Monday, February 23, 2015

Week of February 23 - 27


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

Thursday, February 19, 2015

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

Monday, February 2, 2015

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