Homework: April 10

English 11 (F)

• Study your vocab!
• We'll have a reading and quotation quiz tomorrow for Chapter 1-6 in Gatsby. Make sure you've read the book and have made some careful notes--then you'll be ready!
• Read your independent book!

Honors English 12 (G)

• In class today, we discussed projects. I showed you my initial mind map, and walked you through my idea, and what I'm considering. (It's posted at the end of this post--check it out!) As I told you, I haven't narrowed down a theme just yet, and I haven't narrowed down exactly which texts I'll use. Right now, it's time to think of the options, and work on developing an idea. Be expansive at this stage (consider more options and ideas) instead of reductive (trying to narrow everything down and simplify). Your more interesting ideas will come from time spent thinking.
• Then, we watched, read and discussed some of Hamlet. If you missed it, you can check it out at the end of this post. We watched through the end of the "scene of advice" (Laertes gives advice to Ophelia, Polonius gives advice to Laertes, Polonius gives advice to Ophelia...). We started around the 15 minute mark today, and watched to 28:45 or so.

Honors English 11 (A)

• Continue reading the packet of essays on Gatsby! Check yesterday's post for the details and guiding questions.
• Read your independent book!

English 12 (B)

• Work on project planning. I showed you my "mind map" today...here it is again in case you want to check out my musings. Remember, this is step one in the process. It's about 20 minutes or so of working and thinking. As I said in class, your process right now should be expansive (as in, consider many ideas! Pose lots of questions, and make some connections!) instead of reductive (as in, narrow it all down and pick three texts and come up with some idea even if it isn't that interesting and just go with it...). You'll narrow your idea down soon enough, but you need to do a lot of thinking in order to have a strong and interesting project.
• Read your independent book!
• And, if you haven't seen it recently, watch The Lion King. No joke. It'll help you with Hamlet. 

My mind map. I did this while sipping a 2-pump white mocha misto with skim milk at my local Starbucks.