Extra Credit Opportunity

Be the first to e-mail (klsipes@gmail.com) if you find a misspelled word or typo in the blog or calendar and you win! Extra points go in the participation category.

March Madness

On Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23-24, meet in lab 422.  Bring your plans for your brochure so that you can spend all of your time getting it processed. Prepare before you come to the lab.  Have pictures, graphics, and text ready to go.

What a day we had with  lockdown "drill" for almost two hours and Google information for 15 minutes (or more) evey English clas Remember the calendar page has homework assignments and a short note about what we covered in class.
Why do we study poetry?  Here's an answer from a credible thinker:
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Francis Bacon

Shakespeare Sililoquy or Sonnet Assignment

The assignment for Tuesday night:  find a sonnet or sililoquy that you want to memorize.  Print it, AND write it out in manuscript to start your memorization process. Since I didn't get these posted before bedtimes on Tuesday, you have another day.  We will start recitation next Tuesday.
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/soliloquies.htm
(Several different soliloquys - with modern translations, too!"

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/
 (The sonnets are numbered, not titled.)

http://www.twelfth-night.info/clicknotes/romeo/P1.html
(The prologues from acts 1 & 2 of Romeo and Juliet are sonnets.)

To blog or not to blog... To post or not to post

Blogs, tweets, facebook groups, Google groups, are all tools to help disseminate information.  I'm still trying to see which works best for us.   So far, I think the Google group is the most flexible. We can discuss, post pages, post files, send E-mail.  The blog page has an easy tool for posting pictures and slideshow of our activities.  Facebook is blocked at school, which makes that network difficult. What do you think? 
Here is a link to our Google page.  If you aren't a member yet, would you join?
HHS English 9 PRE-AP

Logical Fallacy Project - Due February 17

IRT TRIP - Rescheduled for Friday, February 26.


February 8-19, 2010

Homework due on Wednesday, February 17: E-mail your answers:  mailto:klsipes@gmail.com

Logical Fallacy Project - Read the Project handouts (see link below) You may choose to work alone (5 advertisements) or with one other person (10 advertisements).

Project handouts Link

Purdue Owl Resource for Logical Arguments







Logic & Logical Fallacies Purdue Owl Link

SUPERBOWL WEEKEND HOMEWORK

Homework for the Superbowl Weekend!! YES!! (Cheers)
While you are watching TV, or browsing the Internet, or reading, look for examples and take mental notes... MENTAL NOTES if you find the following:
Logical fallacy: over-generalization
Emotional appeal

Homework for February 1 - 4:


The Holt Reader (Blue 10th Grade Level): Do pages 351-361, "Who Wrote Shakespeare "

Read Indiana Repertory Theatre's Play guide for R & J. Do the Bard's IQ quiz on the last page.

What's happening in class this six-weeks?

Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar

We have a trip to IRT scheduled for Friday, February 12. Most of you have paid for the trip, but if you haven't, the cost is $17.00 and includes lunch. Please have that paid by Wednesday, February 10. I have permission slips from almost all of you for Romeo and Juliet. If you are new to the class, you will need to fill out a permission slip. You will find the file attached below.

Curriculum link (if you care to know) is http://www.acsc.net/curriculum/HS/HS_LA/9_LA.htm

This link will take you to another class spot where you can find assignments posted. I'm working with several formats to see which is most user-friendly. Let me know what you think.

http://groups.google.com/group/hhs-english-pre-ap

Spring Semester 2010

You are going to LOVE this six-weeks! Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is our text. Stagecraft, elements of drama, comic relief, the foil, elements of tragedy, and tragic flaw are just a few of the subjects we will examine during the course of the grading period. We will learn a bit about Shakespeare's life, times, and works, attempt to "cut" a scene from R& J, and a few of you (volunteers) will put one of the scenes on its feet on the stage! Indiana Repertory Theatre has invited us to be a part of the first Schools on Stage program. Come and see, even if you aren't one of the dozen who is directly involved. The show is right after the Romeo and Juliet 2:00 p.m. matinee. It will start around 4:45 - 5:00 and it will end around 6:00. The Schools on Stage program is free. Anyone in the show has a free ticket. Others, family included, can request a discount ticket from the ticket office.