Please go to one or both of the websites and read an article. Come to class prepared to type in a wikiforum response to the article you read.[|Archeology] [|National Geographic Magazine]

__**Thursday, 8 November 2012:**__ 1) BRING I.D!!!! to check out Tristan and Iseult 1) Hi everyone--we will spend time in class tomorrow grading the test we took today and gong over brag sheets and personal statements. 2) Thursday, we will pick up our next novel--//Tristan and Iseult//. Bring your I.D. cards on Thursday.
 * __Wednesday, 7 November 2012:__**

__**Due Tuesday, 5 November 2012:**__ Tomorrow we will have an exam on our Rome unit. This will include the film on the Roman Emperors. You may write notes on a 3X 5 card and bring it to class. If you don't have a note card, just cut a piece of paper with the same dimensions. __**Due Friday, 2 November 2012:**__ 1) We will wrap up Rome tomorrow. Be prepared for a test on Monday. You will be able to use a card of notes on this test too. AND it is NOT the same as Ms. Neufeld's (:

__**Due Wednesday, 31 October 2012:**__ 1) Your rough drafts for the personal statement are due! You got an extra day. Bring them in (: __**Due Tuesday, 30 October 2012:**__ 1) Hi Everyone, Your rough drafts for the personal statement is due tomorrow!!!!!

__**Due Monday, 29 October 2012:**__ 1) Work on your personal statements this weekend. You will be turning in a rough draft on **Tuesday.** Remember to tell a story that your reader can visualize. Also, connect the story to your major or career goal. 2) I put the things you need for the personal statement at the top of our handouts page. 3) More Rome on Monday.

__**Due Thursday, 26 October 2012:**__ 1) Go directly to the Media Center's Computer Lab. BRING YOUR STUDENT I.D.'s! 2) We will work on writing the personal statement for the University of California Admissions' process. [|UC personal statement] Look at the website and look at the first prompt. This is the prompt to which we will be responding, "Describe the world you come from...."

__**Due Tuesday, 23 October 2012:**__ 1) We will go back to the ideal high school presentations and try to wrap that up . Coming Up: 2) I need to finish testing students, so we will probably grade on Wednesday or Thursday 3) You will get your Brag Sheets back before you get your research papers back. Expect to get your research papers back a few at a time. 4) Next up is Rome. We will probably start watching a film on Rome on Wednesday. __**Due Monday, 22 October 2012:**__ 1) Those of you who were absent on Friday, the test was postponed until Monday, so study. You an also bring in ONE 3" by 5" note card and put any note information you want on the front and back. Look below to see all the things you should review. 2) Next up is ancient Rome--We will start Rome on Wednesday of next week

__**Due Friday, 19 October 2012:**__ 1) You will have a test on the Ancient Greek Unit: Make sure you know the Greek alphabet, theGreek vocab. Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Book 2 of the Republic, and the Battle of Thermopylae. 2) Some of you owe me some work--the window is closing. __**DUE THURSDAY, 18 October 2012:**__ 1) Greek Art Test--review the slide show on our Handouts page--it's the Ancient Greet Art PowerPoint 2) I forgot to collect your BRAG SHEETS--Bring them and turn them in to the IN box! (: __**Due Wednesday, 17 October 2012:**__ Brag sheets due tomorrow. __**Due Tuesday, 16 October 2012:**__ If you have turned in your research paper, you can rest tonight, yay! If you haven't turned in your paper, get in in tomorrow. No resting 'til it's done. ); __**Due Monday, 15 October 2012:**__ 1) I'm not crazy--your final research paper drafts are due. Please see the following documents/links to help in the assembly of your final draft: This is a link to a sample research paper with notes to you on where and how you should format: [|Purdue sample MLA research paper] This whole Purdue site helps you to format everything. Here is another look at a sample MLA research paper: . Please notice two things many of you were missing on our rough draft day: 1. Integrated quotes within your document that have parenthetical citations--it looks like this: "Culinary Arts is one of the few disciplines that require both a scientific and an artistic mind" (Thacker 25). and 2. a Works Cited page, which is a page that has all of our sources listed in alphabetical order. Refer to these two pages at the Purdue website OR the two sample papers I gave you above. Basic In-Text Citation Rules: [|In-Text Citations] Works cited Page: [|Works Cited] 2) Your Brag Sheets will be due on Wednesday: This is a long example of what a teacher may want to see in a Brag Sheet. Don't worry about including everything. This is meant to get you started: sample Brag Sheets/Student Resumes outline: 3) Next week we will take a test on the Art and architecture, and vocabulary of Greece and the Battle at Thermopylae, as well as our selections of the Plato text--probably Wednesday or Thursday. Be aware that the vocabulary for the Spartan film will be: Phalanx, Hoplite, Dory, Xiphos, Trireme, the Immortals, and Helot.

__**Due Friday, 12 October 2012:**__ 1) Please bring your STUDENT I.D.s to the computer lab. Go directly to the lab. 2) Please bring your research papers and a flash drive so that you can make adjustments and save your work for the weekend. 3) Please also bring the Works Cited handout I gave you yesterday. __**Due Thursday, 11 October 2012:**__ 1) Bring back your rough drafts. Hopefully you will bring in another draft based on what we worked on today. 2) We will still finish up the Spartan film, and tackle other work mentioned below. __**Due Wednesday, 10 October 2012:**__ 1) Your rough Drafts are due tomorrow. Yay!!!! 2) For Thursday, please watch the video of the British Museum Parthenon Marbles (it takes 6 minutes) and read the Athens Acropolis page (about 3 minutes) regarding the same marbles housed in Graet Britain. 3) I'll talk to you about Brag Sheets tomorrow at the end of class. __**[|parthenon status of the British Museum]**__ __**[|reunite acropolis]**__ __**Due Tuesday, 9 October 2012:**__ 1) Work on your research papers 2) We will finish the Spartan film tomorrow and move into Brag Sheet

__**Due Monday, 6 October 2012:**__ 1) Research paper first drafts are DUE!!!! Come to class with your first draft, so you have a chance to earn a high grade on your final draft. I will give you a grade for your first draft, so have it. 2) We will continue the bloody legacy of the Bttle at Thermopylae after we peer edit for the first part of class.

