Rehash Portfolios

1. Some people did work that was outstanding! CONGRATS!
2. Some people obviously procrastinated; the quality of their work was disappointing.
3. Spend time with the reader's notebooks. You had the opportunity to work together on those, yet some people turned in work that wasn't complete. These will be MOST helpful for you to review for the AP test.
4. Convention says that you use the last name of writers when talking about their work.
5. Literary analysis is correctly written in present tense.
6. Commas and periods go inside closing quotation marks unless you want to do it wrong or are in Britain.
7. Poem titles are correctly punctuated with quotation marks--not underlined or in italics.
8. Plays and novels are correctly punctuated with italics is you are word processing; underlined if you are typing or writing longhand you work.
9. Be sure that you think about the literature you analyze. Some of the themes that were presented in class lacked depth. Some students wrote about those themes without thinking critically about them. Of course happiness is important. Of course people only die once. Think, people, and think CRITICALLY!
10. The expectation is that work is word processed and not written long hand.
11. If you say you learned nothing this trimester, why did you waste your time?
12. If you have no goals, you won't fail to meet them--you'll probably just fail to learn. Which is unfortunate, but it's out of my circle of influence.
13. Read aloud what you write. I read this several time: "the author who wrote the poem"! What you want to say is "the poet"!
14. My favorite oops: "Stopping by Woods on a Sunday Evening" by Robert Frost. I think had you read it again, you would have caught it.
15. Writing these into your notebook rather than running them off will help you remember them better!

Hamlet Paper Due Dates.

Research Questions: OK.
HUG ed sources 1, 2, and 3: due Monday, March 9th; last day full credit: Friday, March 13th.
Thesis statement: due Tuesday, March 10th; last day full-credit: Monday, March 16th.

Body Paragraphs due "A" day March 17th or 18th. We will have a peer review that day. "A" day will be the only class time we will have to complete this work.

Day One Trimester Three

Hi and welcome back to those who have been in my class and welcome to those who are new!

1. I hope you have started your research and have annotated your sources. I will begin signing off on those Monday. You have five days to get full-credit for the three sources. Each is counted separately.
2. We will get off and running. I have read most, not all, of the portfolios. We have some work to do on the poetry explications. For the most part, they can be improved.
3. We will be reading some poetry on Monday, checking out Heart of Darkness, and signing in on the sources that you have done.
4. Tuesday will be the day to begin registering for the AP test come spring. I will also be signing off on thesis statements. (five days for full-credit.)

Sign Up for AP Tests--From Ms. Hein

On Tuesday and Thursday of next week, students will be registering for AP tests. Here are important facts to know:

1. Students register only once.
2. ONLY SEND DOWN THE ONES WHO HAVEN’T REGISTERED. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ACCOMPANY YOUR STUDENTS TO THE MEDIA CENTER IF YOU HAVE STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED. STAY WITH THEM.
3. The tests are $21 a piece; students don’t have to pay until Friday, March 13 at 2:30. Checks need to be made out to MGSH.
4. I will have forms for all students who qualify for free lunch. These students don’t have to pay for the test.

Shakespeare Sources

Hey Folks:
JSTOR has good material on Shakespeare and literary criticism sources. To get there log onto the Hennepin County Library site. Go to DATA BASES Then pull down JSTOR.

It asks you to log in. You can you the barcode number of your library card.

What? You don't a library card? Now is a great time to get one!

Senior Paper

You should have the research question signed off Monday, March 2nd. Remember you have to have it signed off to get on the computers on "B" day. You have five days to receive full-credit on the research question. March 9th it will be worth 3/5 points.

Forsberg will be signing off HUGed research on Monday, March 9th. That means you will have one week to get full credit for having them signed off. Five points per source.

Your working thesis will be due on Tuesday, March 10th.

Poems that CANNOT be Used Third Trimester

Believe it or not, someone was asking about poetry selection for third trimester presentations! This list includes all the poems (I think) that were presented second trimester, and are therefore, not available to use.

Trimester 2 Poems – 2008-2009
“Acquainted with the Night”
“The Aim was Song”“Barter”
“The Canonization”
"Curiosity"
“Dandelions”
“Death Be Not Proud”
“Desert Places”
“Dover Beach”
“Eggs
“Fire and Ice”’
“I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
"if everything happens that cant be done"
“The Immortal Part”
“Incident in a Rose Garden”
"The Indifferent"
“Living in Sin”
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“The Man He Killed”
"Mind"
“Mirror”
“The Naked and the Nude”
"Ozymandias"
“Parting at Morning”
“The Powwow”
“The Riddle”
“The Road Not Taken”
“The Second Coming”
“Sorting Laundry”
"The State"
“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“The Story We Know”
“The Tiger”
"Toads"
"Ulysses"
“The Victims”
“Vergissmeinnicht”