Week of 11/9

Regular English II


House on Mango Street projects due Tuesday (B-day) and Wednesday (A-day)!!!! Ask (in tutoring or by email) Ms Nelson if you need any further assistance.

2nd period homework: 2 double entry journals per chapter to the end of the book (12 entries total) due Monday

upcoming assignments:
* Common Assessment #2 (on revision, misplaced modifiers, composing, mode) will be this Th/F
* ANCHOR WRITING is coming! First draft will be due at the start of next week.

APAC 

homework: go through the packet of 20 questions. Answer on a separate sheet. We will review them briefly in class on T/W. The purpose of this is to make sure you are on track for success on your 9-weeks test.

BUY or CHECK OUT a copy of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying ASAP! Syllabus will be distributed next class period for this book (will read to the end of term)

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Week of 11/2

Regular English homework (2nd, 4th, 8th periods): 8 double entry journals for two chapters, "Minerva" and "Bums in the Attic" - 4 entries per chapter


APAC/Acc English homework (1st, 6th, 7th periods): Unit 4 vocab quiz on Mon/Tues; complete partner test (persuasive methods) M/Tu; in-class TSL essay, Wed/Th. **Please buy/check out a copy of Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying, as we will be starting to read it in 1-2 weeks. Ask Ms. Nelson if you want her to order you one.

Other announcements:
-Binders were checked last week. Note any missing assignments you got on your binder score sheet. Late work is accepted for partial credit.
-No morning tutoring this week.

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2nd term 2009

Regular English II (2nd, 4th and 8th periods)


past homework: 

* Secret Life of Bees diction worksheet (has been graded and returned to students)
* double-entry journal for two House on Mango Street (HOMS-- a book we are reading in class) chapters, "Sire" and "Four Skinny Trees." 4 entries per chapter, 8 entries total. (has been graded and returned to students)
*inference map for "No SPeak English" or "Rafeala" (HOMS reading) - due 10/23 and 10/26. Collected.

current homework:
* inference map for "No Speak English" or "Rafeala" (HOMS reading - the chapter not previously done) - due 10/27 and 10/28.
* Grammar quiz will be on 10/27 an 10/28. practice quiz was given on 10/23 and 10/26.
* binder check (binders due) on 10/29 and 10/30.

upcoming exams:
* Common assessment 1 will be on Th/F, 10/29 and 10/30. 20 multiple-choice questions will cover objectives 1b, 1c, 2c and 4c.

APAC/accelerated English II (1st, 6th and 7th periods)

homework:
* persuasive speeches due 10/23 and 10/26
* vocab quiz, unit 3, 10/23 and 10/26
* Grammar quiz will be on 10/27 an 10/28. practice quiz was given on 10/23 and 10/26
* The Scarlet Letter (TSL) reading quiz and reading log, chapters 20-24, due Tues/Wed 10/27 and 10/28
* binder check (binders due) on 10/29 and 10/30.

upcoming assignments:
* TSL review chapter overview templates (group work and independent)
* TSL in-class essay exam has been moved to 11/4 and 11/5
* students need to obtain a copy of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, which we will start reading in a few weeks
* Vocabulary Workshop books are finally in! Unit 4 quiz will be 11/2 and 11/3

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First binder check

Binders were due this past Th./Fr. They contained:


Binder score sheet
assignment log
syllabus
Warm up section: none
Grammar section: Active/passive voice notes
Vocab section: owl sheet, highlighted with 13 WODs
Literature section: characterization notes, setting notes, simile/metaphor notes
Essay section: summary notes, 2 IEGO's, intro paragraph notes

Other grades collected so far include:
- rules and procedures quiz
- "My Name" homework (3 paragraphs explaining hte meaning of your name)
- setting/STEAL worksheet homework

Homework this week:
- simile/metaphor worksheet

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Vocabulary, Quiz 5

**The quiz on Monday/Tuesday (Feb. 16 + 17) will have reading questions in addition, so study up on chapters 15-20. Review your listening guide and read chapter 20 and fill in the study guide!!!!**

  1. Contorted                        
  2. Imploring                         
  3. Pervaded                         
  4. Luxuriating                    
  5. Optimistic                       
  6. Permeated                       
  7. Dejected                         
  8. Ruefully                           
  9. Luminous                         
Solace
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Vocabulary, weeks 1-4 (ch. 1-13)

