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

January 5 - 9

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning against the railing, holding the universe together". JD Salinger "A Girl Knew"

• TEDtalks "The Puzzle of Motivation"
• entry #49 recall a favorite line from a book/song/poem/movie and explain why it is so great. Why do you remember this line?
• entry #50 What motivates you?
• begin new unit Memoir Persepolis/Night

"To place yourself on the page is in part self-discovery, part self-creation" from "Good Prose: The Art of Non-fiction" 

• entry #51 write about an eye-opening experience, a time when you shifted your opinion entirely about something.
• terms and vocabulary for Persepolis
• current event Iran
• essential question carousel
• entry #52 recall a very specific moment in your life and write a half page dialogue recalling that moment.
• Youtube "A History of Iran and America in 10 minutes"
• George Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech 2002
• read "The Secret Garden" by Azadeh Moaveni page 167 Holt
• questions after story

December 15 - 19 PROGRESS REPORTS DUE TUESDAY DECEMBER 16TH

Writing Samples 

HAPPY WINTER BREAK!

December 8 - 12

• reading Antigone
• entry #47 word bomb (island, butter, stench, cranberry, time)
• Write Source pages 201-238 The Persuasive Essay
• Writing Samples Antigone
• entry #48 who is right Antigone or Creon? Why? Explain...
• watch Antigone with Juliet Stevenson