Tuesday / Wednesday 18/19 October

In class students wrote about a time that they left someone or someplace, or about a time that someone left them.

Students were told that next week they will begin working on telling one of their own stories using the graphic story telling format.

We reviewed how narration is done in a square box in a graphic panel.

Then we discussed the political spectrum in relationship to Uncle Anoosh and Margi's father's argument on page 62.

  Finally there was SSR time.

Thursday / Monday 13 / 16 October

In class students turned in their essay's from last class. We reviewed the role of topic sentences as not only the main idea of body paragraphs, but as providing support for the thesis.

Students wrote quiz questions for the chapter "The Hero" and we answered and discussed these questions, as well as analyzing the quality of the questions.

Finally we read a article on the history of the SAVAK. Students can get this article from Mr. Zartler. We analyzed the article for evidence of U.S. involvement with the SAVAK; for themes of revenge; finally we tried to answer the question, "Was the SAVAK successful?"

WE added the word "mediocre" to the vocabulary list.

Students were assigned to read Persepolis through page 71 for next week.

Tuesday / Wednesday 11/12 October

In class students turned in SSR sheets and got new ones which will be due on October 31st.

We worked as a class on analyzing the following panels from Persepolis.

We read and discussed the end of "The Party" as an example of the importance of 'forgiveness' as a theme.

Students were assigned the following short essay as homework:

Thursday, 2 June

EXTENSION!

The deadline for Woman Warrior papers is extended until Monday, June 6th!

All students should have read "Every Tongue Shall Confess" and "Our Lady of Peace" for Friday.

Short stories due for Monday are "The Ant of Self" and "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere".

Major Due Dates till the end of the year

Accelerated Sophomore English: Due Dates till end of term.

Wednesday / Thursday 25/26 May  -- Woman Warrior Presentations Book Check out Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Friday 27 May – Essay Preparation in class. Analytical Essay on The Woman Warrior to be due on or before the beginning of class, Friday, 3 June.

In a 3-4 page essay analyze a major theme of the The Woman Warrior explaining how the structure of the narrative helps develop and explain the theme.

Monday 30 May – Memorial Day

Tuesday 31 May – Due “Brownies” from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Wednesday / Thursday 1/2 June – assigned story due; group study and lesson preparation

Friday 3 June – Due Analytical Essay on The Woman Warrior

Due “Every Tongue Shall Confess” and “Our Lady of Peace” from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Monday 6 June – “The Ant of the Self” and “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere due

Tuesday 7 June – “Speaking in Tongues” and “Geese” from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere due

Wednesday/ Thursday 8/9 June –Drinking Coffee Elsewhere activities

Final Exam “Doris is Coming” from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere due

Period 3: 10 June; Periods 4/5: 13 June; Period 7: 14 June

In class essay: “How is “Doris Is Coming” related to the collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.

23 May, 2011

Today in class students presented their findings with relevant quotes on the themes of:

Voice / Speaking/ Silence
Ghosts
Males v. Females
Food
Culture.

We also reviewed the requirements for the presentations of the multimedia projects that are due tomorrow.

Presentations should be short and should explain:
What is shown by the project.
How the project shows what it does.
Why understanding this aspect of The Woman Warrior is important.

16-20 May

Students worked in small groups to analyze themes in The Woman Warrior.

Presentations were made Wednesday/ Thursday and finished on Friday.

Students did small group work on Friday for Monday presentations on the topics of

Voice/ Speaking / Silence
Ghosts
Males v. Females
Food
Culture