1. Sophomore English [Gifted]
Alan C. Sanders
E355

2. Tuesday, August 24 In Class Upcoming Welcome! Please find a seat.
Class Orientation
Introduction to Shared Inquiry and The Book of Job
Upcoming
Wednesday: Read Shared Inquiry handout and prepare for discussion

3. Wednesday, August 25 In Class: Upcoming
Begin Shared Inquiry Seminar. See handout on Shared Inquiry.
Essential Question: What is the answer to the Unnamable’s question, “Am I wrong because you’re right?”
Upcoming
Thursday: Finish (?) SI discussion. Hand out copies of The Book of Job.

4. Thursday, August 26 In Class Upcoming
Continue Shared Inquiry discussion of yesterday’s EQ
Essential Question: What is the answer to the Unnamable’s question, “Am I wrong because you’re right?”
Upcoming
Friday: Hand out and introduce The Book of Job. Finish SI discussion if not finished on TH.

5. Friday, August 27 Finish SI discussion Check out The Book of Job
Essential Question: What is the answer to the Unnamable’s question, “Am I wrong because you’re right?”
Your response after discussion …
Check out The Book of Job
"Tomorrow, if all literature was to be destroyed and it was left to me to retain one work only, I should save Job." (Victor Hugo)
"...the greatest poem, whether of ancient or modern literature." (Tennyson)
"The Book of Job taken as a mere work of literary genius, is one of the most wonderful productions of any age or of any language." (Daniel Webster)
Upcoming
Monday: Read the Introduction and the Prologue: The Legend

6. Monday, August 30 In Class Upcoming Set up seating chart
Begin Daily Grammar Practice
Discussion of The Prologue
What is “perfect integrity?”
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Wednesday: Read The Curse and The First Round through p. 37

7. Tuesday, August 31 In Class Upcoming Daily Grammar Practice
Continue Discussion of The Prologue
What is “perfect integrity?”
Upcoming
Daily: I don’t usually remind people about DGP, but don’t forget that you have daily grammar exercises this week.
Wednesday: Read The Curse and The First Round through p. 37

8. Wednesday, September 1 In Class Upcoming Daily Grammar Practice
Discussion of The Curse and The First Round
Why do good people suffer?
Upcoming
Daily: I don’t usually remind people about DGP, but don’t forget that you have daily grammar exercises this week.
Friday: Quiz on DGP; Read The Second Round through p. 54

9. Thursday, September 2 In Class Upcoming DGP
Discussion of The First Round of Debate
Syllogistic Reasoning
Upcoming
Friday: Quiz on DGP; Read The Second Round through p. 54
Next Week: No DGP, so we’ll pick up the pace with Job. This is a good time to complete the book if you haven’t done so already. Round Two Wednesday and Round Three Friday.

10. Friday, September 3 In Class Upcoming Grammar Test
Discussion of The First Round of Debate
Upcoming
Next Week: No DGP, so we’ll pick up the pace with Job. This is a good time to complete the book if you haven’t done so already. Round Two Tuesday and Round Three Friday.

11. Tuesday, September 7 In Class: Upcoming
Sit where you find your card and with the Sharpie that is coming around write—so that I can read it—the name you prefer to be called on the unprinted side of the card.
Begin Shared Inquiry Discussion of The Second Round of The Book of Job
What does Job know that his friends do not?
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Wednesday: Lecture/Discussion of “Knowledge”
Thursday: Reading Day
Friday: Discussion of Round 3—This could be very short!
Monday: The Summation, The Voice from the Whirlwind, and the Epilogue. We’ll begin discussing the outcome of TBJ by Friday.

12. Wednesday, September 8 In Class Upcoming
Lecture/Discussion of Ways of Knowing—the Difference between Knowing That and Knowing How or Why
How do we know that we know what we know?
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Thursday: Reading Day
Friday: Discussion of Round 3—This could be very short!
Monday: The Summation, The Voice from the Whirlwind, and the Epilogue. We’ll begin discussing the outcome of TBJ by Friday.

13. Thursday, September 9
Substitute

14. Friday, September 10 In Class Upcoming
Review Run-on Sentences, Fused Sentences, Comma Splices, and Apostrophes for Next Weeks’ DGP
Discussion of Wisdom, Justice, and Job.
Does Job know something that his friends do not? If so, what is it?
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Monday: DGP Week 2 and Final Discussion of Job.
Tuesday: We’ll begin talking about a writing assignment for Job. I always like to have a weekend between the assigning of a paper and the collecting of it.

