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Friday, March 19, 2010
 
 Mrs. Schott Minimize

In my tenth year of teaching at Dundee High School, I am, relatively speaking, an older, newer teacher.  I grew up in Tecumseh, graduating in 1968.  I attended Adrian College where I received a Bachelor of Arts Degree and my Michigan teaching certification.  I married my husband, John, in 1972 and we have five children between the ages of 34 and 19.  I was a stay-at-home mom until the fall of 2000 when I began teaching at Dundee High School.

I enjoy teaching, as I waited a long time to accomplish this goal.  I also enjoy reading, swimming, handicrafts, and most of all, spending time with my family, including our two granddaughters and grandson.
    
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 Attention Parents of Seniors! Minimize

Parents or Guardians of English 12-B Students:

Your son or daughter is beginning his or her last trimester of English 12 at Dundee High School.  As a requirement for passing this class, he or she will be expected to complete a culminating project, affectionately known as the "senior project."  This is a sizeable and time-consuming project that will take the bulk of the trimester to complete.

I have provided explicit instructions to your son or daughter and have posted them on my webpage on how this project is to be completed.  Please take this opportunity to look over the information so you will be aware of what will be required.

I will be giving the students numerous opportunities to use the library and its computers to work on this project, but we will be spending the rest of our class time on other literature and writing.  They will be responsible for pacing themselves to be able to complete the project on time, as it will be impossible to turn in late projects.

In addition to asking them to use the English skills they have accumulated in their years of school, this is also a good preparation for meeting the demands of the college or work world into which they will be going.

As a parent, I know you understand the importance of preparing young people to be successful, so I hope you will encourage and support them as they work to do their best.

If you have any questions about the project or your student, please feel free to call me at 734-529-7008, ext. 3302, or e-mail me at sschott@dundee.k12.mi.us.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Schott

 
    
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   English 10-B

My appologies for not having posted last week's work.  We had a death in the family.

3/ 15  Monday - Today we continued with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.  We began reading Act II.

3/16  Tuesday - We finished Act II and did a worksheet on interepreting quotes from the play.

3/17  Wednesday - We worked on the worksheet from yesterday and on questions over Act II.

3/18  Thursday - Today we began reading Act III of Julius Caesar.
    
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   English 12-B

3/15  Monday - Today we discussed Chapter 1 and then began reading Chapter 3 working on a page of questions as we read.

3/16  Tuesday - We discussed Chapter 3 and went on to read Chapter 8.

3/17  Wednesday - We discussed Chapter 8 and were assigned the final project for Fast Food Nation - an advertisement for "Burger Heaven" accessing the criticisms of the book to make our fictitious restaurant better than the rest.  We were also assigned Chapter 9 to read along with comprehension questions.

3/18  Thursday - Today we turned in out Fast Food Nation books and began discussion and background on Tim O'Brien's book The Things They Carried.  We read the beginning pages together in class, and the rest of the first part was assigned as homework for tomorrow. 
    
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   English 11-B

3/15  Monday - We began reading Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby.  At the beginning of Chapter 2 there is a description of an advertisement so we read the description and tried to draw what we thought it might look like.  After we drew, we watched a film clip of two different film versions of the story to compare what we drew to the Hollywood version.  The rest of Chapter 2 was assigned for Tuesday.

3/16  Tuesday - Today we discussed Chapter 2 and began reading Chapter 3. The rest of Chapter 3 was assigned for tomorrow.

3/17  Wednesday - We discussed Chapter 3 and began reading Chapter 4.

3/18  Thursday - Today we discussed Chapter 4 and were assigned Chapter 5 along with an assignment to write a gossip column about Gatsby in Chapter 3 and 4.