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Seniors
You are writing a synthesis paper this week on advertising. Packets are by my door if you didn't get one. Read the packet for Tuesday, and we will discuss. The paper will be written in class on Friday. A secondary assignment involving advertising will be due for homework on Wednesday:
  • Bring an effective print ad to class - can be printed from the internet or copied from a magazine

Sophomores
We are discussing Macbeth this week and next. Instruction will be on contextual notes primarily, and you should expect reading quizzes throughout. The first quiz (on Shakespeare's biography and the Elizabethan theater) is Wednesday, Dec 2nd.

First, however, we must get everyone's sonnets. If you do not bring (or recite) your sonnet on Monday, please be prepared to do so Tuesday or Wednesday at the beginning of class.

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