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Homework for Friday, December 4th (A) and Monday, December 7th (B) Complete reading "THE CONCRETE MIXER" finding evidence of the "satirical attack" Bradbury completes on Earth. Read "MARIONETTES, INC." *For extra credit watch the youtube version and contrast. I. As you read make 7 connections to the lyrics of Metallica's, "Master of Puppets" which is actually an anti-drug song. See below. II. Try and draw two IDENTICAL pictures of yourself. III. Research cloning and provide proper documentation. Master Of Puppets - METALLICA End of passion play, crumbling away I'm your source of self-destruction Veins that pump with fear, sucking dark is clear Leading on your deaths construction Taste me you will see More is all you need Dedicated to How I'm killing you Come crawling faster Obey your Master Your life burns faster Obey your Master Master Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams Blinded by me, you can't see a thing Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Needlework the way, never you betray Life of death becoming clearer Pain monopoly, ritual misery Chop your breakfast on a mirror Taste me you will see More is all you need Dedicated to How I'm killing you Come crawling faster Obey your Master Your life burns faster Obey your Master Master Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams Blinded by me, you can't see a thing Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Master, Master, where's the dreams that I've been after? Master, Master, you promised only lies Laughter, Laughter, all I hear or see is laughter Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries Hell is worth all that, natural habitat Just a rhyme without a reason Neverending maze, drift on numbered days now your life is out of season I will occupy I will help you die I will run through you Now I rule you too Come crawling faster Obey your Master Your life burns faster Obey your Master Master Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams Blinded by me, you can't see a thing Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream Master Master __________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, December 2nd (A) and Thursday, December 3rd (B) Complete reading "The Fox and the Forest" if needed. Please create compare Simms to Zaroff as well as a timeline of simply the events in the story. Go back in TIME to any year you wish. Research events of that year and list. Please see the MLA link under "links" and document your source correctly. You are expected to do more than simply copy and paste the web address. List 5 people you "visited" with over Thanksgiving. After reading "The Visitor" make connections between EACH visitor you had and the story. 6 WEEK PROJECT IS A TYPED SHORT STORY DUE NEXT THURSDAY (A) AND FRIDAY (B) rubric: COVER PAGE WITH CLEVER TITLE AND YOUR NAME AND IMAGE DOUBLE SPACE USING TIMES ROMAN FONT SIZE 12 MAXIMUM LENGTH IS UP TO YOU, YET MINIMUM IS TWO PAGES. MENTION OR HAVE A ROCKET IN THE STORY USE AT LEAST 15 RHETORICAL DEVICES WE HAVE STUDIED. vary sentence beginnings and length, prepositional phrase, absolute phrase, appositive phrase, participial phrase, infinitive phrase, rhetorical shift, back story, motif, anaphora, epistrophe, polysyndeton, asyndeton, elevated DICTION!, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, euphemism, paradox, pun, juxtaposition, three different types of irony, anthroporphism, direct or indirect chracterization, foil, mentor... USE THE ACTIVE VOICE and PRESENT TENSE...avoid was, that, got, so, very, really, etc. NO CLICHES "It was all just a dream." ____________________________________________ Hometoil due Monday, November 30th (A) and Tuesday, December 1st (B) Read "The Exiles" and "No Particular Night or Morning" and become the mad scientist. Think of three ideas you would use for a lesson in teaching EACH story. Below are ideas, but of course you may be ORIGINAL. Please avoid generic ideas such as make a comic, write song, ect. The activity should PROVE you read each story. Research idea (How to become an astronaut) Song ("Talking Bird" by Deathcab for "The Raven") Youtube clip (most stories have one or something which relates) Improve activity (insult each other without insulting "Cask") Connection (Zaroff to popscicle) Drawing (astronaut/priest or wall of vocabulary) Purpose or story ("Long Rain" represents every word of direction you hear from teachers, parents, ect.) Vocabulary words (Wall of vocabulary for "Cask") Object you might build from backpack (Windmill for Animal Farm) If you did not read "Last Night of the World" in class please complete as I have already given you credit. Explain how the following connect to the story: "screaming in the streets" "washing dishes" Find the use of asyndeton at the end of the story and describe the effect. Why does Bradbury use it? Write a paragraph in the first person as a turkey in the style of POE or Bradbury. __________________________________________ Homework for Monday, November 23rd (A) and Tuesday, November 24th (B) Complete ONE of the following to earn the curve (if needed) or extra credit. Short answer – In order to earn the curve you must choose ONE of the following. 1)Elton John’s song “Rocket Man” is based on this story. Using the lyrics “And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then” make ten connections between an astronaut and a kite. 2)Using Poe’s quote about the red death….”He had come like a thief in the night.” Make 10 connections between the red death and a thief. 3)Research one or both of your parents’ careers. Find out specifically what is expected, routines, time demands, education, responsibilities. Then ask them if they want you to have the same occupation or also be a “rocket man”. *WE WILL BE TAKING UP ALL WORK RELATED TO THE ILLUSTRATED MAN ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THIS INCLUDS THE ASSIGNMENTS BELOW. If you have been absent, please see the "make-up work icon". ALL WORK THUS FAR WILL REPRESENT TWO WEEKLY GRADES. I. Complete reading "The Long Rain" and explain how the following are extended metaphors for life NOT related to the story. Please write to impress. Many of you are regressing to lazy word choice and lack of abstract or deeper insight: 1) "monster" 2) "sun-dome" 3) "the long rain" 4) Two different fates of the men 5) vegetation growth 6) "I'm going deaf." 7) "no direction anywhere, only what the compass said" THE FIRE BALLOONS - Spacepriests attempt to convert balloons. 1) Draw a ROCKET/CHUCH or an ASTRONAUT/PRIEST. 2) Identify the juxtaposition (contrast) between the Father Peregrine and Father Stone. Use at least one quote from each in your identification. 3) According to the story why can't an amoeba sin? 4) Put the following quotes in chronological order and explain their relation to the story: "blessing a crocodile" "avalanche" "Is Mars hell?" "geometry problem" "fired a gun three times" "hypocrisy" 5) Compare the fire balloons to the Oompa loompas from "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory" - If you have never seen, then simply explain why they do not want the fathers' help. *Extra credit - APOSTROPHE - Try and persuade a balloon to believe in something you do OR bring a balloon to class OR both OR neither. ______________________________ Homework for Thursday, November 19th (A) and Friday, November 20th (B) SIX WEEK TEST OVER "SKILLS" - Please visit the "skills" icon and you can click on "printable copy" if needed. You must be able to identify each. Read and ANNOTATE "THE ROCKET MAN" as thoroughly as possible. Each class was also given a certain number of definitions to write in their book next to the title. The work we began over "THE LONG RAIN" we will complete for the following class period (Monday and Tuesday of next week). Homework for Tuesday, November 17th (A) - B DAYS WILL BE DIFFERENT as we will read "THE MAN" in class. “THE MAN” – Ray Bradbury 1) What trivial aspects of life do we celebrate too much? 2) What do you know about Humanity, human situations or conditions that you did not know before? At what point in the story did you realize this? 3) Provide two thematic statements related to the story. 4) Research any religion other than the one you practice. Again document the source you use. Homework for Friday, November 13th (A) and Monday, November 16th (B) I. Draw a highway. II. Read tattoo #4 - "The Highway" III. What is the purpose of the story? Use a quote to support. IV. Research ANY part of the world you are unfamiliar with. Write out three things you find and document source correctly. If you did not finish "THE OTHER FOOT" assignment in class, it is below. EXPLAIN HOW THE FOLLOWING QUOTES RELATE TO THE STORY: “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - MLK 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. _______________________________ Homework for Wednesday, November 11th (A) and Thursday, November 12th (B) I. Draw a kaleidoscope. II. Read "KALEIDOSCOPE" p. 19. III. Describe final moments of three astronauts. Use a quote to support. IV. Make a wish. V. What is the purpose of this story? Do not say "live life to the fullest". **GO TO LINKS OR GOOGLE "KALEIDOSCOPE" IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BOOK YET. NOT HAVING A BOOK IS NOT AN EXCUSE. Extra credit: Research what it takes to become an astronaut or the space program in genera. If you did not finish "THE VELDT" questions in class, they are below: Who do you blame for the parents' death? Support your answer with a quote from the story. (Story can be found if you google it.) Find a quote to support the following literary terms. EPIPHANY and ANTHROMORPHISM ___________________________________________________________________________ Homework for November 9th, Monday (A) and Tuesday, November 10th (B) CLASSES ARE BACK TO NORMAL. A DAYS ARE IN FRONT. Read the introduction to THE ILLLUSTRATED MAN. Draw a tattoo and around the tattoo write THREE important details from the intro mixing in "quotes" Over the weekend go FOUR hours without technology. This does NOT mean turn off your A/C or unplug your refridgerator. Have parent or guardian sign you went without phone, computer, ipod, TV, ect. Basically turning off your technological "NURSERY" for a bit. In addition do TWO chores around the house which you are not normally expected to do. Again, provide a signature. THE INTRODUCTION IS BELOW IN CASE YOU DO NOT HAVE A BOOK YET. B-DAYS SCROLL FAR DOWN TO SEE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 37th assignment. "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN" - PROLOGUE He sat down heavily, grunting. 'You'll be sorry you asked me to stay," he said. "Everyone always is. That's why I'm walking. Here it is, early. September, the cream of the Labor Day carnival season. I should be making money hand over fist at any small town side show celebration, but here I am with no prospects." He took off an immense shoe and peered at it closely. "I usually keep a job about ten days. Then something happens and they fire me. By now every carnival in America won't touch me with a ten-foot pole." "What seems to be the trouble?" I asked. For answer, he unbuttoned his tight collar, slowly. With his eyes shut, he put a slow hand to the task of unbuttoning his shirt all the way down. He slipped his fingers in to feel his chest. "Funny," he said, eyes still shut. 'You can't feel them but they're there. I always hope that someday I'll look and they'll be gone. I walk in the sun for hours on the hottest days, baking, and hope that my sweat'll wash them off, the sun'll cook them off, but at sundown they're still there." He turned his head slightly toward me and exposed his chest. "Are they still there now?" After a long while I exhaled. "Yes," I said. "They're still there." The Illustrations. "Another reason I keep my collar buttoned up," he said, opening his eyes, "is the children. They follow me along country roads. Everyone wants to see the pictures, and yet nobody wants to see them." He took his shirt off and wadded it in his hands. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line. "It keeps right on going," he said, guessing my thought. "All of me is Illustrated. Look." He opened his hand. On his palm was a rose, freshly cut, with drops of crystal wake among the soft pink petals. I put my hand out to touch it, but it was only an Illustration. As for the rest of him, I cannot say how I sat and stared, for be was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. When his flesh twitched, the tiny mouths flickered, the tiny green-and-gold eyes winked, the tiny pink hands gestured. There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest. The people themselves were in twenty or more odd groups upon his arms, shoulders, back, sides, and wrists, as well as on the flat of his stomach. You found them in forests of hair, lurking among a constellation of freckles, or peering from armpit caverns, diamond eyes aglitter. Each seemed intent upon his own activity, each was a separate gallery portrait. "Why, they're beautiful!" I said. How can I explain about his Illustrations? If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with all his sulphurous color, elongation, and anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art. The colors burned in three dimensions. They were windows looking in upon fiery reality. Here, gathered on one wall, were all the finest scenes in the universe the man was a walking treasure gallery. This wasn't the work of a cheap carnival tattoo man with three colors and whisky on his breath. This was the accomplishment of a living genius vibrant, clear, and beautiful. "Oh, yes," said the Illustrated Man. "I'm so proud of my Illustrations that I'd like to burn them off. I've tried sandpaper, acid, a knife . . ." The sun was setting. The moon was already up in the East. "For, you see," said the Illustrated Man, "these Illustrations predict the future." I said nothing. "It's all right in sunlight," he went on. "I would keep a carnival day job. But at night--the pictures move. The pictures change." I must have smiled. "How long have you been Illustrated?" "In 1900, when I was twenty years old and working a carnival, I broke my leg. It laid me up; I had to do something to keep my band in, so I decided to get tattooed." "But who tattooed you? What happened to the artist?" "She went back to the future," he said. "I mean it. She was an old woman in a little house in the middle of Wisconsin here somewhere not far from this place. A little old witch who looked a thousand years old one moment and twenty years old the next, but she said she could travel in time. I laughed. Now, I know better." "How did you happen to meet her?" He told me. He had seen her painted sign by the road SKIN ILLUSTRATION! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic! So he had sat all night while her magic needles stung him wasp stings and delicate bee stings. By morning he looked like a man who had fallen into a twenty color print press and been squeezed out, all bright and picturesque. "I've hunted every summer for fifty years," he said, putting his hands out on the air. "When I find that witch I'm going to kill her." The sun was gone. Now the first stars were shining and the moon had brightened the fields of grass and wheat. Still the Illustrated Man's pictures glowed like charcoals in the half light, like scattered rubies and emeralds, with Rouault colors and Picasso colors and the long, pressed out El Greco bodies. "So people fire me when my pictures move. They don't like it when violent things happen in my Illustrations. Each Illustration is a little story. If you watch them, in a few minutes they tell you a tale. In three hours of looking you could see eighteen or twenty stories acted right on my body, you could hear voices and think thoughts. It's all here, just waiting for you to look. But most of all, there's a special spot on my body." He bared his back. "See?" There's no special design on my right shoulder blade, just a jumble." "Yes. " "When I've been around a person long enough, that spot clouds over and fills in. If I'm with a woman, her picture comes there on my back, in an hour, and shows her whole life-how she'll live, how she'll die, what she'll look like when she's sixty. And if it's a man, an hour later his picture's here on my back. It shows him falling off a cliff, or dying under a. train. So I'm fired again." All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust--the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron. Now he lay back, long and full in the moonlight. It was a warm night. There was no breeze and the air was stifling. We both had our shirts off. "And you'll never found the old woman?" "Never." "And you think she came from the future?" "How else could she know these stories she painted on me?" He shut his eyes tiredly. His voice grew fainter. "Sometimes at night I can fed them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they're doing what they have to do. I never look at them any more. I just try to rest. I don't sleep much. Don't you look at them either, I warn you. Turn the other way when you sleep." I lay back a few feet from him. He didn't seem violent, and the pictures were beautiful. Otherwise I might have been tempted to get out and away from such babbling. But the Illustrations . . . I let my eyes fill up on them. Any person would go a little mad with such things upon his body. The night was serene. I could bear the Illustrated Man's breathing in the moonlight. Crickets were stirring gently in the distant ravines. I lay with my body sidewise so I could- watch the Illustrations. Perhaps half an hour passed. Whether the Illustrated Man slept I could not tell, but suddenly I heard him whisper, 'They're moving, aren't they?" I waited a minute. Then I said, "Yes." The pictures were moving, each in its turn, each for a brief minute or two. There in the moonlight, with the tiny tinkling thoughts and the distant sea voices, it seemed, each little drama was enacted. Whether it took an hour or three hours for the dramas to finish, it would be hard to say. I only know that I lay fascinated and did not move while the stars wheeled in the sky. Eighteen Illustrations, tighten tales. I counted them one by one. Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene, a large house with two people in it. I saw a flight of vultures on a blazing flesh sky, I saw yellow lions, and I heard voices. The first Illustration quivered and came to life.... ________________________________________ Homework for Friday, October 37th...B only POE PROJECT DUE AS WELL AS ANY LATE WORK. Bring THE ILLUSTRATED MAN TO CLASS with YOUR name in it, not another's. 6th period write one page as Poe describing WOW or a chore you complete around your house. _______________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 35th (B) and Thursday, October 36th (A) POE PROJECT IS DUE FOR A DAYS ONLY...FRIDAY FOR B DAYS. ALL classes will have their last "WEEKLY" grade on Wednesday and Thursday. Below are the assignments you should have to turn in signed as late. POE “I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.” 5 HORIZONTAL FACTS ON A VERTICAL POE 10 PLEASANTVILLE COLOR ASSIGNMENTS 20 “CASK OF AMONTILLADO” COMIC, DIFFERENT IRONIES, ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS 20 STORY OF REVENGE WRITTEN AS POE 20 “MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH”, REAPER, CLOCK, RED, AND $$$ (Today) 10 POE CHORES – Completing today ½ a page 10 HALLOWEEN MONSTER ASSIGNMENT (TURN IN DESCRIPTION ONLY.) ? / 100 *SHORT ANSWER FOR EITHER TEST Our TEST – animal to blame, credit card, and “thinking” circles (40 points) TAKS TEST – 3 short answer (50 points) ___________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, October 33rd (B) and Tuesday, October 34th (A) I. Complete your TAKS short answers. II. POE PROJECT DUE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY! EXTRA CREDIT: BUILD or CREATE an object representing the POE story you chose or the ones we read in class. _______________ Homework for Thursday, October 29th (B) and Friday, October 30th (A) Because you are having TAKS benchmark during class, there is no homework. PLEASE write your best on the short answer and provide "QUOTES" to support your ideas. I read a few from the B-DAY group today and they are not well written. The TAKS TEST (1-25) and 3 SHORT ANSWER count as a TEST GRADE. The final assignment for this six weeks is your POE PROJECT. It is due next WEDNESDAY FOR B DAYS and THURSDAY FOR A DAYS. You are to complete the following using ANY story by Poe other than "Tale-Tell Heart", "Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death", and "The Raven": 1) Go to "links" and poestories.com or you might "google" the title you want if you want to copy and paste to print out. http://www.poestories.com/ 2) You can either complete an EIGHT FRAME COMIC of the actual events in the story using "quotes" as we did for "CASK OF AMONTILLADO". Remember to draw events or objects from a UNIQUE point of view. See the back wall for excellent samples and please frame using black construction paper. or You can make an EIGHT PAGE CHILDREN'S book in which you translate events to a "G" audience and "they all live happlily ever after". Here, you would take difficult and horrific quotes and simplify and "euphemise" each event. You should have illustrations for each page. 3) On the back of the comic or book provide unlucky 13 vocabulary words or rhetorical devices you identify. The comic or children's book will be graded on effort, neatness, cleverness, and your knowledge of the story and events. _______________________________________________________ Please purchase THE ILLUSTRATED MAN this week. It is $7.50 in the library. We will begin reading next week. Homework for Tuesday, October 27th (B) and Wednesday, October 28th (A) 1)Complete reading "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO" on p. 209 and complete a 5 frame COMIC using the most difficult quotes you can find from the story. 2) Identify the different types of irony in the story. Verbal, situational, and dramatic. See "skills" if needed. 3) Also provide a quote supporing each method of PERSUASION used by Montressor in the story. ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS, (see "skills" if needed) 4) Write a story of REVENGE using the same style as POE. It could be scary or clever or both. He usually has quite the internal monologue revolving in his characters' vehicle of thinking in which the torment stems into rage. 5) Check the POESTORIES website under "links" and choose a story you would like to read for your project. Please do not choose Tale-Tell Heart, The Raven, nor The Masque of the Red Death. ___________________________ Homework for Friday, October 23rd (B) and Monday, October 26th (A) I. TEST corrections - For EACH vocabulary word or term you missed from 1-30: define, use in a sentence, and draw a picture. The substitution will be 1 point for every 4 and is due ON FRIDAY. No late work as this is a gift. II. The following assignments relate to PLEASANTVILLE and try to prove you completed each. Write your responses in different colors. ROUTINE - Prove that you did something to break the routine you have created. LOVE - Tell your parents or guardian that you love them. RAIN - IF it rains. Stand out in it. ART - Find a piece of art that YOU like. Describe, but don't analyze or connect. ANGER/EMOTION - Describe a time in your life when you showed the most anger or emotion. COVER UP - Describe a time in your life when you covered up how you really felt. TRAVEL ("You mean there are places outside of Pleasantville?") Reasearch ONE place you would like to travel. Provide the landmark you wish to see and write it down. III. Many of you ignored assignments I created related to ANIMAL FARM. Now it is too late to turn in anything whether ill or apathetic. Please see below for short stories and assignments which may now substitute. Since you did not like mine, you might enjoy the literature book's. Each story substitutes 70% for a chapter assignment you missed from ANIMAL FARM. To keep this simple, complete the following for each story: 1) Answer CONNECT TO LIFE, SUMMARIZE BUILD BACKGROUND, and DEFINE WORDS TO KNOW at the beginning of each story you wish to complete. 2) While reading the story make two annotations per page based on the literary and rhetorical devices we have studied. 3) Once reading is complete answer the questions immediately after in full sentences. There are normally eight per story with ven diagrams and the like. Stories to choose from: "Unfinished Business" p.260 "The Censors" p. 185 "The Perfect Storm" p. 113 "Through the Tunnel" p. 373 "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" p. 481 "Daughter of Invention" p663 "Only Daughter" p. 694 "The House on Mango Street" p. 701 "Full Circle" p. 743 _____________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 18th (B) and Thursday, October 19th (A) COMPLETE SHORT ANSWER BELOW. FOR NUMBER TWO USE A CREDIT CARD STATEMENT FROM PARENTS OR ANY CREDIT CARD PROPAGANDA. If unable to find simply connect to credit cards...We will finish PLEASANTVILLE in class. ______________________________________ PLEASE NOTE: B DAYS ARE NOW AHEAD OF A DAYS Homework for Monday, October 16th (BBBBB!!!!) and Tuesday, October 17th (AAA!!) Study for six week test using "SKILLS" and "VOCABULARY" links. Scroll to botton and hit "printable version" or copy and paste. The test is cumulative or over everything we have covered. ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE THE TEST. Even if you are behind on Animal Farm, the test is over SKILLS and VOCABULARY only. There are 60 questions and here are the short answers to help things go faster: SAMPLE TAKS SHORT ANSWER - Use your book. Write to impress and provide a quote which clearly connects with your answer. 1) Other than the pigs, which animal is to blame for the demise of Animal Farm? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer. The answer should only be seven lines. (10 points) 2) Make 10 connections between the credit card statement attached and ANIMAL FARM. (10 points) 3) THREE LEVELS OF READING – Use the back of the paper you have and again draw three concentric circles. See the board. (20 points) Circle #1 – Choose ANY word from the novel Copy the quote it appears Provide part of speech, definition and briefly explain its connection to the novel. Circle #2 – Draw ANY three illustrations from the novel – objects, symbols, etc. Write a brief explanation of the LINK between the illustrations and the word you selected for the inner circle. Circle #3 – Going beyond the text, write THREE THEMATIC STATEMENTS drawn from the significant word and your illustrations, tying them to the work. Your statements need not use the word in the middle circle, but should be clearly related to it. ________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 14th (A) and Thursday, October 15th (B) Copy and paste ANY ONE page from the online version of ANIMAL FARM. Annotate the page with at least 15 notations, defnitions...Mark ALL you see. *WE will have a test the following class period over all vocatbulary, all skills, and ANIMAL FARM. _____________ Homework for FRIDAY, October 9th (A) and Tuesday, October 13th (B) Complete reading ANIMAL FARM, chapters IX and X. Write a speech as SNOWBALL returning to the farm and trying to persuade the animals to rebel. This should be an example of your rhetorical guile as you sway the animals against their master. The majority of your speech should allude to the events in Chapters IX and X. Please type if able and it should be a minimus of 300 words. Attempt to use the following rhetorical devices in your speech: ANAPHORA - repetition at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences. “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air…” – Churchill EPISTROPHE - repetition at the end of consecutive phrases of sentences. "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." ASYNDETON - omission of conjunctions (and, but, or, nor) where there should be. "We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line." POLYSYNDETON - overuse of conjuntions (and, or, nor, but). "We must change that deleterious environment of the 80's, that environment which was characterized by greed and hatred and selfishness and mega-mergers and debt overhang...." ____________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October7th (A) and Thursday, October 8th (B) Read CHaper 7 and complete the song started by Minimus using 7 allusions to the events in the chapter. WTI...Write to impress. (SAMPLE: DO NOT COPY LINES OR FACTS OTHER THAN FIRST TWO LINES) Animal Farm, Animal Farm Never through me shalt thou come to harm Snowball is to blame for our demise He comes in stealth before the sunrise Beast of England is now abolished Boy that Squealer's rhetoric sure is polished The farm now reeks with the smell of our blood The tears pour from Clover's eyes creating a flood Read Chapter 8 and identify 8 rhetorical or literary devices we have studied. See the "SKILLS" icon if you need a reminder. "Throughout the year the animals worked even harder." (prepositional phrase) "fortnight" (diction - two weeks) "To rebuild the windmill, the animals worked even harder." (infinitive phrase) _____________________________________________________________ Homework for October 5th, Monday (A) and October 6th, Tuesday (B) **YES, PERIODS 1 and 2 you are responsible for completeing. NO CLASS started this. Read Chapter 5 of Animal Farm and explain each symbolic event using literal details from the chapter and “quotes” to support. Try to “mix” the quote into your answer. 1) A better, school, or neighborhood to live. Example: Mollie becomes "more and more troublesome" as she believes Mr. Pilkington’s farm would be a more favorable habitat. She is like many humans who wish to live elsewhere and is guilty of “looking over the hedge that divides Animal farm from Foxwood.” 2) Citizens who defect Example: Mollie represents the opposite of those who “disappear”. Rarely are those who defect “ever mentioned again”. In communist countries they are known to search for those who flee. 3) The U.S. Senate Example: The senate apparently is “manifestly cleverer” than the rest of America and thus “decides all questions of farm policy”. 4) Presidential debates 5) Politicians or leaders who do not originate ideas of their own 6) The introduction of ANY new plan, most people are always hesitant to change. 7) America is divided over Iraq and other political ideas. 8) The masses usually agree with the one speaking at the moment. 9) The secret service or KGB (military police of Russia) 10) There are debates and elections every four years, then no more debates, simply orders. 11) "If we don't attack, the terrorists will hit us again." - Dick Cheney CHAPTER SIX for homework: Explain how each of the following happens, yet the pigs make it sound positive: 1) The animals must work a 60 hour work week. 2) The farm will now engage in trade with humans. 3) The pigs will move into the house and sleep in beds. 4) The windmill is in ruins. _______________________________________________ Homework for Thursday (A) and Friday (B) Retell in 4 illustrations. Choose unique angles and provide quote. Identify 4 metaphors or connections to society. Find 5 examples of propaganda. Attempt to label: FEAR - Surely you don't want Mr. Jones to... Buy this alarm system or your family photos will be in danger. 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... _____________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, September (A) and Wednesday (B) Read Chapter I of George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM and list 10 events which happened backwards. Recall questioning. Read Chapter II of ANimAL FARm and identify 7 elements you believe would be SYMBOLIC of something in our society. Please look beyond the obvious and write to impress.. For example for the SEVEN COMMANDMENTS do NOT say there is also TEN COMMANDMENTS some people live by. Please state: The seven commandments represent the expectations set by our judicial system, family ethics, and social intelligence. Spell GEORGE ORWELL and JOSEPTH STALIN vertically on your paper. ACROSS all the letters in their names list facts you research or find in the introduction of the book. alleGory E O R G E "ShOoting an Elephant" R W E L L "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals." George Orwell ___________________________________ HOMEWORK FOR FRIDAy (A) and MondAY (B) Excellent work on your projects. You are no longer "cliche". Your only assignment is to bring a composition book if you have not done so already. ANY late assignments are due Friday. *Pleae compelte the following short answer from your test if you have not done so. Be sure and use a quote from the passasge to support your answer. In the exerpt from "INTO THIN AIR" p. 538, at what point does Jon Krakauer face the most danger? ___________________________________ SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT - DUE Wednesday (A) classes and Thursday(B) classes. Bring all work from the last week as we will collect final grade as well. The first six weeks is over tomorrow. 15 point statement from parents signed: I have witnessed _____________ reading _____________ this past summer or during the first five weeks of school. X_______________________ (parent signature) _____________________________________________ 1) Your first assignment relates to the book you chose for summer reading: Create or build ANYTHING that would represent your book. Try and have the title (underlined) somewhere, but if not possible, OK. This is your intitial chance to make your work unique. 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 and provide a brief description for each element (other than genre). 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. 15) Using the final sentence of the novel, explain how the story is resolved. ________________________________ No homework over the weekend, but a reminder that the SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT is due next Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) *Also try to complete ANY assignments you are missing. 