SCHOLARS
CLASS SYLLABUS
Here are the pretty amazing Infernal Projects people have turned in so far. I thought they all deserved to be seen!
Abby C - Inferno for Dummies Guidebook
Liesel - Guidebook (video is in the Classroom feed)
Chase - NBA Inferno
Morgan - Hell
Alice - Hell of Morality
Abigail M. - The System of Caring for Yourself
Landon - Hotel Hell
Trenton - Inferno
Lara - Brackets of Hell
Kendall - 10 Commandments
Isaac - My Edition (Humor Hell)
Francesca - The Inferno
INFERNO READING SCHEDULE
On the "due date", please have the cantos read, study guide questions completed and notes taken. You do not have to turn any of this in to me and feel free to collaborate on the study guide questions. On Fridays, I will post the INFERNAL QUIZ of the week (no retakes offered & must be completed that day)! And we'll have a big project at the end, plus a couple of minor skills demos as we go along.
Due Friday, April 24th: Cantos 1-8
Due Friday, May 1st: Cantos 9-17
Due Friday, May 8th: Cantos 18-27
Due Friday, May 15th: Cantos 28-34
Due Friday, April 24th: Cantos 1-8
Due Friday, May 1st: Cantos 9-17
Due Friday, May 8th: Cantos 18-27
Due Friday, May 15th: Cantos 28-34
Monday - Friday, May 11th - 15th
Monday - The last video lecture! Cantos 28-34.
Tuesday - Infernal Quiz #3. Take it when you are ready.
**We will begin our final project next week, so please be ready to go. Notify me if you are catching up with things that are already in the gradebook.**
Monday - Friday, May 4th - 8th
Monday - Friday, April 27th - May 1st
Monday - Friday, April 20th - 24th
DANTE - THE INFERNO
This is not the translation that we are reading as a class and it does not have the annotations & notes, but it will help you to keep up until you are able to pick up your book.
Monday - Friday, April 13th - 17th
Monday - Posting two things: The Seventh Seal Response Skills Demo and Introduction to the Inferno Video Lecture. Use your time wisely! You've got an assignment, plus some notes to take. I would like you to read Canto 1 (plus notes) of The Inferno for Thursday.
Tuesday & Wednesday - Work at your own pace.
Thursday - Drop into Google Meet to talk about stuff, if possible!
Friday - Reading Cantos 2 & 3 for Monday.
Monday - Friday, April 6th - 10th
Monday - Seventh Seal Video Lecture posted to Google Classroom. Watch it and take notes.
Tuesday - Practice Google Meet session on Tuesday at 9 am, just to make sure we can all figure it out before it counts. Look for the code in a Google Classroom message.
Tuesday - Practice Google Meet session on Tuesday at 9 am, just to make sure we can all figure it out before it counts. Look for the code in a Google Classroom message.
The rest of the week -
- Contact me if you have any questions.
- Wrap up The Decameron & the assignment.
- Watch THE SEVENTH SEAL, if possible. Anticipate a practice assignment this week.
Monday, March 30th - Friday, April 3rd
- Work on the Decameron assignment, following the guidelines below. Email me if you have questions!
- Meet up on Zoom on Tuesday, if possible. This is just to touch base and try out this virtual conferencing thing.
- I will ask you to pick up a copy of THE INFERNO pretty soon from the school. Pick up times will be Thursdays, starting soon. Stay tuned for more details.
- Check your "phbillies.org" email regularly for practice assignments.
- Please watch THE SEVENTH SEAL, if you can! This is the Swedish film from the 1950s about the Black Plague.
- Stay safe & healthy!
Plans for the school shut down...
First of all, please stay healthy and safe. Limiting the disaster ahead depends on us all thinking and acting for the benefit of the community.
Links You Will Need:
Email me with any questions. Finish your response to Revelation, which we started on March 11th. Then read the introduction to The Decameron, linked above. Take excellent notes on the following topics (handwritten is fine, but you can also use the document I will put up on Google Classroom).
- Conduct some background research on Giovanni Boccaccio. Who was he? What is the historical context of this text?
- Conduct some research about The Black Plague of the mid-1300's. What happened?
- According to Boccaccio, what was the situation in Florence?
- How did people react?
