Classwork for Friday, December 4th (A) and Monday, December 5th (B)
Draw a city.
Give your city all five senses.
List 7 inanimate objects.
Now explain how they can each have revenge.
Read "The City"
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CLasswork for Wednesday, December 2nd (A) and Thursday, December 3rd (B)
Watch a martian attack on youtube and describe in one page using the
rhetorical devices we have studied.
What are 5 archetypes of a martian attack?
Draw an original looking spaceship.
Read "The Concrete Mixer" list 6 examples of satire.
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Classwork for Monday, November 30th (A) and Tuesday, December 1st (B)
We took a quiz over the stories we have read thus far in "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN"
Please see me.
Read "THE FOX AND THE FOREST" and complete the work posted under the homework
icon.
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CLasswork for Monday, November 21st (A) and Tuesday, November 22nd (B)
Draw an "illustrated" turkey.
List 3 cliches you will hear over Thanksgiving.
Write one paragraph from a turkey's POV as POE or BRaDburY
Read "The Last night of the World"
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Classwork for Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th (B)
SIX week test over SKILLS.
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Classwork for Tuesday, November 17th (A) and Wednesday, November 18th (B)
We reviewed for our SKILLS test. You will be expected to take upon your
return.
On your paper draw rain.
List three films with a man vs. nature conflict.
List three songs with "rain" in the title.
Read the first half or all of "The Long Rain".
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Classwork for Friday, November 13th (A) and Monday, November 16th (B)
We read page one of THE ROAD and completed #1-8. Please see me for a copy.
We read "THE MAN" and answered the four questions on the homework link.
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Classwork for Wednesday, November 11th (A) and Thursday, November 12 (B)
Take 6 question PSAT sample.
List 5 films about racism.
Find one quote you like by Martin Luther King.
Read "The Other Foot" and explain how the following 6 phrases are used in the
story. For 7-9 use personal connections.
1) "Lynch"
2) "Bring the paint."
3) "No intermarriages!"
4) "Like marionettes on a single string"
5) "five hundred thousand people"
6) "The time for being fools is over."
Personal connections to the story - Answer question related to yourself, not
the story.
7) "I'm just feeling mean." Describe a time when you felt the same.
8) "You're making a mob." When does a mob make things worse?
9) Explain how this story compares to another film or story based on
discrimination or civil rights.
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Classwork for Monday, November 9th (A) and Tuesday, November 10th (B)
Read "the veldt" - tattoo one.
Answer the following:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology?
How are you desensitized?
Make a venn diagram out of pieces of technology comparing your family to
the "Hadleys"
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Classwork for Wedneday, Novermber 4th (B) and Thursday, November 5th (A)
Draw a RAVEN and read "The Raven". Google it or go to POE website.
As you read write down four quotes you find the most difficult and provide
the best interpretation you can.
Draw a WHALE and search for lyrics or youtube version of "THE MARINER'S
REVENGE SONG" by the Decemberists. Listen to the song and summarize.
Also find the following rhetorical devices:
alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, personification, infinitive phrase,
participial phrase, pun , cliche, and prepositional phrase.
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Classwork for Monday, November 2nd (B) and Tuesday, November 3rd (A)
Draw a grim reaper.
List 10 titles with "red" in them....Red Bull.
List 5 reasons those with wealth might have a longer life span.
Read "The Masque of the Red Death" (google it) and as you read identify 10
difficult words to write around your grim reaper.
Also as you read find 3 quotes you understand and 3 you do not. For the
three you don't try to interptet the best you can.
Once finished write a 1/2 page description as POE doing a simple household
chore.
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Classwork for Thursday (A), October 29th and Friday (B)
October 30th
I. Draw a MONSTER on one piece of paper for ten minutes. Keep adding eyes,
teeth, ect. Once done, describe your monster in enought detail that someone
can draw your monster exactly using only your description.
II. List 10 "punny" costumes. Make puns for costumes: cereal killer, green
with NV, or hot potato.
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Classwork for Tuesday (B), October 27th and WEd (A), October 28th
TAKS BENCHMARK - See me.
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Classwork for Friday (B), October 23rd and MOnday, October 26th (A)
I. We read "The Cask of Amontillado" p. 209
Draw a WALL and cover it with difficult words from the story.
List two films with a plot only of REVENGE.
List three ways you can insult someone without insulting them.
