Freshmen: Create a "Homerbook" page for a character from The Odyssey. Per5 due Thurs 10/29. Per 7 du Fri 10/30.

Juniors: Watch all the videos in my Emily Dickinson playlist on Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/mnolanporter ; also, bring in a copy of the poem you will be performing this week! Performances are Thurs for per1 & Fri for per8

Journalism: Final draft of your interview article.

Journalism: Due Mon 10/26 -- final draft of you interview article. READ your article back to your source over the weekend. Type it up. Include the phone # or e-mail for your source for fact checking.

Juniors: Read the poems in the Emily Dickinson packet. Pick a poem to be performed in class on Thurs Oct 29.

Juniors: Read the last set of Whitman poems for Mon 10/19: A Clear Midnight, The Learned Astronomer, A Noiseless Patient Spider & On The Beach at Night.

Journalism: Due Tues 10/20 -- First draft of you interview article.

Homework due Fri 10/9
Journalism: Bring in your script of interview questions.
Juniors: Read the next section of Song of Myself & watch Mr. Ross read on youtube.
Freshmen: Read to the end of the Trojan War packet (the story of the Trojan Horse)

Homework due Tues 10/13
Freshmen: Type up your Summer reading essay, make corrections & improvements, bring it in with your original handwritten essay.

Juniors: Follow the reading schedule handed out in class for Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Don't forget to view the accompanying youtube videos. Part one -- I Hear America Singing & the beginning of Song of Myself.

Freshmen: For Friday 10/8 -- read p 190-200 re: The Heroes of the Trojan War.

Homework due Tues 10/6:
Juniors: retype your summer reading essays, make at least 1 improvement/correction
5th period Freshmen: read The Heroes of the Trojan War p 185-190.

Homework due Wed 10/7:
Journalism: bring in your Pitch for your interview article

7th period freshmen: answer the rest of the questions on the Dweck article re: Mind-set