__**Du****e Friday, 5 October 2012:**__ 1) Those who haven't taken your vocab test will do so and those who didn't turn in an outline need to . 2) REview the works cited links below __**Due Thursday, 4 October 2012:**__ 1) Hello Seniors! Go straight to the Media Center for __college orientation.__ 2) If you didn't turn in your outlines to me today, find me and turn them in in the Media Center. 3) These are links to the Purdue University Website, which shows you how to write a Works Cited page, which you will need to do for your research paper, and how to integrate quotations: Works cited Page: [|Works Cited] Basic In-Text Citation Rules: [|In-Text Citations] A general rule is that you need to have at least one quote or reference to a source in each of your body paragraphs. This keeps your paper from seeming unsubstantiated. You want to prove that you have done research on your topic, and you do this by using quotes and references for support throughout your research paper. --The Purdue website is excellent! Look in the left menu for help in documenting--Remember, we are using MLA __**Due Wednesday, 3 October 2012:**__ 1) Your outlines are due. Remember that if you choose a sentence outline, then everything needs to be a complete sentence, ending with a period. If you choose a topic outline, then all of your divisions must be INCOMPLETE sentences, which do NOT end with periods. 2) We will take the Greek vocab test tomorrow at the beginning of class. 2) On Thursday, you will need to go to th Media Center for a counseling orientation on colleges. 4) On Wednesday night in the Media Center there is a College Night, which I encourage you all to attend. You will be able to hear former students discuss college life and different universities and colleges.

__**Due Tuesday, 2 October 2012:**__ 1) Please review the handout on Outlines found on our handouts page. 2) Your outlines will be due on Wednesday. I'll give you back your note cards tomorrow. __**Due Monday, 1 October 2012:**__ 1) For MONDAY, you have 20 Note Cards DUE. --That means that you should have your FIVE sources already picked out. You need 1 book, 1 Encyclopedia, 1 magazine article and 2 others which you can choose, probably from the Internet. PLEASE REMEMBER that you will need to list/NUMBER these sources on ONE piece of paper. I would list them in alphabetical order by author's last name and then title, but if you don't have an author, alphabetize by title. If your titles are the same, make sure you provide SOMETHING--a website address, or another identifying feature to distinguish one from the other. --You need FOUR Note Cards for EACH source, totalling 20. --Please remember that you do NOT need four note cards for each TOPIC. The topics you label will be based entirely on the content of your note card. For example, let's say you get 4 note cards from one source and you find 3 quotes or you summarize information regarding __college education__ for your career and you find 1 good quote on __salary__ for your career. Now you have FOUR cards for ONE source and 3 of those cards are on the topic of education and 1 is on salary. You have fulfilled what you need. Move along to the next source and repeat the process until you have four note cards for each of your five sources. The number of TOPICS is up to you and what you find. 2) I have also put all of our recent handouts at the top of our Handouts page located in the left menu for your reference. 3) CORRECTION: I gave you the wrong pages to read. Please read Phaedo pages 136 to 146. This is the death of Socrates

__**Due Thursday, 27 September 2012:**__ 1) Contribute to our discussion forum 2) Your ideal classroom project is due. Be prepared to discuss it. 3) For MONDAY, you have 20 Note Cards DUE. --That means that you should have your FIVE sources already picked out. You need 1 book, 1 Encyclopedia, 1 magazine article and 2 others which you can choose, probably from the Internet. PLEASE REMEMBER that you will need to list/NUMBER these sources on ONE piece of paper. I would list them in alphabetical order by author's last name and then title, but if you don't have an author, alphabetize by title. If your titles are the same, make sure you provide SOMETHING--a website address, or another identifying feature to distinguish one from the other. --You need FOUR Note Cards for EACH source, totalling 20. --Please remember that you do NOT need four note cards for each TOPIC. The topics you label will be based entirely on the content of your note card. For example, let's say you get 4 note cards from one source and you find 3 quotes or you summarize information regarding __college education__ for your career and you find 1 good quote on __salary__ for your career. Now you have FOUR cards for ONE source and 3 of those cards are on the topic of education and 1 is on salary. You have fulfilled what you need. Move along to the next source and repeat the process until you have four note cards for each of your five sources. The number of TOPICS is up to you and what you find. 4) I have also put all of our recent handouts at the top of our Handouts page located in the left menu for your reference. 5) Please also read the death of Socrates--Pages 149-160, which will also be due on Monday. __**Due Wednesday, 26 September and Thursday, 27 September 2012:**__ 1) If you finish your ideal classroom project tonight, you may turn it in **Wednesday**. I will accept it on **Thursday** as well. 2) There is a discussion forum on our Period 2 page regarding your Ideal Classroom Project. You should post your response before class on **Thursday.** 3) There are 20 note cards due on **Monday** for your research paper. We will go over the Note Cards document in class tomorrow, so bring the document to class. 4) Extra time in class should be spent reading the death of Socrates--Pages 149-160, which will also be due on Monday. 5) Your Vocabulary Quiz will be postponed unti **Tuesday** of next week.

