AGENDAS FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009

TENTH GRADE ENGLISH:

1. LAST SCENES OF OEDIPUS REX AND POST MORTEM

2. IN-CLASS ESSAY: STUDENTS WILL WRITE AN IN-CLASS ESSAY INCLUDING A COUNTER-CLAIM AND REBUTTAL. THIS IS A SEVEN PARAGRAPH ESSAY.

CHOOSE TOPIC A OR B:

A. OEDIPUS FALLS THROUGH A TRAGIC FLAW.

B. OEDIPUS IS DESTROYED BY FATE.

IN THIS ESSAY, THE WRITER WILL STATE THE THESIS, CREATE A HOOK, AND CLARIFY THE THESIS IN THE INTRODUCTION. HE OR SHE WILL GIVE THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE FROM THE FILM IN THE THREE EVIDENCE PARAGRAPHS TOGETHER WITH AT LEAST TWO SUPPORTING SENTENCES FOR EACH PIECE OF EVIDENCE. HE OR SHE WILL WRITE A COUNTER-CLAIM, A REBUTTAL AND A CONCLUSION IN WHICH THE THESIS STATEMENT IS RESTATED, THE THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE ARE RESTATED IN ONE SENTENCE AND A FINAL SENTENCE TO CONVINCE THE READER THAT THE WRITER HAS PROVED HIS OR HER THESIS.

3. ANTIGONE: STUDENTS TAKE PARTS, PAGE 707

ELEVENTH GRADE ENGLISH:

1. POST MORTEM ON THE CRUCIBLE

2. WRITE THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 1 THROUGH 8 ON PAGE 134.

3. USING THE INFORMATION IN "LITERARY FOCUS: THEME" ON PAGE 134, DETERMINE WHAT THE THEME OF THE CRUCIBLE IS.

4. STUDENTS WILL WRITE A FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY IN WHICH THE THEME IS THE HYPOTHESIS DISCOVERED IN ITEM 3. STUDENTS WILL USE EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT TO PROVE THIS HYPOTHESIS.

5. DISCUSSION OF "A CLIMATE OF FEAR" ON PAGES 136 AND 137

6. ANNOTATION OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND "BUILDING BACKGROUND" ON PAGE 585

7. STUDENTS WILL CONVERT THE ANNOTATIONS INTO SAY/MEAN/MATTER.

8. STUDENTS WILL CONVERT THE SAY/MEAN/MATTER IN CORNELL NOTES.

9. STUDENT READING AND TEACHER EXEGESIS OF "WINTER DREAMS" ON PAGE 586.