river oaks [english]

Sophomores Please read "Rocking-Horse Winner" tonight (begins on 1006). Answer the following for Thursday: CC and #2-5, 8. We will read "Araby" next (begins on 1022). Homework on 1029 due Friday: CC & #1-8. Remember to cite from the story.

You have a revision due on Wednesday by the end of the day. Choose from one of the following drafts: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, or Simulation. Please copy/paste your document into a new file called "Lastname-Final" and share with me. We are watching The Truman Show this week and writing a film analysis essay on Friday. Next week is the memory book , and you will all need to gather and bring material for that on Tuesday. Everyone is to include the following, whether in physical or electronic format: physical 12x12 scrapbook OR Google Slides (share as "Lastname-Memory") a title page with photos at least 16 pages - four for each year of high school all pages must be filled with images and text use captions for images include info from your personal life (family, friends, and activities) and school life include info from pop culture for each year if electronic, link all pictures (also can include music and/or video)  One last thing: every year

The reading list for honors students has been updated.

Seniors Your essay for this week concerns Baudrillard's theory about our increasingly simulated and artificial world - a reality in which we have perhaps come to prefer the artificial (or the copy) to the original. Your prompt, along with examples, are linked below. Please integrate at least ONE outside source to support your argument. Our Simulated World  Sophomores Please do the following for homework credit. In order to get credit, you MUST use complete sentences and cite examples from the text. For poems, cite line numbers: #1-3 on 989 CC and #2-5, 7 on 992  #1-3 on 1066 #1-3 on 1069 CC and 2-4, 6

Sophomores Your test on the short stories "The Mark of the Beast" and "The King is Dead, Long Live the King" is tomorrow (Tuesday). We will review the Victorian Period - the introductory notes, the poetry and prose - on Wednesday, and we will have our big unit test on Thursday. On Friday, I will introduce the 20th century with a presentation. Seniors We are writing about the pros and cons of artificial intelligence this week. I've already given you the link to the presentation, but here it is again . In addition to exploring the links and reading the articles, please look at the following predictions by Ray Kurzweil about the next few years of AI: Kurzweil's redictions for the next 25 years. We will discuss in class, gather evidence, and write the paper in class on Thursday and possibly Friday.