English 12
A Complicated Kindness
1. Chapter 9-12 Critical Summaries due.
2. Read Chapters 15 and 16.
3. Chapter 16 Critical Summary due tomorrow (last mark of term 3!).
*All late/redo work due TOMORROW.*

Psychology 11
Module 11
1. Maslow self-actualization journal due.
2. Work on Section 5 paragraph of SnapShot Project.
3. Homework: 11-3, 11-4.

English 10E
To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Read chapters 27 and 28.
2. Questions for chapters 27 and 28.
3. Film.
4. Homework: 2 journals (due tomorrow - last mark of term 3!).

Tomorrow is the cut-off for Term 3 Marks!

English 12

A Complicated Kindness

1. Read Chapters 13 and 14.

1A. Questions to consider:

- Naomi says of Tash , "She was more than I could ever hope to be." (105) Is this true? Does Tasha have qualities that Naomi should aspire to be like, yet cannot hope to achieve? Is this ordinary sibling rivalry or is it idealization of the gone - like Mrs. Peters does of Clayton?

- Naomi says that Ray "..wasn’t big on overt symbols of hope." (113) Is Ray pessimistic? So you think that Naomi is without hope or is she able to find the imagination and to show a willingness to envision what lies beyond the present?

2. Complete critical summaries for chapters 9-12 (due tomorrow).

*Students interested in improving their mark may do a re-do of the short story essay; see me if you are interested in this option - essay would be due this Friday.*

Psychology 11

Module 11

1. Discuss p. 207-211 (if you did not read and make notes for this portion you must do so).

2. Introduction to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (p.211-213).

3. 11-1, 11-2.

4. Journal Response (due tomorrow):

- Are you self-actualized? What does self-actualization look like to you? Do you know anyone that fits this description? Provide examples of Maslow's levels from the pyramid - times where your needs were and were not met.

- Would you say you are intrinsically or extrinsically motivated? Provide 2-3 examples.

English 10E

To Kill a Mockingbird

1. Quiz: Chapters 24 and 25.

2. Part III - Read Chapter 26.

3. Questions.

4. Common Grammar Issues.

English 12
A Complicated Kindness
1. Read chapters 11 and 12.
2. Critical Summaries (example given in class) for chapters 9-12 due Thursday.
*Ensure you include new/expanded concepts, quotations that struck you as important, motifs or themes.
- In our reading today we learn more about Trudie and Tash.
- Motif: Public vs. Private self --> "...the things we don't know about a person makes them human" (p.98).
A quotation to consider:
"You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain."
**Tomorrow: Quiz make-up**
3. Progress reports/missing assignments/due dates discussed (one-on-one).

Psychology 11
Motivation and Emotion 
1. Module 6 Quiz (open-book).
2. Section 4 Paragraph homework check.
3. Begin Module 11 (Motivation & Emotion).
4. Homework: Read p. 207-212 and make notes; come prepared to discuss tomorrow.
5. Handout: 11-1 to 11-15 (as you read tonight, fill in 11-2).

English 10E
To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Chapter 22 and 23 Quiz.
2. Read Chapter 24 and 25
3. Chapter 24 and 25 Questions.
4. Progress Report consultations/missing work.
*Tomorrow: Quiz on Chapters 24 and 25.*

English 12
A Complicated Kindness
1. Hamlet assignments returned, A Complicated Kindness responses returned.
2. Read Chapters 9 and 10.
3. Assignment: Critical Summary of Chapters 9 and 10 (example given in class). Due tomorrow.
*Day to make up missed Hamlet Quizzes: Wednesday at lunch/after school*
**If you want to improve your Hamlet essay mark, complete Hamlet questions 1, 2 and 4 (due Wednesday)**
**If you want to improve your Hamlet question mark, write a Hamlet essay using the following prompt:

Uncertainty and deception are found throughout Hamlet. Identify at least three examples of uncertainty
and/or deception, and explain their significance. How do they underscore Shakespeare’s
intentions in writing Hamlet? (due Wednesday).

