Thursday, October 31st

*Discuss/Collect "Your Hero's Journey"
*Quest Quiz
*HW: Read The Taming of the Sun, p. 360
---Complete Journey-Journal (due Monday)
------Show TOMORROW for +3pts

*BRING BOOKS AGAIN, STARTING TOMORROW!!!

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

Wednesday, October 30th

*Finish Pop Quest Reports
*Check Quest Notes
* Quest Quiz Tomorrow
---Define & Order Stages
*HW: YOUR Hero's Journey
---Due Tomorrow

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

Tuesday, October 29th

*Finish Campbell's Journey-Quest
*Pop Quest
---Work with your tablemates to track a ("new") film character through the stages of the quest.
---Report?
*TOMORROW: Check notes
*Quest Quiz: Thursday (this is a change)
---Define & Order Stages

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

Monday, October 28th

*Check notes from Power of Myth
---Review
*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: Wednesday
---Define and Order Stages

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

Friday, October 25th

*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, October 24th

*Medea Essay Test: Day 2 of 2
---Can use: PREWRITING!, the prompt, the play, any other notes or resources.
---Music? Set it and forget it.
---Remember:
------No intro/concl
------Yes, paragraphing
------Attach & document quotes (use line numbers).

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

Wednesday, October 23rd

*Medea Essay Test:  Day 1 of 2
---Can use: PREWRITING!, the prompt, the play, any other notes or resources.
---Music? Set it and forget it.
---Remember:
------No intro/concl
------Yes, paragraphing
------Attach & document quotes (use line numbers).

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

Tuesday, October 22nd

*Essay Test: Preview
*Pre-write for Essay Test
---one side of a page
------sketch thesis
------sketch TS's
------line #'s
*Essay Test TOMORROW & THURSDAY

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

Monday, October 21st

*Check Tragic Hero Organizer
*Sort:  Yes/No
---Discuss within
---Discuss across
*Euripides, in general . . .

*OBJECTIVE:  Review the details of Medea in preparation to write about the play.

Thursday, October 10th

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

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

Wednesday, October 9th

*Finish Reading Medea
---Begin annotations: due TOMORROW (5pts)

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

Tuesday, October 8th

*Review Big Questions: 742-1209
---Collect
*Assign parts for final section.

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

Monday, October 7th

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

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

Friday, October 4th

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

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

Thursday, October 3rd

*Read "Crazy Chick Flicks"
*Discuss Big Questions: 354-742
---Turn in.

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

Wednesday, October 2nd

*Check Annotations: 354-742
*Discussion
---Phase 1: Student-directed
---Phase 2: Answer Big Questions
------Everyone writes

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