Syllabus: 5/11 to 5/15

Monday
In class:
Due: SAT Prep: Essay
Review test taking woes and strengths
Student examples
HOMEWORK:
Due tomorrow: Read, annotate handout about the techniques and find a newspaper or magazine article in which you analyze the advertisement using your knowledge about propaganda. What is the product, what technique is being used, which specific device, what do the images/characters mean, what are you asked to buy into, etc. Your response should be 500 – 600 words. You may borrow a magazine if you need one. This will count as a DOUBLE HW grade.
Due Thursday: Read Hawthorne’s “The Ministers Black Veil” in Literature book an answer ALL questions in Identifying Facts and Interpreting Meanings.
Due Friday: Quickie quiz on Background info/propaganda/The Crucible/ etc.

Tuesday
In class:
Due: Propaganda handout/response: double HW grade
In Groups: read, notate trial transcripts and character backgrounds from the SWT. Then, we will present the findings as a class. These will be posted.
HOMEWORK:
Due tomorrow: none :)

Wednesday
In class:
Due: none
Outline ACT I: background information and “overture”
Read Act I: fill in character list as we read
HOMEWORK:
Due tomorrow: Read Hawthorne’s “The Ministers Black Veil” (TMBV) in Literature book an answer ALL questions in Identifying Facts and Interpreting Meanings.

Thursday
In class:
Due: “The Ministers Black Veil”
Review
Continue reading ACT I
HOMEWORK:
Due tomorrow: QUIZ! Don’t forget to study. First Quiz grade for term 5 :)


Friday
In class:
Due: Quiz
Read Act I
HOMEWORK:
Due Monday: FINISH READING ACT I
Due Monday:Response: 500-800 words MLA format (typed): Compare contrast Hawthorns, TMBV to the principles presented in Salem at this time and with at least 2 examples from the play. This will count as a quiz grade. Be sure to have a clear thesis, reasons and evidence. You need to apply the skills we learned on Monday to ALL of your writing.need to apply the skills we learned on Monday to ALL of your writing.