English I: You need to have read through Chapter 19 of Percy Jackson: Lightning Thief. Better yet, finish the novel!
English II: You need to have finished all five staves (chapters) of A Christmas Carol. (You also have an IWA deadline and a Socratic Seminar to prepare for.)
You've got one week left of break. Plenty of time to enjoy yourself and complete your assignments.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Pre-AP English II: Pearl & Christmas Carol Socratic Seminar Questions
When we return from break, we'll have a Socratic Seminar for Pearl & Christmas Carol. If you were absent on the 21st (or didn't finish the assignment in class) please email me two examples of each of the following question types (answers not needed this time). Whenever possible, ask questions that could be answered with evidence from either book.:
WORLD CONNECTION QUESTIONS
How do you treat people who approach you to give to charity?
Do you believe in ghosts? Explain.
CLOSE-ENDED QUESTIONS
How are Juana and Juan Tomas related?
According to Marley, how did he obtain the chain he carries?
OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS
Why does Kino see the things he sees in the pearl?
Why does the Ghost of Christmas Past show Scrooge scenes from his youth?
UNIVERSAL THEME / CORE QUESTIONS
What does holding a grudge against others do to a person?
How does Marley’s ghost’s statement “humanity should [be our] business” apply to The Pearl and real life?
LITERARY ANALYSIS QUESTIONS
How might Dickens have written The Pearl if the purpose was to convince the doctor to change his ways?
In Stave One, why does Dickens repeat that Marley is actually dead.
WORLD CONNECTION QUESTIONS
How do you treat people who approach you to give to charity?
Do you believe in ghosts? Explain.
CLOSE-ENDED QUESTIONS
How are Juana and Juan Tomas related?
According to Marley, how did he obtain the chain he carries?
OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS
Why does Kino see the things he sees in the pearl?
Why does the Ghost of Christmas Past show Scrooge scenes from his youth?
UNIVERSAL THEME / CORE QUESTIONS
What does holding a grudge against others do to a person?
How does Marley’s ghost’s statement “humanity should [be our] business” apply to The Pearl and real life?
LITERARY ANALYSIS QUESTIONS
How might Dickens have written The Pearl if the purpose was to convince the doctor to change his ways?
In Stave One, why does Dickens repeat that Marley is actually dead.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Pre-AP English II: IWA #2 (Better Late Than Never)
[Wasn't aware I hadn't posted this....]
Write a response to the following prompt:
Focus on only one of the novellas. Focusing on both The Pearl and A Christmas Carol will immediately result in a REDO grade (no points). If you want to use A Christmas Carol, you must complete reading it in time to proceed through the IWA process.
Do not simply recount the plot or attributes of the characters. Extensive lack of focus on literary devices/technique will result in a REDO grade (no points), not a REWRITE (70 points).
The earlier you turn in a draft that you expect to earn an 85 (only revision is needed) the more likely you are to eventually receive an 85 (your idea of what is revision-only and my idea of what is revision-only may differ) or 100 (because you’ve made the necessary revision, or you refined your essay on your own before you turned it in).
This will be the last time a 70-point grade will be given on an IWA. Last year many students who had never bothered to rewrite an essay during the first semester had a very difficult time during the second semester when an 85 was required to avoid P.A. and/or IWA n.1.
This is also the last time IWAs may be turned in handwritten. Please see the note on the bonus in the next paragraph.
Paper should be about two-pages long, handwritten, or one-page long, typed, double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman (or Garamond, if you’re fancy). Five bonus points will be awarded to properly typed essays.
Daily P.A. for submitters not having achieved a 70 begins Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Drop-Dead (“For Reals”) Deadline: Tuesday, January 8, 2013.
IWA 2.1 and Daily P.A. will be assigned on to students who do not successfully complete this assignment begins Wednesday, January 9, 2013.
Write a response to the following prompt:
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Money often costs too much.” Both The Pearl and A Christmas Carol explore the paradox that wealth can carry a great cost to an individual, a family, and/or a community. In a well-developed essay explore the literary strategies Steinbeck or Dickens uses throughout his novella to communicate this idea to the reader.Tips to success:
Focus on only one of the novellas. Focusing on both The Pearl and A Christmas Carol will immediately result in a REDO grade (no points). If you want to use A Christmas Carol, you must complete reading it in time to proceed through the IWA process.
Do not simply recount the plot or attributes of the characters. Extensive lack of focus on literary devices/technique will result in a REDO grade (no points), not a REWRITE (70 points).
The earlier you turn in a draft that you expect to earn an 85 (only revision is needed) the more likely you are to eventually receive an 85 (your idea of what is revision-only and my idea of what is revision-only may differ) or 100 (because you’ve made the necessary revision, or you refined your essay on your own before you turned it in).
This will be the last time a 70-point grade will be given on an IWA. Last year many students who had never bothered to rewrite an essay during the first semester had a very difficult time during the second semester when an 85 was required to avoid P.A. and/or IWA n.1.
This is also the last time IWAs may be turned in handwritten. Please see the note on the bonus in the next paragraph.
Paper should be about two-pages long, handwritten, or one-page long, typed, double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman (or Garamond, if you’re fancy). Five bonus points will be awarded to properly typed essays.
Daily P.A. for submitters not having achieved a 70 begins Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Drop-Dead (“For Reals”) Deadline: Tuesday, January 8, 2013.
IWA 2.1 and Daily P.A. will be assigned on to students who do not successfully complete this assignment begins Wednesday, January 9, 2013.
English I (Pre-AP): TPCASTT / "Theme for English B"
Monday, December 17, 2012
English I (Pre-AP): Poem about Brueghel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
In class we discussed William Carlos Williams' poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," an ekphrastic poem (a poem written about another work of art) about Pieter Brueghel's painting of the same name.
Look at the painting below, and then write a poem about it. (It doesn't have to rhyme; it can be a haiku as long as it follows the 5-7-5 syllable rule.)
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Look at the painting below, and then write a poem about it. (It doesn't have to rhyme; it can be a haiku as long as it follows the 5-7-5 syllable rule.)
Saturday, December 15, 2012
English I (Pre-AP): Punctuate "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Please punctuate William Carlos Williams' poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." There are a total of five sentences, so please add capital letters(4) and periods (5), where appropriate. Adding commas may help you make better sense of the poem, too.
If you lost the copy you received in class, copy or print out the poem here.
Due: Monday, December 17, 2012.
If you lost the copy you received in class, copy or print out the poem here.
Due: Monday, December 17, 2012.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Pre-AP English II: Pearl Chapter 4-6 Test Preview
Tomorrow, you will have a test on Chapters 4-6 of John Steinbeck's The Pearl. Be prepared.
If you do not already know what the following literary terms, mood/tone words, and vocabulary words mean, please take this opportunity to (re)familiarize yourself with them.
Literary devices/techniques
Mood/Tone words
Vocabulary words
If you do not already know what the following literary terms, mood/tone words, and vocabulary words mean, please take this opportunity to (re)familiarize yourself with them.
Literary devices/techniques
- Anaphora
- Antithesis
- Foreshadowing
- Hyperbole
- Irony
- Oxymoron
- Paradox
- Personification
- Symbolism
Mood/Tone words
- Apprehensive
- Desperate
- Disdainful
- Jovial
- Mournful
- Ominous
- Reflective
- Resigned
- Reverent
Vocabulary words
- Condemnation
- Cunning
- Livelihood
- Persevere
- Prevalent
- Swindled
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