34 students are currently failing due only from lack of effort. _________________________________ Homework for Thursday, September 17th (A) and Friday, September 18th (B) TEST over everything we have studied the first four weeks. Study the review I gave you or the "skills" link and "vocabulary" link. Below is a related assignment I did NOT mention to 4th period due to fire drill. In order for me to know you studied complete the following: 1) teach 5 words or terms to your parents (they should sign that you did) 2) Use 10 of the words in a bumper sticker, song, band name, t-shirt, or advertisement. Reminder that the SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT is due next WEDNESDAY, September 23rd (A) and Thursday, September 24th (B) Scroll below for details. __________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, September 15th (A) and Wednesday, September 16th (B) Complete reading the excerpt from "INTO THIN AIR" and make an annotation (note) every page. Pleae use EACH of the following at least once. *7TH PERIOD COMPLETE "INTO THIN AIR" IF UNABLE IN CLASS ON THURSDAY. Read “INTO THIN AIR” – pgs. 539-546. Annotations (Write question, word, or quote on the left and answer, defnition, illustration, or connection on right.) 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 Extra credit - Box of tissue +5 (only one per student) +5 for finding a photo or information on any 9/11 victim or current soldier who sacrificed his or her life. _________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, September 10th (A) and Monday, September 11th (B) Complete your own "explode the moment" writing sample. Watch ANY clip off you tube, a film, ect. Attempt to describe following the sample we read in class. Try and avoid "was" and "were" and stay in the present tense. Vary sentence length and try some repetition where effective. The phone rings. This can't be happening. Impossible. Not enough time to hang up the receiver; it jumps out of my hand and spins, spirals, and leaps throught the air like a slithering red snake. It turns over and over and over, just like the words in my mind, think, think, think. Only twenty minutes...on the left wall the face of the clock taunts me with every tick of the second hand tick, tick, tick. _______________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, September 8th (A) and Thursday, September 9th (B) I. Research any ALLUSION used in "The Most Dangerous Game". Provide a list of facts and document according to the insert in your white notebook. II. Write a 200 word CHASE SCENE. - be original - mistake free - avoid get, got, and that - use transitions (during, since, as, before, after, near, however, or others you like) *Bring ANY late work you have from other days as we will collect our 2nd grade before progress reports next week. WEEK TWO /10 ART ANALYSIS AND IMITATION /10 POEM ANALYSIS AND IMITATION /10 “Most Dangerous Game” quiz (1-10) 5 Deleted Scenes and ART connections /20 “Dangerous Game” – Search and Rescue assignment and storyboard 10 ALLUSION research and citation 15 CHASE SCENE – 200 words 20 9th grade common assessment (completing in class) /100 _________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, September 3rd (A) and Tuesday, September 7th (B) Read from the point we left off in "The Most Dangerous Game" until the top of p. 52. You should end at the top where Rainsford says, "I WISH TO GO TODAY." Complete the "SEARCH AND RESCUE" assignment for "The Most Dangerous Game" using any part of the story thus far. Search and Rescue - pgs. 44-52 Search for an example of the following based on what you know: Writing 1. foreshadowing (clues to upcoming events) 2. imagery (description relating to the five senses) 3. figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification) *hyperbole is exaggeration 4. one example you like of clever writing or detail 5. transitions (Look at the first word of sentences.) 6. allusions *An allusion is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.) 7. verb (find the strongest in your opinion) 8. adjective (find the strongest) RECALL Identify THREE important elements you read during this section. VISUALIZATION Draw a two frame storyboard (comic) of the story's most important scenes. Use quotes in your frames please and choose a unique point of view. APPLICATION - How do the elements of this story connect with society today? ____________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, September 1st (A) and Thursday, September 2nd (B) The purpose of this assignment is for you to take your Literature book home and complete the following: ART 1) Provide a sophisticated analysis of ANY piece of art. What is the artist's purpose? Symbolism? Your thoughts? 2) Imitate the piece of ART to the best of your ability. Please do not trace. You may offer YOUR imitation...It does not have to be direct. POEM 1) Choose ANY poem from the book. Read and again provide your analysis. Author's purpose? Figurative language? 2) Provide an imitation of the author's style. It does not have to be direct imitaion in structure. Simply choose a simlar theme and style. *Reminder to bring ANY assignments from the first week. See below. If you are planning on turning in your writing sample late, you must have your parent or guardian write "I understand this is late" on your paper and sign. ___________________________________________ Homework for Monday, August 30th (A) and Tuesday, August 31st (B) We will collect the following for our first grade: I. Writing sample / You should provide TWO drafts. See below for description (15 points for each draft). Remember we are not simply "correcting mistakes" with our second draft. Write to impress and avoid cliches. II. Your noteboook or organizational means should be setup/individualized (5 points). This means the exterior of your notebook should look like no other. III. One fact from each page on our class website (10 points). These should be different for all. Please do not simply copy another's. IV. The page we used in class...original facts, drawing, room "hunt" 1-10, and notes on literary elements (25 points). V. You parent drawing on the back of your letter (5 points) The final 25 points you will earn on Monday and Tuesday. We will be taking a diagnostic test in order to determine your reading level. _________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, August 26th (A) and Friday, August 27th (B) I. SEARCH WEBSITE - Visit EACH page and write down something you see. II. RETURN PARENT DRAWING. III. WRITE A ONE PAGE WRITING SAMPLE ABOUT ANYTHING YOU WANT. Yourself, story, response to quote, best day, favorite band, stuffed animals, real ones, be original and write to impress. Please add a visual representation of your story. DECIDE ON SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT. Are you going to turn it in in two weeks or the end of the six weeks? SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT - DUE Wednesday, September 9th for (A) classes and , September 10th for (B) classes. 1) Your first assignment relates to the book you chose for summer reading: Create or build ANYTHING that would represent your book. Try and have the title (underlined) somewhere, but if not possible, OK. This is your intitial chance to make your work unique. 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 and provide a brief description for each element (other than genre). 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. 15) Using the final sentence of the novel, explain how the story is resolved. __________________________________________________________________ FINAL EXAM REVIEW - Due on exam date and if exempt due anytime during final week. 10 points on exam if you are taking it and 1/2 of final weekly grade if you are exempt (50 points). For the exam study rhetorical and literary devices and ALL of the vocabulary posted for this semester. I. Choose 30 vocabulary words from those listed and use in a sentence, story, t-shirt, text, twitter, bumper sticker, band name, ect. II. Write a 2 page story or summary mentioning characters and events we read about this semester. You should allude to Of Mice and Men, The Scarlet Ibis, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Odyssey, MacBeth, Dead Poets Society, and poems we covered. You do NOT have to mention each. Please write in the present tense and active voice. Also when complete, provide 10 annotations on your summary or story. III. Have your parents comment on three items from your portfolio and also sign that they have seen your summer reading list. (Mythology and How to Read Literature Like a Professor) Example of #2 above: Upon arrival to Ithica Odysseus meets three witches who prophesize for him the following tale...(ellipsis) "Odysseus, Son of Laertes and master mariner and soldier (Homeric epithet), you seem frightened by our pressence and appear as if your visage stares on the ghost of Tybalt, cousin to Juliet (appostive phrase). Let us gaze into the face of the cauldron (prepositional phrase and personification) and find what lies before thee... It appears you are eternally (adverb) cursed for killing your best friend Lenny because he dressed tacky on your wedding day. Oh, what a day that was as united you were by the sagacious Friar Laurence. However, fate appears to be changing as you have reached home. To understand (infinitive phrase) this prophecy fully you must stand on your desk for a clearer perspective." Odysseus stands on desk (active voice). "This is stupid." "Right you may be, yet you won't see this prophecy for free." (assonance) "What?" "You must first defeat the giant IBIS who stands a prodigious 98 feet tall and resides in the streets of Verona where he is in disguise as a fruit street vendor. There YOU must arrive in disguise as his music tutor. Once he is within close proximity, you must bite your thumb at him and blind him with a charred olive tree. Returning to me (participial phrase), I will provide you with the remainder of your fate." "Can I do this during WOW?" (not a rhetorical question) "Yes." THE END ___________________________________________________ For May 22nd, Thursday (A) and May 26th (B) No homework. Only extra credit for our last class period. Read Book XI online and provide a detailed account of "spirits" Odysseus meets in the Land of the Dead. You should provide quotes as support to support your encounter, reason for death, and in some cases, his or her eternal punishment. Imagine you met TIRESIAS and he has given you YOUR prophecy. Try and be serious and mix in quotes he uses in speaking with Odysseus. ____________________________ *Please bring your orange literature book to turn in on WEDNESDAY (A) and THURSDAY (B) (This is NOT April Fool Trick.) Also bring any make-up work or AP essays to turn in. I need to have your averages complete by Monday of next week. NO HOMEWORK LEFT OTHER THAN "50" PROJECT. Be sure and read the remainder of your book, not just make a totally cool poster. B-DAY projects are due THURSDAY the 21st and A-DAY projects are due FRIDAY the 22nd. Final project will be due Thursday, May 21st (A) and Friday, May 22nd (B) You should CREATE something representing your novel and creatively surround your creation with your 50 annotations (Do not simply put post-its on a drawing and please do not use scotch tape). EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY! 1) Find ANY facts or quotes about MACBETH we did not mention and bring them to class BEFORE we see the play. Do NOT COPY AND PASTE - Must handwrite, so I know you looked at it. 2) In honor of Newanda, draw a red lightening bolt on yourself before going to the the theater. Homework for Thursday, May 12th (A) and Friday, May 13th (B) Go to NOVELS/SCRIPTS link and read the DETAILED SUMMARIES for Books I - VIII THE ODYSSEY. These can be found under link titled "summaries". Write down TWO events which happen in each summary, then go to the FULL TEXT link for THE ODYSSEY BOOKS I-XXIV. I do not expect you to read all, but simply find a QUOTE from actual text to support each of your events. Leaving you 2 events per summary and 2 quotes to support. You should end with 16 events and 16 quotes. *As tedious as this may be, we are skipping over 156 pages if it helps. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homework for Tuesday, May 10th (A) and Wednesday, May 11th (B) I. Study literary and rhetorical devices as needed. We will be taking the 2nd half of our six week test and it will be an actual AP exam. II. We will begin THE ODYSSEY next week. Draw a mini-van on a piece of paper and fill it with facts you find related to Homer's epic poem. Should find at least 15 so don't draw too "mini" of a van. __________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, May 8th (A) and Monday, May 9th (B) I. Read first 1/2 of college bound novel and provide 25 annotations and 5 ideas you would have for lessons, assignments, research, improve, art, music, or writing you would have in teaching your novel. II. Study literary and rhetorical terms on "bookmark" provided to you in class. You will be taking an actual AP exam for your six week test. ______________________________________________________ For Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) "Simplify." - Henry David Thoreau Simplify your life in three differenct areas. Please provide proof. NO Homework other than reading and annotating your college bound novel. You should be 1/2 complete by Friday, May 7th (A) and Monday, May 10th (B) For these dates please have at least 25 annotations. The annotations should include the p#, "quote", and literary or rhetorical term you are addressing. In addition provide at least 5 ideas you would use to TEACH this novel yourself. Please do not generically say "create a soundtrack", but you may find one song title you might use in class and provide its relevance. *The FINAL "50" PROJECT is due May 21st (A) and May 22nd (B) _________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, April 28th (A, 1st and 2nd), April 29th, Thursday (A, 4th) and Friday, April 30th (B) I. Bring your college bound novel as it will count as a grade (10 points) II. Bring ANY piece of art, poster, or random ornate object you think would look good in our room. We need a make-over. This will be extra credit. III. Complete ANY work you have from TAMing Of the ShreW. Scroll below or see makeup work icon. PROJECT FOR COLLEGE BOUND READING NOVEL IS AS FOLLOWS: 1) As you read make 50 annotations. ALL should be different. Once you have an example of a prepositional phrase, do not note it again. See SKILLS icon for both literary and rhetorical elements you are looking for. Annotate according to the length of your novel. If you have a 100 page novel = every 2 pgs, 200 = every 4 pages, etc... 2) We will have a "half-way" reading test Friday, May 7th (A) and Monday, May 10th (B). You should be half complete with your novel by this date and have at least 25 annotations. 3) Final project will be due Thursday, May 21st (A) and Friday, May 22nd (B) You should CREATE something representing your novel and creatively surround your creation with your 50 annotations (Do not simply put post-its on a drawing). _____________________________________ Homework for Friday, April 24th (A) and Monday, April 25th (5th and 6th); Tuesday, April 27th (7th) I. MAKE HASTE in seeking college bound novel before TAKS begins. Please see the "college bound list" provided under "links". II. Retell the ACTUAL "SUBPLOT" (BIANCA, LUCENTIO, TRANIO, BIONDELLO, HORTENSIO, GRUMIO, GREMIO,...) Use any form or forum you wish (comic, script, action sequence, subplot on ice, superheroes, ect) Please start from the beginning until the end of ACT IV mixing in actual quotes to support events you mention. (3 minimum) Please use at least 3 illustrations in your "retell". (30 points) We will read the end or ACT V in class. Please do well on your TAKS tests as you are the best representation our school has to offer. (This is a compliment in case you are having difficulty with inferencing.) _______________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, April 22nd (A) and Thursday, April 23rd (B) Read Act IV, scene i I. For First two pages, read with parent or guardian. You are Grumio and Parent is Curtis. Discuss what play is about and why it is important to read difficult text. Ask parent or guardian to share difficult text he or she has found through work or other medium. II. Ask parent who is the most "shrewish or Petrucioish" person they have met other than yourself. :) Describe. III. Read scene i and then write a brief (1/2 page) rant about the services you receive mixing in 3 quotes used by Petrucio as he rants at home while taming Kate. IV. Using the final speech of Petrucio in the scene, make a "TAMING A SHREW FOR DUMMIES" list. Include two of your own ideas. EXTRA CREDIT - See how long you can get away with acting like Petrucio at home and then blame your teacher (MS. ORZECH whether you have her or not) for assigning it. Please say you were only doing "research for school". Act IV, scene ii Read and provide not a summary of the scene, but how if you were directing, you would make the scene funny. Remember, it is all in the presentation not the interpretation. Make IV comments which would improve the scene. If scene is confusing, do a youtube search for "Taming of the shrew act IV scene iv" - There is an 8 minute intepretation. Example: Hortensio and Tranio spy on Bianca and Lucentio "Cambio" at the movies. While watching the movie, Lucentio does the old "arm-stretch" routine to put his arm around Bianca and she "doesn't mind". :) or Tranio finds an old man to play his dad, but the old man's teeth keep falling out and he tries to recite "The Seven Ages of Man". _______________________________________ **IF YOU DID NOT COMPLETE WORK FROM CLASS - COMPLETE FOR HW** A PLAY FOR A DRUNK GUY 1) Describe the tackiest outfit you can wear to a wedding. 2) a. Identify 5 things petruccio does which are “lewd” (obscene/indecent)? b. what do tranio and lucentio discuss? c. what does Kate mean with- “I see a woman may be made a fool if she had not the spirit to resist” 3) What do you think the strategy behind Pettrucio’s behavior is? Do you still think at this point that he is marrying Kate for money, or do you think he actually cares for her? BRIEFLY Explain. 4) Before and After Kate/Petruccio : We had already established certain characteristics about Kate and Petruccio, but now they are behaving quite differently. On the top have of a page write the defining characteristics for each Kate and Petruccio before the wedding, on the bottom half write their defining characteristics during/after the wedding. Find a quote describing Kate before the wedding, Petruccio before and Kate after the wedding, Petruccio after. __________________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, April 20th (A) and Tuesday, April 21st (B) I. Go to the "links" icon and click on "SENTENCE IMITATION". Once on the website complete the following: a) Find 1 sentence to imitate writing about your weekend. Please copy or copy and paste the sentence you choose. b) Click on ANY two terms we have not studied or you do not remember. Copy or copy and paste the examples you find. Example: Period sentence vs. loose sentence II. Read the end of ACT II from where we left off. Kate says, "Let thee hang on Sunday". Respond to the following below: 1) Find at least one lie Petrucio tells Babtista. (Use quote) 2) Make two columns. Title one Gremio, the other Tranio. List at least 3 offerings each they promise Bianca will have if she is widowed. 3) Who has the best "list" according to Babtista and will wed Bianca. Use quote. 4) What do you think Gremio (older man) says to Tranio? 5) What is Tranio's response mean in his response and who does he go in search of? Use quote for both. III. Read Act III, scene i. Draw someone or something in "disguise" and surround your drawing with 5 quotes from the scene you think are important and understand. EXTRA CREDIT: COME IN DISGUISE TO CLASS OR DRESS VERY TACKY (PETRUCIO WILL IN HIS WEDDING TO KATE) ________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, April 16th (A) and Friday, April 17th (B) I. Provide what you think is the most important quote from each character thus far in the play and provide a brief yet well written explanation. II. Read Act I, scene ii thoroughly, making annotations or translations in your book EACH page. If you checked out a play, use post-its. III. Copy and paste the ANALYSIS of scene ii (below) to a document. Print and surround the analysis with 8 quotes supporting the events mentioned. Draw lines/arrows from the quote to the event. Analysis : Act I, scene ii The reader is bombarded in the first half of the scene by Petruccio’s overbearing personality. Several character traits rapidly reveal themselves: he is quick to anger but also quick to laugh, as he displays in his frequent quarreling with his servant Grumio. He has a coarse personality, but he is educated well enough to spout classical references and has a quick wit. Also, he loves money above all else, which explains his enthusiasm for courting Katherine. As Grumio remarks, if given enough gold, Petruccio would happily marry a puppet, a clothing ornament, or a toothless hag with venereal diseases. These are superficial motives, to be sure, but Petruccio proclaims them proudly, and Shakespeare uses his proclamations to introduce another dimension to the play’s exploration of marriage: the idea that marriage is essentially an economic activity, intended to consolidate fortunes and facilitate the distribution of inheritances. Petruccio, having been left some money by his own father, knows that he can strike it rich if he allows himself to be “bought” as a husband. Money is not Petruccio’s only driving force. As more characters warn him about Katherine’s harsh tongue, he begins to view wedding her as a challenge rather than simply a moneymaking opportunity. Living with the shrew, he says, could not possibly be worse than enduring the hardships of war or the sea. Gremio says that subduing Kate would be a heroic challenge, comparing the task to one of the labors of Hercules, even as he discourages Petruccio from undertaking it. In their minds, Katherine has apparently transformed from an insubordinate woman into either a monster in need of subjugation or a tempest that has to be withstood. In fact, they give her the title “Katherine the curst” (I.ii.122). The more the men talk about her, the worse the report of her behavior becomes. In her absence, Katherine’s situation becomes a bit clearer. People talk about her more than they listen to her, and the more people gossip about her, the more they dislike her. She wields her tongue to defend herself in the only way she can, but this only earns her greater disrepute. After all, in the earlier scene between Katherine and the two suitors, Katherine becomes angry after Gremio insults her, although we do not know what transpired before their entrance onstage. At any rate, this scene clarifies the general bias of the men and elicits some sympathy for Katherine. In many ways, the men are more interested in competing in tests of machismo and going to the pub than they are in the thoughts or feelings of the women whom they wish to woo. IV. Choose a college you wish to attend and find the essay prompts on the college's application. ____________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, April 14th (A) and Wednesday, April 15th (B) CLICK ON ICON LABELED "NOVELS AND SCRIPTS" FOR FULL TEXT OF PLAY if you did not purchase or checkout. I. Complete character chart for TAMING OF THE SHREW using an online search (sparknotes or other) if needed. Some classes finished in class. Please do not simply print sparknote version to turn in. II. Highlight or circle answers from the SUMMARY provided in class. Again, you may cheat as much as you like. It is meant to help you. III. Read scene i of the introduction only for the play. It relates to Christopher Sly, a drunkard who is kicked out a tavern and found in the streets by a great Lord. The Lord decides to...(find quotes to support the rest) scene i 1) Why was Sly kicked out of "da-club"? 2) The Lord thinks Sly looks gross. 3) He has an idea to help change Sly. 4) Lord gives huntsman a "to-do" list. List three items. 5) The Lord asks the "players" to ? 6) Bartholomew has weird "to-do" list as well. List two requests. scene ii - We will begin in class here as Sly is "punked". Thanks again for all your hard work on your projects. You did excellent work and there were many who went above and beyond and afar. ___________________________________________________ ROMEO AND JULIET PROJECTS DUE Wednesday, April 8th (A) and Thursday, April 9th (B)...See below and choose ONE from EACH category. CHOOSE ONE OF EACH TO COMPELTE FOR 4/8 and 4/9 CREATIVE CHOICES: Will be graded based on originality and effort. • Create a newspaper (standard size- two pages front and back) business section, obits, life & style, advertisements, local news,events, wedding announcements, etc. • Create a visual representation of an oxymoron or juxtaposition or paradox or or two opposing themes or motifs from the play. • Construct a model of one scene or quote or character or rhetorical device from the play. • Recreate the play as a children’s book (8 pages minimum) WRITTEN RESPONSES: Must be typed and all two pages minimum. Will be graded on cleverness, word choice, and elevated writing style. Due 4/8 and 4/9 • Compare/Contrast R+J to another novel with a similar thematic element • Rewrite one scene from the play (in script format…Not one I did) • Create an ACT V, SCENE 4- a true ending (write in script format) • Choose a thematic quote and create a story surrounding that quote (2 pages minimum). *IF YOU DID NOT GIVE ME $1.50 for "TAMING OF THE SHREW" CHECKOUT FROM THE LIBRARY BEFORE YOU LEAVE ON THURSDAY. *COMPLETE SCAVENGER HUNT FOR ROMEO AND JULIET FOR EXTRA CREDIT ___________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, March 31st (A) and Wednesday, April Fool's Day (B) There is not a homework assignment as we will be writing a TAKS benchmark essay in class. Simply try and remember we discussed last six weeks. Title, beginning, organization, originality, diction (word choice), conclusion strong active voice...Oh and in addition and in latin, ouy nac ralpi olof em para axter dercti. Since we are done with Romeo and Juliet, please bring your Literature book to turn in. On Thursday, April 2nd (A) and Friday, April 3rd (B) ROMEO AND JULIET TEST - 1) Study vocabulary posted and rhetorical devices under the "skills" icon. The vocabulary will be over R and J only, yet skill will be cumulative. You should recognize all. 2) Memorize 14 consecutive lines from one speech of the play. Do not simply list random lines. 3) Included on the test will be questions over the following three speeches: - ACT I The Prince's declaration and Romeo's first words - ACT II The "Balcony" scene - From Romeo says, "But soft! until Juliet says, "Sweet Montague be true." - ACT V scene iii - From Paris, "O, I am slain" until Juliet, "There rust, and let me die." ROMEO AND JULIET PROJECTS DUE Wednesday, April 8th (A) and Thursday, April 9th (B)...See below and choose ONE from each category. CHOOSE ONE OF EACH TO COMPELTE FOR 4/8 and 4/9 CREATIVE CHOICES: • Create a newspaper (standard size- two pages front and back) business section, obits, life & style, advertisements, local news,events, wedding announcements, etc. • Create a visual representation of an oxymoron or juxtaposition or paradox or or two opposing themes or motifs from the play. • Construct a model of one scene or quote or character or rhetorical device from the play. • Recreate the play as a children’s book (8 pages minimum) WRITTEN RESPONSES: Must be typed and all two pages minimum. Due 4/8 and 4/9 • Compare/Contrast R+J to another novel with a similar thematic element • Rewrite one scene from the play (in script format…Not one I did) • Create an ACT V, SCENE 4- a true ending (write in script format) • Choose a thematic quote and create a story surrounding that quote (2 pages minimum). ________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, March 27th (A) and Monday, March 30th (B) Read thoroughly Act V, scene i and ii - "THEN I DEFY YOU STARS!" I. Illustrate the APOTHECARY shop Romeo describes and identify 5 parts. How does Romeo convince the Apothecary to give him illegal poison? (Use a quote) II. Romeo hands the Apothecary the gold saying "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." What does he mean and find a current article on our current ECONOMIC crisis. Print or cutout and briefly summarize. III. Read scene ii and you become FRIAR JOHN. You have 48 hours to tell me why Friar John did not make it to Mantua in time (the REAL reason). It must be before class begin and not simply written on your homework. _______________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, March 25th (A) and Thursday, March 26th (B) I. Reread Friar Laurence's speech on pg 1059. He is trying to convince Romeo not to kill himself. The Friar makes logical and emotional appeals to Romeo. - Identify 3 logical (logos) and 3 emotional (pathos) appeals - Are there any ethical (ethos) appeals? - Would you use logical or emotional appeals with Romeo? Explain why. II. Read Act III, scene 5 (Juliet must choose between Romeo & Paris) - Why does Juliet want the Lark to sing and why so sad about the sunset? - Identify the various emotions experienced by each of the 5 characters during this scene. Use a quote to support. - Juliet mentions Romeo's name twice to Lady Capulet. What is Juliet saying about Romeo in each of these moments? Homework for Monday, March 23rd (A) and Tuesday, March 24th (B) I. Read Act III, scene ii (15 points). (Juliet receives bad news from Nurse) - During Juliet's soliloquy (speech alone), illustrate one line literally. - Identify 5 times in which Juliet changes her "tone" or "attitude" and two oxymorons II. Complete "MySpace" assignment for ROMEO AND JULIET. (30 points) CHOOSE 1 character from the play (cannot choose ROSALINE) and create a MySpace Page that represents that character. MyPage worksheets have been provided. Be as creative as possible- use your imagination and get inspiration from the play (allusions, etc). Please provide more information than what we went over during class discussions. This assignment does not have to be written using Shakespeare's language. The focus is on creativity and how well you grasp the character's personality, possible interests, etc. REMEMBER, many of your classmates will submit MySpace pages for the same character that you chose. Be able to justify your responses...not simply say I like teatherball to be clever. However, Tybalt just might since he can find no person to play with. :) Here is an explanation of the model (since we were unable to post it) with Rosaline examples ... *Top left hand space: Character Name (ex. Rosaline) *Box Below: Picture of character (ex. drawing, photo, magazine clipping, etc) *Quote bubble: Quote that represents the character (ex. "A faithful lamb finds heaven's doors." *STATS box: include where from, age, and MOOD (ex. Verona, Italy. 16 yrs old. MOOD: annoyed) *"IS" space above blogs: _____ is _____________ (ex. Rosaline is not a prize.) *BLOGS box: blogs are similar to journal entries, except you write them for your friends to read. Just write the TITLES of blogs that you wrote. (ex. "OMG - ROMEO WAS AT THE PARTY ..." or "VANITY IS A SIN ...") *INTERESTS box: what would your general interests be? (ex. church, reading, volunteering, hanging out with my girlfriends, scrap-booking, etc) *ABOUT ME box: write about your character and what they would want other people to know about them (ex. "I'm a really good person. I have a great relationship with God and I don't like to be bothered by boys. I like that all of my friends share my moral views because they are very important to me." etc) *MUSIC,MOVIES,BOOKS,TV SHOWS box: really think about what modern forms of media your character would be interested in. (ex. MercyMe, Lifehouse, The Bible, 10 Things I Hate About You, etc) *TOP FRIENDS box: these are the people that have connections to your character. Please include any character that is connected, regardless of whether you think they would have a MySpace page (parents, cousins, friars, servants, etc). Every character chosen must have TOP FRIENDS. ___________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, March 12th (A) and Friday, March 13th (B) I. Bring $1.50 for your copy of "The Taming of the Shrew". I will order them over spring break. II. Complete reading of either Act II, scene v (News from the nurse) OR Act II, scene vi (The Wedding!) depending on which scene your "gender" chose in class. If you forgot winner or winner did not decide, then WOMEN choose "News from the Nurse" and MEN choose "THE WEDDING" (It may be the only time the man chooses to wed...a joke you might understand later) Because the scenes are very brief I want you to know what EACH line means. You do not have to interpret each, but I will be asking you about the more difficult ones upon your return. As for your assignment attempt to create a brief lesson plan for the other "gender" to complete. - What are two of the most important or difficult quotes? - What question could you could ask to help students connect to the scene? - Is there a song which would match? - identify difficult vocabulary words or strong diction (at least 2) - Is there an improvisation activity which would match? - What thematically can you extract from the scene? Remember these are teenagers...Please learn something from them other than how to talk funny. - Provide a topic we could write about in our composition books. - Can you create a homework or research assignment? - rhetorical devices you could identify? (find 2) - visual or even a creation from materials in backpack (Ex. windmill) __________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, March 10th (A) and Wednesday, March 11th (B) I. Read Act II, scene iii and iv II. You are the Paparazzi and now Romeo and Juliet are like totally in the "Verona news"! They are the next "Brangelina". As you read find a quote from each character to support the following events of "Romeit" Find a good "couple photo" to match your evidence. Act II, scene iii 1) Friar Laurence is making poisons and says a paradox about the Earth. 2) Friar Laurence knows something is bothering Romeo because he is awake so early. 3) Romeo tells the Friar he is like not in love with Rosaline anymore. 4) Friar thinks Romeo totally wasted his tears and changes his mind too often. 5) Friar has the bright idea a secret marriage might end the stupid feud. Act II, scene iv 6) Tybalt sends Romeo a challenge to fight. 7) Mercutio thinks Tybalt is a good fighter. 8) Mercutio thinks Romeo ditched him last night. Turn to p. 1034 when nurse enters. 9) Mercutio makes fun of the nurse. 