For each page illustrate ONE quote you find challenging (not the easy ones)
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Classtoil for Wednesday, October 21st (B) and Thursday (A), October 22nd
We handed out portfolios and made corrections on six week test.
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Classwork for Monday (B) and Tuesday (A)
Six week test taken. 60 multiple choice and three short answer
See me for make-up date.
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Classwork for Thursday (B day) and Friday (A day)
We collected work for second grade of six weeks.
Reviewed for our test over skills and vocabulary.
Write a six line poem about cheese and use 3 rhetorical devices.
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Classwork for Wednesday (PSAT and princeton review)
4th period helped with review. Classes switched days.
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Classwork for Friday, October 9th (A) and Tuesday, October 13th (B)
1) Complete quiz over ANIMAL FARM #1-10 (20 points)
2) Write three thematic statenments about three different characters in
Animal Farm. Example: The cat - Apathy wins the respect of no one.
3) Using the objects around your house, build a free-standing windmill that
spins.
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Classwork for Wednesday, October 7th (A) and Thursday, October 8th (B)
1) List your favorite FAIRY TALE and explain what the theme is without using
a cliche.
2) PSAT practice test (1-4) Provide a quote or support for each of your
answers.
3) Define contemptuously, pension, procure, indignant
4) Define and give and example of anaphora, epistrophe, polysyndeton, and
asyndeton
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Classwork for Monday, October 5th (A) and Tuesday, October 6th (B)
1) Take PSAT eight question practice test. See me.
2) Find any piece of arT and explain thoroughly its connection to ANIMAL FARM.
3) We collected our first grade for the six weeks. Copy what is below and
turn in all related assignments:
Week one on the Farm
Classwork
5 - Notes in composition book AND you HAVE an ANIMAL FARM book and COMP BOOK
10 – Fallen hierarchy (5), leader anointed, “challenging” students defining
euphemism (5)
10 – CHAPTER III - #1-11 (hidden metaphors in front of your face)
5 – “Self-Pity” – Interpret quote, define orator but don’t give a speech
about it, built SYMBA, I mean SYMBOL, PLEASANTVILLE scene titles to our farm
10 – PSAT pre-test (1-8 – 8 points plus 5 extra credit possible for barn.)
Homework
5 - Orwell OR Stalin facts (+3 for both)
10 - Chapter I DA VINCI elyts
10 - Chapter II - Find 7 metaphors of society within a novel of talking
animals.
15 - Chapter IV – 4 illustrations (5), 4 metaphors (5), and propaganda
examples (5)
15 - Chapter V – Government and society connections with quotes churned in…
5 - Chapter VI - The pigs spin FOUR bad things into GOOD.
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Classwork for Thursday, October 1st (A) and Friday, October 2nd (B)
We read a book called FARM ANIMALS. It is a must read. See me.
Write a 1/2 page on your thoughts on the following quote:
"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen
from a bough without ever feeling sorry for itself."
Define orator, shrewd, satire, and rhetoric
Make 5 connections between the 37 scene titles from "PLEASANTVILLE" to the
novel ANIMAL FARM.
Build a symbol from ANIMAL FARM using only the materials in your backpack.
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Classwork for Tuesday, September 27th (A) and Wednesday, September 28th (B)
For each of the following explain how they connect to the chapter and to
society.
1) “toil”
2) “not actually work”
3) “the admiration of everybody”
4) “never be found”
5) “slow obstinate way”
6) “never think of any resolutions”
7) “committees”
8) “literate”
9) “a single maxim”
10) “they accepted his explanation”
11) “reserved for the pigs alone”
The following are notes we took on different forms of propaganda: Copy into
your composition book when able:
Bandwagon - join the rest...4 out of 5 dentist use this floss
Testimonial - famous spokesman who most likely does not eat Taco Bell
Transfer - take positive feelings you have towards a symbol and connect to
their product..."TEXAS TRUCK"
Plain folks - everyday people just like YOU can use it...The "wondermop" is
easy to assemble and even easier to use.
Name calling - mudslinging; companies and/or politicians insult each
other...He's not even American!
glittering generalities - important "sounding" yet unspecific claims about a
product. "new", "limited time", "sale", "100% off"
card stacking - only the favorable facts and figures are presented...side
effects may vary, watery eyes, bloody nose, amnesia, inflamed lungs,
headaches, back spasms...
