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Mr. Smith reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice. |
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First Semester |
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Week 1, 08.17 |
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Monday: |
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school closed /no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Basic Introduction: Syllabus
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Setting Up Schoology |
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Academic Paragraph |
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• Paragraph Rubric |
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Foundations for Critical Thinking / Taking notes |
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Follow |
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@PrufrocksBlues /Twitter |
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mr_smith_eng2332 /Instagram |
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fragmentedportrait.blogspot.com/ |
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Wednesday: |
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Introduction Continued: Reading Guidelines |
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• Focused Reading |
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• demo-Habitual Reading |
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Overview of Class Projects |
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• Course Rubric |
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• What is an 'A' Paper? |
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• What is Synthesis? • example paper |
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• Synthesis Sentence Stems |
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Notions of the Self |
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• demo |
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Thursday: |
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Senior Meeting with Ms. Nichols |
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Friday: |
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Review of Literary Criticism Types part 1 |
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• Cheat Sheet |
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• Readers Response |
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• Biogrphical, Formalist, Gender & Feminist / PDF |
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Week 2, 08.23 |
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Monday: |
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Review of Literary Criticism Types part 2 |
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Critical Theory Demonstration–updated PDF |
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• Mythic, Historicism /PDF |
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• Psychoanalytical / PDF |
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• Sociological /Marxist, Queer Theory /PDF |
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Tuesday: |
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Review of Literary Criticism Types part 3 |
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• Deconstructionism |
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Wednesday: |
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Review of Literary Criticism Types part 3 |
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• Deconstructionism |
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Thursday: |
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In-Class Writing: Lens Analysis |
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Friday: |
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In-Class Writing: Lens Analysis |
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Week 3, 08.30 |
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Monday: |
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Free Will / Determinism / Fatalism |
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• demo |
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Notions of the Self |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
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Monism-Dualism |
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• demo |
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General Overview of René Descartes, Discourse on the Method |
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• demo-overview |
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Wednesday: |
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General Overview of René Descartes, Discourse on the Method |
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• Parts I /Parts IV |
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Discussion Board Expectations |
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Thursday: |
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Prompt #2 Summer Assessment |
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Discussion Board Post |
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Friday: |
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Prompt #2 Summer Assessment due by midnight |
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Discussion Board Post Submitted by end of school |
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Week 4, 09.06 |
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Monday: |
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school closed /no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Summer Reading Assessment, (Critical Analysis) due by end of class <first major HS grade> |
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Wednesday: |
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Absolutism, defined |
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Group Activity: Analysis of Hammurabi's Code |
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Thursday: |
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Group Responses Archived |
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Friday: |
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Gods and Monsters |
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Mythology, defined |
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Enuma Elish, Babylonian Creation Myth |
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Week 5, 09.13 |
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Monday: |
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Enuma Elish, Babylonian Creation Myth disucssed |
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Provide One Academic-based Question for Class |
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Tuesday: |
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• school closed due to weather |
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Wednesday: |
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Comparisons of Creation Myths, Group Project |
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Numerical Groups Assigned; Group Questions Discussed |
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Thursday: |
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Group Project |
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Students move into Alpha-Groups of 5-6 students |
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Group Response Discussed: Selection of Lens |
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Friday: |
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Group Project Roles Defined |
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Organized Group Response |
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Week 6, 09.20 |
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Monday: |
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Senior Meeting Library |
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After School, Open House |
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Tuesday: |
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Group Project |
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Wednesday: |
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Group Project |
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Thursday: |
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Group Project |
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Friday: |
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Group Project due before midnight |
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Week 7, 09.27 |
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Monday: |
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Claim-Example-Conclusion (CEC) Academic Paragraph |
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Devotional Writing Defined |
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CEC Discussion Post in Schoology |
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Tuesday: |
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Modern Example of Devotional Writing |
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Arthur Sze, "After a New Moon" |
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Academic Paragraph Response: What type of hymn could Sze's work be classified? |
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Wednesday: |
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Review/Reteach CEC Components |
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Review Specifics of Psalms, Prayers, and Odes |
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• demo |
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Thursday–Friday: |
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Arthur Sze, rewrite |
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Week 8, 10.04 |
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Monday: |
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Major Greek/Roman Gods |
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Greek Muses |
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"Homeric Hymn to Hermes"—overview |
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video: Authentic Lyre Playing "Hymn to Hermes" |
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Tuesday: |
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Class Research Exercise, place names and characters in Homeric hymn |
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Wednesday–Friday: |
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Myth of Prometheus—short overview |
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video: Myth of Prometheus—Animated |
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Class Exercise: Analysis of Homeric Hymn |
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Week 9, 10.11 |
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Monday: |
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school closed /no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Hebrew Bible, Psalm 23 |
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Class Analysis Exercise |
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Wednesday: |
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no class—Senior Picnic |
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Thursday: |
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Plato's "Parable of the Cave" |
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Class Assignment |
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Friday: |
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Academic CEC Paragraph—Analysis of Plato's "Parable of the Cave" |
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Week 10, 10.18 |
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Monday: |
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Anatomy of the Soul |
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Tuesday—Thursday: |
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Close Reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Chapter 3 |
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demo: The Pleasure and the Pain |
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Check for Understanding |
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Friday: |
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The Golden Mean and Intellectual Virtues |
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Aristotle's Poetics |
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Week 11, 10.25 |
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Monday: |
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Antiheroes Defined |
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Homer's Odyssey, Book X |
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Prep Work for Major Writing Assingment |
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Tuesday: |
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Mark Edmundson, Self and Soul pp. 7-47 |
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Wednesday—Friday: |
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Prep Work—part 2 |
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Week 12, 11.01 |
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Monday—Friday: |
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Workdays towards Major Writing Assignment |
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Friday: |
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Video: The Rashomon Affect |
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Week 13, 11.08 |
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Monday—Wednesday: |
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Reading in class Stephen Mitchell's version of Gilgamesh |
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Comparisons between Odysseus nd Gilgamesh |
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Thursday—Friday: |
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Workdays towards Major Writing Assignment |
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Week 14, 11.15 |
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Monday: |
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Reading in class Stephen Mitchell's version of Gilgamesh |
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Tuesday: |
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Review Gilgamesh and Odysseus characterizations |
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Wednesday: |
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Assessment, Homer's Odyssey(Book X) and Gilgamesh (part 1) |
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Thursday: |
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Reading in class Stephen Mitchell's version of Gilgamesh |
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Friday: |
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Reading in class Stephen Mitchell's version of Gilgamesh |
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Week 15, 11.22 |
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Thanksgiving Break |
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Week 16, 11.29 |
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Monday: |
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Finalize Stephen Mitchell's version of Gilgamesh |
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Tuesday—Friday: |
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Unit 2 Project Workdays |
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Week 17, 12.06 |
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Monday—Thursday: |
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Finalize Unit 2 Project |
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Friday: |
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Project due at end of class |
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Week 18, 12.13 |
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Finals Week |
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Winter Break begins 12.17.2021; School reopens January 05, 2022 |
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