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October 31-November 4, 2016: Welcome to Term 2!

Monday, October 31: Professional Day (No School for Students) [221]

• This term you will learn...
• ...to differentiate informational writing from argumentative writing.
• ...to practice both.
• ...how to use commas correctly.
• ...the academic vocabulary of poetry and drama.
• ...how to make sense of Shakespeare.
• ...the elements of tragedy.
• ...more word cells!
• ...to close read, annotate, and analyze more complicated text.
• ...how to acknowledge and rebut a counterclaim.
• ...to use QAR to generate a claim of your own.
• ...to read.
• ...to write.
• ...to repeat.
• Word!
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Wednesday, November 2: A Day

• Poem o' the Day: "November for Beginners" by Rita Dove
• New Hall Passes & Reading Schedule + Book!
• Jane Eyre (another bildungsroman!)
• What makes a "classic"...so torturous?
• [length, depth, vocabulary, the formality factor, "boring," "nothing happens," voice is often inaccessible to modern readers, old, unrelatable]
• I won't ask you to like it, but you must try to get past the natural teenage desire to criticize for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the literature.
• Journals 3-10: Shakespearean Quotes o' the Day
• During the time we are studying Romeo and Juliet, the Poem o' the Day will be replaced by the Shakespearean Quotes o' the Day. Your assignment is to copy the quotation exactly as it is written (including punctuation, line spacing, and source), and then paraphrase it and give an example from your own experience that supports the statement. Yes, you still have to fill the page! Here we go:
• Model: This one is just practice.
  
  "If all the year were playing holidays,
  To sport would be as tedious as to work."
  -- Henry IV, Part 2: Act II, Scene 1
  
  Example: I think this quotation means that if your whole life is a vacation (playing holidays), even playing (sport) gets boring (tedious). I see this in my own life at the end of summer, when I've been out of school for more than two months. I actually look forward to going back because I get bored when I don't have anything I HAVE to do. For example, .... (Now fill the page.)....
• Now for real...
• Journal #3 -- Shakespearean Quote o' the Day
  
  "O, it is excellent
  To have a giant's strength,
  but it is tyrannous
  To use it like a giant."
  --Measure for Measure: Act II, Scene 2
• Word Study
• Second Term Word Cells & Literal Definitions Assignment
• Word Cells o' the Day: -clud- / -fin-
• 9th Grade Word Cell o' the Week: -pend- (-pens-)
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Friday, November 4: A Day

• Journal #4
• Shakespearean Quote o' the Day -- Copy, paraphrase, and give an example to support this quote:
  "The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
  And in the taste confounds the appetite."
  --Romeo and Juliet: Act II, Scene 6
• The Assigning of the Passages: Vocabulary of Drama & Passage Analysis
• Everybody gets one! (Read it over and wait for further instructions!)
• Shakespeare: Then & Now -- Notes
• Shakespeare Intro: Miramax Biography
• Write down observations that will help you answer this question:
  How was Shakespeare's world different than our own?
• Grammar/Conventions
• Grammar Punk Intro: Let the games begin!
• Roll the Bones!
• Reading Schedule: Stay on it! (Or you'll end up in the Red Room!)
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November 7-11, 2016

Monday, November 7: B Day [221]

• Reading Schedule: Stay on it! (Or you'll end up in the Red Room!)
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Tuesday, November 8: A Day [Computer Lab 202]

• Poem o' the Day [Special Edition]: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
• Surveys: More Surveys...
• Composition: Shakespeare: Then & Now
• Informational Research/Writing -- How was Shakespeare's world different than the modern world?
• Use any three (3) of the following articles to complete the worksheet:
• Elizabeth's England
• Shakespeare: Not of an Age, but for All Mankind
• Actors in Shakespeare's Day
• Shakespeare's Audience: A Very Motley Crowd
• Shakespearean Snapshots
• A Nest of Singing Birds
• Shakespeare: Words, Words, Words
• Shakespeare: History is Written by the Victors
• Mr. Shakespeare, I Presume
• When you are finished, it might look something like this.
• Combine all this information with your notes from the movie.
• Write an informational essay that compares (and contrasts) Shakespeare's world to our own.
• Post final draft to Utah Compose. Now.
• The Paraphrasing of the Passages: Vocabulary of Drama & Passage Analysis
• Using this web site as a resource, close read your assigned passage of Shakespeare. Your job is to become the expert on your assigned part, so that when we encounter that passage in our study of the play, YOU can help us understand it. Look for end punctuation marks (. ? !) and draw lines to divide the passage into sentences. Circle words you do not recognize, including words that you know but that seem to be used in an unfamiliar way. Paraphrase your passage like you did with a stanza from The Raven last term. (Do not try to "translate" word for word, which will sound awkward and ridiculous.) Express the same thoughts in the language a modern teenager would use. Include all the important details.
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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Thursday, November 10: A Day

