Norman's desert-island-reading book montage

Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales: New Stories
Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems
A Game of You
ERODING WITNESS
Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
The Palace of the Peacock
Beloved
Little Kingdoms
Bedouin Hornbook
Sonny's Blues
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Winter's Tales
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
Seven Plays
The Zoo Story
Collected Plays:  Volume 1


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Monday, February 14, 2011

Introduction to William Shakespeare

In Language Arts some of the students have turned in the first draft of their mystery short stories. Others are still working through their plots and selecting the details necessary to make their writing interesting and effective.

We started a short unit on Shakespeare by looking at a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. The students sat in a circle and read from act 1, scene 2. As they read they noted any words or expressions that they were unfamiliar with.


In Cultural Studies we have been following the early hominids journey to becoming hunters and gathers, and the establishment of social groups that were the precursors of the ancient civilizations to come.

Read for thirty minutes.
Cultural Studies Homework due Tuesday,February 15th. Complete all review questions for the handout on Hunters & Gathers. Use lined paper.
Language Arts homework due Wednesday, February 16th. Weekly Word Quiz; Five sentences with spelling words.


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