--If you have questions about criteria, email me/arrange an appointment.--

Sample - A Complicated Kindness - Critical Summary:

       Nomi Nickel is in her last year of high school, a time when most teenagers look forward to new beginnings. In order to graduate, Nomi must complete one more high school assignment – to write a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. As part of this educational task, Nomi must write a story ending that fits her uniquely personal situation. Nomi’s problem is that she cannot foresee an appropriate ending to her present circumstances, but Mr. Quiring tells her she will know it when it confronts her. Nomi seems to have trouble with endings because her limited experience with endings has been negative: primarily, her mother and sister leaving, ending her concept of a happy family. Secondly, her religion has very hard and fast rules about behaviour and death; one's ending in the Mennonite community is one of two choices - a life of suffering in exchange for a Heavenly reward, or a life of sin which results in Hell.
     Nomi has little to look forward to, because she has had no proper endings in her seventeen-year-old life. Her sister, Tash, left home with her boyfriend, Ian, followed shortly after by Trudie, Nomi’s
mother. Neither one said a suitable goodbye. Nomi lives with her father, Ray, a teacher with his own abandonment issues. Although Ray is a teacher, he has nothing to teach Nomi; he is depleted of all emotional and life-skill reserves, and perhaps he never had them in the first place. As a result, Nomi is left much to her own devices. She spends her time with her boyfriend, Travis, her seriously ill friend Lids, or alone, contemplating her past, present, and future. Nomi believes that all she can look forward to after graduation is working in the town’s chicken slaughterhouse, as do many of the town’s residents.
      Toews’ novel describes a community where skills and emotions are held in strict check by the community’s cultural and religious values, ethics, and practices. Nomi is Toews’ conduit into the fictional Mennonite community of East Village, and through Nomi, Toews asks tough questions and explores seemingly impossible choices.While the community that forms Nomi’s world is a Mennonite community,Toews’ story can be read and recognized in communities elsewhere.

Concepts introduced in the first 46 pages:

1. The strict nature of the Mennonite community and the ever-present danger of excommunication (shunning).

2. Nomi and Ray have been abandoned by Tash and Trudie and are left to stumble about, disillusioned by their religion and their broken family.

3. The Mouth (who has a sinful past of his own and strives to make up for it by establishing a very regimented and joyless community).

4. The notion of "a complicated kindness" - a tacit sense of pity and selfish care that people give to each other as long as it does not ruin their own reputations; the idea that people cannot love and forgive each other freely in this community. Trudie leaving Ray as a personal sacrifice so that he does not have to live with the shame of a 'sinful' wife.

5. Nomi's seek of escape via drugs, alcohol, rebellious boyfriend is juxtaposed with her inability to leave the community and Ray, her concern for friend Lydia.

6. Nomi's foundation of religion that causes her guilt that she is unable to recognize as a reason for her stagnancy.

Questions for the first 46 pages:
1. The title of this novel is deceptively simple. It deals with the straightforward
concept of kindness yet presents it as “complicated” and complex.
Consider the different possible meanings for the idea of a “complicated
kindness” and discuss them in light of the quote containing these words.

2. Nomi measures everything in her life as to whether it is complicated or
uncomplicated.
Consider if this helps Nomi to cope better or if it further complicates her
emotional well-being.

3. Nomi views her friend Lids (Lydia) as disarmingly pleasant and objective,
a person who speaks candidly about her feelings and thoughts and
who is unlike the other teenagers Nomi knows. Nomi is equally blunt, yet
she feels that she and Lydia have nothing in common.
Is Nomi correct? Consider their similarities and differences in the context
of their separate lives and their individual pain.

4. Nomi is the novel’s only narrator, and it is through her eyes that we see
the other characters and the townspeople. However, we learn about Nomi
both through her own words and thoughts and by how she reflects herself
in her conversations with others.
Do we get an accurate picture of Nomi and the other characters? Would
the addition of other narrators add to or detract from the complex picture
of Nomi’s life and environment?

Psychology 11
Module 6
1. Catch-up/Review day.
*Complete Section 1-4 paragraphs for your SnapShot project -- homework check tomorrow!!*
2. Tomorrow: Module 6 Quiz (closed book).
3. Missing assignments need to be in by Friday. Day to make up missed quizzes: Wednesday at lunch/after school.
4. Suggestions/prompts for Section 4 paragraph:
A. What are the milestones associated with emerging adulthood/adulthood in this culture? Do your/older friends'/older siblings' experiences differ?
B. Elaborate on the crises dealt within these phases (Erikson). Examples: yours, older friends'/siblings', parents, grandparents.
3. Your opinion on achieving happiness as according to Gilovich & Medvec (p. 111).
4. Marriage, love, divorce (p. 108-109). 5. Your experience (or others') with death and dying.

English 10E
To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Chapter 22 homework check.
2. Read Chapter 23.
3. Complete questions.
4. Film
* Tomorrow: Chapter 22-23 Quiz.

