Happy Election Day! I hope that you all get a chance to watch the election coverage tonight.
I gave students a chance to get jump-started on CMC reading in class today. We talked about how important it is to have a clear picture of what happens at the beginning of this book so that you are not confused later. For homework tonight, please make sure that your Reading Guide 1 is complete so that we can discuss it tomorrow during class.
We began our study of The Count of Monte Cristo today! We started by building some background knowledge on the setting in which the book takes place (cmc-schema-study-guide). Then we watched the Crash Course lesson on the French Revolution:
Homework for tonight and Tuesday is the first reading guide for the novel (cmc-reading-guide-1) – please have this ready to turn in on Wednesday.
And check out the new Count of Monte Cristo tab of the website for lots of other background information on the book!
We finished some outstanding JLC presentations today – it looks like many of you learned a lot from the novel! Enjoy your homework-free weekend, and on Monday, we’ll be starting The Count of Monte Cristo!
We had our first round of presentations today – if your group is going tomorrow, please make sure that you share your presentation with me AT LEAST 10 MINUTES BEFORE THE START OF CLASS. You will need to send it to BOTH my HISD email (echapman@houstonisd.org) and my Google account (elizabethchapman.bhs@gmail.com).
Today was our last day of working on our presentations! Here is the schedule:
the-joy-luck-club-presentation-schedule
Please make sure that you email me your presentation materials BEFORE class begins.
Happy Halloween!
Students wrote short answer responses about JLC today in class. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be for working on your group presentation (which you will deliver on either Thursday or Friday).
Please don’t forget to have your essay ready to turn in tomorrow. I will have a substitute, but you may give your papers to him or her.
Please have one person from your group register your title and group members’ names tonight by going to this link.
Students continued to work on their group essays and presentations today. Homework for tonight is that last (!) JLC story (jlc-rg-16-a-pair-of-tickets).
A few other announcements and reminders:
The Italian Club is conducting a canned protein drive to benefit the Houston Food Bank. If your class period brings two times the number of cans as you have students, we can bake cookies in class! Items that you can bring include:
Also, I mentioned that I will have some other obligations during lunch on Monday and Tuesday, and asked you to find an alternative place to eat lunch, if you are in the habit of coming to 316. On Friday, we’re going to be going over the parts of speech exam during lunch, so please only come if you are going to participate in that.
After our discussion of the story from last night, we began our JLC projects – each group will be composing an essay and delivering a presentation on a particular theme within the novel (the-joy-luck-club-group-essay-on-theme). Please note that the group essay is due on Tuesday of next week (November 1), and your presentation will either be on Thursday or Friday (November 3 or 4).
On Monday, you will write two PIE paragraphs about JLC in class for a major grade.
Homework for tonight is to complete the discussion guide for the penultimate chapter of JLC (jlc-rg-15-double-face).
Lots of fantastic discussions today about one of my favorite stories from The Joy Luck Club! For the second half of class, students began annotating an article from The New York Times on an investigation of the labor conditions in manicure salons staffed by Asian immigrants (the-price-of-nice-nails). Please make notes on your copy looking particularly at her use of rhetoric (what is she trying to convince you of? how does she do it?).
Homework for tonight is the next story from JLC (jlc-rg-14-waiting-between-trees).
Also – tomorrow is the last day to order a Count of Monte Cristo book! It’s $6.50. The school can check one out to you, but the advantage to ordering one is that you will be able to annotate it.
Ms. Chapman's Class (Pre-AP) 
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