TODAY IN CLASS
1.  "Winston's Bedtime Reading" Questions handed in
2.  If you've been gone, make sure Ch. 2 Study Q's (due last week) are in
3.  Quiz over Chapter Two

There was some reading time if your work was caught up.

FOR TOMORROW
Chapters I and II of the last big section,  Chapter Three.

TUESDAY, April 23

**** This was written Tuesday afternoon, and I hit SAVE rather than PUBLISH.  So sorry  . . . .

TODAY IN CLASS

• We took some time out to watch two installments of a documentary on North Korea, with a small fragment from another source. 
• In 1st and 3rd, we looked at several significant aspects of Chapter Two, Ch.II. In 5th, we need to spend a few minutes on II before proceeding
• In 1st and 5th, we looked at photos of Trafalgar Square that students had turned up; 3rd, we will do this tomorrow.  See if you can find out two things for sure:  who is represented by the statue at the top of the fluted column, and is there really a statue of Oliver Cromwell on a horse in Trafalgar Square?

FOR TOMORROW

If you look at the reading schedule (yesterday and Friday) you will see that we are way behind in terms of talking, but that's perfectly okay at this point.  This book does not have to be talked to death in all parts.

Tomorrow I'll give you another of the very short/direct study guides, but you should have read Chapter Two through part of IX by the time you come to class.

TODAY IN CLASS
Sort of a slow Monday start, but there are several specifics to catch up on if you were absent:
1) Think through the range of "risk" for Julia in passing the I love you note to Winston
2) List out the details of the Victory Square description (bottom of 113 and 114)
3) List out the language at the beginning of Ch. II (first paragraph) that makes the place sound idyllic
4) Review the definition of pastoral (p. 299 in the big lit book); read Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (p.314) and "The Nymph's Reply to the the Shepherd" (p. 317) by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Everyone, FOR TOMORROW
1) Do the reading, obviously--see schedule below
2) But also- a superquick web check for the actual place in London that Orwell calls "Victory Square":

• Search  for Trafalgar Square
• Save at least two images of what can be found in or very near Trafalgar Square  mentioned in the paragraph.  Have them on your smart phone or know how to access them quickly on my LCC computer.
• Know what the "real" Trafalgar Square elements are vs. the changes Orwell makes.

READING SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF 1984

In class on Friday, 4/19--pp. 105-126 (Chapter Two, ch. I-II)
BY Monday, 4/22--pp. 127-147 (Chapter Two, ch. III-IV)

By Tuesday, 4/23--pp. 147-167 (Chapter Two, ch. V-VII)
By Wednesday, 4/24--pp. 167-199 (Two, ch. VIII and part of IX)
IN CLASS on Wednesday, 4/24--pp. 199-216 (rest of IX)
By Thursday 4/25- Read Ch. X (pp. 217-224) and complete short Study Guide Q's
IN CLASS on Friday--"Winston's Bedtime Questions" (will carry over as homework if you don't finish)

On Monday, 4/29--Chapter Two quiz (includes people back from field trips): then reading time for pp. 225-239 (Chapter Three, ch. I)
By Tuesday, 4/30--pp. 239-260 (Three, ch.II)
By Wednesday, 5/1--pp. 260-282 (Three, ch. III-IV)
In Class on Wednesday, 5/1--pp. 282-287 (Three, ch. V-VI)

Reading Schedule for the Rest of 1984

READING SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF 1984


In class on Friday, 4/19--pp. 105-126 (Chapter Two, ch. I-II)
BY Monday, 4/22--pp. 127-147 (Chapter Two, ch. III-IV)

By Tuesday, 4/23--pp. 147-167 (Chapter Two, ch. V-VII)
By Wednesday, 4/24--pp. 167-199 (Two, ch. VIII and part of IX)
IN CLASS on Wednesday, 4/24--pp. 199-216 (rest of IX)
By Thursday 4/25- Read Ch. X (pp. 217-224) and complete short Study Guide Q's
IN CLASS on Friday--"Winston's Bedtime Questions" (will carry over as homework if you don't finish)

On Monday, 4/29--Chapter Two quiz (includes people back from field trips): then reading time for pp. 225-239 (Chapter Three, ch. I)
By Tuesday, 4/30--pp. 239-260 (Three, ch.II)
By Wednesday, 5/1--pp. 260-282 (Three, ch. III-IV)
In Class on Wednesday, 5/1--pp. 282-287 (Three, ch. V-VI)

TODAY IN CLASS
1. "Old Prole" conversation chart/conclusion collected for points; returned for group discussion.  The target:  understanding how the wide-ranging details in the prole's responses actually do reveal much about the pre-Revolution society.  We discussed some of those features.

2.  Quiz:  Chapter One

FOR TOMORROW
Be sure to have your book with you.  You will have some significant in-class reading time.

Quiz on Thursday!

TODAY IN CLASS

• I collected the 15 short study questions over Part I.  
• We finished discussing the ideas that connect across chapters using the hand-out from yesterday (1st period just got the hand-out today, but we'd done most of the same thing yesterday anyway). 
• You should have read through 7-8 for today (Wednesday); it was obvious that many of you had done so, but a few (just as clearly) had not. :(

FOR TOMORROW
1.  The quiz covers the full Chapter One, which includes smaller chapters I-VIII (pp. 1-104).
You will need to answer straightforward questions (a single phrase to a sentence or two will be needed).  No word bank, no multiple choice . . . just respond to what's asked.

