Week of February 23 - 27

• Student Path Survey's
• Watch The Boy in the Stripped Pajama's
• Watch Frontline: Memory of the Camps

Week of February 17th - 20th NO SCHOOL MONDAY 16TH

For God's sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where is He? This is where - hanging here from this gallow - from Night

• Entry #10 Why do horrible things happen? Why doesnt't God intervene?
• 10 journal entries from Night focusing on the theme of Human Nature. Is human nature basically good? or evil? Due at end of the unit.
• Finish Persepolis
• Night vocab due
• hand-out resource packet for Night
• by Monday 2/ 23 read up to page 66
• watch Oprah interview with Elie Weisel 

week of February 9 - 13

• Entry #9 Why is memory important?
• review for Persepolis unit test
• test over terms/definitions from Persepolis
• Watch Persepolis
• Memoir/graphic story due
• begin reading Night preface, foreword, and pages 3-23 for Tuesday
• Vocab due Tuesday

week of February 2 - 6

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole - Ralph Waldo Emerson from Art

• Entries #1 - #4
• Library to check out Persepolis 2 and Night
• assign memoir and graphic story
• hand-out "what's in your head" brainstorm for memoir piece
• Entry #5 Have you ever found yourself at a crossroad?
• Entries #6 - #8 from Kokology
• Night vocabulary sheet
• watch Rick Steve's Iran
• Finish Persepolis 2 over the weekend

Week of January 26th - 30th FINALS WEEK

UNFORTUNATELY I WAS OUT BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK.

• ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE TURNED IN BY THURSDAY JANUARY 29TH
• finish Persepolis
• reading sample completed instead of final

week of January 19th - 23rd FINALS NEXT WEEK/END OF SEMESTER

MONDAY IS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

• Entry #55 What political changes are you aware of in your lifetime?
• Entry #56 What social pressures are placed on us because of gender?
• Entry #57 Summarize each chapter from Persepolis as we read; a) main point b) one quote from each chapter (basically a dialogue journal)
• Entry #58 Describe a mean-spirited thing you did as a child.
• Entry #59 Describe a time you had to leave place, or a time that a close friend left you.
• Entry #60 Summarize chapters from Persepolis
• Read Persepolis up to "The Jewel" page 87
• Journal entries (#24 - #60) due next week
• select 2 journal entries to re-write/type and turn in
• READING SAMPLE IN PLACE OF FINAL EXAM

January 12 - 16 CHALLENGE ASSIGNMENTS DUE THIS WEEK

• Entry #53 Write about a time you felt oppressed because of; gender, sexuality, race, age, class, or the fact that you have never felt oppressed.
• ENTRY #54 What does your clothing communicate?
• share terms and definitions
• Read "The Secret Garden" excerpt from Lipstick Jihad by Azedah Moaveni
• Interview with Azedah Moaveni with active reading and interview questions
• CHALLENGE ASSIGNMENT DUE AND IN CLASS QUIZ
• begin Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi