Schedule for Week of 26 September:
Please bring The Crucible text to class on BOTH of the meeting days for your class this week. Since this is considered a HOMEWORK assignment, failure to do so will result in a "ZERO"!

You will receive a "study/assignment packet" on Monday indicating exactly what will be required during our reading of this text. Since this is a play-which is intended to be heard and/or read aloud-we will always discuss a specific section of an Act prior to a given assignment.

I also expect you to bring the required THREE-RING BINDER to class everyday day we meet.

NOTE: With assistance, I will probably have your grades posted on Jupiter Gradebook by the end of the day on Monday, 26 September. I do have all of your grades recorded in a "paper" grade-book- so I only have to transfer them to an on-line program. If you are curious about the specific Quotation/Paragraph assignments, stop by during 371/2 minutes on Monday.

I am "thrilled" with how well everyone has been doing responding to the specific quotes. Since this is what is required on the Critical Lens Essay of the NYS English Regents, everyone will be well-prepared on the test day in January. Integrating literary texts into the paragraphs has impressed me most of all. Soon, I may make this mandatory.

As indicated last-week, you will not be given the SAT Vocabulary Test for List 3 this week NOR do you have to complete the Quote/Paragraph Assignment for "Week 4". However, both E and F Bands WILL TURN IN THIS PARAGRAPH RESPONSE ON MONDAY, 3 OCTOBER. A prudent student will have these paragraphs written ahead of time.

Repeatedly, you were informed-on this blog and verbally by Diedrich-that THREE words from the previous week's SAT Vocabulary Test would appear on the next test. Sadly, several students from both Bands did not take note of this, resulting in a score of 80% rather than a score of 100%! (Yet, these students were able to recall the meaning of at least one of the words from the previous list.)

If you have not yet done so, please review the power-points/videos I posted on the Puritans and on Joe McCarthy-the Red Scare. You may have to click-on "older posts" to do so. Diedrich may give you a "surprise" quiz on the information presented.