Tuesday, December 17th

*Course Evaluations
*Review 2 Myths Before Exam
*NO MORE LATE WORK

Monday, December 16th

*Check ACT-style Review
*Read Background Myths
*MEET IN #151 TOMORROW!

Friday, December 13th

*Check Poetry/Allusion Review
---Review
*ACT-style Review
---Due TOMORROW

Thursday, December 12th

*Check Comparative Mythology Review
---Review
*Review #2:  Allusion/Poetry
*Collect Books

Wedensday, December 11th

*Collect Trickster Response
*Review Test Blueprint
*Complete Exam Review #1:  Comparative Mythology
---Due tomorrow

Tuesday, December 10th

*Check "Bizzaron" Notes
---Discuss
*Trickster Response
---10pts
---be specific
---answer all parts of question
---due tomorrow
*Bring BLUE BOOKS from here on out!

Monday, December 9th

*Clip
*Read from _Folklore, Myths, & Legends_ pp. 321-332
---prepare notes on all 4 questions

Friday, December 6th

*"Anansi" Quiz
*Discussion
*More clips

Thursday, December 5th

*More Trickster Clips
---Continue With Organizer
*Read from Green Book
---pp. 7-16
---Reading-Check Quiz Tomorrow

Wednesday, December 4th

*Trickster Videos
---Watch
---Complete Organizer
---Discuss

Tuesday, December 3rd

*Info.:  Written Exam
---Yes:  Prewriting, Notes, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Jams (quietly)
*End of period:
---no staple
---Name on everything
---Stack w/ prompt on top.
---WHEN BELL RINGS, drop stack off at door.

Monday, December 2nd

*Info.:  Written Exam
---Yes:  Prewriting, Notes, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Jams (quietly)
*End of period:
---no staple
---Name on everything
---Stack w/ prompt on top.
---WHEN BELL RINGS, drop stack off in appropriate pile (finished/not finished).

Tuesday, November 26th

*Quiz:  "Gassire's Lute"
---discuss
*Practice: 
---Choose one "lens" and draft a thesis statement for this hypothetical essay.  
---Find and copy FOUR quotes that you might use to support that claim.
------On the exam, though, 6+
*Written Exam:  M & T

Monday, November 25th

*Mop-up:  Journey-Journals
*Written Exam Mon./Tue.
---No intro/conclusion . . . but . . . 100 minutes . . . ?
---Can you bring in prewriting? (outlines, graphic organizers, page #'s)?  Yes:  1 side of a page.
---bring in a draft?  No.
---reference your notes during the test?  Yes.
---reference the story during the test?  Yes.
---use a dictionary/thesaurus?  Yes.
*Read "Gassire's Lute" on pp. 521-526
---Reading-check quiz tomorrow
---Will use to prepare for exam

Wednesday, November 6th - Friday, November 22nd

*Sub

Wednesday, November 6th

*Discussion #4 of 4
---Notes due Friday
*Extra time?
---Brainstorm/discuss project

Tuesday, November 5th

*Collect Section #3 Notes
*Info.:  Storytelling Project
*Discussion:  Section #4
---Notes Due Thursday

Monday, November 4th--SSD

*Info.:  Storytelling Project
---Brainstorm
---Big List
*Section #3 Notes Due Tomorrow
*Section #4 Due Wednesday
---Work Day Tomorrow

Thursday, October 31st

*Collect Notes from Discussion #2
*Discussion #3 of 4
---Notes due Tuesday
*First two questions:
---Which stages of the archetypal hero's journey-quest
have you witnessed during the second and third sections?
---In the Hollywood blockbuster version of this myth,
who would play the main characters?

