Monday - May the fourth be with you!
Tuesday -
Wednesday - In depth with Shakespeare's Sonnets
Thursday - Here is my Screencast on Sonnets and specifically Sonnet 18: LINK
A note about summer reading:
With next week being our last week before Finals Week, I wanted to let you know about the Summer Reading assignment.
- Review The Glass Menagerie themes:
- Join Sparky Sweets, PhD in Thugnotes on YouTube: LINK
- **warning: mild language and some bleeped less-mild language**
- If you want a more traditional approach with Course Hero (sans the colorful language): LINK
- Finish and submit the Study Guide via email.
- If you have any questions about the play, I will be by my computer ready to respond for most of the day.
- The test will be available to take today, but you have through tomorrow at 3:30 to take it. It shows me the time you took on the test and if its longer than an hour, I get suspicious. If it keeps kicking you out because you have other windows open or you leave the testing window, it will pause you and I have to unpause you. So don't do that!
- Join Sparky Sweets, PhD in Thugnotes on YouTube: LINK
- The Glass Menagerie Test: LINK
- Client ID: gacobb
Tuesday -
- The Glass Menagerie Test: If you did not get to take the test over TGM yesterday, take it today. I will disable access at 3:30. This grade can only help you and it's for a book that takes about 2 hours to read.
- The final book of the semester would have been Finding Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris. Frankly, we have run out of time, but if you have the chance to read this mystery novel set in Saudi Arabia, it is a fascinating glimpse into a culture many of us know little about. If you are a voracious reader and think you can read it in 2 weeks and would like another Summative grade in the grade book, let me know and I will post the assessment I have for the book on CTLS.
- Instead, we will focus a bit more on poetry with the remaining 2 weeks of school, specifically sonnets.
Wednesday - In depth with Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Watch John Green's Crash Course on Shakespeare's Sonnets: LINK
Thursday - Here is my Screencast on Sonnets and specifically Sonnet 18: LINK
- Note: The last Summative grade you will have the opportunity to earn is the Poetry test. I am still waiting on word from administration on when the official last day of class is (since you guys will not take the EOC). Poetry test will be the day before the last day and then we can have a final farewell Zoom call together before your Summer break. We're almost there. Thank you to the dozen or so who are hanging in there, working for that higher grade or who already have their A, yet continue to submit assignments.
A note about summer reading:
With next week being our last week before Finals Week, I wanted to let you know about the Summer Reading assignment.
- For Honors Brit Lit, students should read The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell. It will serve as an excellent introduction to our first unit, The Anglo-Saxon period. There is a study guide; download below ("LK Study Guide"). Test will be first or second week of school. First major paper is a character analysis from it. Also, other tests like the unit test could make reference to items from the summer reading. You will be setting yourself back considerably if you do not read it.
- For 10th Lit on-level, download the document below ("10th Lit Summer Reading Assignment") and print it out. The first two pages describe the Hero's Journey a bit and then the books from which you only need to choose one. The last two pages are the assignment that accompanies it.
- Globalization Academy students, please download the pdf below for The Geography of Bliss.
lk_study_guide.pdf |
10th_lit_summer_reading_assignment.docx |
geography_of_bliss_flyer.pdf |