Today's Focus: Introduction to Macbeth! KW (Know, Want to Know) Charts with Small Groups, Act 1, Scene 1 in class reading

Journal #2: What do you feel more often - envy or gratitude? What are you most grateful for? What are you most envious of?

Journal #3: Has there ever been a time in your life when someone told you that something improbable would happen and it did? Did the fact that the event was “predicted” cause you to behave differently than you would have otherwise and make it more likely to occur?

Homework:
- Read Act 1, Scenes 2 & 3 completing reading logs for both (see downloads section) DUE MONDAY

Today's Focus: Iambic Pentameter & Its Use for Actors (or Readers of Shakespearean Text)

Journal #1: Correct the following sentences - ​Team officials heralded cap day as a attempt at attracting a larger amount of fans. Surveillance camera’s are frequently placed in Convenience stores to prevent customers to shoplift!

Homework:
- Bring Macbeth to class every day starting tomorrow.

Today's Focus: Macbeth Book Check-out, Shakespeare Internet Scavenger Hunt in Computer Lab

- Use https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ to create the correct citations for the Websites via MLA 8th Edition

Homework:
​- None! Enjoy your evening.

Today's Focus: Unit 1 Test

- Journals were collected.

Homework:
- Bring your copy of Macbeth​ if you have one. If not, bring your ASB card to class tomorrow.

Today's Focus: Review Day for Inferno and Literary Elements Test

Homework:
- Study for your Unit Test TOMORROW
​- Journals will be collected TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Inferno Socratic Seminar, Turned in Critical Reading at the End

Homework:
- Unit Test on Tuesday

Today's Focus: Independent Work Day - Critically Reading Assigned Canto, Preparing for Socratic Seminar, Studying for Unit Test

Homework:
- Critically read your assigned Canto (either 12, 19, or 34) DUE TOMORROW
- Prepare for your Socratic Seminar TOMORROW by reviewing the prompts and developing responses
​- Unit Test on Tuesday

Today's Focus: Vocabulary Quiz 2, Canto 5 Reading Quiz, Canto 5 Group Analysis, Socratic Seminar Prompts & Instruction for Friday

Homework:
- Bring your Canto Critical Reading packet tomorrow to work on in class.
- Critical Reading & Socratic Seminar on Friday
​- Unit Test on Tuesday

Today's Focus: Contrapasso and the Inferno, Canto 3 Group Analysis with Contrapasso, How to Effectively Critically Read, Cantos 12, 19, 34 Jigsaw Instructions

​Journal #8: Correct the following sentences: Despite an intensive campaign to encourage conservation, there is many americans that have not excepted recycling as a way of life. High up above the hudson river rises the gleaming skyscrapers of Manhattan.

Homework:
- Canto 5 Reading DUE TOMORROW
- Vocabulary Quiz 2 TOMORROW
- Socratic Seminar on Friday
​- Unit Test on Tuesday

Today's Focus: Terza Rima Discussion & Analysis, Note Review, Canto 3 Read Aloud and Small Group Discussion on Imagery

Journal #7: Reflect on how the Ptolemaic Universe connects to Dante Alighieri’s construction of the Inferno.

Homework:
​- Study for your Vocabulary Quiz on Wednesday