Friday, March 4, 2011

Week of March 7, 2011
11th Academic English
This week we will continue our study of Shakespeare's Hamlet. We will read together Act IV, then we will review your Act IV Study Guide. On Wednesday, you will take a quiz on Act IV and will begin work on the Act V Study Guide. On Thursday, you will take Vocabulary Quiz #12 and will turn in Newsweek Summary #12. Friday we will work on Act V of Hamlet and complete some additional preparation for the PSSA Tests that begin on Tuesday, March 15th.

12th Academic English
We're almost to the finish line on the Research Writing project. On Wednesday, you will turn in a completed draft of your project for my review. You should include the Works Cited page with the text of your paper. Make sure parenthetical citations are correctly completed. Monday we will begin an analysis of the Romantic Period in British literature. You will read and outline pp. 614-21 in your literature anthology. Later in the week we will read "Introduction to Frankenstein," p. 650, "The Oval Portrait," p. 658 and "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," p. 666. On Thursday of this week you will take Vocabulary Quiz #12 and will turn in Newsweek Summary #12.