First and sixth periods began making a rubric for the memoir project (tentatively due next Monday). We also did some planning via clustering.

The draft rubrics are below:

First Period Notes

Sixth Period Notes

Second and fourth periods looked at Joseph Campbell’s mythic archetype (the monomyth) and looked at how it applied to the Odyssey thus far. We’ll be applying it to pop culture (Star Wars and The Matrix) tomorrow.

Seventh period followed up Thursday’s and Friday’s sessions on sentences with a quick review of identifying fragments and correcting them. We’ll be incorporating this into our current writing project.

Homework

• First period: complete the cluster planning for memoir.
• Second and fourth periods:
• read pages 1059-1064;
• students who’ve not watched Star Wars are encouraged to watch it tonight if possible; if not possible, read the plot summary at Wikipedia and view clips on YouTube. (The first part is here.)
• students who are not familiar with The Matrix are encouraged to read the plot summary at Wikipedia (as it’s an R-rated movie, I’m not even encouraging students to view it as that would be problematic at best; additionally, reading the plot summary will suffice for our purposes).
• Sixth period: write (or preferably type) a fresh copy of your first draft for class tomorrow; do not put your name on it anywhere.
• Seventh period: none.