Syllabus | Assignments Revised: Apr. 3, 2006
[First Quarter Assignments][Second Quarter Assignments]
Week of January 2 to 6 (End of First Semester and Second Quarter)
Mon	No Classes: End of Christmas Break
Tues	Portfolio Day
Wed	Portfolio Day
Thurs	Journal #48 (New Year's Resolutions . . . or not). Intro to second semester curriculum. Read "Saying thank you in style," BBC. Punctuation examples from Eats, Shoots and Leaves, by Lynne Truss. No hmwk.
Week of January 9 to 13 (Beginning of Second Semester and Third Quarter)
Mon	Journal #49 (College, what's next?). Intro to college essays section. Handouts: What NOT to do: an example of a really bad college application essay, College Essay Blunders (Berkeley), Characteristics of a Good Personal Statement (Berkeley), College Essay Writing Tips (CollegeBoard.com), The Personal Statement For Freshmen (Berkeley), college entrance essay questions from several institutions. Hmwk: finish reading handouts.
Tues	Select a college entrance essay topic from the real-life prompts distributed yesterday. Spend the class period thinking, planning, and organizing your response to your chosen essay topic. Hmwk: create a first draft of your essay. Due Wed.
Wed	Due: first draft of college essay. Self review of essay. Begin revising essay. Hmwk: finish revising essay to improve focus, structure, supports, and organization. Word process 2nd draft. Due Thurs.
Thurs	Due: second draft of college essay. Peer review of essay. Begin revising/proofreading/editing essay.
Week of January 16 to 20
Mon	Due: final draft of college entrance essay. Journal #50 (If you were five years older . . .). "[W]hile he recognized [animals'] ruthless struggle for survival, he habitually contrasted their instinctive decency and bravery with the sorry spectacle of human behavior." (Munro biographer, Charles Gillen quoted in classroom text)] Read "Tobermory," by H. H. Munro (Saki). No hmwk. [For review: link to "Shock Tactics," by H. H. Munro] [Another link to "Tobermory"]
Tues	Journal #51 (Human nature & "the sorry spectacle of human behavior"?). Discussion on human nature and behavior. Read "The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh," by H. H. Munro (Saki). Begin reading "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope," by Saki. Hmwk: complete "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope."
Wed	Reading quiz: "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope." Journal #52 (Saki and secrets in people's lives. Seeming to be something that we aren't really). Read "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" and "The Recessional," by H. H. Munro (Saki). Hmwk: complete reading of "The Recessional." Annotate your copy of "The Recessional" by writing definitions and explaining references and allusions. Use a dictionary and/or the Internet as your resource.
Thurs	Due: annotations for "The Recessional." Review annotations. Read "The Lumber Room" and other Saki stories. No hwmk.
Week of January 23 to 27
Mon	Journal #53 (How are you best tempted? What is "temptation"?) Intro to Screwtape Letters. Read back cover, Preface. Understand "irony" and "satire" as used in Screwtape Letters. No hwmk.
Tues	Journal #54 (Are your energy expenditures today positive or negative? Are you creating more stress or more peace?). Continue with Screwtape Letters. Read Letter #2. Practice reading quiz over Letters #1 & 2. Hmwk: Read Letter #3 for a reading quiz.
Wed	Create a reading quiz over Letter #3 (#1,2: T/F questions; #3,4: questions requiring explanations; #5: analysis/application question). Continue with Screwtape Letters. Prepare paragraph summaries of Letters #1-3. Submit all three paragraphs in one document to Turnitin.com by Monday, midnight. Hmwk: Work on paragraph summaries to submit to Turnitin.com.
Thurs	Journal #55 (If I have a problem . . . I complain, blame others, make excuses OR take personal responsibility and set about trying to solve it constructively OR a bit of both? Explain.). Continue with Screwtape Letters. Read Letter #4. Work on Letter #4 Study Questions (to be completed on Monday). No hmwk.
Week of January 30 to February 3
Mon	Due by midnight tonight: paragraph summaries of Letters #1-3 (in one document). Journal #56 (Agree/disagree & explain: I live day to day, without much of a plan for the future.). Continue with Screwtape Letters. Complete Letter #4 Study Questions. Read Letter #5. Hmwk: Read Letter #6 and complete paragraph summaries of #1-3 and submit them in one document to Turnitin.com by midnight tonight.
Tues	Journal #57 (Agree/disagree & explain: I'm sometimes my own worst enemy.) Continue with Screwtape Letters. Write summaries for Letters #4-6, and submit all three in one document to Turnitin.com by Thursday, midnight. Hmwk: complete reading of Letters #6 & 7 for quiz on Wed, and work on summaries.
Wed	Journal #58 (Agree/disagree & explain: I can make myself do really important things before I do things might be lots more fun but are less important.). Letter #6 & 7 reading quiz. Continue with Screwtape Letters. Read Letter #8 aloud. Hmwk: complete summaries of Letters #4-6. Read Letters #9 & 10 for reading quiz Thurs.
Thurs	Due by midnight tonight: paragraph summaries of Letters #4-6 (in one document). Journal #59 (Agree/disagree & explain: I am a self-disciplined person.). Reading quiz: Letters #8-10. Read aloud Letter #11. Work on summaries for Letters #7 - 10 (due by Tues, midnight). No hmwk (as long as you have your #4-6 summaries submitted to Turnitin.com already.).