English 12
A Complicated Kindness
1. Written response due.
2. Chapters 1-6 Quiz.
3. Read Chapters 7 and 8.
*No homework (unless you have missing/overdue work)*

Psychology 11
Module 6
1. Library research - section 4 paragraph.
*No homework (unless you have missing/overdue work. You should have the first three paragraphs of your Snapshot Project completed by now; if not, you are in danger of falling behind).
*Monday: Module 6 quiz*

English 10E
To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Chapter 19/20 Quiz.
2. Read Chapter 21 and 22.
3. Complete questions.
*No homework unless you have missing journals*

***Monday at lunch: Write missing quizzes in B113***
((Email me if you're not sure if you have missing assignments/quizzes OR if you need help.))

Have a great long weekend! (Tomorrow is pro-d.)

English 12
A Complicated Kindness
1. Discuss Chapters 3 and 4.
2. Read Chapters 5 and 6.
3. Writing response:
Discuss the title "A Complicated Kindness" How does it apply to the story/characters so far? How do you interpret "complicated kindness"? Do you have an experience that could labelled a complicated kindness?
(due tomorrow)
- no thesis/theme statements necessary - may take the style of a journal response
**Tomorrow: Quiz chapters 1-6 (review blog & class notes)

Psychology 11
Module 6
1. Hand in letter.
2. Review answers for 6-3.
3. Finish module 6 reading.
4. 6-7, 6-9 (Finish for homework).
*Begin Section 4 Paragraph for Snapshot Project - research theories/theorists* [Tomorrow: library research].
**Module 6 Quiz: Monday**


English 10E
To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Hand in two journals.
2. Read chapter 20.
3. Complete questions.
4. Film adaptation
*Tomorrow: Chapter 19/20 Quiz.*

English 12
A Complicated Kindness
1. Discussion: Chapters 1 and 2.
2. Read Chapters 3 and 4.
Points to Consider:
A. What does Ray's declaration of "living quietly with [his] disappointments" tell the reader about his character? 
B. How could talk about music "test" someone's "potential"?  Do teenager you know judge other

     teenagers by the music they listen to?

C. How is the description "little islands of grief" successful in describing Nomi and her father?
D. Why would Nomi's father "resent vegetables for prolonging his life"?

Notes:

Naomi - Bible

The Book of Ruth is one of two in the Hebrew Bible that bears a woman’s name (the other is Esther). Ruth depicts the struggles of Naomi and Ruth for survival in a patriarchal environment. Though the story takes its name from the younger woman, the older is the dominant character. Naomi’s plight shapes the narrative, and her plan brings it to resolution.

Scene one (1:1–22) opens with a famine that sends a Judean family across the Jordan to Moab, a foreign land. In introducing the family, the storyteller subordinates Naomi to the man Elimelech. She is “his wife,” and their children are “his sons” (1:1–2) (emphasis added). But his death changes the situation. He becomes “the husband of Naomi,” and she is “left with her two sons” (1:3) (emphasis added). They marry Moabite wives, Oprah and Ruth, but die without progeny. So Naomi shrinks again. From wife to widow, from mother to no-mother, this woman is stripped of all identity.

Feminist assessments of Naomi diverge widely, depending often upon the cultural, social, ideological, and experiential biases of readers. A sampling includes the following: Naomi is a cipher for male values that find fulfillment for women in marriage and children. In contrast to the loss of status for childless widows in patriarchy, Naomi achieves importance as a mother-in-law and an independent character. Naomi is an overbearing, interfering, and domineering mother-in-law. Naomi is a caring, gracious, and altruistic mother-in-law. Naomi the Judean rejects Ruth (and Oprah) because she is a Moabite. Naomi embraces Ruth the Moabite within the family of Judah. Naomi and Ruth are rivals, with Naomi eventually achieving the greater prestige. Naomi and Ruth are friends, indeed sister like, each seeking the good of the other in a world over which they have little control. Naomi schemes, connives, and manipulates. Naomi plans, reflects, and executes. Naomi is an embittered old woman who denounces God for her troubles but fails to thank the deity when she recovers. Naomi is a profound figure of faith who experiences God as enemy but then wrestles blessing from adversity. All such disparate judgments attest to Naomi’s commanding, if ambiguous, presence in one of the few biblical stories focused on women.

Psychology 11Module 61. Review p. 108-109.
2. Complete 6-3 in-class.
3. Homework: Complete 6-5 Letter (due tomorrow).

English10E
To Kill a Mockingbird1. Chapter 16-18 Quiz.
2. Read Chapter 19, complete questions.
3. Homework: #1 from Journal 7 topics (two journals due tomorrow).