__**Due Tuesday, 25 September 2012:**__ 1) Please start on your Ideal Classroom Project 2) Finish reading the Republic Book 2, and answer the following questions on it:

__**Due Friday, 21 September 2012:**__ 1) Greek Alphabet test. Study! 2) Bring your Plato books. You will read Book II, pages 219-233. 3) You will do a mini-project on designing your ideal classroom. Start on it this weekend. The project is created to work with what we have studied with Plato.

__**Due Thursday, 20 September 2012:**__ 1) We will be in the Media Center again tomorrow. Bring your I.D.'s. You may want to check out some books. 2) Study your Greek letters __**Due Wednesday, 19 September 2012:**__ 1) Complete the handout on your Senior Career Paper Topics 2) Please come to the Media Center tomorrow. Bring your I.D!

__**Due Tuesday, 18 September 2012:**__ 1) Watch the videos on the following links: This one is an animated version of the Allegory of the Cave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ. This one is a Matrix connection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNMZEDOBrM 2) Please go to our discussion forum and contribute to our discussion on the ideas presented in The Matrix and "Allegory of the Cave" __**Monday, 17 September 2012:**__ 1) Finish "Allegory of the Cave" 2) Greek alphabet--Nu to Omega 3) Winged Nike or Nike of Samothrace

__**Due Friday, 14 September 2012:**__ 1) Study for your Greek Alphabet quiz--NO quiz on the Greek gods and goddesses (yet) 2) Definitely bring your Plato books. Thanks

__**Due Thursday, 13 September 2012:**__1) Spend time tonight considering your career path. Jot down THREE possible majors or careers you would like to research. Put these possibilities in your journals.2) We will begin Plato tomorrow, so bring your books. Thank you.__**Due Wednesday, 12 September 2012:**__ 1) Please look at the Geological Timeline on our resources page. I want you to get a sense of where people and civilizations fit into the estimated age of the Earth. 2) Please click on Period 2 and go up to the top of the page. Click on the double bubble and then click on "Components of a Healthy Society." Respond to the prompt(s) and post in the square. The questions are intentionally vague. Qualify why you think a society needs or doesn't need laws. What would happen if the opposite were to occur?

__**Due Tuesday, 11 September 2012:**__ 1) Look for a quote from a famous person that captures a truth about you or your philosophy of life. You will write it on your Skitch. Here are a few good sites: [|quotable quotes], [|famous quotes] 2) You will have a quiz on the first half of the Greek alphabet Friday, so study. 3) Go to our Resources page and click on Greek gods and goddesses. Review the gods and goddesses. We will study them further, but review them anyway. That's it for today.

__**Due Monday, 10 September 2012:**__No homework this weekend. (:__**Due Thursday, 6 September 2012:**__1) Join our class website. Your user name must be your first and last name, in that order, with NO numbers. It could be SammyWu or sammywu or sammy-wu or Sammy.Wu- or Sammy-Wu---you get the idea. All you have to do is go to our website and click on "join". You will need to provide a user name, a password, and your email address. If you do not have an email address, see me and we will make one for you. If you do not currently have internet access, you will be able to access the internet from our school campus. You will need to wait for me to add you to our site. When I do, you will be a member. 2) You will need to finish the survey or essay that you started today if you didn't finish it in class, and bring it to class tomorrow. 3) Please go to our Class Info page and print the following: --the restroom/extra credit passes --the plagiarism contract --and the syllabus acknowledgement sheet and bring them to class. Be sure you and your parents read the plagiarism contract and the syllabus before signing them.

__Due, Tuesday ,22 May 2012:__ __Due Thursday, 17 May 2012:__
 * 2) Here is the Final Creative Project: [[file:Senior Final Creative Project.doc]]**
 * 1) Read the Kamala chapter and if you want to start on it, fill in the handout. It won't be due until Monday:**
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="file:mrspenalora-humanities/Quiz 3 Kamala and Amongst the People.doc"]] [[file:mrspenalora-humanities/Quiz 3 Kamala and Amongst the People.doc|Quiz 3 Kamala and Amongst the People.doc]]**

__Due Wednesday, 16 May 2012:__ __Due Monday, 14 May 2012:__
 * 1) Read the Kamala chapter in //Siddhartha//**
 * 1) Please read chapters 3 and 4 over the weekend and complete the following chapter questions:**
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="file:mrspenalora-humanities/Quiz 2 Gotama and Awakening.doc"]] [[file:mrspenalora-humanities/Quiz 2 Gotama and Awakening.doc|Quiz 2 Gotama and Awakening.doc]]**

