Thursday, April 17
Students took a pop quiz over the day's reading assignment in Slaughterhouse Five and we graded it.
Then we used the quiz as our way into a discussion of chapters 3 & 4, focusing on questions of free will and determinism and of people's ability or inability to influence history. We reread parts of the assignment and began Chapter 5.
HW due Monday: read at least through Chapter 6 (page 153). Possible quiz.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Friday, April 4
Students turned in their Alice in Wonderland papers.
Mr. Potratz announced that once again those submitting papers today would receive extra credit and those turning it in on Monday after the break (4/14) would receive full credit.
Students turned in their copies of Alice in Wonderland and signed out copies of Slaughterhouse Five. No assignment was given, but students were encouraged to read or at least begin the book over break.
We read the rest of the "Humpty Dumpty" chapter of Alice, including H.D.'s explication of "Jabberwocky," and we puzzled over problems of meaning in language.
Students turned in their Alice in Wonderland papers.
Mr. Potratz announced that once again those submitting papers today would receive extra credit and those turning it in on Monday after the break (4/14) would receive full credit.
Students turned in their copies of Alice in Wonderland and signed out copies of Slaughterhouse Five. No assignment was given, but students were encouraged to read or at least begin the book over break.
We read the rest of the "Humpty Dumpty" chapter of Alice, including H.D.'s explication of "Jabberwocky," and we puzzled over problems of meaning in language.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Wednesday, April 2
We re-viewed the Mad Tea Party scene from the BBC film, and compared both it and the Disney version of that scene to the book.
Mr. Potratz then passed out copies of the Humpty Dumpty chapter from Through the Looking Glass, which shares with the Mad Tea Party a preoccupation with meaning and language, and he began reading it aloud.
We re-viewed the Mad Tea Party scene from the BBC film, and compared both it and the Disney version of that scene to the book.
Mr. Potratz then passed out copies of the Humpty Dumpty chapter from Through the Looking Glass, which shares with the Mad Tea Party a preoccupation with meaning and language, and he began reading it aloud.
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