Week of May 11-17

For Monday, May 12:  

-Begin writing Acceptance Speech - parts 1, 2, 3 on the Prize-Winning Acceptance Speech Assignment sheet, print and bring your draft to class

-Read and review questions in The Color Purple through entry 21 (page 42)

-Bring The Color Purple to class

For Tuesday, May 13:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  through entry 35 (page 79)

For Thursday, May 15:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple: through entry 48 page 117

-Final draft Acceptance Speech - PRINTED before class

For Saturday, May 17:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  read through entry 56, through page 137

- GRAMMAR Retake (optional)

For Monday, May 12: 

-Work toward finishing reading and questions in The Color Purple through entry 35 (page 79) 

-Begin writing Acceptance Speech - parts 1, 2, 3 on the Prize-Winning Acceptance Speech Assignment sheet, print and bring your draft to class

-Bring The Color Purple to class

For Tuesday, May 13:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  through entry 48 (page 116)

For Thursday, May 15:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  through entry 56 (page 117-page 137)

- Final draft - Acceptance Speech (PRINT and have ready for class!)

For Saturday, May 17:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  through entry 63 (through page 162)

-GRAMMAR Retake (optional)

For Monday, May 19:  

- Be prepared to deliver speeches with final, revised copy to hand in)
-Read in The Color Purple, through Entry 75, page 207

For Monday, May 12:  

-Work toward finishing reading and questions in The Color Purple through entry 35 (page 79)

-Begin writing Acceptance Speech - parts 1, 2, 3 on the Prize-Winning Acceptance Speech Assignment sheet, print and bring your draft to class

-Bring The Color Purple

For Wednesday, May 14:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  through entry 49

For Thursday, May 15:

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple: through entry 56 through page 137
-Review Grammar Test to ask questions for 

For Friday, May 16:
-Complete Rough Draft - PRINTED for beginning of class of Acceptance Speech

- Reading and questions in The Color Purple:  through entry 60, p. 147
- GRAMMAR Retake (optional)

For Monday, May 19:
- Final Draft of Acceptance Speech - begin delivering the speeches in class
- Read The Color Purple through entry 68, page 177

For Wednesday, May 21: 
Read The Color Purple through entry 68 (page 177)

For Thursday, May 22:

For Friday, May 23:

Example - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Wangari Maathai - an excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize winner's acceptance speech

BY WANGARI MAATHAI

As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa and indeed the whole world. Although this prize comes to me, it acknowledges the work of countless individuals and groups across the world. They work quietly and often without recognition to protect the environment, promote democracy, defend human rights and ensure equality between women and men. By so doing, they plant the seeds of peace. I know they too are proud today.

I am also grateful to the people of Kenya who remained stubbornly hopeful that democracy could be realized and the environment managed sustainably. I am immensely privileged to join my fellow African Peace Laureates, President Nelson

Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the late Chief Albert Lutuli, the late Anwar al-Sadat and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. I know that African people everywhere are encouraged by this news. My fellow Africans, as we embrace this recognition let us use it to intensify our commitment to our people. Let us embrace democratic governance, protect human rights and protect our environment. I'm confident that we shall rise to the occasion. I have always believed that solutions to most of our problems will have to come from us.

In this year's prize the Norwegian Nobel Committee has placed the critical issue of environment and its linkage to democracy, and peace before the world. For their visionary action I am profoundly grateful. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come.

My inspiration partly comes from my childhood experiences and observations of nature in rural Kenya. As I was growing up I witnessed forests being cleared and replaced by commercial plantations which destroyed local biodiversity and the capacity of forests to conserve water. In 1977 when we started the Green Belt Movement, I was partly responding to the needs identified by rural women, namely lack of firewood, clean drinking water, balanced diets, shelter, and income. Throughout Africa women are the primary care-takers, holding significant responsibility for tilling the land and feeding their families. They are often the first to become aware of environmental damage as resources become scarce and incapable of sustaining their families.