• Jane Eyre: Sample Writing/Chapter 4 & 5 Quiz
• (This is why just reading online chapter summaries won't guarantee you a passing grade.)
• Word Study
• How' bout another Word Cell o' the Day: -con- + variants
  (-co-/-com-/-cor-/-col-)
• Second Term Word Cells & Literal Definitions Assignment
• Reading/Literature
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• The Prologue Assignment with Close Read
• (E-notes may help!)
• Why is Shakespeare Hard?
• Why are some words given stress marks on the -èd ending
  (banishèd, punishèd, upturnèd)?
• Why does Shakespeare seem to be apostrophe crazy (fall'st, speak'st, o'er, e'er, 'Tis, etc.)?
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
• YOU HAVE HOMEWORK DUE NEXT TIME!
• The Paraphrasing of the Passages: Vocabulary of Drama & Passage Analysis
• Using this web site as a resource, close read your assigned passage of Shakespeare. Your job is to become the expert on your assigned part, so that when we encounter that passage in our study of the play, YOU can help us understand it. Look for end punctuation marks (. ? !) and draw lines to divide the passage into sentences. Circle words you do not recognize, including words that you know but that seem to be used in an unfamiliar way. Paraphrase your passage like you did with a stanza from The Raven last term. (Do not try to "translate" word for word, which will sound awkward and ridiculous.) Express the same thoughts in the language a modern teenager would use. Include all the important details.
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November 14-18, 2016

Monday, November 14: A Day [221]

• Homework due now:
• Staple the Prologue Analysis (pink) to the analysis of your assigned passage from Romeo & Juliet (blue) and turn it in!
• Journal #5
• Shakespearean Quote o' the Day -- Copy, paraphrase, and give an example to support this quote:
  "Talkers are no good doers: be assured
  We go to use our hands and not our tongues."
  Richard III, Act I, Scene 3
• Audio/Visual: Three Ways to Stage the Prologue
• Reading/Literature
• Listen Only: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1
  Do you get it?
• Summarize Act I, Scene 1 to the best of your ability.
• Complete the Figurative Language Analysis
• Word Study
• 9th Grade Word Cells o' the Week: -aqua- & -hydro- (water)
• Second Term Word Cells & Literal Definitions Assignment
• Grammar/Conventions
• Grammar Punk: Roll the Bones!
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Wednesday, November 16: A Day

• Journal #6
• Shakespearean Quote o' the Day -- Copy, paraphrase, and give an example to support this quote:
  "The harder matched, the greater victory."
  Henry VI, Part 3: Act V, Scene 1
• [Helpful Extra: Glossary of Common Elizabethan Terms]
• Romeo and Juliet: Act I, Scenes 2, 3
• The Power of Imagery: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 4 (Queen Mab)
• Video: Two ways Queen Mab Could be Presented
• Assignment: On side 1 of your own paper, answer these questions with R.A.C.E. responses --
• What does the imagery in the speech tell you about Mercutio?
• How does the imagery change from the beginning to the end of the speech?
• What is the purpose of the speech?
• Side 2: Draw (and label, if necessary) Queen Mab.
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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Friday, November 18: A Day [Computer Lab 202]

• Today's activity is strictly timed.
• YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WORK ON ANY OF THIS AFTER TODAY'S CLASS SESSION!
• NO, YOU CANNOT WORK ON IT FROM HOME!
• YOU WILL FINISH IN CLASS TODAY!
• THIS WILL NOT BE HOMEWORK!
• Shakespeare: Then & Now -- Part 1: Review & Part 2: Revise
• Part 1 (30-40 minutes)
  • Log in to your first draft of the essay from last week.
  • Select REQUEST. (Wait patiently while everyone else in the class does the same.)
  • Return to the main interface and review the essays of at least two (2) others in your group.
  • Answer all the questions on the Informational Essay Peer Evaluation Rubric.
  • Turn it in!
• All the following tools work differently, and many of them are surrounded by annoying advertisements.
• Read and click carefully; wait patiently to get results.
• Plagiarism Check #1
• Plagiarism Check #2
• Plagiarism Check #3
• Plagiarism Check #4
• Part 2 (30-40 minutes)
• Return to your own essay and read the comments and suggestions of others.
• Revise; don't just edit.
• Organize
• No Bubbas!
• Resubmit based on the changes you make.
• Submit a FINAL draft before leaving class.
• No, you may not work on it after today's class session.
• SUBMIT A FINAL DRAFT FOR A SCORE!
• NOW!
• Just for Fun: Shakespearean Insult Generator & More Shakespearean Insults

