Tuesday, February 11

Of Mice and Men Vocabulary for Friday
Oklahoma Dust bowl
Migrant Workers--Dorothea Lange and her photographs

With a partner, rank the following characters from most evil to least evil (all people have a bit of a dark side). Write numbers in the blanks
__3 George
__2 Lennie
__7 Candy
__4 Carlson
__6 Crooks
__1 Curley
__5 Slim

Discuss

Pop quiz--Of Mice and Men

Mock Trial

Monday, February 3

Of Mice and Men

Homework: read to page 30. Finish the book by Friday if possible, definitely over the weekend.
Bring music lyrics tomorrow!

Of Mice and Men Vocabulary for Friday
Oklahoma Dust bowl
Migrant Workers--Dorothea Lange and her photographs

Poetry

Robert Frost
Fire and Ice
Dust of Snow
Bereft
The Road Not Taken

Song lyrics as poetry.
Imagery, word choice, rhythm/cadence, metaphor, alliteration and assonance, allusions, symbolism, etc

Homework: EVERYONE must print out lyrics to a song and bring them to class tomorrow. IF everyone does this, we will spend part of the period analyzing song lyrics.

Of Mice and Men
Robert Burns
To a Mouse

4th period's anthology of poetic song lyrics. Enter a link for your song, followed by your name.
4th period's anthology of poems (optional at this point)

FINAL EXAM INFO

FINAL EXAM

•  Huckleberry Finn test
•  Poem memorization due. Choose one of the following poems.  Dickinson    Whitman                                If you really can't bring yourself to memorize 75 words of one of these poems, you may memorize 75 words from Walden, Emerson (including his poems) or other poems by Whitman or Dickinson.

January 13

Bring  PSAT  booklet and score printout Wednesday

Discuss key passages in Huck Finn

Divide into groups to prepare for the Socratic Seminar, which will start half way through the period.

January 10

Discuss key passages in Huck Finn

Divide into groups to prepare for the Socratic Seminar, which will start half way through the period on Monday (you'll have 15 min. to finish preparing).

January 7, 2014

Archetypal Criticism

Walt Whitman's When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer