Thursday, August 28th

*Info.:  Basic Organization
*Finish:  7 Sentences
*Topic Outline
*Finished with those?  Draft!
*Coming Soon:  MLA & Works Cited, turnitin.com

*Typed, completed first draft (hard copy):  Thursday, 9/4
*Final copy via turnitin.com:  Wednesday, 9/10 before 11:59pm

*OBJECTIVE: Learn to use a topic outline as a way of organizing our writing.

Wednesday, August 27th

*Info.:  Topic Outlines

---MUST check with me, 10pts

*Finish: 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

*Finished with all that?  Draft!

*Coming Soon:  Basic Organization, MLA, Turnitin.com

*OBJECTIVE:  Learn to use a topic outline as a way of organizing our writing.

Tuesday, August 26th

*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

*OBJECTIVE: Learn to attach &, especially, to embed quotations in your writing.

Monday, August 25th

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

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Friday, August 22nd

*Check Polynesian Organizer
---Discuss
*HW:  Read Indian/Hindu Cosmogony
---pp. 291-294
---Due MONDAY (last one)

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Thursday, August 21st

*Predict
*Read Polynesian/Maori Cosmogony
---pp.351-6 ("Creation of New Zealand")
---Organizer Due TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Wednesday, August 20th

*Check HW
---Review/Discuss
---Collect
*2nd:  Community Cards?


*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Tuesday, August 19th

*Community Cards

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

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze multiple versions of a story.

Monday, August 18th

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

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Friday, August 16th

*Check Babylonian organizer
*Community Cards
*Review Babylonian myth (3-11)
*HW: Read pp. 82-88
---Complete a comparison matrix over the Greek cosmogony.
---Due Monday

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Thursday, August 14th

*Check HW
*Review Navajo myth (615-21)
*Read pages 3-11 & complete an organizer over the Babylonian cosmogony
---Due Tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Wednesday, August 13th

*Collect one-pager
*Community Card
*HW:  Read pp. 615-21
---Organizer due TOMORROW
------Do not do "???" categories (yet).

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Tuesday, August 12th

*Community Cards
*Info.:  Cosmogonies
*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 TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE:  Learn the "why" and "what" of creation myths

Monday, August 11th

*Check/Collect Class Supplies/Syllabus Signature Page
*Check HW
*Small Groups:  Pick the group's 3 "star" inferences
---Share & Discuss
*Check-out Books
---Bring DAILY
---NO loaners
*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 Wednesday
*Community Cards?

*OBJECTIVE:  Cite convincing textual evidence to support our inferences

Friday, August 8th

*Community Cards (galore!)
*HW:  Read "Origin of Stories"
---Literary Archaeology Wkst due Monday
*HW:  Class Supplies and Syllabus Signature Page due Monday

*OBJECTIVE:  Cite convincing textual evidence to support our inferences

Thursday, August 7th

*Community Cards
*Timed-Write:  What is myth?
*Discuss
*Define:  Notes
*HW:  Class supplies & signature page by Monday = 10pts

*OBJECTIVE:  Answer the questions:  WHAT and WHY is Mythology?