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Classwork for Friday, September 25th (A) and Monday, September 26th (B)
Go to library and check out copy of George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
In your composition book complete the following:
Page 1 - Write a list of the writing strategies we have studied thus far.
Provide an example where applicable.
Page 2 - Write a speech inspiring a revolution in school. Students over
teachers. Use at least TWO strategies from the previous page.
Page 3 - Write 7 commandments you would like passed in school.
Define: propaganda, sloth, gluttony, euphemism, and allegory
*See homework icon for assignments related to chapters I and II of Animal
Farm.
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Classwork for Wednesday, September 23rd (A) and Thursday, September 24th (B)
We turned in summer reading projects and collected work for week 3. We also
completed a Stephen King writing activity. See me for assignment.
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Classwork for Monday, September 21st (A) and Tuesday, September 22nd (B)
Complete six week test and create portfolio.
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Classwork for Thursday, September 17th (A) and Friday, September 18th (B)
Six week test. See me for make-up dates.
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Classwork for Tuesday, September 15th (A) and Wednesday, September 16 (B)
We reviewed for our six week test. See me for a review.
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Classwork for Friday, September 11th (A) and Monday, September 14th (B)
I)Write one paragraph describing a time when they put themselves at risk or
other people who have. Try present tense rather than “One time”
This is worse than any ride. Machu Picchu’s highest point, the acme of fear.
No trail. No steps. I wish I only had butterflies. My throat clutches. I
kiss my wife goodbye and for the first time, feel like I will never see her
again. I creep like a student to class towards the mountain. It’s not a
mountain. It’s a wall.
II)Draw a MOUNTAIN on your paper and look at the words on p. 538. Write the
easy ones at the bottom and define and the more difficult ones at the top.
Define as you read.
Read “INTO THIN AIR” – pgs. 539-546.
Annotations:
Question - What question do you have?
Diction - What word choice do you like do not understand?
Visualize- Provide an illustration from a unique point of view
Connection-/ Make one connection from events on
the page to life, or yourself, or to a movie, or history, or anything you
think of.
Summarize - What happened? I started to think about something else.
Figurative language or rhetorical devices
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Classwork for Wednesday, September 9th (A) and Thursday, September 10th (B)
I. We took a common assessment over "Most Dangerous Game"
II. We collected our week two toil and graded.
III. Write a paragraph "parody" of "The Most Dangerous Game"
IV. I showed an example on the night's writing assignment.
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Classwork for Friday, September 4th (A) and Tuesday, September 8th (B)
I. Complete reading "The Most Dangerous Game"
II. Choose a song you think would make a good soundtrack for the story and
explain. Provide a few lyrics.
III. Identify 5 deleted scenes.
IV. Compare Zaroff to a popscicle.
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Classwork for Wednesday, September 2nd (A) and Thursday, September 3rd (B)
I. We collected our first grade of the year. Please turn in all work upon
your return.
II. List 5 films you consider to have a good chase scene. What are 3
archetypes of a good one.
III. Write a brief idea for a film intitled "THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME"
IV. Look at the vocabulary preview on p.38. List and define 5 of the words
you already know.
V. After reading the first two pages identify the back story and also an
example of what you consider clever writing.
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Classwork for Monday, August 31st (A) and Tuesday, September 1st (B)
I. We edited the final draft of writing sample. Complete the following
using your sample:
Make certain you have a clever title. Find the words got, get, and that in
your paper and substitute a stronger word. Circle two examples of strong
diction or word choice. Underline any transitions you used. Find your
shortest sentence and write down the number of words it is.
II. We completed a diagnostic reading test. See me for makeup times.
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Classwork for Thursday, August 27th (A) and Friday, August 28th (B)
I. Set your notebook up or create some orginizational means.
II. Go throught the alphabet (A-Z) and write down the most sophisticated
word you know for that letter.
III. See the "literary elements" related to the summer reading assignment
and provide two examples of each.
IV. We collected letter for parents and also facts you found on the website.
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Classwork for Tuesday, August 25th (A) and Wednsday, August 26th (B)
I. Pick up class "guideline" sheet.
II. List three original things about yourself.
III. Draw anything you want for 5 minutes, then explain how
your illustration is symbolic of you.
IV. Explain what you think Socrates meant when he said, "The genius sees 10
diffent things while the average man sees only one."
Find ANY object in your houese and list 10 different things it could be.
