Friday, October 27, 2006

English 20-1 Blocks One and Three

You were to have read the short story "Boys and Girls" for homework last night. Today, I will be discussing it with you. there are also questions you will have to answer. Remember that your short story is due on Tuesday and your unit exam (comprehension) is Wednesday. Your in-class essay is scheduled for Thursday.

English 30-1 Block Two

You are going to read Act II of Hamlet. There is also a reading activity on Polonuis' advice to Laertes which needs to be completed for Monday. I have inclued it below:

Hamlet Activity

In Act I, Scene 3 of Hamlet, Polonius offers Laertes some words of advice prior to his returning back to school.
You are to examine this passage and then rewrite it to reflect what a father would say if he was offering the SAME advice today. You may want to look at the notes on pages 47 and 48 to help you.
This is due on MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 (you may work independently or in pairs).


And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not them be false to any man.

Social Studies 33

Your Map of World War I and questions are due today. I then want to move on to the results of World War One (The Treaties, Conferences, and War Guilt Clause). You are to do the last page of the handout on WWI that I am giving you today for Monday. Also, if you weren't here, talk to your classmates. I provided notes on the end of World War One, the Paris Conference, The Treaty of Versailles (and conditions), the winners and losers in the war, the War Guilt Clause, Woodrow Wilsons 14 points, their decision to isolationism, propaganda, the Weimar Republic, and Germany's feelings about the outcome.