November 21-25, 2016

Monday, November 21: B Day [216]

• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
• Quiz tomorrow!
• Hint: Review Chapter 9: "How sad to be lying now on a sick bed...soon I slumbered."
• AP Vocab: anaphora = repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
• Poem o' the Night: "November Night" by Adelaide Crapsey
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Tuesday, November 22: A Day

• Poem o' the Day: "Thanksgiving" by Mac Hammond
• Journal #7: How does Bronte arouse the reader's admiration for Helen Burns in Chapter 9 of Jane Eyre? Write a three-paragraph constructed response.
• Staple and turn in journals!
• Jane Eyre Quiz (to Chapter 15)
• AP Vocab: anaphora = repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
• Reading/Literature
• Vocabulary of Drama
• Act I: Scene 5 (Romeo sees Juliet for the first time!)
• Review: Prologue to Capulet's Party
• Quiz: Romeo and Juliet, Act I
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
• Happy Thanksgiving!
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Wednesday, November 23: Thanksgiving Recess
Thursday, November 24: Thanksgiving Recess
Friday, November 25: Thanksgiving Recess

• "Bless Their Hearts" by Richard Newman
• "Yam" by Bruce Guernsey
• "Butter" by Elizabeth Alexander
• "Thanksgiving Magic" by Rowena Bastin Bennett
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November 28-December 2, 2016

Monday, November 28: B Day [216]

• Poem o' the Day: "Snow" by David Berman
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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Tuesday, November 29: A Day

• Turn in Translation: Romeo and Juliet's First Meeting into text messages.
• Jane Eyre: Review Quiz from last time + try another
• Word Study
• Word Cells o' the Day: -pel- / -puls- & -tract-
• Second Term Word Cells & Literal Definitions Assignment
• Reading/Literature
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Balcony Scene Act II: Scenes 1 & 2
• Read Romeo & Juliet -- Act II, Scenes 3 & 4 ; Scenes 5 & 6
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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Thursday, December 1: A Day

• Jane Eyre: Chapter 23 Practice Quiz
• Journal #1: Shakespearean Quote o' the Day -- Copy, paraphrase, and give an example to support this quote:
  "O sir, to willful men
  The injuries that they themselves procure
  Must be their schoolmasters."
  King Lear, Act II, Scene 4
• Reading/Literature
• Read Romeo & Juliet -- Act II, Scenes 5 & 6
• The Balcony Scene: Video(s)
• Memorization Assignment: Now it's official!
• Memorize and practice reciting 12+ lines of Shakespeare's original text from your assigned passage!
• Start at the beginning of a sentence, and finish at the end of one.
• Don't stop in the middle of an independent clause just because you have reached the 12-line minimum.
• Due Date: Two weeks from today!
• Grammar/Conventions
• The Apostrophe Rant: "What's in a Name?" (NOT an apostrophe!)
• Holiday Cards: Apostrophe Catastrophes
• How to Make Your Last Name Plural
• Grammar Punk: Roll the Bones!
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!

December 5-9, 2016

Monday, December 5: A Day [214]

• Word Study
• Second Term Word Cells & Literal Definitions Assignment
• Word Cells o' the Week: -oper- / -labor- (labor)
• Journal #2: Shakespearean Quote o' the Day -- Copy, paraphrase, and give an example to support this quote:
  "All things that are
  Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed."
  The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 6
• Reading/Literature
• Romeo & Juliet, Act III, Scene 1 [Crisis/Turning Point]
• Review: The Death of Mercutio
• Remember: Poor ol' Mercutio got knocked off, and Romeo is banishèd.
  • Speaking of which,why are some words given stress marks on the -èd ending
    (banishèd, punishèd, upturnèd)?
  • Why does Shakespeare seem to be apostrophe crazy (fall'st, speak'st, o'er, e'er, 'Tis, etc.)?
  • This will help you when it comes time to present your Memorized Passages (12+ full lines) on December 15th!
• Romeo & Juliet: Act III -- Scenes 2 & 3
• Assignment/Homework: Director's Close Read & Stage Directions for Act III, Scene 4
  • Pretend that YOU are the director of this scene.
  • Write the following on your copy of the text:
  • Mark your confusion & check with the translation to clarify.
  • In the right margin, paraphrase the dialogue.
  • Casting: If you were the director, who would be playing these parts?
  • In the left margin, write specific stage directions for each line of dialogue. (What is the character doing while he speaks his lines?)
  • At the bottom, explain the dramatic irony: What does the audience know that the characters do not?
• Samples
• Due next time!
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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Wednesday, December 7: A Day [Computer Lab 202]
Thursday, December 8: P-T Conferences -- 3:45-7:17 P.M.