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Classwork for Friday, May 22nd (A) and Tuesday, May 23rd (B)
Draw the sirens, scylla, and charybdis from Book XII based on their
description.
As you read stop every page providing similary comments as Book X.
When complete, look at the questions at the end of the chapter and respond to
the easiest one.
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Classwork for May 20th Wednesday (A) and May 21st Thursday (B)
Book X from THE ODYSSEY
Draw the wind King "Aeolus", a cannibal or laestrygonian, and a beautiful
witch or "Circe"
Read Book X and stop every page providing a comment, summary, interpretation,
drawing, question, or prediction.
When complete identify 2 elements of Book X which are symbolic of our society
today.
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Classwork for May 12th, Thursday (A) and May 19th, Tuesday (B)
We collected work for DPS and Odyssey summaries Books 1-8.
/20 Poetry square, Captain, Virgins, Whitman Poem, CARPE DIEM
/15 “Lives of quite desperation” “Only in their dreams are men truly
free”, 8 ¼ mile/Thoreau
/15 Poem on wall, “Song of Myself”, PUCK, and your own “song of myself”
/10 Simplify.
/10 Odyssey mini-van
/30 Odyssey Books I-VIII summaries (2 events and 2 quotes to support)
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Book IX of ODYSSEY
1) Draw a cyclops and give him a cool t-shirt slogan.
2) List 3 advantanges of being a cyclops.
3) Read Book 1 and Book 9 from your literature book.
For each page make one annotation, comment, question, defnition, picture, or
whatever you want to prove you read the book.
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Classwork for Tuesday, May 10th (A) and Wednesday, May 11th (B)
Took Sample AP test in class over books II and IV of THE ODYSSEY.
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Classwork for Friday, May 8th (A) and Monday, May 9th (B)
We turned in annotations and lesson plan ideas.
Completed first 1/2 of novel test in class.
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Classwork for Wednesday, May 6th (A) and Thursday, May 7th (B)
Read a poem from the wall in class and complete the following:
1) Write title and author
2) Provide your interpretation of the poem or purpose.
3) Write down your favorite line.
4) Provide one rhetorical device used.
Read "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
1) What line do you like best?
2) What line is the most difficult? Try to tranlsate.
3) Spend 15 minutes writing YOUR own version of "Song of Myself"
“Song of Myself” – Walt Whitman
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains
of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fiber your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Read the following excerpt from PUCK and respond to questions which follow:
Neil as Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
PUCK
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Puck makes horse sounds and the audience laughs.
PUCK
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I
bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest
tale,
In the audience, Charlie leans over towards Keating.
CHARLIE
(whispering)
He's good. He's really good.
Keating gives a thumbs up.
PUCK
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh
me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples
she,
And "tailor" cries, and falls into a
cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips
and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and
swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
But, room, Fairy! here comes Oberon.
Soliloquy spoken TO the audience at the end of a crazy plot similar to Taming
of the Shrew
PUCK
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
1) What tricks does Puck play?
2) What does “waxen in their mirth” mean?
3) What is Puck saying to the audience?
4) What is the “serpent’s tongue” a metaphor for?
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Classwork for Monday, May 4th (A) and Tuesday, May 5th (B)
Choose one of the following quotes and write your choice of a prose (normal
writing) or poetry response. Should be one page in lenght and use elevated
language and thought.
“Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I’ll show you a happy
man.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Only in their dreams can men be truly free.” - Keating
“Most men live lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
Summarize the following passages as to what YOU think is the importance or
meaning:
1) HENRY DAVID THOREAU – WALDEN
Where I Lived and What I lived For
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to
live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice
resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck
out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to
rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive
life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to
be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish
its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience,
and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
2) Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or
three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a
dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this
chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands
and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he
would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead
reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify,
simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one;
instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.
3) Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson – “Ulysses” or Latin for Odysseus.
Come my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world
for my purpose holds to sail beyond the
sunset.
And though we are not now that strength
which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we
are, we are;--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong
in will.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield.
Also write in two minutes (8 mile style) a poem about your favorite color.
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Classwork for Wed, Thur, and Friday
We collected work for the week, so please turn in what you have done upon
return
Draw a box and write POETRY in the middle.
Outside of the box respond to the following:
1) What are your thoughts on poetry?
2) List poems you remember.
3) List any terminology you know related to poetry.
4) List poets you are familiar with.
