Friday, March 31st

*Check Gilgamesh Organizer:  Ch. 6-8
---Review/Discuss
*Complete End-o-Story Response
---Due by end of hour

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze the development of theme in a mythological text.

Thursday, March 30th

*Read Gilgamesh Ch. 5
---Finished?  Pick what you think is the most important sentence in the story so far (Ch. 1-5).  Jot a few notes as to why.
------Table finished?  Discuss and pick ONE as a table
------Report
*HW:  Read Ch. 6-8 & Complete Journey-Journal

*OBJECTIVE:  Observe the journey-quest archetype as it applies to a Mythological text.

Wednesday, March 29th

*Check Organizer:  Gilgmesh, Ch. 3-4
---Review Quest Stages
---Re-read pp. 39-40
---Discuss & report:  On a scale of 1-5 (1 = completely unjust; 5 completely justified), how just was the killing of Humbaba?

*OBJECTIVE:  Observe the journey-quest archetype as it applies to a Mythological text.

Tuesday, March 28th

*Check Ch. 1-2 Response
---Character-alike groups
------Read aloud OR
---------What did you claim?
---------How did you support it?
------Try to link up "chains of insight"!
*Most interesting idea to come out of each group?
*Read Ch. 3-4
---HW:  Complete Journey-Journal

*OBJECTIVE: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support your inferences.

Monday, March 27th

*Minimal background for reading Gilgamesh.
*Read Ch. 1-2 (p. 26)
*Post-reading, 1/2 page + :  Make a claim about a character from this story.  Support that claim using at least two quotes from the text.  Attach and document ("Gilgamesh" #) quotes!

*OBJECTIVE:  Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support your inferences.

Friday, March 17th

*Complete "Taming of the Sun" Journey-Journal
---Review
*Exit Slip:  What are you understanding about the archetypal hero's journey-quest so far?  What is still unclear?

*OBJECTIVE:  Apply the concept of the archetypal hero's journey-quest to a mythological text.

Thursday, March 16th

*Quest Quiz
*Read The Taming of the Sun, p. 360

*OBJECTIVES:  Define and order the stages of the archetypal hero's journey-quest.

Wednesday, March 15th

*Finish Pop Quest Reports

*Check Quest Notes
* Quest Quiz Tomorrow
---Define & Order Stages
*YOUR Hero's Journey
---Due Tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE: Apply the concept of the archetypal hero to a personal experience.

Tuesday, March 14th

*Finish Campbell's Journey-Quest
*Pop Quest
---Work with your Medea groups to track a ("new") film character through the stages of the quest.
---Report
*Thursday:  Check Notes
*Quest Quiz: Thursday
---Define & Order Stages
*BRING BOOK Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*OBJECTIVE: Understand and apply the stages of Joseph Campbell's archetypal hero's Journey-Quest.

Monday, March 13th

*Info.: Archetypal Hero through Ultimate Boon
---For each stage, write another example from a film/story you know well
---Will check when we're finished.
*Quest Quiz: Thursday
---Define and Order Stages

*OBJECTIVE: Understand and apply the stages of Joseph Campbell's archetypal hero's Journey-Quest.

Friday, March 10th

*Watch Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth
---Write down four quotes or ideas which you find interesting.
---End of class: Star one and briefly explain why you chose it.
*Start bringing books again.

*OBJECTIVE: Begin to understand Joseph Campbell's ideas about hero-stories: why they're important and why they are so similar worldwide.

Thursday, March 9th

*Medea Essay Test
---Can use:  PREWRITING!, the prompt, the play, any other notes or resources.
---Music?  Set it and forget it.
---Remember:
------No intro/concl
------Paragraphing
------Attach & document quotes (use line numbers).

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze an author's progressive development of theme in a drama.

Wednesday, March 8th

*Collect Tragic Hero Organizer
*Essay Test:  Preview
*Pre-write for Essay Test
---up to 30 words / numbers
---sketch thesis
---sketch TS's
---line #'s
*Essay Test TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE:  Compose well-organized writing through the use of pre-writing.

Tuesday, March 7th

*Check Annotations:  1209-end
*Jason & Medea:  Tragic Heroes?

*OBJECTIVE:  Apply the archetype of the tragic hero to a mythological text.

Monday, March 6th

*Review Big Questions: 742-1209
---Collect
Finish Reading Medea
---Annotations Due Tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE: Analyze the impact of an author's choices in drama.

Friday, March 3rd

*Re-build Medea Groups
*Check Annotations: 742 - 1209
*Discussion
---Phase 1: Student-directed
---Phase 2: Answer Big Questions
------Everyone writes

*OBJECTIVE: Analyze an author's choices in drama.

Thursday, March 2nd

*Read Medea, 742-1209
*HW: Develop annotations by TOMORROW
---Average 3 per page.

*OBJECTIVE: To aid in engagement and comprehension, we will annotate grade-level text as and after we read.

Wednesday, March 1st

*Discuss Big Questions: 354-742
---Turn in.

*OBJECTIVE: Analyze the impact of an author's choices in drama; Analyze different versions of a play.