9/21-9/28

9-28-11
   Quiz on reading and vocab.  One presentation--Brook Farm.  Watched more of film”Gattica”

HW:
Read pages 88-105 in “1984” and students will post answer to question #3
Read Chapter six and seven in “City of Ember” and students will post to question #2


9-27-11
  Presentation on Utopia by two students who researched the Communist Manifesto.
Vocab words posted:
     Riverlets
     Depot
     Kalaidoscope
     Conspicous
     Fulminating
     Turbulant
     Garble
     Prole (worker)
     Centipede
     Despot
HW:
 Read pg. 70-87 in “184” and Chapter five in “City of Ember”.
Study for vocab quiz tomorrow.


9-26-11
    Post vocab word to google docs
HW:
   Reading and vocab quiz on Weds.
Check calender for reading for tonite in “City of Ember” and “1984”
Returned work.  Went over test. 


 9-23-11
 Journal entry #5:  
      1. What is the setting of the book you are reading?
       2. What do you think/feel about the setting?   Find a quote in text that makes you feel that way.
       3. Where have you been that makes you feel the above?

Description of books:
1984:  London, dark, always , Airstrip One in Oceania, institutional,
City of Ember:  underground city, dark, destroyed stuff, Petratus( garbage) fallng off every thing, running out of supplies.  
Post-apocalyptic

Presentation on Utopias continue.


9-22-11
   HW:
      read chapter 2--Ciy of Ember and/or pgs. 20 to 34 in 1984
Start student presentations today.  Students got rest of period as an X day unless finishing quiz/test.


9-21-11
   Discussed both the books 1984 and City of Ember
1984:  Big Brother, dystopian, Winston Smith, torture.  George Orwell, author.
          Canon( most influencial book)
City of Ember:  Lera & Doon
           Live underground
           dystopian
           city falling apart
           can’t explore
           corruption
HW:
 Read pg. 5-20 in 1984
 Chap. 1 plus introduction in City of Ember