Orpheus / The Wreck of the Hesperus

Grade 12

• Started Orpheus today: Students scanned for vocab, read and annotated.
• Theseus response papers due tomorrow.

Grade 10

• Started Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus" yesterday.
• Continued through stanza 4 reading for vocab and literary elements in groups.
• HW: Scan for vocab through stanza 10.

Theseus / Regents Practice

Grade 12

• Showed Theseus video.
• Collected Jason analysis paper.
• Theseus needs to be read and annotated for discussion on Monday.
• Theseus paper will be due by Wednesday.

Grade 10

• Working on practice Regents.
• Today: critical lens essay
• Will continue on Monday.

Perseus, conclusion / Regents Practice

Grade 12

• Went over the Myth and Psyche exam, at last.
• Reviewed Friday's handout on Medusa.
• finished discussing Perseus.
• Collected Perseus analysis/response papers.
• HW: Read and annotate the Myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece.

Grade 10

• Continued working on Jan. '13 Regents exam:
• For Part II the answers must be proofed where possible.
• Begin working on contrasted responses
• HW: finish #26

The Queen of the World / Regents Practice: Part 3

Grade 12

• Discussed "The Queen of the World" in groups and as a class.
• Distributed directions for analysis/response papers. These won't be graded as closely as college as the college app essays. They are practice for the major analysis essay due at the end of the unit. More on that later.
• Began reading and annotating "Perseus." Finish for hw and be ready to discuss tomorrow.
• Myth and Psyche retests have to be completed before Friday.
• Any remaining Samurai essays have to be handed in before grades close on 12/13.
• Group B journals due on Tuesday.

Grade 10

• Regents Exam practice on Task 3.
• Strategy for answering multiple choice questions.
• Read, annotate passage and poem, answer multiple choice questions. Go over with team mates, decide on answers and answer proofs.
• Go over as a class.
• Journals due a week from tomorrow.

Atonement with the Father / Reading Poetry II

Grade 12

• Collected group A journals
• Review "Atonement with the Father" from Mythology handout.
• Team discussion.
• Large group discussion
• Start 'The Queen of the World." Read, annotate, team discussion if time.
• Myth and Psyche re-exams: See me before Friday. You will be able to correct wrong answers and two highest grades will be averaged.

Grade 10

• Continued "Home Techtonics" from yesterday. 
• What is the metaphor in the poem?  Model and copy constructed response.
• Will begin Regents Task 3 practice tomorrow.

The Holidays Mythic Foundations / Regents Practice: Reading Poetry

Grade 12

• Journal: How are the ideas studied so far in class active in your own lives? (or) How is Thanksgiving a mythic event?
• Group and class discussion
• Mythology handout; for hw make sure "Atonement with the Father" is read and annotated.
• Group A journals due tomorrow.

Grade 10

• Journal: Free write (5 minutes)
• Regents Practice:
• What is poetry? Definition: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
• Class read, annotated and discussed "Home Techtonics" by John Brantingham from the Aug. 2012 exa,.
• Will finish tomorrow.