Wednesday, October 30th

*Collect Section #2 Work
---Section #2 Notes Due Tomorrow
*Read & Prepare for Section #3
---Due Tomorrow

Tuesday, October 29th--sub

*Collect Notes from Discussion #1
*Discussion #2 of 4
---Notes due Thursday

Monday, October 28th

*Read Instructions for Next Response
*Work Day
*Section 2 Due TOMORROW
*Notes from Section 1 Due TOMORROW

Friday, October 25th

*Discussion Day #1 of 4
*Discussion GRADES
*Format
*Add to questions phase
---Gray pages
---Which stages of the archetypal hero's
    journey-quest have you seen so far?
*Typed notes (outline)
---Due Tuesday

Thursday, October 24th

*Work Day on Section 1
---Due TOMORROW

Wednesday, October 23rd

*Finish Schedules
*Read Gray Pages
---Jot down 4 things you learned that might be important to understanding this story . . .
---and 1 prediction about the story
*Time-Allowing:  Begin work on Section #1
*Tomorrow:  Work Day
*Friday:  Discussion #1 of 4
---Response #1 Due FRIDAY.

Tuesday, October 21st

*Info.:  (Heroic) Lit. Circles
*Review story choices
---Lottery
*Set up schedules

Monday, October 21st

*Check Journey-Journals:  Ch. 6-8
*Review & Discuss Stages
*Focus:  Crossing the Return Threshold
---pp. 47, 49, 56 

Thursday, October 10th

*Select the most important quote in the story so far.  Be prepared to explain what's so important about it.
*HW:  Read Ch. 6-8 & complete the journey-journal over the second half of Gilgamesh's quest
---Due after break

Wednesday, October 9th

*Check Journey-Journals over Ch. 3 & 4
*Review Gilgamesh's Quest to Defeat Humbaba
*Read Ch. 5 . . . the temptress.

Tuesday, October 8th

*Reading check quiz
*Review Ch. 1-2
*HW:  Read pp.33-40
---Journey Journal (due tomorrow)
---No blank stages!

Monday, October 7th

*Info.:  The Epic of Gilgamesh
*HW:  Read pp. 26-33.
---reading-check quiz tomorrow
---BRING BOOKS daily.

Friday, October 4th

*Quest Quiz
*Discuss/Collect "Your Hero Quest"
*Preview:  Gilgamesh

Thursday, October 2nd

*Pop-Quest:  Report
*HW:  YOUR Archetypal Hero's Journey-Quest
---Due Tomorrow

*Quest Quiz:  Tomorrow
---define and order the stages

Wednesday, October 2nd

*Corrected Handout
*Re-cap:  Final 2 stages
*Quest-Quiz CHANGE:  Friday
*Pop-Quest
---Observe how the archetype plays out in a well-known story.
---Explain how each stage does or does not fit the archetype.
---Share.

Tuesday, October 1st

*Define:  Hero
---Discuss
*Intro.:  Joseph Campbell and the Archetypal Hero's Journey-Quest
---Quiz Thursday

Monday, September 30th

*Watch Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth

Friday, September 27th--sub

*Medea Essay Test

Thursday, September 26th

*Collect organizer
*Medea Essay Test
---Review Prompt
---Advice
*Pre-write
---30 Words/Numbers
*Check annotations

*Medea Essay Test TOMORROW

Wednesday, September 25th

*3rd Hour:  Josten's
*4th Hour:  Mythic Warriors
*Both, HW:
---Annotations:  1209-end
---Tragic Hero Organizer

Tuesday, September 23rd

*Finish Reading Medea
*Jason & Medea:  Tragic Heroes?
*HW: 
---Complete Organizer
---Develop annotations:  1209-end

Monday, September 23rd

*Medea:  +/-
*Check Annotations:  742-1209
*Discuss Big Questions
*Zoe Caldwell (time permitting)

Wednesday, September 18th

*Read lines 994-1209
*Small-Groups:  Discuss 742-1209
---EVERYONE answers Big Questions
*HW:  develop annotations, 742-1209
------due Monday

Tuesday, September 17th

*Check annotations:  354-742
*Small-Groups:  Discuss 354-742
---Everyone writes answers to BQ's on a SEPARATE sheet
*Read:  "Crazy Chick Flicks"

Monday, September 16th

*Full-group:  Discuss lines 1-354
*Read Medea:  Lines 354-742
---Annotations Due Tomorrow

Friday, September 13th

*Medea Back-story Quiz
*Check annotations
*Small-group discussions of lines 1-354
---EVERYONE record answers to Big Questions

Thursday, September 12th

*Info.:  How we'll read Medea
*Read Medea through 354
*HW:  Develop annotations (average 3 per page)

*Quiz TOMORROW
*FINAL COPY OF ESSAY DUE BEFORE 11:59pm FRIDAY.

