Welcome to a new school year!  I am looking forward to working with each of you as we study literature and practice reading deeply and writing with clarity and eloquence. 

Please open and read the Welcome Letter and Syllabus attached below.

Tuesday  9 February 2010

We wrote an in-class essay on the prompt on page 160.  Use pen and your best writing.

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Monday  8 February 2010

We discussed Things Fall Apart through chapter 7.

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Friday  5 February 2010

We took a quiz over our reading through chapter 7.  We discussed items from the novel as they relate to culture and then began discussing Okonkwo as he compares with his father, Unoka.

Continue reading!

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Thursday  4 February 2010

We defined and discussed “archetype”.  Groups gave their short presentations on their research topics to help us put the novel into context.  There will be a quiz tomorrow on chapters 1 – 7 of Things Fall Apart.

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Wednesday  3 February 2010

Each person was assigned a topic to research tonight as homework.  You will need to find out some basic information to share with the class tomorrow to help us put the novel, Things Fall Apart, in context.

We finished reading the folktale we began on Monday.  Think about why Achebe included folktales in his novel.

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Tuesday  2 February 2010

We took the end of unit assessment for unit 2.  We then worked on our Nav 101 modules.

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Monday  1 February 2010

Welcome to Second Semester!

We reviewed the idea of “proverbs” and began discussing how folktales embody the wisdom of a culture.

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Wednesday  27 January 2010

We completed the unit 2 reflection on page 142.  Begin reading Things Fall Apart.  You should be through chapter 3 by Tuesday!

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Tuesday  26 January 2010

We participated in a Socratic Seminar.  Turn in your outer circle work and your reflection.

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Monday  25 January 2010

We finished the seminar prep work.  Turn this in to the In Box and be prepared to discuss deeply tomorrow!

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Friday  22 January 2010

We worked on the seminar prep assignment that will help us process our thinking about the texts we have studied this semester to get ready for our Socratic Seminar in which we will participate on Tuesday.  This assignment must be complete by the end of class on Monday.