Monday, October 25, 2010

Week of Oct. 25-28

All classes: Students, be sure to plan on coming to parent-teacher-student conferences on Friday for extra credit in my classes.

American Literature:
We have just finished a unit on Individualism, and we are about to learn strategies for making persuasive speeches.

Homework:

Monday: learning survey (page 1)
Tuesday: brainstorming/prewriting for speech; G.U.M. 91-2, 97
Wednesday: speech outline
Thursday: prepare speech for Tuesday or Wednesday next week

World Literature: Research paper is due Tuesday; after that, we will begin reading Medea by Euripides.

Homework:

Monday: self-assessment
Tuesday: research paper due today

World History: We are still studying Rome--finishing up the Roman Republic and beginning to learn about the Roman Empire.

Homework:

Monday: Worksheet (due Tuesday). Respond to Chesterton (due Wednesday).
Tuesday: read pp. 150-160 and take notes. Response to Chesterton due tomorrow.
Wednesday: Read pp. 160-169. p. 164 #1-4, other TBA
Thursday: TBA

Gospel of John:
This week's focus will be on John chapters 8-9.

Homework:

Monday: Read the following passages: John 8:12-30, John 8:31-38, John 8:39-47, and John 8:48-59. For EACH passage, answer three questions: 1) What does it mean? 2) So what for them? 3) So what for us/me?
Tuesday: pp. 101-107 #1-11
Thursday: Take home test due date TBA

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