01/31/2012

Power Point from today will be under the Power Point section, just so I can keep those separate.
Homework: Read Act I of Tartuffe by Moliere

Mrs. J

01/20/2012

Missed seeing you all this week! I only saw two on Tuesday:( Below is the Study Guide for the Final Exam, so you can begin studying for that. We will go over it in more detail Monday. Feel free to email me with questions over the weekend. InTouch is not updated. I have inputted grades at home, so I will have to update it when we return, which hopefully will be Monday.

Here is the Study Guide for the Final Exam: AP Semester I Study Guide
Suggestions for this weekend:

• Flashcards or however you study best on the poetry/lit terminology/authors' names and works. As the study guide states, focus on memorizing the names of those that we focused on for major papers, not ones we discussed for a day in class. In other words, we're not testing you over every poet covered during that unit.
• Review the short stories, Hamlet, and Oedipus, and focus on the key characters and significant quotes.
• Remember, we give you a bunch of rhetoric devices to know, but we only focus on a few of the more basic sentence structure ones for the exam, so you do not need to go memorize the entire Power Point of Rhetoric Devices A to Z I gave you. Going back through and reviewing the ones you knew coming into the class, periodic etc. etc. etc. will be much more beneficial...

***It would really be good to come to class both Monday and Tuesday as we will review for the exam in more detail.

Enjoy your extended weekend; I hope none of you were directly affected by the flooding.

Mrs. J

01/17/2012

***Announcement***
Due to weather and the shortened week, I am cancelling the Hamlet project. We will do the same project with Wuthering Heights, so that should work out just fine.
I don't want assignments to be rushed with finals approaching and your Hamlet paper due Monday.
Of course I was able to get the lab today to research for the paper (GO FIGURE), so I'll check for another day this week, but if you visit Dr. Lange's Hamlet link on the blog, you will find a plethora (ha ha) of literary criticim that should work quite well for this assignment. Do make sure to follow the essay guidelines on your assignment description sheet.
Also, please have the play read for class tomorrow, so we can have a valuable discussion:)
Enjoy the snow!

Mrs. Johnson

01/13/2012

Today in class:

• Hamlet Acts I-III Quiz

Homework:

• Finish the play
• Get together with your groups and plan your presentations

See you Tuesday!

Mrs. J

01/06/2012

Today in class:

• We talked a little Oedipus and a little Hamlet--more of that to come Monday.
• We finished up Kane facilitated discussion
• We will wrap up Oedipus completely Monday.

Homework: Read Act I of Hamlet; I would also suggest that you read some background information on the play as well. It wouldn't hurt to begin looking into your critical analysis paper. See Hamlet research link on website for help if you like or follow guidelines outlined in the assignment description (pink handout).

Assessments/Assignments for the week:

• Kane character and film analysis papers
• Mis en Scene element identification (the 15 traits) and analysis paragraph
• Oedipus Quiz

Have a great weekend and see you Monday!

Mrs. Johnson

01/03/2011

Click on link to get the Power Point Notes.
Please come prepared to do a Mis en Scene analysis of a Kane scene tomorrow.
Mis en Scene

Homework:

• Mis en Scene Notes
• Finish Oedipus
• Buy a copy of Hamlet

Welcome back--great to see all of you!

Mrs. J