Wake me up when September ends.

Another full five day week commences.  We're well into Of Mice and Men, The Scarlet Letter, and The Crucible.  Keep up your reading!  Half of the quarter has already passed.

English 11:

• Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz on Thursday
• Of Mice and Men Chapters 3 and 4 this week (Second half of Chapter 3 due Thursday)
• OMM Film Analysis
• PSAT Practice
• Notemaking for Of Mice and Men

 English 11 AP:

• The Scarlet Letter Reading (Due dates for reading are listed on AP English page
• PSAT Practice (PSAT Test is on Wednesday, October 13th)
• The Crucible Act II on Wednesday/Thursday   

The Official Last Week of Summer.

Welcome to our first five day week as well as the week leading up to the first day of fall!  :)

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

English 11:

• The American Dream Brainstorm and Discussion
• John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" Analysis
• Of Mice and Men Chapter 2
• Vocabulary Unit 2 
• PSAT Practice

English 11 AP:

• Finish Act I of The Crucible
• Vocabulary Unit 1 Quiz (on Thursday/Friday)
• "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Scarlet Letter Introduction and Book Sign-Out
• PSAT Practice 
• Visit to Student Services

The Scarlet Letter Reading Schedule is available on the AP English page.  
WEEKEND HOMEWORK: Chapters 2-4 of SL 

The Last Four Day Week.

NOTE: Period 4B students, please leave the links to your commercials on the post below named "Rhetoric through Generations."

 
Starting next week, we'll begin the dreaded five day school week.  So enjoy the last moments of so-many-days-off September.

English 11:

• "Sunny Cal" and "California Gurls" Comparison
• Woody Guthrie's "Pastures of Plenty" Poem Analysis
• Of Mice and Men Anticipation Guide Journal Entries due
• Level E Vocab. Unit 1 Quiz on Thursday
• Chapter One of Of Mice and Men and Study Guide questions
• HOMEWORK: Read the rest of chapter 1 and answer the study guide questions

English 11 AP:

• Jonathan Edwards' Rhetoric in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
• Comparison Analysis to Modern Advertising
• Persuasive Commercial Analysis
• Act One of The Crucible (acted out in class)
• Level G Vocab. Unit 1 Introduction - Quiz next Thursday/Friday
• HOMEWORK: Read "Young Goodman Brown" and take notes (pay close attention to any mention of the id, the ego, and the superego)

Rhetoric Through the Generations: Jonathan Edwards and Modern Advertising

Hello, periods 4A and 4B!
Leave a comment on this post with the link to your advertisements.  You'll turn in your analysis next class.  Just leave the URL of the website here in the comments.

I have included the commercials we analyzed in class below.

See you next class!

The Journey to Comfort
Old Spice Commercial

The Three Day Week

This is a hectic week with all the days off (leading me to post this week's post so late).  Here's what happened (and is happening) this week.  Enjoy your day off and see you Friday!

English 11:

• Administrative Visit with Ms. West
• SAT Grammar Diagnostic (the PSATs are on Weds. October 13th)
• Vocabulary Unit 1 PowerPoint
• Of Mice and Men Anticipation Guide

English 11 AP:

• Administrative Visit with Ms. West
• Review Smith and Bradford Writings
• Puritanism Notes
• SAT Grammar Diagnostic
• Puritan Writers Analysis