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Week 2:3 (Oct. 14-18)

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Mr. Benton

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Seniors: Reading Schedule 2:1-6, Frankenstein Journal, Frankenstein Audiotext, Tone Words, Mythology Quiz Preview

  • Hamlet: Prop Assignment (refer to your index card), Notes on Middle English through Early Modern English (The Elizabethan Era) and the Play Itself, Response Journal, Documentary with David Tennant, Tips for Reading Shakespeare, Act I Vocab

Freshmen: PSAT Tips, Literary Analysis Task (an in-class piece asking students to analyze how Shakespeare transformed Ovid’s story of “Phoebus and Daphne” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

  • Great Expectations: Vocab List, Journal Questions for Ch. 1-10, Journal Questions on Ch. 11-20 (1st period, 2nd period, 4th period, 5th period, and 6th period), Theme Log, Audiotext, Graphic Novelization for Ch. 19-22, Weaving and Citing Guide, Colormarking #6
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