Wednesday, September 11th

*Essay Questions?
*Focus Questions:  What role(s) have women played in the myths we've read so far? 
---What do you think will happen when a woman breaks from these roles?
*Background info. for reading Euripedes' Medea
---Quiz Friday

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---Friday, 9/13 BEFORE 11:59pm 

Tuesday, September 10th

*Revise Essay
---Ask me?
---Finish peer-revision
---Apply feedback

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---Friday, 9/13 BEFORE 11:59pm

Monday, September 9th

*Check first drafts
*Peer-revision experts
*No draft?  Write!
*Tomorrow:  Meet in 151
---Revise Essay
---BRING YOUR FILE!!

*Final copy due via turnitin.com: 
---Friday, 9/13 BEFORE 11:59pm

Friday, September 6th

*To the lab (151)!
*Info.:
---MLA Format
---Works Cited
*Turnitin.com (FINAL DRAFT ONLY)
---Register Account
---Enroll in Class
---Submit Sample Assignment
------"Single File Upload"
---------Microsoft Word, 20+ words

*Typed, completed first draft:  MONDAY, 9/9
*Final copy via turnitin.com:  Friday, 9/13

Thursday, September 5th

*Info.:  First Draft Requirements
*Finish:  7 sentences
*Topic Outline
*Finished with those?  Draft!

*Typed, completed first draft:  Monday, 9/9
*Final copy via turnitin.com:  Friday, 9/13

Wednesday, September 4th

*Info.:  Basic Organization
*Finish:  7 sentences
*Topic Outline
*Finished with those?  Draft!

*Typed, completed first draft:  Monday, 9/9
*Final copy via turnitin.com:  Friday, 9/13

Tuesday, September 3rd

*Finish:  7 sentences
---MUST check with me.
---MUST be PERFECT to receive ANY credit
---Once it's perfect, 10 / 10pts.
---Perfect the FIRST time, 13 / 10pts
*Info.:  Topic Outlines
---MUST check with me, 10pts
*Finished with those?  Draft!

*Typed, completed first draft:  Monday, 9/9
*Final copy via turnitin.com:  Friday, 9/13

Thursday, August 29th

*Finish:  7 sentences
---MUST check with us.
---MUST be PERFECT to receive ANY credit
---Once it's perfect, 10 / 10pts.
---Perfect the FIRST time, 13 / 10pts
*Info.:  Topic Outlines
---MUST check with me, 10pts
*Finished with those?  Draft!

Wednesday, August 28th

*Info:  Embedding Quotes
*Practice:  7 sentences
---MUST check with me today or tomorrow
---MUST be PERFECT to receive ANY credit
---Once it's perfect, 10 / 10pts.
---Perfect the FIRST time, 13 / 10pts

Tuesday, August 27th

*Check Indian/Hindu Cosmogony
---Review
*Info.:  Comparison/Contrast Essay

Monday, August 26th

*Community Cards?
*Check Polynesian Organizer
---Discuss
*HW:  Read Indian/Hindu cosmogony
---pp.291-294
---Due TOMORROW (last one)

Friday, August 23rd--sub

*Read Polynesian/Maori Cosmogony
---Organizer due Monday

Thursday, August 22nd

*Check HW
---Review/discuss
---Collect
*Community Cards

Wednesday, August 21st

*Read two Greek stories about the creation of humans
---Answer questions on handout
---Notice:  Scoring Guide
---Due Tomorrow

Tuesday, August 20th

*Check Greek Comparison Matrix
*Storytelling
---5 minutes
*Review Common Elements
*Community Cards

Monday, August 19th

*Check Babylonian organizer
*Community Cards
*Review Babylonian myth (3-11)
*HW:  Read pp. 82-88

---Complete a comparison matrix over the Greek cosmogony.

Friday, August 16th

*Check Navajo organizer
*Community Cards
*Review Navajo myth (615-621).

