In-Class:

• Students turned in their response papers (5 points)
  
• Students had a socratic seminar over "Gotama" & "Awakening"
  
• Discussed Hesse's style
  

Homework:

• Read Ch. 5 " Kamala" and do 5 socratic seminar questions
  
• Do a response paper for one of the chapters discussed next week
  

In-Class:

• Students held a socratic seminar over chapters 1 and 2
  
• Students went over the exposition of the plot and the discontent of Siddhartha
  

HW:

• Read Chapter 3 "Gotama" & Chapter 4 "Awakening"  and do 5 Socratic Seminar Questions
  

In-Class:

• In groups, students should go through the basic exposition of the story:

            Who are the main characters?
            What is the setting of the novel 
            What is the main conflict?

• In the same groups, have students complete the Siddhartha Chapter 1 Worksheet
  
• They should work on it in small groups for class and should be discussing answers
  
• HW:  
• Read Chapter 2 of Siddhartha and finish questions for class tomorrow
  

In-Class:
TEACHER ABSENT

• Students received their copies of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Students read Ch. 1 and did 5 socratic seminar questions on Ch.1

• Students will read "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa and do questions 35-43
• Students will work together in pairs to try to agree on answers for the multiple choice questions
• Students and Teacher will go through answers together
  

HW:
Read and highlight Siddhartha Informational Packet:  Hermann Hesse Biography, Four Nobel Truths handout, Eightfold Path Handout, as well as religion summaries

In-Class:

• Students worked on rewriting their Kite Runner in-class essays in the computer lab
  

Homework:

• Finish The Kite Runner in-class essays
  
• Finish summary essay for Miss Hipp
  

In-Class:
Students went over Writing Well Powerpoint

Homework:
Essay revisions due Monday

In-Class:

• Teachers and Students went through MLA PowerPoint
  

Homework:
Essay revisions due Monday

In-Class:

• Students went over paragraph from the 
  
• Teacher lectured on Formal Writing Conventions, Formal Purpose, and Formal Audience
  
• Teacher passed back papers from Government class
  
• Teacher began lecturing on MLA format

Home

• Rewrite In-Class Essays for Monday
  
• Rewrite Miss Hipp's Government paper for Monday
  

In-Class:

• Students were given the AP Rubric for Q3 from 2007
  
• In groups, students were asked to grade sample AP essays (that answered the same prompt as they did on Friday
  
• Students were asked to pick out which essay was a 3, 5, or 7
  
• Students were told the reasoning behind the scores.
  
• Students were handed back their in-class essays
  

Homework:

• For Monday, fix in-class essays (revise, make formal, typed, and mla format)
  
• For tomorrow, read Formal Audience and Purpose handout and fix paragraph