ACTIVITIES SECTION

Please provide specific details of your particular activity. Be sure to list positions of leadership that you have held.

Write clearly and feel free to use whatever space you need to give the appropriate information.

Thursday 10/20: Vocabulary Quiz

* Pray

* Vocabulary Quiz
Follow Schwager's Instructions. Define the first five. Give sentences for the next five.

* Cards (outside reading and The Knight's Tale)

* J15: Activities Overview Sheet
For J14-16, you may choose where to spend your writing time. If you will not have recommendations as a part of your work, if you have already filled out the forms, or if you want to do so later, you may write a personal statement, college essay, or scholarship essay. If you want to go over any with me, please bring it to advisory as J14-16 are just checked for completion and are meant to make college application readiness less stressful.

* Vocabulary 51-60 (due Tuesday)
51.adulation
52.censure
53.dissemble
54.dissimulation
55.droll
56.expectorate
57.palpate
58.peremptory
59.pusillanimous
60.surfeit

HW: J15; Finish your outside reading cards (outside reading and The Knight's Tale)

Wednesday, 10/19: College

* Pray

* General reminders
       1. The blue bin recycles; the beige bin trashes.
       2. Please don't put your backpacks on your desktop.
       3. If you have emailed a paper to me because a printer has failed, etc., you still need to turn in a paper copy if you intend to receive a grade for it.

* Grammar reviewed.

* J14: Fill Out Your Senior Profile (also send this in to your adviser in Student Services if you need a recommendation). You could copy/paste into pages, etc.

HW: J14

College Recommendations: Student Services Senior Profile

MVCS~ SENIOR PROFILE

Please complete the student section and have your parent(s) complete the Parent Brag Sheet.

Note: The senior profile is primarily for advisors. For teacher recommendations, college admissions reviewers recommend teachers provide specific information relevant to the classroom experience you have shared. Please assist your teachers by providing them details of your classroom experiences. Anecdotes, projects, or special moments that help your teachers to remember you are crucial for a more effective teacher recommendation.

Tuesday, 10/18/11: Grammar

* Pray

* Check J 13

* Bedford 16c, d, and e. Do 16-1 and 16-2 letters and numbers.

* Work on your note cards (due Monday)

Note that we have a vocab. quiz on your block day.

HW: Work on cards

A Sweet Homecoming

Reading That Hideous Strength clearly gave Taylor Cohen, Eric Griffin, and Jordan De Los Santos the persistence, imagination, and courage under pressure necessary to create that final triumph of good over goodbye. Can't deny it.

Sentinel Article

Highlights Video

Monday, 10/17: The Elizabethan Age

* Pray

* Review Q2

* Read Literature of the World "The Period of the Renaissance" (the .pdf in iBooks) pp. 366/381 to 379/394. If it is not in your .pdf collecion of iBooks, you will find a link to the book on your syllabus.

J 13: Answer the reading questions.

People:

1. Which kings and queens rule in this period?

2. Who is the poet's poet?

3. Who is the greatest sonnet writer in the English language?

4. Who is the most important prose writer of the Elizabethan Age?

5. Who is, perhaps, the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan Age?

6. What is interesting about the dates of Shakespeare's birth and death?

7. What is Shakespeare's "stock" (the culture of his parentage)?

8. What are some of Shakespeare's greatest works?

9. How does Shakespeare's work differ from both Classical and Modern drama?

9. Did Shakespeare's work improve or decline over the course of his career?

10. What, in Shakespeare, is "little short of miraculous"?

Terms

1. Define lyric.

2. Define euphuistic style. Where does the word come from?

3. What are mystery, morality, and Everyman plays?

4. Define problem play.

HW: J13