10) Romeo says Mercutio talks too much. Read until the end of the scene and briefly summarize the exchange between the Nurse and Romeo. ADVICE COLUMN for your paper - Write in Shakespeare's language. *Minimum 1/2 page length* Write a letter asking for advice using 1 of the following prompts: - Romeo about Rosaline - Romeo about Juliet being a Capulet - Juliet about Romeo being a Montague - Montague or Lady Montague about Romeo's depression - Benvolio about Romeo's depression - Prince about Capulet/Montague feud After this assignment is turned-in, you will be responding to a classmate's letter with appropriate advice. Homework for Friday, March 6th (A) and Monday, March 9th (B). WE ARE BACK ON SCHEDULE WITH A-DAY COMING FIRST. I. Complete reading Act I, scene ii – From where we left off, Romeo and Benvolio will run into the Capulet servant with the list of "partygoers"... Find one line in scene ii which appears diffictult upon first reading. Please provide your interpretation. Interpret what Romeo says from lines 96-100 on page. 1004 (Please do NOT use translated text such as "No Fear Shakespeare" - Remember, YOUR interpretation may be different.) II. Read Act I, scene iii. Lady Capulet and the Nurse try to convince Juliet into considering marraige with Paris. The Nurse is supposed to be “comic relief”. Summarize her recollection of Juliet as a little girl using at least two quotes to support. Retell a story of your "youth" using at least two quotes from the scene. Please keep it present tense and active voice. How would your reaction be different than Juliet’s? Use a quote from Juliet as support to show similarities or differences. III. Illustrate ANY line from the first three scenes. Please no sticks. __________________________________________________________ NO HOMEWORK DUE FOR TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR TAKS TEST! Remember on the short answers to: - write neatly and a rough draft - use a quote which CLEARLY connects to your answer - find a clever way to answer what might seem an obvious question - use a dictionary and take your time _________________________________________ A DAY STUDENTS SCROLL BELOW! Homework for Friday, February 27th (B) and Monday, March 2nd (A) 5th and 6th period and 1st and 2nd period ONLY! Read the spark/cliff note summary of the play "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" - We will be seeing portions acted out for us on Friday and Monday. Also, complete "Shakespeare" introduction assignments below. 7th and 4th period ONLY! YOU DO NOT NEED to complete "Shakespeare" assignment as we can do it in class. Also, bring 50 cents for "POPCORN PARTY" and your thespianhood... ________________________________________________________________ IN ADDITION: Complete SHAKESPEARE introduction. Sketch him. Acrostic puzzle of facts using book or website. List what you consider the "Seven ages or stages" of a person. Read "The Seven Ages of Man". It is in your literature book. Interpret and illustrate each stage. Read the prologue to "ROMEO AND JULIET". Rewrite the prologue using 10 syllables per line. Make three columns entitled: "Monagues" "Capulets" "Neutral" Under each column fill in the characters who belong in each category from the play. ________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, February 25th (B) and Thursday, February 26th (A) **BRING all assignments complete inside and outside of class the previous week. Vocabulary, 5 observations made on second look from OMAM, and classwork over Ibis, Rage, Onion, ect... Complete short answers for six week test. We compelted number one in class. For TAKS short answer please use a quote from your literature book. Short Answer [10 points each] 1. Explode the moment. Write in the present tense and use the active voice. Avoid “state of being” verbs. Change “She is running” to “She runs.” OR “They are screaming in terror” to “They scream in terror.” 2. TAKS short response. This is in preparation for what you will take March 3rd. Please remember to answer clearly and eloquently. Also, use a “quote” which connects clearly to your answer. You should use not more than 7 lines of notebook paper. What major conflict does Doodle from “The Scarlet Ibis” face? Provide evidence from the story for support. P. 595 IMITATION [5 points] Read the model and then the list of sentences underneath it. Combine the list into one sentence having basically the same structure as the model. The order in which the sentences are listed is the order of the sentence parts of the model. In other words, convert the first sentence into the first sentence part of the model, the second sentence into the second part, and so forth. Write an imitation of the model with the same structure but your own content. Example Model: "The horse found the entrance to the trail where it left the flat and started up, stumbling and slipping on the rocks." - John Steinbeck, “Flight” Sentences to Be Combined 1. The cycle hit something. 2. It hit a stretch. 3. The stretch was ice. 4. It happened as it rounded the bend. 5. In addition, it slid sideways. 6. Then it was tottering. 7. In addition, then it was veering. 8. It was veering towards the shoulder. ABSTRACT CONNECTION – 5 POINTS Connect any character or person we read about or from this SIX weeks TO a Tire (provide10) CHOOSE ONLY ONE PLEASE Lincoln, The onion, King, Obama, Steinbeck, Hurst, Langston Hughes, “A Dream Deferred”, Lennie, George, Curley, Curley’s wife, Candy, The Scarlet Ibis, Doodle, The Narrator… _____________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, February 23rd (B!) and Tuesday, February 24th (A!) CLASSES HAVE SWITCHED DAYS! STUDY VOCABULARY (under vocabulary icon) and RHETORICAL DEVICES (under skills) Homework for Wednesday, February 18th (A) and Thursday, February 19th (B) 5 paragraph essay due / project grade Must be typed and double spaced. COVER PAGE Provide a cover page with the quote chosen centered in the middle of your paper. Include the person responsible for your quote. On cover page, provide your name, date, and class period in the bottom right corner. Please do not put in a folder or plastic contraption. OPTIONS Option 1 - Write a comparative essay between OF MICE AND MEN and "The Scarlet Ibis" Essay should have unique title and introduction. Paragraph two should compate similar events or plot structure (embed quotes) Paragraph three should compare rhetorical devices used by Steinbeck and Hurst (embed quotes) Paragraph four compares parallel themes (embed quotes) Conclusion - use the quote you found in your conclusion Option 2 - Write an expository essay related to a quote you choose. This quote can be from OF MICE AND MEN or another source. Expository essay basically means you EXPLORE the quote. You should have the following... unique title and beginning (action, startle, dialogue, generate emotion, or anecdote/example which could be real or fictional) See essayedge.com for samples. RUBRIC FOR BOTH OPTIONS Unique title Unique or engaging introducion Clever ideas or angles taken on your quote or comparision Elevated Diction or word choice (use your OWN words not a thesaurus) Clear Thesis statement or point (What is YOUR insight on the quote?) Thesis support (Do your allusions and examples connect to your THESIS?) Allusions and examples can be personal, literary, current events, artists, musicians, historical) Homework for Wednesday, February 9th (A) and Thursday, February 10th (B) I. Find one quote which relates to the themes of OF MICE AND MEN (dreams, lonliness, self-pity, or your choice). Provide an outline or pre-writing device which shows your preparation for writing an essay responding to the quote. Think of allusions you might use and more importantly your thesis statement of the point you want to make. II. Second Look - Read any portions from OF MICE AND MEN and provide 5 observations you made. Please include quote and page # you are alluding to. _______________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, February 7th (A) and Tuesday, February 8th (B) I. Use a video clip of your choice and complete the best version you can for "Explode the moment". Remember to keep in the present tense and use some of the rhetorical devices we have studied. II. Analysis of your parents' "STAKE". In connection with George and Lennie's dream, discuss with your parents fiscal (financial) responsibility and provide an itemized list of what responsibilies they have each month. (No exact dollar amounts are required.) This is simply an exercise in money management which is relevant to our economic plight today as well as for the characters in our novel. ___________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, February 5th (A) and Friday, February 6th (B) I. Complete reading Chapter V thoroughly. II. Complete vocabulary assignment related to Of Mice and Men and "Orator" vocabulary. The assignment and words are posted in the "vocabulary" link. V IS FOR VENDETTA.... _________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, February 3rd (A) and Wednesday, February 4th (B) TYPE your own commerical. It should be one page and please follow the format below: INT. DAY - SCHOOL CLASSROOM TEACHER shrouded in a halloween mask of gore stands stealthly to the side of the door. Bright overhead light shines in student faces as they enter. NARRATOR Once you're in high school, all the holidays just are not quite the same. TEACHER jumps to scare ingressing student. TEACHER AHHHH! Student does not flinch. STUDENT Oh my God Mr. Chalk, you're like totally stupid. MR. CHALK is crestfallen. Removes mask. NARRATOR Well, at least some people try. MR. CHALK OK, then, I guess it's back to the good polysyndeton. Class sighs. Homework for Friday, January 30th (A) and Monday, February 2nd (B) I. Read Chapter IV from OF MICE AND MEN. (Crooks vs. Lennie) II. Illustrate Crooks's bunkhouse and for three items provide insight into his character. III. All the men have gone into town and only Lennie and Crooks remain. Provide insight on CROOKS based on the following below. This is similar to what we completed in class. Remember we are analyzing not summarizing and hopefully building character ourselves. a) Our actions - Choose a SPECIFIC action and provide insight. b) What we say - Choose a SPECIFIC quote c) Our reaction to others - Choose a reaction Lennie has to Crooks or vice versa and speculate d) What we say about others - Choose a specific quote in which the character discusses others and provide your thought. e) Illustrate anything related to either character DURING their conversation. IV. Complete A - E for yourself for any portion of your day or "scene". Please be insightful not simply say "I opened a door for someone." __________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, January 28th (A) and Thursday, January 29th (B) I. Read chapter III (pgs. 38-66) II. For every 4 pages copy ONE quote you consider important to the story, good writing, or insightful on the left side of the paper. To the right of the quote provide clever insight to the quote and please write your response well. You should have a total of SEVEN. III. Find the example of a rhetorical shift at the beginning of Chapter III and for the end briefly describe the fight between Lennie and Curley in the present tense and active voice. Use a rhetorical device if you dare... EXAMPLE: Blinded with his own blood, Lennie engulfs Curley's hand beyond revenge, beyond rage, beyond anything George can do to stop him. IV. Bring a deck of cards to class. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homework for Monday, January 26th (A) and Tuesday, January 27th (B) I. Read from the remainder of Chapter I and all of Chapter II from OF MICE AND MEN. Please make certain you are aware of the events which occur as you be asked simple "recall" questions upon return. Might I suggest you make notes as you read. II. Create a floorplan of the bunkhouse as described at the beginning of Chapter II. It should be as similar as possible to the design used by an architect. See architect.com for samples. Please complete as neatly as possible on graph paper or copy paper, print as similar to an expected architect's writing as possible, and yes, lines should be straight. III. Characterization. Provide a brief insightful analysis into Steinbeck's introduction of each character in chapter II. Please do NOT state the obivious or simply prove you have read. (The Boss, Curley, Candy, Curley's wife, and Slim) Provide a quote which supports your belief. Below is a sample from chapter one in the characterization of Lennie. Lennie's approach the "green pool" is depicted as almost neandrethal as he "snorts" water down. Before saying a word we know Lennie does things haphazardly and according to George, is unable to monitor how much he water he drinks. "You gonna be sick like you was last night." Most men might have to regulate alcohol intake, yet for simple minded Lennie, even the most simple task of drinking water can be perilous. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homework for Thursday, January 22nd (A) and Friday, January 23rd (B) I. Analyze President Obama's inauguration speech based on his rhetorical devices, not your political agenda. Provide at least 15 total examples of any of the following (15 total, not each): diction/word choice (and definition) allusions figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole) repetition (anaphora, epistrophe) phrases (infinitive, appositive, prepositional, participial) imagery II. We will begin OF MICE AND MEN on Thursday and Friday. Research acrostically facts about the author, John Steinbeck. _________________________________________________________ SEE SKILLS AND VOCABULARY if needed. Homework for EXAM week is simply to complete the review given to you in class. We will complete most of it in class, yet the literary elements and themes for each story we will not do. The review is worth 20 points of your final exam and also will earn you the curve if needed. If you are exempt, simply bring your review by or slide under the door anytimg next week. Great work on your projects as you all seemed to work hard. I was very impressed. Sorry to use "very" but I was about to use totally. ______________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, December 16th (A) and Friday, December 17th (B) ILLUSTRATED PLEASANTVILLE PROJECT is due either this day or the day we return from the holidays. It will count as TWO PROJECT grades and will be our final grade of the six weeks. If you took the passage from the test home and would like to continue your short answer or essay, please look below. You WILL have time in class to complete your test, so do not fret. Short answer - What is Ackerman's attitude about Earth? Provide evidence from the passage to support your answer. Essay - Write an essay in which you analyze how Ackerman' rhetorical strategies convey her attitude toward human responsibility for Earth. 200 words - Choose 3 devices to discuss and please write in 3 different brief paragraphs. imagery, diction, syntax, figurative language, point of view, tone, or repetition _____________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, December 14th (A) and Wednesday, December 15th (B) STUDY for six week test. See the "skills" page for terms from word wall. See p. 1179 if you need review over basic "skills" such as conjunctions, prepositions, etc. _________________________________________________________________________ Cover page – Create a piece of ART relating to anything we have read or studied this year. This could be a combination of ideas, abstract art, surreal, etc. 1) Culinary art – Find a recipe and cook a meal for your family which you have NEVER prepared before. Provide the recipe and evidence you cooked from parent or guardian. Make three connections between what you prepared to a story we read. “You want to fry my eggs for me?” 2) ART – Provide your thoughts or interpretation of a piece of art. Provide the IMAGE or you might imitate. Also provide the artist and an “extended connection” between the art and something we have read. “They’re beautiful Bud. But where am I ever going to see colors like that?” 3) MUSIC – Provide the lyrics to one of your favorite songs. Annotate and again provide an “extended connection” between the piece of music and our reading. “And I’m on my knees searching for the answer.” – The Killers 4) FILM – Watch a foreign film, one you have not seen and provide images representing film, title, director, screenwriter, editor, director of photography, art director, and producer. Provide insightful comments on the films plot, acting, or overall quality as well as an insightful connection to our reading. Pan’s Labyrinth is my suggestion yet rated R for violence. 5) PHILOSOPHER/WRITER – Find a quote you relate to from a philosopher or writer. Try and find one from one you have not read from before. Provide a 150 word insightful response as to why this quote resonates with you. An image or sketch of the writer/philosopher should also be attached. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” - Shakespeare 6) CURRENT EVENT – Provide your insight into a recent event in the news using “quotes” from an actual source. Provide correct MLA documentation and an image relating to event. Explain how this event is related to some of the “fiction” we have read. 7) TRAVEL – Provide images and information on a city you would like to visit or possibly live one day. Research cost of flights, cost of living, local attractions, and any other element which interests you. Provide correct MLA citation. 8) ENTITLEMENT – Complete a chore (not making your bed) which you are normally not asked to complete. Describe and provide evidence from your parent or guardian. Attach image, drawing, or evidence. “Paintings lie.” Rubric - 90 – 100 These projects are complete, professional, and most importantly show insight or elevated thought. 80-89 These projects are complete and all is provided, yet sloppy in certain parts and lacking in elevated thought or effort. 70-79 Projects are missing one or two elements required and there is little evidence of effort or insight. Project turned in simply to be complete. 60-69 Missing three or more of required elements. Lack of effort, thought, or insight. If you wrote a ONE or a ZERO for any of the recent short answer questions you may rewrite and submit for a possible higher grade. See me for a copy of the TAKS benchmark in order to find your evidence. TAKS SHORT ANSWER 1) In "Fighting Fire" what is a major conflict the author is facing? 2) In "Fighting Fire" does Caroline Paul acheive her dream? 3) How is the idea of being exiled relevant in both "Fighting Fire" and "The Exiles"? __________________________ No homework for Wednesday, December 10th (A) and Thursday, December (11th) (My dad's birthday, 68, and taking a break in honor of my "Bodoni".) Homework for Monday, December 8th (A) and Tuesday, December 9th (B) I. Read "Zero Hour" and for each of the following explain how it connects to the story and also a personal connection. Write to impress though brief. "life and death" "Can't play with Drill" "Make fun of us" "impressionable" "adults too busy" "impregnable" "Peek-a-boo" II. Read "The Rocket". 1) Read the synopsis for the film LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL and explain the connection between the film and this short story. 2) Explain how your parents have acted as "Bodelli". 3) We are now finished with THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Look at the stars and write down thoughts you have. Oh...and read the epilogue... LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL In this WW II tragicomedy, famed Italian funnyman Roberto Benigni (The Monster) portrays Guido, who moves during the '30s from the country to a Tuscan town, where he is entranced by schoolteacher Dora (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). Dora likes Guido, but she remains faithful to her pompous fiancé, so Guido has an uphill struggle. Meanwhile, anti-Semitic attitudes lead to attacks against Guido's Jewish uncle (Giustino Durano). Leaping ahead to five years later, during WW II, Guido and Dora are married and have a son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). After they are imprisoned in a concentration camp, Guido goes to elaborate lengths to keep his son from understanding the truth of their situation. He tells the boy that they are competing with others to win an armored tank -- so everything from food shortages to tattoos is explained as necessary for participation in the contest. Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide _______________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, December 4th (A) and Friday, December 5th (B) I. Complete reading "Marionettes, INC" and provide the following for six words of your choice. (DICTION - WORD CHOICE) denotation - the dictionary definition connotation - the emotional impact of a word or associations to the word abstract connection to the story - Provide a connection to the story which is not literal or overly obvious. II. Draw your own "city" which takes up a majority of the paper. Read "The City" and cover your buildings, bridges, highways, ect. with "quotes" representing the following" personification - providing human qualities apostrophe - speaking directly to an object as if real anthromorphism - object changes to human form III. Please simply read the assignment below and return with any questions you have. This project is extensive and will count as two project/test grades. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Illustrated Pleasantville Animal – A project to again add “color”. Due Thursday, December 18th (A) and Friday, December 19th (B) or Monday, January 5th and Tuesday, January 6th Cover page – Create a piece of ART relating to anything we have read or studied this year. This could be a combination of ideas, abstract art, surreal, etc. 1) Culinary art – Find a recipe and cook a meal for your family which you have NEVER prepared before. Provide the recipe and evidence you cooked from parent or guardian. Make three connections between what you prepared to a story we read. “You want to fry my eggs for me?” 2) ART – Provide your thoughts or interpretation of a piece of art. Provide the IMAGE or you might imitate. Also provide the artist and an “extended connection” between the art and something we have read. “They’re beautiful Bud. But where am I ever going to see colors like that?” 3) MUSIC – Provide the lyrics to one of your favorite songs. Annotate and again provide an “extended connection” between the piece of music and our reading. “And I’m on my knees searching for the answer.” – The Killers 4) FILM – Watch a foreign film, one you have not seen and provide images representing film, title, director, screenwriter, editor, director of photography, art director, and producer. Provide insightful comments on the films plot, acting, or overall quality. Pan’s Labyrinth is my suggestion yet rated R for violence. 5) PHILOSOPHER/WRITER – Find a quote you relate to from a philosopher or writer. Try and find one from one you have not read from before. Provide a 150 word insightful response as to why this quote resonates with you. An image or sketch of the writer/philosopher should also be attached. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” - Shakespeare 6) CURRENT EVENT – Provide your insight into a recent event in the news using “quotes” from an actual source. Provide correct MLA documentation and an image relating to event. Explain how this event is related to some of the “fiction” we have read. 7) TRAVEL – Provide images and information on a city you would like to visit or possibly live one day. Research cost of flights, cost of living, local attractions, and any other element which interests you. 8) ENTITLEMENT – Complete a chore (not making your bed) which you are normally not asked to complete. Describe and provide evidence from your parent or guardian. Attach image, drawing, or evidence. “Paintings lie.” Rubric - 90 – 100 These projects are complete, professional, and most importantly show insight or elevated thought. 80-89 These projects are complete and all is provided, yet sloppy in certain parts and lacking in elevated thought or effort. 70-79 Projects are missing one or two elements required and there is little evidence of effort or insight. Project turned in simply to be complete. 60-69 Missing three or more of required elements. Lack of effort, thought, or insight. ______________________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, December 2nd (A) and Wednesday, December 3rd (B) “A good book will teach you more than a great teacher.” – Ray Bradbury Connect elements in the story to 10 Thanksgiving “visitors” you will see or saw. Please be clever though standing in the shadow of an upcoming “sun dome”. Homework: Read “The Concrete Mixer”. Read sitting on concrete for extra credit. 1) Describe the “martian” attack. Keep ACTIVE. Explain from beginning to end without saying “was, were, got, and that”. Use simple sentences. Do not write any complex sentences unless you truly feel complex. 2) Near your description, draw the most influential image from the story with quote to connect. 3) How is this story satirical? Extra credit…Thankgiving break only. 1) Give every relative an extra two seconds on the initial “Thanksgiving hug”. 2) Do most if not ALL the dishes. 3) Tell your parents you are thankful for everything they have done for you. Trust me, they have done a good job. 4) Prove you went into “Schlotsky’s detail” for at least two conversations. Ask questions... 5) Ask each of your relatives “older” than you what his or her best advice is or to share something with the family they never have. 6) Teach one of your “older” relatives something new about technology +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homework for Tuesday, November 23rd (A) and Monday, November 29th (B) Read “The Fox and the Forest” and make Ten connections with other “time traveling” films or stories. Explain each using a brief “quote” from the story. Write to impress though brief. Examples... 1) Susan Travis and Sara O’Connor both came from similar settings. “We come from a land that was evil.” 2) There were period of brief respite while being “searched” by both the “terminator” and “Mr. Simms”. “Come to bed.” 3) The Travis couple was given psychological blocs. Such as In Back to the Future the “Past and the Future must be protected from each other.” Terminator, The Time Machine, The Butterfly Effect, Time Bandits, Back to the Future, Timeline... RUBRIC - 90-100- Connections are well written and quotes chosen match well. 80-89 - Complete, yet done hastily and quotes do not match. 70-79 - Connections prove you read, yet no quotes. (Rest in peace Michael Crichton author of Timeline, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Congo, Airframe, Sphere, and others.) Vocabulary in story… aseptic - 1 a: preventing infection <aseptic techniques> b: free or freed from pathogenic microorganisms <an aseptic operating room>2: lacking vitality, emotion, or warmth <aseptic essays> If unable to finish TAKS short answer, they are below: Open ended response. (15 points each) Write legibly and within the box. Answer the question clearly and eloquently (without saying “I think that”). Find a quote which clearly connects to your response. If you have trouble, try finding the “quote” first and writing to match the quote. 1) What is one conflict Caroline Paul faces in “Fighting Fire”? Provide evidence to support your answer. 2) In “Fighting Fire” has Caroline Paul achieved her dream? Provide evidence to support your answer. 3) How does the idea of being an outcast apply to “Fighting Fire” and “The Exiles”. Provide evidence from BOTH selections to support your answer. _________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, November 21st (A) and Monday, November 22nd (B) Bring any work related to "The Fire Balloons" and "The Exiles" as we will be collecting our first grade for this six weeks. Homework: Complete an “INSIGHTFUL EYE” for “No Particular Night or Morning” Draw three concentric circles on a piece of light colored copy paper or construction paper. If you use blank copy paper at least use colored pencils. In the inner circle: a) write the most significant word from the story b) copy passage where word appears and p. # c) give definition of the word (denotation) d) Explain why this word is important to the story. In the Middle circle of each: a) Draw three images from the story b) explain the tie between the illustration and the word you selected in the middle. In the OUTER CIRCLE of each: Write three thematic statements drawn from the significant word and your illustrations. These statements do not need to mention the word, yet should relate. These are statements about life or universal truths drawn from the text. Rubric: 90-100 – Completed all requirements in a neat, colorful, and correct fashion/ Composed three insightful thematic statements – 80-89 These “eyes” are less thorough, less meticulous, less vivid with clichés’ as thematic statements – 70-79 –Incomplete, incorrect, yet at least show evidence of reading the stories. 60-69 Evident you did not read nor put forth much effort. _______________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, November 19th (A) and Thursday, November 20th (B) I. Read "THE EXILES". II. Create ONE example of EACH of the assignments below: - song and connections (Find a song which would connect well.) - allusions (you will see several) - improvisation ideas (How could we act this out? Do not simply say deleted scenes.) - research assignments (Do not say authors in the story, but you can tell me to use the correct MLA documentation.) - rhetorical devices (Find one or two I would point out to you. ) - write one multiple choice question which would require higher level thinking EVEN IF YOU CAN USE THE BOOK - theme or author's purpose (This is so stupid. Why do we have to read this?) - vocabulary you use and do not (You look up the words this time.) - creative project ideas (Tell me what to build.) - illustrations (What should I draw?) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homework for November 17th, Monday (A) and Tuesday, November 18th (B) I. Read "The Fire Balloons" and make explain how the following connect to the story. 1) "virtue" 2) "intelligent" 3) "the devils!" 4) "the globes saved us." 5) "geometry problem" 6) "reproduce" 7) "Truth." II. Read "The Last Night of the World" and explain how the following connect. 8) "screaming in the streets" 9) "the door?" 10) "the water running" III. Document a conversation you have with someone in which you try to persuade them to take your side. This could be a serious or simple topic. Please do not simply write "We argued about Batman." Provide arguements from each side. __________________________________________________________ Homework for November 13th, Thursday (A) and November 14th, Friday (B) Turn in any missing projects or toil. Our last grade of the six weeks will be our composition book. Please have a full page on the following if applicable: 1) Stephen King suggestions 2) Intelligent object (Write from first person as object.) 3) One page of your OWN 4) Almanac expert (Choose random topic yet write as expert in the field.) 5) One page of your OWN 6) POE imitation of daily chores 7) Monster details (This might not be a page.) 8) Story using objects and suggestions around the room 9) To be completed in class... Excellent work on projects. ______________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th (A) and WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12th (B) I. Choose one of the following: 1) Illustrate yourself representing each of the first six stories/tattoos. 2) Create anything representing each of the first six stories using only items around your home. II. We will have test over the first six stories as well on this date. You may make a cheat-cheat using 10 terms from the "skills" page you still are uncertain. III. A DAY STUDENTS COMPLETE AS NEEDED from Friday... “The Long Rain” p. 53 – Mr. Chalk – English I Answer in complete sentences or “quotes”. 1) Using the description of rain find an example of a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and an adjective? 2) If one of the men is a cynic, what type of person is he? Remember Benjamin. 3) Which way is north from where you are sitting? east? Should I have capitalized regions? 4) Where does Simmons keep the boat? 5) Describe the method of Chinese punishment the men discuss? 6) What is CAMEMBERT? 7) What is the best quote describing “the monster”. What type of figurative language did you choose? 8) What do you think the SUN DOMES are symbolic of? 9) What is one quote used to describe the burned man’s body? 10) Which rhetorical device is used in the 2nd paragraph at the top of p. 58.? 11) How many SEAS are on Venus? How many oceans are there on this one? 12) Provide one quote best describing the first SUN DOME. 13) Why do the Venusians attack? What do they do with the bodies? 14) What event does Pickard compare the rain to? Use one quote. 15) What is happening to Simmons’s ears? Provide one quote. _________________+++++++++++++++++++++$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$%%%%%%%%%%%%% Homework for Friday, November 7th (A) and Monday, November 10th (B) I. Read "The Man" and explain how the following relate to the story. 1) "Planet 43" 2) "hypocrisy" 3) "Paintings lie." 4) "There's no way to tell you anything." 5) "peace and quiet" II. Researh any event happening outside of "your world". Write a brief paragraph as if you are on vacation there and of course as an intelligent tourist. Provide proper MLA format for documentation. III. Research any religion other than the one you pracitce. Again write a brief paragraph of your research as an expert. Provide MLA documentation. ************************************************************************* Homework for Wednesday, November 5th (A) and Thursday, November 6th (B) I. Do "one good thing" for someone else and document. Do more for extra credit. If you did not finish copying "Kaleidoscope" connections, they are below: 1) "a tourniquet" 2) "I got drunk." 