- What are some of the many results of the plague (besides the death of 25% of the population), according to Boccaccio?
- Summarize the set up for the stories in The Decameron, after the whole first person account of the plague in Florence is over.
Monday - Friday, March 9th - 13th
Monday - This week, the plan is to finish reading the Book of Revelation and complete our final. We will see how it goes...
Tuesday - Revelation!
Wednesday - Revelation!
Thursday - Revelation! Final?
Friday - Revelation! Final?
Monday - Friday, March 2nd - 6th
Monday - Revelation!
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Elaine Pagels interview & listening guide. This is the basis of a skills demo, so please do an excellent job with your notes.
Thursday - Skills demo on that Pagels interview.
Friday - More time? More Revelation?
Monday - Friday, February 24th - 28th
Monday - Continue preparing small group presentations.
Tuesday - Ready to present!
Thursday - Five Ways of Reading The Book of Revelation. Our translation is the New International Version.
Friday - Reading Revelation. Numerology.
Tuesday - Friday, February 18th - 21st
No school on Monday in observance of Presidents' Day.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Share some Apocalyptic stories, if you want. Readings from our Apolcalyptica collection.
Thursday - Short skills demo on an article.
Friday - Apocalypticism Explained. This is a group of articles about the history of the human obsession with the end of the world. In pairs, you will pick one article to read, research and understand. Next week, you will have to explain the topic to another small group. This is practice for future small group presentations.
Next week: Intro to The Book of Revelation.
Next week: Intro to The Book of Revelation.
Monday - Friday, February 10th - 14th
Monday - Story-telling Project presentations begin. We will go in order of the narrative, so please be ready!
Tuesday - More time? Intro to APOCALYPTICA!
Wednesday - How will it end? Creative writing!
Thursday - Apocalyptica Vocabulary Quizlet.
Friday - Valentine's Day Party!
Monday - Friday, February 3rd - 7th
Monday - Sita Sings the Blues! Movie time - please have your permission slips in.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Sita Sings the Blues!
Thursday - Story-telling Project.
Friday - Story-telling Project.
2nd Semester Begins!
Monday - Thursday, January 27th - 30th
Monday - Ramayana! Continue with the text.
Tuesday - Skills demo on the ladies.
Wednesday - Finished? We'll begin Sita Sings the Blues soon, so please have your permission slips!
Thursday - Last day of the semester. Last chance VOCAB QUIZ on these words: Vocab Quizlet: Functional Vocabulary. If you have already passed a vocab exam this semester, you can try to pass this one for five extra credit points (the only extra credit of the semester).
Tuesday - Friday, January 21st - 24th
No school on Monday for MLK Day.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Share Beowulf essays, if you like. Movie permission slips: Sita Sings the Blues. Intro to Hinduism & The Ramayana.
Thursday - The Ramayana.
Friday - The Ramayana.
Monday - Friday, January 13th - 17th
Monday - Beowulf in Contemporary Culture: essay & essential skills sample!
Tuesday - Writing day.
Wednesday - Writing day.
Thursday - Writing day.
Friday - Writing day.
Tuesday - Friday, January 7th - 10th
Wednesday (BLOCK) - I hope you have Beowulf read! We'll do some in-class processing of the book and then an assignment. Oh, yeah - plus this vocab for the article: Quizlet/Beowulf.
Thursday - Beowulf is Back! skills demo. Please take the time to re-read the entire article before getting started.
Friday - More time?
WINTER BREAK!
Monday - Friday, December 16th - 20th
Monday - Beowulf! Notes on Anglo-Saxon poetry. Read through Chapter 10 for Wednesday. Keep a cheat-sheet (a short summary of what happens in each chapter) in your notes.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Read through Chapter 15 (Page 28) for tomorrow. Read this article together: Beowulf is Back!
Thursday - Beowulf is Back! vocabulary: pick 15 words and define them. Send them to me in a Google Doc. Read through Chapter 20 for tomorrow.
Friday - Notes & illustrations. Please finish the reading over break!
Monday - Friday, December 9th - 13th
Monday - The Odyssey essay work day.
Tuesday - The Odyssey essay work day.
Wednesday - The Odyssey essay work day. Last day. Due at the end of the period.
Thursday - Peer editing.
