In-Class: - Teacher handed back Socratic Seminar questions with notes (5 points)
- Teacher and Students conducted round circle discussion using response papers as fuel for discussion
- HW: Read and Annotate Ch. 2 & 3 --
In-Class: - Students conducted their first Socratic Seminar (CONGRATS!) -->Topics include setting, exposition, characters, irony, the ministries, the party slogan,mood, the two minutes of hate, control, etxc.
- Students asked each other questions and kept a discussion journal to jot down questions and answers
- HW: Write a response paper to Chapter 1 of 1984
In-Class: - Students will begin reading 1984
- Students will read and annotate Ch. 1 in class
HW: 5 Socratic Seminar Questions and Answers
In-Class: - Students finished going over 1984 PowerPoint
- Teacher passed out books (to students who did not purchase them)
- Students went over Socratic Seminar and Response Papers
- Students read the first line of 1984: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (Orwell 1).
- Students wrote a short in-class response paper answering "Why did Orwell start his novel off this way?"
- Students discussed the connotation of April (spring), thirteen, and authorial intent of starting a novel in this way.
- HW: None
Thursday: - Students Completed Totalitarian Activity with our New Classroom Rules
- Quick Write on reaction to New Classroom Rules
- Group Discussion over rights, freedom, leaders, and control
- Class Discussion over how 1984 works into our activity
- HW: Read and complete 1984 Background Information and George Orwell Biography
Monday: - Teacher lectures briefly over notes on Thomas Malory and Introduction Material to Le Morte d'Arthur
- Students work in groups over the blue box questions
- Teacher and students go through what happens in their selection of Le Morte d'Arthur
Homework: - Answer 1a-5b of Le Morte d'Arthur
Tuesday: - Go over 1a-5b of Le Morte d'Arthur
- Independent Reading
Homwork: Over break students should finish their Indepedent Reading Book and journal. Their paper and presentation is due Monday, Dec
Monday: 11/12 In-Class- - Students took a pop quiz on Medieval section (5 points)
- Students worked in groups on their Medieval Presentations
- Students split up into 5 groups. Each group needed to make bulleted list on the important information of the section as well as provide a visual aid to illustrate information. Students are graded on the quality of their information, presentation, and visual aid.
- Homework: Prepare for Medieval Presentation
Tuesday: 11/13 - Students presented Medieval Presentation (20 points)
- Students read and took notes on p. 187 "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Students read Ch. 1 of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Homework: Finish Classwork
 In-Class: - Students took a survey on Interview Skills with Mrs. Smith
- Students turned in their application essays to Mrs. Hirzel
- Students took a small spelling quiz (probably the smallest quiz ever)
- Students discussed what they thought of Medieval culture
- Students began reading and taking notes on p.160-166 in their Textbook
Homework: - Read and take notes on p.160-166 WELL ;) ;)
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