__Due Friday, 11 May 2012:__ __Due Thursday, 10 2012:__ __Due Wednesday, 9 May 2012:__ __Due Tuesday, 8 May 2012:__ __Due Tomorrow, Thursday, 3 May 2012:__ __Due Monday, 23 April 2012:__ __Due Friday, 20 April 2012:__ __Due Thursday, 19 April 2012:__ __Due Wednesday, 18 April 2012:__ __Due Tuesday, 17 April 2012:__ __Due Monday, 16 April 2012:__
 * 1) If you did not turn in your Chapter 1 and 2 quiz, yo umay still turn it in for half credit.**
 * 2) You will be reading chapters three and four over the weekend, so if you want to get started, go ahead.**
 * 1) Please read Chapter 2 of Siddhartha and print out and fill in the questions on the handout below.**
 * 1) Read Chapter 1 of Siddhartha.**
 * 2) Print the following handout. [[file:Quiz 1 The Brahmins Son and With the Samanas.doc]]Try to answer the questions tonight at home, but if you are studying for another AP test, just bring the handout to class.**
 * 1) Pre-read Chapter 1 of //Siddhartha//. We will tackle the first chapter together again in class, but walk into this text knowing that you are going to follow a young man on his journey of decisions as he tries to reach his goal. I think this is very appropriate for the last month of your Senior year.**
 * 2) Please watch the following video about the Buddhist concept of Nirvana [|Buddhism and Nirvana]**
 * 1) Bring your student I.D. cards to pick up Siddhartha at the Library**
 * 2) Take our Renaissance Art slide show test. Here is the PowerPoint to study: [[file:Renaissance Art Spring.ppt]]Here is an older version of PowerPoint (same slide show)[[file:Renaissance Spring PowerPnt.ppt]]**
 * 1) Your 400 pages of outside reading are due by Monday of next week--the 23rd. In addition to the pages, I need a vocab log (8 entries=two pages). IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TURNED IN YOUR BOOKS, JUST GET VOCAB FROM ARTICLES OR OTHER READINGS OVER THE WEEKEND.**
 * 2) Here is the Final Creative Project: [[file:Senior Final Creative Project.doc]]**
 * 1) We will have some sneior project presentations on Friday.**
 * 2) If you would like to get a start on this weekend's homework, your 400 pages of outside reading are due by Monday of next week--the 23rd. In addition to the pages, I need a vocab log (8 entries=two pages) for each book that make up the 400 pages. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TURNED IN YOUR BOOKS, JUST GET VOCAB FROM ARTICLES OR OTHER READINGS OVER THE WEEKEND.**
 * 1) Please make sure you did all of the homework from yesterday.**
 * 2) Plus, Remember that your 400 pages of outside reading book reviews are due on Monday.**
 * 1) Here is the link for the vidoeo of Michelangelo's Pieta: [|Pieta]**
 * []**
 * 2) Please go to your period and respond to our wikiforum on Renaissance art.**
 * 3) Please answer the following questions in your journals from Bill cosby's essay.**
 * Consider the effect parenthood might have on your life: How would you make the decision of whether or not to have children? What variables would be involved in this decision? What would be some of the difficulties involved in raising children?**
 * Some of the joys? How did your parents react to you when you were a child? What memories do you have of your own childhood?**
 * 1) Your 400 pages of outside reading are due by Monday of next week--the 23rd. In addition to the pages, I need a vocab log (8 entries=two pages) for each book that make up the 400 pages**
 * 2) I have decided NOT to assign the HPV vaccine articles, but suggest if you are interested in knowing more, to look up a pro and con article regarding this topic.**
 * 3) Instead of jumping ahead to other articles, I would like to concentrate on what we still need to wrap up by the end of the week. We haven't finished our Renaissance Art slide show. We also need to do a final format review for the research paper, so tomorrow in class, we will take care of those things.**
 * 4) For** Wednesday, **please answer the following questions in your journals from Bill cosby's essay.**
 * Consider the effect parenthood might have on your life: How would you make the decision of whether or not to have children? What variables would be involved in this decision? What would be some of the difficulties involved in raising children?**
 * Some of the joys? How did your parents react to you when you were a child? What memories do you have of your own childhood?**
 * 1) Your FINAL drafts of the Research Paper are due today. Turn them in with all the necessary corrections.**
 * 2) I'm going to have you read a couple more health articles, BUT if you don't feel comfortable reading them, don't I'll provide some other articles too. The first ones are on the HPV vaccine and the last two are on**
 * 3) Please bring any outstanding books from this year like, //Hamlet// or //Plato// to turn in to the Media Center. We need to get those books in.**
 * 4) We will grade our quizzes from last week and discuss the articles and continue our presentations.**
 * 5) I will also finish our Renaissance slide show.**

__Due Thursday, 12 April 2012:__ __Due Wednesday, 11 April 2012:__ __[|antibiotics and livestock] [|FDA action][|Chicago and chicken]__
 * 1) Please read the following articles: [|red meat will kill you] [|red meat won't kill you][|An Pan's red meat study]**
 * 2) Respond to our wikiforum regarding these articles**
 * 3) We will have a test on the Renaissance Art Vocabulary tomorrow**
 * 1) Please read the health-related articles at the following links:O[|bese Americans] [|Hospitals and Hiring]**
 * 2) Please go to your period on the left menu and post your response to the wikiforum questions based on the articles under the topic "Health." You will need to click on the bubble icon.**

__Due Tuesday, 10 April 2012:__ __Due Monday or Tuesday, 9 or 10 April 2012:__ __Due Friday, 30 march 2012:__
 * 1) Final day for research paper**
 * 2) Print the following document and bring to class.[[file:Research Paper Peer and Self Editiing.doc]]**
 * 1) Research paper due! Please remember that you will have to include your Outline and a Works Cited page. Please remeber that this is NOT the same as a Working Bibliography.l The format is the same, but the page will be titled Works Cited and will contain __only those sources that you actually use in your paper.__**
 * 2) Here is what a sample paper looks like: [|sample research paper with outline]**
 * 1) Typed //Hamlet// essay DUE!!!! Use MLA formatting! Double space, 1' margins, center title....**
 * 2) NO ART QUIZ.**

__Due Thursday, 29 March 2012:__
 * 1) Outlines are DUE!!!**
 * 2) Please go to the following sources to help you with your outlines:**
 * [|Four components of a good outline]**
 * [|sample research paper with outline]**
 * 3) Some things to remember: Choose EITHER a topics OR a sentence outline format--NOT BOTH. Type your outline and use lowercase roman numerals after your last name in the upper right corner of each page.**
 * 4) FRIDAY: //Hamlet//essay DUE. Forget about the art vocab until we get back. I'll be going through more art slides. [[file:Typed Hamlet Essay.doc]]**

__Due Wednesday, 28 March 2012:__ __Due Tuesday, 27 March 2012:__ __4) Reminder:__ **Friday, Hamlet essays are due. Go to the file below to choose your essay topic. Also, you will have a Renaissance Art vocabulary quiz** __Due Monday, 26 March 2012:__ __Due Friday, 23 March 2012:__
 * 1) Bring your note cards and the Hamlet essay choices to work on in class tomorrow.**
 * 1) Tonight, go to our Handouts page and print out the Renaissance handout and go to the sites that are listed to answer the questions.**
 * 2) If you want to review the Renaissance vocabulary, go to the top of the resources page.**
 * 3) Good job on turning in your note cards! The next thing you will need to do is turn in your outline on Thursday--You will be able to work on your outlines and/or your Hamlet essays on Wednesday in class.**
 * 1) 40 Note Cards are DUE. Next Thursday, March 29th, your outlines will be due.**
 * 2) If you have the time, READ--you can read one of //The Hunger Games// novels and pretty much fulfill your page count for February and March.**
 * 3) I am assigning a //Hamlet// essay--I thought about it and realized that I haven't given you many essays, so let's do one on //Hamlet//. [[file:Typed Hamlet Essay.doc]]It will be due on Friday, March 30th. Use MLA formatting.**
 * 1) Please work on getting your note cards in order. Bring table work for tomorrow. We may not get to go into our Little computer lab.**
 * 2) If you are not working on your note cards, you need to be reading from your outside reading book.**

__Wednesday, 21 March 2012:__
 * 1) collect information for your note cards tonight.**

__For Tuesday, 20 March 2012:__
 * 1) Please review the note card document. You will need to turn in your note cards on Monday, March 26th.[[file:notecards and outline for senior project.doc]]**
 * 2) Your outlines will be due on Thursday, March 29th. Please see the Owl website: 3) Research papers are due the Monday we return from break--April 9th. And we will begin presentations right away.**

__For Friday, 16 March 2012:__
 * 1) You have a big //Hamlet// test tomorrow. Study the following document regarding quotes from the text.[[file:Quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet.doc]]**
 * You will need a piece of paper.**
 * 2) Here are the questions from our quizzes.**

__Due Thursday, 15 March 2012:__
 * 1) We will start grading our quizzes in class to get ready for the exam on Friday.**
 * 2) We will continue our research process by working on our note cards. We may have to work on them over the weekend.**

__Due Wednesday, 14 March 2012:__ __Due Tuesday 13 March 2012:__ __For tomorrow, 9 Friday 2012:__ __Thursday, 8 March 2012:__
 * 1) We will start grading our quizzes in class to get ready for the exam on Friday.**
 * 2) We will continue our research process by working on our note cards, but I will give you that lesson on Thursday.**
 * 1) Your working Bibliography is due. You will need 20 sources, 10 can be found online, but the other 10 need to be print sources.**
 * 2) The following websites will help you out. Remember, you can write the bibliographical information on note cards or in a Word document.**
 * The first site is a basic eHow to write a working bibliography: [|eHow to make a working bib]**
 * The second website is a bibliography maker (remember to click on MLA before you start putting information in): [|Noodle Tools Bib Maker]**
 * The third website is the Owl Purdue site that helps answer many questions you may have about research and formatting: [|Purdue Research Site]**
 * We will be in the Media Center to look up sources for our working bibliographies**
 * 1) Please meet in my room for class. We will set some due dates for our research paper and take our final //Hamlet// Quiz**
 * 2) Friday we will try to finish the Hamlet film.**
 * 3) Next week we will do some work with Hamlet and the last two weeks of march will be largely, though not entirely dedicated to our research.**

__Tuesday, 6 March 2012:__
 * 1) BRING YOUR STUDENT I.D.s and MEET IN THE MEDIA CENTER**
 * 2) You will NOT be working inthe computer lab. Mrs. Li is going to give you a tour of the library, based on what you need.**
 * 3) Wednesday we will work with BOTH your online and physical sources, so bring your 10 online articles AND your BOOKS (try to get at least three).**

__Monday, 3 March 2012:__ __For Friday, 2 March 2012:__ __For Thursday, 1 March 2012:__ __Some sites that will help you:__ __[|Example of MLA Research Paper Formatting] [|MLA Research Paper with Outline][|Research Process][|Cornell Research process][|Paradigms for research papers][|Purdue Research Site]__ __Due Wednesday 29 February 2012:__
 * 1) For this weekend, I'm going to ask you to finish Hamlet. We only have Act V, scene ii left, so finish it by Monday and we will go over the last Act.**
 * 2) Regarding your research, I've modified my weekend assignment for you because we will not be ready to go to the Media Center on Monday. Bring** TEN **online sources to class on** TUESDAY **of next week. We Will definitely be in the Media Center then.**
 * 1) If you didn't have steps 2 and 3 completed today, show me tomorrow!**
 * 2) Please be sure to have read Hamlet, Act V, scene i read.**
 * 3) For this weekend, I'm going to ask you to finish Hamlet. We only have Act V, scene ii left, so finish it by Monday and we will go over the last Act.**
 * 4) Regarding your research, I've modified my weekend assignment for you because we will not be ready to go to the Media Center on Monday. Bring** TEN **online sources to class on** TUESDAY **of next week. We Will definitely be in the Media Center then.**
 * Thanks.**
 * 1) Please do numbers 2 and 3 on your Research Paper Process sheet.**
 * 2) You will end up having a quiz in class on the last scenes of Act IV of Hamlet.**
 * 1) Bring your senior project topics to class tomorrow. We will start our research process.**
 * 2) You will need to have read Act V, scene i in Hamlet by Thursday. It's only 10 pages, so if you want ot get started, you can.**

