Homework due Monday, August 11:
- Bring back signed papers.
- Bring LIFE OF PI; be prepared to share your ideas
about the book.
[*Summer reading projects are due Wednesday, Aug.
13.]
Homework due Wednesday, August 13:
- ALL summer reading projects
- Quiz on HUCK FINN
HW due Friday, August 15:
- Quiz on OUR TOWN
HW due Tuesday, August 19:
- Quiz on THE UNVANQUISHED
HW due Thursday, August 21:
- NONE :)
HW due Monday, August 25:
Look up vocabulary (loath, lusty, sundry).
Read excerpt from OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION.
Identify and write about three incidents that take place in Bradford's account that he would consider PROVIDENCE.
HW due Wednesday, August 27:
Look up vocabulary (omnipotent, ineffable, dolorous).
Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Identify TWO examples for EACH of the following figures of speech found in the sermon:
personification
metaphor
simile
HW due Friday, August 29:
Look up vocabulary (approbation, arduous, avarice, disposition, foppery).
Read excerpt from B.Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY (p.110)
Be prepared for a quiz on the AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
*Quiz on Agreement next Wednesday (9/3)
Friday, August 29:
Today in class we did Lesson #7 on Agreement (Posttest)
Quiz on Agreement will be next Wednesday - If you want to check out a grammar book for review, come by after school, but you must return it by 1st period Wednesday morning so that my 1st period can use them to review.
I gave a quiz on Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
I gave out notes on the Revolutionary Period and Ben Franklin, and we went over them.
We discussed the AUTOBIOGRAPHY and POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. Make sure if you were absent that you come by and pick up the handouts (notes) AND that you get any other notes that the students took from someone you trust from your class.
1st period read and discussed "Huswifery," and
2nd period presented the group activity (Puritan journals).
HW: No written work, but you do have a QUIZ on Agreement.
HOMEWORK DUE
September 5:
No Homework, but for a bonus on your unit test:
Watch a speech from the Republican National Convention;
Summarize it;
Critique it (identify at least two examples of literary devices that he/she use(s) AND agree or disagree with something said).
HOMEWORK DUE
September 8:
"Roots" project
Unit test next Thursday (9/11)
****IMPORTANT DATES:
9/11 - Test on "The Beginnings of the American Tradition"
9/15 - Prequiz on THE SCARLET LETTER (That means have it read by then)
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