2.  There is homework to help you with a significant part of Chapter VIII.  Study the conversation between the Old Prole and Winston (pp. 88-92) and follow the instructions on the hand-out you received in class.
*** If you were absent, just study the conversation and make a chart in three columns to keep track of what the Old Prole reveals about life before the Revolution.  Make a column for CULTURAL (political, educational, religious), a second column for CULTURAL (general "quality of life" issues), and a third column  for ECONOMICS.  Write down a key phrase or two that will identify the aspect or feature of life "back in the day."  (Don't stress if something could overlap--just pick the column you think works best.)
So yes, these are due tomorrow.

3.  The quiz will not by any means take the full period, and it will not be the very first thing that we do.

TODAY IN CLASS
Some early discussion; time to work on a study guide for the complete Chapter One.
Assigned before break:  you should have been through (sub)-chapter 4 today (IV as given in your book).

FOR TOMORROW
Read through small Chapter 6 (VI, ending on p. 69).  Answer the questions so far as this portion allows.

Remember that you need to answer these fully, and somewhat beyond that is "asked"; I expect you to provide some sort of brief commentary, a quick "so what" that makes a connection between the answer to the question and WHY it should matter.  What do we learn about the society, the government, the character, or whatever "other" there might be from answering the question??

Hamlet Essays Handed In Today!

If yours is NOT in, or if you turned in the hard copy but have not yet submitted it to www.turnitin.com , well, you know what to do.  Papers handed in tomorrow (for ANY reason) need to be handed directly to me.

Everyone in 1st and 3rd should have finished reading Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (starts on p. 1250) as well as answering the questions.  The papers should have been turned in to the basket.

In 5th, a few people might not have gotten finished (we didn't even start this until today).  You can either finish tonight so you can start the novel on time tomorrow, or finish in class and catch up on first reading assignment for the novel at home.  Your choice.

The Memory Work
We got a start today; thanks to those who volunteered!  Tonight is a good night to work because there is no other homework, so I hope for many more tomorrow.  The last day is THURSDAY!  Remember that you need to have a clean copy for me to follow as you recite; I record notes on that paper as you recite.

If you still haven't selected your material, look at yesterday's blog post for the details.

Orwell's novel 1984
3rd/5th--we will get 1984 from the book room tomorrow; please have your ID with you.

Hamlet Essay Due Tomorrow

Final Draft of Hamlet Essay
1. Print out the final draft; be sure to include a Works Cited.  See instructions below.
2.  Submit the complete final draft to www.turnitin.com; the folder is already set up.  The deadline is tomorrow night (11:59 p.m.) but there is no reason to wait.
3.  You will turn in three things on Tuesday:
a) the final draft; stapled these pages
b) the first draft from Friday, March 28
c) the peer response from Friday, March 28

If you haven't done/received a peer response, TELL ME at the start of class on Tuesday.  Parents, older siblings, college friends, etc., are not candidates for the "peer" response process. You must receive feed back from and give feedback to someone in one of my three classes (ideally  your own section, but at this point we sometimes have to compromise on that).

The Works Cited page
1st and 3rd--You must cite the Folger edition.  Follow the format given on the Purdue OWL.  Start here
Works Cited--Books .
Study the"Basic Format" for books--every single part--and then scroll down to "An Edition of a Book" and look at "A book prepared by an editor."  In your case, there are TWO editors, so you will use Eds

5th period--Your book is actually a "collection" with several works in it. But because we are only interested in one of them, you'll use the link above and then scroll down to "A work in an anthology, reference, or collection.  Use the FIRST example.  Then, instead of author and "essay," you will plug in the author and full title of the first work in the collection.  Look on page 1 (unnumbered, but two pages before 3!) for the correct complete title.
Shakespeare, William.  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Now, I'm not giving you the rest in order, but note the following:
The title of the book is Hamlet and Related Readings.  
The publisher is McDougal Littell.  Go with Evanston, IL as the place of publication(it is listed first, and it's a tad bit closer).
There is no editor listed.
You DO need the page range for the entire play:  1-291.  (You WON'T use page numbers in your citations though--just the act, scene, line number as you've been told.  This page range is ONLY for the Works Cited)
You should be able to dig out the date and anything esle you might need.

The Shakespearean Memory Work

You can choose 12-16 consecutive lines by the same speaker in Hamlet--and you must start at the beginning of a sentence and stop at the end of a clause (preferably at the end of a sentence).
OR you can choose one of the following sonnet:
Sonnets 12, 18, 29, 30, 116, or 130.

Four of these (18, 29, 116, 130) are in your textbook online, but you can access all of them by number on the following site:
http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/

Whichever choice you make (lines from Hamlet or one of these sonnets), you must have a clean-copy print-out for me on the day that you recite: Tuesday if you wish, and tomorrow you'll know whether Wednesday or Thursday is your DAY.

Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," starts on p. 1250 of the book
1st and 3rd got going on this today; a couple of people finished the questions. More time tomorrow if needed--NOT homework since the essay is due!

5th was behind because of the fire drill and different pacing . . . so don't worry about this at all tonight.  You'll get the assignment and the questions in class tomorrow.