__Due Tuesday, 28 February 2012:__ __Due Monday, 27 February 2012:__
 * 1) If you haven't finished reading Act IV, scenes iv and v, please do so PLUS, read scene vi. (it's only 1 page)**
 * 2) Catch up on your outside reading pages too. (You should have read 200 outside pages by now).**
 * 1) Please read Hamlet Act IV, scenes i, ii, iii, iv, and v. i know it seems like a lot, but it's very few pages.**

__Due Thursday, 23 February 2012:__
 * 1) If you haven't already done so, finish all of Act III. If you are caught up, hold off on //Hamlet// for a night until we catch up in class.**
 * 2) You should be reading your outside reading book, so if you have your book already, read about 20 pages tonight. If you don't have a new book, please select one and start reading.**

__Due Wednesday, 22 2012:__
 * 1) Read Act III, scene iv. (169-185)**
 * 2) We will review and grade ou first two quizzes.**

__Due Tuesday, 21 February 2012:__
 * 1) Finish reading Act II, scene ii, and continue to read Act III, scenes i, ii, and iii.**
 * 2) Prepare for a Hamlet quiz**

__Due Wednesday, 15 February 2012:__ __Due Tuesday, 14 February 2012:__ __Due Monday, 13 February 2012:__
 * 1) Please read Act II, scene i of //Hamlet.//**
 * //2) Those of you who did not turn in your project proposal today, TURN IT IN TOMORROW!//**
 * 1) Finish Act 1. Read scene 5 tonight for Tuesday.**
 * 2) Turn in your project proposal on Tuesday. I'll be back at school. [[file:Senior Project topic proposal.doc]]**
 * 1) Please read Act 1, scenes 3 and 4.**
 * 2) You will be watching the //Hamlet// film today and tomorrow I will contrast the version you watch with subtitles to another director's vision of hamlet and his family.**

__Due Friday, 10 February 2012:__ __Due Thursday, 9 February 2012:__ __Due Wednesday, 8 February 2012:__ __Due Tuesday, 7 February 2012:__
 * 1) Read Hamlet Act I, Scene ii.**
 * 2) Come to class with ONE question about the scene.**
 * 1) BRING YOUR STUDENT I.D.'s--We will pick up //Hamlet//.**
 * 1) Please remember to bring your STUDENT ID's on THURSDAY! We will be checking out //Hamlet.// If you haven't already done so, bring ANY book you need to turn in to the library.**
 * 2) Think carefully about your senior project possible topics. You wil give me a list of THREE possible topics for approval.**
 * 3) Please go to the following website on Shakespeare to prepare for tomorrow's lesson: Look at the fashions of the 16th century:**
 * [|Fashion of Shakepeare] Please also go to the following site on Elizabethan England and click on one of the links on the page to learn about the time in which Shakespeare lived and wrote. [|Elizabethan England]**
 * 1) Ah, yes--and that grammar website is: [|Grammar Bytes] So, for Tuesday, pick one of the following skills you intend to master for this month: comma splices and run-ons, fragments, irregular verbs, parallel structure, misplaced and dangling modifiers, commas, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, pronoun reference, subject/verb agreement, or word choice. Please go to the website above and click on exercise #1 of the skill you have chosen. Read the introductory information carefully and proceed to work through the exercise. Keep tally of the number of correct and incorrect answers you are earning. Provide a score to me on Monday--I don't care if you have a low score initially--the point is to work through the skill to master it in the next three weeks.**
 * 2) Here it is again: REad it. [|Wife of Bath's Tale]**
 * 3) Please look over the Senior Project Description. You will need to choose a topic to research by next Monday, the 13th. [[file:Senior Project.doc]]**

__Due Monday, 6 February 2012:__
 * 1) Please go to the following link and read the "Wife of Bath's Tale." I'll give you a quick quiz on the content on Monday: Wife of Bath Translation If you want to try to read the Prologue and the tale in its original form, try it at the following link: [|Original Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale]**
 * 2) I will also have the Medieval Architecture terms quiz ready for you on Monday, so study.**
 * 3) Also, Please pick one of the following skills you intend to master for this month: comma splices and run-ons, fragments, irregular verbs, parallel structure, misplaced and dangling modifiers, commas, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, pronoun reference, subject/verb agreement, or word choice. Please go to the following website and click on exercise #1 of the skill you have chosen. Read the introductory information carefully and proceed to work through the exercise. Keep tally of the number of correct and incorrect answers you are earning. Provide a score to me on Monday--I don't care if you have a low score initially--the point is to work through the skill to master it in the next three weeks.**

__Due Thursday, 2 February 2012:__ __Due Wednesday, 1 February 2012:__
 * If you want to review the vocabulary terms and look at some photos to help you identify the parts of a cathedral, look at this website: [|Gothic architecture vocabulary]**
 * 1) We wll review for the Medieval Art slideshow test, which will be on Friday.**
 * 2) Over the weekend, I will have you read the rest of the "Wife of Bath's Tale," so if you have things to do this weekend, read it tonight.**
 * 1) Start to read the Prologue for "The Wife of Bath's Tale"**
 * It goes from line 1 to 862.**
 * I won't test you on it tomorrow. We will work through it, but you should preview it.**

__Due Tuesday. 31 January 2012:__
 * 1) Please look up the major cathedrals and abbeys (Chartres Cathedral, Notre Dame Paris, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral) that we studied today at the following website: []**

__Due Tuesday, 24 January 2012:__
 * 1) If you haven't already done so, turn in your BOOK REVIEWS!**
 * 2) You can also turn in your restroom passes.**
 * 3) Remember to meet in the Media Center on the day of your final exam. Bring paper, pencil and pen.**

