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?

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.***

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.

For homework…

Read pages 32-40. (the preparing to read information, The Death of Enkidu and The Search for Everlasting Life)

Answer the Pause & Reflect Questions on page 36 and page 38.

Have a great long weekend!!!

View the Prezi from class below.

We all belong to a culture. 

Culture is the combination of:

·      human knowledge

·      beliefs 

·      behavior 

that we learn and pass on to future generations. 

We usually express our culture in certain ways, like

·      how we dress

·      what we eat

·      what we believe

·      even how we played as kids

Here's the step-by-step video of how to create your class blog.

It was really great meeting all of you today! I'm looking forward to seeing you again on Monday.

Things you should remember for Monday:

• Your "Letter to Ms. Barbour" is due at the start of class. This is your first homework grade of the marking period.
• The last page of your Policies & Procedures should be signed and returned by both you and a parent or guardian for next Wednesday, September 10th. This is worth a quiz grade.
• Your summer reading assessment will be on Monday. You MAY use your notes.

(Here's a link to the assignments. Your work is listed under "Grade 11 Honors.")
Have a fun, relaxing weekend! I'm looking forward to a great year with all of you.