HW Due Wednesday, April 1

Complete the worksheet on CHARACTERIZATION

Reminders:
- Independent reading with annotation (on post-its) is due Friday,
April 24th. Animal Farm notes will be checked regularly.

- Bollywood Banquet this Thursday!

HW 3/18/2009 / Period 7

Finish reading the Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. To get a head start on this weekend's homework, work on your outline for the critical review we started in class. We will be working on this outline in class Friday, but anything you do not finish will be due on Monday. Get started so that you can run around in the sun on Saturday and Sunday!!!

HW 3/16/2009

Period 7 Homework: Read The Importance of Being Earnest / pages 20-40.

Period 8 Homework: Read The Importance of Being Earnest / pages 1-20.


Always be ready for reading check quizzes!!!!

HW Due Tuesday, March 10

Read Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. Answer the following five questions (classwork) and then write a one page report that expresses Thomas Hobbes' ideas about science and self.

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

1. How has “nature made men roughly equal in body and mind”?

2. How does this equality contribute to our making enemies?

3. Should men be kept in a state of fear, according to the author’s opinion? What does this mean?

4. How do the ideas presented in this essay relate to the literature we have read/are reading?

5. Find statements that emphasize Hobbes’ idea that predatory passions drive both human nature and society.