1. Welcome to 2 nd semester. Please find your name on the seating chart, pick up a syllabus, and locate your assigned seat.

2. Look to your elbow partner (to the right, left, front or behind you) and introduce yourself. You have two minutes to get to know them and ask them the following questions: 1. What is something unusual about you that most people would not know? 2. What are your plans for after high school (college? Have you committed to a school?)

3. We are checking out The Hot Zone @ 10:15. Look over Reading Schedule and Assignment. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=The+H ot+Zone+Richard+Preston&Form=VQFRVP#view =detail&mid=7C0A0F0DE7E0DD769B347C0A0F0 DE7E0DD769B34

4. On the corner of your desk is a number. That is the assigned number to that desk – please pick up textbook. Using the Cornell note model read and take notes  I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND IDEAS OF THE AGE  A. The Reign of Charles II (p. 563)  B. Royalty and the People (pp. 564–565)  C. The Age of Reason (pp. 565–566)  II. LITERATURE OF THE TIMES  A. Social Observers (pp. 567–568)  B. Satirical Voices (pp. 568–569)  C. The Age of Johnson (pp. 569–570)  D. The Rise of Women Writers (pp. 570–571)

5. We will be discussing the notes next class period. Your notes need to be completed and ready to turn in next class.

6. Syllabus signed Restoration Notes – we will be reviewing and discussing The Hot Zone – reading 3-47 questions 1-9 in your reading journals.

7. Reflect on the learning targets for today. Do you feel you met the targets?  Students will be exposed to other cultures and time periods, quality literature and effective/varied writing styles  Students will begin to understand key facts that influenced and developed literature  Students will write effectively in expository mode to examine/analysis a complex idea 1. What is one thing that you completed or learned today that you found interesting? 2. What is one thing that you feel you can improve in future classes?