Homework for the Weekend and Monday

A few notes and reminders for all of you as we move to the weekend.

Freshman Focus:

You all don't have any homework this weekend.  Please remember that if you haven't turned in your signed rules and policies sheet then you will need to get that to me Tuesday/Wednesday.

English IV:

We've been thrown off a bit what with being moved to a new class and then with the senior class meetings with guidance which have fallen during our class these last few days.  When we get together again on Tuesday/Wednesday I would like to make sure that all of you have read the first chapter of Orwell's 1984.  We will do work with this first chapter on Tuesday/Wednesday to understand what ideas Orwell is setting up for us at the beginning of this novel.

AP English III:

You all have Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Over-Soul" to read and annotate.  As I said in class, this piece is difficult namely because it is a piece of philosophy and that it was written in the 1800's.  The sentence structure is hard to follow and some of the vocabulary may be over your head.  I want you to keep coming back to Jim Casy as you go through this piece and work for understanding.  Try to find the similarities between Emerson's philosophy, concept of the over-soul, and Jim Casy's guiding philosophy.  This piece is integral in understanding one of Steinbeck's main points in the text.

We will be having a seminar on Tuesday/Wednesday on this piece.  Come with thorough annotations as well as any questions that you would like to raise with the group.

Have a lovely weekend!