OBJ ...
Students will relate the characters, setting, and theme of Beowulf to the historical, social, and economic ideas of the time.
WARM UP ...
COLLEGE WORD OF THE DAY ... Training ... Often as part of our warmup, we will have a "College Word of the Day" ... each time we have one, you will use the following strategy to create a concept map of the word in your blog ... see the example below for how to create yours.
Centered on the page - type the word and the definition
Under that (To the LEFT) ... 2 synonyms that you are familiar with
Under that (To the RIGHT) ... 2 antonyms that you are familiar with
An example (from life or reading)
A picture or symbol that you mentally connect with the word.
LAIR - resting place of a wild animal
SYNONYMS - Den, Hideaway ANTONYMS - Open Space, Trails
EXAMPLE - Wounded animals tend to try to get back to their lairs to escape.
PICTURES - 
Based on that example, create a concept map like this for today's College Word of the Day (CWoD): COPIOUS
- Updated Beowulf schedule ...
- Part Three - finished by today 10/5
- Part Four - finished by Tuesday, 10/6
- QUIZ ... Parts 3 & 4 ... Wednesday 10/7 (will not be open book/note)
- Part Five ... finished by Thursday 10/8
- Part Six ... finished by Friday 10/9
- If you missed the quiz over Parts 1 & 2 from Friday, you will need to make it up during tutorials this week. I will be available during the B half of Indian Hour Today, Thursday, and Friday ... as well as after school on Wednesday. You can also make arrangements for me to leave the quiz with another English teacher - but it is YOUR responsibility to either be here at one of those times or make the appropriate arrangements,
- There are still some of you who have not turned in your College Application Essay Final Draft - I have held grades on this waiting for you to get them in ... but at this point if you fail to get it in by tomorrow, it will go into the gradebook as a zero for a major grade. Understand that major grades are 50% of your average. So failing to submit an assignment that is a major grade almost assures you of failing for the grading period.