3) "Mean" 4) "an invisible butcher" 5) "one good thing" 6) "Make a wish." II. Read "The Other Foot" (tattoo #3) and explain how the following connect to the story: 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. III. Read ANY article on the topic of discrimination or civil rights and provide a brief summary written with a tone of anger. Also provide the correct MLA documentation. See "links" icon if unclear. ************************************************************************ Homework for Monday, November 3rd (A) and Tuesday, November 4th (B) I. Read "The Veldt". It is the first tattoo or story from "The Illustrated Man". It is available on our "links" page if you do not have the novel yet. II. Go TWO HOURS without the use of technology. Give parents ipod, cellphone, turn off computer and video games, etc. You should have your parent write and sign that you unplugged yourself for two hours. III. Find THREE examples of IMAGERY and THREE satirical statements. Satire is the use of mockery. IV. Explain how your family connects to "THE VELDT". ****************************************************************** Homework for Thursday, October 30th (A) and Friday, October 31st (B) Complete the written portion of our "POE-TEST". Also bring your copy of "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN" from now until December 7th. There will be a penalty for late work as we do not have other homework due. Short Answer - You may do on your own if needed for NEXT class period. (10 points) 1. In the “The Masque of the Red Death” how would you describe Prince Prospero’s character? Provide evidence to support your answer. I am going to provide two quotes and I want you to write an answer to EACH. Make sure your answer matches. “The external world could take care of itself.” “Seize him and unmask him—so that we may know whom we have to hang tomorrow at sunrise.” (6 points) 2. “He had come like a thief in the night.” List 10 ways the Red Death had acted like a thief. (4 points) 3. List 10 items needed on Prince Prospero’s “TO-DO” list as needed for his masquerade ball. (Please do not simply list seven different colors of paint.) (6 points) 4. Using the prologue from THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, make 5 connections BETWEEN “THE ILLUSTRATED MAN” AND ANY CHARACTER WE HAVE READ ABOUT. PLEASE CHOOSE ONLY ONE. See below for excerprt and use if needed. (4 POINTS) 5. Time to say goodbye to the sorrowful Edgar. Please CONNECT ANYTHING FROM SESAME STREET to the works we read by Edgar Allan Poe. “CasK of Amontillado”, “Masque of the Red Death”, “Annabel Lee”, “The Raven”, and the story you chose to read on your own. SUNNY DAY - THEME Sunny day - Sweepin’ the clouds away, On my way to where the air is sweet. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street. Come and play, everything’s A-OK Friendly neighbors there that’s where we meet Can you tell me how to get How to get to Sesame Street It’s a magic carpet ride. Every door will open wide. Happy people like you. Happy people who. Like a beautiful sunny day sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN" - PROLOGUE He sat down heavily, grunting. 'You'll be sorry you asked me to stay," he said. "Everyone always is. That's why I'm walking. Here it is, early. September, the cream of the Labor Day carnival season. I should be making money hand over fist at any small town side show celebration, but here I am with no prospects." He took off an immense shoe and peered at it closely. "I usually keep a job about ten days. Then something happens and they fire me. By now every carnival in America won't touch me with a ten-foot pole." "What seems to be the trouble?" I asked. For answer, he unbuttoned his tight collar, slowly. With his eyes shut, he put a slow hand to the task of unbuttoning his shirt all the way down. He slipped his fingers in to feel his chest. "Funny," he said, eyes still shut. 'You can't feel them but they're there. I always hope that someday I'll look and they'll be gone. I walk in the sun for hours on the hottest days, baking, and hope that my sweat'll wash them off, the sun'll cook them off, but at sundown they're still there." He turned his head slightly toward me and exposed his chest. "Are they still there now?" After a long while I exhaled. "Yes," I said. "They're still there." The Illustrations. "Another reason I keep my collar buttoned up," he said, opening his eyes, "is the children. They follow me along country roads. Everyone wants to see the pictures, and yet nobody wants to see them." He took his shirt off and wadded it in his hands. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line. "It keeps right on going," he said, guessing my thought. "All of me is Illustrated. Look." He opened his hand. On his palm was a rose, freshly cut, with drops of crystal wake among the soft pink petals. I put my hand out to touch it, but it was only an Illustration. As for the rest of him, I cannot say how I sat and stared, for be was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. When his flesh twitched, the tiny mouths flickered, the tiny green-and-gold eyes winked, the tiny pink hands gestured. There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest. The people themselves were in twenty or more odd groups upon his arms, shoulders, back, sides, and wrists, as well as on the flat of his stomach. You found them in forests of hair, lurking among a constellation of freckles, or peering from armpit caverns, diamond eyes aglitter. Each seemed intent upon his own activity, each was a separate gallery portrait. "Why, they're beautiful!" I said. How can I explain about his Illustrations? If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with all his sulphurous color, elongation, and anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art. The colors burned in three dimensions. They were windows looking in upon fiery reality. Here, gathered on one wall, were all the finest scenes in the universe the man was a walking treasure gallery. This wasn't the work of a cheap carnival tattoo man with three colors and whisky on his breath. This was the accomplishment of a living genius vibrant, clear, and beautiful. "Oh, yes," said the Illustrated Man. "I'm so proud of my Illustrations that I'd like to burn them off. I've tried sandpaper, acid, a knife . . ." The sun was setting. The moon was already up in the East. "For, you see," said the Illustrated Man, "these Illustrations predict the future." I said nothing. "It's all right in sunlight," he went on. "I would keep a carnival day job. But at night--the pictures move. The pictures change." I must have smiled. "How long have you been Illustrated?" "In 1900, when I was twenty years old and working a carnival, I broke my leg. It laid me up; I had to do something to keep my band in, so I decided to get tattooed." "But who tattooed you? What happened to the artist?" "She went back to the future," he said. "I mean it. She was an old woman in a little house in the middle of Wisconsin here somewhere not far from this place. A little old witch who looked a thousand years old one moment and twenty years old the next, but she said she could travel in time. I laughed. Now, I know better." "How did you happen to meet her?" He told me. He had seen her painted sign by the road SKIN ILLUSTRATION! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic! So he had sat all night while her magic needles stung him wasp stings and delicate bee stings. By morning he looked like a man who had fallen into a twenty color print press and been squeezed out, all bright and picturesque. "I've hunted every summer for fifty years," he said, putting his hands out on the air. "When I find that witch I'm going to kill her." The sun was gone. Now the first stars were shining and the moon had brightened the fields of grass and wheat. Still the Illustrated Man's pictures glowed like charcoals in the half light, like scattered rubies and emeralds, with Rouault colors and Picasso colors and the long, pressed out El Greco bodies. "So people fire me when my pictures move. They don't like it when violent things happen in my Illustrations. Each Illustration is a little story. If you watch them, in a few minutes they tell you a tale. In three hours of looking you could see eighteen or twenty stories acted right on my body, you could hear voices and think thoughts. It's all here, just waiting for you to look. But most of all, there's a special spot on my body." He bared his back. "See?" There's no special design on my right shoulder blade, just a jumble." "Yes. " "When I've been around a person long enough, that spot clouds over and fills in. If I'm with a woman, her picture comes there on my back, in an hour, and shows her whole life-how she'll live, how she'll die, what she'll look like when she's sixty. And if it's a man, an hour later his picture's here on my back. It shows him falling off a cliff, or dying under a. train. So I'm fired again." All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust--the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron. Now he lay back, long and full in the moonlight. It was a warm night. There was no breeze and the air was stifling. We both had our shirts off. "And you'll never found the old woman?" "Never." "And you think she came from the future?" "How else could she know these stories she painted on me?" He shut his eyes tiredly. His voice grew fainter. "Sometimes at night I can fed them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they're doing what they have to do. I never look at them any more. I just try to rest. I don't sleep much. Don't you look at them either, I warn you. Turn the other way when you sleep." I lay back a few feet from him. He didn't seem violent, and the pictures were beautiful. Otherwise I might have been tempted to get out and away from such babbling. But the Illustrations . . . I let my eyes fill up on them. Any person would go a little mad with such things upon his body. The night was serene. I could bear the Illustrated Man's breathing in the moonlight. Crickets were stirring gently in the distant ravines. I lay with my body sidewise so I could- watch the Illustrations. Perhaps half an hour passed. Whether the Illustrated Man slept I could not tell, but suddenly I heard him whisper, 'They're moving, aren't they?" I waited a minute. Then I said, "Yes." The pictures were moving, each in its turn, each for a brief minute or two. There in the moonlight, with the tiny tinkling thoughts and the distant sea voices, it seemed, each little drama was enacted. Whether it took an hour or three hours for the dramas to finish, it would be hard to say. I only know that I lay fascinated and did not move while the stars wheeled in the sky. Eighteen Illustrations, tighten tales. I counted them one by one. Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene, a large house with two people in it. I saw a flight of vultures on a blazing flesh sky, I saw yellow lions, and I heard voices. The first Illustration quivered and came to life.... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homework for Tuesday, October 28th (A) and Wednesday, October 29th (B) I. Bring YOUR copy of "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury. $7.50 in library or find your own. II. STUDY for Poe test. Study the cumulative list (meaning Animal Farm and "Most Dangerous Game" as well). Also study from the "skills" list as posted under the skills icon. Provide 8 samples of the "skills". You can use the ones I posted. I just want to make sure you went there. _________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, October 24th (A) and Monday, October 25th (B) Complete "V" list for Ed Poe. I. Copy (write out yourself)and define 15 words from the Poe list. With these words provide and illustration and use sparingly in a "pitch" of a horror film idea you have of your own OR a description or summary of one you have seen. II. Choose 10 words you KNOW from "Cask" p. 207 or "Masque" on Poe website and provide your definition. You do not need illustrations and may use in the horror film described above. ____________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 22nd (A) and Thursday, October 23rd (B) Type a mini-research paper in which you write once again as an "expert" about one of your class's three topics chosen in class. You may also choose the "plague" as a topic since it is the basis of our next story. As you write intertwine actual facts you research and make sure to properly document your source. To see proper MLA format visit the "links" icon and click on MLA DOCUMENTATION LINK. Some of you did excellent work on your comics while others continute to excel in doing nothing? ______________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, October 20th (A) and Tuesday, October 21st (B) Purchase or check out a copy of "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN" by Ray Bradbury. It is available in the library for $7.50 or you can find on your own. We will begin reading once complete with "Poe". Turn in 2nd or improved version of your comic related to the short story you chose from Poe. This should be an example of the BEST WORK you can turn in. It will count as 50 points of our weekly grade. If you did not annotate "Annabel Lee" or Poe facts as listed below, please complete for the next class period for 50% credit. _____________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, October 16th (A) and Friday, October 17th (B) 1) Read and annotate the poem "ANNABEL LEE" by Edgar Allan Poe. Copy and paste or read from Literature book on p. 199. Provide 15 annotations. *annotations can be vocabulary, rhetorical devices, thoughts, connections, etc. 2) Spell EDGAR ALLAN POE vertically down your paper. Across his name list facts you find out about him from either the book or his website. "Never to have suffered would never have been blessed." - Ed Poe _______________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, October 14th and Wednesday, October 15th (B) Go to the "Links" icon and click on either website for EDGAR ALLAN POE. Both are pretty cool or whatever. Once there, read one short story written by Poe other than "The Cask of Amontillado", "Masque of the Red Death", or "Tale-Tell Heart". After reading please complete the following: 1) Create an 8 frame comic strip which retells the story. Use quotes from the actual story in each frame. Please do the best work you can. 2) Choose two of the most difficult sentences in the story to understand. Copy and translate what you think it means the best you can. _____________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, October 4th (A) and Wednesday October 5th (B) I. Complete written portion of BOTH six week test and TAKS test. II. Real conversation with parents. Document. III. Kurt Vonnegut facts acrostically. NO HOMEWORK FOR Thursday, October 2nd (A) or Friday, October 3rd (B) ...unless you have been a Mollie. All late projects or work must be turned in THURDAY MORNING as I will not be here Friday or Monday. Final homework assignment for first six weeks... SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT - Due September 30, Tuesday (A dayS) and Wednesday, October 1st (B daYs) *For students turning in the assignment this time have your parent/guardian write and sign the following statement on the BACK of your typed fifteen "elements". "I have witnessed my son/daughter reading this novel during this past summer or during the first six weeks of school." X_____________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________ For Friday, September 26th (A) and MOnday, September 29th (B) Try and complete written portion of FIrsT Six Week Test. You will have time in class next week if needed as this is part of a test grade. 1) Explain which character other than Napoleon is to blame for the demise of Animal Farm. Provide evdidence or a quote to support your answer. The novel is on-line if needed or you may simply recall a certain quote. 2) Write two sentences in the ACTIVE VOICE about the events on Animal Farm. 3) Describe events on Animal Farm using "That" and "got" at least twice each. Now return and omit or replace. 4) Make 10 connections between ANY Animal on Animal Farm and PEANUT BUTTER. Essay 100 words / 10 points Explain the importance of reading, understanding, and dissecting the novel Animal Farm. Use characters, quotes, and events to support your opinion. Please feel free NOT to simply repeat what I have said. “Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” - Marcus Aurelius ______________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK FOR WEDNESDAY (A) AND THURSDAY (B) STUDY FOR TEST USING "V FOR VOCABULARY" ICON AND "SKILLS" ICON FOR RHETORICAL AND LITERARY DEVICES. Please bring "Animal Farm" book to return... *quESTion number one the test is do you have your "Animal Farm" book or not? Homework for September 22nd, MOnday (A) and September 23, Tuesday (B)... We will be collecting ALL work from the previous week. Please bring all classwork and ANY late work for this week. This means you can go back and complete assignments for chapters 5-8 as well. I. Create "V" list for ANimal Farm using words under "V is vocabulary" icon. It should include 10 words you do not know and a visual to the left and 10 words you DO know at the bottom of the page. You do not need a visual for ones you know. On the back of paper write a speech as one of the pigs using 10 of the 20 words from your list. Write to impress and mix in a rhetorical device if possible. II. Read Chapters 9 and 10 and prove you read 10 different ways. Homework for September 18th, Thursday (A) and September 19th, Friday (B) I. Read Chapter SeveN and make 7 annotations on TWO different pages. You may copy and paste a page or simply make 7 notations on your own paper. II. Read Chapter vIII and explain how the following connect to the book. Also please provide a UNIQUE, CLEVER, or ORIGInAL connection to society please. 1) #'s are confusing 2) WAR IS PEACE - George Orwell (1984) 3) "confess" 4) "to excess" III. Find 7 examples of the rhetorical devices we looked at in class. These can be from Animal Farm, online, your own book, the news, etc. - epistrophe (repetition @ end) - anaphora (repetition @ the beginning) - polysyndeton (repetition of conjunctions) - asyndeton (omission of conjunctions) - paradox (statement appearing to contradict itself, yet true) - analogy (extended metaphor) - alliteration (repetition of consonant sound @ beginning of words) - assonance (repetition of vowel sounds within words) - personification (providing objects or animals with human qualities) - hyperbole (exaggeration by the author) - simile (comparison using like or as) - metaphor (comparision between two unlike things) - imagery (writing which relates to the five senses) ____________________________________________________________________ Homework due for September 16th, TUESDAY (A) and September 17th, WEDNESDAY (B) Animal Farm Chapter 5 - Read and explain each symbolic event using literal details or "QUOTES" from the chapter. 1. A better city, school, or neighborhood to live. "Grass is greener on the other side." 2. Citizens who defect 3. The U.S. Senate 4. Presidential debates 5. Politicians or leaders who do not originate ideas of their own 6. The introduction of ANY new plan. Most people are hesitant to change. 7. America is deeply divided over Iraq and other political ideas. 8. The masses usually agree with the one speaking at the moment. 9. The secret service or KGB (military police of Russia) 10. "If we don't strike back, the terrorists will hit us again." Chapter 6 - Read Chapter six and explain how the pigs create a positive spin on the following negative events. 1) Animals have to work a 60 hour week. 2) The animals will now engage in tradt. 3) The pigs will be moving into the house and sleeping in beds. 4) The windmill is in ruins. _______________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, September 12th (A) and Monday, September 15th (B) Read Chapter III of ANIMAL FARM and explain how each connects to the novel and society: 1) "not actually work" 2) "I will work harder." 3) cryptic 4) "the meeting" 5) education 6) "You don't want Jones to come back?" Read Chapter IV and provide a 4 frame storyboard using FOUR DIFFERENT camera angles. Provide the quote you are alluding to in your frame. Retell the "BATTLE" sequence practicing a few of the writing strategies we worked on class. Please identify as you use. 1) avoid got, get, that, so, and then 2) avoid cliches or similes which are trite 3) avoid contractions or using the symbol for "and" 4) use the ACTIVE voice for at least one sentence Ex. Snowball was shot by the farmer. This is PASSIVE. ACTIVE would be The farmer grazed Snowball with a bullet. 5) Use at least one participial phrase to begin a sentence. These begin with a verb in the present or past tense. Ex. Screaming for his life, the wounded farmer writhed in pain. 6) Use at least one infinitive phrase to begin a sentence. These begin with TO + infinitive form of a verb (run, fall, sleep, etc.) Ex. To save his own life, Napoleon hid behind the barn. ________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, September 10th (A) and Thursday, September "We will never forget" 11th (B) Read Chapter I of George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM and list the events which happened backwards. The number of events was different each class period. Read Chapter II of ANimAL FARm and identify anything you believe would be SYMBOLIC of something in our society. Again the number of symbols was different each class period. Please look beyond the obvious. For example for the SEVEN COMMANDMENTS do NOT say there is also TEN COMMANDMENTS some people live by. Spell GEORGE ORWELL vertically on your paper. ACROSS all the letters in his name list facts you research or find in the introduction of the book. alleGory E O R G E "ShOoting an Elephant" R W E L L Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. George Orwell _______________________________________________________________ Lawyer: (at Burns' people hunt) Excuse me, what gives you the legal right to do this? Mr. Burns: You tell me; you're my lawyer. Lawyer: Well, I guess you are zoned for hunting, and you have previously claimed killing people as part of your religion. I think I can draw something up. Homework due for Monday, September 8th (A) and Tuesday, September 9th (B) I. Compete "V" or Vocabulary list by doing the following: On one side of notebook paper you should use 10 of the "WORDS TO KNOW" and the other "WORDS I KNOW"... 1. Write the word, part of speech, and definition 2. Find the word used in the story and provide word before and after (Sorry, I don't think I told all classes during rushed explanation.) 3. Draw a visual next to the word to the left of the red margin. 4. Use the word yourself ONE of the following ways... - sentence or story including words - movie or song title - write song or poem using words - make a connection between yourself and the word (celebrity you like, movie, etc.) - use in a text or email - use in conversation with friends or parents - if you think of another way to use, please let me know II. Google or search under the "Links" icon for the "THE QUOTATIONS PAGE". Find one quote from MARCUS AURELIUS you like and provide an insightful respose as to why you chose. EXTRA CREDIT - Go to YOUTUBE and enter THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. Watch one video and explain what you saw. OR/AND on YOUTUBE enter SIMPSONS MOST DANGEROUS GAME and you should find the 7 minute parody by the Simpsons on the Treehouse of Horror episode. Again, explain what you saw. *I am having trouble finding the script, but if can find it, please read and provide 5 quotes. Have a good weekend and you are doing well thus far... WonkA Homework for Sepetember 4th, Thursday (A-days) and September 5th, Friday (B-days) Summer Reading assignment optional or you may turn in during the final six weeks...See below for assignment. *B - DAYS PLEASE SCROLL DOWN IF NEEDED FOR WEDNEDAY ASSIGNMENT Homework due for September 2nd, Tuesday (A - days) and September 3rd, Wednesday (B-days) *If you did not turn in first day homework assignment, you may complete for Tuesday (A) or Wednesday (B) I. Read "The Most Dangerous Game" from the point we left off in class until Rainsford exclaims, "I WISH TO GO TODAY!" - p.52 (Please stop here.) II. Find 2 examples of the following from the portion of the story you have read. Most of these should be review and if new, please do the best you can. 1. simile (comparision between two things using like or as) 2. imagery (writing using the five senses) 3. rhetorical shift (time shift or action which took place, yet we did not see) 4. vivid verb choice (avoid running) 5. adverb (modifies verb, adjective, or other adverb) 6. adjective (modifies noun) 7. conjunction (connects words and phrases) 8. preposition (shows relationship between a word and other parts of a sentence...under, over, near, etc.) 9. foreshadowing (clues to upcoming events) 10. pronoun (substitution for nouns) 11. one transition (see beginning of sentences) 12. allusion (references to realistic events, places, etc.) 13. direct characterization (author describes directly) 14. indirect characterization (elements of character revealed through actions, dialogue, surroundings, etc.) 15. hyperbole (exaggeration by the author - Ex. "I will love you until the sea runs dry.") Homework due for August 28th, Thursday (A - days) and August 29th, Friday (B- days) 1) Write an exact 99 word paragraph about yourself. Please be original. 2) Attach a visual to this original paragraph which of course connects. Drawing, photograph, etc. 3) Provide at least one fact provided under each icon of the course website. SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT - Due September 4th, Thursday (A dayS) and September 5th, Friday (B daYs) 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. ___________________________________________________________ SEE SKILLS AND VOCABULARY AS NEEDED REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM DUE ON THE DAY YOU TAKE Provide an example or definition for 70 of the following. They are no longer on the website…as they should be in your brain. For day 1 work with others. For day 2 I will go over ones you can’t find. If taking the exam, you will earn 5 or lose 5 points. If not taking exam, you will earn two points to six weeks or lose two. Literary techniques 1) archetype 49) oxymoron 2) allusion 50) chiasmus 3) antagonist 51) metonomy 4) protagonist 52) tone and tone shift 5) foil character 53) idiom 6) mentor character 54) stanza 7) foreshadowing 55) free verse 8) back story 56) lyric poem 9) epiphany 57) sonnet 10) dynamic vs. static character 58) one I forgot? 11) situational irony 12) dramatic irony Vocabulary 13) motif 59) wherefore 14) subplot 60) hither 15) direct characterization 61) haste 16) indirect characterization 62) fray 17) satire 63) thou 18) euphemism 64) adversaries 19) points of view (1st , 3rd , omniscient) 65) disposition 20) rhetorical shift 66) oppression 21) theme 67) rapier 22) juxtaposition 68) valiant 69) grievance rhetorical devices 70) purge 23) polysyndeton 71) solemnity 24) asyndeton 72) variable 25) anaphora 73) banishment 26) epistrophe 74) fester 27) inverted structure 75) shroud 28) parallelism 76) apothecary 29) antithesis 77) reconcile 30) appositive phrase 78) conspire 31) infinitive phrase 79) dowager 32) participial phrase 80) mirth 33) prespositional phrase 81) melancholy 34) connotative vs. denotative meanings 82) woo 35) alliteration 83) entreat 36) assonance 84) dote 37) consonance 85) sovereignty 38) onomatopoeia 86) vantage 39) iambic pentameter 87) beguile 40) pun 88) flout 41) apostrophe 89) virtuous 42) simile 90) modesty 43) metaphor 91) impeach 44) homeric simile 92) chide 45) personification 93) shrewd 46) hyperbole 94) prologue 47) epithet 95) merriment 48) transitions 96) sojourn 97) knavery Punctuation of titles – We did not do so well on these… 98) euphemism 127) Book 99) propaganda 128) Movie 100) abominably 129) Magazine 101) anguish 130) Poem 102) chaos 131) Country 103) dire 132) Song 104) peril 133) Short Story 105) scourge Spelling – Many of these still misspelled (Write three times.) 106) travail 134) receive 107) stealth 135) college 108) disconsolate 136) affect (verb) vs. effect (noun) Just use correctly. 109) vile 137) a lot 110) beguiling 138) it’s and its (Use correctly) 111) enticing 139) Practice one you always misspell. 112) chide 140) sophomore! Now you are one.  113) succumb 114) stern 115) starboard vs. port 116) indifferent 117) formidable 118) guile 119) ninny 120) entreat 121) whim 122) sagacious 123) perish 124) rogue 125) disdain 126) maelstrom Nostalgia for the past? Not really, but I want you to remember these works and what was the purpose for each (theme). Identify one character and one literary device for each. Please do not repeat. This does not count as part of 75. “The Most Dangerous Game” – Richard Connell “The Scarlet Ibis” – James Hurst “The Cask of the Amontillado” – Edgar Allan Poe “The Masque of the Red Death” – Edgar Allan Poe Animal Farm – George Orwell Pleasantville – Gary Ross Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury (Choose two stories.) A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare “The Seven Ages of Man” – William Shakespeare “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost “O Captain, My Captain” – Walt Whitman The Odyssey – Homer Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman O Brother Where Art Thou? – Joel and Ethan Coen (Also responsible for No Country for Old Men, Fargo, and Raising Arizona) Also choose the poem you were responsible for teaching….which I thought went quite well. Thank you for all your hard work and hope you enjoyed my factory. Now farewell, stay not be gone; live and hereafter say, A madman’s mercy bade thee run away….Live, and be prosperous. FINAL CHANCE FOR EXTRA CREDIT DUE MONDAY (B) AND TUESDAY (A)...Sorry for the "flip-flop", but it gives all an extra weekend. For May 16th, Friday (A) 1) Clear all library fines and get the signature needed from the business office as needed for exemptions. 2) Please bring portfolio as well. *Do not bring Literature book until Tuesday. You will not be able to leave in my room if you forget...Sorry. For May 17th, Monday (B) 1) Clear all library fines and get signature needed from the business office as needed for exemptions. 2) Bring your portfolio AND your literature book. 6th and 7th periods complete metaphor search and Odyssey story using 10 vocabulary words. ________________________________________- For all classes study vocabulary list as posted on the "vocabulary" link. The test will cover books 21-24 of "The Odyssey" as found in your literature book. You do not need to read beforehand, but might make test more simple. 6th and 7th period classes - Please bring your work over books 13-20 as it was not collected by the substitute assigned to your class. Unfortunately, they did not see the lessons on the front desk or what was written on the board (Did cyclops substitute?). We will make up "classwork" for homework over the weekend. Sorry about the miscommunication, but it will work out. ___________________________________________________ For Monday, May 12th (A) and Tuesday, May 13th (B) We are completing the exact same assignment as we did for Books 1-8. I. Read the extended summaries for Books 13-20. II. Go to the "full text" version and find two quotes which support what you have read about. Each quote should support a SEPARATE event from the summary. For example, Book 10 - I could use one quote describing "Laestrygones" (cannibals) and one describing "Circe". III. Provide a brief explanation for EACH quote as to how it connects to the events described in the summary. We will have an OPEN BOOK TEST next Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B). You need only study the vocabulary for "The Odyssey" as listed under "vocabulary" icon. However, if you were to read books 21-24 beforehand you might have an easier time. _________________________________________________________________ For THURSDAY, May 8th (A) and FRIDAY, May 9th (B) 2nd and 3rd period should have 10 facts for "Shrew". All other classes may complete homework for Book XI and Shrew for half credit if desired. __________________________________________________________________ For Tuesday, May 6th (A) and Wednesday, May 7th (B) I. Read Book XI (11) from the full text version under the "novels/scripts" icon. You do not have to read entire book, but only about 4 characters Odysseus meets. For each: 1) Provide a thematic statement and mix a quote into your answer. 2) Provide an illustration. (His mother, Tiresius, Tityos, Tantalos, and Sisyphos are the most interesting.) II. We are going to see "The Taming of the Shrew" this week. Find a plot summary online and read thoroughly. List two events from each act. Keep working hard as we are almost to the end of our journey, Wonka ______________________________________ For A days (2nd period - Thursday / 3rd and 4th on Friday) - B days - Monday, May 5th. I. Complete reading Book IX from the Literature Book (p. 895). Provide three quotes depicting how the conflict with the cyclops ends and illustrate each. II. Complete another "Explode the Moment" writing assignment. You may choose a personal experience or any action footage you wish. (Movie or sports) ________________________________________- For Monday, April 28th (A) and for (B) days it will be due the next day we meet during TAKS week. I. If you did NOT complete your "journey" of Books I-VIII in class, go to the website providing summaries of each book. Provide a brief summary of each summary and identify how each character helps or obstructs either Telemachus or Odysseus. (This was classwork, but you may not have had time.) II. Go to the FULL TEXT of The Odyssey and you are NOT expected to read word for word. Find two "quotes" which support what was explained in each summary and please explain how it connects. Please do not simply copy 16 random quotes. This will be a 40 point assignment. FYI, the names on the full text version are in Latin (Minerva for Athena). WOnkA __________________________________________ For Thursday, April 24th (A) and Friday, April 25th (B) I. Complete "40 minute" essay in which you compare AND contrast the two poems given (1 thorough paragraph for each). Please make sure and mention the effect of the literary or rhetorical devices used. II. We will begin THE ODYSSEY during the next class period. It is 24 "books" or chapters. Research 24 facts about the travels of Odysseus home to Ithaka. Please do NOT simply copy and paste. Write out. Thanks, WonkA _______________________________ For Tuesday, April 23rd (A) and Wednesday, April 24th (B) Study for test over Poetry. Questions will be taken from poems you have not read. You should have the following memorized: 10 Dead Poets and a poem they have written or even a quote you liked. 