Welcome to our class blog, seniors!! Please visit here to check out some reminders (which will be up top, just below these notes) and then any Posts that you may be required to read, follow, use for reflection, pondering, writing, screaming, laughing, etc...these Posts will be further down. The most current ones will be first - always check the dates. There may be times where I may ask you to visit an older Post.

Remember to always converse with the author - use post-its and take notes -annotate- be active readers! Happy reading and writing.


I hope to have a wonderful last year of high school with you! Fight off that horrid senioritis!


Bulldogs Bulldogs Bow Wow Wow (that's for my Yalie son, Kyle...check out his football pic on the link to the left!)

**HP has created a Google account just for you - so check it out at the HP website. Click on the link for student Google accounts**

Happy Spring! March Madness begins...

1. Continue to actively read the memoir that you chose, and complete the open-ended/reflection questions (packet). Keep in mind the characteristics of a memoir. I hope that you are enjoying your choice! Please bring your memoir book with you to class. Have about 3/4 done for 3/24...try!

2. Over the next few days, we will be presenting the "Impact of the Written Word" PowerPts/Prezis that you created. Nice job! Enjoy.

3. See below for the Memoir packet to work on and bring with you over the next week or so...just in case you misplace it.





Wednesday, October 1, 2008

From Novel to Screen...Wow! A Sweep of all Five



As we view the five-time-Oscar-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you are to finish reading the novel and conversing with Mr. Kesey. The final discussion questions are due for Friday, October 3.

"...that big wide-open laugh of his. Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it" (Kesey 22). Start brainstorming ideas for your metaphor paper - remember, it's your own creative piece, written as a narrative story or a descriptive essay. Rough draft is due Tuesday, Oct. 7.

A Newsweek photographer recently traveled the world and documented horrific, deplorable conditions of mental institutions. Take a look - click on the newsweek link, and look for "A Shameful Legacy." http://xtra.newsweek.com/

Remember to start the college application search - look for the essay topics - print them up! We will be working on the dreaded college essay soon!

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