• Turn in Director's Close Read
• Essay Prompt: You have been assigned to carefully analyze and memorize part of one speech from Romeo and Juliet, and by now you have at least some idea how that speech fits into the rest of the play. Using quotes from the speech and summaries of the surrounding scenes as textual evidence, write a multi-paragraph informational essay that explains how at least three (3) of the literary elements on the handout are at work in your assigned speech.
• Write the essay in Word.
• Follow the Academic Essay Format
• E-Text of Romeo and Juliet w/ Notes
• Another Online Version with Modern Paraphrasing
• "Hey, where's that one scene...?" + Topic Sentence Suggestions
• Save/Print (back-to-back, no more than one page!) before you leave the lab!
• Post the essay at the top of your wiki page.
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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Friday, December 9: A Day

• Grammar/Conventions
• Grammar Punk: Roll the Bones! (Two sentences about Romeo and Juliet)
• Reading/Literature
• Romeo and Juliet
• Review: The Balcony Scene to Capulet's Bargain
• Table Read: Act III, Scene 5
• Act IV: Paraphrase Important Speeches
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
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December 12-16, 2016

Monday, December 12: B Day [214]

• And so it begins: The Holiday Countdown
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Tuesday, December 13: A Day

Thursday, December 15: A Day

• Presentations of Memorized Passages from Romeo and Juliet
• Test on Romeo and Juliet
• Jane Eyre: Stay on the Reading Schedule!
• For Micah (on vacation ;-): Synthesis Essay + "Pretty Beyond Belief" + "Phenomenal Woman"
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December 19-24, 2016

Monday, December 19: A Day [Computer Lab 202] [214]

• Jane Eyre Final Test
• Jane Eyre Synthesis Essay Assignment (Due January 6, 2017!)
• Jane Eyre
• "Pretty Beyond Belief"
• "Phenomenal Woman"
• Poem o' the Vacation: "December Substitute" by Kenn Nesbitt

Wednesday, December 21: A Day

• Journal #4: "Where I'm From"
• Literal vs. Non-literal Language
• Speaking of literal...
• Word Study
• Second Term Word Cells & Literal Definitions Assignment
• Word Cells o' the Week: -ama- / -ami- (love, also -phil-) & -junct- & -fid-
• Word Cells o' the Day: -ten- / -tain- / -tin-
• The rest of the word cells for the term are number-related (-uni- / -mono- / -sol- / -bi- & -di- / -tri- / -poly-), and you probably know them from math and science classes. The completed Term 2 Word Cells Assignment is due on January 10, 2017. Use your prefix/suffix list and this Big List o' Word Cells to get it done by then!
• Why not finish right now?!
• Poem o' the Day: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
• Extra Credit Opportunity for the Break
• Enjoy the break!
  

Thursday, December 23: A Day
Friday, December 24: B Day

• Winter Recess
• Poem o' the Day:"In School-days" by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Poem o' the Day: "Cartoon Physics, Part 1" by Nick Flynn
• Wiki Work: Genre Lists & Wiktionary Entries (25 minutes)
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December 26-30, 2016

December 26-30 [217] :-(

• Poem o' the Day: "December Notes" by Nancy McCleery
• Poem o' the Day:"Fragment 3: Come, Come, Thou Bleak December Wind" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Poem o' the Day: "December 30" by Richard Brautigan
• Poem o' the Eve: "December 31st" by Richard Hoffman
• Poem o' the New Day: "To the New Year" by W. S. Merwin
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January 2-6, 2017

Monday, January 2: Last Day of the Break! [213]

• Jane Eyre Synthesis Essay Assignment (Due Friday!)
• Jane Eyre
• "Pretty Beyond Belief"
• "Phenomenal Woman"
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Tuesday, January 3: B Day

• Welcome Back!
• Poem o' the Day: "Winter Trees" by William Carlos Williams
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Wednesday, January 4: A Day