Read "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman (You can find online) and "To
the Virgins, Make Much of Time" by Robbert Herrick
For EACH STANZA (7) Write down choose to write ONE of the following:
illustration, question, interpretation, comment, or annotation
What does Carpe Diem or "seize the day" mean to you? Do not say "live life
to the fullest" or "live everyday like it was your last"
Answer the following:
List 3 differences between private and public school.
What problems would private school students face that might be different than
others.
Search on YOUTUBE for Dead Poets Society and watch intro or first 15 minutes.
Describe five of the characters.
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Classwork - Friday and MOnday (4/24 and 4/27,28)
Writing assignment was to write a speech on how women should treat men or
vise/versa.
We read the end of the play, Act V, scene i and ii. For scene i, see me and
for scene ii read and answer the following:
1) What are the other doing to Petrucio to begin the scene?
2) What wager does Petrucio make?
3) Who wins?
4) Find 3 points Kate makes in her speech about women treating men.
Answer on your own and mix in a quote. You can turn in whenever you want due
to circumstances.
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Classwork - Wednesday and Thursday (4/22 and 4/23 shakespeare's b-day)
We collected work for the week and read Act IV, scenes 3,4, and 5.
See me for scene 4 script and for scene 3 and 5; read and list 3 ways from
each scene Pertucio tries to manipulate or "tame" Kate. Use a quote to
support your idea.
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Classtoil - Monday and Tuesday (4/20 and 4/21)
List 5 words (some of them big words) you would use to describe a wedding.
Describe your idea of a perfect wedding day in the present tense. (as if it
is happening)
Once you have written about three sentences, imagine an obnoxious, irreverent
person has arrived late and lewd. Describe his or her actions.
Read the wedding scene...Act III, scene ii and respond to the four questions
on the website. Use quotes as your answer where applicable.
Watch any youtube version of the "wedding scene"
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Classtoil - Thursday and Friday
Day 2 of Writing "gooder" and Shrew (Act I and II)
Go to "links" icon and search for two sentences to imitate yourself. You can
write on any subject you like.
See me for make-up quiz over Act I, scene ii
Read the beginning of Act II and explain what happens before Petrucio meets
Kate mixing at least 5 quotes into your answer.
Also read the exchange between Kate and Petrucio. Identify three PUNS which
are used and at least two insults by KATE.
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Classtoil - Monday and Tuesday
DAy One of Writing and SHrew
Writing and Taming of the Shrew
Watch youtube clip of Walk the Line - "one song"
List 12 strong adjectives.
Rewrite question #1 from our TAKS test 3 different ways.
Copy Shrew vocabulary from the board or under "vocab" icon.
Read Intro, scene ii and Act I, scene i
Find at least one line you think is kind of funny and
explain what happens backwards.
Watch youtube clip of Taming of the Shrew intro
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SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT
1) Your first assignment relates to the book you chose for summer reading:
Create, draw, build ANYTHING that would represent your book. Try and have
the title (underlined) somewhere, but if not possible, OK. Avoid
collages.
2) The second part of the assignment is to identify elements of a story you
might already know or we learned the first day. Please identify these on a
separate sheet of paper and they should be typed. You may use any font you
wish, but please make it all fit on one page.
1) Title / Author
2) Genre (division of literature)
3) Protagonist (good guy)
4) Antagonist (major source of conflict)
5) Back Story (events which occur before the story begins)
6) Internal conflict (conflict within / any decision a character makes)
7) External conflict (man vs. man, man vs. nature / Ex. "The Perfect Storm")
8) Foil Character (character on the same side of protagonist, yet a contrast)
or a "sidekick"
9) Mentor Character (main character relies on for advice / Ex. OB1)
10) Archetype (a traditional structure or characteristic the author uses)
11) Subplot (a minor plot intertwined within the major)
12) Theme (a central message in the story)
13) Foreshadowing (clues to upcoming events)
14) Choose one song you would have on this novel's soundtrack. Briefly
explain why it relates. Provide the lyrics which relate the most.
15) Choose one “quote” from the book and explain how it relates to the
beginning, middle, and end.
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PRE-AP / TAG - 10th Grade Summer Reading List
Each student MUST read ONE of the following three books listed below as the
summer reading requirement.
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Once and Future King by T.H. White
Poinonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
When reading keep in mind the following: theme, conflict, point of view,
and characterization.
Also you MUST read HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR by Thomas C.
Foster.