*HW:  Read pp. 3-11
---Complete organizer
---Due Monday

Thursday, August 15th

*Community Cards
*Collect one-pager:  "Stories"
*HW:  Read pp. 615-21
---Organizer due TOMORROW

Wednesday, August 14th

*Community Cards
*Info:  Cosmogonies
*Check out books?
*HW:  One-pager on the Importance of Stories due tomorrow

Tuesday, August 13th

*Check HW
*Small Groups:  Pick the group's 3 "star" inferences
---Dicuss
*HW:  1 (side of a college-ruled) page:  What importance do stories have in your life?  Which stories (if any) are important to you?  Why?
---Due Thursday
*Community Cards

Monday August 12th

*Collect Syllabus Signature Pages
---Check Class Materials
*Community Cards
*Read:  "The Origin of Stories"
---HW:  Literary Archeology wkst

Friday, August 9th

*Community Cards
*Timed-write:  What is myth?
*Discuss
*Define:  Notes

*HW:   Class Materials by Monday

Thursday, August 8th

*Code of Conduct
*Course Syllabus
---return signature page by Monday = 10pts
*Community Cards

Wednesday, May 22nd

*Key? 
*Stray Books
*Course Evaluations
*Exam Friday
---8:10am
---DON'T BE LATE!!!

Tuesday, May 21st

*Check-in stray books
*Check HW
---Review
*Read:  Orpheus & Eurydice, Achilles
*Meet in #151 tomorrow

Monday, May 20th

*Collect Beowulf Essays
*Check HW
---Review
*Exam Review:  ACT-style editing
---due tomorrow
*Check-in Books

Friday, May 17th

*Check HW
---Review
*Exam Review:  Allusion/Poetry
---due tomorrow
*Check-in Books (time-permitting)

Thursday, May 16th

*Review Test Blueprint
*Complete Exam Review #1:  Comparative Mythology
---Due tomorrow

Wednesday, May 15th

*Redistribute Storytelling Project points
*Finish Tron
*Log Details of Flynn's quest using the Journey-Journal
---Due at movie's end, 10pts

Tuesday, May 14th--sub

*View . . .
*Log Details of Flynn's quest using the Journey-Journal
---Due at movie's end, 10pts

Monday, May 13th

*View . . .
*Log Details of Flynn's quest using the Journey-Journal
---Due at movie's end, 10pts

Friday, May 10th

*Trickster Videos

Thursday, May 9th

*Check HW
*Storytelling Projects
*Info.:  The Trickster
*Discuss "Anansi"

Wednesday, May 8th--sub

*Read from _Folklore, Myths, & Legends_ pp. 7-16
---Answer 4 questions from handout
---due tomorrow

Tuesday, May 7th

*Info.:  Written Exam, day 2 of 2
---No intro/conclusion
---Can you bring in prewriting? (outlines, graphic organizers, page #'s)?  Yes:  1 side of a page.
---bring in a draft?  No.
---reference your notes during the test?  Yes.
---reference the story during the test?  Yes.
---use a dictionary/thesaurus?  Yes.
*Read, Annotate, Prewrite (1 side of a page)

Monday, May 6th

*Info.:  Written Exam
---No intro/conclusion
---Can you bring in prewriting? (outlines, graphic organizers, page #'s)?  Yes:  1 side of a page.
---bring in a draft?  No.
---reference your notes during the test?  Yes.
---reference the story during the test?  Yes.
---use a dictionary/thesaurus?  Yes.
*Read, Annotate, Prewrite (1 side of a page)
*Tomorrow, you write!

Friday, May 3rd

*Graduation Practice:  Class does not meet.

Thursday, May 2nd

*Does not meet.

Wednesday, May 1st

*Perform/Present Storytelling Projects

Tuesday, April 30th

*Rehearse/Edit/Polish
---perform/present: TOMORROW!!!
---Not ready?  -1 letter-grade
---Missing for your live presentation?  Complete the essay.

Monday, April 29th

*Does not meet.

Thursday, April 26th

*Continue work on project
---TODAY = LAST Work-day
---1 rehearsal/editing day Tuesday
---perform/present:  Thursday, 5/1

Thursday, April 25th

*Does not meet.