6 traits of writing and one suggestion on how to improve each These can be found on our class website under "links" Also study any "skills" you need to review under the "skills" icon. There are 9 new terms which relate to only to poetry. These should be known along with others we have studied this year. For those of you planning to "exempt" the final exam, this will be our final "test". ________________________________________________________________ For Friday, April 19th (A) and Monday, April 22nd (B) A DAYS ONLY! You had the opportunity to see HAMLET rather than have any class assignments and teaching. Choose between the following or do BOTH for extra credit. See "Hamlet" script under NOVELS/SCRIPTS ICON. 1) THOROUGHLY annotate Hamlet's famous soliloquy beginning with "To be or not to be". It is in ACT III. 2) Retell HAMLET as an 8 frame comic using actual "quotes" from the play. Once again, see script under novel/scripts icon. B DAYS - Complete homework assigned to your side of the room. _________________________________________________- For Wednesday, April 17th (A) and Thursday, April 18th (B) Good news: All "teachers" doing well. Be sure and complete assignments given to your side of the class. Bad news: TAKS essays were overall not very good. Most are simply at grade level at best. We will be trying again soon. You must improve your wit. I was sad. YOUR ESSAY MUST BE TURNED IN BY WEDNESDAY (A) OR THURSDAY (B) I have to give to "the man" by Friday. So it goes. _____________________________________________________________ For April 15th, Monday (A) and April 16th, Tuesday (B) Complete the homework assigned to "your side" of the class. Sorry not to post, but would have been 18 different assignments and chaos would soon follow. Great job from the "teachers" so far. _______________________- For April 11th, Thursday (A) and April 12th, Friday (B) Take your portfolio home for your parents to see and comment. Parents should read at least 3 assignments and provide their feedback. DO NOT THROW AWAY! Take some of the items out, but your sophomore teacher next year will ask to see it. Complete your TAKS essay. (50 points of week) Prepare a lesson using a poem from the Literature book (50 points per week). I. It must be typed II. Pacing is important and should take 30 minutes. III. You should also have a homework assignment for the class…It should be 45 minutes to an hour and of course be related to your poem’s theme, purpose, or author. IV. You must also write a test including 5 difficult or critical thinking questions and 1 short answer. You will be grading the work of the class. You CAN bring in music, video clips, or make us do improv. It is up to you. Here are some ideas, but of course you may come up with something new. Pre-reading ideas (7-10 minutes) Pre-reading questions and connections (Set your reader up.) Art or visual representation Difficult vocabulary used Review rhetorical devices used Inferences based on the “Title” Reading (2-5 minutes depending on length of poem) Use close reading practices. What do you see between, through, near, the lines? Post-reading ideas (10-25 minutes including quiz) Do NOT use questions in the Literature book. Purpose of poem? What is the reader supposed to take from reading? Theme. Examples of clever or best writing/description Comments or annotations on rhetorical devices or even thoughts of poem Connections – personal, music, film, historical, etc. Imitations (Poe and Shakespeare) Research – Author, image from poem (college essay prompt for March Madness) Act out or provide improvisation ideas Build something (windmill) Rewrite changing the author’s POV Rewrite using the title and theme, but your own words. Comic or storyboard of poem Visual representation (Drawing clock and surrounding with quotes) Create debate or competition (titles with “Blue” in them) Come up with something NEW!! ________________________________________________________________________ For Friday (A) and Monday (B) Good job on projects, poems, pranks. (asyndeton and alliteration) SPRING HOMEWORK BREAK "50" ASSIGNMENT *PLEASE remember to have finished reading your novel and bring annotations for second half. I. Title of your novel. II. Author’s first and last name III. 50 annotations around the title. a. literary elements (back story, direct characterization, foil character, archetype, theme, etc.) b. rhetorical devices (infinitive phrase, participial phrase, asyndeton, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, oxymoron, parallelism, etc.) c. connections to other works you have read (Of Mice and Men, “The Cask of Amontillado”, Animal Farm, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, “The Road Not Taken”, “The Seven Ages of Man”, The Illustrated Man, “The Sniper”, “The Most Dangerous Game”, “The Scarlet Ibis”, “The Masque of the Red Death”…. d. vocabulary – provide word and definition (limit 10) The assignment should be neatly done with some “Pleasantville” color… __________________________________ Homework for Monday, March 31st (A) and Tuesday, May 1st (B). B DAY - Please look below for ACT III. Homework is brief since "college bound 50" assignment is due next Tuesday for A days and Wednesday for B days. I. Read Act IV and prove that you read 4 different ways. STOP READING WHEN MR. KEATING SAYS - "I AM CURSED WITH THE ROLE OF THE JESTER" II. Look at something or somewhere from a NEW persective and describe. Extra credit: See if you can pull an April Fool's Day trick on me. ____________________________________________________________ *PLEASE LOOK UNDER "NOVELS/SCRIPTS" for script for "Dead Poets". Homework for Thursday, March 27th (A) and Friday, March 28th (B) Dead Poets Society - Act III Begin reading when the students approach Mr. Keating about "The Dead Poets Society." 1. Choose 3 of the boys. What does their reaction to the "society" reveal about each of them? 2. What is Todd insecure about? What would you admit you are insecure about? 3. What does Mr. Keating sneak into Neil's room? 4. Interpret Thoreau's quote as read by Neil at the first meeting. 5. What happens in the ghost story told by Neil? What is your favorite ghost story? 6. What is Charlie's poem written on and what was your opinion of it? Provide a quote. 7. What are the two best lines of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem? Explain. INT. Classroom Day - 8. What word does Meeks provide that is stronger than sad? What are two other words he could have used? 9. What does "woo" mean and how does Mr. Keating use it? 10. How does Keating plan to read Shakespeare? Short Answer: a. Explain what the purpose of Mr. Keating's lesson is related to "standing on the desk." Include Thoreau's quote in your interpretation. b. Write a poem of your own to be read aloud in class. Topic - anything/Length - any. STOP READING WITH - "Don't think I don't know this assignment scares the hell out of you." _______________________________________________________ Homework for March 25th, Tuesday (A day) and March 26th, Wednesday (B) Dead Poets Society - Act II Begin reading as the boys exit their first day of school. 1. What is Cameron's concern about the "weird" lesson? How similar are you to Cameron? 2. What confusion does Knox have on his visit, and what is one of the two cliches Mr. Danbury uses? What is one cliche' you hear adults use all the time? Avoid: "You've gotten so big!" 3. How does the reaction to Knox's situation ("A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk!") reveal the character of three of the boys? 4. What does Mr. Keating think of Dr. Pritchard's "rating method" rearding poetry? What important lessons does the class learn from the "Introduction to Poetry"? 5. What does Mr. Keating insist students will do in his class? Short Answer: 1. What two major points does Mr. Keating make in his "huddle" speech? What are your thoughts about each? 2. Describe the conversation between Mr. McCallister and Mr. Keating. Discuss the different teaching philosophies of each and the quotes each uses in his defense. 3. What are some facts the boys dig up about Mr. Keating and what exactly is or was "The Dead Poets Society"? _______________________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, March 20th (A) and Monday, March 24th (B) B Day students look far below for assignment due Wednesday. Dead Poets Society - Act I Read the script from using the "NOVELS/SCRIPTS" link on the class website until Mr. Keating says "Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Answer the following questions: 1. What inferences can you make about hte story based on the first line? What would the first line be of a movie about yourself? 2. A candle is lit at the beginning of the script. What might this foreshadow or symbolize? 3. What are the four pillars of the school? Which do feel is most important? 4. What pressure is put on Todd Anderson and Neil Perry? How is this similar to yourself? 5. How does Cameron put his "foot in his mouth?" Provide an example when you did. 6. What is the rumor about Helton according to Charlie? What are rumors about other high schools? 7. Who do the boys have to hide their cigarettes from? When have you had to hide something similar? 8. What do Neil and his father argue about? What do you and your parents argue about? 9. What do you think the flocks of birds might foreshadow or symbolize? Short Answer: 1. Explain how Mr. Keating's lesson is different than the other teachers. 2. Provide your interpretation of "To the Virgins, Make Much of Time". See below: To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time Poem lyrics of To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. MARCH MADNESS - 4 college application essay prompts due as well for A day students on Thursday. ________________________________________________________________________ Homework for TUESDAY (A) and Wednesday (B) March 18th and 19th I. Be 1/2 complete with reading of college bound novel. You should have an annotation every 2 pages. Please bring book to class along with annotations. II. March Madness (A day this is due Thursday) List 4 colleges in the NCAA tournament you would be interested in attending. On the school's website find the essay prompt used for entrance to the school. __________________________________________________________________________ GOOD LUCK ON TAKS TEST. No homework this week. Only study for Romeo and Juliet test which is Thursday for (B) and Friday for (A). If you did not do as well as you hope on your Romeo and Juliet representation, you may resubmit one the day after Spring Break. There were many which were not as well done as expected. _________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, March 3rd (A) and Tuesday, March 4th (B) 1) ALL ARE PUNISHED!! Every character in Romeo and Juliet shares the blame for their tragic ending. Choose 3 of the characters and explain why you feel each is to blame. In practicing for TAKS, find a quote which DIRECTLY connects with your answer. Try and rephrase how you answer each. Do not begin EVERY answer with "I think that the Friar is the one to blame because" five different times. Vary how you begin or write senetences. You are trying to write 3 quality short answer responses. EXAMPLES: Being the only adult Romeo and Juliet both confided in, Friar Laurence deserves a more severe punishment than what he received. He did not live by his own advice in making the decision to marry the two "star-crossed lovers". Unfortunately, Friar did not abide by, "Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast". Fate. Oh how "fickle" fate can be. Though not deserving all the blame as Romeo suggests, fate played the true villain at times. If only the illiterate servant would not have uttered the words "I pray sir, can you read?" to the sorrowful Romeo. 2) ROMEO AND JULIET - CREATIVE CREATION CONNECTION Create anything you with to represent Romeo and Juliet. Now is the time to make your sword, your "mask", or your own QUEEN MAB. Please CREATE something, not bring in a vial of Fanta and call it poison. We could pass on the collages as well. *This will be 50 points of our weekly grade for this week. ___________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, February 28th (A) and Friday, February 29th (B) Read the first 20 pages of your novel. I. Choose to make annotations any of the following three ways: 1) write IN the novel 2) post-it notes 3) dialectical journal (quotes on left - meaning on right) I would rather you decide on the number of notations made. It should be whatever HELPS YOU the most in understanding the text. However, for grading purposes, have a minimim of 1 per ever two pages. II. For the first portion of your novel identify back story, direct vs. indirect characterization, genre, and any archetypes you observe. III. Draw or provide one visual for beginning. __________________________________________________________________________ ONLY HOMEWORK FOR ENTIRE WEEK!! Find a novel (150 page min.) from ANY college bound reading list by Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) of NEXT week. Homework for Monday, February 18th (A) and Tuesday, February 19th (B) Use the speech below from Friar Laurence. It is Act III, scene iv when Romeo tries to kill himself: 1. Mark or copy the rhetorical devices used in the monologue - rhetorical question - metaphor - parallelism (Two phrases/sentences similar in syntax and meaning) - polysyndeton - simile - asyndeton - alliteration - epistrophe - antithesis (Two phrases/sentences similar in syntax, yet opposite meaning) - inversion (subject after the verb) - personification 2. Select 3 rhetorical devices you found and explain the EFFECT of each. Please do NOT translate, nor say "to get Romeo's attention". 3. Find examples where the Friar appeals to pathos (Romeo's emotions) and also logos (the logic behind his argument). FRIAR LAURENCE Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man! Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order, I thought thy disposition better temper'd. Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself? And stay thy lady too that lives in thee, By doing damned hate upon thyself? Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth? Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose. Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit; Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all, And usest none in that true use indeed Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit: Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, Digressing from the valour of a man; Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish; Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, Misshapen in the conduct of them both, Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask, Is set afire by thine own ignorance, And thou dismember'd with thine own defence. What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead; There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee, But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too: The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy: A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her best array; But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love: Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed, Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her: But look thou stay not till the watch be set, For then thou canst not pass to Mantua; Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back With twenty hundred thousand times more joy Than thou went'st forth in lamentation. Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady; And bid her hasten all the house to bed, Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto: Romeo is coming. ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, Valentine's Day (A) and Friday, February 15th (B) I. Create a Valetine for your mother written as Shakespeare. Provide proof you showed her your valentine. II. Read Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. Pgs. 1044-1051 Describe the fight scene as a ring announcer for a boxing match. It is three rounds. Please use at least two quotes per round. For satirical purpose add at least one rhetorical device in your announcing. Example. "Mercutio is struck! He said his wound is not as wide as a church door! What a simile! Man, he is brilliant even in peril!" Post fight interview questions: Please answer in the first person and use a quote. 1) Mercutio, why were making fun of Benvolio at the beginning of the scene? 2) Romeo, how did you try and back out of the fight with Tybalt? 3) Romeo, man, you lost it before you fought Tybalt. What were you saying to him? 4) Hey Romeo, you just won a fight against the best fighter in Verona. What did you win? ________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, February 12th (A) and Wednesday, February 13th (B) Romeo and Juliet - Act II scene iii (three/p.1029) 1. Compare the complications Romeo and Juliet have with another love story you are familiar with. (one paragraph) 2. Who is your Friar Laurence? Who do you go to for advice and do not have to hide things from? Explain. Act II scene iii **Use QUOTES from the scene to support the following statements. 3. Friar Laurence is making poisons. List two things that are poisonous. 4. Friar Laurence knows something is bothering Romeo because he is awake so early. What problem has ever caused you to lack sleep? 5. Romeo tells Friar Laurence he was not with Rosaline, but now in love with Juliet Capulet. Can you say "rebound"? 6. Friar Laurence thinks Romeo wasted his tears and changes his mind too much. 2 quotes minimum. When have your parents made fun of you for changing your mind so often? (Sorry, but many teenagers do.) 7. Friar Laurence thinks this new marriage will bring the two households together. Provide another example from a movie or book where families were divided. Act II scene iv (four) 8. Tybalt sent Romeo a challenge. Write a challenge to Romeo as if you were Tybalt. It should be scathing vexation. 9. Mercutio describes Tybalt as a good fighter. Who is the best fighter in the world in your opinion? Explain. (Doesn't have to by physical) Turn to where the Nurse and Peter enter. 10. Mercutio makes fun of the nurse. What is the worst insult you have ever given? What is the best "You're so ugly" joke you have ever heard? 11. Romeo says Mercutio talks more than he is willing to listen to. Name someone you know who talks a lot. 12. The Nurse is upset with Mercutio and Peter. 13. The Nurse warns Romeo not to "two-time" Juliet. 14. Romeo is going to have Balthasar bring a rope ladder to Juliet so Romeo can sneak into her house for their honeymoon night. Where would you want to spend your honeymoon? 15. How could any of this possibly go wrong? Creative freedom applies... ________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, February 8th (A) and Monday, February 11th (B) I. Read Act II, scenes i and ii of Romeo and Juliet. Create a dialectic journal as we did in class. Choose 5 quotes from these two scenes to comment on. QUOTE (left side of page) EFFECT (right side of page) " " II. YOUR own single ad! Include photograph, typed description of yourself and/or what you are looking for in a "mate", and include at least ONE quote from Act I of Romeo and Juliet. Make them like cool or whatever, cuz everybody is going to see. _____________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, February 6th (A) and Thursday, February 7th (B) I. Read Act I scene iii on p. 1008 and respond to the following: 1. Provide two lines you would possibly say to your mom or servant. Explain. 2. What exactly happened to Juliet in the Nurse's "recollection" or speech about when Juiet was young? 3. Describe a similar story of your "youth" mixing in 3 quotes from the nurse. 4. Lady Capulet is speaking with Juliet to see if she is ready to be married. Find one example of figurative language from the Nurse or Lady Capulet describing Paris (the suitor she wants him marry). 5. Explain the extended metaphor Lady Capulet uses comparing Paris to a book. Use at least two quotes. 6. What is Juliet's response to this proposal? 7. FATE? Romeo and Juliet will meet by "chance". Explain the series of events which caused your parents to meet. ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ *If you wish to review your test, you may see the ones you missed before or after school. Then you may take again answering the ones you missed to improve your grade. You can raise grade to a 70% if you made below a 70. OR is above you may improve your grade 5 points maximim (Ex. 80 can retake for 85 max) Homework for Wednesday, February 6th (A) and Thursday, February 7th (B) I. Read Act I scene iii on p. 1008 and respond to the following: 1. Provide two lines you would possibly say to your mom or servant. Explain. 2. What exactly happened to Juliet in the Nurse's "recollection" or speech about when Juiet was young? 3. Describe a similar story of your "youth" mixing in 3 quotes from the nurse. 4. Lady Capulet is speaking with Juliet to see if she is ready to be married. Find one example of figurative language from the Nurse or Lady Capulet describing Paris (the suitor she wants him marry). 5. Explain the extended metaphor Lady Capulet uses comparing Paris to a book. Use at least two quotes. 6. What is Juliet's response to this proposal? 7. FATE? Romeo and Juliet will meet by "chance". Explain the series of events which caused your parents to meet. __________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, February 4th (A) and Tuesday, February 5th (B) 1) Character diagram or desciption for Romeo and Juliet - You may explain, list, map out, diagram, ect. You will find characters in your book. (p.990) or you may check other R and J websites. You should have some background information on each of the following: Lord and Lady Montague Romeo Montague Benvolio Mercutio Abram Lord and Lady Capulet Juliet Capulet Tybalt Capulet The Nurse Sampson Paris The Prince Friar Laurence Apothecary 2) Rewrite the prologue on p.992 in contemporary language using 10 syllables per line. Please number as you write. Example: Original first line - "Two households both alike in dignity" is the first line, so I will write "There are two families who are equal" (The computer will not let me number above the line, but please do.) EXTRA CREDIT (Most likely 2 points added to average for six weeks) Write your own superbowl commercial in script format. Please type. No homework for Thursday, January 31st (A) or Friday, February 1st (B) "A respite in toil" Homework for Tuesday, January 27th (A) and Wednesday, January 28th (B) 1) Choose 10 of the 32 words pulled from "Dream" and define, use, draw, and provide a synonym. 2) Memorize Puck's soliloquy at the end of the play. 3) Study "skills" and "vocabulary" as needed. *B - DAYS LOOK BELOW TO SEE HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY Homework for Friday, January 25th (A) and Monday, January 26th (B) 1) Create anYThInG you with to represent the play. Please add a quote which relates if possible. 2) Choose 10 words from the vocabulary list from Midsummer Night's Dream and use in a sentence, draw or illustrate, and provide a synonym. 3) You will be expected to have Puck's final speech or soliloquy memorized for the day of the test. It is the final speech of the play beginning with the lines: "If we shadows have offended Think but this and all is mended... TEST OVER MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM NEXT TUESDAY (A) AND WEDNESDAY (B) _________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, January 23rd (A) and Thursday, January 24th (B) 1) Find examples of 10 rhetorical devices (writing devices) we studied last semester. Example - allusion, metaphor, hyperbole, diction, syntax, tone, participial phrase, prepositional phrase, appositive phrase, simile, polysyndeton, etc. (SEE SKILLS ICON IF NEEDED) 2) Find Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech". Read and provide five connections between his dream and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". If you go to the "links" icon you will find it here, or course you can simply "google" it. ___________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, January 17th (A) and Tuesday, January 22nd (B) HOMEWORK ¡V Find where we left off in class. It is Act III, scene ii and Puck has gone to find Helena and Oberon has placed the "potion" onto the eyes of Demetrius. Our final lines was Puck saying: "TWO AT ONCE WILL WOO ONE." Begin reading from LYSANDER AND HELENA enter. From this point the lovers will quarrel. You should stop when Hermia says, "I AM AMAZED AND KNOW NOT WHAT TO SAY." Once done reading provide a summary of the FIGHT using at least 10 quotes. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, January 15th (A) and Thursday, January 16th *B-DAYS look below for Tuesday homework please. 1) Before beginning Act II, scene ii, go back to last speech by Oberon from previous scene and explain how Puck is to identify Demetrius. 2) Read Act II, scene ii - Rewrite the following script below using actual quotes from the story. If you click on SHAKESPEARE'S FACE above the screen will allow you to copy and paste. You may want to do this for the actual script as well in order not to print the entire play. Act II, scene ii - Here is a summary to read before you begin. You do not need to do anything with the summary. Titania falls asleep. Oberon anoints her eyes with the flower¡¦s nectar. Meanwhile Lysander and Hermia stop to sleep nearby. Robin comes along and anoints Lysander¡¦s eyes, assuming he is the Athenian youth described by Oberon. Demetrius finally leaves Helena behind who finds Lysander asleep. Helena wakes him and he immediately falls in love with her. She thinks he is mocking her. Then the deserted Hermia wakes up from a nightmare. Finding herself all alone, Hermia goes in search of Lysander. BEGIN HERE!! I provided the quote needed for the first couple to give you an idea what to do. Titania: Hey fairies, sing me a song to sleep. You could write "Sing me now to sleep" She lies down. Fairies: They sing their own lullaby, but I want you to make one up using ¡§Dairy Queen¡¨. It should be at least 8 lines. Example: Sleep and dream of a hunger buster I hope your dreams are full of luster You can sleep and you can dream About a cold soft serve ice cream In your dreams you will meet a lizard But don't worry he only wants to give you a blizzard I hope your dreams are better than they seem And everyone dreams big here at Dairy Queen Enter Oberon. Oberon: I hope you wake up when something nasty animal is next to you! "Wake when some vile thing is near." Enter Lysander and Hermia Lysander: You look pretty tired my sweetbulb. Plus, I think I¡¦m like totally lost. Let¡¦s sleep here. Sorry I couldn¡¦t get us a room at Red Roof. Hermia: Go find a bed, but I will stay right here. Lysander: Nonsense, we might as well be together. I mean we ARE going to by married. Come on, give me some sugar. Hermia: OMG no! Sleep away from me please. But thanks for all your love. I hope your love stays the same until you are like dead or whatever. Lysander: When I die so does my love for you my little honey-cricket. They sleep. Enter Robin. Puck: I¡¦ve looked all around this stupid forest. I haven¡¦t found anybody dressed like¡Koh, wait a minute. There he is. And there is the girl he was mean to. Oh rude fellow, here is the ¡§mojo¡¨. Enter Demetrius and Helena Helena: Please stay, even if you kill me. Demetrius: I¡¦m telling you. STOP hanging around me. Stay here for your own danger. I¡¦m going on alone. Demetrius exits. Helena: Oh, I¡¦m too tired anyway. Oh, oh Hermia, how did her eyes get so darn pretty. Not by crying like me, that is for sure. If that were the case, mine would be like so much prettier. No, I guess I am ugly. Wait, is this Lysander? Is he dead? Wake up man. Lysander (waking up): Oh my god! I would do anything for you. I can see your heart too. Where is your boy Demetrius? I¡¦m gonna kill him. Helena: Don¡¦t say that. What about Hermia? Be happy with her. Lysander: Happy with her? Gross! It feels like forever when I¡¦m with her. She talks and talks and talks¡Kblah, blah, blah. You are much better than her anyway. It¡¦s just I wasn¡¦t ready for you yet. But I am now. Helena: Why are you making fun of me? I thought you were better than this. She exits. Lysander: Hermia, stay asleep and alone. I won¡¦t be near you ever again. I won¡¦t even toilet paper your house. I love Helena now. You make me sick. He exits. Hermia (waking up) : Help me Lysander! I had a horrible dream. This snake thingy was on me and ate my bosom! Wait, where the heck did Lysander go? I guess you are not near. I¡¦m going to find you or kill myself with a spork. She exits. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, January 13th (A) and Tuesday, January 14th (B) *3rd period - Please read the end of scene i on your own. RECALL Read Act I, scene ii from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (This scene is about the "ACTORS" preparing to rehearse the play "PYRAMUS AND THISBY". They are to perform this play at Theseus and Hippolya's wedding.) Provide a brief summary from Nick Bottom's point of view. INTERPRETATION Choose 5 lines to intepret. Please choose difficult ones. CONNECTION Provide a description of an actor or famous person who you feel has similar qualities as Nick Bottom. Why are they like this? "Madmen and lovers have such seething brains" - Ask you parents what the craziest thing they did while in love was. RESEARCH Research facts on Shakespeare and list as an acrostice puzzle. Simly write his name vertically and list facts across. Provide documentation or citation from your website. Homework due Thursday, January 10th (A) and Friday, January 11th (B) Read ¡§The Seven Ages of Man¡¨ p. 349. 1) Identify the seven ages of man according to Shakespeare ¡§using quotes¡¨ 2) Provide a visual for each stage next to your answer. 3) Provide YOUR interpretation of each stage. Look deep, not simply translate. Example: The third stage of a man's life is "a soldier" who is "full of strange oaths". This means the soldier has committed himself to an oath, tradition, or code in which he is unsure of, yet follows dutifully. Find the script online for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - William Shakespeare. Copy two lines and provide your interpretation. Don't worry if you think you are wrong. Search under "novels/scripts" icon. FINAL EXAM REVIEW EXTRA CREDIT ONLY 5 points on exam or to SIX week average if exempting I. Literary elements - Choose 10 to define or provide an example of II. Rhetorical devices - Choose 15 to define or provide an example of III. Spelling - Choose one word and spell correclty 10 times or two and spell five, etc. IV. Choose 10 stories from the 26 we read and provide the purpose or theme of the story. Please make these insightful or you will not receive credit. V. Vocabulary - Choose 30 words to define and use in a sentence, title, or draw FINAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Due December 12th, Wednesday (A)and December 13th, Thursday I. Read "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst on p. 593 of your literature book. Make 10 unique connections between this story and "Of Mice and Men". IF you did not finish assignments related to "Of Mice and Men" in class, please see below: CHAPTER 6 Create 6 questions or assignments of your own for Chapter 6. You do not need to provide a response. Please choose from the following or of course you may create your own idea: ART / VISUALIZATION CONNECTION RESEARCH ANALYSIS CHARACTERIZATION SYMBOLISM RECALL AUTHOR'S PURPOSE THEME CHAPTER 5 ART Draw one image from the initial page of the chapter. CONNECTION "I'll tell George I found it dead." Explain a time in your life when you "stretched the truth" to cover something you needed to "cover with hay". CHARACTER What line of dialogue reveals the most about Curley's wife? Explain. What causes people to marry poorly? You may simply list three reasons. FORESHADOWING USING SETTING "Now the light was lifting as the sun went down..." Explain what happens from this point on using the intelligent voice of a horse. CROOKS VS. CURLEY'S WIFE Looking back, how did Crooks and Curley's wife treat Lennie the same. Please don't simply say each were nice. "I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing." - Anaphora WHY IS REPETITION USED BY STEINBECK HERE? Illustrated Pleasantville Animal Due Monday, December 10th (A) and Tuesday, December 11th (B) *B day students, scroll below for Chapter 3 homework. Cover Page - Create a piece of ART relating to anything we have studied this year. This could be a combination of ideas, abstract, surreal, etc. 1) Culinary - Find a recipe and cook a meal for your family you have NEVER prepared before. Provide the recipe and evidence you cooked from your parent or guardian. 2) ART - Provide your thoughts or interpretation of a piece of art. Provide the IMAGE observed, title, artist, and insightful thoughts of the work. *Also make an insightful connection to anything we have read. 3) MUSIC - Listen to a genre of music you are not accustomed to listening. Provide the song, lyrics, artist, your insightful thoughts and connection to a work we have studied. 4) FILM - Watch a foreign film (foreign director and subtitles). Provide an image representing film, title, director, and your insightful thoughts and connection anything we have read...or watched. 5) CURRENT EVENTS - Provide your insight in a recent event in the news. This could be criminal, political, etc. Provide evidence you researched the subject by adding image and text, your thoughts and connections to what we have read. 6) ENTITLEMENT - Complete a chore (not making your bed) around your house you are not normally asked to complete. Describe and provide evidence from parent or guardian. 7) TRAVEL - Find images and information on a city you wish to visit or even live someday. Research cost of flights, hotel stay, and local attractions. Please do not simply copy and paste information from city website. * All sources used should be documented correctly. Please visit the "LINKS" icon to see proper documentation as needed. * Project is expected to be neat, professional, and most importantly show INSIGHT or elevated thought. ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, December 4th (A) and Wednesday, December 5th (B) *I am posting these assignments early as some may want to work ahead. *B DAY STUDENTS PLEASE SCROLL DOWN AS NEEDED. OF MICE AND MEN Chapter III ¡V Mr. Chalk /English I Pre-AP ¡V TAG ANALYSIS Choose any TWO statements by Slim and expand on his meaning: (These are thematic statements by Steinbeck made through character.) *Please provide INSIGHT. CONNECTION What is your saddest ¡§dog¡¨ or pet story? If you have never had one, consider a film or story. LITERARY ELEMENTS Provide two examples of juxtaposition in the chapter? Juxtaposition is a contrast created by Steinbeck. CONNECTION Euchre ¡V card game ¡V Explain the rules of a card game you know. RECALL Retell the events in the story using the dialect of the characters. Yes, you may cuss (mildly), you little buckos. INTERPRETATION Interpreting character based on reaction only. Choose TWO characters and provide examples of how their reactions to events reveal their character. RESEARCH ¡V Research euthanasia or how exactly a dog is ¡§put down¡¨. