due Wed. 12/2

By Wednesday, 12/2, please be ready to show your progress on your art project about your sage.

Also, please read to page 260 in 1984. This will be a lot of reading if you try to do it all on Tuesday night, so spread it out over two days.

Please keep reading articles in the New York Times.

Keep bringing your 9/11-related texts.

due when back from vacation

1. Read up to p. 224 in 1984.

2. Work on your art project for your sage if it is physically possible.

3. Read the NYT.

due Thursday 11/19

1. Read 117-126, do four-part reading journal

2. Work on art project

3. NYT

4. Wear riverdance clothing to assembly

due Wednesday 11/18

1. Work on your art project.

2. Read pp. 105-117 in 1984. Do a four-part reading journal.

3. NYT.

due Monday 11/16

1. Sixty minutes of progress on your art project.

2. 1984 pp. 63-81, no reading journal

3. old-fashioned journal about community

4. NYT

1. 1984 pp 48-63 plus four-part reader's journal: email it to me.

2. NYT.

3. art project about sage.

due Wednesday 11/11

1. Read 1984 pp. 37-48; do reading journal:

(a) three sentence summary

(b) a question or two

(c) an important word, and a sentence about why it might be important

(d) an image, and why it might be important

2. a New York Times article

due Monday 11/9

1. Read 1984, pp. 8-20.

2. NYT

3. journal entry if you still need to do one for this week

4. rehearse or otherwise do what you need to do for your fundraiser contribution

5. Write your claim about your three songs at the top of the page. Discuss your claim, citing each of your six pieces of evidence. Explore each piece of evidence with at least a few sentences dedicated to that piece of evidence.

Due Thursday 11/5

1. Email me a claim about the three songs (one claim, not three). The goal is specific, and non-obvious yet supportable, and two specific pieces of evidence per song.

2. NYT.

3. One journal entry due this week.

4. Sage pieces.

5. Schedule appointments/rehearse re fundraiser.

due Wednesday 11/4

1. Listen to the songs again while looking at the lyrics. Want to add anything or to revise your earlier remarks? Email me about it.

2. Read 1984 up until the main character writes in his journal "April 4th, 1984."

3. NYT

4. One journal entry due this week.

5. If you haven't given me your Sage piece . . .

due Tuesday 11/3

1. Work on your Sage piece if it hasn't been done yet.

2. Rehearse/schedule/work on your fundraiser act.

3. Write and email to me two lists: how are the three previously assigned songs alike? How are they different?

Then in a sentence or two, say what "Sweet Home" is saying about the first song, "Alabama";

what "Play It All Night Long" is saying about "Sweet Home Alabama";

and what Neil Young seems to be trying to say in "Alabama."

4. Read a NY Times article.

There will be one journal entry due for this week.