1. Period 2: Staple your prompt/rubric (the first page on your essay packet) to the top of your essay and drop it off on the stool before class begins. Breathe a sigh of relief!

2. Warm-up: In the past few texts we’ve read, we’ve seen people or characters go through difficult times/circumstances in life. In one paragraph (at least 7 sentences), describe a stressful circumstance that you have been through in your life (a challenge, a loss, a fight, a disappointment, etc.) that made life difficult to live as usual.

3.  Homecoming!  Period 5: Essay due tomorrow!  If submitting via e-mail,,call or text message me (with your name & not after 9:30) to confirm I’ve received it.  Period 2: turn in your warm-ups on the stool after class (9/20, 9/27, 10/1)  No late work from September accepted after Fri.  Take Cornell notes on the following and title these notes, “Stress Notes”  Remember: Keep all notes in one specific place in your binder with the title and date on them. They will be collected at the end of the semester.

4.  Homework:  “Finish stress paragraph”  “Check Infinite Campus for September missing work”

5. Literary Response and Analysis 3.2: Compare and contrast the presentation of a similar theme or topic across genres…

6. Stress = the process of responding and adapting to the environment.

7. Stress can be positive stress or negative stress. Ex.: Stressing out over a grade can lead to a positive outcome. Ex.: Being stressed out over your parents’ divorce is probably only going to lead to negative emotions.

8.  What examples of stressful situations or stressors can you come up with?

9.  Examples of stressors:  Poverty  Loss or death of a loved one  Unfair or biased treatment  discrimination based on race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, etc.  Natural adversity  Hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, lack of rain, etc.  Abuse  physical, emotional, sexual, neglect  Depression  Loss of personal possessions (theft, fire, etc.)

10.  Our semester question: How do different cultures handle stress ?  How do we, as humans, overcome stress?  What prevents us from being able to overcome stress?  How difficult is it to overcome different stressors?  As we continue to read works of World Literature, we will explore this topic.

11. Let’s examine how stress plays out in the stories that we have read so far.  In one paragraph, discuss the similar message that all three texts (listed below) have about stress. Use evidence from the stories to prove this similarity in stress that all three texts have. 1. “The Creation and the Fall” from Genesis 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh 3. “Noah and the Flood” from Genesis

12. Organize your paragraph like so: Topic Sentence : Statement about the similarity in STRESS in all three texts. Explain/commentary : Explain/expand on anything that needs further explanation/expansion in topic sentence. Example/evidence/concrete detail : Give an example (either quote or summary of a specific event) from one text. Commentary : Explain what this example proves about stress. Example/evidence/concrete detail : An example from the second text. Commentary : Explain what second example proves about stress. Evidence/concrete detail : An example from the last text. Explain/commentary : Explain what the third example proves about stress. Wrap-up : Concluding sentence– summary of what statement is being given about stress. *Each part should be at least one sentence, but you may expand a part to more than one sentence, if needed. *Remember your writing rules… (no “I,” “me,” “my,” “you,” “your,”; lead into quotes; give in-text citations).

13. Let’s come up with a common topic sentence to use together. What similar message about stress do all three stories have?