Week of 3/27 through 3/31

End of Marking Period 3 is March 31!


Period 1:

Beginning The Great Gatsby.

Due Monday: Chapter 1 and quotation worksheet from last week.

Chapter 2 due Thursday.

Chapter 3 due Friday.

Chapter 4 due Tuesday.

Articles related to Friday's in-class discussion on "free time" and learning linked below.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-free-time-paradox-in-america/499826/

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/no-time

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why

http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harvard-world-religions-online-class_us_56c76b55e4b041136f16dd0a





Period 3:

Discussing Miller's "Why I Wrote The Crucible" and McCarthyism and the play early in the week. Preparing essay for The Crucible.

Homework for Wednesday: Pick one of your lessons. Write about how we see it today in a paragraph.

In computer lab room 107 for writing paragraphs on modern message of The Crucible in preparation of our essay on Wednesday.



Period 5:

Happy documentary research due Monday. Also due, topic ideas (questions) for cause/effect writing.

Official essay topic research proposal due Tuesday 4/4.

Freakonomics research due Friday 4/7.




Period 6:

Happy documentary research due Monday. Also due, topic ideas (questions) for cause/effect writing.

Official essay topic research proposal due Tuesday 4/4.

Freakonomics research due Friday 4/7.




Period 7:

Beginning The Great Gatsby.

Due Monday: Chapter 1 and quotation worksheet from last week.

Chapter 2 due Thursday.

Chapter 3 due Friday.

Chapter 4 due Monday.