THIS MATERIAL WILL BE ASSESSED THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL.
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9th Grade Summer Reading List
All incoming freshmen should continue to read throughout the summer. (Think
of it like the marathon. If you don’t train, you will have trouble reaching
the finish line next year.) Please read at least one novel from the list
below. It is suggested you read an online summary of the novel if you
aren’t sure which one to choose. Please do not read the same book you have
already read in the past or assume that if you read one before, you don’t
need to read this summer. Please choose wisely in finding something that
you enjoy, but that is not too easy. These novels vary greatly in length
and difficulty.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
Rain of Gold Victor E. Villasenor
Monster Walter Dean Meyers
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Chronicles of Narnia (the entire series)C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
Child Called It David Pelzer
Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
9th Grade Pre-AP Summer Reading Lists
It is expected that you read at least 3 novels this summer. (Think of it
like the marathon. If you don’t train, you will have trouble reaching the
finish line next year.) You will need to make sure each novel is on a
different list from those below. It is suggested you read an online summary
of the novel if you aren’t sure which one to choose. Please do not read the
same book you have already read in the past or assume that if you read some
of these before, you don’t need to read this summer.
Children’s Classics Everyone Should Read
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle
The Incredible Journey Sheila Burnford
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Harry Potter series J.K Rowling
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Arabian Nights Antoine Galland
The Princess Bride William Goldman
Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
Le Morte D'Arthur Thomas Malory
Multicultural Literature
Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Red Azalea Anchee Min
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Color Purple Alice Walker
Rain of Gold Victor E. Villasenor
Life of Pi Yann Martel
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Classic Canon (Books you should read before heading off to college)
Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Student Recommended (9th grade students 2007-2008)
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
Always Running Luis Rodriguez
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Piers Paul Read
Watchers Dean R. Koontz
Twilight Stephen Meyer
Child Called It David Pelzer
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
Rainbow High Alex Sanchez
Friday Night Lights H.G. Bissinger
Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney
Into Thin Air John Krakauer
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
Make-up for Monday (3/31 and 4/1)
TAKS benchmark essay
Make-up for Thursday (2/27) and Friday (2/28)
We read our poems and completed TAKS editing test. (20 questions)
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Make-up for Monday (3/17 - B day) and Tuesday (3/18 - A day)
1. List 8 titles with "green" in them. Ex. "Green Day"
2. List 8 things that are green other than trees, grass, and reptiles.
3. Write an 8 line poem about the color green.
4. Using ANY poem from the Literature book complete the following:
a. "Title" of poem in quotation marks
b. author
c. purpose of poem?
d. best line?
e. example of good diction
f. example of "poetic" syntax
g. draw an illustration of your poem
5. Complete assignment #4 using the poem "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt
Whitman. It is a poem about Abraham Lincoln. Find online.
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Thursday (B) and Friday (A)
Romeo and Juliet test
Monday (A) and Tuesday (B)
Collected work and Romeo and Juliet review.
Thursday (2/28) and Friday (2/29)
First 20 pages of novel summary
TAKS practice test (1-12)
and short answer
Tuesday (2/26) and Wednesday (2/27)
Read and complete the following for ACT V
Act V
“O, mischief, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men.”
1. Interpret, “There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, doing
more murder in this loathsome world than these poor compounds that thou
mayst not sell.”
2. Draw apothecary shop with at least 5 characteristics labeled.
3. Provide one quote which reveals the reason Friar John did not send
letter to Romeo.
Scene iii – the finale
4. Translate instruction and threat Romeo gives Balthasar.
5. How does Romeo try to persuade Paris not to fight him?
6. From Romeo’s monologue, draw 3 lines literally.
7. What does Romeo mean by “shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”?
8. Why does Juliet call Romeo a “churl”?
9. Find a line which shows Capulet and Montague “make-up”. A bit too
late of course.
10. Translate the Prince’s final speech to the families word for word.
Friday (2/22) and Monday (2/25)
Read Act IV and related work. See me for handouts please.
Wednesday (2/20) and Thursday (2/21)
AP test over Romeo and Juliet.
See Mrs. Edwards for a copy.
Monday (2/18) and Tuesday (2/19)
Open book quiz over Act III, scene v
See Mrs. Edwards for a copy.
Thursday (2/14) and Friday (2/15)
We collected work for final grade of the six weeks. If absent I will add to
this six weeks when I return.
