I think we could get use to these short weeks!

Last week was relatively short thanks to the Blizzard of 2014 dumping almost a foot of snow on our town, and school being out for three days. In AP 12, we did not get all that much accomplished before missing class. We continued our discussion of Jane Eyre and critiqued the Arctic Monkey's song "Do I Wanna Know" which fueled a great class debate on the type of person we felt Mr. Rochester was and why we fall for him. Well, why the girls fall for him at least. Some of the men in the class were not as carried away with him and viewed him as weak. Nonetheless, the conversation was interesting and as Vladimir and Estragon would say, "It passed the time." Here's to a full week ahead!

Week of 2/7/13: Exploration of the novel Jane Eyre

In AP this week, we began our study of Jane Eyre with groups within the class sharing their Chapter presentations on the book while conducting a live Twitter feed. Needless to say, tweeting during our discussions of Jane Eyre have really allowed the students to connect with the book on a level they can all identify with. We also began watching the movie, and the class cannot wait to see the love between Mr. Rochester and Jane to grow and develop, but beware of Crazy Bertha in the attic!  We ended our week with a little song analysis, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, by John Mayer. I think this was a hit with the class. As a teacher, I did not realize we had so many John Mayer fans in the room. It's also nice to nice the music I enjoy and identify with is not so far removed from my students. It will be interesting to see what next Friday's song analysis will be??????

Is Godot Every Going to Come????????

Again we had a crazy week in AP 12 with snow causing us to miss two days of class in the middle of the school week. When we returned on Friday, we finally finished Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, and  upon completing the play we realized that Godot may never come. Needless to say, many members of the group were angry and felt like their efforts in pursuing the play were for naught, but upon further reflection we realized that entire point of the play was to force ourselves to examine the meaning of not only our own lives but life in general.  So, we move on to Jane Eyre next. Hopefully this story will have a better defined point.