HOMEWORK: Due Tues/Wed Setting Pkg – finish all Alliteration Sheets Sound Devices – Assonance – Consonance – Alliteration Poem – rough copy Here’s a video to help you with your poetry sound terms — click here —> Sound Devices Flashcards – get caught up – make sure you have flashcards made for the terms on the blue Narrative […]
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Oct 06
ENGLISH 10 – 1.1./1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Wed “So What Are You, Anyway?” – Read, highlight, write in note-form answers, reading quiz Make sure you’re caught up with your 2 Lit Circle Sheets and the first 2 journals. Here are some videos to watch to get you thinking about the new story & the issues around identity & race—click here —>“White […]
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Oct 03
ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Thurs Journal #1 – “My Values” final draft on pg. 8 of your notebook Journal #2 – Brainstorm & Outline ideas p. 9 of notebook- Topic: What is your definition of friendship. Make sure you consider and include Aristotle’s ideas of usefulness, pleasure, and moral goodness. Do you agree? Do you have more […]
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ENGLISH 8 – 1.4/2.3
HOMEWORK: Due Wed/Thurs Setting Pkg – 4 Poetry worksheets Block 1.4 – Flashcards – finish all CHARACTER terms Block 2.3 – Flashcards – PLOT – 3 cards: Introduction, Initiating Event, Rising Action Here’s a video to help you with your poetry sound terms — click here —> Sound Devices
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ENGLISH 11- 1.3/2.2
HOMEWORK: Due Wed/Thurs “Miss Brill” – song lyrics handout Qs – Watch and read the lyrics to this song because we’re going to be talking about the song and “Miss Brill” —> Click here —> “Brick by Boring Brick” AND “Miss Brill” video summary Story notes & Story Map sheet for “Identities” AND “Miss Brill” – will be collected Journal #2 – […]
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ENGLISH 10 – 1.1/1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Wed “The Friday Everything Changed” – story Qs, reading Quiz Lit Circle – you will be discussing “The Friday Everything Changed” have your 1 Lit Circle Sheet completed for the story Journal #1: Personal Identity – Consider the poems and discuss with examples what personal identity means to you. Journal requirements: double- spaced, […]
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ENGLISH 11 – 1.3/2.2
HOMEWORK: Due Mon/Tues “Miss Brill” – p. 57-63 – Reading Quiz, Qs #3-8, Story Map sheet Figure out your Narrative Presentation groups (grps of 3) and pick your top choices for topics Watch and read the lyrics to this song because we’re going to be talking about the song and “Miss Brill” —> Click here […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Tuesday Journal #1 – My Values – 2nd draft (p.7). Make revisions – rearrange order, add, remove, improve sentences & vocab. For those of you who didn’t do the outline and/or 1st draft, you need to complete BOTH and have someone edit your 1st draft in your notebooks in order to catch up […]
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ENGLISH – 1.4/2.3
HOMEWORK: Due Mon/Tues LP $15 & Forms & NOTEBOOK “Autumntime” – Qs – Interpreting #5-8; Developing Skills – #1-3 – Setting, Theme, Symbol – Some of the questions will be DIFFICULT, but I want you to TRY your best. You will have the chance to add to your answers when we go over them in […]
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