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, November 30th (A) and Monday, December 3rd (B) Explain how the following quotes could relate to yourself. 1) ¡§If I was alone, I could live so easy.¡¨ 2) ¡§Whatever we ain¡¦t got, that¡¦s what you want.¡¨ 3) ¡§Cause I can jus as well go away, George, an¡¦ live in a cave.¡¨ Chapter II ¡V Steinbeck has written a novel in play form. The first pages of each chapter are dedicated to setting or set. SETTING - BUNK HOUSE For the first page draw the bunkhouse for the workers as described by Steinbeck. Label at least 5 characteristics with quotes. Chapter II ¡V Vocabulary - Provide the word in context for 3 of the 8 provided. scourge ¡V cause of widespread affliction graybacks ¡V slang for lice liniment ¡V a liquid applied to the skin as pain reliever cultivator ¡V a machine used to loosen the soil while crops are growing plaintively ¡V in a woeful or melancholy tone mollified ¡V soothed or appeased bridled ¡V showed hostility or resentment grizzled ¡V streaked with gray As you read chapter II provide what you think is the most compelling description, dialogue, reaction, of each new character. Explain what effect this creates for the reader (you). Please add insight. Do not simply restate what is said. THE BOSS CANDY CURLEY CURLEY¡¨S WIFE SLIM CARLSON CANDY¡¨S DOG Research connections: Find 5 facts about the topic of your choice¡KMay do more for extra credit 1) Migrant farm workers of the 1930¡¦s 2) Mental disabilities 3) John Steinbeck (the author) _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, November 28th (A) and Thursday, November 29th (B) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Chapter I ¡V Provide one quote from Chapter I representing the following. Provide explanation or storyboard to explain your choice. I. Setting II. Back story III. Indirect characterization IV. Direct characterization Vocabulary ¡V Choose three of your own ¡§willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding: and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool.¡¨ (p. 1). mottled (adj.): having a variety of hues or colors; variegated, like marble junctures (n.): A juncture is where two things come together. The juncture of a willow leaf is where the two sides of the leaf meet in the center. recumbent (adj.): still; without movement Allusions ¡V Choose TWO "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.¡¨ (p. 1) Soledad: a city in near the coast of California, approximately 130 miles south of San Francisco. Salinas River: a river that flows north through Soledad and empties into Monterey Bay. IDIOMS An idiom is an expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangement of its parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning known only through common use. CHOOSE TWO. 'An'live off the fatta the lan¡¦, Lennie shouted.¡¨ (p. 14) live off the fatta the lan': Live off the fat of the land. The fat of the land is an expression that refers to having the best of everything. In the case of Lennie and George and their dream for a place of their own, it also means that they believe they will be able to survive and prosper by simply relying on what they can grow and raise -- that the land is so "fat" they will need nothing else to be happy." #3-5 SHORT ANSWER FROM TEST: 3) Though told as individual stories, explain the connection between "The Concrete Mixer", "Marionettes Inc.", "The City", "Zero Hour", and "The Rocket" 4) "He had come like a thief in the night." Make 10 connections between a thief and "The Red Death"...You may use Amontillado or other stories as needed. There were many thieves. 5) You are responsible for story or tattoo #19. Provide a title, summary, and purpose of your story. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, November 19th (A) and Tuesday, November 20th (B) *TEST OVER FINAL FIVE STORIES AND POE VOCABULARY *ALL STUDENTS WILL BE EXPECTED TO TAKE TEST AND TURN IN YOUR "ILLUSTRATED MAN" AS DESCRIBED BELOW. ALL WHO WENT TO CAREER FAIR OR ABSENT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY ARE NOT GIVEN EXTRA DAYS. I. Complete reading the final five stories and epilogue of "The Illustrated Man" II. Create your own illustrated man using images from these five stories. You many use from others as well, but make it clear which ones are meant for the final five. III. For each tattoo or illustration provide one quote from the story you feel is important. IV. Next to each quote explain its importance or role in the story. It should reveal enough detail to show you read the story. V. Finally, provide what you feel is the purpose or thematic about the story. Please avoid cliches such as "Live life to the fullest" or "Treat others like you want to be treated". *SIX WEEK TEST It will cover the final five stories, two Poe stories and his vocabulary (see V for Vocabulary icon and make a cheat-cheat usinf 15 words and definitions). See skills icon and add FIVE skills you wish to add to your cheat-cheat. Please also be familiar with any other information we have covered. *The Illustrated Pleasantville Animal project will be due December 10th (A) and December 11th (B) - See handout provided. I will post later. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday, November 13th and Wednesday, November 14th (B) Read "THE VISITOR" I. Retell the story as if "Leonard Mark" visited you here in Round Rock. Again, please imitate POE or at least elevate your writing. You are inflicted with the "blood rust" and must first visit Walgreens for relief. Many surrounding you in the parking lot are ensconced within their sports utility vehicles. Thus leaving you no person to share intelligent conversation. Outside of Walgreens you meet "Leonard Mark" and your reaction to him should emulate that of "Saul's". What would you have him do? Which friends of yours would you be paranoid about finding him? How do you schedule your meetings with Leonard around band practice? etc. Please include at least THREE quotes from the actual story into your own. II. ALLUSIONS - Research one of the philosophers mentioned or New York City. Please list 5 facts or quotes of philosopher. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, November 9th (A) and Monday, November 12th (B) *Homework for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week below. Please read "The Fox and the Forest" and complete the following: I. Compare and contrast this story to any you have seen or read relating to time travel. You may list, make a chart, diagram or any other... II. Find 5 examples of ANYTHING we have studied this year. III. Research - Find 5 facts about time travel or 1938. *Extra credit is due for ALL classes on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th related to any Edgar Allan Poe story other than "Tell-Tale Heart" or ones we covered in class. You may complete all or a portion of the following: I. Retell the story as a comic. Use 8 frames, quotes, and explanation of each as needed. II. Choose 10 words to define. III. Thanslate 10 difficult quotes into your own words. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, November 7th (A) and Thursday, November 8th (B) Read "No Particular Night or Morning". You are the psychiatrist for Hitchock, a character from the story. You should create your own medical chart for him which includes your diagnosis, evidence of character, testimonials from witnesses, etc. Pleae use correct medical terminology. You may need to research a litte...Only a few are listed below: acetylcholine A neurotransmitter in the brain, which helps to regulate memory, and in the peripheral nervous system, where it affects the actions of skeletal and smooth muscle. acting out This is the process of expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings via actions rather than words. The person is not consciously aware of the meaning or etiology of such acts. Acting out may be harmful or, in controlled situations, therapeutic (e.g., children's play therapy). actualization The realization of one's full potential - intellectual, psychological, physical, etc. adiadochokinesia The inability to perform rapid alternating movements of one or more of the extremities. This task is sometimes requested by physicians of patients during physical examinations to determine if there exists neurological problems. adrenergic This refers to neuronal or neurologic activity caused by neurotransmitters such as epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine. affect This word is used to described observable behavior that represents the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion). Common examples of affect are sadness, fear, joy, and anger. The normal range of expressed affect varies considerably between different cultures and even within the same culture. Types of affect include: euthymic, irritable, constricted; blunted; flat; inappropriate, and labile. *Please bring your composition book to class. We will be accessing a grade based on completion. ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Monday, November 5th (really October 36th) (A) and Tuesday, November 6th (B) I. Read "THE EXILES" and explain the fate of "the exiles" using specific details, quotes, and characters (authors) to explain. This is simply recall to prove you read the story. It should be thorough. II. ALLUSIONS - Research any of the allusions (authors) in the story and provide 3 facts about them. You may choose to do more for extra credit. EXTRA CREDIT - DUE NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY *Earn up to 5 extra credit points on your final average. Read ANY story (not poem) from Edgar Allan Poe other than "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Tell-Tale Heart" (many read last year). These stories can be found under the "LINKS" icon. Click on either "POE" website. You should complete the following 1) Retell the story as a comic (8 frames) using "quotes" from the story. Each frame should have a brief explantion as to how it relates to the story. 2) Choose 10 words from the story to define. 3) Choose 10 DIFFICULT quotes to translate. _____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday, November 1st (A) and Friday, November 2nd (B) Complete short answer and assignment for "The Last Night of the World" if needed. We will collect work for "The Long Rain", "Fire Balloons", and "The Last Night of the end of the World" on the next class period. See below. 1) Write one sentence about "The Rocket Man" using the following: a. a participial phrase b. an appositive phrase c. an infinitive phrase d. a prepositional phrase e. the active voice 2) Write one thematic statement based on "THE ROCKET MAN". Then list three anecdotes you would use to support this observation. Anecdotes are examples or connections to your statement. Anecdotes could be literary, historical, personal, current event, or film. Try to use sophisitcated examples. Please avoid Brittany Spears, Family Guy, etc. 3) TAKS short answer - Use 5 lines of notebook paper. What is one conflict Doug faces in the story "The Rocket Man"? Support your answer with evidence from the story. Remember to embed quotes, but when you do, this is still considered part of your answer. Your support must stand alone and be directly connected with your answer. Please pick one conflict only. 4) Using the lyrics from "ROCKET MAN" by Elton John, make TWO clever or abstract connections to the story "The Rocket Man" and also make THREE higher level annotations. She packed my bags last night pre-flight Zero hour nine a.m. And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I miss the earth so much I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless flight And I think it's gonna be a long long time Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket man Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids In fact it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them if you did And all this science I don't understand It's just my job five days a week A rocket man, a rocket man And I think it's gonna be a long long time... Extra credit: "And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then" List as many connections possible between an astronaut and a kite. (1 pt.) *Also complete ANY work related to the last three stories: "The Long Rain", "The Fire Balloons", or "The Last Night of the World" See below for "Last Night" if you did not copy during class. "The Last Night of the World" p. 90 1) Explain what you would do if it were literally the last night of the world. 2) Make two annotations during the story. Explain the following connections to the story: 3) screaming in the streets 4) wash the dishes 5) cry 6) What is the effect created by the use of ayndeton and epistrophe on p. 94. 7) What was Bradbury's purpose in writing this story? *For "The Fire Balloons" you were to read and make 10 comparisons between this story and "THE MAN". _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday, October 26th (A) and Monday, October 27th (B) STUDY FOR TEST ONLY. ALL students will be required to take the test. Yes, even if you were absent. It is open book and you can make a "cheat-cheat" using 15 vocabulary words and 5 "skills" you do not know. *Everything you need to study can be found under the "SKILLS" icon and "VOCABULARY" icon if you did not receive a review sheet. The material is the same. Study each and I suggest reading the next story, "THE ROCKET MAN" if you are able (It will help.). Bring your "Illustrated Man" book to class and #2 pencil for multiple choice. Homework due the following class period is to read "FIRE BALLOONS". Make 10 connections between this story and "The Man". ___________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 24th and Thursday, October 25th *6th period - Complete "Three levels of reading for any story so far in "The Illustrated Man". See below. Also, read "The Long Rain". Read "The Long Rain" and explain in a well written essay how the story is an extended metaphor for life. Use specific detail, characters, and quotes from the story, but PLEASE avoid writing a summary. We will have a test this FRIDAY (A) AND MONDAY (B). See the "skills" icon and "vocabulary" icon for material to be tested on. ________________________________________________________________________ THREE LEVELS OF READING - Due Monday (A) and Tuesday (B) Use a blank sheet of copy paper (not lined) and COLOR. Make sure work is neat and legible. (40 points of weekly grade) Inner circle 1 - Literal Choose ANY word from the story Provide the part of speech and definition Briefly explain how it connects to the novel Circle 2 - Abstract connection Draw three illustrations from the story Write an explanation of the link between the word you selected and the image Circle 3 - Thematic statements Going beyond the text, write three thematic statements drawn from the significant word and your illustrations. Your statements do not need to have the word or image mentioned, but should be clearly related to it. ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Thursday (A), October 17th and Friday (B), October 18th I. Read "The Other Foot" highlighting any "tone shifts". TONE is the author's attitude toward his subject. In your book or on another sheet of paper identify the tone used. Positive Neutral Negative Confident Jealous Mystical Curious Angry Cautious Loving Boring dull Ironic Peaceful Disbelief Timid Happy Fearful Meek Innocent Sarcastic Dreamy Passionate Envious Innocent Humble Seductive Euphoric Banal (hum-drum, happens everyday) Aggressive Audacious (bold) Critical Nervous Gentle Perturbed Elated Pitiful Benevolent Irrational Giddy Arrogant Sad Melancholy Revengeful Disheartened Presumptuous Paranoid Embarrassed Critical Weary II. Explain how the following connect to the story. 1) "Lynch" 2) "No intermarriages!" 3) "..like marionnette heads on a single string" 4) "Five hundred thousand people" 5) "The time for being fools is over." III. Choose ONE song to represent only ONE of the short stories we have read from "The Illustrated Man". Please annotate as I did on "Glass and Concrete and Stone" In case you did not finish "Kaleidoscope" in class, please explain the following connections to the story: 1) resignation 2) irrevocable fate 3) "The screaming stopped." 4) "..his left hand was gone" 5) "...an invisible butcher" 6) "Make a wish." Explain what message Bradbury gave through each astronaut. Use one quote to support each. _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for next Tuesday, October 15th (A) and Wednesday, October 16th (B) 1) Highlight 3 examples of figurative language. On another sheet of paper explain why YOU think Bradbury chose the simile, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery, or personification. 2) Underline 3 satirical statements. (Bradbury is making fun of society) 3) Make the following connections to yourself. a) How are you like and unlike this family? b) "They're spoiled and we're spoiled." How are you spoiled? c) What restrictions do your parents have for you? How are they different of alike others you know? d) "I wish you were dead!" Describe the worst tantrum you have thrown. 4) Go 3 hours without technology. Sleeping does not count. Have at least a 30 minutes conversation with your parents or guardians. Have parents sign or prove you completed. No ipod, computer, television, clock radio, phone, etc. UNPLUG YOURSELF. Briefly describe you felt after or what you and your parents discussed. ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 10th (A) and Thursday October 11th (B) 1) Read Chapter 10 of ANIMAL FARM making annotations every page. Please attempt to make insightful comments at this point. It could be related to theme, connections, or Orwell's style. 2) Connect the following to the chapter: - "forgotten" - "mysterious things" - Remember only the good - "which was which" 3) Write a brief promotional spot for the FINALE of Animal Farm. It should include 5 "quotes" from the chapter or any other part of the book if you wish. Try and make it original if possible. Example: "Tyrant TV!" or "Watch the glowing box this Thursday!" 4) Teach me. Research ANY connection to Animal Farm and list five facts you think I do not know. (Windmill, revolutions, dictators, cows, farming, etc.) 5) 1 storyboard from Chapter 10 _____________________________________________________________________ HomEwork for October 5th, Friday (A) and October 9TH, tuEsDAY (B) * A day look below for Chapter 10 if ahead. Read Chapter 8 and 9 of ANIMAL FARM making annotations every page. Continue to use post-it notes and looking from the author's point of view. Try and make commentary not simply identify figurative language, imagery, diction (word choice), syntax (sentence structure), or any other insight you might offer. Also explain how the following 3 connect to each chapter: CHapTER EighT - 1) #'s are confusing 2) "War is Peace" - Orwell (1984) 3) "to excess" CHapteR NinE 1) "path" 2) "borne" (definition - to endure) 3) Boxer (How does Orwell create sympathy for Boxer as he nears "retirement"?) _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, October 3rd (A) and Thursday, October 4th (B) *Homework for Friday (A) below Read Chapter 6 and 7 making "post-it" annotations EVERY page. Please try and comment on diction (word choice), figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole), and syntax (sentence structure). Begin asking "WHY" does he choose these words or devices not simply identify. Read Chapter 6 of Animal Farm and explain how the pigs "spin" the following conidtions into a postitive. Use "quotes" from the chapter to support. 1) The animals must work a 60 hour work week. 2) The farm will now engage in trade with humans. 3) The pigs will move into the house and sleep in beds. 4) The windmill is in ruins. For Chapter 7 simply make annotations only. Yet, you should begin to once again "look deeper". *Any part of the six week test must be completed by Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B). You may come in before or after school. *Extra credit "SYMBOL" of ANIMAL FARM is due. You can earn up to 20 points on a weekly grade. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK due for September 28th, Monday (A) and September 29th, Tuesday (B) *A day students look far below for homework related to Chapters 6 and 7. I) Complete the written portion of your test if needed. This is the 6 short answer questions, and the essay using the passage from "Night". 1) Write one sentence about any of the animals in Animal Farm beginning with a participial phase. Write to impress. (3 points) 2) Write two sentences in the ACTIVE VOICE about the events on Animal Farm thus far. (4 points) 3) Write the introduction (two sentences) to a ghost story set inside an old house. Use at least ONE transition for either sentence. SHOW, don¡¦t simply tell the following: a) It is dark. b) The house is old. (5 points) 4) Write one sentence using ¡§got¡¨ and ¡§that¡¨ describing what has recently happened to Snowball in Chapter 5. Now cross out, substitute, or omit if possible. (5 points) 5) Make 10 connections between ANY character we have read about to a TIRE. You may list. (5 points) 6) Copy the following to help you in the future (you may paraphrase): (3 points) I need to buy The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. It is on sale for $7.50 in the library. a composition notebook by the beginning of the second six weeks, and I need to use post-it notes from this point in Animal Farm to make annotations. Essay (15 points) 150-200 words Explain how the events thus far in George Orwell¡¦s Animal Farm are a satire of human folly or behavior. In your explanation mix at least five ¡§quotes¡¨ from Elie Wiesel¡¦s Night passage. Write to impress. II) If you are turning in the "second wave" of summer reading assignments, it is due. You should create a symbol for your novel and also complete #1- 15 as listed below. These items should be typed. 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. 15) Using the final sentence of the novel, explain how the story is resolved. III) Extra credit assignment will be due next Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B). Create a symbol representing "Animal Farm". _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for September 25th, Wednesday (A) and September 26th, Thursday (B): I) Find 5 examples of propaganda and describe. Please bring a concrete example for one of your five. II) Read Chapter 5 of "Animal Farm" and explain each symbolic event using literal details from the chapter: 1) A better, school, or neighborhood to live. 2) Citizens who defect 3) The U.S. Senate 4) Presidential debates 5) Politicians or leaders who do not originate ideas of their own 6) The introduction of ANY new plan, most people are always hesitant to change. 7) America is divided over Iraq and other political ideas. 8) The masses usually agree with the one speaking at the moment. 9) The secret service or KGB (military police of Russia) 10) There are debates and elections every four years, then no more debates, simply orders. 11) "If we don't attack, the terrorists will hit us again." - Dick Cheney _____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for September 21st, Friday (A-day) and September 24th, Monday (B- day) I) Complete reading chapter 3 of "Animal Farm" and with the following describe how each connects to the novel and society. (2nd period, this was added after your class since we did not do so well with our "outside" connections.) 1) "not actually work" 2) "I will work harder!" 3) Define cryptic. Example of another cryptic remark? 4) "the Meeting" 5) education 6) "You don't want Jones to come back?" II) Describe FOUR characters thus far in the novel mixing "quotes" from Orwell to support your opinion. Example: THE CAT The cat exibits its apathy from the onset of the novel. At a time when other animals were willing to "lose an hour's sleep" to hear Old Major's speech, the cat is content "without listening to a word". It is symbolic Orwell does not name "the cat" because he thinks humans who "do not work", yet "return to be fed" do not deserve a name. II) Read Chapter 4 and retell (as a brief story) the events backwards. Please include the following "King" suggestions: 1) a participial phrase (begins with a verb ending in -ing or -ed and modifies the subject) Ex. Running from the barn, the pigs... 2) write one sentece with the active voice (subject performs action) 3) one sentence omitting needless words (No animal starved.) 4) one sentence "showing" the action, not simply telling us what happened *underline or highlight the four you used please __________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Wednesday, September 19th (A) and Thursday, September 20th (B) 1) Find 12 facts about George Orwell and create an acrostic puzzle using both his name and the facts. (If confused, simply list 12 facts for partial credit.) 2) Read Chapter I of "Animal Farm" making introductory annotations every two pages. You could choose from the following, but do not need to complete EACH every two pages: question, word choice (diction), clarify (recall), visualize (storyboard), connect (yourself or society), symbolism (why is this here?), evaluate or criticize, or choose a clever quote you like and explain its significance. 3) Read Chapter II of "Animal Farm" and for each of the 12 symbols or characters, (1) provide the role each plays in the novel and (2) THINK of a CLEVER connection to society. For SQUEALER = any example from society representing someone who leads only through speech and rhetoric. Snowball Napoleon Squealer Animalism The stupidest questions Moses and Sugarcandy mountain Boxer Clover The Red Lion Ribbons read and write The Seven Commandments ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________- Homework due Monday, September 17th (A) and Tuesday, September 18th (B) (Homework due for Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) listed below.) Read the short story "THE SNIPER" on p. 162 and complete the following: 1) Make 10 comparisons between "THE SNIPER" and "THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME". Please avoid the obivous, "Each story includes the use of a gun." 2) Storyboard THREE frames with quotes included. Choose three different points of view. Please put effort into your work even if you are not a gifted artist. 3) What do you think you would see if you were me? List ANY three elements of the story you might comment on or teach if you were the teacher. (Connections, questions, ideas, clever writing, etc.) *Please bring ID as we will be checking out ANIMAL FARM. _____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework due Friday, September 14th (B - Day) *A-day look below for Monday. 1) Write a 12 line song for "The Most Dangerous Game". It does not have to rhyme, but should relate to the story. Remember, write to impress. 2) Complete Exercise A and B on page 59. You need to provide the answers only. *Bring all classwork. We will be estimating our second grade of the six weeks. *Second "wave" of Summer Reading assignments will be due October 1st, Monday (A) and October 2nd, Tuesday (B). __________________________________________________________ Homework due for Wednesday (B) day as related to "The Most Dangerous Game" p. 39 *A day students look just below this assignment if trying to work ahead. 1) Complete your vocabulary list (15 words) using the "WORDS TO KNOW" at the bottom of the pages throughout the story. For each word provide the part of speech, your definition, a connection to the side (literal or artisic), and use the word in context. This could be a song title, sentence, movie title, superhero, or the name of anything. Example "TANGIBLE SHAMPOO" - It "feels" like it cleans your hair all day. 2) Research ANY of the ALLUSIONS used throughout the story and list 5 facts. An allusion is ANY REAL person, event, or object alluded to in a literary work. Examples from "The Most Dangerous Game" are Marcus Aurelius, Madame Butterfly, Filet Mignon, Veuve Cliquot, Cape Buffalo, etc. 3) In 100 words provide your thoughts on EITHER animal rights OR gun control. Find ONE outside quote, statistic, or other evidence to support your opinion. Please "write to impress" without grammatical error. Homework due Thursday, September 13th (A) and Friday, September 14th (B) 1) Write a 12 line song for "The Most Dangerous Game". It does not have to rhyme, but should relate to the story. Remember to write to impress! 2) Complete Exercise A and B on page 59. You need to provide the answers only. ____________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday (A) and Monday (B) All classes read to the top of p.52 from "The Most Dangerous Game". You should stop where Rainsford says, "I wish to go today." Complete the "SEARCH AND RESCUE" assignment for "The Most Dangerous Game" using any part of the story thus far. USE QUOTES TO SUPPORT OR ANSWER! ¡§The Most Dangerous Game¡¨ ¡V Search and Rescue From pgs. 44-52 Stop @ ¡§I wish to go today.¡¨- Rainsford Search for an example of the following based on what you know: Writing 1. foreshadowing (clues to upcoming events) 2. imagery (description relating to the five senses) 3. figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification) 4. one example of ¡§clever¡¨ writing or detail 5. transitions (Look at the first word of sentences.) Parts of Speech ¡V Provide an example of the following. (Try and find the strongest in your opinion.) 6. noun 7. action verb 8. adjective (modifies or describes a noun) 9. adverb (modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb) 10. preposition (on, in, during) and also a prepositional phrase 11. conjunction 12. pronouns 13-15. RECALL Identify THREE important elements you read during this section. Use a quote to support. 16-18. VISUALIZATION Draw a three frame storyboard (comic) of the story's most important scenes. Use quotes in your frames please. 19-20. CONNECTION How would you connect your own experiences to the story? ___________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) days as related to "The Most Dangerous Game" 1) Complete your vocabulary list (15 words) using the "WORDS TO KNOW" at the bottom of the pages throughout the story. For each word provide the part of speech, your definition, a connection to the side (literal or artisic), and use the word in context. This could be a song title, sentence, movie title, superhero, or the name of anything. Example "TANGIBLE SHAMPOO" - It "feels" like it cleans your hair all day. 2) Research ANY of the ALLUSIONS used throughout the story and list 5 facts. An allusion is ANY REAL person, event, or object alluded to in a literary work. Examples from "The Most Dangerous Game" are Marcus Aurelius, Madame Butterfly, Filet Mignon, Veuve Cliquot, Cape Buffalo, etc. 3) In 100 words provide your thoughts on EITHER animal rights OR gun control. Find ONE outside quote, statistic, or other evidence to support your opinion. Please "write to impress" without grammatical error. ___________________________________________________________________________ SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENTS DUE WEDNESDAY (A) and THURSDAY (B) of this week. See below for instructions. 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. 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. 15) Using the final sentence of the novel, explain how the story is resolved. ___________________________________________________________________________ Homework for Friday (A) and Monday (B) All classes read to the top of p.52 from "The Most Dangerous Game". You should stop where Rainsford says, "I wish to go today." Complete the "SEARCH AND RESCUE" assignment for "The Most Dangerous Game" using any part of the story thus far. USE QUOTES TO SUPPORT OR ANSWER! ¡§The Most Dangerous Game¡¨ ¡V Search and Rescue From pgs. 44-52 Stop @ ¡§I wish to go today.¡¨- Rainsford Search for an example of the following based on what you know: Writing 1. foreshadowing (clues to upcoming events) 2. imagery (description relating to the five senses) 3. figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification) 4. one example of ¡§clever¡¨ writing or detail 5. transitions (Look at the first word of sentences.) Parts of Speech ¡V Provide an example of the following. (Try and find the strongest in your opinion.) 6. noun 7. action verb 8. adjective (modifies or describes a noun) 9. adverb (modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb) 10. preposition (on, in, during) and also a prepositional phrase 11. conjunction 12. pronouns 13-15. RECALL Identify THREE important elements you read during this section. Use a quote to support. 16-18. VISUALIZATION Draw a three frame storyboard (comic) of the story's most important scenes. Use quotes in your frames please. 19-20. CONNECTION How would you connect your own experiences to the story? ____________________________________________________________________________ Assignments for August 31st, Friday (A day) and September 1st, Tuesday (B day) The following are two brief writing assignments, yet should be written with the most QUALITY possible. 1) "ANYTHING" is worth 100 words. Write 100 words or close the number about anything you choose. It could be fictional, description, etc. Please write in an elevated tone and avoid the words got, a lot, and that. Avoid "diary" type writing. 2) Describe your first days of school "mixing" 5 quotes from one of your favorite songs. You are attempting to mix fluently, and please use quotation marks surrounding the lyrics of the artist. Using the song - "Back in Black" by AC/DC Example: During the first day of my high school education, I found myself wedged among many. It had "been so long" since I had experienced the clausterphobia which is a school hallway. I initially sat in the "back" of my first period class, listening to the maestro lie about how he was "glad to be back". However, after enduring lectures, I had the chance at lunch to "hit the sack" of the lunch my mother so kindly packed for me. At the end of the day I was finally "let loose from the noose" of my first day of high school and proceeded on to catch the unicorn bus. *See below for the SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT we discussed in class. SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENTS - DUE Wednesday, September 5th for (A) classes and , September 6th for (B) classes. 1) Your first assignment relates to the book you chose for summer reading: Create or build ANYTHING that would represent your book. Try and have the title (underlined) somewhere, but if not possible, OK. This is your intitial chance to make your work unique. 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. 