Merry Christmas

Aloha! If anyone is checking the site, I will be in my classroom Tuesday 12/23 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. If you need help on your packet, want to make up a test, or want to make up reading points, you can do it Tuesday. You may also pick up another extra credit project.

May you be blessed by the peace of God.

Merry Christmas - lessons week 16 12/15-19/2008

As we move to Christmas - "do you know it is a party? It is a birthday party ... birthdays are meant to be celebrated. It's why we say 'Merry Christmas!'" stated Rick Warren. Let's work hard and enjoy this last week of school before vacation, then you can celebrate all the rest of this year. If your notebook is up to date, you may see me for a Christmas extra credit project. Please check Aeries and see if you have all your reading points; if you don't you may make them up this week. Finally do you have your dialogue approved and are you and your partner practicing?

Monday 12/15
1. Review Reading Tests
2. Review Reading handouts
3. Antigone Packet (homework)
4. Practice dialogue (homework)

Tuesday 12/16
1. Review Vocabulary and Vocab Bingo
2. See, Read, and discuss Antigone
3. Read Antigone and work on packet (homework)
4. Practice dialogue (homework)

Wednesday 12/17
1. Vocabulary lessons 1 and 2 Test
2. Practice dialogue
3. Read and discuss Antigone
4. Study, finish Packet, and Read (homework)

Thursday 12/18
1. Antigone Test
2. Review Antigone Packet
3. Practice for Presentation
4. Study and Read (homework)

Friday 12/19
1. Idiom weeks 1 – 11 Test
2. Review Tests
3. See “The Ten Most Fascinating People of 2008”
4. Practice dialogue (homework)

"Peace on earth and good will toward men."
Merry Christmas

Antigone - Week 15's lessons 12/8 - 12/12 - 2008

We are moving from the future of Fahrenheit 451 to the past of Sophocles' Antigone. As you read can you connect this quote to the drama? "In prosperity our friends know us. In adversity we know our friends." Also, finally we are starting our vocabulary program using Elements of Language; this should help you prepare for you CAHSEE Test and the PSAT or SAT. Please make sure you have your book with you in class everyday. As you work on Antigone and your vocabulary remember I am here every morning to assist you with any help you may require.

Monday 12/8
1. Review Tests
2. See The end of Fahrenheit 451
3. Read pages 1014 - 1021 (homework)

Tuesday 12/9
1. Lecture: Drama Goals and Objectives
2. Read “Greece and the Theatre”
3. Vocabulary Do Lessons 1 and 2 (pages xix - 10) **Homework**

Wednesday 12/10
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Reading Handouts (Greek culture)
3. Read Antigone “Prologue” pages 1022 – 1025 (homework)
Analogies pages 123 -126 Do Lesson 1 (homework)

Thursday 12/11
1. Review Analogies
2. See Antigone “Prologue”
3. Read pages 1022 – 1031 "scene 1" (homework)
4. Find Part for Dialogue (homework)

Friday 12/12
1. Read and discuss “Reading New Words in Context” page 141 - 148
"Why Socrates Died” Lesson 1
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. Write out dialogue (cards) (homework)

Drama
Goals and Objectives

I. To state in a paragraph the sequential action of the play - its plot.

II. To state the time and place in which the play is set.

III. To determine and state the time span of the play.

IV. To identify and describe physically and behaviorally the major characters in the play. The descriptions should be supported by quotations.

V. To identify the plays protagonist and antagonist.

VI. To state the tone of the play.
The author’s attitude towards the subject.

VII. To identify the conflict in the play.

VIII. To state the main subject of the play.

IX. To state the theme of the play and be able to support it by two quotes.
X. To identify and explain in case of tragedy the Aristotelian elements:
A. Plot:the downfall of a hero of noble stature.
B. Characters: the hero or heroine who is great, but who shows some crucial error in judgment.
C. Idea: Recognition of human greatness, of unrealized possibilities in human
life.
D. Diction: Language that is elevated and dignified.

XI. To work with one other student and memorize a scene of dialogue.

Let's get it done, let's have fun!