Also, read Act III, scenes ii and iii.
Respond to the following:
1) What confusion is there at the beginning of the scene?
2) Find one oxymoron Juliet uses to describe Romeo. What effect does it
have? Do not simply say he is "two faced".
3) Find one line of hyperbole used by Juliet to describe the exile of Romeo.
scene iii
4) What does Romeo mean by his description of banishment and the "golden
axe"?
5) How does Romeo use hyperbole to describe his punishment?
We acted out the fight scene as well, but you do not need to make up.
Tuesday (A) 2/12 and Wednesday (B) 2/13
AP sample #1-8 (see me) and Valentine for mother created imitating
Shakespeare. Also read final two scenes of Act II. Read and interpret 3
lines each.
For Friday and Monday we read the "Balcony scene" and completed 1-15 in our
composition notebooks. Please see me if absent.
In class Wednesday, February 6th (A) and Thursday, February 7th (B)
"Changing the channel" - Complete 1-4 (see me for handout)
Read Romeo and Juliet Act I, scenes iv and v (4 and 5)
I. For act 4 find 3 lines showing Romeo is depressed and draw Queen Mab
based on Mercutio's description. Use 5 quotes from his speech.
II. For act 5 choose 5 lines from 5 different characters and interpret.
Begin reading when Romeo first sees Juliet.
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In class Monday, February 4th (A) and Tuesday, February 5th (B)
Choose one of the following topics and write 5-7 sentences varying sentence
beginnings.
TOPIC I - Is love decided by fate or choice? Explain.
Topic II - Describe the best love story you have read or seen (real or
fictional).
Topic III - "The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be
loved in return. " - Moulin Rouge
Read Act I, scene i and ii from Romeo and Juliet.
Provide the most important quote from each character (who acts in these
scenes only) and explain why you chose it.
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Classwork for Thursday, January 31st (A) and Friday, February 1st
We completed test as needed and also the following in our composition book:
Imitate the following below in your COMPOSITION BOOK. Please label as you
imitate the stucture of each sentence.
1. Subject alone - John drove his car.
2. Article and subject - The children are playing.
3. Adjective and subject - Small birds flit about the trees.
4. Adverb before the subject - Quickly we ran for shelter.
5. Prepositional phrase first - In the window, the apples looked larger.
6. Present participial phrase first - Taking a short-cut, the boy soon
reached the fair grounds.
7. Past participial phrase - Finished with his lessons, he went to play
tennis.
8. Absolute phrase - His work completed, he went to bed.
9. Infinitive as subject - To win is difficult.
10. Gerund as subject (-ing verb as a noun) - Swimming has become his
favorite sport.
11. Adverbial clause - When the plane landed the pilot wearily climbed out.
12. Postponed subject - There are in that recipe six ingredients.
13. Noun clause first - How he could avoid doing his chores puzzled the
boy.
14. Verb first - Gone are the people who believed such superstitions.
15. Conjunction first - But the last was the best.
16. Object first - The veto, the senators acclaimed.
17. Interjection - What! We have no food for lunch?
18. Transition - In fact, we had to postpone the party.
19. Predicate adjective first - Calm was the night.
20. Introductory phrase first - In Dallas, wearthe weighs heavily upon
everyone.
*WE ALSO COMPLETED #1-7 from "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
See me for a copy.
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Classwork for Tuesday, January 29th (A) and Wednesday, January 30th (B)
TEST OVER MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1-80 and short answer)
Classwork for Friday, January 25th (A) and Monday, January 28th (B)
We simply reviewed for test. Study as needed.
Classwork for Wednesday, January 23rd (A) and Thursday, January 24th (B)
1) Write your own story in which you involve THREE different plots. #1 -
lovers, #2 - actors, and #3 - supernatural characters.
2) Read Act V and provide a summary using 5 quotes.
Classwork for Friday, January 18th, and Tuesday, January 22nd.
See me for Act IV in 4.
Classwork for Wednesday, January 16th and Thursday< January 17th
Collected work for the week and completed #1-8 from "Dream". See me for
handout please.
Classwork for Monday, January 14th and Tuesday, January 15th
Mr. Chalk – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
Act II, scene i – Answer the following questions with a quote:
(15 points)
1) What is one service the fairy completes for Titania the fairy Queen?
2) Why is Oberon mad at Titania?
3) What are two pranks “Puck” or Robin Goodfellow does?
