Friday, January 29, 2016

10th World Literature and Honors World

Hi! This is Mr. Joiner. I have officially taken over for Ms. Magnus today. As of today, I do not have my email address from the school district, but I expect to have that by next week so that parents and students will have the opportunity to reach me. I will post the address here. For the 10th World Literature students, please have a personal copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini by Monday, February 2nd. Honors World be ready to present your projects on Monday. Enjoy your weekend!

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Assignment In Lab 1/13/16

1) Read and summarize the article "Pulling Children from Nepal's Prisons" You may write on the article.

2) Watch the video at the following link: http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2012/03/15/cnn-heroes-pushpa-basnet.cnn  Fill out the first 3 Boxes (TAP) when viewing the video

3) Consider the last three boxes (The 2nd TAP) in reference to the article compared to the video.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

10th World Lit January 11- January 15

Monday- Vocab Week 1; Continue watching Batman
Tuesday- Finish Batman; discuss his hero's journey; fill out Iliad character list
Wednesday- SRI testing; Who's Who Bingo; "Pulling Children from Nepal's Prisons" article
Thursday- Begin The Iliad-Book 1
Friday- Vocab Quiz 1; Continue reading the Iliad

Honors World Lit January 11- January 15

Monday- Introduced Vocab Week 1; Continued Batman
Tuesday- Finished Batman; Went over Batman's hero's journey; mapped out hero's journey for Alchemist
Wednesday- Finish Alchemist hero's journey and archetypes; motifs notes; go over rubric; Motifs Group paragraph; Pushpa Basnet Article (homework)
Thursday- Details and characterization lesson; Socratic seminar assignment; Alchemist quiz
Friday- Vocab week 1 quiz; do prep work for Socratic Seminar

10th World Lit- January 4-7

Tuesday- Intro to class; terms PowerPoint
Wednesday- Finish PowerPOint; Hero's Journey Notes;
Thursday- Where the Wild Things Are hero's journey; Archetypes notes; Read, summarized, and analyzed Hercules for archetypes.
Friday- Discussed Hercules; Begin Batman

Honors World Lit January 4-7

Tuesday- Intro to class; Hero's journey and hero types notes; mapped out hero's journey and decided types of heros from film summaries
Wednesday- Finished mapping hero's journey;
Thursday- Archetype notes; group paragraph about archetypes
Friday- finished group paragraphs; began Batman