__Due Friday, 20 January 2012:__
 * 1) We will finish the last chapter of //Tristan and Iseult// and review for some test questions.**
 * 2) Monday is the last day to turn in your Reader's Workshop Book Reviews for the semester. READ this weekend if you need to catch up.**

__Due Wednesday and Thursday ,18 and 19 January:__
 * 1) We will be finishing up //Tristan and Iseult// in the next couple of days.**
 * 2) Be sure to finish all your outside reading pages and turn in book reviews. All your pages are due on Monday!**

__Due Friday, 13 January 2012:__ __Due Thursday, 5 January 2012:__
 * 1) You will be taking an essay test tomorrow. Come with lined paper and a pen.**
 * 2) Remember to DEVELOP your ideas in your essay response and to use plenty of support for your claim.**
 * 1) You will need to print out your Winter Break Packet (found on our Handouts page) and complete 100 points worth of work on the packet.**
 * 2) Read //Tristan and Iseult// up to the chapter called "Ogrin the Hermit" and prepare your chapter presenations**
 * 3) Remember that we only have a couple of weeks in January before final exams. You must have all of your outside reading pages turned in by the third week--this is the breakdown for this project: 600 pages for a "D," 700 pages for a "C," 800 pages for a "B," and 900-1000 pages for an "A."**
 * 4) Your final exam will consist of an objective exam on //Tristan and Iseult//, the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Dark/Middle ages (including major figures, battles and reforms) an art/architecture slide show, and an essay.**


 * Have a healthy and happy holiday!**
 * Mrs. P**

__Due Tuesday, 20 December 2011:__
 * 1) Tonight, if you haven't already done so, make sure you go to the Grammar Bytes website and pick out three exercises to do and record your scores on the sheet I gave you last Friday. [|Grammar Bytes]**
 * 2) If you do not have your portfolios complete, you need to make sure that you have three essays in them: the UC personal statement essay, the common assessment essay on "breaking rule", and the censorship essay.**
 * 3) Be sure to read the first chapter of //Tristan and Iseult// if we didn't read it in class.**
 * 4) The handout on the //Tristan and Iseult// chapters is in the Handouts page. You should print it out. It's about six pages, so if you can doubleside, you can save paper.**

__Due Friday, 16 December 2011:__ __Due Thursday, 15 December 2011:__ __Due Wednesday, 14 December 2011:__
 * 1) Please remember to pick out one, two, or three writing improvements to work on tonight.--Go to the websites on your Writer's Workshop Active Learning or to any other website and do some exercises that will help you understand the error you are making.**
 * 2) If you want to do all three exercises on the same issue, that's fine.**
 * See you tomorrow**
 * 1) Just a reminder--You are responsible for reading 1000 outside reading pages by the end of January. So you should be reading your outside reading books whenever we don't have a project or assignment for class.**
 * See you tomorrow.**
 * 1) Please meet in the classroom tomorrow.**
 * 2) We will finish our Dark Ages video.**

__Due Tuesday, 13 December 2011:__ __Due Monday, 12 December 2011:__
 * 1) Please go to the following website and view the brief videos on the Dark Ages:**
 * One is about Charlemagne and one is about St. Benedict.**
 * [|Charlemagne and the Dark Ages]**
 * 1) Please click on the following link and then click on the essay on Gladiators: [|Essays on Rome]**
 * 2) You will have a test on the film on the Roman emperors and their contributions to Rome and on the essay on Gladiators on MONDAY.**
 * 3) So, study your handouts and study the voacabulary, and read the essay on gladiators. You should also read, or re-read the articles on the gladiator graveyard below.**
 * 4) BRING YOUR I.D.s on Monday--we will be taking our test in the Computer Lab.**

__Due Thursday, 8 December 2011:__ __Due Wednesday, 7 December 2011:__
 * []**
 * 1) Please go to the following link and read the brief article on the gladiator graveyard found in 2004: [|Gladiator Graveyard 2004]**
 * 2) Please go to the following link and read about the new developments of the gladiator graveyard: [|Gladiator Graveyard 2010]**
 * 1) Please type the following response for your group and turn it in to class tomorrow: Define a good citizen. Explain how your high school will help to contribute to to the good of society. How will your high school graduate contribute to the good?**
 * 2) Bring your Plato books--so we can turn them in.**
 * Hi Everyone,**
 * I hope you are all doing well, staying safe and warm in spite of the wild winds we had on Wednesday night. My house is still without power, so it's going on four days now. I have a new appreciation for modern conveniences, and an accute awareness of what kind of camper I am. I'm fine with candles and flash lights, keeping things clean and getting out all the fluffy blankets to stay warm in a cold house, but I can stand it for only about three days. The novelty has warn off, and I want to make coffee in my coffee maker and have hot water! I hope you are all safe, that your power is on, and that your yards haven't suffered too much damage. If all goes well, I'll see you Monday. Take Care,**
 * Mrs. P.**

__Due Thursday, 1 December 2011:__ __Due Wednesday, 30 November 2011:__ __1) BRING YOUR OUTSIDE READING BOOKS TO CLASS.__ __Due Monday, 28 November 2011:__ __Have a good weekend.__ __Due Wednesday, 23 November 2011:__
 * 1) No homework tonight, but you could catch up on other work or your outside reading.**
 * 1) Please read your outside reading books through the weekend--try to get through 50-100 pages. You should have accumulated 6oo pages by next Friday.**
 * 2) I will post a video on Ancient rome from my house for you to watch--I can't do it here at school.**
 * 1) Bring your Plato texts and we can turn them in to the Media Center if you haven't already turned them in.**
 * 2) We will be finishing up projects today, so let's get started quickly.**
 * 3) Next week on Wednesday we will have a REader's Workshop, so make sure you bring your outside reading books.**
 * 4) I know this is a long article, but it's a good one in understanding today's traditional American high school. Please read the article over the weekend. Give yourself some time. I'll ask you some questions about it on Monday. [|The Traditional High School]**