Week of February 6 to 10 (Midterm)
Mon	Journal #60 (Agree/disagree & explain: "I can make myself focus--despite potential distractions around me."). [School-wide teacher evaluations] Hmwk: read Letters #12 & 13. Complete summaries for Letters #7-10 (due by midnight, Tues).
Tues	Due by midnight tonight: summaries for Letters #7 - 10 to Turnitin.com. Journal #61 (Agree/disagree & explain: "I am as valuable, as worthy, as anyone else on the planet."). Open -book reading quiz, Letters #11-13 (written on board). Continue with Screwtape Letters. Read aloud Letter #14. Hmwk: Make sure #7-10 summaries are in my midnight tonight. Work on summaries for Letters #11-15 (due Thurs, midnight).
Wed	Journal #62 (My strengths are . . . --mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual). Continue with Screwtape Letters. Read aloud Letter #15. Hmwk Read Letters #16 & 17. Complete Letters #11-15 summaries (due Thurs, midnight).
Thurs	Due: summaries for Letters #11-15 to Turnitin.com by midnight. Journal #63 (Weaknesses I'm working on are . . . --mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual). Reading quiz: Letters #14-17. Continue with Screwtape Letters. Read Letters #18 & 19 aloud. No hmwk (once you've submitted your summaries for Letters #11-15).
Week of February 13 to 17
Mon	Teacher In-service: No School
Tues	NB: summary deadlines for just this week have been postponed by one day (so you can enjoy the S.A. Valentine's Day Banquet tonight!). Journal #64 (Agree/disagree & explain: I can do anything I decide I want to do.). Read aloud Letter #20 & 21. Hwmk: complete summaries for Letters #16-20 and submit by midnight tonight to Turnitin.com. Read Letter #22.
Wed	Due: summaries for Letters #16-20 by midnight tonight. Journal #65 (To quote Oprah: What do you know for sure?). Read aloud Letter #23. Read silently Letter #24. Hmwk: work on summaries for Letters #21-25. Read Letter #25.
Thurs	Due: summaries for Letters #21-25 by midnight tomorrow night. Journal #66 (Agree/disagree & explain: "The essence of being personally responsible is responding effectively to all of life's opportunities and challenges" --Downing.). Read aloud Letter #26. Read silently Letter # 27. Hmwk: complete summaries for Letters #21-25 by midnight tomorrow night to Turnitin.com. No other hmwk--once you've made your submission.
Week of February 20 to 24
Mon	Presidents' Day: No School [Essay options for Screwtape Letters essay test]
Tues	Due: summaries for Letters #26-30 by midnight tonight. Journal #67 ("Whan people keep doing what they've been doing even when it doesn't work, they are acting as Victims. When people change their beliefs and behaviors to create the best results they can, they are acting as Creators"--Downing. Which are you?). Read aloud Letters #28 & 29. Read silently Letter #30. Hmwk: complete summaries for Letters #26-30 by midnight tonight to Turnitin.com.
Wed	Journal #68 (Complete: "If I take full responsibility for all of my actions/education/life/relationships . . ."). Read aloud Letter #31. What happens to the patient? Begin reading "Screwtape Proposes a Toast." Intro essay options for test. Hmwk: finish reading "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" and work on summaries for Thurs.
Thurs	Due: summaries for Letter #31 and "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" by midnight tonight. Complete reading of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast." Questions to ponder: Can I be excellent (better than others) and still be democratic? (Please say, "Yes." Now explain why/how.) How does Prep (and other schools) fall into the devil's trap outlined by Screwtape in his "Toast"? How is individualism a trait important to the God? Pick an insight you received from reading the "Toast" and apply it to your own life. How does the "Toast" spread further light on the Great Controversy between good and evil? Hmwk: complete summaries for Letter #31 and "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" by midnight tonight to Turnitin.com.
Week of February 27 to March 3
Mon	Review for Screwtape Letters test. Work on essay options. Hmwk: prepare for test.
Tues	Test: Screwtape Letters. No hmwk. Have a GREAT Senior Trip!
Wed	Senior Class Trip (Mar. 1-7)
Thurs	Senior Class Trip (Mar. 1-7)
Week of March 6 to 10
Mon	Senior Class Trip (Mar. 1-7)
Tues	Senior Class Trip (Mar. 1-7)
Wed	Journal #69 (Senior Class Trip, part 1). Begin reading aloud "Babette's Feast," Isak Dinesen. Hmwk: do research on the Internet about Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen). Write the results of your research out in your own handwriting (no cutting and pasting!), include the complete URL/s of your source/s, and bring your results to class to share with your classmates. You should plan on creating about a page of evidence of your research to earn an "A".
Thurs	Due: research on Isak Dinesen (to be checked off at the beginning of class). Journal #70 (Senior Class Trip, part 2). Share results of research with classmates. Finish reading "Babette's Feast." No hmwk.
Week of March 13 to 17 (End of Third Quarter)
Mon	Begin viewing movie of "Babette's Feast." Hmwk: read essay, "Babette's Feast," Valerie O'Connell.
Tues	Continue viewing movie of "Babette's Feast." Hmwk: read essay, "Current Trends: Feast of Grace," Mary Ann Fatula.
Wed	Continue viewing movie of "Babette's Feast." Distribute For Study and Discussion Questions. Hmwk: "God Loves a Joke: Babette and Vocation," by Pamela Schwandt.
Thurs	Finish viewing movie of "Babette's Feast." For quiz credit, write out answers to two For Study and Discussion Questions. No hmwk. Have a great Spring Break!
Spring Break: History Tour to Italy. School resumes April 3.