Home Studies, Week of 3/12– 3/16/07
1st period: choose and begin reading your book club book. Make at least two intelligent comments (by Monday) on what you're reading using the "comment" button at the bottom of this post. I'll try and have a better forum for your online discussions next week.2nd period: Choose one of the following writers from your book: Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove. Read all the background information and the short story/ poems from the book by Monday. We'll also do a "book club" with presentations next week.
3rd period: Finish reading your Tolstoy story. Write 2 paragraphs in response to the discussion questions to present on Monday. We'll choose and begin reading modern novels on Tuesday.
4th period: continue working on the presentation version of your research paper for your science classes. We'll begin revising those papers once the presentations are done. We'll complete the list of Works Cited as part of the revision, so you won't have to do that until next week (but don't lose your sources!!!) On Thursday night, write a story that involves a St. Bernard and includes all of your spelling words (underline them!) Word list: scientific, excruciating, Calculus, impractical, taciturn, education, expensive, necessary, obnoxious, success
5th period: Write a response of at least 3 sentences to each of the discussion questions to turn in on Friday. Over the weekend, gather a collection of at least three songs you like whose lyrics deal with realizations of the artist or a character the artist has created. Bring them Monday and play the songs for the class (we have a cd player and a tape player, and we can plug speakers into an MP3 player). Make sure to highlight the moments of realization in your presentation and show similarities and differences between the way the narrator of each song handles his/her "epiphany."
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