__Due Tuesday, 22 November 2011:__
 * 1) You may turn in the work from yesterday for half credit.**
 * 2) Also, I never collected your vocabulary logs, so turn those in tomorrow. Vocab Logs can be found at the bottom of our Handouts page. You need to print two and to fill in 8 new vocabulary words from your outside reading. If your reading is too easy, then read an online article or pick another book to read simultaneously.**

__Due Monday, 21 November 2011:__
 * 1) Please read the following article on Greek Democracy at the following link: [|Greek Democracy]**
 * 2) __Please write in your journals__** __one to two **pages**__ **on what you think the most interesting part of the unit on Greece was: Consider Plato's Dialogues and Socrates' ideas about the good, the soul and heaven, justice, an ideal city-state, and his death. Think about the architectural achievements of the Greeks--the Parthenon, the Erecthium--Greek art, The Battle of Thermopylae, and democracy. What sticks with you the most?**

__Due Thursday, 17 November 2011:__ __Due Monday, 14 November 2011:__ __Due Wednesday, 9 November 2011:__ __Due Tuesday, 8 November 2011:__ __Due Monday, 7 November 2011:__ __Due Friday,4 November 2011:__ __Due Thursday, 3 November 2011:__ __Due Wednesday, 2 November 2011:__
 * 1) Please continue working on your ideal high school projects.**
 * 2) You may turn in your Plato books tomorrow.**
 * 1) Please read the following pages in your Plato texts found in the chapter titled Phaedo. Pages 146 starting at "For after death..." to the end of Phaedo on page 160.**
 * 2) Please find and read an online article about Veterans or Veteran's Day this weekend.**
 * We will be working in the computer lab tomorrow, so meet in the computer lab, NOT in class.**
 * 1) Bring your Student I.D.s**
 * 2) Bring a flash drive if you want to save your work.**
 * 3) We will have a test on the anatomy vocabulary on Thursday. Go to our handouts page and click on Anatomy Vocab to studey the words for the test.**
 * 1) Please bring your Plato books to class tomorrow.**
 * 2) Please read the following essay tonight called "Dumpster Diving":**
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 * 1) It should be a little drizzly this weekend, which means it will be perfect for reading your outside reading books. Read 25-50 pages of outside reading this weekend.**
 * 2) Continue working on your Ideal High School Projects. Due date is November 18th.**
 * 3) Please read the following articles and write a response in your journals about each article. Indicate which one you feel to be more valid and why. [[file:Science News article on violent video games.doc]]**
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 * 1) You will be working on your projects in class, so bring what you need.**
 * 1) Please print out and bring the ideal high school project to class tomorrow.**
 * 2) Please read the one-page article on the history channel website about Greek Democracy at the following link:**
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 * 1) Wednesday is a Reader's Workshop Day--BRING your outside reading books to class.**
 * 2) Please Go to our Handouts page and print out the "Vocab Log" handout. Either print two or print them double-sided and bring to class.**
 * 3) You may work on writng book reviews if you have have finished a book and you need to it turn in. Print it from our Handouts page.**
 * 4) Your groups/teams must be picked by Friday if you want to work in a group on your Ideal High School Project**

__Due Tuesday, 1 November 2011:__ __Due Friday, 28 October 2011:__ __Due Thursday, 27 October 2011:__
 * 1) Obviously we will need to finish the test we started to take on Friday. You will need to know all of the things listed below and I want you to be able to answer the following questions from Book IV: In Book IV, which part of the state represents the emotional, honor-loving part? How many parts of the soul does Socrates say there are? What are the three parts of the mind? How do the three parts of the mind represent the state? You should also know how the gods and goddesses are described on our resources link.**
 * 2) Please read in your outside reading books this weekend. Your goal should be to read at least 50 PAGES. Remember, you should have read about 400 pages total by this weekend. It's roughly 200 pages per month and we are at the end of October now.**
 * See you all Tuesday!**
 * 1) Study for our Greek Test: study the Greek alphabet, the vocabulary, the gods and goddesses, the slide show, Plato's allegory (Book VII page 357), Books II, III, and IV, The Spartans, and The Battle of Thermopylae**
 * 2) Start thinking about your ideal high school plan.**
 * 1) Tonight, go over your notes on the Greek art slide show. Also, go over your quiz on Books II and III of the Republic. Also, review the Greek alphabet and the Greek gods and the Spartan handout. You will have a test on Friday.**
 * 2) Sorry Everyone--I have to work on the Ideal High School Project a little more. We will have a guest at the beginning of the period on Thursday, a vice-principal of a boarding school in Shanghai. She will tell us a little bit about her school. Soooooooo, go to our Resources page to get a few ideas about high school design.**

__Due Tuesday, 25 October 2011:__ __Due Monday, 24 October 2011:__ 1)** Please read the rest of Book IV in Plato's Republic. YES, it's 30 pages, BUT you have three days. We are going to have a test on the unit on Greece this Friday, so we have to get through a couple more Books of Plato. SO, I REALLY need you to read this weekend.
 * 1) Please read the following article "Can China Go Green?":**
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 * 2) Write a response to the article in your journal. A response is simply what you think about any of the content presented in the article. You can make comparisons to other countries if you wish.**