Course Lineup Revised for Quarter Three

This is a revision of Denise's Class lineup for the year.
(Revised 11/29/08)

Quarter One -- schedule is set
First Hour -- CLASS (Community, Leadership, Action, & Solutions in School)
Second Hour -- Introduction to Film Analysis
Third Hour -- Prep / Free Hour
Fourth Hour -- The Reader's Workshop (Katy)
Fifth Hour -- Introduction to Film Analysis
Sixth Hour -- The Creative Female (Katy)

Q2
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Images: Media and Gender (Katy)
Third Hour -- Advanced Film Analysis
Fourth Hour -- PREP
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Sixth Hour -- Short Fiction (Katy)

Q3
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Prep / Planning Hour
Third Hour -- Vampire Image (upper level reading -- college prep)
Fourth Hour -- Cinema by the Decade (new survey class -- non-college prep)
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop (reading levels vary by student choices)
Sixth Hour -- The Reflective Imagination (moderate level / writing intensive)

The following quarter plan is tentative!

Q4
First Hour -- CLASS
Second Hour -- Finding Self: Space and Place in YA Literature
Third Hour -- ?
Fourth Hour -- Prep
Fifth Hour -- Reader's Workshop
Sixth Hour -- ?

Books scheduled for the year :
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Q4)
Accidents of Nature (Q4)
American Born Chinese ?? (Q4)
The Arrival (Q4)
Caucasia (Q4)
Dracula (Q3)
Growing Up Female (selections) (Q1)
The Hobbit (Q3)
Keesha's House (Q4)
Lord of the Flies (Q4)
Luna (Q2, Q4)
Parrotfish (Q2, Q4)
Pride and Prejudice (Q1)
A Sand County Almanac (Q4)
Speak (Q2)
Story of a Girl (Q2,Q4)
Voices of a People's History (Zinn) ?
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Q4)
(also -- choices on "Finding Self" YA Literature list-- Q4)


Stay tuned for updates in this entry.