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New Year, New Goals

1/3/2015

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What are your goals for the new year?

Personally, I don't like using the word resolution. The concept of new years resolutions usually taunts me, primarily because I forget my resolutions within 3 days. 

Instead, I like to set a few goals. If they happen, great. If not, oh well.

In 2015, I want to:

  1. Start running more, just for the heck of it.
  2. Finish reading the Divergent books I started over Winter Break.
  3. Learn to crochet.


What about you? Do you have any goals?
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Blog #4

12/11/2014

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Click the following to see the prompt. :)
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December 08th, 2014

12/8/2014

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Here's a look at the week ahead:

Monday : Act I homework due in class!!! We will be reading A Doll's House. 

Tuesday: We will be reading A Doll's House. 

Wednesday : (No Class)

Thursday: We will be reading a A Doll's House. Time permitting, we will also work on our blog posts.

Friday: We will be reading A Doll's House. 
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A Look at the Week of December 1st- December 5th

12/1/2014

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Hello my lovelies!

Here's a look at the week ahead:

Monday : Oedipus rough drafts are due, worth a quiz grade!!! We will be peer editing in class.

Tuesday: We will begin our Money, Power, & Corruption Unit.

Wednesday : We will start discussing the role of gender in Victorian Literature and society as an introduction to A Doll's House.

Thursday: (No Class)

Friday: We will begin reading A Doll's House. ***ALL FINAL OEDIPUS ESSAYS ARE DUE AT THE START OF CLASS ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5TH.***
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Oedipus Essay

11/18/2014

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For the prompt... click the link below!
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Name
Ms. Barbour
English 11 Honors World Literature
November 25th, 2014

Click the link below to download various scholarly articles about Oedipus and archetypes.
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  • Examples of archetypes
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Blog #2

10/16/2014

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Assessment

Keeping in mind The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Book of the Dead, and Adoration of the Disk, select one of the assessments below. Each response should be either 2 stanzas or 2 paragraphs, 8-10 sentences (or lines) each.
 

Choice # 1

Go to  www.bookofdead.com.

Go to the interactive plates on the website.

Choose one of the poems and independently identify the speaker, tone, and belief in the afterlife.

Write your own Book of the Dead poem. You may choose Osiris and follow the guidelines above.


Choice #2

Complete an autobiographical papyrus scroll.

Respond to the following questions:

A)    What would you like people to find written about you when they open your tomb thousands of years from now?

B)   Would you leave instructions about how to bury you, your feelings on this current life, what you expect out of the next life?


Write an autobiographical papyrus scroll. Use the scrolls on www.bookofdead.com as an example.

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Week of 10/14...

10/13/2014

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  • Monday 10/13- 
    No School (for students)

  • Tuesday 10/14- A Day 

    Read The Book of the Dead and misc. poems

  • Wednesday 10/15- B Day-
    (no class)

  • Thursday 10/16- C Day-

    Begin blog post assessment

  • Friday 10/17- D Day-

    Finish blog post assessment
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The week of 10/6...

10/6/2014

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Monday, 10/6 (D Day)- 
finish reading Gilgamesh

Tuesday, 10/7 (A Day)- 
begin discussing the symbolism in Gilgamesh and work on packet

Wednesday, 10/8 (B Day)- 
No Class

Thursday, 10/9 (C Day)- 
work on open ended response

Friday, 10/ 10 (D Day)- 
blog re-write of Gilgamesh
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Homework Reminder for Tomorrow!

10/5/2014

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Hi folks,

I hope you had an enjoyable long weekend!


Please remember to read 'The Story of the Flood' for class tomorrow--there will be a reading check.



See you tomorrow!!
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The week of 9/29...

9/29/2014

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  • We will also be discussing The Epic of Gilgamesh this week in class.

  • Your first On Demand Writing Task is TUESDAY. You have the entire period.

  • I will be staying after on Wednesday and Thursday this week. 

  • Back to school night is this Thursday at 6pm. I'm looking forward to meeting your parents and guardians
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