Wednesday, April 24th

*Continue work on project
---After today, 1 more work days
---1 rehearsal/editing day
---perform/present:  Thursday, 5/1

Tuesday, April 23rd

*Continue work on project
---After today, 2 more work days
---1 rehearsal/editing day
---perform/present:  Thursday, 5/1

Monday, April 22nd

Does not meet.

Friday, April 19th

*Collect Discussion #4 Notes
*Continue work on project
---After today, 3 more work days
---1 rehearsal/editing day
---perform/present:  Thursday, 5/1

Thursday, April 18th

*Does not meet.

Wednesday, April 17th

*Info.:  Storytelling Project
*Big List
---Brief description of method
---Names
---Each member's responsibility
---Needs (tech, space, supplies, etc.)
*Begin work on project
---After today, 4 more work days
---1 rehearsal/editing day
---perform/present:  Thursday, 5/1

Monday, April 15th

*Does not meet.

Tuesday, April 16th

*Collect notes from Discussion #3
*40 mins:  Work-time
*40 mins:  Discussion #4 of 4
---Notes due Tuesday, 4/23

Friday, April 12th

*Collect notes from Discussion #2
*Discussion #3 of 4
---Check preparation
---QUESTION #1:  Which stages of the archetypal hero's journey quest do you think you've witnessed in this LATEST section?
*HW:  Notetakers--refine, develop, and type notes for Tuesday
---no notes = -5 discussion points for whole group

Thursday, April 11th--SUB

*Work-day on Job #3
*Discussion #3 of 4 TOMORROW
---Job #3 due TOMORROW

Wednesday, April 9th

*Collect notes from Discussion #1
*Discussion #2 of 4
---Check preparation
---QUESTION #1:  Which stages of the archetypal hero's journey quest do you think you've witnessed in this LATEST section?
*HW:  Notetakers--refine, develop, and type notes for FRIDAY
---no notes = -5 discussion points for whole group

Tuesday, April 8th--SUB

*Work-day on Job #2
*Discussion #2 of 4 TOMORROW
---Job #2 due TOMORROW
*Have notes today?  Hold until I return.

Monday, April 8th

*Discussion #1 of 4
---Check preparation
---QUESTION #1:  What info. from the gray pages seems particularly important to keep in mind?
---QUESTION #2:  Which stages of the archetypal hero's journey quest do you think you've witnessed so far?
*HW:  Notetakers--refine, develop, and type notes for TUESDAY
---no notes = -5 discussion points for whole group

Friday, April 5th

*Models:  Author's Technique & Note-taking
*Create Schedules
*Work Day on Section #1
---HW:  Section/Job #1 due Monday

Thursday, April 4th

*Info.:  (Heroic) Lit. Circles
*Review story choices
---Lottery
*Read Gray Pages

Wednesday, April 3rd

*Check Ch. 6-8 journey-journal
*Review Utanapishtam journey-quest
*Focus:  Crossing the Return Threshold
---pp. 47, 49, 56

Tuesday, April 2nd

*Select the most important quote in the story so far.  Be prepared to explain what's so important about it.
*HW:  Read Ch. 6-8 & complete the journey-journal over the second half of Gilgamesh's quest
---Due tomorrow.

Thursday, March 28th

*Check Journey-Journals over Ch. 3 & 4
*Review Gilgamesh's Quest to Defeat Humbaba
*Read Ch. 5 . . . the temptress.

Wednesday, March 27th

*Reading check quiz
*Review Ch. 1-2
*HW:  Read pp.33-40
---Journey Journal (due tomorrow)
---No blank stages!

Tuesday, March 26th

*Info.:  The Epic of Gilgamesh
---Sidekicks 
*Read pp. 26-7.
---"Before you read the story, you might find it helpful to know that _______________?"
*HW:  Read pp. 26-33.
---reading-check quiz tomorrow
---BRING BOOKS daily.

