I'm Baaaaaack!!!!!!!!!

I have decided to restart ye olde blog this semester with my AP and English IV classes. Here you will find schedules, awesome student work, and sometimes extra activities and thought-provoking information. I have told you already, but I am thrilled to death to have another semester with you all. 2nd period was such a bright spot in my day last semester and I expect that it will be the same this semester, though certainly shadowed with the knowledge that you are all LEAVING me in May. (If you will note, on the right side of the blog, there is a countdown clock to graduation. Please know that your joy is far greater than mine as this clock winds down...) :) Seriously, though, last semester of senior year... it has to feel great! I am proud of each and every one of you.

This week begins Unit 3, Complications of Culture. As you know from yesterday's seminar, the essential questions are:
How does one's perspective shape or alter truth?
In a culture where we are bombarded with other people and other things trying to define us, how do we make decisions for ourselves?
How is who we want to be as revealing as who we are and how we are perceived by others?
The major works for this unit will include Heart of Darkness, Macbeth, Sir Gawaine, Arthurian legends, and Metaphysical/Carpe Diem Poetry.
We are starting Macbeth this week, and I can't wait to teach it to you and hear your discussions. It is not as deep as Hamlet, in my opinion, but it is really very incredibly exciting and it contains one of Shakespeare's greatest villains and one of his few strong female characters (at least in the tragedies we read in our curriculum).

This week's schedule:

Monday- Introductory Seminar to Macbeth (ambition, situational ethics)

Tuesday- Persuasive Prompt (part of schoolwide initiative)

Wednesday- Act I

Thursday- TT for Group 1, Macbeth for Group 2

Friday- Act I
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