15) Using the final sentence of the novel, explain how the story is resolved. BEGINNING OF 2007 SCHOOL YEAR... _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Final Exam Review Due with Final. 20 points on final. If you complete it and make a 50 on the test, you will actually make a 70. PRE-AP - NO HOMEWORK And thus...the final homework assignments! Monday (B) and Tuesday (A) English I students - SIX headed metaphor project due for "extra credit". Also available for extra credit the Odyssey "research" assignments. See the handout I gave you. Work for the week in regular education classes includes: 1) Books 5 - 7 of your own. (12 lines each) 2) Choose 5 books from the ones we have studied. Find one quote from the ORIGINAL Odyssey to support what you know. See Books 1-24 under "novels/scripts" icon. Explain how the quotes connect. 3) Write a review the play we watched, "Midsummer Night's Dream" 4) Read the "detailed summaries" for Books 13-20 from the website we searched on before. Provide one fact for each book. 5) Have your parents sign a piece of paper that you showed them the work you did during the year. Pre-Ap 1) Read "detailed summaries" of Books 13-20 from the website we used before. Then search the ORIGINAL version of THE ODYSSEY providing one fact to support what you found. Explain the connection. 2) Write Books 6 and 7 of your own. Ideas are or could be for your hero to face a six-headed monster, and for seven, a natural disaster. 3) Have parents sign, add comments, or even list what we have studied on a piece of paper. Any advice for Mia would be welcome also. This could be by yourself or your parents. Thank you again for all your hard work. "Live and be prosperous...or if you stay I will strew this courtyard with thy limbs...not really" - Romeo Homework for Thursday (B) and Friday (A) Write BOOK SIX of your epic hero's journey. 12 lines Suggestion: Your hero encounters a six headed monster. Illustration should be included. Pre-AP "50" Project DUE Homework for Tuesday (B) and Wednesday (A) A DAYS - BRING YOUR BOOK WEDNESDAY...as reminded by one Nicole Bell. 1) Write BOOK 5 (12 line poem) of your epic hero's journey. An idea to use would be your hero resisting addiction or music ("Lotus" or "Sirens") by means of music, addiction, beauty, magic, etc. 2) Read or skim through the original ODYSSEY online. Go to "novels/scripts" and click on BOOKS 1-24. Find 1 quote from 5 different books we have read thus far (1-10). Explain the connection the quote has to the story. You may option to read book 11 and complete the AP assignment below. PRE-AP *Complete #1-8 from Book IV. Be sure and write out the defense of your answers. *Read Book XI (eleven) "The Land of the Dead" and discuss FIVE people Odysseus meets and what their conversation is about. Mix "quotes" into your answer. See online version under "novels/scripts" icon. Click on Odyssey Books 1-24. REMINDER THAT YOUR PRE-AP "50" ASSIGNMENT IS DUE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. Homework for Friday (B) and Monday (A) 1) Write BOOK 4 of your "epic hero" journey. An idea to use would be your hero thrown OFF COURSE. Try and use at least 4-6 prepositions at the beginning of your lines. Examples: With, During, After, To, At, Before, Under, Within, Above, etc. *WE ARE TAKING UP WORK FOR THE WEEK FRIDAY AND MONDAY. PRE-AP CLASSES - Complete #1-8 (AP TEST) from Book II of "The Odyessy". BE SURE AND WRITE OUT DEFENSE OF YOUR ANSWER! *Do not cirle blindly saying, "Oh my God, this is too hard!!" Homework for Wednesday (B) and Thursday (A) 1) Complete book 2 of your own epic hero. (12 line poem) Ideas may include: your hero's allies, those he left behind, his mission, etc...Of course you may add your own. 2) Complete book 3 of your hero. (12 line poem) This book should describe your hero's antagonist or first conflict. Provide an illustration. 3) Pre-AP - Read (skim) books 1-8 of "The Odyssey" in search of a quote to support evidence you have found in the summaries of each book. Provide an explanation as to how it fits what you know of "The Odyssey" thus far. Please do NOT simply copy eight different quotes. PRE-AP "50" PROJECT due next Thursday (B) and Friday (A) Homework for Monday (B) and Tuesday (B) 1) Create your own "epic hero". Write a 12 line poem describing his, her, or its back story. Provide an illustration for your character as well. 2) Read the "exended summaries" for Books 1-4 of The Odyssey. You can easily find them by clicking on the "novels/scripts" icon. List major events occurring which were not mentioned in class. 3) PRE-AP - 5th period only. Ignore assinment #2 above and complete 17 AP questions related to the Emily Dickinson poem. Also complete your essay if needed. ALL PRE-AP CLASSES - I will explain our "project" relating to your fiction novel on Monday and Tuesday. Homework for Thursday (B) and Friday (A) Complete the "ways I am an individual" and find 15 facts about "THE ODYSSEY" (characters, monsters, events, gods, etc.) *Also complete essay for test if needed. Choose one from below: 1) In his essay "Walking", Henry David Thoreau offers the following assessment of literature: Dullness is but another name for tameness, It is the Uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad In all the scriptures and mythologies not learned in schools, That delights us. From the works you HAVE studied in school, choose a novel, play, or epic poem that you may have initially thought was conventional and tame but that you now value for its "uncivilized free and wild thinking." Write an essay in which you explain what constitutes its "uncivilized free and wild thinking" and how that thinking is central to the value of the work as a whole. Support your ideas with specific references to the work you chose. 2) The British novelist Fay Weldon offers this observation about happy endings: "The writers, I do believe, who get the best and most lasting response from readers are the writers who offer happy endings through moral development. By a happy ending, I do not mean mere fortunate events, but some kind of spirtitual reassessment or moral reconciliation with the self, even at death." Choose a play or novel that has the kind of ending Weldon describes. In a well-written essay, identify the "spiritual reassessment or moral reconcilitation" evident in the ending and explain its significance in the work a whole. Homework for Tuesday (B) and Wednesday (A) Complete review and study for "Dead Poets Society" test. PRE-AP classes should currently be reading a fiction novel of choice. It should be a minimum of 150 pages. Homework for Monday (B) and Tuesday (2nd), Thursday (3rd and 4th) 1) Read the end of the script for "Dead Poets Society" Begin when Mr. Perry threatens to enroll Neil into military school (See below). Prove you read by any means consider original. MR. PERRY We're trying very hard to understand why it is that you insist on defying us. Whatever the reason, we're not gonna let you ruin your life. Tomorrow I'm withdrawing you from Welton and enrolling you in Braden Military School. You're going to Harvard and you're gonna be a doctor. NEIL But that's ten more years. Father, that's a lifetime! 2) Make THREE connections between "Dead Poets Society" and both "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet". Please avoid the obvious. PRE-AP Analyze THREE different poems from THREE different poets. Complete the following for each. 1) Author and "Title" 2) What is the poem about? 3) Identify one rhetorical device and its effect. 4) What is the tone of the poem. Use one quote to support. 5) Choose the most difficult line and provide your interpretation. Homework for Thursday (A) and Friday (B) Read Act V of DPS and explain how the following connect: Also explain how you did TWO things differently from your "routine". This could be brushing your teeth with the other hand, sitting in a different desk, or looking at something from a different point of view. EXT. COURTYARD - DAY 1) Conformity 2) Why were you clapping? 3) Desk set 4) Nuwanda 5) To the MIGHTY MUTT! 6) "Can I compare you to a summer's day? Thou are more beautiful and more temperate." 7) "He's feeling up your girl!" 8) I might to to Yale, or I might not. 9) "Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God." 10) "There is a time for daring and time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for." STOP @ NEIL BIKES AWAY AS THE CLOCK BELL TOLLS. Homework for Tuesday (B) and Wednesday (A) Dead Poets Society - Act III Answer questions on bookmark or below by reading script found under "Dead Poets" icon. Begin reading after boys approach Mr. Keating about "The Dead Poets Society." 1. Choose 3 of the boys. What does their reaction to the "society" reveal about each of them? 2. What is Todd insecure about? What would you admit you are insecure about? 3. What does Mr. Keating sneak into Neil's room? 4. Interpret Thoreau's quote as read by Neil at the first meeting. 5. What happens in the ghost story told by Neil? What is your favorite ghost story? 6. What is Charlie's poem written on and what was your opinion of it? Provide a quote. 7. What are the two best lines of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem? Explain. INT. Classroom Day - 8. What word does Meeks provide that is stronger than sad? What are two other words he could have used? 9. What does "woo" mean and how does Mr. Keating use it? 10. How does Keating plan to read Shakespeare? Short Answer: a. Explain what the purpose of Mr. Keating's lesson is related to "standing on the desk." Include Thoreau's quote in your interpretation. b. Write a poem of your own to be read aloud in class. Topic - anything/Length - any. STOP READING WITH - "Don't think I don't know this assignment scares the hell out of you." Homework for Friday (B) and Monday (A) Dead Poets Society - Act I (Go to "Novels/Scripts" link to read.) Read the script from the link on the class website until Mr. Keating says "Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Respond to the following: 1. What inferences can you make about the story based on the first line? What would be the first line of a movie based on yourself? 2. A candle is lit at the beginning of the script. What might this foreshadow or symbolize? 3. What are the four pillars of the school? Which do you feel most important? 4. What pressure is put on Todd Anderson and Neil Perry? Yourself? 5. How does Cameron put his "foot in his mouth?" How have you? 6. What is the rumor about Helton according to Charlie? What are rumors about other schools? Westwood, Stony Point, and private schools. 7. Who do the boys have to hide their cigarettes from? Describe your first attempt at smoking. 8. What do Neil and his father argue about? You and your own? 9. What do you think the flocks of birds might foreshadow or symbolize? Short Answer: 1. Explain how Mr. Keating's lesson is different than the other teachers. Homework for Wednesday (B) and Thursday (A) Complete FINAL DRAFT of TAKS ESSAY. GOOD WORK ON YOUR PROJECTS!!! Homework for Monday (B) and Tuesday (A) ROMEO AND JULIET PROJECTS DUE. GOOD LUCK. Choose between Art, Film, Soundtrack, Children's book, Acting, or even your own unique idea. Homework for THURSDAY (B) and FRIDAY (A) Complete ONE of short answer if not done in class. (150 words) Regular classes may complete a second for extra credit. Also for regulary classes, make sure and bring the following: 1) #1-8 as "The Teacher" for Romeo and Juliet 2) #6 and Literary Chart p.1103 3) Review for Romeo and Juliet Homework for Tuesday (B) and Wednesday (A) Complete review for Romeo and Juliet test. It will count as a weekly homework grade. For each section provide answers for FIVE of your choice. I suggest you choose the most difficult. Pre-AP / Memorize 25 words used to address TONE. Good luck, Mr. Capulet *Reminder - ROMEO AND JULIET projects due next Monday (B) and Tuesday (A) Homework for Friday (B) and Monday (A) 1) Complete #6 and the "Literary Chart" on p. 1103. Add your own ideas for each theme. 2) Complete #1-8 for Romeo and Juliet or simple Act V. You become the teacher. Please DO NOT repeat quotes, words, assignments, etc., that we already addressed. 1-Which 3 quotes were the most important and why? 2-Write 3 discussion questions you would ask the class. 3-Make 3 personal connections to the play or scene. 4-What 3 visual connections would you ask the class to draw? 5-What are 3 vocabulary words we did not address and provide the definition of each? 6-What is a homework assignment you would have made related to the play or Act V? 7-What is one activity or improvisation you would ask the class to complete? 8-Look specifically at the speech Romeo gives while entering the tomb. Write three questions you would ask the "other team" which might stump them. 1-Find 3 quotes we did not discuss you thought important. 2-Write 3 discussion questions you would ask? (Ones I did not) 3-What are 3 personal connections you would ask the class? 4-What are 3 visual connections you would ask the class? 5-Find 3 vocabulary words we did not define and provide the definition. Homework for Wednesday(B) and Thursday (A) *We will collect all work for the week. 1) You are Friar John. I am Romeo. Find a way to tell me about the Friar's plan in your own unique way. Include at least one original quote. 2) Research information on pharmacist and anethesiologist. This relates to our apothecary and the anesthetic given to Juliet. Have good Spring Break. You could work on the following if you become bored: 1) Complete Homework from last week. See below. 2) Extra credit - Research information on colleges participating in the NCAA basketball tournament. Admission, SAT scores, Tuition, location, etc. 3) Begin project? See below. Romeo and Juliet - Project Due April 2nd (B) and 3rd (A) WRITING/ART 1) Children¡¦s book (15 pages minimum) Include visual for each page and connect to text. Text should have one quote per page and interpretation. You can retell the story, reinvent the story, or teach the alphabet. FILM 2) Short film (3-5 minutes) Film should be edited, have music, and connect to Romeo and Juliet. You can work in groups of 2 or 3. You can act out a scene, retell the entire story, recreate, or your own idea. ACTING 3) Memorize and perform a scene with another student in front of the class, or memorize a one page monologue and act out yourself. Acting will count, not just repeating the lines. MUSIC 4) Create (actually burn CD) 8 song soundtrack. It should include CD cover, lyrics, and a 5 sentence explanation as to how the song fits for each song. You should have at least ¡§one quote¡¨ from the play in your explanation for each song. All text should be typed. ART 5) Paint a picture on canvas, a mosaic, abstract art, or other representing Romeo and Juliet. Homework for THURSDAY (B) and FRIDAY (A) *A DAYS SEE BELOW FOR WEDNESDAY ASSIGNMENT 1) Read Act III, scene v. Capulet is going to arrange the marriage between Paris and Juliet. Rewrite the scene (p.1061) as if you were a "Wedding Crasher" or "The Wedding Singer". Use three quotes mixed into your version and make sure it is evident you read and understood what you read. 2) Read Act III, scene v beginning with ENTER LADY CAPULET Complete assignments #1 and 2 as given to you in class or see below: Mr. Chalk ¡V Romeo and Juliet / ACT III, scene v 1) Provide quotes which support EACH event from the following paragraph: p. 1065 ¡V 1070 - You will need TEN quotes total. Begin with ¡§Enter Lady Capulet¡¨ Lady Capulet wants to poison Romeo. Juliet tells her mom she wants to poison him (so she can protect him). Lady Capulet tells Juliet she will be married Thursday to Paris. She does not want to. Lady Capulet tells Juliet to tell her father. Capulet is furious with Juliet and will kick her out of the house if she is not at the church on Thursday. Juliet asks the Nurse what she should do. The Nurse says she should go ahead and marry Paris. Juliet curses the Nurse and says she will go to the Friar for help. If he can¡¦t help her, she will kill herself. 2) Complete the ¡§ALLUSION¡¨ activity on p. 1071. PRE-AP - In addition to assignments above, complete assignments #1-4 related to Friar Laurence's speech. It was given out in class. See me if you were absent. Homework for Wednesday (A Days only) A DAY ONLY - 1) Research a casualty from the war in Iraq. Provide detailed information about the soldier, journalist, or medic. Also add attach a photograph. 2) Read the first speech by Juliet beginning Act III, scene ii. Rewrite Juliet's feelings as either a "Bridezilla", "Valley Girl", or "Child before Christmas". Use at least 5 quotes in your speech. OR OR OR OR Choose 5 quotes from the speech and draw a representation of each. Example: Draw Romeo "cut up and placed among the stars" *PRE-AP - Identify 5 literary devices used by Shakespeare. You do NOT need to discuss the effect. Homework for Monday (A) and Tuesday (B) PRE-AP 4th and 5th PERIOD - Write 2nd draft of 40 minute essay in which you describe the effect of Shakespeare's use of diction, syntax, figurative language, and tone to convey meaning. You may choose one quote, Romeo's speech again, or any part you feel most strongly about. A DAY CLASSES - Read Act II, scenes v and vi. 1) For scene v provide THREE quotes which show how the Nurse delays in telling Juliet her good news. 2) For scene vi rewrite as if you are performing a "VEGAS" style wedding. Mix four "quotes" into your response. B DAY CLASSES - Mercutio sacrificed his life for Romeo. Research ONE casualty of the war in Iraq. Describe the person "mixing" in two quotes from Mercutio's last words during the fight scene or any other part of the play. Bring in photograph if available. Homework for Thursday (A) and Friday (B) ALL CLASSES COMPLETE #1 and 2 1) Book a trip to Verona, Italy. Find the cost of flight, hotel, attractions, etc. 2) Research THREE different landmarks or cities in ITALY. Provide information on each. Please do not just list...Rome, Venice, and Florence. 3) Regular classes only - Provide ONE quote per character based on what we have read thus far. Also provide your interpretation for each. PRE-AP #3 A DAY CLASS) Rewrite Friar Laurence's speech which begins Act II, scene iii. Rewrite as if you are an environmentalist, a mad scientist, or a magician. "Mix" eight quotes into your speech. Stop with "Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight" Also explain how this speech characterizes the Friar. How might it be symbolic of the play or events to come? B DAY CLASS) Read ACT II, scene v and list THREE ways the nurse "delays" in telling Juliet her good news. Rewrite Act II, scene vi as if YOU are performing a "VEGAS" style wedding. "Mix" eight quotes into your ceremony. Also explain what the Friar meant when he said "VIOLENT DELIGHTS HAVE VIOLENT ENDS" Homework for Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) 1) Translate Romeo's speech before entering the Capulet party word for word. It is on p. 1012. "I do but fear some consequence yet hanging in the stars..." 2) Pre-AP - Write a 40 minute essay in which you discuss Shakespeare's use of diction, syntax, tone, and figurative language. Explain the EFFECT each has. Please avoid cliches such as "he is using really good words", "paint a picture in your mind", or "wants you to really feel what Romeo is" 3) Make connections between the FIVE films nominated for BEST PICTURE and what we have read thus far from "ROMEO AND JULIET". 5 films are: "Babel", "Letters From Iwo Jima", "Little Miss Sunshine", "The Queen", and "The Departed" Homework for Thursday (A) and Friday (B) Write a singles advertisement for yourself. It should be ORIGINAL and have the following: 1) photo of yourself 2) be 100 words typed 3) "mix" in one quote from the prologue or scene i PRE-AP Identify FIVE literary techniques Shakespeare uses in the prologue or scene i. (metaphor, syntax, diction, allusion, simile, hyperbole, oxymoron, polysyndeton, imagery, personification, asyndeton, epistrophe, anaphora, or others) Briefly explain the effect each has. Please do not simply say "makes a picture in your mind" Homework for Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) Good luck on your TAKS test!! Do your best, so I win a Chevy Tahoe. Not really, but I hope you try your best. Remember, NO writing on the final for those who pass or are commended (Pre-AP). Good luck with your next "HORSE FOR MATTHEW"!!! Homework for Friday (A) and Monday (B) Have your "maternal guidance" sign the valentine we made in class. Also do TWO nice things for your mom and have her sign as evidence you did them. Romeo and Juliet begins... Homework for Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) Rewrite the prologue for "ROMEO AND JULIET" as a fairy tale. It is below and also on p. 992. Ex. Once upon a time there were two families who were the same. PRE-AP Rewrite using iambic pentameter or each line should be 10 syllables. Ex. There are two families who are both rich (10 syllables) Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. (Prologue 4) From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. (Prologue 8) The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; (Prologue 12) The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. (Prologue 14) Also complete 2 of the 4 short answer questions below if you did not complete for the last class period. You may complete 3 or 4 for extra credit. Homework for Monday (A) and Tuesday (B) Complete TWO of the FOUR short answer questions on "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" test. 1) Discuss similarities between the actors' plot (including "Pyramus and Thisby") and the other two plots (lovers and fairies). 2) Though Shakespeare uses hyperbole (exaggeration) in his characters, choose TWO characters from the play and explain how each is a metaphor for people in real life. Use multiple examples. 3) Imagine you went to a THEME PARK entitled "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Explain in detail what it would look like. Be original. 4) Choose YOUR favorite comedic film, TV show, or book. Describe the comparisons between tht two. *You may complete a third or all four for extra credit. Homework - None. Study for test. Vocabulary, characters, etc. See voc icon. Homework for Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) 1)Make 5 connections between the SUPER BOWL and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 2)Memorize Puck's soliloquy at the end of the play. 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. Homework for Friday (A) and MOnday (B) 1) Rewrite ACT V using your OWN writing mixed with TEN quotes from ACT V. Begin with Theseus - "LOVERS AND MADMEN HAVE SUCH SEETHING BRAINS" End with Oberon - "So shall all the couples three ever true in loving be" You may rewrite as a summary, children's book, magazine article, script, song, or other. PRE-AP Use Quotes from ten different characters and they should be difficult choices. 2) Bring in an object representing the play. Attach a quote as well. Homework for Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) *Major grade - Typed Final Draft of your "quote" essay. It should be typed using 12 Times Roman font and double-spaced. Please include a "TITLE". Remember supporting anecdotes or examples to support your interpretation of the quote can be personal examples, books, short stories, songs, poems, historical figures, fictional or rhetorical scenarios, or films. *Please try to write some "music". Homework for Monday and Tuesday Read the end of ACT III of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Begin from when HERMIA says, "I AM AMAZED AND NO NOT WHAT TO SAY!" Regular - Interpret 5 lines from different sections. PRE-AP - Write a script similar to what you read in class. It does NOT have to be word for word. Homework for Thursday, January 25th (A) and Friday, January 26th (B) *Please bring all work as we will grade for the week. 1) Read Act III, scene ii to the point where Puck says: "Then two will woo one" Based on where the play is now, DRAW the woods and where EVERY character is at this point. You may need a drawing of Theseus and Hippolyta's "kingdom" in the distance. Each character should be "emitting" (saying) one quote. 2) Write paragraph #4 and 5 for your essay. Paragraph 4 should be your final anecdote or example. This may be a personal connection, film, book, song, historical figure, fictional scenario to prove your point, short story, poem, etc. Paragraph 5 should be your conclusion. This should be where you say something as inspiring as the quote itself. It could be advice, how you will change because of the quote, a rhetorical question, or restating what you mentioned in your interpretation with more "music". Example for "The Earth has music for those who listen." - Shakespeare In my class I try to expose students to as much "music" or culture as I possibly can. No, there are some teenagers not able or even willing to listen, but I will forever play, knowing one day when I am nowhere near, my notes will be heard. Homework for January 23rd, Tuesday (A) and January 24th, Wednesday (B) 1) Write paragraph #3 related to the quote you chose. 2) Complete related assignment for Act III, scene ii (See below. Use script under "novels/scripts" icon.) 3) Pre-AP - Memorize 5 words and definitions from the SAT vocabulary website. ¡§A Midsummer Night¡¦s Dream¡¨ ¡V William Shakespeare Read Act III, scene i from script provided on-line. Use quotes to answer the following: 1) What are three of the four problems with the play ¡§Pyramus and Thisby¡¨? 2) What is the solution to the three problems you chose? 3) What has Puck transformed Nick Bottom into? 4) What is Nick Bottom¡¦s reaction? The other actors? 5) Who falls in love with Nick now? 6) What are two things Titania and her servants going to provide for Bottom? PRE-AP 7-10) Read only the monologue by Puck at the beginning of scene ii. Puck is describing to Oberon what has happened. Interpret word for word the best you can. Homework for Friday (A) January 19th and Monday (B) January 22nd, 1595. 1) Make three comparisons between MLK's, "I Have a Dream" speech (p.439) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" so far. Provide quotes from MLK's speech as support. 2) Write paragraph #TWO of your essay relating to a quote of your choice. It should revolve around your second anecdote or example. You may choose from either a song, book, film, personal experience, historical figure, or fictional scenario. PRE-AP 3) Analyze ANY speech by Martin Luther King other than "I Have a Dream". Try and identify the rhetorical devices we have discussed so far: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, tone, syntax, diction, repitition (anaphora and epistrophe), OR use of conjunctions (asyendyton and polysyndeton). 4) Go to SAT vocabulary site and play one round of "memory". Use or illustrate FIVE words you practice with. Homework for Friday (A) January 12th and THURSDAY (B) January 18th, 1595. 1) Write 5 sentences about anything. With each, rewrite two times either improving the word choice (diction) or structure (syntax). Example: My daughter Mia has a cough. (Simple) Mia, my daughter, has a cough. (changed structure using an appostive phrase) My daughter Mia is inflicted with an illness which has pervaded through her day care. (improve diction and description) 2) Choose a "quote" of your own to write about over the next two weeks. You may visit the "links" page and search under "quotations" or use one you already are inspired by. Simply write YOUR interpretation of the quote for your introduction. This will be your Thesis Statement. WRITE LIKE IT IS MUSIC! Example: "The Earth has music for those who listen" - Shakespeare Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death we are still "listening to his music". This epitomizes the meaning behind this proverb and his work. There are only a handful of people who have had this effect on our civilization, and there is genius behind each. Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and Martin Luther King are the first to come to mind when I consider what "music" has been listened to. Pre-AP 3) Read or "skim" through Act I, scene ii of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Identify 3 characters and connect them to three people YOU know. Use a quote to connect. Example: Quince says "You may do it extempore (improvisational), for it is nothing but roaring." This connects to myself as I encourage students to participate in improvisation. Homework for Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) 1) Copy the vocabulary from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for your class. 2) Using the "links" page, find 11 facts about William Shakespeare and write the facts horizontally across his name as we did first semester. 3) Pre-AP - Interpret 5 lines from Act I, scene i of "Midsummer Night's Dream". Click on "Novels/Scripts" icon. The quote should include at least one vocabulary word from your list. Happy New Year! Remember, EVERYONE begins with a 100. 1) Write your OWN holiday version of THE TWILIGHT ZONE. It should consist of 8-10 sentences. These should be clear, cohesive sentences, not ten separate thoughts. 2) Answer the following about the website: a. How many hits does this website currently have? See bottom of the HOME PAGE. b. Who is the author portrayed on the "homework" link. c. Pre-AP/Go to "Links" page and play one round of SAT vocabulary. Provide the 3 words with definitions from your round. 3) Pre-AP - Read "The Seven Ages of Man" p. 349 -Provide an interptetation of each of the seven ages along with a personal connection for each "age". Example: One stage is the "soldier" who "seeks the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth". My response would be most soldiers want to leave behind a legacy of bravery, and are willing to carry this pride even with the "cannon" pointed at them. My personal connection would be to the film "Forrest Gump" in which the character "Lieutenant Dan" demands Forrest leave him dying on the battlefield, much like those in his family who have died bravely before him. REVIEW AND ROUGH DRAFT OF ESSAY DUE ON THE DAY OF YOUR EXAM. It is 10% of your final exam grade. 1) Provide definition or example for #1-52. 2) Answer #1-5 for EACH story or novel we read. 3) Use 40 of our vocabulary words in a sentence, story, or song title. Essay: Choose one of three following quotes to discuss in a well developed essay: 1) "Genius is the capacity to see ten things when the average man sees only one." - SOCRATES 2) "Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death." - THE SCARLET IBIS 3) "I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself a bird will frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." - from the poem "SELF-PITY" *Students who are exempt should turn in the review ANYTIME next week. You do NOT need to show up for the final exam. (at your convenience) Homework for Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) END OF THE THIRD SIX WEEKS! ALL PROJECTS DUE. English I - part II of "around the room" story, 100 words on one less fortunate than you, research on colleges and Scarlet Ibis, 4 square assignment for "Ibis", and a one song soundtrack for "Ibis" with lyrics and 3 connections. FINISH READING STORY ON YOUR OWN. It is on p.598. PRE-AP - "Of Mice and Men" paper due on a character of your choice. Follow the outline I gave you last week related to each of the five paragraphs. Make sure paper is typed, 12 font, times new roman font, and provide a paranthetical notation for each quote you "mix" into your answer. Ex. Crooks is more direct in his approach with Lennie by stating directly, "You're nuts." (p.74) The only other character to say this directly to Lennie was Curley's wife, another character in the story treated unfairly. WRITE QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY! PLEASE DO NOT SUMMARIZE. Homework for Friday (A), December 1st and Monday (B), December 4th English I 1) Research TWO colleges. Provide the requirements for admission, tuition, location, mascot, and any other information you feel relevant. 2) Research the "Scarlet Ibis" (the actual bird)and provide facts. Why do you think Hurst chose to title his story "Ibis" based on what you read thus far? Pre-AP Read "Of Mice and Men" pgs. 38-83. "Post-It" annotations every 3 pages. "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?" Every three pages make an "annotation" or note about the text. This could be: questions you have? preditions? quotes you feel important or clever? examples of strong diction or word choice drawings or illustrations (Crooks' bunkhouse?) inferences or conclusions you make thoughts on tone, syntax, or rhetorical devices identify figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole) connections to yourself, reality, other stories or films a song to represent text identify archetypes, allusions, symbols, polysyndeton, asyndeton, epistrophe, anaphora, juxtaposition. PLEASE DO NOT SAY WHAT HAPPENED!! Remember to have a character in mind now for your paper due Tuesday and Wednesday. English I students I) Complete a PART II of your writing assignment we did today in class. Use your room or house as inspiration. It can be a sequel of alternate story to what we did today. II) Research one person the world who is less fortunate than you. 100 word response PRE-AP - Read the first two chapters of "Of Mice and Men". Choose five characters to make inferences about using quotes to support. PRE-AP - OF MICE AND MEN CHARACTER PROJECT DUE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5th (A) and WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6th (B) See me for details if you lose your assignment sheet. FINAL EXAM REVIEW - DUE ON DAY OF EXAM *If EXEMPT, grade will apply to the 6 weeks and count as ONE weekly grade. PAGE 1 - Provide an EXAMPLE of 30 terms listed. PAGE 2 - Use 30 words in a story, sentence, song, or title. PAGE 3 - Follow instructions provided. 20 examples from 4 works read. Due Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) *TEST FRIDAY AND MONDAY OVER ODYSSEY English I Read "DETAILED" summary of Books 13-15 from The Odyssey website. Provide TWO events from each book. First Day of "research" due over ANY topic related to The Odyssey. See handout provided. PRE-AP Read summaries of Books 13-15 and provide 3 QUOTES from EACH book which support events from summaries. Provide a brief description for each as to how it connects. 