"The Monkey's Paw"
10/19/19 Journal Prompt #1: What predictions can you make based on our reading so far? What in the text leads you to believe this?
10/20/16 Journal Prompt #2: Do you believe the Whites will heed (pay attention or listen to) Morris’ warnings? Use evidence from the text to support your belief.
10/27/16: Journal Prompt #3: Make a bulleted list of the elements of good writing.
10/31/16: Journal Prompt #4: Have you ever participated in a writing station? If you have participated, describe what it is and how it might be helpful. If you have NOT participated, what do you think it might be, and how might it prove helpful in revising your writing?
Macbeth
11/10/16: Journal Entry #5: Using your academic word list (AWL), SUBSET 2 only, create a response, using at least two of the AWL words, in which you discuss how you prepared yourself for yesterday’s live debate. How did you respond to someone who disagreed with you, as well as questions you asked to clarify your opposition during the debate?
Journal Entry #6: Using your academic word list, SUBSET 2 only, create a response in which you discuss how yesterday’s anticipation guide, as well as today’s background information may help in your understanding of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Journal Entry #7: Using your academic word list, SUBSET 2 only, create a response, using at least three of the AWL words, in which you discuss what the reader has learned about Macbeth thus far. Note how Macbeth himself does not appear in these scenes and is only described by others in dialogue. Describe how the other characters speak of Macbeth and his actions in battle. Be sure to cite textual evidence to support analysis and inferences drawn from the text.
Journal Prompt #8: In Act 1.1 and 1.2, the three Witches discuss Macbeth. What role might the Witches serve in Shakespeare’s development of Macbeth’s character in these opening scenes? How does the language help develop Macbeth’s character? What are the thematic implications of these first scenes?
Journal Prompt #9: Choose one element seen in the film version of Macbeth and discuss a new or enhanced understanding you have gained in connection to a character, symbol, motif, or theme in the written text.
Journal Entry #10: Has Macbeth’s behavior and/or attitude changed since killing Duncan? Use at least two words from your academic word list, SUBSET 2, to create a response.
Journal Prompt#11: Write about a time you have done something you deeply regret doing. What made you want to do it in the first place? Were you coerced (persuaded) in any way? Did you ignore your conscience, or did it even occur to you that you might regret your decision? Will the decision have deep or just superficial repercussions? If you had the chance to do it all over again, what would you have done differently?
Journal Prompt #12: Using at least two words from your AWL, describe ways in which Lady Macbeth is showing signs of her guilty conscience. How might this connect to the theme of ambition and lust for power?
Fahrenheit 451
2/3/17: Journal Entry #13: What is a utopia?
2/13/17: Journal Prompt #14: In Neil Gaiman’s Introduction to Fahrenheit 451 he uses the word polemic in the second-to-last paragraph on pg. xii. What do you think the word means in connection to Bradbury’s novel?
2/27/17: Journal Prompt #15: The word empty is mentioned forty-three times in the novel. It is safe to assume that Bradbury intended emptiness to be a motif throughout the text. Montag wonders in Part 1 after Mildred's overdose, "How do you get so empty? [...] Who takes it out of you?" So, how do we get to this place? How do we get so empty? Write about a time when you felt empty. Then write about what filled your bucket back up.
3/9/17: Journal Prompt #16: In the first book burning scene in the novel, the woman whose house the firemen were going to burn kneels beside her books and says, "You can't ever have my books.” She was willing to protect what she loved.
Fill in the blank: You can’t ever have my _________. Then explain.
10/19/19 Journal Prompt #1: What predictions can you make based on our reading so far? What in the text leads you to believe this?
10/20/16 Journal Prompt #2: Do you believe the Whites will heed (pay attention or listen to) Morris’ warnings? Use evidence from the text to support your belief.
10/27/16: Journal Prompt #3: Make a bulleted list of the elements of good writing.
10/31/16: Journal Prompt #4: Have you ever participated in a writing station? If you have participated, describe what it is and how it might be helpful. If you have NOT participated, what do you think it might be, and how might it prove helpful in revising your writing?
Macbeth
11/10/16: Journal Entry #5: Using your academic word list (AWL), SUBSET 2 only, create a response, using at least two of the AWL words, in which you discuss how you prepared yourself for yesterday’s live debate. How did you respond to someone who disagreed with you, as well as questions you asked to clarify your opposition during the debate?
Journal Entry #6: Using your academic word list, SUBSET 2 only, create a response in which you discuss how yesterday’s anticipation guide, as well as today’s background information may help in your understanding of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Journal Entry #7: Using your academic word list, SUBSET 2 only, create a response, using at least three of the AWL words, in which you discuss what the reader has learned about Macbeth thus far. Note how Macbeth himself does not appear in these scenes and is only described by others in dialogue. Describe how the other characters speak of Macbeth and his actions in battle. Be sure to cite textual evidence to support analysis and inferences drawn from the text.
Journal Prompt #8: In Act 1.1 and 1.2, the three Witches discuss Macbeth. What role might the Witches serve in Shakespeare’s development of Macbeth’s character in these opening scenes? How does the language help develop Macbeth’s character? What are the thematic implications of these first scenes?
Journal Prompt #9: Choose one element seen in the film version of Macbeth and discuss a new or enhanced understanding you have gained in connection to a character, symbol, motif, or theme in the written text.
Journal Entry #10: Has Macbeth’s behavior and/or attitude changed since killing Duncan? Use at least two words from your academic word list, SUBSET 2, to create a response.
Journal Prompt#11: Write about a time you have done something you deeply regret doing. What made you want to do it in the first place? Were you coerced (persuaded) in any way? Did you ignore your conscience, or did it even occur to you that you might regret your decision? Will the decision have deep or just superficial repercussions? If you had the chance to do it all over again, what would you have done differently?
Journal Prompt #12: Using at least two words from your AWL, describe ways in which Lady Macbeth is showing signs of her guilty conscience. How might this connect to the theme of ambition and lust for power?
Fahrenheit 451
2/3/17: Journal Entry #13: What is a utopia?
2/13/17: Journal Prompt #14: In Neil Gaiman’s Introduction to Fahrenheit 451 he uses the word polemic in the second-to-last paragraph on pg. xii. What do you think the word means in connection to Bradbury’s novel?
2/27/17: Journal Prompt #15: The word empty is mentioned forty-three times in the novel. It is safe to assume that Bradbury intended emptiness to be a motif throughout the text. Montag wonders in Part 1 after Mildred's overdose, "How do you get so empty? [...] Who takes it out of you?" So, how do we get to this place? How do we get so empty? Write about a time when you felt empty. Then write about what filled your bucket back up.
3/9/17: Journal Prompt #16: In the first book burning scene in the novel, the woman whose house the firemen were going to burn kneels beside her books and says, "You can't ever have my books.” She was willing to protect what she loved.
Fill in the blank: You can’t ever have my _________. Then explain.