Wednesday 2/16

• Students analyzed magazine articles that they selected.

HW: Pride & Prej through Chapter 50 for Monday

Monday 2/14

• RC on the P&P selection
• Make up presentation
• Text notes on P&P

HW: Go to "The Novel" page on the class website -- follow the link "Brief History of the Novel" -- write down main idea for each paragraph.

Friday 2/11

• Thursday students finished diagramming infinitive modifiers
• Students gave classic novel presentations -- which were continued on Friday

HW: P&P through Chapter 45 by Mon with vocab

Wednesday 2/9

• We finished the notes on the P&P selection
• We began diagramming Infinitives
  

Tuesday 2/8

• We continued with our analysis of the P&P assignment for the week.
  

Monday 2/7

• Read check on the assigned Pride & Prej
• Students worked in small groups interpreting key scenes
  

Wednesday 2/2

• We finished the notes on the Sentimental novel
• We began reading summaries on the Gothic novel
  

Monday 1/31

• Read Check on Pride & Prej
• Text notes on same
  

Friday 1/28

• Diagramming of Infinitive Phrases

HW: Pride & Prej through Ch 32 with vocab

Tuesday 1/26

• Reading, discussion of Richardson novels
• Notes on the Sentimental
  

Tuesday 1/25

• Finished disussion of P&P topics graphic organizer
• Began reading summaries of Richardson novels
  

Monday 1/24

• RC on Pride & Prej through Chapter 23
• Worksheet on discussion topics
  

Tuesday 1/18

• RC on Pride 10-17
• Text notes on topics

HW: Go to "The Novel" page on the website and follow the link "Jane Austen & Samuel Richardson" -- answer these questions:

Jane Austen & Samuel Richardson
Questions on Internet Article
1. Who was Jane Austen’s favorite author?
2. The author argues that the first novelist was who?
3. It sounds standard now, but Pamela was groundbreaking in that it ended with what?
4. In what form was Pamela & Clarissa were written that Austen adopted in her first attempt at writing a novel?
5. The author says what “subtlety” in Clarissa is “extraordinary”?

Wednesday 1/12

• We continued our discussion of basic topics in Pride & Prejudice

HW: Be through Chapter 17 by Monday -- with 10 new vocabulary words

Friday 1/7

• Grammar day: Appositive Phrases -- written exercises turned in
  

HW: Pride & Prej RC through Chapter 9 on Monday

Thursday 1/6

• Discussion of the journal topic -- should reading be about the classics?

HW: Finish journal; Pride & Prej RC through Chapter 9 on Monday -- with 10 vocab words defined

Wednesday 1/5

• Students share journal entries on the bourgeois novel
• Discussion of lists of great novels
• Discussion of ppt presentation project

HW: Pride & Prej RC through Chapter 9 on Monday

Tuesday 1/4

• Notes on the "Bourgeois Novel"
• Journal activity: do any of the criteria identified in the notes fit any of the novels on your personal list? Explain.

HW: Find a list of the top 10 novels -- on the Internet or wherever... perhaps it is someone's personal list.

Monday 1/11

• Pride & Prejudice assigned -- chapters 1-9 by Monday
• Journal project discussed
• tests and papers returned

HW: Journal entry -- how do the novels you read for pleasure differ from those we read in class?