I came to understand that when the environment is destroyed, plundered, or mismanaged, we undermine our quality of life and that of our future generations. Tree planting became a natural choice to address some of the initial basic needs identified by women. Also, tree planting is simple, attainable, and guarantees quick, successful results within a reasonable amount of time. These are all important to sustain interest and commitment. So together we planted over 30 million trees that provide fuel, food, shelter, and income to support children and education and household needs. The activity also creates employment and improves soils and watersheds.

Through their involvement, women gained some degree of power over their lives, especially their socioeconomic position and relevance in the family. This work continues. Initially the work was difficult, because historically our people have been persuaded to believe that, because they are poor, they lack not only capital but also knowledge and skills to address their challenges. Instead, they are conditioned to believe that the solutions to their problems must come from outside. Further, women did not at that time realize that meeting their needs depended on their environment being healthy and well managed. They were also unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even conflict. They were also unaware of the injustices of international economic arrangements. In order to assist communities to understand these linkages, we developed a citizen education program during which people identify their problems, causes and solutions. They then make connections between their actions and the problems they witness in the environment and in society.

Ms. Maathai is Kenya's Deputy Environment Minister.

Answer Key - Grammar/Language Review

Lie vs. Lay
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. A
10. B

Usage
1. A
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. A
9. A
10. A

Pronoun

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. D
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. B

Week of May 5-10

For Tuesday, May 6:

-Bring The Color Purple

-Determine which prize you would elect for yourself and bring in a print out of background information on that prize for today's class
- Finish the quotations writing/section of the Steinbeck quiz

For Thursday, May 8:  

Complete reading through Entry 15 in The Color Purple - answer corresponding questions

Study for Language Test

Field Trip to Peabody Essex

For Saturday, May 10:  

Test of Language Skills - review previous 2 tests and practice quizzes on language study

Bring The Color Purple

For Monday, May 12:  

Begin writing Acceptance Speech - parts 1, 2, 3 on the Prize-Winning Acceptance Speech Assignment sheet

Read and review questions in The Color Purple through entry 35 (page 79)

Bring The Color Purple

For Tuesday, May 6:

-Bring The Color Purple

-Determine which prize you would elect for yourself and bring in a print out of background information on that prize for today's class
-Finish quotations writing/section on the quiz

For Thursday, May 8:  

Complete reading through Entry 15 in The Color Purple - answer corresponding questions

Study for Language Test

Field Trip to Peabody Essex

For Saturday, May 10:  

Test of Language Skills - review previous 2 tests and practice quizzes on language study

Bring The Color Purple

For Monday, May 12: 

Work toward finishing reading and questions in The Color Purple through entry 35 (page 79) 

Begin writing Acceptance Speech - parts 1, 2, 3 on the Prize-Winning Acceptance Speech Assignment sheet

-Bring The Color Purple

For Monday, May 1:  

-Bring The Color Purple

-Complete review exercises for Grammar Test

-Begin review for Steinbeck quiz on Wednesday

- Select a prize that you envision an older version of you winning later in life - brainstorm why that prize, what steps have you taken to get to that level, how you feel, who has helped you, etc.

For Wednesday, May 2:
- Complete reading in The Color Purple through Entry 15 and write notes in response to corresponding questions

-Quiz on Steinbeck's Life and Writings - Chapter 5, The Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Acceptance Speech in 1962, Video on Steinbeck's life, Letters from Steinbeck.  Look at review sheet for Quiz, prepare 4 of 10 quotations by analyzing the quotation and how each of your four selected quotes connects to 2 of Steinbeck's writings and/or life experiences.

For Friday, May 2:

Prepare for Grammar/Language Test
Begin writing Acceptance Speech - parts 1, 2, 3 on the Prize-Winning Acceptance Speech Assignment sheet

For Monday, May 12:  
Work toward finishing reading and questions in The Color Purple through entry 35 (page 79)

-Draft of Acceptance Speech due

-Bring The Color Purple