Tuesday, January 31st

*Typed, completed first draft due Friday.
*Final draft due via turnitn.com before 11:59 on Wednesday, 2/8
*Info.:  Embedding Quotes
---Review methods
---Finished?  Check with me.
---Perfect the first time = 13/10pts
---Perfect thereafter = 10/10pts
---Imperfect = 0/10pts
*Finished?  Check topic outlines
*Fnished with that?  Write on.
*Info. coming soon
---review of basic organization
---exact requirements for 1st draft
---MLA:  formatting, works cited, & parenthetical documentation
---turnitin.com

Monday, January 30th

*Typed, completed first draft due Friday.
*Final draft due via turnitn.com before 11:59 on Wednesday, 2/8
*Check topic outlines
---Must conference w/ me for 10pts
*Fnished?  Begin drafting.
*Info. coming soon
---review of basic organization
---exact requirements for 1st draft
---embedding quotes
---MLA:  formatting, works cited, & parenthetical documentation
---turnitin.com

Thursday, January 26th

*Essay:  Organization
*Prewriting (review notes/stories, Venn, sticks-n-bubbles, lists, freewriting, etc.)
*Compose (working) topic outline
---What is it?
---Beware of . . .
---Must conference w/ me for 10pts
------Today or Monday

Wednesday, January 25th

*Check HW
*Discuss Indian Cosmogony
---pp. 291-294
*Info.:  Comparison/Contrast Essay

Tuesday, January 24th

*Check HW
*Discuss Polynesian/Maori Cosmogony
---pp. 351-356
*HW:  Read Indian Cosomogony
---pp. 291-294
---(LAST) organizer due tomorrow

Monday, January 23rd

*Community Cards
*Read Polynesian/Maori Cosmogony
--- pp.351-356 ("The Creation of New Zealand")
---Organizer due tomorrow

Friday, January 20th

*Community Cards
*Check Greek Creation Stories wkst
---review
---collect
*Read Polynesian/Maori Cosmogony
---pp. 351-356
---complete organizer

Thursday, January 19th

*Community Cards
*Read "The Creation of Man by Prometheus"
*Read "The Ages of Man"  (pp. 90-92)
*HW:  Answer questions on handout.
---Due tomorrow

Wednesday, January 18th

*Community Cards
*Check organizer for Greek cosmogony:  (pp. 82-88)
*Storytelling
---prepare ~5 mins
*Discuss common elements

Tuesday, January 17th

*Community Cards
*Review Babylonian cosmogony (pp. 3-11)
*HW:  Greece--"The Creation of the Titans & the Gods" (pp. 82-88)
---Complete graphic organizer:  DUE TOMORROW
------Generate your own observations in the 2 BLANK columns.
------COMPLETE 2+ inferences about culture.
------Divide "human life" column in two, leave second half empty

Friday, January 13th

*Community Cards
*Read pp. 3-11
---Complete graphic organizer:  Due Tuesday
------Skip BLANK columns
------COMPLETE 2+ inferences about culture.

Thursday, January 12th

*Snow Day

Wednesday, January 11th

*Check organizer over "The Emergence," p. 616
---Discuss common elements
*Community Cards

Tuesday, January 10th

*Seating Chart
*Community Cards
*Read the Navajo cosmogony, pp. 615-621
---HW:  Log the details of the story in the blank organizer you picked up yesterday.
---due tomorrow

Monday, January 9th

*Check "Origin of Stories" work
*Stray syllabus signature pages?
*Community Cards
*Discuss HW
*Info.:  Cosmogonies
*Check out books

Friday, January 6th

*Collect Syllabus Signature Pages
*Focus Question:  Imagine life without written language.  What would be different?  Why?
*Community Cards
*Discuss Focus Question
*Read "Origin of Stories"
---HW:  Literary Archeology
*More Community Cards

Thursday, January 5th

*Syllabus Signature Pages?
---due by tomorrow = 5pts
*Community Cards
*Write:  What is a myth?
---Discuss
---Define:  Notes

Wednesday, January 4th

*Signature Pages Due BY FRIDAY--5 points
*Review syllabus
*Community Cards