1.      vague                                   

2.     distinctive                            

3.     unwieldy                                                      

4.     irrational

5.     spontaneous              

6.     perception                           

7.     frigid                               

8.     fleeting                                             

9.     flustered                  

10. embedded                 

11. obsolete                           

12. serene                                                          

13.  distraught                             

14. chastise                      

15.  Intrigued                                         

16. appeal                             

17.  Confide                                                        

18. Apprehensive                                              

19. Remorse                                           

20.                        aptitude                                   

21. Reluctantly                                     

22.                        preste                                     

23.reprieve                                         

24.                        infraction                            

25.meticulous                          

26.                        exuberant       

27.somber

28. infringed                                                                  

29. scrupulous                          

30. disposition                                 

31.  precise                                            

32.unanimous

33. benign           

34.integral                                            

35. anguish

36.crescendo                            

37.conceivably

38.steeled                                              

39.intricate

40. exhilarating                                   

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The Giver - Jan. 6- Feb. 5

Some recent happenings and announcements:

1) Tutoring is now mornings only, every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 a.m.

2.) Binder check #1 of Term 3 was on 1/30 (B day) and 2/4 (A day). These were the contents checked:

Warm up section
* 6 DOL's

Literature section:
1. setting notes and class exercise
2. inference notes and review notes (same day)
3. anecdote notes and chart activity
4. text marking on photocopy of chapter 5
5. QAR notes and class activity
6. chapter 11 or 12 study guide

3.)Check the make up work binder on the front table to get anything you are missing. There is a -10 points deduction for each day the binder is late!

4.) We took the midterm exam on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 4 and 5. We have also finished quizzes #1- #4 on the book.

5.) We will be on Chapter 15 of The Giver on Monday. There is no reading and vocab quiz this week.


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Thanksgiving Break homework

Read p. 95-128 of Speak (the packet I sent home). Make reading notes (fold paper into 4 boxes, and write 5 examples of conflict, characterization (STEAL), theme and symbolism in each box. Be ready for a short quiz on the chapters when you return! Enjoy your break!

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Nov. 17-21

This week, we read p. 57-92 in Speak. We took notes, did

answer-frames, and wrote a poem about symbolism (such as the apple,

closet, tree and lips/mouth)

 

Class Notes

 

SYMBOLISM NOTES (literature section)

 

-Something used to represent something else; a material object

representing something immaterial

-In novels, symbols give us hints of what the themes are (both repeat

and create patterns).

- Symbolism also gives us hints about author's purpose.

 

When the author writes,

"______________________," she is using symbolism in order to _________

(p.___) . The symbols shows us that _____________ represents

____________. (fill in three of these)

 

Character-item poem

 

Line 1 State the item's name

Line 2 Give a literal description of it

Line 3 Give a figurative description of it

Line 4 Give one adjective for it

Line 5 Give another adjective for it

Line 6 State what the thing does for the person

Line 7 Give a final description (adjective then noun)

 

Fact vs. opinion notes

 

Facts can be all or some of the following: can be proven, real for all

people and places, can be duplicated, can be observed, historical, or

100 percent true.

 

Opinions refer to a particular person's (or group's) feeling, thought,

judgment, belief, estimate, and/or anything that is not 100 percent

true and can't be proven.

 

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Nov. 11 - Nov. 14

Tues/Wed - Today we will briefly review for the midterm, create advertisements promoting the book Speak, and learn how to draw conclusions and make inferences and predictions on what will happen next in the book Speak by doing a frame answer journal entry (#3).

Thur/Fri - is the midterm. It will be 30 multiple choice questions and an essay. I have prepared you for the essay by giving you an example essay about pressure in high school, which you have in your binder. You will be allowed to use the brainstorming outline we did in class to create your essay on the test. I am available for tutoring on Tuesday after school if you need any help practicing for the persuasive essay portion. The multiple choice will be on objectives 3A, 3C, 4A, 1B and 2C, about revision techniques, and figurative language and story elements (connotation, theme, irony, conflict, etc.) in the book we are reading (Speak).

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