Today's Focus: Collected Vocabulary Art, Watched "Up" (Film Analysis comparative to Picaresque Journey)

Homework:
- None! Enjoy your break!!! :)

Today's Focus: de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot (1816) Small Group Discussion, Embedded Vocabulary Activity

Homework:
- Vocabulary Art DUE TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Introduction to Latin American Literature Unit, Reflection of Spanish/Mexican Conflict in Mexican Writing, Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot (1816) Excerpt Reading

Homework:
- Finish reading The Itching Parrot Chapter Excerpt DUE MONDAY
                      - Summarize each page in one sentence as well as giving a one sentence analysis.
​                      - Highlight all words you do not know.

Today's Focus: Satire, Rhetoric, and Poetry Unit Test

Journals were collected today.

Homework:
​- None. Tomorrow, we begin a new unit.

Today's Focus: Vocabulary Quiz 7, Last Study Day for Unit Test Tomorrow

Homework:
​- STUDY FOR YOUR UNIT TEST TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Class Desk Re-Arrangement, Poetry & Figurative Language Terms Flash Cards Creation, Silent Study Time

Homework:
- Vocabulary Quiz TOMORROW
- Unit Test on Thursday

Today's Focus: Vocabulary List 7 Definitions, How to Study Well Article, Test Review, Binder Clean-out/Test Materials Gathering

Homework:
- Vocabulary Quiz 7 on Wednesday
​- Unit Test has been moved to THURSDAY

Today's Focus: Finished BBC Documentary The Romantics with Viewing Guide

Homework:
- Satire, Rhetoric, and Poetry Test on TUESDAY
​- Vocabulary 7 Quiz on Wednesday

Today's Focus: Finished "Ozymandias" and "Kubla Khan" Analysis and Jigsaw, Began Romanticism BBC Documentary with Viewing Guide

Journal #9: Correct the following sentences: —In English class, Jim learned to read poems critically and he appreciated good prose. We found the film repulsive, offensive, and we thought it was embarrassing. There’s nothing I like better then finding a good trout stream, setting up camp, and to spend a couple of days fishing.

Homework:
- Macbeth Extra Credit Paragraph due to turnitin.com TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Finished TP-CASTT Analysis of "The World is Too Much With Us", Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" & Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" Jigsaw Analysis

Journal #8: What causes people today to become alienated from the natural world? What do you think are the results of such alienation?

Homework:
- None. Focus on your Research Paper.
- Macbeth Extra Credit Analysis Due Friday to turnitin.com