• Journal #5: "January" Poem Analysis / Poetry Terms
• Some say poetry is a kind of argument. Do you agree?
• Introduction to Poetic Epitaphs: Meet Aragog!
• Voices of Spoon River: Let the Games Begin!
• Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a mash-up of poetry, drama, and fiction. Masters presents a series of first-person monologues as they appear on the gravestones in a Midwestern cemetery in the early 1900s. The characters “speak” their own poetic epitaphs from beyond the grave, confessing the true motivations of their lives and uncovering many of the mysteries and secrets of the town. The voices of the former residents of Spoon River often appear in clusters that present all sides of a story that would be incomplete if presented by only a single voice. Each epitaph may be appreciated for its own poetic merits, but by cross-referencing them with each other, the careful reader learns elements of the underlying (get it?) narrative that even the characters themselves do not understand.
• Welcome to Spoon River: Introduction (22 min.)
• Travel back a century in time by talking to some of the the sleepers on The Hill: Elsa Wertman, Hamilton Greene, Richard Bone, Rutherford McDowell, Hortense Robbins, Anne Rutledge, Hannah Armstrong, Knowlt Hoheimer
• Assignment: Tone and Mood
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Friday, January 6: A Day

• Jane Eyre Synthesis Essay due tonight!
• Turn in completed Term 2 Word Cells Assignment!
• Journal #6: The End of the Beginning -- Go back in your collection of scored journals and read and reflect on these entries: Oct. 12th, 26th, and 28th. What do you know now that you wish you had known then? Did your pre-flection/goalsetting pay off? The end (of the semester) is near. Are you ready? Why or why not? Is it the same feeling you always have at the end of the term, or is this one more hopeful? Less hopeful? When you look back on this entry later, what do you hope you will be able to say? Fill the page.
• (Staple/Turn in Journals)
• Reading/Literature & Composition: The Rhodes Affair
• Read each of these epitaphs carefully: Eugene Carman, Clarence Fawcett, Mrs. George Reece, Jack McGuire, Nicholas Bindle, Henry Phipps, Ralph Rhodes, Thomas Rhodes
• Group Work: Describe each character and explain what part the character played in "The Rhodes Affair."
• Include the voice (tone) of the character as well as the feeling (mood) it creates in the reader: How does the character feel about his/her life? How do you feel about the character?
• Sample: Eugene Carman is bitter and resentful. For 14 years he worked long hours for little pay in a store owned by Thomas Rhodes. Because Rhodes was influential in the church, Carman had to attend services twice a week to keep up appearances. Overcome by rage and resentment for spending so much of his life as "Rhodes' slave," he starts screaming at his reflection, which causes him to have a brain aneurysm and die. I feel sorry for Eugene Carman because he believed he was powerless; he felt that he was controlled by Thomas Rhodes. Maybe he really was.
• Individual Work [Finish as Homework]: Using textual evidence from the epitaphs in the cycle of epitaphs called The Rhodes Affair," write a one-page character sketch of Thomas Rhodes. What kind of a man was he, and what influence did he have on the town of Spoon River? Support your statements with quotes from the various epitaphs of other townspeople.
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January 9-13, 2016

Monday, January 9: B Day [210]

• Poem o' the Day: "Numbers" by Mary Cornish
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Tuesday, January 10: A Day

• Poems o' the Day: "The End" by Mark Strand & "George Gray" by Edgar Lee Masters
• Compare these poems using a Venn Diagram
• Return scored journals and word cells. Keep them in the appropriate sections of your English Binder! Most of you will be in a different class period next week, so you need the English Binder in proper order for the switch!
• Small Group Activity: With your group, use the book to answer the questions about your assigned character on the Spoon River Review.
• Familiarize yourself with the relationships between the characters in these epitaphs:
• Judge Somers & Chase Henry
• Editor Whedon & Carl Hamblin
• The Town Marshal & Jack McGuire
• Ollie McGee & Fletcher McGee
• Cooney Potter & Fiddler Jones
• Informational Preview: Interactive Fiction (Zork, anyone?)
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Thursday, January 12: A Day [VOSR -- Computer Lab 202]
Friday, January 13: B Day [VOSR -- Computer Lab 202]
Last Day of the Semester

• Utah Compose: Read the evaluator comments on your Jane Eyre synthesis essay.
• Voices of Spoon River
• Keep your packet in order!
• Use the map!
• Don't forget to save your game!
• See you next semester! (8th Period!)