Tuesday, May 27th

*Course Evaluations

Friday, May 23rd

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

Thursday, May 22nd

*Check Poetry & Allusion Review
---review
*Review:  ACT-style Editing
---Due TOMORROW

Wednesday, May 21st

*Check Comparative Mythology Review
---Review
*Review:  Poetry & Allusion
---Due TOMORROW

Tuesday, May 20th

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

Monday, May 19th

*Senior Survey
*Finish Reading "El Bizzaron"
---pp. 321-332
*Add to organizer
*HW:  Complete Trickster Response
---Response AND Organizer due TOMORROW
*Stray Blue Books?

Friday, May 16th

*"Anansi" Quiz
---Discuss
------Prepare answers to 3 questions
---------Share
*Add Anansi to Organizer
*Read "El Bizzaron"
---pp. 321-332
*Stray Blue Books?

Thursday, May 15th

*Finalize Storytelling Project Grades
*Read "Anansi"
---pp. 7-16, green book
---quiz tomorrow
*Collect Blue Books

Wednesday, May 14th

*Stray Exams
*Watch Trickster Clips
---Complete Organizer

Tuesday, May 13th

*Info.:  Written Exam
---Day 2 of 2
---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).

Monday, May 12th

*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).

Friday, May 9th

*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

Thursday, May 8th

*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, May 7th

*Finish Presentations
*Six Word Memoirs
---Write a six-word memoir of your story's hero.
------Decorate a half-sheet & post it

Tuesday, May 6th

*TODAY:  Present!
---5 minutes prep time:  load file w/ me, last minute adjustments
---BEGIN!

Monday, May 5th

*LAST day to work on storytelling project
---show your draft
---discuss
---practice
---revise
*REVIEW SCORING GUIDE
*TOMORROW:  Present!
---Unexcused absence from live performance = Alternative Assignment

Thursday, May 1st---4bc Hour

*Storytelling Project
---FINAL Work-day
---Present:  Tuesday, 5/6