Week of 10/27 - Halloween!!!!

Here are some friendly reminders...

1. You should be working on your film review option. Remember to print up and hand in any reviews that you are critiquing. Be sure to give proper credit in your paper to any outside source you use! Also, you must type up a Works Cited page - use Noodle Tools to help. Final typed, double-spaced paper is due any time this week!! (50 pts)

2. We have two days in the lab to work on the British Timeline Anglo-Saxon information. The link is down to the left...if you need more time, then you can finish it on your own. Enjoy!

"It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils" (Shelley 43).

Some chilling, thrilling reminders as we finish up one of the best gothic horror stories of all time...

1) Your personal discussion on how Mary Shelley would react to what Hollywood has done to her "It's Alive!" scene...due Friday, Oct. 3 (typed, dbl. sp., 1 - 1 1/2 pages, textual ref.)

2) Chapters 20 - 23, Logs 7 and 8, and Challenging Vocabulary (the continued list!)...due Mon., Oct. 6

Which happy couple is going to be married first?? Victor and Elizabeth, or the creature and his bride?!! Read on to find out! Stop biting your nails!

Classwork/Homework from Thurs., Feb. 21st

If you were absent on Thursday, you missed some fun stuff! Please check notes. In period 1, we worked with three "Habits of Mind." In period 4, we worked with the description of the Wife of Bath (in the General Prologue - see p. 388 and p. 10) and how it connects with the Wife's lengthy prologue and the tale she tells. Please complete. (We also videotaped!)
Please have your list of stanger observations by Monday.
Enjoy sledding and making snow angels :)

Chaucer Classwork/Homework - 2/14,2/15

For those of you who were absent and for those of you who forgot, "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale" was due for Friday 2/14, and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" is due for Wednesday, 2/20. Be sure to catch up on notes and discussion questions. Enjoy!

Looking into Chaucer's Life and Times

After you have handed in the results and analysis of your learning styles, and then visited the Medieval Timeline and taken some notes (see below), click on the Chaucer link to the left. Please complete the assignment given to you, and hand in when done. If you need more time after this period, you may finish it for homework. (15 pts.)

Learning Styles Inventory

We all learn through different styles. Are we active learners? Visual learners? Intuitive? Prior to 1980, there was little research on learning styles; now, most models are grounded in psychological research gathered over the years with a foundation based on the work of Carl Gustav Jung (1971). As a teacher, gathering information on how you learn will enable me to see the learning territory through a new perspective. Please use the lab period today to click on the Learning Styles Inventory link to the left and complete the assessment. Please submit your responses and print up the results. Do not close out of the page with your results! Click on "Learning Syle Descriptions," and read over. Analyze the results - do you agree? Type up your own explanation of the results of the inventory and hand in. (15 pts.)

Medieval England on the Timeline

Click on the English Timeline link to the left, click on the picture "Ages of English Timeline," and then launch it! Look familiar? Click forward to Act 3, "The Norman Conquest 1066." Move around the screen, click, read, listen! Be sure to check out the microphone/camera to the left of the globe - be sure to listen to the Prologue of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales - in Modern English as well as in Middle English (practice using your Medieval tongue!). View Acts 3, 4, and 5, and list at least 20 pieces of information in your notebook. (15 pts.) We will have lab time Tuesday, 2/5 and Thursday, 2/7.