Monday, March 25th--Snow Day

Friday, March 8th

*Check "Hercules" Journey-Journal
---pp. 100-105
---review
*"Samurai Jack"

Thursday, March 7th

*"Zero to Hero"
*Read "The Labors and Death of Hercules"
---pp. 100-105
*Complete Journey-Journal
---After reading, partners optional
---Due tomorrow

Wednesday, March 6th

*Quest Quiz
*Your Archetypal Hero's Journey
---Share
---Collect

Tuesday, March 5th

*Maui's Journey-Quest
*HW:  Your journey-quest
*TOMORROW:  Quiz
---define & order the stages of Joseph Campbell's archetypal hero's journey-quest

Monday, March 4th

*Check/discuss HW
*Define:  Archetype
*Intro.:  Joseph Campbell and the Archetypal Hero's Journey-Quest
---Remember Maui . . . 

Friday, March 1st

*What did you learn from Joseph Campbell?
*Read pp. 360-365
---HW:  Answer questions

Thursday, February 28th

*Make-up Essay Tests
*Watch Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth"
*Exit-slip:  Write down two things you learned from Joseph Campbell.

Wednesday, February 27th

*Medea Essay Test
---check prewriting

Tuesday, February 26th

*Info.:  Medea Essay Test
---Prepare Today
---Test Tomorrow

Monday, February 25th

*Finish Tragic Hero Organizer
*Meanwhile, check end-o-play annotations
*Discuss Organizer

Friday, February 22nd

*Snow Day

Thursday, February 21st

*Snow Day

Wednesday, February 20th

*Finish reading Medea
*Small Groups:  Medea & Jason, tragic heroes?
*HW:  Develop annotations (average 3 per page).
*Snow day tomorrow?
---due when we return

Tuesday, February 19th

*Check annotations from lines 742-1209
---Small-group discussion
*Full group (time-permitting)

Friday, February 15th

*Finish full-group discussion of lines 354 - 742
*Read lines 742-1209
---HW:  develop annotations
------due Tuesday

Thursday, February 14th

*Check annotations
*Small-group discussions of lines 354 - 742
---EVERYONE record answers to Big Questions
*Full-group

Wednesday, February 13th--sub

*Medea Backstory Quiz
*"Crazy Chick Flicks"

Tuesday, February 12th

*Full-group:  Discuss lines 1-354
*Read Medea:  Lines 354-742

Monday, February 11th

*Check annotations
*Small-group discussions of lines 1-354
---EVERYONE record answers to Big Questions
*Full-group review of those questions tomorrow

Friday, February 8th

*Final draft due before 11:59pm via turnitin.com:  TONIGHT!

*Info.:  How we'll read Medea
*Read Medea through 354
*HW:  Develop annotations (average 3 per page)

*Quiz Monday.

Thursday, February 7th

*Essay Questions?
*Gone Wednesday?
---Set up turnitin.com account
---Submit sample document
*Focus Questions:  What role(s) have women played in the myths we've read so far? 
---What do you think will happen when a woman breaks from these roles?
*Background info. for reading Euripedes' Medea
---Quiz Monday

*Final draft due before 11:59pm via turnitin.com:  Friday, 2/8 

Wednesday, February 6th

*Meet in #151.
*Set up turnitin.com account (if necessary)
*Submit Sample Assignment
---Word doc
---20+ words
*Edit/Revise Final Draft

*Final draft due before 11:59pm via turnitin.com:  Friday, 2/8

Tuesday, February 5th

*Start or Finish:  Peer-revision experts
*Optional:  Ask me!
*No draft?  Write!

*Coming soon:
---turnitin.com

*Final draft due before 11:59pm via turnitin.com:  Friday, 2/8

Monday, February 4th

*Check first drafts
*Peer-revision experts
*Works Cited model
*No draft?  Write!

*Coming soon:

---turnitin.com

*Final draft due before 11:59pm via turnitin.com:  Friday, 2/8

Friday, February 1st

*Typed, completed first draft due Monday.

 *Today:
---Review of basic organization
---Exact requirements for 1st draft

*Coming soon:
---MLA:  formatting, works cited, and parenthetical documentation
---turnitin.com

*Check topic outline.
*Finished?  Check embedding quotes practice.
*Finished?  Draft essay.

Thursday, January 31st--sub

*Typed, completed first draft due Monday.

