Thursday, October 23, 2008

Assignments Oct. 27-31

***** REVISED*****
Monday

Wrap up Emily
Discuss Yellow Wallpaper
HW
Read excerpt from Hiroshima p. 999-1009

Tuesday
Discuss Hiroshima
Vote for Lit Circle books
HW
Read The Devil and Tom Walker p. 228-238

Wednesday
Discuss Devil and TW/Romanticism
Info on test*
HW
Work on portfolios/read research paper book

Thursday
Begin 2nd lit circle
Intro to next unit—American Dream
HW
Portfolio Entry
Journal

Friday
Hand in portfolio entry (w/ref. page)
Background to Moby Dick
HW
Read excerpts from Moby Dick p. 280-289

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

are we still allowed to switch books for research papers because I have read each chapter twice and looked at spark notes and still have no idea whats going on.

Mrs. Svoboda said...

That's fine--just make sure it's one that no one else is reading, and make sure you can get it read quickly.

Anonymous said...

did anyone choose The Things They Carried or The Catcher in the Rye

Mrs. Svoboda said...

Yep, both of those are taken.

Anonymous said...

what about The Good Earth, Tracks, This side of Paradise, Native Son

Mrs. Svoboda said...

The Good Earth or Tracks are still available

Anonymous said...

Okay so the only thing we have to have done for tomorrow is to read TYW right?

P.S. Haha the word I had to spell for the verification thing was "bargamac"!

Mrs. Svoboda said...

Yep, that's all you had to do. Probably should have worked on your portfolio too, but it's not due until Friday :)

Anonymous said...

ooohh shiny!! nice

about the portfolio, can i make a triangle out of construction paper and then attach more around it, and write words/descriptions of what came out of it (the p. theorem)? like a web kind of? or would that be too easy?

ps jake, mine was lingueme