Friday, January 30th

*Info.:  First Draft Requirements
*1)  Finish: 7 Sentences
*2)  Finish:  Topic Outline
*3)  Draft Essays
*Meet in #151 (Writing Lab) Monday

*Typed, completed first draft (hard copy): Wednesday, 2/4

*OBJECTIVE: By producing a topic outline, we will prepare to compose well-organized argumentative texts.

Thursday, January 29th

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

*Typed, completed first draft (hard copy):  Wednesday, 2/4

*OBJECTIVE:  By producing a topic outline, we will prepare to compose well-organized argumentative texts.

Wednesday, January 28th

*Info.:  Topic Outlines
---MUST Check with me, 10pts
*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
*Finished both of those?  Draft!

*OBJECTIVE: Learn and practice different methods of attaching, punctuating, and documenting quotations.

Tuesday, January 27th

*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 and practice different methods of attaching, punctuating, and documenting quotations.

Monday, January 26th

*Check Hindu Organizer
---Review
*Info.  Comparison/Contrast Essay
---List Stories of Interest
---List Categories for Comparison/Contrast

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Friday, January 23rd

*Check Polynesian Organizer
---Discuss
*HW:  Read Indian/Hindu Cosmogony
---pp. 291-4
---Due MONDAY (last one)

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Thursday, January 22nd

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

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Wednesday, January 21st

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

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze multiple versions of a story.

Tuesday, January 20th

*Timed-write:  Do you think your world will be better or worse than that of your parents?  Why?

*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.

Friday, January 16th

*Check Greek Organizer
*Storytelling
*Review Archetypes

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Thursday, January 15th

*Check Babylonian Organizer
---Vortex of Learning
------1)  Talk over what you have for the archetype.  What details from the story seem relevant?
------2)  I'll send a traveler over to the next group.
------3)  Compare answers.  Move on to the next archetype.
------4)  Repeat until we've covered all archetypes.
---------Debrief
*HW:  Read pp. 82-88
---Complete an organizer over the Greek cosmogony
------Due Tomorrow.

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Wednesday, January 14th

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

*OBJECTIVE: Identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Tuesday, January 13th

*3rd:  Finish Community Cards
*Check Cosmogony Notes
*HW:  Read pp. 615-21
---Organizer Due Tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE:  While reading, identify the archetypes of cosmogonies.

Monday, January 12th

*Collect One-Pagers & Syllabus Signature Pages
*Check Class Supplies
*Info.:  Cosmogonies
---Notes:  Record the specifics of each archetype in the right-hand column.
*Community Cards?

*OBJECTIVE:  Learn the building blocks of cosmogonies.

Friday, January 9th

*Check "Origin of Stories" Work
*Small Groups:  Pick the group's 3 "star" inferences
---Discuss
*Community Cards
*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 Monday
*HW:  Class Supplies & Signature Page Due Monday

*OBJECTIVE:  Cite convincing textual evidence to support our inferences.

Thursday, January 8th

*Finish HW
*Check-out Books
---Bring DAILY
---NO loaners

*HW:  Class Supplies & Signature Page Due Monday

*OBJECTIVE: Cite convincing textual evidence to support our inferences

Wednesday, January 7th

*What is Myth?

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

*OBJECTIVE: Cite convincing textual evidence to support our inferences

Tuesday, January 6th

*Info.:  Syllabus

*Community Cards

*Timed-Write: What is myth?

*HW: Class supplies & signature page by Monday = 10pts

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