4) Why do Titania and Oberon make fun of each other for going to
Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding?
5) What are two problems that have happened due to Titania and Oberon’s
quarrel?
6) Why will Titania not give up the Indian changeling boy?
“Give me that boy and I will go with thee.”
“Not for thy fairy kingdom.”
7) Oberon wants Puck to go fetch a flower. What will this flower do?
8) What does Oberon want to do with it?
Demetrius vs. Helena (Oberon overhears their argument.)
9) What is one quote from Demetrius that is mean?
10) What is one quote from Helena that is desperate?
Answer the following as a TAKS short answer question:
Based on the play thus far, who do you think is in love the most? Provide
evidence to support your answer.
ANSWER
CITE or QUOTE
EXPLAIN
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Classwork for Thursday, January 10th (A) and Friday, January 11th (B)
Turn in homework for "Seven Ages of Man"
New seating chart
Write a TAKS short answer response relating to "Seven Ages of Man".
Question: Is Shakespeare's point of view on life cynical?
Provide "evidence" from the speech to support your answer.
Interpret 10 famous quotes from Shakespeare's plays. See handout.
Draw a castle and surround with 10 of the 26 vocabulary words from scene i.
See handout.
Read scene i and choose 1 quote you know and 1 quote you don't. Interpret
each.
William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
After insulting each other, say each aloud with a partner and interpret:
“To be or not to be; that is the question.” – Hamlet
“This above all: to thine own self be true.” – Hamlet
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” – Hamlet
“Tempt not a desperate man.” – Romeo and Juliet
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” – Romeo and Juliet
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death
but once.” – Julius Caesar
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” – Macbeth
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is to have a thankless child.” – King
Lear
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act I, scene i – Difficult vocabulary is it not?
dowager (n) an elderly woman; widow
mirth (n) happiness
melancholy (n) sadness
woo (v) to seek affection with intent to romance
entreat (v) to beg
dote (v) to show excessive fondness
sovereignty (n) royal rank; power
vantage (n) a position or condition meant to provide
an advantage – From our vantage point…
beguile (v) to trick
pomp (n) ostentatious display
vexation (n) annoyance
feigning (adj) false
befall (v) to happen
abjure (v) to give up
cloister (n) secluded place; convent
avouch (v) to confirm
austerity (n) plainness
betwixt (prep) between
tempest (n) a violent windstorm
misgraffed (adj) joined incorrectly
edict (n) a formal command
Homework:
Act I, scene ii from website (The actors)
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Classwork for Tuesday, January 8th (A) and Wednesday, January 9th (B)
Mr. Chalk – English I Pre-AP /TAG …a second semester
Day 1
Return work, projects, exam, and composition book.
Journal #1
1) Review all your work and list three comments made and what each was
about.
2) List words you misspelled. If you don’t have any, thanks. (5 max.)
3) Rewrite or correct three grammatical mistakes…capitalization,
apostrophes, underlining book titles, quotation marks, etc.
4) Use both words on your “guesstures” card in a 5-7 sentence story. Use
at least one phrase learned last semester and underline. (participial,
infinitive, appositive, or prepositional)
*Please decorate your portfolio with quotes, visuals, author’s names, your
name, etc.
(Make it your own.)
Find a fellow student to answer the following:
1) What was the best gift give you gave and to whom?
2) Ask someone to spell this month backwards and next month forward.
Did he or she spell each correctly?
3) What Find someone who did NOT count down the new year.
4) Find someone you think drove the longest. How much $$$$ did they
spend on gas?
5) What is one current event you know happened over the holidays?
6) Of all the college bowl teams, which school would you be interested
in attending?
Did they win their bowl game?
7) What was the best movie you saw over the holidays? Identify one
archetype
of the film.
8) What are two of your New Year resolutions? One funny, one serious.
9) Ask someone to tell you the funniest thing they saw or happened to
them over the holidays. Briefly describe.
10) Make one observation around the room. Notice something you never
saw before.
On a separate sheet:
Intro to William Shakespeare
1) Write the sentence “I ate the sandwich” three different ways without
changing or omitting words.
2) Share “Shakespearean insults” with your improv partner.
3) List what you think are the seven ages of man or woman.
Homework:
Read “The Seven Ages of Man” p. 349.
- Identify the seven ages of man according to Shakespeare “using quotes”
- Provide a visual for each stage.
- Provide YOUR interpretation of each stage.