*Coming soon:
---Review of basic organization
---Exact requirements for 1st draft
---MLA:  formatting, works cited, and parenthetical documentation
---turnitin.com

*Check topic outline.
*Finished?  Check embedding quotes practice.
*Finished?  Draft essay.

Wednesday, January 30th

*Typed, completed first draft due Monday.

*Coming soon:
---Review of basic organization
---Exact requirements for 1st draft
---MLA:  formatting, works cited, and parenthetical documentation
---turnitin.com

*Check topic outline.
*Finished?  Check embedding quotes practice.
*Finished?  Draft essay.

Tuesday, January 29th

*WORK DAY!
---Embedding Quotes:  7 sentences
---Topic Outline & Conference
*Finished with all of that?
---Begin drafting

Monday, January 28th

*Finish:  7 sentences
---MUST check with us.
---MUST be PERFECT to receive ANY credit
---Once it's perfect, 10 / 10pts.
---Perfect the FIRST time, 13 / 10pts
*Info.:  Topic Outlines
---MUST check with me, 10pts
*Finished with those?  Draft!

Friday, January 25th

*Preview C/C Essay
*Info:  Embedding Quotes
*Practice:  7 sentences
---MUST check with me today or tomorrow
---MUST be PERFECT to receive ANY credit
---Once it's perfect, 10 / 10pts.
---Perfect the FIRST time, 13 / 10pts

Thursday, January 24th

*Check Polynesian & Indian Cosmogonies
---Discuss
*Preview:  Comparison/Contrast Essay
*Community Cards

Wednesday, January 23rd--sub

*HW:  Read Indian/Hindu cosmogony
---pp.291-294
---This organizer and the Polynesian one BOTH due tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 22nd

*Community Cards
*Read Polynesian/Maori cosmogony
---pp. 351-356
---comparison matrix
---Due tomorrow

Thursday, January 17th

*Community Cards
*Check HW
---Review/discuss
---Collect

Wednesday, January 16th--sub

*Read two Greek stories about the creation of humans
---Answer questions on handout
---Notice:  Scoring Guide
---Due Tomorrow

Tuesday, January 15th

*Blood Drive Info.
*Check Greek Comparison Matrix
*Community Cards
*Storytelling
---5 minutes
*Review Common Elements

Monday, January 14th

*Check Babylonian organizer
*Community Cards
*Review Babylonian myth (3-11)
*HW:  Read pp. 82-88

---Complete a comparison matrix over the Greek cosmogony.

Friday, January 11th

*Review Navajo myth (615-21)

*Read pages 3-11 and complete a comparison matrix over the Babylonian cosmogony.

---Leave "???" spaces blank again (last time)

---Due Monday

Thursday, January 10th

*Collect 1-pager (Importance of Stories)
*"The Emergence":  Reading-check quiz
*HW:  Complete Comparison Matrix in small groups
---Everyone writes
---Leave "???" rows blank
---DO make at least 2 inferences about Navajo culture
*Community Cards?

*OBJECTIVE:  Compare, contrast, analyze, and evaluate connections between texts.

Wednesday, January 9th

*Set Goal
*Community Cards
*Info:  Cosmogonies
*HW:  Read pp. 615-21
---reading-check quiz tomorrow
*HW:  One-pager on the Importance of Stories due tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE:  Compare, contrast, analyze and evaluate the connections between texts.

Tuesday, January 8th

*Seating Chart
*Check HW
*Small Groups:  Pick the group's 3 "star" inferences
---Dicuss
*HW:  1 (side of a college-ruled) page:  What importance do stories have in your life?  Which stories (if any) are important to you?  Why?
---Due Thursday
*Community Cards

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze the connections between text and self.

Monday, January 7th

*Collect Syllabus Signature Pages
---Check HW & Class Materials
*Community Cards
*Read:  "The Origin of Stories"
---HW:  Literary Archeology wkst

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze and evaluate connections between literature and its historical period and culture.

Friday, January 4th

*Community Cards
*Timed-write:  What is myth?
*Discuss
*Define:  Notes

*OBJECTIVE:  Define myth.

Thursday, January 3rd

*Course Syllabus
---return signature page by Monday = 5pts
*Community Cards

*OBJECTIVES:  Setting expectations; getting to know each other.