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HONORS CONTRACTS / PROPOSALS / SIGNATURES DUE [absolutely NO late submissions will be accepted!] HW #7 DUE: Read "The Nine Billion Names of God [online text]
and "The Star" [online text] and there will be a quiz on both. Five questions total. 2001: A Space Odyssey clips Writing Assigment 2045
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DAY E
class does not meet today |
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DAY FBlack MIrror's "White Christmas" [watched to minute 35] |
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DAY AFinish Black Mirror's "White Christmas" OPEN SCHOOL NIGHT. Welcome, parents! COURSE DESCRIPTION CLASS GUIDELINES |
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DAY B
class does not meet today |
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RECESS
No School |
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DAY C
Excerpt Due: formatted landscaped, two columns, single spaced TWO PAGES MIN; print FOUR COPIES [if you are absent, please email me a copy of your story by class time] Writing Assigment 2045
Honors submission due tonight at turnitin by 11:59 |
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DAY D
 REVISED excerpt due @ turnitin by midnight tonight [landscaped, single spaced, two columns please!] JOURNAL: PAST. Imagine an ancestor from the past: what did he or she eat? Do for pleasure? Make a living? Housing?How different are things today from this point? Evolution of Man PAIR WORK: Visualizing the Future: Predictions for Evolution in the Distant Future: Based on our current civilization, technology, diets, resources, environmental issues -- what do you think the human race will evolve to be? What will we eat? do for pleasure? for work? live? Social Darwinism? |
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DAY E
class does not meet today |
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DAY F HW #8 DUE : Quiz on TM chapters 1,2,3, and 4 Time Machine Online Text
Time Machine Vocabulary Homer Simpson's Time Travel |
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DAY A HW #9 DUE: Quiz on TM chapters 5, 6, 7 Time Machine Online Text
Time Machine Vocabulary PICTURE DAY: 12:40 TODAY |
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DAY B
class does not meet today |
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DAY C HW #10 DUE : quiz on TM chapters 8,9, 10 Time Machine Online Text
Time Machine Vocabulary JOURNAL: Mindset Quote. Find a quote from the reading that best illustrates the TT's understanding of 802,701 (and/or the present} and discuss what it reveals. Cite the page number. |
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DAY D HW #11 DUE: quiz on TM chapters 11, 12, and Epilogue<Time Machine Online Text
Time Machine Vocabulary Homer Simpson's Time Travel |
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DAY E
class does not meet today |
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DAY F
IN CLASS ESSAY: The Time Machine Analysis [chromebooks B14] HOW TO PREPARE FOR IN CLASS ESSAY: write out possible arguable thesis statements based on the topics that follow. Find evidence and literary devices that would support. Mark pages with post its. You may NOT pre-write the essay; this is an in-class timed response. You may use your journal and the novel in class. TOPICS: What is man's fate? / TT is more Morlockian or Eloian? / What is the purpose of Weena? / Why does Wells blend human and animal throughout? / What intrigues you to discuss?
Honors submission due tonight at turnitin by 11:59 |
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DAY A HW #12 DUE Return Time Machine Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" Annotation Project (25 points), Zoline participation (25 points) , research (15 points) We read through end of paragraph FOUR; for HW: in a different color ink, please re-read and re-annotate. You will share next class. |
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DAY B
class does not meet today |
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DAY C Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" We read through end of paragraph 11; for HW: in a different color ink, please re-read and re-annotate. You will share next class. |
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DAY D Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" We read through end of paragraph 16; for HW: in a different color ink, please re-read and re-annotate. You will share next class. |
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DAY E
class does not meet today |
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DAY F Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" We read through end of paragraph 23; for HW: in a different color ink, please re-read and re-annotate. You will share next class. |
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DAY A We read through end of paragraph 31 ; for HW: in a different color ink, please re-read and re-annotate. You will share next class. |
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DAY B
class does not meet today |
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DAY C We read through ---: For next class, finish the story! see HW #13 |
