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.