15. Monday, September 13
Substitute

16. Tuesday, September 14 In Class Upcoming Check DGP for Monday and Today
Begin Discussion of “The Imperfect Paradise”
Overview of the Essay Prompt for The Book of Job
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Wednesday, September 15: A Discussion of Justice—Distribution, Outcome, Fairness, Equality, Sameness
Wednesday, September 22: Job Essay Due.

17. Thursday, September 16 In Class Upcoming
Check and Go Over DGP and Review Methods for Correcting Run-on Sentences
Finish Lecture on Justice and Fairness
Giving each person his due—To what is a human entitled by the fact that he or she is human? How does mercy factor in? What does Job have to say about Justice?
Fairness
Sameness
Equality
Distribution
Outcome
Silence and Contentment: What does Job learn (epistemology)?
Upcoming
Friday: Grammar Test
We’re beginning a new unit tomorrow, too. It includes Oepidus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles!

18. Run-on Sentences
Passepartout had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart.
Passepartout had a moist sensation about the eyes. His master’s action touched his susceptible heart.

19. Friday, September 17 In Class Upcoming Grammar Quiz
Guidelines for Writing Literary Essays
Set Up for Sophocles
Upcoming
Next Week: No DGP!
Essay Due on Wednesday

20. Tuesday, September 21 In Class Upcoming Papers: ¿Hay preguntas?
Is there a relationship between chaos or coincidence, fate, and free will?
From Oedipus Rex: “It’s all chance, chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. Better to live at random, best we can. … Live, Oedipus, as if there’s no tomorrow!”
Upcoming
Wednesday: Papers on The Book of Job are due.
Read: Scene 1 and Ode 1, pp , of Oedipus Rex.

21. Theater of Dionysus

22. Greek Theater Diagram

23. Wednesday, September 22 In Class Upcoming
Collect and Check In Papers on The Book of Job
Oedipus Rex, Scene I and Ode I
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Thursday: Read Scene II and Ode II, pp , of Oedipus.

24. Thursday, September 23 In Class Upcoming
Why does Tiresius initially refrain from divulging the truth to Oedipus and assembled others?
What is Oedipus’s response to Tiresius’s refusal, and then later, to his accusations?
Tiresius replies that he is beholden to no one but Apollo—the “higher authority” that the Greeks thought was God. This allows him to speak the painful truth to Oedipus. What caused Tiresius to change his mind and speak the truth, do you think?
Now that you have seen Oedipus react directly to adversity, is your opinion of him different? Would you characterize Oedipus as evil, or merely human, in his angry reaction to Tiresius’s speeches?
With whom does the “I” of the Chorus identify as it vows to keep an open mind about Oedipus until there is “certain proof” of his guilt?
Upcoming
Monday: Read Scene III and Ode III

25. Monday, September 27 In Class Upcoming
Daily Grammar Practice Week Three
Oedipus Rex, Scene III, Ode III
What are the true markers of who Oedipus is (57)?
Upcoming
Tuesday: Read Scene IV, Ode IV.

26. Participles
a verb form acting as an adjective. The running dog chased the fluttering moth. A present participle (like running or fluttering) describes a present condition; a past participle describes something that has happened: "The completely rotted tooth finally fell out of his mouth." The distinction can be important to the meaning of a sentence; there is a huge difference between a confusing student and a confused student.

27. Participial Phrases
Present participles, verbals ending in -ing, and past participles, verbals that end in -ed (for regular verbs) or other forms (for irregular verbs), are combined with complements and modifiers and become part of important phrasal structures. Participial phrases always act as adjectives. When they begin a sentence, they are often set off by a comma (as an introductory modifier); otherwise, participial phrases will be set off by commas if they are parenthetical elements.
The stone steps, having been worn down by generations of students, needed to be replaced. [modifies "steps"]
Working around the clock, the firefighters finally put out the last of the California brush fires. [modifies "firefighters"]
The pond, frozen over since early December, is now safe for ice-skating. [modifies "pond"]

28. Week Three Sentence
she stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard