The Fall of Innocence / Vocab Quiz and a New Story

College Prep - 12

• Read an essay by Prof. W.T. Jewkes in his book Man the Myth Maker, pg. 142. Students wrote quotes from the passage in the 'Quotes and Words' section of their notebooks. A fine discussion ensued. The theme of the essay is 'The Fall from Innocence;' the movement from the magical world of childhood to the hard world as adults know it can be, and that this experience is archetypal across cultures. It was noted that this interesects with the theme for the essay assignment due Thursday.
• An article on student honesty was distributed for homework. Students are to read, annotate and respond to the article in their classroom journals. Some class time was given for this as Mr. Lambert tangled his technology, canceling the first installment of Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth until tomorrow.
  
• Reflection journals will be checked early next week when six or seven entries should have been completed.

Grade 10

• Took short quiz on first three vocab words. Results were rather poor. Students were told that they can come after school to retake the quiz. A deadline for this will be considered.
• Added word number 4 to the vocab list:
• Allusion: a reference an author makes to people, places, and events from history or literature outside his or her own work.

• Started "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. Students are to finish the story for homework, and apply the Analyzing Literature outline presented yesterday and applied to "The Last Unicorns." This should be done in pencil with lines skipped to allow for corrections.