Friday - Share excerpts.
Monday - Friday, December 2nd - 6th
Monday - Notes on the end of the book.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - THE ESSAY!
Thursday - Essay work day.
Friday - Essay work day. Monday will be the last work day, FYI.
Monday & Tuesday, November 25th & 26th
Monday - Thoughts on REVENGE. Use this Quizlet to explore Types of Revenge for your analysis.
Tuesday - Big assignment on The Odyssey through Chapter 20!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday - Friday, November 18th - 22nd
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Assignment on Books 11-15.
Thursday - Get movie permission slips: Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Presentations & notes.
Tuesday - Friday, November 12th - 15th
Tuesday - Book notes so far: small group presentations.
Wednesday - Presentations.
Thursday - Skills demo on Chapters 6-10
Friday - More time for skills demo.
Monday - Thursday, November 4th - 7th
Monday - Introductory video & Greek pantheon.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Assignment on the first five books.
Thursday - Wrap up discussion questions. Just by Listening: article & assignment.
Friday - 1st Quarter grading day (no classes)
Monday - Friday, October 28th - November 1st
Monday - Finish up those Genesis 11 skills demos. Review the Origins Vocabulary Quizlet, if you have extra time.
Tuesday - Greek Word Roots activity: start HERE to research and create cards for a game. Review the Origins Vocabulary Quizlet, if you have extra time.
Wednesday - Deadline for revisions & make-up work!
Thursday - The Great Candy Corn Debate!
Friday - A quick clip from Troy & check out The Odyssey.
Monday - Friday, October 21st - 25th
Monday - Share origin stories.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Genesis. We'll be working from the King James Version as it appears in the Norton Anthology.
Friday (Half-Day) - Genesis. Go over Noah vs. Utnapishtim. Skills demo on Book 11, The Origin of Language.
Monday - Friday, October 14th - 18th
Monday - Botany of Desire skills demo wrap-up.
Tuesday - A Geologist Looks at Noah's Flood and this assignment.
Wednesday - PSAT day & you will just be wrapping it up. We'll do something laid back, since your brains will be fried!
Thursday - Self-directed study on creation myths.
Friday - Small group sharing of creation myths. Create your own.
Monday - Thursday, October 7th - 10th
Monday - Inanna Reimagined presentations.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Last Inanna Reimagined presentation. Grammar focus: internal punctuation. The Rats' Revenge! And this excerpt from The Botany of Desire.
Thursday - Skills demo on that text.
Friday - No school for students.
Monday - Friday, September 30th - October 4th
Monday - Finish & compare notes.
Tuesday - Inanna Creative Project!
Wednesday - Project work day.
Thursday - Project work day.
Friday - Project PRESENTATIONS!
Monday - Friday, September 23rd - 27th
Monday - Wrap up the archetypes slideshow and start the Archetype Profile Skills Demo.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - Archetype Profile Skills Demo.
Thursday - The Descent of Inanna: Guideline for notes, A Sumerian Tale of Injustice article, and the poem itself.
Friday - Continue with the note-taking process and share what you found.
Monday - Friday, September 16th - 20th
Monday - Review of The Hero's Journey. We're using this terminology and we'll start with this clip.
Tuesday - Skills demo on Gilgamesh!
Wednesday - More time? When you finish, please study this Quizlet set of vocabulary.
Thursday - Discuss the end of Gilgamesh.
Friday - Archetypes...slideshow.
Monday - Friday, September 9th - 13th
Monday - Plagiarism avoidance! Review and paraphrasing practice.
Wednesday (BLOCK) - GILGAMESH! Get books, develop some context. Please read through Page 84 (all the way through Part 2 - The Forest Journey) for tomorrow.
Thursday - Discuss reading. Read Part 3 for tomorrow.
Friday - Character illustrations. Please FINISH THE BOOK for Monday.
Next week: Watch this introductory video (26 minutes).
Wednesday - Friday, September 4th - 6th
Wednesday - Welcome! Look at the class syllabus and go over expectations. Log in to Google Classroom, if we have time.Thursday - Writing diagnostic. This is a chance for me to get a snapshot of your writing skills as they stand today.
Friday - Check out some samples of your writing and talk about what skills we need to address this year.