6 HEADED METAPHOR and ONE research topic - DUE MONDAY (B) and TUESDAY (A) (30 points of ODYSSEY TEST) Due Monday (A) and Tuesday (B) English I and Pre-AP Choose your own "SIREN" song which best represents you. Provide a detailed description MIXING "Lyrics" with your commentary. Pre-AP THE ODYSSEY BOOK XII p. 209-225 12 GAPS - Choose 12 lines we didn't read in class and provide an interpretation. Due Thursday (A) and Friday (B) English I - Answer #6 and 7 p. 926 using at least one quote from Book 10. Write your own "Tabloid News Story" using a photograph and 2 quotes from Book 10. (See p. 927 #1 for help.) Extra Credit: Complete the "Vocabulary in Action" on p. 927 PRE-AP - Read Book 11 (pgs. 185-206) Choose 11 themes from the handout provided and find 11 quotes which support those themes. Make sure you read and are aware of the people Odysseus visits. Due Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) English I and Pre-AP 9 Quote Quiz Choose ONE quote from EACH BOOK (1-9) and explain its importance. (See website for full version.) This is more to review the plots of different books at the 1/3 mark. No need to extend. Have a good weekend. Due Friday (A) and Monday (B) English I and Pre-AP Interview your parents or other adults (2 minimum) and have them describe a period in their life when they felt "idle" or stuck. This is symbolic of how Odysseus has spent seven years "idle" with Calypso. Pre-AP - Read Book V "Sweet Nymph and Open Sea" (pgs. 81-95) Compare Book V to the "Calypso" episode described by your adult interview. *You may use the film "Castaway" or show "Gilligan's Island" as subtitute. USE QUOTES. Find quotes to support the following themes of book V: 1) The "eternal life" of hero worship 2) The illusion of freedom, perfection, and control 3) The temptation to stay the same 4) On the way to recovery and rebirth *Also add short responses of your own as to how you feel about each theme. REMINDER YOUR FINAL DRAFT OF YOUR STORY IS DUE FRIDAY. Due Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) English I - Provide 5 quotes from Homer, 8 facts from Odysseus, and examples of Round Rock students acting similar to the "suitors". Pre-AP Read Book I,II, OR III of THE ODYSSEY. Provide evidence you read. Use your imagination. Please avoid summaries. I have already read. ALL should read book IV "The Red-haired King and his Lady". (pgs. 53-78) Provide connections between book IV and the TV show "HAPPY DAYS". If you are unaware of the show, connect book IV to your favorite show/movie in which a character has red hair. (Annie, Gilligan's Island, etc.) ***INCLUDE QUOTES FROM THE BOOK IN YOUR RESPONSE. REMINDER FOR TEST ESSAY (YOUR SHORT STORY) SUBMIT FINAL DRAFT ON FRIDAY. Due Thursday (A)and Monday (B) Write a short story based on one of YOUR days. It should not include fiction. Use writing strategies we have discussed and with clever description and detail, you can make the most mundane day interesting. Hint: Include thoughts, detail, dialogue, and show don't tell. ALSO, study for test over Dead Poets Society script and writing skills. See "skills" icon for definitions and examples of related skills. Due Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) Read the remainder of the script from Dead Poets Society. Begin from the point Mr. Perry confronts Neil and tells him he will place him in a military school. Write 8 original questions which reveal you completed the script. Due Friday (4/7) and Monday (4/10) ACT VI Begin reading at INT. THEATER - DAY and answer the following questions: 1) Compare and contrast Neil and Mr. Perry's conversation with Neil and Mr. Keating's. Use quotes to support. 2) "How can you stand being here?" Why do you think Mr. Keating feels this way? Do you think your teachers feel the same? Explain. 3) How does Knox embarrass Chris? What is the most embarrassed you have ever been? How does embarrassing yourself build character? 4) What evidence is there that Neil did NOT talk to his father as he speaks with Mr. Keating before the play? 5) Explain how Knox convinces Chris to attend the play with him. 6) Since you have read the play, interpret two lines from PUCK. 7) How could (Neil's) Pucks's soliloquy at the end of the play be to his father? 8) How is the argument Mr. Perry and Neil have like and ulike ones you have with your parents? END @ IT'S ALL RIGHT. IT'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT. - Mr. Perry Due Wednesday (4/5) and Thursday (4/6) Explain how the following connect to Dead Poets beginning with: EXT. COURTYARD - DAY 1) Conformity 2) Why were you clapping? 3) Desk set 4) Nuwanda 5) To the MIGHTY MUTT! 6) "Can I compare you to a summer's day? Thou are more beautiful and more temperate." 7) "He's feeling up your girl!" 8) I might to to Yale, or I might not. 9) "Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God." 10) "There is a time for daring and time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for." STOP @ NEIL BIKES AWAY AS THE CLOCK BELL TOLLS. Due Monday (4/3) and Tuesday (4/4) READ DEAD POETS FROM: EXT. RIVER - DAY Cameron, Charlie, and several other boys are rowing while Mr. Nolan shouts orders from a bullhorn. 1) What technological breakthrough do the boys make? What technological breakthroughs do you see 40 years from now? 2) Explain what Neil wants to do and the argument he has with Todd. Do you take the position of Neil or Todd with most of your teachers? What is something you want to TRY or DO? Explain. 3) Summarize what happens during the scene with Knox at the "bus". How is Charlie like Rosaline? 4) What is the point of combining soccer with English according to Keating? What are two of your favorite lines/quotes by the students as each "kicks"? Explain. 5) How is the part Neil gets symbolic of what he does to his father? 6) Describe the lesson in which the students share their poetry. (Specifically Todd) 7) How does Knox turn into "HELENA" from Midsummer Night's? Explain when you were the most nervous before a phone call. STOP READING @ SHE IS GOING TO BE MINE! CARPE! Application: Do 2 things different from your routine. Look at any three things from a different perspective. Due Thursday (3/30) and Friday (3/31) Dead Poets Society - Act III Answer questions on bookmark or below by reading script found under "Dead Poets" icon. Begin reading after boys approach Mr. Keating about "The Dead Poets Society." 1. Choose 3 of the boys. What does their reaction to the "society" reveal about each of them? 2. What is Todd insecure about? What would you admit you are insecure about? 3. What does Mr. Keating sneak into Neil's room? 4. Interpret Thoreau's quote as read by Neil at the first meeting. 5. What happens in the ghost story told by Neil? What is your favorite ghost story? 6. What is Charlie's poem written on and what was your opinion of it? Provide a quote. 7. What are the two best lines of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem? Explain. INT. Classroom Day - 8. What word does Meeks provide that is stronger than sad? What are two other words he could have used? 9. What does "woo" mean and how does Mr. Keating use it? 10. How does Keating plan to read Shakespeare? Short Answer: a. Explain what the purpose of Mr. Keating's lesson is related to "standing on the desk." Include Thoreau's quote in your interpretation. b. Write a poem of your own to be read aloud in class. Topic - anything/Length - any. STOP READING WITH - "Don't think I don't know this assignment scares the hell out of you." Write your own poem. Due Tuesday (3/28) and Wednesday (3/29) Dead Poets Society - Act II Answer questions on bookmark or below by reading script found under "Dead Poets" icon. Begin reading as the boys exit their first day of school. 1. What is Cameron's concern about the "weird" lesson? 2. What confusion does Knox have on his visit, and what is one of the two cliches Mr. Danbury uses? 3. How does the reaction to Knox's situation ("A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk!") reveal the character of three of the boys? 4. What does Mr. Keating think of Dr. Pritchard's "rating method" rearding poetry? What important lessons does the class learn from the "Introduction to Poetry"? 5. What does Mr. Keating insist students will do in his class? Short Answer: 1. What two major points does Mr. Keating make in his "huddle" speech? What are your thoughts about each? 2. Describe the conversation between Mr. McCallister and Mr. Keating. Discuss the different teaching philosophies of each and the quotes each uses in his defense. 3. What are some facts the boys dig up about Mr. Keating and what exactly is or was "The Dead Poets Society"? What are some facts you could dig up about your parents that would embarrass them such as the boys have done to Mr. Keating? Due Friday, 3/24 (A) and Monday, 3/27 (B) Dead Poets Society - Act I Read the script from the link on the class website until Mr. Keating says "Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Answer the following questions: 1. What inferences can you make about hte story based on the first line? 2. A candle is lit at the beginning of the script. What might this foreshadow or symbolize? 3. What are the four pillars of the school? 4. What pressure is put on Todd Anderson and Neil Perry? 5. How does Cameron put his "foot in his mouth?" 6. What is the rumor about Helton according to Charlie? 7. Who do the boys have to hide their cigarettes from? 8. What do Neil and his father argue about? 9. What do you think the flocks of birds might foreshadow or symbolize? Short Answer: 1. Explain how Mr. Keating's lesson is different than the other teachers. 2. Provide your interprestioan of "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" and "Carpe Diem". Hope you had a wonderous spring break. Classwork not completed in class should be done for homework. English I and Pre-AP Due Wednesday (A) and Thursday (B) Read "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman p.289 and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost p. 290 1) Answer #1,3, and 6 on p. 291. 2) Draw your own road. 3) Choose 1 quote from each poem and interpret. 4) Find facts and 3 QUOTES for both WALT WHITMAN and ROBERT FROST. *Spell each of their names vertically and fill across with facts. Also find 3 inspirational quotes from either writer. STUDY FOR ROMEO AND JULIET TEST TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ROMEO AND JULIET PROJECT DUE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. SEE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. English I Project - Complete a collage for the character you drew for. It should include the following: 1) the size of a placemat or not larger than the top of a student desk 2) visual connections (photographs, drawings, or headlines) 3) three quotes from the character (typed) 4) three connections to the character and an explanation as to how each connects (typed) Pre-AP - Choose ONE of the following: 1) children's book (10 pages minimum) 2) board game (recreate in the form of Romeo and Juliet) 3) short film (3-5 minutes) 4) memorize length monologue (1 pg) 5) memorize and perform a scene Due Friday (A) and Monday (B) Read from where Juliet stabs herself until the end of the play. Interpret one line from each character that speaks. (approximately 10 lines) Due Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B) 1) ANESTHESIA - Research information on anestesia. Provide facts as to how the procedure works, or facts about the occupation of an anesthesiologist. 2) QUARANTINED - Research information on disease which led people to be quarantined. Provide facts on black plague, small pox, etc. 3) MESSAGE TO ROMEO - Send an email to me (ROMEO) as Friar Laurence. Provide details of "the plan". scott_chalk@roundrockisd.org Due Friday (A) and Tuesday (B) English I - Complete any make-up work you have and also describe a plan for Romeo and Juliet that is worse than the Friar's. Also describe an example of "bad" plans from 1) a movie 2) your own life 3) history PRE-AP - Complete assignments related to "Friar's monologue" Due Wednesday, 2/22 (A) and Thursday, 2/23(B) Read Act III, scene v and rewrite in script format using melodramatic "soap opera" style language. Your script should be at least 2 pages, typed. Due Monday (A) and Tuesday (B) 1) Read Act III, scene ii and interptet six lines. Pre-AP choose the six most difficult lines from the scene. 2) Create a 6 frame comic in which two opposing forces are acting out the fight scene or Act III, scene i. Use quotes from the actual scene and your own dialogue. It should include color. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR TAKS TEST!! WIN ME A LEXUS!! Due Thursday (A) and Friday (B) 1) Write a 150 word response, essay, or story to Friar Laurence's quote "Violent delights have violent ends." Attempt to use at least 3 transitions in your paper: While, As, During, Before, After, However, Although, Since, etc. (Pre-AP attempt to use "quotes" from the wedding scene (Act II, scene vi) in your response. 2) Book a trip to Verona, Italy. Flight information (cost and length of flight), hotel accomodations (cost), and places to go. (restaurants, museums, landmarks, Juliet's tomb?) 3) Pre-AP only. Find examples of the literary devices "skills" we discussed in class from anywhere in the play thus far. NO HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY (A) OR WED. (B) GOOD WORK ON BALCONY SCENE! Due Friday (A) and Monday (B) English I - Write a one page account of how "FATE" played a role in you "being here". This could be events that did happen or did not? (1 page) Pre-AP Write a 40 minute essay in which you discuss Romeo's speech before he enters the Capulet party. Dissect Shakespeare's use of tone, diction, imagery, tone shift, or syntax. *List 10 events that would answer the question posed above. Due Wednesday (A) 2/8 and Thursday (B) 2/9 Write a singles advertisement for yourself. Should be typed and include photo. Any additional creativeness you would like to add is up to you. In your "AD" you should include 5 adjectives about yourself, 5 hobbies, and 5 things you are looking for in a "mate". Pre-AP 1) Find examples of literary elements from Romeo and Juliet from what we have read thus far. See "Skills" icon for terms and definitions if needed. 2) Match characters to character traits from Act I, scene i-iii. (Some may not have been revealed yet.) 3) Complete #1-10 of handout using the script from your literature book or see the online script under "Romeo and Juliet" icon. Due Monday (A) February 6th and and Tuesday (B) Feb. 7th English I - Describe the SUPER BOWL in 100 words mixing in 5 quotes from the "prologue" or scene i of Romeo and Juliet. *If you do not watch the game, you may describe or make up a commercial. Pre-AP - 40 minute essay Write an essay in which you discuss the TONE determined by diction, imagery, detail, point of view, or tone shift in scene i. Use quotes to support. Use VERBS below as necessary rather than "shows" or "paints a picture". Shakespeare evokes, introduces, describes, portrays, characterizes, specifies, exposes, demonstrates, incapsilates, reveals, encourages, baffles, etc. Use these terms to help identify tone: allusive, vexed, bitter, restrained, somber, vibrant, condescending, cold, urgent, shocking, candid, pitiful, humorous, mocking, silly, sharp, frivolous, audacious, provocative, dramatic, sympathetic, nostalgic, setntimental, zealous, poignant, hollow, proud, dreamy, etc. Due February 2nd (A) and 3rd (B) ALL ESSAYS AND INTEPRETATIONS DUE!! (See questions below.) Rewrite the prologue for Romeo and Juliet (p. 992) as your own speech, song, commercial, or movie preview. *Pre-AP - Rewrite the prologue in your own words, but use iambic pentameter for EACH line. (10 syllables) 5th period AP - Memorize 8 lines from either "Dream" or "prologue" for Romeo and Juliet. Due January 31st (A) and February 1st (B) Complete essay questions from test on Friday or Monday that you did not have time to finish in class. 150 word responses - Choose 3 of 4 (10 points each) *Use at least ONE quote from the play in your response. 1. Discuss similarities between the actors' plot (including "Pyramus and Thisby") and the other two plots (lovers and fairies). 2. Though Shakespeare uses hyperbole (exaggeration) in his characters, choose TWO characters from the play and explain how each is a metaphor for people in real life. 3. Imagine you went to a THEME PARK entitled "A Midsummer Night's Dream"...Explain in detail what it would look like. 4. Choose YOUR favorite comedic film or story. Describe the comparisons between the two in 150 words or more. Extra Credit: Choose ONE character and find a connection for each of the following: 1. a friend you know who is like the character 2. a fictional character who is similar 3. a person throughout history who is similar 4. a song which best represents the character 5. a famous actor or acress to play the role Due January 27th (A) and January 28th (B) TEST OVER "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" Study vocaublary words (20) and characters. (See sparknotes.com if needed) 100 word article over any character or plot from the play. Include a picture, title, subtitle and 100 words of description. Also include 2 quotes from the play in your article. Due January 25th (A) and January 26th (B) English I Complete interpretation (translation) of Act III. Begin with Hermia exiting the scene and continue until the end of Act III. This does not need to be word for word. Use 2 quotes to support your description. Pre-AP - Same as above but must be in script format. It should be a similar format to the script we acted out in class. (2 pages max) Example below. *5TH PERIOD - PRE-AP Complete the following for what we did in class: 1) Choose ANY 8 events in the story and put them in chronological order. 2) Describe 2 fictional characters who are similar to ANY character from the play. 3) Choose 3 songs for a soundtrack for the play and explain your reason for choosing each. 4) Cut out a picture or headline from a magazinge or newspaper which would represent the play. *5) To complete homework above you are to write a 2 page script in MODERN English depicting the end of Act III. You should reveal how the conflicts are resolved. Example: Oberon begins after the fight by saying "What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite and laid the love juice on some true-love's sight." So I would simply write: Oberon You messed up Puck! What did you think this was Punk'D? Puck I'm sorry man. I mean King. You said I would recognize him by his GAP clothes? Oberon Well, here's how you are going to fix it. Go and .... Due January 23rd (A) and January 24th (B) In 100 words, describe a dream you had over the weekend. You can analyze it (think about why you had the dream and what it means) and try to connect it to the the play. Pre-AP - See handout regarding rewriting "The Fight" scene. Use modern English to describe the scene and incorporate quotations to fit with your translation. Begin with Hermia entering and continue until the end of the fight..."I know not what to say." Remember the following work will need to be turned in: 100 words on your supernatural creature and drawing, interpretation of an 8 line speech and your symbol. Due January 19th (A) and 20th (B) 1) Choose ANY 8 line speech throughout the play thus far. Interpret word for word as close as you can. 2) Bring in or make any object which would symbolize a portion of the play. Somewhere on the object connect one quote you understand and consider important to the play. Examples: fairy, plants, crown, love potion, flowers, wood, script, stars, a lion, a wedding invitation, or your OWN original idea! Due January 17th (A) and 18th (B) English I - Invent your own supernatural creature. Describe in 100 words and illustrate. English I and Pre-AP - Visit the "Shakespeare links" icon on the home page of this site and click on "SAT vocabulary". Play 3 rounds of the game provided and write down 8 words you did not know before. Pre-AP - 4th period - Complete reading Act I, scene ii and Act II, scene i. Interpret six lines. Do not choose the most obvious. 5th period - Complete #1-8 from the quiz we began in class. Due January 12th (A) and 13th (B) "The course of true love never did run smooth." Write a 100 summary of your own idea for a love story with complications. Pre-AP - Use two quotes from scene i in your response. Pre-AP - Interpret 6 lines from Act I scene i (see script icon) Due January 10th (A) and 11th (B) English I - Find 11 facts or quotes related to Shakespeare. Spell Shakespeare veritcally and fill in facts across. Pre-AP - Rewrite "The Seven Ages of Man" in your own way. Use first 4 lines of the actual poem if needed. (p. 349) Due January 6th (A) and 9th (B) Write a 100 word response to ONE of the following quotes: 1) "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." 2) "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got...if you're fortunate." 3) "If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?" USC VS. TEXAS Find the following for each school: 1) admission requirements 2) tuition 3) two famous alumni 4) the major of two members of each team OUTSIDE READING PROJECT IS DUE MONDAY (A) AND TUESDAY (B) FOR HOMEWORK GO TO THE NOVEL YOUR CLASS IS READING: ENGLISH I VISIT PEARL ICON FOR HOMEWORK. PRE-AP VISIT OF MICE AND MEN ICON FOR HOMEWORK. English I and Pre-AP DUE TUESDAY (A) and WEDNESDAY (B) Go to the "Poe links" icon on this website. Read ANY story from Ed Poe and complete a similar assignment as you have done the last two class periods. 1) You should pull at least 10 vocabulary words and define. 2) Write 3 questions helping students connect with the story. 3) Write 5 events or quotes in chronological order. PRE-AP - Choose one of the following and research using scientific evidence to support. 1) How long would Fortunato survive behind the wall constructed by Montressor? How would his body react? 2) What are the effects of the plague? 3) Explain how the heart works. English I and Pre-AP - Due Friday (A) and Monday (B day) 6 frame comic using the theme of REVENGE. Include 3 quotes from Poe's "Cask of Amantillado" within your comic. p. 207 Pre-AP p. 217 Answer the first two bullet points as well as #1 and 2 relating to the opening of Poe's short stories. ENGLISH I - Due Wednesday (A Day) and Thursday (B Day) Complete essay from test. Write an essay in response to the following quote: "There's no way to tell you anything" - The Mayor from "The Man" Introduction - YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE QUOTE WHAT POINT ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE? Remember to connect examples from book, film, yourself, or reality. English I and Pre-AP Also 13 facts on Edgar Allan Poe p.194 - 198 orphanEn age 2 D G A boRn 1809 A L L A virgiNia P O "annabel lEe" PRE-AP - Read "Annabel Lee" p. 199 and discuss two of the following related to Poe: DICTION, IMAGERY, OR TONE (Provide quotes to support your ideas) Also... Find one example of each poetic device alliteration and assonance (See book for definition if needed) NO HOMEWORK - FIRST TIME ALL YEAR IN HONOR OF HALLOWEEN, MICHAEL AUDRY MYERS, JASON VORHEES, AND CHUCKY!! EXTRA CREDIT ONLY - WRITE YOUR OWN GHOST STORY ANIMAL FARM/ILLUSTRATED MAN TEST ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FOR ALL CLASSES. STUDY THE NOTES I GAVE YOU OVER CHARACTERS AND VOCABULARY. Bring your copy of Animal Farm to turn in and use on the test. Also bring any late assignments over Chapter 9 and 10. CHARACTER PROJECT - DUE TUESDAY (A DAY) and WEDNESDAY (B DAY) *Chapter 10 homework for next class period far below. Choose ANY character we have read about this year from: Animal Farm, The Illustrated Man, The Veldt, Kaleidoscope, The Other Foot, Marionettes, INC., The Highway, The Most Dangerous Game, The Utterly Perfect Murder, The Princess and the Tin Box, A Brother in Need, or My Bold Brother Carmen. CREATE any visual representation of the character. Drawing, collage, model, etc. (Original ideas welcome!) TYPE a connection for each of the following and connect, glue, staple, etc. to your project. ENGLISH I PRE-AP FILM FOREIGN FILM ("Amelie" - French film where main character "Amelie" is attempting to fix the lives of everyone she cares about through careful planning. Amelie could symbolize Snowball's attempt to improve the lives of those on the farm.) BOOK CHARACTER FROM SHAKESPEARE (Ex. Snowball could represent the ghost of Hamlet's father. There is uncertainty as to whether he does exist much like the rumors of Snowball.) PERSONAL Snowball could relate to myself as I spend hours planning and creating new ideas to improve the lives and minds of students. Like Snowball I am faced with similar challenges and frustrations. REALITY Snowball could relate to the former director of FEMA, Mike Brown, who was exiled or "run off" after hurricane Katrina. Mr. Brown is used as a scapegoat for the disaster much like Snowball's blame for the destruction of the windmill and other misfortune. THREE SONGS PRE-AP (2 SONGS AND A POEM) "Runaway" Bon Jovi, "We don't need no education" Pink Floyd, "Wind Beneath My Wings" Bette Milder, "Holiday" Madonnna. All relate to Snowball. His running from the farm, the animals who did not want read and write under his direction, the inventor for the windmill, and the holiday he is now on living in exile. POEM - "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe "And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out a cloud by night Chilling my Annabel Lee;" "Annabel Lee" could represent the "ideas" of Snowball and how those dreams were frozen by the "wind" of greed of Napoleon. Snowball could also be the "cloud" blown out by the wind. Finally, the tone of this poem is remorseful and nostalgic. Words of those who remain. ONE QUOTE PRE-AP ONE QUOTE BY A PHILOSOPHER "The ultimate sophistication is simplicity." - Da Vinci Snowball was in hope of creating a windmill to simplify life on the farm and allow the animals even to work a four day week. Unfortunately, sophistication did not reside on this farm. CHAPTER TEN - Due Friday (A day)and Monday (B - Day) Write a promotional spot for the SEASON FINALE OF ANIMAL FARM. Include enough events so I know you read the chapter. Example: On the season finale of Animal Farm, just when you thought you had seen it all...Napoleon does the unthinkable and walks from the house on two legs with a whip in his trotter! PRE-AP - Create one ORIGINAL assignment for a chapter of ANimAl FarM. You do not have to complete the assignment. You can think of more than one for extra credit. English I and Pre-AP CHAPTER NINE LIVES Due Wednesday (A Day)and Thursday (B Day) Read Chapter 9 and explain how the lives of nine characters has changed since the beginning of the novel. Use evidence from the chapter, not vague descriptions. Pre-AP - Use two specific quotes from the novel to support your answers. One from the beginning of the novel and one from Chapter 9. English I and Pre-AP Due Monday (A day) and Tuesday (B) Read chapter 8 from Animal Farm and write Napoleon or another 8 letter word vertically. For each letter find a connection to chapter 8 and explain how it connects to the chapter and for Pre-AP please extend to another thought or connection. Also for Pre-AP write a one paragraph account of the attack by the humans. Please write in the ACTIVE VOICE (Do not use was or were.) Example: PiNkeye wAlls comPosed withOut cause L E O N N - Pinkeye is now responsible for tasting all of Napoleon's food due to his fear of being assassinated. The recent executions of the animals has raised Napoleon's level of paranoia. Joseph Stalin used similar tactics sacrificing his own military to protect himself. This also reminds me of the relationship between Smithers and Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. A - The walls of the windmill are now to be built twice as thick for fear of what happened to the first windmill. I've never build much other than a few sand castles, but when one was washed away, I would consider strategies to improve the next one. Maybe a moat. P - Minimus has composed a new song for the farm honoring of course, Napoleon. This reminds me of popular artists who may write or perform a song to lift the spirits of a nation. One example would be Bruce Springsteen's "Rise Up" after the terrorists attacks of 9/11. English I and Pre-AP Due Thursday (A Day) and Friday (B Day) Read Chapter 7 of Animal Farm and write a 12 line song summarizing the chapter. "Beasts of England Remix" English I - Find 5 examples of propaganda (write example or bring to class) Pre-AP Provide 5 facts and your thoughts of EITHER 1) cloning OR 2) the death penalty English I and Pre-AP DUE TUESDAY (A DAY) and WEDNESDAY (B DAY) Read Chapter 6 of Animal Farm and explain how the pigs put a positive spin or outlook on the following events: 1) The animals must work a 60 hour week, including Sunday. 2) The farm will now engage in trade with humans. 3) The pigs will move into the house and sleep in beds. 4) The windmill is in ruins. Pre-AP Describe four negative aspects of our society today and how each has been spun to be seen as a postive. English I and Pre-AP DUE THURSDAY (A Day) and FRIDAY (B day) Animal Farm Chapter 5 - Read and explain each symbolic event using literal details from the chapter. 1. A better city, school, or neighborhood to live. "Grass is greener on the other side." 2. Citizens who defect 3. The U.S. Senate 4. Presidential debates 5. Politicians or leaders who do not originate ideas of their own 6. The introduction of ANY new plan. Most people are hesitant to change. 7. America is deeply divided over Iraq and other political ideas. 8. The masses usually agree with the one speaking at the moment. 9. The secret service or KGB (military police of Russia) 10. There are debates and elections every four years, then no more debates, just orders. 11. "If we don't attack, the terrorists will just hit us again." - Dick Cheney 12. Celebrities used as political pawns. Pre-AP Find one clever connections each between ANIMAL FARM and each story we have read thus far. (Most Dangerous, Princess and Tin Box, The Illustrated Man prologue, The Veldt, Kaleidoscope, and The Other Foot) *You don't need to write much, but think a lot! English I and Pre-AP DUE TUESDAY (A day) AND WEDNESDAY (B day) Read Chapter 4 of Animal Farm and explain what happens during the chapter backwards. (one paragraph) Pre-AP Spell 15 of the words you choose backwards. Da Vinci style. Example: Using the first paragraph of Ch. 4 The pigeons dispersed by noelopaN and Snowball hcaet and spread the ideas of the Rebellion of Animal farm to neighboring smraf. The news of tahw has happened on Animal Farm has spread by etal summer. English I and Pre-AP DUE FRIDAY (A DAY) and MONDAY (B day) Cumulative vocabulary test for all classes. GO TO VOCABULARY ICON IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LIST OF WORDS AND DEFINITIONS. Also read Chapter 3 of Animal Farm and provide three of the most important quotes in your opinion. Explain why you chose them. Example: "FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD." The meaning of this quote is obvious for good reason. A majority of the animals are unable to remember the seven commandments or the lyrics to "Beasts of England". Therefore, the idea behind the rebellion must be condensed to one simple statement for all to understand. This is similar to our own "All men are created equal" or "Justice for all". It is also a tactic of most commercials to simplify their slogan so the masses are able to understand. Nike's "Just do it" is a prime example. English I and Pre-AP DUE WEDNESDAY (A DAY) AND THURSDAY (B DAY) Explain how each of the following connects to Chapter II of Animal Farm. Pre-AP In addition, explain how each is symbolic of something from our society. 1) Squealer 2) animalism 3) the stupidest questions 4) Sugarcandy mountain 5) Boxer 6) Red Lion 7) Ribbons 8) read and write 9) 7 commandments t is on page #799 of your orange literature book. English I - 1. In one paragraph tell explain what happened in the story in reverse order. Begin with the end and explain until the beginning. 2. Find two sentences which do not begin with a subject. Example: If you are lucky and time is right, you arrive at sunset when the old town is filled with yellow light. Pre-AP symbolism 1. Explain the symbolism of the title and the use of the train. syntax 2. Provide two examples of clever writing in your opinion. Explain. theme 3. What was Bradbury's purpose in writing this story? apply 4. How do the two pieces of artwork (p.800 and 803)connect to the story? Explain. September 14th and 15th - CREATIVE CONNECTION Find or create ANY visual aide for the class in general over the first five weeks. This may be a drawing, photograph, illustration, object, model, etc. You are then to connect your visual to ANYTHING we have read, studied, acted, listened to, watched, wrote about, etc. English I - Describe how your visual aide is symbolic for the class on your colored notecard. Attach your card to the visual aide in some creative fashion. English I Pre-AP - Describe three connections you make with your visual aide and how it is symbolic of the class. Your descriptions should be typed and attached to your visual aide. The notecard can be used to label if needed. September 12th and 13th English I and Pre-AP "I am not like Peter!" Have a 30 minute conversation with your parent or guardian. Document what topics were discussed (1 page). Signature required in order to turn in. Pre-AP 2 Representations for your choice of words for vocabulary #1-21 (picture, photograph, drawing, article, or object) Septermber 8th and 9th (Due Monday and Tuesday) Turn your house into a "Happy Life Home" much like that of the one from "The Veldt". Please write whatever you want, but write it with STYLE! English I - 1 page using vocabulary words from #1-15 English I Pre-AP - 2 pages typed using 12 font and double spaced Example: "Happy Life Couch Potato" With my "Happy Life Couch" I am in utter bliss after a long day of doing educating the leaders of tomorrow. Of course it is equipped with the usual speaker system, foot massager, and cup holders. Yet my couch has the unique capacity to change into the texture I am in the mood for. If I insist on leather, leather. If I want denim, denim. It also has the ability to levitate and transport me to the refrigerator without having to turn my head away from the plasma full ceiling TV. An added bonus is any change falling from my pockets is funneled directly to my bank account. September 6th and 7th English I - Write 8 complex sentences using vocabulary words describing KATRINA. You may write a story or use a journalisic account. Find 2 pieces of ART from your book and provide title and two comments for each piece. English I Pre-AP 1) Find 8 facts on Ray Bradbury. You may list only. 2) Find one piece of art from each of the following artists: El Greco, Rouault, and Picasso Provide the title of the work and detailed description of the piece including YOUR thoughts. (1 paragraph each)
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