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Monday, September 27, 2010

The Four Functions of Myth / Book Review / Pigs Quiz Ch. 5-8

Grade 12
  • Reminder: You are not writing these practice application essays for a high school English teacher. Your audience is a college admissions officer. Now, did you edit that essay carefully enough?    ............I thought not.
  • Application essays need to be positive. You need to show personal growth.
  • Viewed and took notes on Mythology slideshow. The four functions of myth were explained and discussed: Cosmological, Sociological, Pedagogical, and Metaphysical
  • Started the steps of the Hero Journey
  • Peer review tomorrow on question #62
Grade 10
  • Distributed formula for writing critical lens essays.
  • Discussed critical lens rubric.
  • Began book review list; titles, authors, summaries of freshmen reading.

Grade 9
  • Quiz on chapters 5-8
  • HW: Chapter 9, reading log.

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