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 Thursday (9/11)
HOMEWORK DUE
September 11:
TEST ON "THE BEGINNINGS OF THE AMERICAN TRADITION"
(the Puritan chapter and the Revolution chapter)
[*The Scarlet Letter pretest on the 15th]
HOMEWORK DUE
September 15:
Pre-quiz on THE SCARLET LETTER
*If you were absent, see me THE DAY YOU RETURN to take your make-up prequiz. You cannot participate in class discussion until you've taken it.
HOMEWORK DUE
September 17:
QUIZ on Agreement
Answer questions 1-23 on THE SCARLET LETTER.
HOMEWORK DUE
September 19:
Answer questions 24-44 on THE SCARLET LETTER.
HOMEWORK DUE
September 23:
Finish questions on THE SCARLET LETTER.
HOMEWORK DUE
September 25:
Review on THE SCARLET LETTER
(Discussion part of TSL test will be Monday, September 29th.) *IF YOU WERE ABSENT ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 23rd, come by my room when you return to school to pick up the review sheet.
HOMEWORK DUE
September 29:
Discussion part of test on THE SCARLET LETTER
HOMEWORK DUE
October 1st: NONE :)
HOMEWORK DUE
October 3: None
HOMEWORK DUE
October 8:
1st and 2nd periods - 1st 9 wks test (The Scarlet Letter and modifiers)
4th period - no homework
****ALL CLASSES*** Bring textbooks Wednesday!!!!
HOMEWORK DUE
October 10:
1st and 2nd periods -
Look up new vocabulary words (termagant, avarice, usurer, extort, ostentation, parsimony).
Read "The Devil and Tom Walker" (pp184-192).
Answer questions under "Analyzing Literature" on p. 193.
4th period - 9 wks test (above assignment will be due
on Tuesday, October 14th)
HOMEWORK DUE
October 14th:
ALL classes should have the above assignment on "Tom Walker" (read, look up voc., and answer questions) as well as the questions on "Thanatopsis" done (with visual for group presentation).
HOMEWORK DUE
October 20:
Look up vocabulary (importunate, munificent, equivocal, appellation, paradoxical, specious, aomalous, sentience). Read "The Fall of the House of Usher." According to groups (the same as for "Thanatopsis" assignment), answer the following study questions:
A - Discuss the theme of illusion vs. reality in the story.
B - Discuss "The Haunted Palace" (poem within the story) as an allegory of the human mind.
C - Discuss symbolism throughout the story.
D - Discuss connections between the house and the family, the narrator and the family, and Roderick and Madeline specifically.
HOMEWORK DUE
October 22:
TEST on "A Growing Nation"
Study vocabulary, literary terms, notes on the period, notes on the authors, and the selections.
HOMEWORK DUE
October 24:
Pretest on Ethan Frome
Bring your paperbacks; you do NOT have to bring the red literature book!
HOMEWORK DUE
October 28:
Answer study questions 1-18 on Ethan Frome.
HOMEWORK DUE
October 30:
Finish answering study questions on Ethan Frome.
TEST on Ethan Frome is Monday.
HOMEWORK DUE
November 3:
TEST on Ethan Frome
Bring literature books Monday.
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